People think it's the core of the story because games journalists have chosen to make it the core of the story and build the game up as this monstrous thing, purging people's ability to view any part of it as emotive or redemptive. They act out of spite.
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With respect, that is I think more your perspective than reality. Every bit of the press cycle and an extensive amount of the authorial content has all been designed to focus on making violence a monstrous, harrowing, ruinous thing that destroys lives. That is text.
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Then why do I feel great when I play the game, and not miserable? It can't JUST be that I'm queer and excited about representation,since a lot of these journalists are also queer
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I mean, bluntly, because you like violence-as-empowerment? :P
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I mean, you're making me sound like some kind of monster Straight people get to like action movies and games without being labeled that way
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
We don't get to like that stuff without the same label.
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Replying to @Teknogrot @BootlegGirl and
There are very literal, very real arguments over whether Die Hard qualifies as a frigging Xmas movie. You would be hard pressed to convince me there’s a great deal of shaming connected to liking action movies and their accompanying bloodbaths.
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Replying to @Mishyana @Teknogrot and
Keanu Reaves has starred in two movies I love that are basically mass-shooter porn: John Wick and The Matrix. One of those movies gets called out for being mass-shooter porn a lot more often than the other does, and it just happens to be the same one that's full of queer subtext.
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Eeeeeeenh the vast majority of the fans of the Matrix completely missed the queer subtext, so much so that "redpilled" is now a common slang term among the alt-right for themselves
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mishyana and
I was referring more to the modern 2010s discourse. I'm WELL aware of the alt-right's relationship with the iconography from The Matrix. I've been subscribed to WeHuntedTheMammoth since before it was even called that.
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