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[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 82 points 23 hours ago

Older games are better than a lot of modern AAA slop, but not for the reasons she describes.

I was hoping she would talk about game design, or writing, mechanics, player agency, gameplay before graphics or literally anything else but she spent nearly 15 minutes only talking about tired culture wars talking points like, "why don't women look feminine aymore," "why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story," "Concord sucks lol."

Yeah AAA writing is shit, please change the record so all the sweaty neckbeard virgins complaining about Aloy's facial hair can crawl back in their caves. So sick of hearing about it.

She shouts out Asmongold in her comments. Disgraceful.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 14 points 21 hours ago

Man I don't even care about any of that, personally.

I don't buy modern games because of the cornucopia of shady bullshit they keep throwing at gamers. Invasive DRM, anti-cheat, 3rd party launchers, account linking, changing the ToU after the fact, releasing completely broken games, pop-up ads for DLC and MTX in game, etc. etc.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Agreed with your reasons, but she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations. I wanted to share a point of view that I think is rarely shared in gaming communities.
I don't follow YouTube drama much, so I don't know who Asmongold is.

The reason I ended up there is because I recently started playing Oblivion, and saw her videos mentioned.

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 23 hours ago

she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations.

These are very common talking points of gamer gate bigots. It's a giant red flag, because the people who talk about it are bigots

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

Pretty prejudiced take. Like in the literal sense of the word.

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 13 hours ago

She shouts out a racist who was banned from twitch for bigotry, so I'd say it's pretty spot on as a red flag.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 23 points 23 hours ago

disappearing of some femininity aspects

Can you describe some of those aspects that have been disappearing?

[-] telllos@lemmy.world 29 points 21 hours ago

Reminds me that time gamer discovered girls have body hair because of Aloy.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

She as a woman of course also has no idea what femininity is and that women have body hair.

[-] oce@jlai.lu -5 points 20 hours ago

I think it's better to check the source by yourself since it appears to be more sensitive than I expected.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 9 hours ago

Idk, it's sounds like you agreed with this point and I'm curious what your opinion was about it.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 2 hours ago

As I said, most of the points made in the video I didn't think about before, and I find it interesting to know other reasons why people play old games or are patient gamers, that's why I shared it here. I think the person is simply expressing her taste, maybe it's traditional stereotypes for some people, but you can't decide of your tastes, I didn't find it hateful. Now people who defend trans people found this video offensive, which I was miles away from expecting, and many people decided to jump on this wagon and decided this is a hateful post based on prior comments without watching the video. Also as I said other places, I am not knowledgeable in trans defense, so maybe it's possible they are correct.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 hour ago

Still waiting for the lost feminity you mentioned about.

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[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 23 hours ago

I rarely click on YouTube links. For some reason I gave this one a try. Turns out she's bigoted.

That'll teach me for clicking

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 30 points 23 hours ago

At one point I was looking for some help with implementing something akin to UE's Metahumans but in Godot.

Somehow I stumbled across this one, single person on youtube who had a half decent implementation of what I was looking for...

... and after watching some other videos on her channel... yep, she's an open NeoNazi.

That was enough internet for me, that day.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 22 hours ago

yep, she’s an open NeoNazi

In the interest of not giving a potential neo nazi any more views, what made you think this? Apart from if she said "I'm a neo nazi."

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Well it was pretty much just openly saying it.

Her YT channel was a mix of fairly long, sort of livestream clips of development progress and notes... and then just clips of her livestreams where she wasn't really developing and was just responding to chats, going off about political topics, 'white genocide' this, 'every democrat is a f@g communist' that, a whole bunch of other dogwhistles or overt references to memes and slogans of various extremist right wing militia type groups...

Also, for clarity, I am not talking about OP's link, I'm talking about some very obscure other person I found months ago. Much , much lower view/su count, not even monetized. Also unlike OP's link, this person actually wrote code instead of just having opinions about things.

There is a difference between being on the conservative side of a culture war and being balls deep into extremist right wing ideology.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Oh I completely misunderstood your comment.

[-] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 hours ago

How about you just watch and make the call yourself? Nothing about the video made me think she's a neo nazi nor did I think she's a bigot. People are allowed to want and like different things. Just because they have different wants doesn't mean they should just get random negative label on them and then be hated without actually even seeing what they say.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Well, I literally began my comment with an answer to your first question.

[-] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Well, I pointed out the reason why your beginning comment is problematic. And as sp3tr4l pointed out, OP's link isn't even the one being referred to as the neo nazi.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 19 hours ago

They’re talking about the other commenter.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, just, I'm not talking about OP's link, I'm talking about someone else.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 11 points 23 hours ago

Ok, I was not considering this point of view at all when I shared this. I was thinking that's a different point of view on patient gaming that I didn't have.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 19 points 19 hours ago

I don't know if it could be classed as patient gaming. As I understand it, patient gamers will eventually get around to current games, just not now. It doesn't sound like she ever wants to play what's been released now due to her skewed views

[-] oce@jlai.lu -2 points 18 hours ago

I see what you mean but I think there's quite an intersection with patient gamers reasons.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago

YouTube is like the rest of the internet, some good, some bad.

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 20 hours ago

YouTube, like other corporate social media and engagement platforms, thrives on anger and conflict, and pushes shitty takes higher up the recs list to get angry engagement.

So it's more likely to be bad than good.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

That depends on what you watch and subscribe. Watch angry, conflict-driven videos, and you'll get those.

I personally don't get any of that shit in my feed.

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 12 hours ago

As I've said three times now, I barely use YouTube and then only direct links. This isn't that. YouTube rewards civil bigots so civil bigots are common and have big audiences

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Which is why my general rule of thumb is to avoid the top channels. Some things I especially try to avoid:

  • lots of jump cuts
  • stupid thumbnails
  • clickbait headlines

Those are things that drive "engagement," and going after engagement for engagement's sake is a clear sign to me that the channel isn't worth my time. If the channel largely avoids that crap and still manages to have a respectable subscriber count, it's a lot more likely to be a decent channel. Some channels I really like:

  • Gamer's Nexus
  • Digital Foundry
  • Tech Ingredients

Each of those have high quality content, tend to avoid most of the above (still have BS thumbnails, but not nearly as bad as the big channels), and have a sizeable following. Good content absolutely exists, you just have to scrape away the crap on top to find decent channels.

That said, I no longer use my YT account, I just subbed to everything I care about on Grayjay and Newpipe (in case one fails, and NewPipe has failed more often than not for me), and I'll watch specific channels whenever I actually use YT's website.

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

Absolutely. Sticking to the things they know and avoiding the recs is how a lot of people use Youtube. But all of the things you avoid are thrown in your face in the recs. Clickbait titles, bait and switch content, dogwhistling videos that start people down the path of ever more bigoted content (for example, the video the OP posted).

I generally don't engage much with video content though, so I'll just continue to ignore it

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

all of the things you avoid are thrown in your face in the recs

Hence why I tend to avoid the YT website. I have disabled recommendations on NewPipe and Grayjay, and that's where 95% of my YT viewing comes from.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago

What have y'all been clicking on YT? I watch, frankly, an unhealthy amount of YT and I don't get recommendations for hateful shit.

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago

I barely use youtube. I actively avoid it as much as possible

[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 1 points 5 hours ago

2things.

Funny that people are trying to evangelise time wasting brainrot

Also you must have so much useful time without the time wasting brainrot.

goes back to watching people process clay for some insane reason

[-] nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 23 hours ago

one of her reasons is "erasure of femininity in gaming" with a screen bemoaning "masculine features" of modern female characters, and her pinned comment says "you know things are bad when oblivion npcs are prettier than some of these new game characters" and also thanks asmongold for sending viewers her way.

so uh, how about no for this hateful garbage.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works -2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

What here is hateful and if it is where is the hate aimed at?

[-] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 20 points 23 hours ago

I was surprised when she brought up Mortal Kombat as an example of over sexualized characters, and not, say, the entire Dead or Alive series. Especially Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. She does make some good points in her video, and I don't want to dismiss her point of view, but I feel she took the easy way out in addressing this point.

Games, and movies and tv, have treated women as sexual objects for a long time, and now the pendulum has swung the opposite way in reaction to that. It's going to take a while for games, and movies and tv, to allow for better perspectives on women. I think the indy scene is where we will find this happening before we ever see it in the major studios, since the latter has to worry about limiting risk and making investors happy. But hopefully the recent flops will be a shot across the bow and wake them up.

Except for that, this was a good video. She lays out her arguments well. I don't agree with every point, but I understand where she's coming from and can respect her point of view.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

I 100% agree here.

That said, I don't think this video has much to do with patient gaming. My understanding is that most are patient not because modern games aren't worth playing, but because they're not worth playing at launch.

So while the video has merit on its own as a critique of the weird AAA over-correction, it's not particularly relevant to patient gaming.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

"NOTHING IS MORE BADASS THAN TREATING A WOMAN WITH RESPECT!"

-Mr. Torgue Flexington. Borderlands 2

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 0 points 14 hours ago

Thanks for the reasonable take. I almost lost hope for a second.

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

No.. No you don't. People like her need to be ignored

[-] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works -4 points 15 hours ago
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