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Hail tzneech! I use twitter for two things: arguments for fun, and anime stuff. Games: Warframe & Honkai. Ich studiere Deutsch und 日本語べんきょ��する。
Kyoto-shi Kita, Kyoto
Joined April 2016
Well said fantastic explanation.
Well, if you want, I'm just trying to avoid some of vitriol / non-serious posts that tends to happen on this platform. But I appreciate you willing to talk. This is gong to be a long one. This whole thing is not about Sweet Baby per se; it's part of a larger movement in culture. And I think we're going to need to take a few steps back in time so that you understand where I'm coming from. I was born in 1980, in America. This was, in my opinion, a great time. We had our challenges, every country does, but we were riding on the coat-tails of the culture from the 60s and 70s. We were in the wake of the teachings of Martin Luther King. Growing up, ideal of judging someone by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, was deeply embedded in my generation. We embraced it. And not superficially, either. The Cosby Show was a big hit. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Enormously popular. We had jazz, but more than that, we had funk and soul. In the pop scene, there was Michael and Janet Jackson. We didn't care that these entertainers were black. Why would we? We treated everyone the same, we cared that their music was great, or their show made us laugh. When Rodney King was beaten on the streets by police, the country was up in arms. How could you do that? To anyone? The LGBT stuff was a little weird, the big story of my time on that front was Freddie Mercury getting HIV. But we were kids, and our parents didn't want to talk about gay sex and all that with us. Or sex at all, really. We were kids. But we knew who gay people were. We had some in school. And sure, they would catch some flack and teasing from the bullies, but for the most part, just like people with a different skin color, we didn't really care. "You like to kiss boys? Well, uh, not my thing, I think it's kind of gross, but whatever. I just got the new Mario game, let's play." And these are the things that we've passed down to our children. A generation that benefited from the lessons of previous decades - Stonewall, the race riots, Jim Crow, voting rights for everyone. We listened when people told us that times were different, and we understood, but looking at the world we had, we could not imagine it any other way. Sure; we had The Religious Right, thumping their Bibles and telling us all to repent, but the culture as a whole looked, listened, and said, "Yeah, but this is a free country. People should live the way they want to live. They're not hurting you." The days of the Satanic Panic are something we laugh about. So, fast forward a few decades. I can't point to a specific event or point in time where it started, but things started to change. Calls for reparations, for example. "Your ancestors had slaves, so you owe me money!" Well, my ancestors didn't, as far as I know. But people are angry at me and demanding things of me, just because of my skin color. If I apply for a job, companies aren't all that interested in my abilities. I'm not being hired on merit. Instead, human resources are looking at diversity quotas. "We can't hire him, he's white, and male, too! No, we need to hire this other person. She's Mexican, that will look good on the diversity quotas!" And we see things like the Pride Parades. I've been in a few - back in the 90s and early 2000s. Back then it was just guys and girls holding hands. "Yup, we're gay, we'd like to get legally married." But now, well, you have people getting naked in public, in front of kids, and spanking their pup-hooded sex slaves. It wasn't enough for minority populations to be accepted and treated like everyone else. It's turned into wanting more. It's turned into wanting to take from someone else, justified by the crimes of the past, and giving to someone else whose main qualifications are scoring high in the intersectionalism game. Being accepted, but asked to keep severe obscenity behind closed doors, wasn't enough. Holding hands or kissing? Sure, okay. But now, if one speaks out against sexually explicit books in a middle school library, you're branded a bigot and hateful. We have parents who are concerned (and rightly so) that their children are being manipulated into believing they're transgender, with hormone blockers and surgery not just being being, but being aggressively pushed - sometimes secretly - to the kids. And there's other silliness. Body Positivity, for example. It started out as "don't hate yourself if you're overweight, you're still a good person." But now it's changed and turned into a movement that actively promotes and encourages some very unhealthy habits - and, again, if one disagrees or speaks out against it, then out comes the mob to call you a horrible, hateful bigot. If you're really lucky, they'll try to find your employer, make phone calls, and try to get you cancelled. We have watched as our media - movies, television, and yes, video games - have transformed from just trying to produce good content to actively trying to shove agendas into our faces every time we turn around. And, worst of all when it comes to art, we're told that "this game is great because there's an Enby main character, and if you don't agree, then you're a hateful Nazi!" If the story was primarily about themes of racism or seeing the world in a different way, well, that's one thing. It makes sense. But let's take a game like, say, Overwatch. It's a game about running around and shooting people. Do we really need to know where Soldier 76 sticks his thing? Why would we care? But, I am often told, if I don't care, then - well, you get the idea. That makes me a hateful bigot Nazi or something, somehow. I just want to play a good game. And I'm sick of so many scripts pushing "poor me, I am X, feel sorry for me," in place of real characters, real personalities with real stories. Being LGBTQ, for example, isn't a personality. It's not a story. It's a small piece of what makes up a whole person, and yet we're constantly told to focus only on that. For someone who grew up in the world of "content of character," this is an anathema. Especially when society here has changed so much to accommodate everyone. Here, in the US, everyone can vote. Everyone can get married. We have laws against racial and sex discrimination - well, unless you're a white guy. If you're a white guy, the world tells you to go to hell. I need to be treated differently because I'm Hispanic. I need special privileges because I'm transgendered. Shut up, you need to listen to me, because I'm a woman. Give me your job, give me your money, I'm a minority so I deserve it because I'm better than you. Worse, many of these minority groups have aligned themselves, politically, with political ideologies that run counter to our culture. Socialism, Communism, Authoritarianism. I live in America. This used to be the country where anyone could rise up and be successful based on the merit of their work. You worked hard, you earned what you have, you get to keep it. But no longer; the fruit of our labor is taken from us, given to someone else when we're already struggling, and we're told to shut up and be happy about it. America used to be a country where you can speak what you believe and, while people may not agree with it, it's still your right to say it. And it used to be the country where, even if someone disagreed, they'd stand shoulder to shoulder with you and give the finger to anyone who said you can't say things. But not now. It's impossible to even have a decent conversation much of the time. If you say, for example, "Trans women in women's bathrooms make people uncomfortable, maybe they should use the guy's room," then again - you know the drill - you're hateful, you're a bigot, etc. Even though that view isn't rooted in hate - it's rooted in concern for the safety of other people. And it's a weird thing. These groups, which fought so hard for freedom and quality - and eventually got it in many ways - should be the ones who understand this the most. But I, and many others, have seen things change to be the complete opposite. You may not see the world in that light, but as someone who is male and light-skinned, that is exactly the experience the world is serving up to us right now. So how does that relate to Sweet Baby? I'm sure that you, like most people, have burned yourself. Maybe touching a stove, maybe you had some boiling water scald you. Remember that sensation afterward? The skin is so sensitive that sometimes just the fabric of your shirt brushing against it causes pain. Many people have been burned by the "minority" voice. We've been accused of horrible things. We've been told to shut up and sit down. We've been told that some things, which are objectively harmful, are actually good and should be celebrated. And, most applicable here, we've had all of this injected, ham-fistedly, into our culture - including video games. It's not a rejection of inclusivity. It's a reaction to having things foisted upon us 24/7, especially when it doesn't serve the story, and doubly-especially when it's done purely to push a political or cultural agenda. When I'm the one being discriminated against, when my oppressors are sneering in my face and telling me and I am the problem, that's it's their turn, well. That's why you see such a backlash here. We want to play a game where we pick up a sword and stab the monster. We want to escape this shitty world and enjoy some fantasy where we can be the hero. We don't want to have a mixed-race post-op neurodivergent Enby chastising us like we're children, in the middle of our Slay The Dragon game. We don't have anything against that person, per se. But we are pretty damn tired of the preaching for the sake of preaching. It's no better than the Bible Thumpin' Religious Right saying I'm going to hell because I kissed a boy. Different sides, same coin. And that's what many people see as Sweet Baby's role. Shoving the culture war into otherwise good content simply for the sake of shoving the culture war into the content. It adds no value. It adds no fun. It's just one more vector for someone tell me that I'm horrible, evil, hateful, and oppressive, and I'm sick of it. Hope this provides some context. Nothing I wrote here was an attempt to make you angry or attack you (or anyone else), just an attempt to explain why a very complicated social dynamic has resulted in a curator on Steam.
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@SekuharaVT @basedbinkie No. Knife crime should be done in small towns red states. Bonus points if you stumble into the ditch of your own accord.
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@DIZZY__MAN @ShitpostRock "Shitass war strategy" find me two strategy games that play the same. Hell, the SUBGENRES HAVE THEIR OWN SUBGENRES
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@QiuTyrant @yammyyml Getting him legit killed my willingness to play. Imagine if they let you pick a free standard 5* out the gate, or maybe have a starting banner where you can select which standard 5* you get first. WuWa spoiled me.
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@AnonymolyArt Always feels kinda bad when I see someone call bridget a woman. His entire story is about trying to be recognized as a man as the world/circumstances refuse it, and he eventually just gave up.
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@SkeetBudge @HumansNoContext Correction: a mentally damaged person pretending to be a cartoon cat.
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@SkeetBudge @HumansNoContext Naa. Unintelligent people make me feel pity, it's a sad thing to witness someone like you whose so lacking in sense.
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@SkeetBudge @HumansNoContext And which measurement system was used to design that rocket? Metric. It's sad really, you're too stupid to do anything else so you resport to being an internet troll just to make yourself look even dumber.
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@ThunderrockInno It's weird how the "factory tower defense" concept suddenly appears in two different games whose demos appear near simultaneously, and yet the games themselves are AS DIFFERENT AS POSSIBLE!
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@SkeetBudge @kovaleny @HumansNoContext No they look like this ----------- | ## : ## | ----------- From: an american that uses units that make senss
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@SkeetBudge @HumansNoContext They put a man on the moon using metric. And since then like a dozen countries (all using metric) have put flags up there.
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@YahomieButters I love that response lol. It's like so much aggression and sarcasm and he basically hit her with the "ok."
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@ShitpostRock Knack is so underrated. It's like the only GOOD playstation exclusive and is the sole reason I almost would kinda like to have one.
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