Granted it was during a bleak period of my life when I was so reactionary. But my god, to think these goobers are still around today, still doing racism and sexism, just moving from target to target to take out the impotent rage on.

Just reminded of it today with the “discourse” of Yasuke being in Ass Creed and G*mers changing any woman not white and waifish with AI.

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Semi-unrelated but I suspect that almost no one actually dislikes Yasuke for historical reasons. He’s a pretty well known figure associated with the most famous shogun to ever live. His existence is fairly well documented, and he shows up a lot in Japanese media too. I think most people with a passing interest in Japanese history will have heard of him at some point.
Maybe it’s just because I’m older now than I was during Gamergate, but this new drama doesn’t hold up under even gentle scrutiny.

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Yeah. Yasuke is actually a perfect pick for an AC character. Fascinating person where just enough is known, but plenty of questions to fill in the blanks with AC nonsense.

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its why everytime someone comes to me saying its not an issue about race in a samurai game, I tell them did you complain William in Nioh 1 and its sequel Nioh 2 was an Irish Samurai. if they didnt, suprise you might actually be a racist, because Nioh being a Japanese developed game, also proves Japan doesnt give a shit about historical accuracy and what race a Samurai is, so you couldnt play the japan would be mad about it card.

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well of course William’s race is non-political

Seriously though, thats the perfect example to point to to show that this is all bs. It’s the exact same situation - non Japanese people who became samurai in rhe Sengoku era and each had close relationships with a shogun. They’re both real so its not the dreaded “historical inaccuracy.” Theres literally only one difference between Yasuke and William that is the reason they’re throwing a fit about one and not the other

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It’s mainly due to a lot of GG styled ragebait videos of dudes grifting on how most people are engaged by negative shit, and nothing is more negative than being a middle aged reactionary upset about vidya games.

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I was 12 in 2000. There were a lot of words that were “ok” to say back then that I regret having come out of my mouth.

The important thing is to move on and learn why that was bad. Don’t beat yourself up over it.

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There were a lot of words that were “ok” to say back then

“There are two words I don’t want to hear anybody say. ‘Sucks’ and ‘Shut up’.”

-my elementary school principal, in a very real and very serious assembly

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One of my “friends” taught me a slur in 4th grade and it made the teacher think my parents were racists lol
If you’re reformed and now on Hexbear, fuck you, Jay!

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Around the same grade, a friend said to me “you know why everything costs $##.99? It’s called the Jewish dollar, cuz they’re cheap”

I didn’t know the stereotypes but learned there.

Similar to being introduced to the word gay by it being hurled at me as an insult while on the bus, didn’t know what it meant but knew I didn’t want to be that

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We had a kid on our elementary school playground that had older brothers who told him about all the “bad stuff”. He would hold court as we could sit around him and learn all the bad words for lgbtq people, the subtle differences between a blowjob and a “hummer”, all the made up sex things like “rusty trombones” and whatnot.

That Kid turned out really weird. Hope he’s doing ok out there.

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Suckiest Bunch Of Sucks is the only thing that comes to mind after something like that

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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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There were a lot of words that were “ok” to say back then that I regret

The amount that I used the r-slur in high school…

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That’s not an american football game, that’s the setup to a gay porno!

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Oh jeez. I remember that. I was a large, overweight kid who was bad at sports. I was given the ball a lot.

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A lot of us did. But look at us now! I’m proud of anyone who realized that was wrong and changed their behavior. Too many people double down on “it’s just words bro” or “it didn’t used to mean that. It just meant dumb”.

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True, main thing is I was just a kid and saw other people used it, did not think critically…

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It should have been dismissed at the start, like game journalism on the whole is just copy paste press release, 9/10 reviews, attend cons.

But some mild feminist critique somehow turns into a movement???

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i was suxked up into it briefly in its heyday when i was 14-15. I think people today might underestimate how persuasive it was to tween/teen boys (I didn’t know ) in that phase after they’ve divested themselves from their parent’s opinions but before they’ve had the chance to independently develop their own (inasmuch as one can opinions can be “independent” in society).

EVERYBODY knew games journalism as an industry was a joke— 10/10 IGN, 7/10 too much water, Skyrim with Guns, and so forth — so a “movement” claiming to be concerned about ethics in games journalism was inviting as a 14 year old dweeb with nothing better to care about.

And once you’ve swallowed the hook with a few alt-lite zingers from “Based Milo” Yianopaulos and Christina Sommers it’s easy to accept the rest of the reactionary rhetoric that builds on it—if games journalism was being ruined by liberal pansy feminists, then all the other stuff they were being blamed for must be their fault, right? I watched PragerU videos of my own volition () because YouTube recommended them and they built on the GamerGate stuff by offering easy answers that demanded nothing from me.

Honestly its a miracle I wasn’t completely lost to online alt-right brainrot. I don’t even know why I stopped believing in it, I just… did? Then I spent like a year being a generic lib before finding r/cth and beginning my slow ascent to smug communist superiority

All this to say, don’t be too hard on yourself for getting sucked into something. And as someone once said, if you don’t look back at yourself and cringe, you haven’t grown

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I think the reason I stopped believing in it is because i eventually noticed that everyone selling it gave off such pathetic/rancid vibes

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i love finding more fellow ‘reactionary teen to trans communist’ pipeline comrades

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there are dozens of us!

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The best thing about the whole to me was that it showed how reactionary most g*mers are, and it soured me forever on being in any video game related online spaces unless they explicitly don’t allow reactionaries.

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The other day I logged onto my private server for FFXI and I saw someone with the username “didyouassumemygender” and I was like “great”

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I’ve noticed if a private server is geared towards “hardcore” players like old FFXI ones are you going to meet more G*mer reactionaries. I play on CatsEyeXI which is super casual and even still.

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I think the most overt name I saw was in planetside 2: “fashygoy88”

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