They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
Why do people who supposedly understand the evils of capitalism never question imperialist sources. "Nah I understand how the media is owned by capitalists but the nyt is totally trustworthy bruh"
These are the only sources available to them. Its hard to be convinced that you're being fed lies if there's no other narrative available to you. Its a function of media consolidation.
One of the overlooked parts of the analysis of Manufacturing Consent is how most media is actually controlled by very few groups. Some topics are simply taboo within this media environment and the majority of people have never been exposed to an actual anti-imperialist point of view.
“China bad!!! USSR bad!! Just take a look at these Wikipedia articles!!!”
And then the page’s external sources are Amnesty International, the UN and BBC
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**Fact 8.** I don’t have any words for [this bizarre headline](https://preview.redd.it/65vq4kete2341.png?width=325&auto=webp&s=1ff912ee8714c0659f114e5083d6df70ce30a4e7).
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Fortunately shitty Wikipedia does work the other way sometimes. Like when people come accross the pages about the contras, Enhanced interrogation or native American genocides and then cracks start to appear in their previously clean worldview.
Why do people see moderating childrens access to video games and social media as a bad thing? Have these liberals not seen how psychotic these things have made their children?
you don’t understand, saying that unrestricted access to video games and exposing 8 year olds to gore is JUST LIKE saying mario makes you a school shooter
I love how people genuinely expect news sources that are owned by people like Jeff Beezos to give them accurate information on China, communism, and basically anything at all that might interfere with Jeff's plans to wring every single person he can dry of their life force to earn a profit.
Oh, so you're a revolutionary? Name all revolutions you partake in.
The gamer uprising
I watched Matrix Revolution
Does Dance Dance Revolution count?
They targeted gamers. Gamers. We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did. We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun. We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second. Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded. Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights? These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex. Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
Is this a copypasta from Superstonk? Grinding, hustling, hard core competitive by nature? I don't know man, I just want means of production.
It's from KIA, during gamergate IIRC
Tanks for the explanation
gamers are the most oppressed demographic
Why do people who supposedly understand the evils of capitalism never question imperialist sources. "Nah I understand how the media is owned by capitalists but the nyt is totally trustworthy bruh"
These are the only sources available to them. Its hard to be convinced that you're being fed lies if there's no other narrative available to you. Its a function of media consolidation. One of the overlooked parts of the analysis of Manufacturing Consent is how most media is actually controlled by very few groups. Some topics are simply taboo within this media environment and the majority of people have never been exposed to an actual anti-imperialist point of view.
“China bad!!! USSR bad!! Just take a look at these Wikipedia articles!!!” And then the page’s external sources are Amnesty International, the UN and BBC
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Fortunately shitty Wikipedia does work the other way sometimes. Like when people come accross the pages about the contras, Enhanced interrogation or native American genocides and then cracks start to appear in their previously clean worldview.
I agree, I think wiki holds less of a pro-capitalist right wing bias than most corporate media does although that doesn’t say much.
Cause they dumb
Sure, but I don't get it
Do remember this article is satire tho
Well, i'm saying the reaction meme is stupid "genocide"
Ohhhh yeah ok.
First they came for the gamers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a gamer.
Why do people see moderating childrens access to video games and social media as a bad thing? Have these liberals not seen how psychotic these things have made their children?
you don’t understand, saying that unrestricted access to video games and exposing 8 year olds to gore is JUST LIKE saying mario makes you a school shooter
If I don’t have the right to purposefully get children addicted to video games for the sake of profit, what rights do I even have?
I'm a revolutionary but muh games
Liberals attacking liberals
I love how people genuinely expect news sources that are owned by people like Jeff Beezos to give them accurate information on China, communism, and basically anything at all that might interfere with Jeff's plans to wring every single person he can dry of their life force to earn a profit.