games

"Keep politics out of games" and the whole "escapism" line are nonsensical the more you think about it.

Video games are not an "escape from reality" into something completely new and different, they will always be reinterpretations of our current reality because that's all we know and all we can create. Reinterpretations that display how we believe the world works, how we feel about the world and what we would like it to be. Any piece of art involving any kind of society will therefore always be political, because you can't write a society without displaying how you believe societies work and/or how they should work.

The whole argument that video games must be complete escapism has been twisting my brain in knots.

Like there's a lot there to be analyzed. The need for "escapism" over just playing a game because its fun is a scary turn.

These dorks are annoying, yes, but holy shit are they okay? Like there's so many threads I want to tug on but I'm afraid to. Like why do they need to escape? Why can escapism only be right wing? Where does this start, when they're kids or when they're older and disaffected? where in the video game culture is this idea presented and supported?

Even the basis that "games are escapism", means one is playing games in a way someone does drugs. A comfort, an escape, the inability to address issues in ones own life.

I'm not remotely qualified to analyze any of this but it just feels really dark and foreboding overall.

I'm really developing a violent reaction to the "video games are escapism" line.

Like, that's all the art form is to you? A means to escape your life and turn off those dumbass noises in your head for a while?

Also, escape from what, exactly?

damn that's crazy, anyways, any of my trans and NB comrades want to hop into tf2 and legally convert everyone into a femboy?

I can't support trans rights because the transes killed 30 million people.

Oh wait that was the nazis.

All of them get the gulag.

this is such a cute Easter egg! i don't play TF2 but i know most players are queer or allies, from what i've seen and also people really like the twink that looks kinda like Jerma. and the meme of the spy with all the cigarettes in his mouth. and something about hats... or is that RuneScape? it's wonderful to imagine all the people seeing this for the first time, and how happy it would make them. 😊

all opinions are equally valid. my desire to beat up queers is just as benign as your preference for chocolate ice cream.

seeing the nazis and thinking "ah yes the problem is ideas and not the fact these ideas suck"

Customer base has a lot of trans people

Developers recognize that and throw in an easter egg.

"YO WTF how can this be happening? I DEMAND THE ARTISTS PRAISE MY BELOVED HITLER!"

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Literally half of all players on TF2 are LGBT. I've been playing TF2 about 20 hours in the last 2 weeks and I have YET to see a non-trans medic.

They all have Mediguns labeled "Estrogen Dispenser" or other such trans references.

What’s with right wingers and this constant, child-like insistence that everything they do is escapism and coping. It sounds like they want a safe space