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Who is “they”?
One lonely racist with an image generator?
Feels a bit of a weird take… One of the most liked, shared etc video game trailers of all time which is also the least white but because some percentage of people are goofs, gamers as a whole are evil?
It’d be like saying all the fediverse is tankie crazies because .ml exists.
I get we like our pitchforks and any attempt to villainize folks but this feels pretty thin.
usually the crowd addressed as gamers in these things is the vocal racist and sexist and homophobic loud minority, the ones that still keep the spirit of gamergate going. obviously the text just mentions gamers, but sometimes you can be a bit charitable.
People who don’t game basically only see that part because they’re the ones getting their knickers in a twist and having public outbursts over ridiculous shit all the time. I think many refrain from gaming just because of that.
Awful lot of incels welcome in every gaming community.
You see, it’s actually about ethics in games journalism.
…I like the blonde version more thou…
Typical world comment.
It’s not about preference. It’s about a creative choice that is critized because of racism.
It is racist, but I like both tho :3
Original is better
I mean both look, how can i say this, extremely thirst trappy but the face is much better on the original. Also my brain is strange(and also its very hard to talk about this because it involves skin colour) so for me general european/north american white skin is kinda neutral but the edited picture has her at like finnish level whiteness which kinda can work as a plus point. But this is ignoring how fucking deranged this is.
Both had good artists. The original evoqued feelings of thirst, as intended. The revision evoqued feelings of racism, as intended.
So a white person with Mar-a-Lago face? Kinda proves the point that a lot of casual racism just boils down to jealousy. They’ll spend thousands of dollars on cosmetic surgery, lip filler, and spend hours a day tanning but god forbid you have those features naturally.
It’s the same vibe as talking shit on Latino immigrants but than taking your family to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. Or how they talk shit about pride month and LGBTQ+ and say they deserve a parade for being straight all the while LGBTQ+ porn is extremely popular in conservative areas. They want all the benefits of other races, cultures, and sexualities without any of the prejudice that they themselves are creating.
The original post seems like pure bait to me.
Hmmm looked around a bit online and I couldn’t find this edited image or any comment about Rockstar changing the cover art from the left to the right. I’m wondering if this is even real, or am I missing a joke? If it is real it’s silly but if it’s not it’s just fake outrage.
The post says that fans made the change, likely meaning this is hard to find
Oh, I follow now. The way I read it initially it was that fans were mad about it and they got it changed, not that they made it themselves. Thanks for the clarification!
So, in other words, possibly one person did this and now we all should be bigly mad about it?
It’s a moral panic.
Look at gamergate forums or on x and they are thousands of people mad about rockstar going “woke” so no its not a “moral panic”. Hate people in this thread pretending racism doesn’t exist because their bubbles are successfully purged of it that’s good but the racism is still there and say your low tech friend who games causally and uses x or facebook or reddit will see it.
Do you have any earthly idea how many of those “people” are bots now? Let yourself get worked-up by engagement-bait if you insist, but no-one-else is obligated to check-out places that are well-known for being places one goes to piss-off others or find something to get pissed-off about. Your “hobby” of engaging with and spreading it without substantiation vs reality doesn’t make you “more aware”, it just makes you part of the problem.
Okay then don’t downplay existing racism because you successfully avoid it. That’s helping no one end racism.
You’re literally promoting specific fan-art, spreading it far beyond what it ever would have reached otherwise, in your efforts to “end” racism. If anyone’s watering down existing racism, its you and people who act as you do.
How am promoting and spreading it?
Both are nice, and also there was no need to consider the feelings of incel gamers and more than other groups in the first place, so the second wasn’t needed. If white (skin) boys wanna have a fit over feeling left behind they should talk to white (class) billionaires who steal everyone’s money about it. All this other shit, the performative racism, misogyny and masculinity, is just telling on themselves for having small dicks and being unlikeable becasue they can’t accept reality. Instead, be based: Plenty of people enjoy small dicks, you deserve love and to love yourself primarily, and also eviscerate the oligarchy. All that said, gamers aren’t a monolith of incels and wierdos so this meme fails, because judgemental generalizing is seldom useful in any context.
“A few weirdos on the Internet used Photoshop, so now we’re ragebaiting it for engagement to make a few pennies on X.”
No racism is not okay and it was more than a few i still lurk on reddit and the “gamergate” crowd hate the original and claim the game has gone “woke” so there is actual racism to be confronted.
There’s no “confronting” ragebait. Internet rule #1:
Don’t feed the trolls.
The “discovery of the number 0” thing always bugs me because obviously no one needed to discover the number zero as it’s used to express “I own zero goats”.
The important discovery was the use of 0 as a placeholder in a column indicating no value, when writing the number 10 for example. Basically it’s the discovery of a positional numeric system where the position / column of the digits means something.
The distinction between the concept of “nothing” as general concept, and “nothing” as a numerical value is non-trivial. And like, a mathematical proof that outlines that numerical concept of “nothing” is important.
Fuck racism. But why the fuck are you posting a piece of shit produced by some scum denying the right to live to a group of people based on their hobby?
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This is humorous post. This is not to be taken seriously
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Gamers usually doesn’t just mean someone that likes to play video games, but the specific toxic subset. At least that how most people use in my experience
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