We just wanted to play video games.

[Providence 777]

We just wanted to be left alone and to play video games, but you had to come for our hobby, you had to wreck it, and censor it, and censor us for noticing.

Well congratulations, this is your prize, you did this to yourselves. If you had just ignored us, and left us and our hobbies alone, you wouldn't have had to worry about who we vote for.

After watching all my hobbies become hollow skin suits of what they once were, saturated with topical ham-fisted modern day political content, I resigned myself to learning everything about what you believe and will remain permanently active in politics until every policy that even resembles your way of thinking, is completely abolished.

This isn't even simply about the games or geek culture anymore at this point, this is about being as spiteful as possible to those who tried to prescriptively force feed their politics into my favorite media.

[Chocobo & Moogle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjj4cdSNQ9Y&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYbHPfG87Vc&t=49s

It's what they deserve

[eram]

i wonder who hes even talking to

this is steam off topic you wanna play a game go play a game.

[Chocobo & Moogle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMY4LwVIypU&t=205s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlifmIEMYXw&t=1s

[Sigma957]

I'm sure this is what the people said before the Roman Empire fell. We just wanted bread and circuses. To hell with important stuff.

I'm right aren't I? We ALMOST became the 3rd Roman Empire in its last days.

[Providence 777]

Originally posted by Sigma957:

I'm sure this is what the people said before the Roman Empire fell. We just wanted bread and circuses. To hell with important stuff.

I'm right aren't I? We ALMOST became the 3rd Roman Empire in its last days.

I'm just explaining to people why the election turned out the way that it did, people who are upset at the results don't understand that it's their own fault for dragging our hobbies into politics and launching a culture war against gamers.

They get what they deserve, and are melting down because of it. We didn't have to be their political enemies, we didn't have to vote against them, but our entertainment media isn't interesting or captivating anymore because of their vandalism, so we were forced to pay attention and figure who's responsible, so we're punishing them by voting against everything they believe.

They didn't have to make us their enemies, they could have left us alone, but they decided to impose themselves on our games and other entertainment media, this backlash is their own doing.

[Rebecca]

I'm from the UK but I'm so happy that Trump won. I'm just the same as you, sick of wokeness ruining media. I've lost so many franchises I care about. Its just so painful having to watch them be mutilated and burned to the ground. Hopefully now this virus can at least be stamped out of the US. I'm hoping that means the UK will follow suit in time.

Originally posted by Providence 777:

Originally posted by Sigma957:

I'm sure this is what the people said before the Roman Empire fell. We just wanted bread and circuses. To hell with important stuff.

I'm right aren't I? We ALMOST became the 3rd Roman Empire in its last days.

I'm just explaining to people why the election turned out the way that it did, people who are upset at the results don't understand that it's their own fault for dragging our hobbies into politics and launching a culture war against gamers.

They get what they deserve, and are melting down because of it. We didn't have to be their political enemies, we didn't have to vote against them, but our entertainment media isn't interesting or captivating anymore because of their vandalism, so we were forced to pay attention and figure who's responsible, so we're punishing them by voting against everything they believe.

They didn't have to make us their enemies, they could have left us alone, but they decided to impose themselves on our games and other entertainment media, this backlash is their own doing.

100% with you. They started this. If they didn't want to make enemies then they should left our hobbies alone instead of destroying them. Yes, this is absolutely their own fault. They did this to themselves.

[Iggy Wolf]

I'm not sure you realize that politics by the government ISN'T why you see what you think is politics in your games. And Trump winning ISN'T going to change that. These corporations make the decisions they do based on their own investors and marketing strategies. That doesn't change because of who occupies the White House.

So, sorry to disappoint, but it's NOT going away just because Trump is now in power. Lest you forget, international corporations are NOT loyal to ANY flag or ANY country! They act of their own accord, independent of any of the politics in any particular nation. Sorry, but America and its politics is NOT the center of their universe. YOU are not the center of their universe.

[Катюша]

It does feel great to see people get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over that have being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you over for so long, even if things will not return to as they were.

Revenge in itself is just desserts.

[Providence 777]

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

I'm not sure you realize that politics by the government ISN'T why you see what you think is politics in your games. And Trump winning ISN'T going to change that. These corporations make the decisions they do based on their own investors and marketing strategies. That doesn't change because of who occupies the White House.

So, sorry to disappoint, but it's NOT going away just because Trump is now in power. Lest you forget, international corporations are NOT loyal to ANY flag or ANY country! They act of their own accord, independent of any of the politics in any particular nation. Sorry, but America and its politics is NOT the center of their universe. YOU are not the center of their universe.

You didn't read my post.

This is to punish the people responsible for destroying our hobbies. They're obsessed with politics, all they care about is policy and who's in positions of power in the government, so they berate us in our entertainment.

No one believes Trump is going to stop games from being woke, this is about punishing the people who destroyed our games, they hate Trump so this is a fitting punishment.

I will vote to attack everything these people believe and value, this is punishment for what they've done to my hobbies.

[Puggly the Grey]

It sounds like chu’re blamin’ “wokeness” fir fings dat are actually le result of late-stage capitalism.

Doesn’t matter now doh, it’s over, frankly it might have been over even if Trump had lost.

Le rich sociopaths control everything, and we will all suffer to serve their arrogance.

[Iggy Wolf]

Originally posted by Providence 777:

You didn't read my post.

This is to punish the people responsible for destroying our hobbies. They're obsessed with politics, all they care about is policy and who's in positions of power in the government, so they berate us in our entertainment.

No one believes Trump is going to stop games from being woke, this is about punishing the people who destroyed our games, they hate Trump so this is a fitting punishment.

I will vote to attack everything these people believe and value, this is punishment for what they've done to my hobbies.

I mean, if you mean OT, then I'm sure you understand you can just avoid it, right? But if you're talking about any specific individuals or groups of people, then I'm not sure you understand that no one cares about games THAT much. Not least of all "representation".

Hell, I've seen more troll/bait threads asking for LGBTQ representation or whatever than any actual serious ones. I would argue that "content creators" and kids with parents' money are what ruined games, because it's THEIR opinion that companies cater to the most, which is why every hero shooter is like Fortnite and new games focus more on being convenient for YouTubers than actual gamers.

[Providence 777]

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

I mean, if you mean OT, then I'm sure you understand you can just avoid it, right? But if you're talking about any specific individuals or groups of people, then I'm not sure you understand that no one cares about games THAT much. Not least of all "representation".

Hell, I've seen more troll/bait threads asking for LGBTQ representation or whatever than any actual serious ones. I would argue that "content creators" and kids with parents' money are what ruined games, because it's THEIR opinion that companies cater to the most, which is why every hero shooter is like Fortnite and new games focus more on being convenient for YouTubers than actual gamers.

I'm talking about the plague of companies like SBI, and scams like ESG investment scores, and their negative impact on every western game series I play, and now they're negatively impacting various Japanese games I enjoy as well.

Localization rewriting entire characters and even stories just like they did back in the 1990s, and censoring content that's intended for mature audiences.

Our rating system has no function anymore, M rating games are getting toned down so much that E rated games from the 2010s have more bite now.

[Asmongolds Epic Launcher]

Gamer Gate wins again

[Chocobo & Moogle]

Lol, they're blaming us for voting for Trump when they did it themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAWBsyAKTl4&t=1s

[Iggy Wolf]

Originally posted by Providence 777:

I'm talking about the plague of companies like SBI, and scams like ESG investment scores, and their negative impact on every western game series I play, and now they're negatively impacting various Japanese games I enjoy as well.

Localization rewriting entire characters and even stories just like they did back in the 1990s, and censoring content that's intended for mature audiences.

Our rating system has no function anymore, M rating games are getting toned down so much that E rated games from the 2010s have more bite now.

Except that most of the time, they're overblown and the games usually suck just because the companies don't know wanna take risks or make anything new, so they just stick to tired old trends in hopes of fruitlessly getting the same people hooked on the same formula. I've been around long enough to see it slowly become a trainwreck since the days of "Oblivion's Horse Armor" DLC.

When companies realized they could make MORE money by presenting "Games As A Service", then the focus became on what popular trends and traits they could insert into their characters and gameplay that EVERYONE ELSE uses so they can ride the wave. First, it was zombies, but then it was battle royale. These days? I'm not even sure anymore. Seems like "hero shooter" is the new trend, but Concord showed how much THAT ship has sunk.