Gamers will complain that people don't consider video games art and then viciously attack any attempts to introduce artistic elements like "critique" into the format. 
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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Art is just stuff, politics should stay out of it 
Yes, no adventure-having or monster-slaying in the reveal trailer, just Ciri having a group session at her local women’s group talking about the psychic trauma of mental labor.
Every time you leave a game of Gwent they remark about your intelligence one way or the other.
Shopkeepers have a 30% chance to make an advance on you. Their advances are a peggle mini game.
-10% attack power for a week every month
Have to hire an NPC to help you reach loot in the top shelf
Hot chip and lying section
Critical Drinker wants to play Pokémon
Can’t wait until he makes a rant about how Giovanni and Lysandre are the real good guys and Pokemon is woke because Mewtwo shouldn’t be too powerful (anything stronger than a level one magikarp) while also holding left-of-center beliefs.
Team Rocket was pretty cool. Could you imagine if the mafia had uniforms with a big M on em
One of those adventures could be being a woman struggling in a medieval world. And the monsters could be you know. Everybody.
Every other rpg video game: famous for no monster fights or adventure having
Did he even play the games? Even the first game tackled stuff like that.
Even if these kind of dorks play games, they're too media illiterate to process even the most basic stuff that happens in them
Whoa, the kingdom is racist against dwarves, and it negatively impacts the life of the dwarf character that I like! Huh, good thing that has nothing to do with real life 
Only being taught the most sanitized Amerikkkan history and seeing no parallels with the Conjunction of the Spheres
It's 
time
The Witcher 3: “Hello next protagonist who happens to be a woman, have I mentioned you’re my protege?”
Radio silence
The media: “By the way, go be bigots or else you won’t be popular on the internet.”
Now: “Aaaah!1!1 How DARE YOU BETRAY MEN LIKE THIS!?!?!?!”
They’ve become the new Anita Sarkeesians. They won’t even take their own advice of “make your own games”.
Even in the most ungenerous critique of her work, Anita was never as whiny and annoying as these fucking tourist dorks
Some of them do make their own games and they're soundly terrible
Next time I run into a gamergater still doing victory laps from winning the culture war in 2014, I’ll ask them that when was the last time Ethnic Cleansing won an award.
Don't forget Racial Holy War
Even liberals make better games.
A friend gifted me the Andrew Yang 2020 fighter game as a joke and it’s actually pretty fun.
Sometimes they kickstart and make their own films as well.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1000347150/rogue-elements-a-ryan-drake-short-film
or any other books
the witcher series would never tackle people's struggle with societal bigotry