“You need to be making better arguments,” says guy whose best argument is an overused, cynical cliche parroted for generations by people who don’t understand how writing works.

Self-reflection will make a lot of people uneasy, but especially capital ‘G’ Gamers.

And that is a result of everything said by others. A failing on the part of the gamers, not the developers.

Gamers hated Part2 because they were put into a sphere that they normally don’t operate in while playing games: self-reflection.

Games have showcased vulnerability before, but they’ve always had a heavy dose of bravado to help it go down. TLOU2 made players go through the very same lesson that Ellie did, without any…

Steam Deck is knocking on Switch’s door? That’s bad comedy. It sold potentially 1.5-2 million units in its first year. Switch sold 13 million units in its first year. Sold 19 million units this year.

Long Long Man stands up there with Gilgamesh, Beowulf and the Odyssey; a modern epic.

Ironically, or interestingly maybe, that change to shreholder value being the only thing that matters is only a couple years older than I am.

MrBeast may be a good man existing within an unjust system, but when he sleeps, the system groans on. MrBeast is not a compelling argument for the status quo; he is an argument for radical change.

He’s a guy who built a brand around giving his wealth away to charity.

I have no problem with what he does or how he does it, it’s the complaining about the lack of universal praise for him that rubs me the wrong way. Doing charitable things to be charitable AND to stroke your ego aren’t mutually exclusive. But, he’d do better to hide the hints of the latter as source of motivation.

No it hasn’t. For years he did Lets Plays, drama reactions, “channel earnings” videos about other channels, videos mocking other channels, and stunts. He had tens of thousands of subs and moved to content creation full time with a paid team of four long before his first stunt videos involving money.

Imagine regaining your site and this being the first thing you see, you’d be reaching for the nearest pair of scissors

But that completely misses the point. As some have pointed out online, including streamer Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker, the real issue isn’t MrBeast’s philanthropy but rather the pay-walled access to a simple surgery that could have healthy, long-lasting, positive effects on an individual’s eyesight.

There are legitimate men’s rights issues like the ones you listed, but the label of Men’s Rights has been co-opted by douchebags in the same way that the word libertarian has been co-opted by anti-liberty authoritarian capitalists (at least in America). Or the way incel was originally a sympathetic term for people who…

Yeah, that last paragraph there is what we call feminism.

It’s easy to understand. They don’t want to chop wood, kill an animal, or provide for 20 kids. They want all the goodies of a ‘traditional’ marriage without any of the responsibilities that come with the masculine role. And therefore they have nothing to offer a ‘traditional’ woman.

And really, hard times create broken men. The men who went through two world wars and a depression drank themselves to death, were physically and emotionally abusive, had astronomical rates of divorce and suicide, etc... the romanticizing of hard times is purely the fantasy of small, impotent men.

100%, same for the popularity of survival bunkers/equipment. For all the talk about safety they really just think they’d finally get to be petty tyrants.

I think this is why zombie/post-apocalypse fiction is so popular. Men just really want to believe they’re so special that they’d be the ones to survive.

I think a lot of dudes like to romanticise harsher times, because they think they’d thrive in such times. They consider everyone else beneath them, therefore their own mediocrity must have been forced upon them by a society that elevates others.