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And the wild part is I remember for a time G*mers screeching about wanting critics like Roger Ebert to take games seriously as an art. Now they got their wish, developers are treating their projects like art, and they don't like it because it dares to make them uncomfortable sometimes.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's also a preview of how mass media will look under the next stage of fascism. No themes, no complexity, no message, just guys bein dudes and women being props. No art, only toys.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

Pretty scary. Total Stepford Wives-ied reality.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

The whole popularity around ai robot girlfriends fucking terrifies me.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ever see what happens at trade conventions where prototype sex robots are presented for demo purposes?

Convention-goers demolish them in minutes, in public, with SV actions against the robots, Andrew Tate style. It's happened a number of times in a number of places.

Also, when it comes to digital waifu programs, one of the most popular ways they are used is to deliberately try to abuse and mistreat them, as if the cruelty was what was getting them off.

The techbros are not okay.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

We are so fucked with these people gaining so much outsize power and influence

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

That recent news where corpo media announced it'd have committees of fans to fandom-check new projects to avoid offending them made me feel pretty fucking doomer.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

Within our lifetime we will see the rise of the first gooner "auteur"

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

Within our lifetime we will see the rise of the first gooner "auteur"

Already happened, kind of.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

no message

Oh, there will be messages all right.

kill-em-all

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

MFW Americans are such Disney adults they want to double down on all the things that made it slop in the first place.

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