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Every person in this pic should be shoot
If I was the type of person who openly called myself a gamer, I would want to distance myself from these cringe creeps. They're the ones ruining the reputation of games with their gooner stuff. There is more to games than your weird anime loli shit.
I had a lil booth in a weekend market from like 2007-2011 where I sold used video games, mostly focused on retro stuff but kept some modern at the time stuff around to keep things flowing. You'd be surprised how many people actually do want older copies of sports games and casually buy them for like ten bucks. It was pretty nice by the time Obama was in office and we had some lil crt TV's around the booth with a few consoles hooked up so people could test games to be sure things were legit but also just having every system ever hooked up to a few tvs and them being available to play a really good selection of games (there was some expensive shit that couldn't be played by people who weren't gonna buy and didnt put down a deposit before testing of course). It was really fun until about the 2md half of 2010, beforehand our biggest priority was guessing what AVGN would cover and getting ahead of that and it increasingly became dealing with awful people. I was the co-star of this operation tbh, my partner at the time who is a woman was the one really rocking it as far as being there running it, I spent most of the weekends the market wss open going to yard sales and cheaper flea markets and pawn shops that sold drugs looking to fence games where they could be sold and especially rental stores closing down who were selling stock in bulk. I was the buy guy. Having a woman as kinda the face made other women comfortable at first and led to a decent amount of women, families etc coming up and checking out cool retro shit that we were there to get people into. But there was just like...a point that even our regular nerds who had been fine got ficking weird. Retro collecting started getting super huge and just fucking up our game and we had also pretty much dried the well locally for cheap ways to get retro games but the people who were coming by to play the games at the booth was also changing and it wasnt fun. Selling an NES with Mario Bros/duck hunt to a mom who remembers it and had a quick try with her 5 year old and seeing the kid light up for like $50 is what we were there to do, not furnish some creepy nerd's collection. We were furnishing our own collection, thank you
That is really interesting
I think the biggest difference migjt have been that the weirdos stopped being low key about it. Cause we got shitty new people but they were friends of long time customers who seemed to be influences in previously cool enough guys. My partner at the time's family was more a bush than a tree and was very hippie oriented and had a lot of the kind of people who played dnd before 2e, math degree hippies who could game out a living with poker instead of working snd did so even though it seemed way worse of a time. My partner's uncle who I was living with had basically an open house with a pound of weed and a giant pile of board games and just liked hosting that kinda stuff. It was an open house in thar regard. The way nerds used to operste and do now is so different. We used to play the 0th school of DND, open table, and it was soooo fun. Its like this:
Nerd shit used to be a social thing
It's 'nerd-shit' turning from what was usually an interplay between the hobbyist, who played and created for fun and community, and the professional, a hobbyist who had somehow parlayed creation into a living, to the interplay between the company, who is only interested in turning a profit and will actively harm a community by exclusively targeting the desires of it's wealthy members, if it means generating more profit, and the consumer, who does not create but simply consumes and collects for their own individual satisfaction whatever that may entail.
Streamers and critics, are, btw, not hobbyists, they are professional consumers, those who are paid to consume product, the most toxic aspect of the dialectic, as they simultaneously have the loudest and most present voice in the industry, but represent the least amount and most privileged of people. Critics can be useful, but a critic should ideally also be actively engaged in the art of creation to some degree, or at least done so in the past. That doesn't mean what they created has to be good or groundbreaking, it just means that they themselves understand what it means to create and not simply consume. An excellent critic can often elevate the criticism itself into a form of creation, but that is a rare talent indeed.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Anyone with AI in their twitter handle has an automatically invalid opinion.
It's a user tag that stands for An Idiot
lets see how many i get:
the roachmancer(?), no idea, hila "the terrorist" klein's husband, some weeb, no idea, george "the working class are incapable of human thought" orwell, a 56 year old man obsessed with anime boobs, not a clue, nope, nyet, nein
hila "the terrorist" klein's husband
His name is Ethanic Kkkleinsing
#2 is tectone, he's a piece of shit but his dad was such a prolificremoved in the military they had to write legislation and have congressional hearings about it.
#4 is nux or (nuxtaku?). On top of your standard fare gross behavior he's also a pedo. See also "twitch is hentai" to cringe out of your fucking mind.
I recognize the second to last VTuber but I seriously don't want to try to figure out their whole shit or remember their name.
The geeks yearn for the lockers.
and woke politics invaded our hobbies
Asmonroach literally said Palestinians deserve to get genocided; there are no Palestinians or Israelis in WoW; what does any of it have to do with his hobbies?
Edit: on the plus side, at least now I know some more people whose channels I can ignore
Murdering Palestinians is apolitical in the US, as are deaths from lack of healthcare, or violence against minorities.
They know their treats depends on those people's death, so it is an "unavoidable" nature constant to them.
It's funny that the right rallies around these losers because they're all so unimaginably soy
Like I said in my post about this, these freaks have goon caves with llm's cranking out their own porno but it's still not enough and they have to force it on everyone else.
They think everyone who isn't gooning 24/7 is being oppressed by the woke deep state and they're just trying to liberate them. Do you hate freedom??
I'm glad I can only recognized Asmongold, Ethan Klein, George Orwell, and Grummz out of all of those people pictured.
also nightmare blunt rotation
were
i wish they were past tense
Well they were gamers and fans of whatever slop, but I think they're just pissed off all the time now and can't enjoy anything. So it might be technically correct.
"politic is when you fantasize and whinge about a super powerful woke mob that is simultaneously very weak"
Ethan Klein can't even lock in on Israel, he gives ground to avoid conflict but still holds his original beliefs, not participating isn't politic, it's bigotry. None of the characters in this picture do politic, asmongold complains about the lack of boobies, grummmmz complains about the lack of boobies, nux is a troll, havent seen the rest but im sure its all the same whingey shit, take minorities in media and censorship of overly sexualised media to the campaign trail and realise how quickly your culture war slop is brushed away when it's detached from capitalist imperialist politic.
I hate that I know who those VTubers are, ugh
Without the profit motive, none of these people would care.
any of the people i recognize from this pic don’t even disagree with mainstream news outlets. they just play their clips and act like they disagree when they really just believe the same shit but more racistly
george orwell was the first g*mer
Every person in this pic should be shoot
I only recognize 4 of the people on this list (AG, EK, NT, and I think the middle right guy is called grummz?) but even just being on a list with those four would be enough to give me cause to shoot myself.
Look if you wanna sit on your couch for three hours eating cool ranch doritos straight from the bag and making an image of a wizard hit an image of a dragon with the image of a stick, that's fine, but stop trying to dress it up in the language of revolutionary struggle, 'cause it sure shootin' ain't that.
”If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.” — George Orwell
Damn this quote is so vapid and useless. Yeah duh if you say something nobody agrees with people might hate you, even if you're right and they're wrong. Funnily that applies a lot more to pro-AES communists than any libertarian tendencies (the ones Orwell was part of) because we do actually get hate as a result of cold war propaganda. I wouldn't be ranting about this if it was a poetic way of saying something obvious, but he just stated it in the sandpaper dry way you'd expect from a dissertation, like if it was really complex and needed to be put simply.
I don’t know what kind of face Asmongold is going for here but it pisses me off
I love it when faschies quote Orwell. Like, you obviously didn't read his works or you would know he was a socialist.
Edit: I'm not in any way about to get into deep discussions. I'm on mobile and have ADHD, so just deal with my overly reductionist statements.
Edit 2: Orwell called himself a socialist, argue with him. Later, he became active in democratic socialism, and I'm not arguing whether that's the same or different. That's a whole other discussion. He was very critical of communism (very much not the same thing as socialism, at least in practice during the first half of the 20th century, and in the US and other western countries, socialists amd communists came to blows with each other), and Stalinism specifically. He was equally hypercritical of tory-flavored monarchism, and amy other type of authoritarian government.
we disavow
The guy who made opposing socialism his life mission, who was a colonial cop, and snitched on gay people, Jews, and communists to the British state was an antifascist socialist? Well I'll be!
Dont forget being aremoved
a what
a person who did a SA allegedly, i think
Tbh Orwell is a good example of how someone can call themselves a socialist, and even maybe consider themselves one, while doing the work of capitalists and opposing socialism. He's definitely more broadly seen as having been a socialist thought, so I'm a bit annoyed at my comrades here for jumping on you to make what is unfortunately still a fairly niche correction.
Hell hath no fury like a Hexbear user who sees someone with an @ next to their name saying something that's even slightly incorrect. 
~~It's crazy how the CIA and the rest of the US government has had however many decades to figure this out but you got there first while they're still stumbling in the dark distributing Orwell's socialist propaganda, which as we can see is responsible for the grand red wave of socialism that has overtaken American politics.~~
Edit: Alright, sorry about being snarky, ~~though not enough to remove it ig,~~ but more seriously I strongly encourage you to reread Animal Farm and take careful note of how he describes the general population of workers as being too stupid to even be oppressed because that would require having an independent will and ability to conceptualize things being better or worse beyond what they're instructed, which Orwell takes great pains to tell us almost all of the working class was incapable of.
Orwell is so red they taught him in my school but they had to make sure to bring a veteran to explain how bad socialism and Stalin were afterward, just to make sure we didn't get any ideas. Not that that was the teacher directly explaining the themes of the book Animal Farm.
He very obviously criticized the implementations he was witnessing, but still held to the ideals. It's easy to imagine "No, no, not like that! "
Again, reread animal farm. He was not a socialist, he was a misanthropic freak who used his status as a supposed socialist as cover to do nothing but red bash even as fascism ran rampant.