• ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    If playing games to “escape the realities of the modern world” works this way, I want games to stop force feeding me boring white guys

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      You have to be so fucking direct and didactic with these knuckleheads, any indirect glancing shots are going to be rationalized away or ignored. You literally have Disco Elysium screaming communism and Marx quotes in a decaying dead-end capitalist shithole world and they still deny that the game has any type of leftist themes.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    They need to escape into fantasy because the modern world is so terrible for them because trans people exist. This escapism bullshit comes up every single fucking time and it’s so pathetic. First off, if this is what you feel the need to escape from, you don’t have real problems aside from being socially malignant and the loneliness and isolarion stemming from being a creepy little turd and escapism isn’t gonna fix that. Secondly, it’s an absolutely juvenile way to prioritize your tastes in media, I’m a big star trek guy and part of it is hanging out in a better future, BUT it’s aspirational, it constantly has messages about the here and now, I’m a Tolkien guy and there’s a lot more to his work than getting lost in Middle Earth fantasy. Third it’s self centered and or depressing, you’re choosing to fight anything that may dig your head from the sand, it’s juvenile like a child refusing to come out from under the bed until the vacuum is turned off, no one should be proud they feel like this, escapism is a break not a mode of being. Don’t look for escape, look to escape.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I agree with SanKing21; I play video games to escape the morons who take issue with things like “flags,” or “sexuality,” or worse: “other people’s business.”

    Mind your own business, you semi-sentient dicksneeze.