The thing that initially got the gamer demographic onto the conservative bandwagon in the first place was when right-wing influencers got them convinced that it was the feminists that were coming for their games instead of the conservative and religious activists that had spent like 2 decades railing against heavy metal, D&D, rap and video games. Like 5 years before GamerGate the biggest gamer boogeyman was Jack Thompson. Maybe if someone finally actually did come for their treats for real there’d be another shift.

It’d sadly also lead to a lot of adult content creators getting financially hurt which still sucks though :/

The porn and violent video game bans are bad enough, but it gets worse. As I understand it, the plan goes something like this

1. Make porn illegal
2. Define anything LGBTQ-related as pornographic, thus essentially criminalising being visibly queer (the real point of the porn ban)

Some have warned it could get even worse

3. Define exposing children to pornography as CSA
4. Apply the death penalty to CSA crimes

I can’t even remember the last time I’ve seen someone say that

(this emoji is still my proudest achievement though)

Is it necessary to water a lawn in November

Tbh not a fan of how they wrote black characters in bioware other than admiral anderson.

Being voiced by Keith David helped immensely

brainwashed harem runner

Oh christ I forgot about that part. I just remembered he abandoned Jacob when he was a kid. You can really feel that 2010 EA edge in ME2

I did like Jacob better than whoever the meathead guy in ME3 was so he’s not the blandest soldier guy in the series. Though if I’m being honest, I mostly just kept Garrus and Tali on my team for most of that game (and the third game too)

It was just shocking seeing a hexbear user just brazenly misgendering other users to their faces. Really disappointing to see

some random reactionary

That sort of troll would’ve just started blasting pure unfiltered hate speech by their second account

I think that was the argument- some people felt that having the only black party member in Mass Effect having his personal storyline revolve around an asshole absentee father was leaning into an unfortunate trope

I remember people arguing that his personal quest was racist

I just reflexively assumed us white millennials had ruined everything