It was a deliberate ratfuck orchestrated by pond scum fascist demagogues on the extreme right. You don’t have to play into their hands if you don’t want to. Continue to be proudly woke. :)

This. They were raised by media that promised them that, when grow up, they’ll be allowed to do and say whatever they like when, and they will be given a hot girlfriend too. Now that they’ve grown up, they’ve found this was a lie, and they’re PISSED.

I'm interested in Stellar Blade but I feel like it's gonna be on those games that get co-opted by the incels the same way they tried with Nier Automata. 

Indeed. It’s part of the reason why I study socio-psychology and psychology. I happened to notice a set of behavioral patterns among the ruling class throughout the generations that only repeats. No self-interested ruling class or government wants a fully united public without sacrificing their own power/wealth, so…

I’d go so far as to submit that plutocrats keeping everyone else at odds with each other is how the ruling class has run things in almost every society since the beginning of time. Once you realize that, it’s hard to look at history (or current events) through any other lens.

Edgelords is being far too generous. These guys are wall-to-wall hardcore incels who have never even been physically close to a girl IRL (c.f. the guy who claimed women don’t have any hair at all on their faces, absolutely anime-brained), and probably never will. They make the nerds of my generation look we’re…

I’ll never get over the sheer incelity of the guy who was calling Aloy “hideous” and when his dumb bitch buddies agreed, he got into detail, and part of it was that she’s so realistically rendered you can see the fine hairs on her face, and he, god fucking help us, though this was a sign of a “progressive agenda”…

If they’re anything like other far-right “everything I don’t like is a conspiracy” types, and at least in the case of this article’s subjects it sounds like they are, it probably is exhausting them.

I suspect part of it is the younger generations merging into the boomer area being raised that they were white straight men and therefore would always be masters of the country. Now, they are finding out that there are people better than them at things, people trying to update things, or just making the playing field…

It’s a useful term, first it lets you know when something potentially acts with awareness of others/empathy and second that you know whomever is throwing the term around is a terrible person. 

The Hitler, sorry, Trump Youth and their brownshirt instigators.

The Tifa controversy is the funniest shit because its just evidence they have never been close enough to a woman to see what a sports bra does. 

Yea, I’m truly baffled right now, but maybe I shouldn’t be?

I don’t think its a question we can really have an answer to. And there are certainly 20-30 year olds in that sphere, any they are probably much more outward facing about it.

I know, right? I like an attractive character as much as the next dude, but JFC that shit is embarrassing.

Aren’t these reactionary nerds tired of this? Isn’t this life exhausting? This can’t be fun, can it? Just a constant state of anxiety and paranoia in a hobby that’s supposed to be relaxing. This just seems like such an awful, shitty way to live. I mean....yes, if you’re a streamer/content creator, the anti-woke…

It makes more sense if you assume these “movements” are largely bolstered by teenage edgelords.

There is something wild about claiming a character that looks straight out of a hentai is “tradition.”

Tear away enough layers and its almost always people who want to be able to ogle/do upskirts of Asian and/or blonde female characters of roughly 1 or 2 body types.

One image showed several pictures of the protagonist Eve from Korean developer ShiftUp’s upcoming action game Stellar Blade, juxtaposed against female characters from Overwatch, Forspoken, and Life is Strange. “Embrace tradition. Reject modernity” is emblazoned on the collage.