"well see there was this shitty book about shitty guys and then it became an mtv show - all about how to get guys laid by wearing pieces of flair" [3hrs later] "so that brings us to 'it's about ethics in gaming journalism', which leads to the rise of 8ch4n"
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There's a part of me that's absolutely fascinated by all the threads that led into but yeah it's practically a seminar or something to communicate a full understanding if you haven't been specifically and deliberately watching these people for like a decade at this point
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and trying to shorten the story doesn't make it sound any less like ramblings from a crazy person too into soap operas.
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Oh my god, right? The right plunged into what TVTropes calls "Refuge in audacity" a couple of decades ago and it's at literally every level.
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Viewing people/affection as a resource, and using that lack of people-resource as an in to deeper fascist ideology rather than self-evaluation. Bonus if you can draw parallels between 'mainstream' misogynist crap that 'normal' folks believe as sharing roots with the mra extremes
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This ties into my general "having power over other people at any scale literally poisons your brain" obsession but so goddamned many "normal" behaviors and beliefs are literally just a following to their logical conclusion away from sheer horror
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P much.
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Objectivist meritocracy shills are one bad day, at all times, from going full AnCap sovereign citizen. "Am I being detained?" I shout as I close my eyes, slam a nootropic stack, and ram my shitty bronco into the combination orphanage/bitcoin farm
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Silicon Valley's just gonna get worse
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watching it grow from gamergate was so surreal
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I used to spend a lot of time in internet spaces that watched, i.e. the shittier parts of Reddit and I remember watching those people glom onto GG with horror
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White millenials turned 30 and had a truly epic midlife crisis.
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That's part of their population but there's also a bunch of literal kids in their teens getting indoctrinated via the internet and I worry a bunch about them
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Yeah, I liked this one but IMO it's kind of narrow in its scope.
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I mean, how do you begin with "once upon a time an enormous group of men became enraged that a woman designed a game where you DIDN'T shoot people and so they started a terrorist movement."
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“It all started when a bunch of inadequately socialized basement-dwellers got mad at video games. I know. Just bear with me, tho...”
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There was a group of nerds who grew up between the 80s geek movies and Adam Sandler and when they got older they said to themselves "this is the life I want to live"
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