No. No reflection. They tripled down on the rage and terror high they've been on for the last 5 years.
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
I think hotboxing is the right metaphor. The creeping politicization of everyfuckingthing from late night TV to video games.
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
Other political cultures have tried mightily to bubble themselves--that's how you get Christian heavy metal--but it's hard.
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
By comparison, the prog bubble has been nearly effortless. A nice snug warm bath of righteousness, fear, anger, hatred.
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
The news sustains it, your hobby sustains it (remember when Rolling Stone covered music?), you get it piped hot & fresh...
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
And when people from the bubble inject their activism into other people's spaces, they've amazed they get pushback.
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We saw a lot of this in the tabletop RPG space. People trying to police the content of other people's games.
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Replying to @Kalyr @semiotechnic
Yes, this is also how Gamergate kicked off. One day all the game news sites were suddenly about politics.
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The ZQ thing was just the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Any spark would have done the same.
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
My understanding was the flashpoint wasn't ZQ but Leigh Alexander's "Gamers are Dead".
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Yeah, you're right actually. ZQ was convenient to the aGG narrative as a focus, but "Gamers are Dead" more important.
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