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

I think it's absolutely valid to comment on the phenomenon of infantilised baby talk, we all rightly made fun of the fren types for that

Though I will agree the post you highlighted seems a bit mean. They just seem like very unremarkable embarrassing American liberals

January 6th but it's people posting screenshots of racist tweets with 5 likes on main

(Just to clarify, in case it isn't clear- I'm not a mod, just riffing on I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream)

Going back to the site's founding, the vibe I've gotten is that many of the people maintaining the site never fully intended for it to become a direct continuation/replacement of the old subreddit and wanted to use the momentum of the banwave to establish an entirely new online leftist community with its own identity

Unfortunately for them, a large part of the new site's initial userbase was chapo posters (well,the least worst part at least, because there were certainly parts I'm glad didn't make the jump) who brought the sub's posting style with them

I will copy paste a ROM of Super Mario Land until I fill my hard drive and become a millionaire

I moderate a chapotraphouse subreddit derivative and I must scream

I guess we need some kind of retirement home for all the white millennial chapo reddit irony style posters

Yeah, at least name them something like slop_bucket or something

I can handle 30 fps when emulating old games since often there's no way to go higher or existing 60 fps patches break stuff.

Lower than that just feels really bad

But low effort shitposts and memes were what originally kept me browsing r/cth in the first place

Sometimes you just need to gawk at and vent about all the awful sickos and freaks out there with like-minded individuals

Is that a quote from the dude? Still, all he managed to do was get his life fucked. It's not like he was causing any lasting harm to Nintendo (though I'm sure they're claiming this guy's streams caused them to lose googolplex dollars)