Escapism is DEAD

[@SyntheticMan]

Get up to 35% off Ekster wallets this Valentine's Day Sale when you use my link: shop.ekster.com/syntheticman Or my discount code: SYNTHETIC

[@SAVAGE-GAMER-]

One of the very few sponsorships I'd have also taken on. Raid shadow Legends can suck it tho I'll never shill for that garbage

[@TransConservativewaifu]

wallet seems fresh

[@jumpingmoose5554]

Synth got another sponsor? Heck yes! I also love that gosling jacket

[@ZrvZaza]

You're literally the driver from drive.

[@withertempestprime8718]

FINALLY YOU GETTING MORE SPONSORS. LETS GOO

[@Farius_SP]

Turns out the worst thing that could happen to videogames was becoming mainstream

[@Mr.House38]

Very true

[@Disconnect350]

That was obvious a decade ago. Just like Fight Club, it's better when not everyone knows about it.

[@gdl9362]

That's the case for almost everything...

[@ExtremeMan10]

EVERYTHING that become mainstream went to gutter. Castlevania? Dead, D&D? Dead, Zombie genre? Dead, even more dead than dead, hell even Lovecraft? stuff no one ever touched like books like Lolita or Naked Lunch? Also dead. All of these become mainstream and casuals, redditors and "uwu anime" ruined it.

[@davidborned]

That hits hard… and it’s true

[@GeneralProfessor]

In a totalitarian system an individual's desire for escapism is proof of their wrongthink. If you truly loved the Big Brother and his party you wouldn't feel the need to escape from their surveillance and control.

[@fhope7106]

Amen.

[@MaxMaxx-tb6nz]

But this game is about corrupt system collapsing on itself. I kinda like the changes. It makes me a little bit more in touch with bad guys - and its always good if bad guys has some reasons to do what they do

[@JohnWikipedia-m1p]

George Orwell sucked ass and he fought on the wrong side of the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Republicans were straight up Marxists (not boomer posting, this is their literal ideological position that Orwell took a bullet to the neck for). You can thank me later.

[@wolfypilot]

they want you totally demoralized and broken. won't be surprised if book-burnings become the norm again

[@sosukeaizen7028]

>makes a trans bathroom >person hanging from the ceiling What did EA mean by this?

[@CriminalizeObesity]

>game set in corporate dystopia ruled by an actual shameless global government >enforced diversity and trans bathrooms Actually pretty immersive game even if not for the reasons EA had in mind.

[@patigelstarberry4302]

@@CriminalizeObesity I consider it a universal constant for woke ideas to circle around on them like this, I still eagerly wait for the day Disney release a live action Tarzan starring a black actor.

[@tylerdunn9683]

@@patigelstarberry4302 😆 that be funny to watch woke idiot rage and bitch at the very corporation that panders to them

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Really makes you kek

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

when the pill's go so does the mind and then reality resume's

[@Fabrizio_Ruffo]

My father, a 1980s throwback to the Greasers from the 50s, a man who was out of touch with the times, in his own day. A man who has not touched a video game since one of his last remaining high school friends recommended DOOM... back in 1998: gave me an amazing tip about the purpose of vidya games. When times are good, people grow bored with thier hum drum life, and they seek adventure and dragons to slay. You want a challenge. Hard gritty stuff sells best in the best of times. But then, when life is kicking your ass, you are looking for respite. A place to forget the world and zone out. You want a chill game with a chipper attitude. Something to pick you up when you come home after a long day. Something casual that won't kick your ass like everything else in your life. Cyberpunk as an aesthetic was alot cooler when it DIDN'T mirror reality. Today, its just a painful reminder of our inevitable collapse. When you unplug from that game, you don't feel better... your not unplugging at all. Your just going from one person's hell back to your own.

[@MALICEM12]

Precisely, we are living in our own dystopian future, just one without a cool 80's punk rocker and neon aesthetic.

[@KratostheThird]

DOOM came out in 1993… when times were good.

[@DNDynamite]

If he hasn't played video games for 20+ years, why take his word? You're the one who (presumably) played them this century.

[@iamsancho443]

You should do something with writing, it's pretty good.

[@DelinquentDemon]

Well said!

[@kevrms]

The only people who get mad at gatekeepers are the people the gate is meant to keep out

[@fastenedcarrot9570]

Also they end up being the most aggressive gatekeepers once they do get in.

[@jong2359]

Have to be honest, a 55 year old gray dude that was offered every opportunity in his young life preventing other young people from even getting 1 of his many chances so he can boost profit margins by 10%... I am not for that. The context given for the gatekeeping is important here... just making sure the people that want to be here actually WANT to be here, that is where your comment is the most true.

[@AlexanderJoneshttps]

Yes

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Well said. I was gatekept by the Soulsborne community for a bit for roll spamming and using a Greatshield. I took it to heart, ditched both, managed to no-hit every single boss in Bloodborne and DS3, have like 4k hours across them all, and it's now my favorite series in gaming. I am so fucking thankful that people called me a bitch and a casual for thinking my playstyle was the right one. Because if you're not actually a bitch and a casual, instead of melting under those words, you instead go for some introspection and may just find out their criticism is on point. Gatekeepers made me understand the best series I've ever played. And now? Now I'm one of them. Was part of massive communities like JeeNine's and ChaseTheBro's for years. They don't gatekeep each other, just the idiots attempting to ruin it. And that's probably why Elden Ring was a light in the dark of gaming. From Software has an incredible audience of gatekeepers who keep their games safe from toxic weaklings.

[@LordFinkenstein]

@@jong2359 Yeah, that's not what anyone here means when they say 'gatekeeping' and you know it. Quit muddying the waters.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

This is my ultimate gripe with fiction nowadays. ''That's perpetuating unrealistic beauty standards''. First time I read that, I knew fiction was dead. It was never supposed to be realistic. Realism should be implemented to supplement fun. If it doesn't, leave it at the door. The purpose of entertainment, is fun, not realism. I don't want to be faced with the madness of the masses in the one place I used to be able to escape from it. Edit: It's interesting how even when I point this out so clearly, people can't help but try to inject their woke venom into you to keep you from your escapism.

[@tylertheguy3160]

I don't think there's anything wrong with realism in fiction as a concept, but it shouldn't be forced to be the standard. If I want to make something reflective of reality, that should be fine. On the same note, if I want to disregard reality entirely, that should also be fine.

[@jong2359]

@@tylertheguy3160 You totally did not grasp the OP's point... reality should only supplement fun. There is not a sane person in this world that would find pure reality more fun than virtual reality. Now I stand by and wait for technical VR comments ... sigh.

[@tylertheguy3160]

@@jong2359 I disagree, sometimes a dose of reality can make a story more interesting, typically by subverting expectations. But the main point I was making is that no one should be forced to do it that way. The only person who has a say over the art is the artist, no one else.

[@Dmitry_Medvedev]

It should inspire the ugly to strive towards beauty. Unfortunate that all of these modern spiteful mutants have no self control.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

​@@tylertheguy3160 You're basically saying the same thing I am. Realism implemented ''can make a story more interesting''. Your words. And I agree. This is why some games, such as The Last Of Us 1, were so great. The ever present realism gave depth to the gameplay and the story. Obviously the second one ran it into the ground, but besides the point. I am not against realism. I am currently in the midst of writing a massive medieval high fantasy, one that gets increasingly more fictional and less realistic, but one whose roots being strongly written in my knowledge of medieval Europe give the story weight and depth. Simple rules like if someone is cut badly, they die from blood loss or infection, etc. These things can enhance a story. They can create stakes, which in the most natural way possible forces investment in the characters because you are faced with the *reality* that they are not invincible. But again, they ENHANCE a story. Realism can be a storytelling tool like any other. Once it gets in the way of story/gameplay, or any form of enjoyment, then it becomes an issue. Realism has its place in fiction. It does not however have its place in ALL forms of fiction. I find characters like Joel from TLOU1 no better written than characters like Death from Darksiders 2. And yet look at how different they are. This shows that realism can be a great tool, but isn't required in the slightest in many genres of fiction, and is often detrimental to them. And on a final note, there's also a ton of hypocrisy here, best noted in Thor: Love and Thunder. The MCU quit it with the butt shots of Scarlet Johansson and publicly apologised, saying the sexual objectification of women is wrong and something they're moving away from, but then they make Chris Hemsworth roid his nuts off to look like a literal photoshopped Gigachad, put him butt fucking naked in front of an audience of men and women, digitally enhance him to make his already borderline superhuman physique even more impressive, and then has the entire crowd faint from sexual overload while women, his own damn friends at that, are eating grapes laughing about how they'll help him in a bit, after they've enjoyed the show? That's okay, but a butt shot of a woman in full gear isn't? Fucking unbelievable. So not only is this striving for realism retarded as it is far from welcome in every genre of fiction, it is also massively single edged, probably because when mediocre women see a pretty woman, they feel envy, while mediocre men looking at a top 0.1% guy, they think ''Yup, that's the goal.'' And then strive to achieve a similar result. TL;DR Realism should exclusively be used as a tool to enhance stories with, and as such it doesn't have its place everywhere. It is also used in hypocritical ways to weaponize it against men, making it even more tricky nowadays.

[@starfox300]

People always say "Why do you care? What does it matter?" Well if it didn't matter then why did the devs do it? It obviously matters A LOT to them

[@Impalingthorn]

I say this all the time, but it gets way worse than just that because this ONE blunder is showing just how inept and legitimately stupid these people are. Let me ask literally anyone reading this something: Do you HONESTLY believe that, in a future where we have mastered spacecraft, zero-G, hover and laser repair technology and have effectively created cities orbiting planets and have even begun COLONIZING other planets, we would STILL have our medical science lodged firmly in 2000's era barbaric practices where our BEST solution to Gender Dysphoria is slicing a man's member like a banana and creating a pseudo-va-j-j through genital mutilation? Is that HONESTLY what you believe? You wouldn't think they mastered cybernetics and/or body augmentation, or synthetic flesh to legitimately transform people into the opposite gender, or created some form of pill or therapy to CURE dysphoria so it doesn't even occur naturally at all in the first place? Do you HONESTLY think that? Because that is what you profess when you defend this bathroom thing. It is a WORLD BREAKING detail that makes not only the company involved look stupid but makes the ENTIRETY of humanity's scope of innovation within this world look INCREDIBLY polarizing and nonsensical. But keep telling me we're the weird ones for noticing. It gets funnier every time you do it.

[@the_very_cozy_burrito]

OK but why does it matter to US

[@VarthalabauHair]

It turns out they care and it matters a lot to them when the narrative of a game isn't woke enough though... Otherwise, they wouldn't care about Space Marine 2 and Black Myth Wukong...

[@jordanrock3494]

The industry died the second they started hiring based on sexuality and race instead of the most qualified. Just look at the staff photos of when games were awesome compared to them now.

[@solidhutyr1815]

Can you Please Explain how A Character bieng a Minority or a Female makes the game Worst? Exmaple TLOU2 's Writing Doesn't have Anything to do with Ellie bieng gay or a Female it's a Revenge Story in Post-apocalyptic World, you Can make all The Characters a Straight white Male Cis and it's won't make a Difference to the Narrtive.

[@17th_Colossus]

@@solidhutyr1815 it ages like milk, because it was done to push a personal narrative of current year.

[@solidhutyr1815]

@@17th_Colossus such as?

[@17th_Colossus]

@@solidhutyr1815 straight white man bad

[@Y0URGRANDMA]

@@solidhutyr1815 How is anyone supposed to care about genetic dead end queer characters in a game where it's a setting where humanity is on the brink of being wiped out?

[@YOUTUBE_CHRIS]

It's hilarious how people who complain about those of us who don't want sexual, racial and gender politics shoved in our face, tell US to ignore it when they're the one's who started this shit 🤣

[@Redrash12]

To be fair, the original intent of "over-representation," was to normalize public perception of historically marginilized groups (blacks, gays, trans, etc.) Even though I agree now they go overboard with it, the intention wasn't initially bad

[@Withwhatmytoes]

@@Redrash12 how’s that working out?

[@YOUTUBE_CHRIS]

@@Redrash12 I grew up in video game culture, and I don't ever remember the public at large having any negative perceptions regarding minorities.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@Redrash12 Since when have black been historically marginalized? By whom? Hell that counts for gays and trans people too. They are massively privileged over normal people, especially white men, in western society.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@KZbin_CHRIS Because they never did. It's fucking bullshit.

[@roachdoggjr8399]

The more he tells the truth the more they hate him. Never stop fighting synth.

[@TransConservativewaifu]

yeah

[@jackson633]

The amount of hate for him is suspect as fuck. Clearly this isn't homegrown hate. Someone or multiple someones with a LOT of skin in the game (game corporations?) must feel scared of losing a lot of money when they hear what he has to say.

[@phalanx8437]

😂😂😂

[@roachdoggjr8399]

@@jackson633 that’s EFAP

[@jackson633]

@@roachdoggjr8399 I'm not following that drama very closely but they seem like a bunch of nobodies as far as I can tell

[@infernofox294]

The Marker is twisting isacc's mind, making him see truly horrific things

[@masonedgley9537]

Trans people live rent free in your mine don’t they

[@cookiebaker2660]

@@masonedgley9537 >transmorph related crap inserted into every form of media >every virtuous ahole out there tells you that transmorphs matter >every day there's a news report about some transmorph getting arrested for posession of cp or SA >... >tHey LiVe in Ur MiNeCraFt MiNe Well they gotta live somewhere I guess, seeing how most of them self-terminate lmfao

[@DelinquentDemon]

Underrated comment

[@JSRFModCentral]

@@masonedgley9537yeah they’re in the mine because they’re slaves

[@Dayz3O6]

@@masonedgley9537 lib harder

[@timgrove5757]

Synthetic man speaks for all of us who just wanna escape reality and lose ourselves in video games don't ever change

[@saucejuice6285]

He represents all virgins

[@np4231]

@@saucejuice6285 Stop projecting man, it’s ok.

[@StratumPress]

@@saucejuice6285 You?

[@SamGoeltz]

No he speaks for bad people like you. Trans rights are human rights.!

[@radiantsquare007jrdeluxe9]

yeah sometimes i just want to pretend gay people and females don't exist

[@Hero_Of_Old]

They want to make you as miserable as possible, and for you to have no escape from misery even in entertainment. Its demoralisation. Synthetic Man is probably the most based man in the gaming sphere. The positive is, it forces you to turn to more wholesome things and whats actually important in life. Family, community, lifestyle etc. There are also still pockets of entertainment that are good, lots of great book series out there and some good games. For example, I've started consuming a lot more japanese media like Soulsborne, Berserk etc.

[@jong2359]

F that, I am trying to escape my family, community, and lifestyle - just not as hard as I am trying to escape modern culture/politics.

[@tadpolegaming4510]

I've been playing a lot of 2000's games I missed out on, and they're really something else

[@Hero_Of_Old]

@@jong2359 Sounds like a you problem

[@OmniDan26]

Berserk is the typical edgy leftist deconstruction of the heroes journey, along with tons of degeneracy. If you don't see it, or care about it, you're part of the problem.

[@zascoco6617]

Japan being a western vassal it's only a matter of time before their media suffer from western influence. I think

[@DukeWooze]

I always said that people didn't complain about politics in games, they were complaining about blatant propaganda in games. For you people saying "Oh fAlLoUt hAs PoLiTiC iN iT" fail to understand that those older games allowed the player to make up their on conclusions\decisions of those politics. In other words stop treating you player base as children to be educated, come to them as adults and have a discussion, don't TELL them what to believe. Discuss it, debate it, and if you lose then readjust your own beliefs.

[@BlackMetalVengeance]

Wasteland 3 punishes you for not following the narrative lol. There are clearly "correct" decisions, and everything else, and the devs makes damn sure that the NPCs will shame you for your wrongthink.

[@DukeWooze]

@@BlackMetalVengeance Yeah... it sucks both movies and games are soft ball when it comes to stuff like this. I really want a game or movie to cover a serious topic while letting me make up my own conclusions. One of the reasons I find most stories so boring.

[@tomgu2285]

@@DukeWooze so like disco elysium? Isn't the game like that to?

[@DukeWooze]

@@tomgu2285 I dunno, I've never played that game before. I've heard that it pushes communism but, I would take that with a grain of salt until I played it. I'm not too interested in the game anyway though maybe one day I'll give it a try but I doubt it.

[@lop1652]

@@DukeWooze I only played a few hours of it and I never noticed glorification of any specific ideology. There os definitely politics in it, but not the propaganda type of politics.

[@GenericProtagonist7]

Honestly I wouldn't even care as much if they were just _honest_ about their propaganda, it's one thing to make a game with either blatant or subliminal propaganda, but the fact that they're fucking *lying constantly about it.* They'll do it, and then when you bring it up they'll either outright deny it altogether or simply claim that it somehow "doesn't matter." If it "doesn't matter" then why the fuck are they putting it in there? Clearly it *does* matter.

[@screwgoogle4993]

Commies MUST lie about being commies. Because they know that they'll be rejected immediately if they don't dress up what they're saying. Instead of thinking why that is, they use every social trick in the book to push an idea they won't survive if it comes to pass. It's inherently self-destructive, and human beings recognize it on a basic moral, instinctual level.

[@Scaley_Reptile]

haha Starfield

[@merellion]

I think they did it as ‘in your face’ propaganda but didn’t expect so many of the goyim to catch on. Them denying it is actually damage control for them because to admit it would be to confirm the theorists lol

[@Borntolagagain]

We live in the Soviet Union of the 21th century, except even their propaganda wasn't this all-encompassing and suffocating. In the Soviet Union they reminded you Communism was great, then they move on with the actual movie. In the American Union you are required to, at all times, signal your loyalty to the rainbow garbage.

[@BumboLooks]

They have to lie about it otherwise nobody would buy it lol.

[@fishlaurence-burne7450]

Most people rejected his message. "Games suck now." "Shut up!" They hated synth man because he told the truth

[@saucejuice6285]

Go outside

[@jamescarr1265]

Cope loser

[@kevrms]

@@saucejuice6285 I love going outside. Never see any gays at the park or the gym, and when you do it's easy to make them leave

[@UToobUsername01]

@nathanB404 What he is saying is the truth. Stop focusing on the person saying it, and realise games actually DO suck now. Saints Row reboot is proof of it. STFU dude.

[@UToobUsername01]

@nathanB404 He isn't talking about Elden Ring. The video is saying the new woke-enhanced features in remakes is what is killing escapism. He is 100% right. I don't want political messages and ads for communism in my games. He also hit the nail on the head with Outer Worlds which is much more shallow than Obsidians Fallout titles which let you exist in neutral state and choose which faction to be. Those earlier games had more thought, better design, and more freedom to determine the path you want. The new one: "capitalism is bad dude" even though these american companies don't want us pirating their games like the chinese who just get it free because communism doesn't let you own anything. HEHE I would love to see Obsidian make a RPG set in a communist controlled america where there is no private ownership and nobody makes quality products because there is no incentive to do a better job than your peers. (guns would jam every second, cars would break down, busses would always be late, and the guys that try to get ahead are bullied by co-workers for working too hard and making all the lazy co-workers look slack in front of the boss just because they take pride in putting effort into something. If they want to criticise capitalism, why not take jab at commies too? Answer: Because the woke people hate looking at the mirror and seeing their own ugliness. We gamers want to see it ALL. Make fun of all the badguys and let us even play the bad guy if we choose. That is what good role playing games allow for. That was what gaming was prior to woke mob hijacking companies with their political propaganda. At first it was overt, and now it's more subversive since they know there is pushback against it. (which makes it more hard to detect on the surface - but the result is the same: if you paid money to these companies that make it, you are part of the problem now! They are growing in profit despite drop in quality! so now they have no reason to give a crap if you like their games or not since they got their money already! :P)

[@igorlukyan206]

This man who is entirely synthetic, sounds more human than the majority of popular gaming KZbinrs

[@TransConservativewaifu]

yeah

[@arkgaharandan5881]

because unlike them and the twitch streamers he doesnt censor himself and pretend to be something he is not a gaming journalist so he can get in the clique and get promoted by youtube for having the correct views.

[@kevinbaconwasntinfootloose1742]

He sounds more human than most people in general

[@Disconnect350]

The fact that they sound less human is exactly why so many of them are popular. Conform and Consume.

[@OZcomingFRoo]

More considered and emotional than Under The Mayo. That kid suddenly decides to go political by dismissing DE Remake's obvious subtle political changes as alt-right nonsense. It's obviously known that Mayo likes to talk about gameplay only, and his consistently to avoid politics in video game reviews were a blessing. But "oh no, some people complained about the obvious subtle political changes in DE Remake in my videos (probably). Let's address him by in the most sarcastic and boring way possible". What Mayo forgot was, that by doing that, he's dragging himself into the political sphere that he never wanted. What a fucking idiot. If you have extensive knowledge in gameplay, go ahead and debate all you want against Doom Eternal haters. But if you uhh.... barely know anyhing about politics and what's currently happening in the culture war, then maybe you should stay in your lane! From here on out, depending on how his subs respond, he'll either go full David Jaffe or shut his mouth and casually toss political statements every now and then like ActMan. Sometimes I wonder who besides Synthetic Man has any braincells left to point out the obvious political agendas.

[@rwln]

Funny thing is tlou 2 is probably the game that started to make me aware of how far the industry has fallen

[@redman9493]

For me, it was when people started calling the first TLoU the "Citizen Kane" of gaming.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

Mass Effect 3 is what I noticed propaganda getting shoved down my throat.

[@willfanofmanyii3751]

@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay You're thinking of Andromeda.

[@amadeusagripino6862]

I started to notice around the time when Gone Homo and Life is Strange were released to massive acclaim from the shill press

[@josh043p6]

😂😂

[@SomeCanine]

Money used to keep normies out of gaming. Now, political ideology is keeping paying customers out of gaming.

[@cobain2261]

You did a good job of articulating some very reasonable points and shining light on issues many people have with the current state of gaming and entertainment in general. I don't know how anyone could disagree with this video, but woke twitter and reddit warriors will surely find a way.

[@UToobUsername01]

F them all. Nobody cares what losers think. We were here first. Everyone else can GGF'ed.

[@prometheusjackson8787]

A lot of the content creators that mock "woke politics" will also attack anyone slightly edgier than them, becausw they aren't principled. They just want to make low hanging fruit that gets easy clicks but doesn't challenge anything

[@Nshield0]

Yellowflash 2 be like

[@Withwhatmytoes]

Got to say I’m starting to see that more and more. Lot of grifters on yt

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@Withwhatmytoes vast majority are grifters. Anti woke is a niche they saw needed to be filled and they did so.

[@HoldinContempt]

A.K.A the Grift. Never consort with a grifter because all a grifter wants is money and clout. They will turn on you in a heartbeat for a payday.

[@niggardlylad2008]

@@Withwhatmytoes they're the only ones that haven't been banned from yt

[@Madchris8828]

Gaming youtubers who pretend to be centrists who are actually grifters who don't care about politics at all. A certain youtuber with the name raygun in his name comes to mind. Almost everyone from the GG days was either a hypocrite or not genuine at all.

[@Shieftain]

I remember him. I was subbed to him a long while back, but unsubbed a few years afterward, around the time he started revealing his true self.

[@unitkilla5967]

Yeah Chris Raygun was clearly a grifter.

[@CriminalizeObesity]

Chris, huh? What'd I miss?

[@LeaderOfTheLostSouls]

What happened with Chris? I liked him and always did, I don’t follow him as much atm cuz I follow so many things tbh yet I never heard anything bad about him till now lol Honestly it’s hard to believe the randoms in the comments cuz so many love to label people grifters nowadays ngl

[@Madchris8828]

@@LeaderOfTheLostSouls after Trump won I seem to remember his obvious anti right side came out pretty clearly. Completely ignoring serious problems with the last election as well. And if you look at his friend group a lot of them are leftists. And he also seemed to stop criticism of the left more and more over time. This is a year later I'm writing this so my memory on it is a bit more fuzzy, but that seems to be my recollection

[@thenegromancer4695]

I miss when parents thought video games were evil and rot your brain....NOW video games are evil and rot your brain

[@flowrepins6663]

Thats why people should just go retro gaming

[@samularsaber7943]

Please don’t tell me your actually buying this guys garbage?

[@Robertward111]

@@samularsaber7943 Bye

[@EmmaxoOCE]

@@samularsaber7943 Synth, despite censoring himself is one of the only people calling out the real problem-causers of sh*tty modern gaming, so yeah, we agree with him. We don't need to buy into him or be convinced. He is 100% on the money but does not subscribe to what the right or left wants to say is okay to say and what isn't, which clearly upsets some people. Two wings of the same bird, how do we know? Y'all both get upset at this man's videos.

[@samularsaber7943]

@@EmmaxoOCE he’s not calling out the real problem with modern gaming, he’s nitpicking stuff that aren’t actual issues And calling it “propaganda” when it’s really isn’t and is In reality it’s merely adhering to expanded lore added by later dead space content. The reason why most people are annoyed by synthetic man whining is because his argument are either purely racist, sexist, and/or homophobic And doesn’t understand the lore of the game and/or real world logic. For crying out loud he’s whining about bathrooms being used on a spaceship with limited space and that dead space remaster is woke propaganda because of that despite the fact that the bathrooms were never focused on and there were gender neutral bathroom seen in other dead space media.

[@SarkkiKarkki]

Ugly character models is the sneakiest bit of subversion. Many don't even realise it's being done or you have the people who defend it with all sorts of weird misdirected arguments. This odd refusal to accept that aesthetics are powerful and beauty is the strongest form of aesthetics. But the postmodern deconstruction of everything including the concept of appealing visual language, "body positivity" or whatever new-speak terminology they happen to invent to gaslight you from the real motive underneath. The rot reaches deep once you begin on your path of noticing but unfortunately it's a path everyone needs to find on their own because no amount of guidance can convince a mind made up.

[@Hero_Of_Old]

Yep, I thought I was going crazy at first for noticing. But its become more and more apparent, humans like beauty, and nice things to look at. Its inspiring, uplifting, good for the soul.

[@nolanlehman6392]

Isaac is older and having a senior medical officer look more aged than fucking 23 just makes sense

[@magicjohnson3121]

@Nolan Lehman “ muh realism”. It’s funny when the voice actors are better looking then the in game characters. That should throw the realism argument out the window. No one wants to look at a old hag.

[@nolanlehman6392]

@@magicjohnson3121 I hope you tell your mom or partner that when they start aging or you'll be a hypocrite. I don't need to get my fucking rocks off while playing a survival horror game you absolute goober

[@redman9493]

@@nolanlehman6392 They looked exactly the same age in the original game. This change was pointless.

[@imahoare4742]

A little thing about the New Vegas example, It's not that Chris Avellone didn't want you to play as Legion, he just regretted not fleshing them out more so the player could better understand their ideological standpoint and sympathize more with them.

[@v1rtualnish]

And they only had 18 months to make that game with Fallout 3 as a base. God, we didn't deserve them.

[@Revanchist]

Thats true, Legion is very two dimensional compared to the NCR and Mr. House.

[@mr.sinjin-smyth]

@@v1rtualnish Unfortunately, that was Obsidian's window choice when developing the game. They should've told Bethesda they needed at least 3 years.

[@ProsecutorValentine]

@@mr.sinjin-smyth A likely possbility, the deadline was enforced by the higher ups, that's not a choice they can do on the fly and they were contractually obligated to push it out on the storefront before Skyrim's release.

[@peterfyal4998]

@@v1rtualnish still blows my mind, especially compared to today.

[@puppehs]

I feel like I’ve been burned by modern games at least 109 times

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Let's make it 110.

[@TheTBCNinjas2]

Based

[@TheTBCNinjas2]

I also don’t think they sold 6 million copies

[@Shieftain]

@@TheTBCNinjas2 It's weird how on many forums you can get perma-banned if you comment about wanting to verify that amount.

[@TheTBCNinjas2]

@@Shieftain yep, an event so ‘true’ that you cant ask any questions

[@amadeusagripino6862]

You noticed, right? Every time we talk about something woke, someone posing as "moderate" appears from out of nowhere saying "you don't know what woke means", "can you define what is woke?", "you're using the word woke wrong" and other variations.

[@dan4992]

Define woke for me please

[@GeneralProfessor]

Don't waste your time on those, no matter how objective and pin-point accurate you make your definition they'll ignore it and attempt to gaslight you into believing that you're incorrect. The only winning move of that game is not to play.

[@dan4992]

@@GeneralProfessor woke means different things to different people which is why you should always ask, unfortunately most of you dont even have a consistent definition of what woke actually is to you and usually its just people raging because black people, gay people or women are put in the franchises they like Yes there are things out there that suffer from going to far with "the message" but saying escapism is dead because of woke culture is hilarious. You just dont enjoy dumb things like you used to because you aren't kids anymore, its a simple answer that hermits like to try and make complicated so they dont have to reflect on how boring their life is now

[@GeneralProfessor]

​@@dan4992 You prove my point with your baseless projection.

[@dan4992]

@@GeneralProfessor you say alot of hollow buzzwords like gaslighting and projection with no explanation behind them at all can you explain to me how its a baseless projection

[@HansKlopek]

I've noticed more than a couple big name KZbinrs who got popular speaking out against "the message" are starting to get more and more tolerant of that message so long as it's entertaining.

[@led-0185]

Critical Drinker and Mauler recently came out in support/defense of the TLOU show Ep3, defending the gay romance despite there being none in the original. That should tell you all you need to know about where their true "convictions" in regards of The Message lie.

[@potheadraccoon8536]

cough tim pool

[@hollowpoint8261]

@@led-0185 Mauler didn't surprise me, but Critical drunker definitely did. I just hate that the gay romance was dropped in as an afterthought by the writing staff well after production of the game was wrapped up. Similar to how JKR made Dumbledore gay to earn PC brownie points after the completion of the last book, despite that there was not really being any evidence of it other than how Dumbledore was close friends with another man and the LGBT community writing bad fanfic off that

[@stur3366]

@@led-0185 What the actual fuck do you mean they were not gay in the original. It was obvious they were gay. There was a letter and a gay porn magazine. I am genuinely curious what your though process wad for this comment.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@led-0185 MauLer and Critical Drinker are sellouts. I could feel it coming a few years ago.

[@17th_Colossus]

Agree, I don’t want identity politics in my escapism.

[@peppermintgal4302]

Ghost in the Shell has identity politics. I still enjoyed it and at times, as an escapist fantasy. The real problem is the corporate schedule and working conditions forcing devs to spit stuff out at ludicrous paces. Happens in manga and anime, too, and to the same effect, but no one can tell me that manga and anime is "woke" or "overcome with identity politics" lol. (Also, a little irony for you --- identity politics is when a political group has no solidarity for other demographics and only votes or agitates for their own good. Like uhhh Synthetic Man, here, who is very narrowly focused on the wellbeing of his little mean girl clique of embattled 4chan nerds who think they "liked videogames before they went mainstream and sold out." I mean, cmon, we've seen this "antinormie" shit before, its the same underlying psychology as hipsters lol. Of course no one likes you guys lololol they didn't like the hipsters with their "you're not a real fan of this or that kind of music unless you can name all the bands" gatekeeping bullcrap either.)

[@17th_Colossus]

@@peppermintgal4302 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKO6oHpufsier6c

[@Jonas-hq6ky]

The developer or publisher decides what the game is, not you.

[@Zeriel00]

@@Jonas-hq6ky Nice shill, but guess who pays the bills of the developer/publisher? They may hire a bunch of blue haired freaks to push their politics but what is the point if nobody buys it and it kills the franchise? Look at star wars, it was worth billions now the Rose Tiko and other toys are a meme. Theres a reason get woke go broke is a thing.

[@Jonas-hq6ky]

@@Zeriel00 Not a shill. Also if every game company is doing "this", multiple times without stopping, then there IS an audience for it. To be clear I dont think its anything to be upset about. I had my gamergate phase already.

[@SAVAGE-GAMER-]

Just wanted to say man, your sponsored add..You did great w that bud..that's the type of sponsors you need..practical items that dont feel like you're selling your soul in order to promote..I dig it..that's what I plan to do also..I stated several times I'll never sell out my integrity for money. And I feel youre the same way.

[@duffystrings9680]

I'm so tired of pretending like this isn't going

[@Mugoflighterfluid]

@@VincentVanGirth dude shut up

[@viktorthk]

​@@VincentVanGirth👃👃👃👃👃

[@lucascoval828]

@@VincentVanGirth Nice try, Fed.

[@therealalmightyloaf3285]

But it isn’t

[@spnked9516]

The most important governing rule of fiction - everything in a work has to be consciously placed in said work - is frequently dismissed as being "unimportant" or a "nitpick". If the thing was so "unimportant" then why did the creator(s) of a given work feel the need place it in there in the first place? It's astonishing just how underdeveloped people's critical faculties are when it comes to fiction. I honestly don't know if it's apathy, normalization, simply laziness, or some combination of the three.

[@lucascoval828]

Well said.

[@Imhighinparisbro]

The fact SpongeBob is the only game where there’s no politics is crazy 😂

[@Romanus-]

Give it time, they’ll turn him into a bundle of sticks in a few years. Nothing can go untouched in clown world

[@davidd4696]

You like BioShock?

[@hunts4209]

I mean yeah its fucking spongebob

[@thegamewin100]

Ummm there’s a rainbow bob costume in it WOKE im joking by the way

[@hunts4209]

@@thegamewin100 Honestly, Someone would call it woke unironically.

[@ericfisher1360]

I enjoy the occasional escape from real life as much as the next guy, but I can't help but think that it was our need to escape that brought us here to begin with. Stay Vigilant.

[@Mr_Mistah]

Yeah I'm done seeking escapism too. That's how they pull the wool over your eyes

[@stndout1427]

Vigilant for what, white, pink and blue lines in a video game?

[@ericfisher1360]

@@stndout1427 If you have to ask then I assume you have a storytime hour to attend.

[@stndout1427]

@@ericfisher1360 Look man I know it's scary. One minute you're playing a completely unpolitical game about the collapse of society and then BAM buff woman jumpscare. Stay strong out there brother.✊

[@ericfisher1360]

@@stndout1427 Nice try, but your comments betray you. How did you go from the non sequitur of diffrent hair color to the non sequitur of "buff women"? Simple because all of those ideas are interchangeable for intersectional ideologies. Get help you are ideologically possessed.

[@thatgermanicguy]

Moments like this is motivating me to continue to write. Even if I don’t do it as much and how slow I can write. I want to give back something great for people to enjoy and escape into.

[@Snow-vo1yi]

Do you have anything available?

[@GoldenLeafsMovies]

Same, though my low self esteem hinders my progress.

[@patigelstarberry4302]

@@GoldenLeafsMovies like any form of art, practice grants skill, your early work will be bad, but it will be better eventually.

[@GoldenLeafsMovies]

@@patigelstarberry4302 Yeah, I'm at a pretty decent level now but it'll never be enough to what I want to be.

[@thomasouellet4655]

You wont get anywhere if this loser is your inspiration. Seriously crying this much about mixed bathrooms is fucking pathetic. You have a problem and should question what led you to his point.

[@fyiicheckforspies]

I know videos like this might be frustrating for you to make, but they're pretty inspiring to me to be honest. It's great to see people calling this stuff out, especially younger gamers like you. There's so many grifters on YT that a man giving his genuine opinions is unfortunately a breath of fresh air.

[@bennygerow]

Fucking SAME.

[@SamGoeltz]

Yeah I bet when neither of you are real men

[@rwln]

@@SamGoeltz no way your saying all this with that pfp you a troll acc

[@SamGoeltz]

RWLNgames um I'm open about who I am. I'm not a coward like all of you b1gots. Why would I need a troll account? All my social media is open, feel free to look me up.

[@ezioauditoredafirenze2020]

​@@SamGoeltz You probably can't even do 10 solid push ups lmao

[@CovocNexus]

Don't let them gaslight you into thinking these things aren't woke. They just want to enjoy games so much that they have started to accept things that they would have raised their eyebrows at years ago.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

their definition of woke is cringe dialogues, in order for something to be woke it has to be ultra super cringe woke, which is bad in terms of subversion these people want the subversion to happen but slowly.

[@mrshmuga9]

The question is, why can’t they just say “Ya it’s in there, but it’s minimal enough that it doesn’t bug me/take me out of the experience?” Everyone has a different threshold of [various things]. You don’t have to deny it.

[@bengens6070]

100%

[@SamGoeltz]

You know nothing. You just want to hate and real men like me scare you all

[@benign4823]

@@SamGoeltz I loved your mother enough to make you, a clear mistake.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

I can't even fathom the amount of sexual misconduct and abuse incidents in the Ishimura's same sex bathroom.

[@amadeusagripino6862]

In space, no one can hear you cry "rape"

[@xenomorphlover]

Sodom and Gomorrah....probably looks like the disturbing video footage from Event Horizon....

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

@@xenomorphlover now we know the _other_ trauma Isaac got in the Ishimura...

[@wariokhabib245]

Please tell me you're joking. No, in this day and age, I really can't tell what's real and what's sarcasm anymore. Are you being serious? When you say: The Dead Space remake features an Ishimura with a same sex bathroom?🤦🏻‍♂️

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

@@wariokhabib245 nope. It's there. It's funny how the most dangerous thing in the Ishimura wasn't the Marker, or the Necromorphs, or the Unitologist gits, but the bathrooms.

[@LayLayYTV]

if someone is okay with race swapping, ask them if its okay to turn a black character to white if they say no then their arguement about race swapping is invalid

[@iFurane]

Ryan Gosling as Black Panther would be epic

[@duncanharrell5009]

Mel Gibson stars as… MARTIN LUTHER KING! In theaters this Summer!

[@vewyscawymonsta]

They'll say yes but only because it hasn't been done and you won't have any examples of their outrage over it (because it's never been done).

[@BumboLooks]

@@vewyscawymonsta It has been done though, and leftists have complained about that. 1963 Cleopatra movie for example casts white ango-saxons as Egyptians even though the descendants of Ancient Egyptians look more like Arabs. I can bring up other movies too. Sure, it hasn't been done anywhere near the same extent as the white-to-black race swapping has.

[@Alexander-nc4vy]

Words cannot describe how much I resonate with your point about gate keeping. I used to be a massive Halo fan, and then Halo 5 was made and it was obvious that it was made to cater to the Call of Duty kids. Whenever I had expressed my worry for the state of Halo, people would tell me that a “broader audience” is good for Halo. Now look what happened to it. It is but a shell of its former self - completely confused by what it is supposed to be. Halo was my childhood and I want to enjoy playing it. 343 has made it impossible for me to play Halo without its collapse weighing on my mind.

[@thekittenthatwantschicken8018]

only children gatekeep

[@screwgoogle4993]

@@thekittenthatwantschicken8018 your judgement of maturity is nothing more than a front used to socially dissuade people from questioning your politics. you have to be sneaky about what you're pushing because if you were honest about it, no one would take you seriously. because your beliefs are childish. people like you infiltrate shit, try to change it, and throw a tantrum when the fans don't want some outsider perverting what they love into some debased billboard for ignorant babies easily duped into pushing a childish ideology of "do anything you want whenever you want, unless people will judge you for it, then go along with that". don't talk about "children". you don't know anything about children. Rings of Power. Velma. Ghostbusters. The Last of Us. Korra. Modern Dungeons and Dragons. These perversions happened because their creators prioritized their elitist California attitudes over making a quality product. Because these people were able to ignore the fans and push their crap regardless of being told to shut up and go away. These things showed the importance of gatekeeping. Why it's a natural human social dynamic. And why lefties consistently try to subvert the concept. Because it's part of the natural social immune system from disease carriers like you.

[@denishrg9843]

@@thekittenthatwantschicken8018 sure thing tranny

[@Hamneggs50]

​@@thekittenthatwantschicken8018you say that, until people that 'you' don't like come In and tear apart the entertainment you consume

[@thekittenthatwantschicken8018]

@@Hamneggs50 i dont care gatekeeping is fucking pathetic period

[@TransConservativewaifu]

ESG is one of the big problems in gaming

[@BlackMetalVengeance]

Inb4 "hurr, don't you care about the environment and society?". I hate the disingenuous retards more than Blackrock itself sometimes.

[@TransConservativewaifu]

@@waffleman8053 correct

[@peterfyal4998]

Stakeholder capitalism sounds alot like socialism

[@TransConservativewaifu]

@@peterfyal4998 kinda does

[@sour93]

Thank you for voicing what we all think

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Thanks too

[@SamGoeltz]

No what you b1g0ts think

[@eddiesmith4067]

Don’t lump me in with scumbag. Fuck these “anti-woke” clowns

[@woahhbro2906]

This is so true. I've tried taking a break from 'political content' and it's impossible. The narrative will reach you no matter what. It's insane.

[@DiplomatOfDirt]

its around every single corner its fucking maddening.

[@Tripact_of_fire]

Keep saying your opinion brother for as long as you can and we will be here supporting good content creator like you

[@cobain2261]

We just keep getting banger after banger videos from the Synth man. Great job with the content

[@astrea555]

Really glad I found your channel recently. Escapism and fun only dies if you let them affect you too much, not that ignoring them entirely will make them go away, but there's enough good vidya to go back to

[@sillylittlesheepjax6009]

ignoring them will make them grow and become more radical, ignoring them let them take over every uni in america/west. They pushed gay stuff now they push trans stuff, ignore them more and they will go for child porn. You need to fight them on all levels or it is over

[@wrenboy2726]

That’s… the point of the video? It’s so jarring you cant ignore it. Things are now mathematically inaccurate. Biologically inaccurate. Geographically inaccurate. All for the sake of inclusivity, etc.

[@SamGoeltz]

Glad you all gather like the b1g0ts you are.

[@blajoker8495]

Should've gatekept before it got to this point. The only thing that will get these bundle of sticks to go away now is a complete collapse of the market. Or they can be made to feel completely uncomfortable by all major releases.

[@MyWTFisgoinon]

@@blajoker8495 You realize these are the kinds of comments that truly represent why people criticize this community right?

[@surfinturf4620]

I also noticed in Dead Space they replaced the white dudes with black chicks in the original concept posters, all in the name of DiVeRsItY! 🤪

[@thehollowhunter]

"Escape into the world of Hogwarts" oh man he's in for a treat 🤣

[@duffystrings9680]

Yup the bar trans

[@Dragonage2ftw]

He isn't.

[@KatarinaBohtana]

@@Dragonage2ftw There's a trans character in the game. Lmao

[@theamazinggarbage3209]

@@KatarinaBohtana I mean one trans person isn’t gonna ruin the ability to escape into a wizard game

[@screwgoogle4993]

@@theamazinggarbage3209 "It's just one trans person" "It's just the privacy of my own home" "Slippery slope is a fallacy" "Don't say words I don't want you to say" "You must think exactly as I do or else you're a bigot" - Your moniker is 1/3 accurate, trash

[@jonahhekmatyar]

The biggest thing for me is that I don't want to be reminded of the real world in some fantasy story/world. The game should have its own self-contained universe. I play Star Citizen, and I'm terrified of what might be added in the future seeing the reddit/discord and forums community is so cringe.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

I used to have a passionate love for the Avatar Airbender universe, and then Legend of Korra destroyed it. The live-action movie fumbled the ball by color swapping everybody, but Legend of Korra set the ball on fire by cultural swapping everything. Avatar was a unique One of a kind blend of multiple Asiatic cultures and was an Asiatic exclusive universe with no Europe or Africa. So it is absolutely nonsense for the writers to pretend that this Asiatic universe would suddenly become European even without Europe in existence.

[@dan4992]

So where exactly does god of war or dead space remind you of the real world

[@MalleusIudaeorum]

Idk if you have already but you should make an odysee account and encourage your subs to follow you there. You can set it up so every time you upload a KZbin video it automatically mirrors it to your Odysee channel for you (or it might be the other way around). You’ll also have the option to release videos that would be considered “too edgy” for KZbin with zero consequences. If you ever get banned or anything then you’ll have something to fall back on. You should think about these things before they happen, not after. Godspeed synth. You’re a good egg.

[@Shieftain]

I think he's talked about it before, and he prefers to use Rumble instead. Still, would've been nice if he used Odysee too.

[@MooncricketsInc]

Is homeboy on rumble already?

[@Shieftain]

@@MooncricketsInc Yep. Been on there for quite some time actually.

[@MalleusIudaeorum]

@@Shieftain oh that’s good then I didn’t know he already set up an account somewhere else

[@proudherouser4069]

6:19 "my channel will probably be shadow-banned." he tried to warn us but we didn't listen

[@gojizard704]

Good synthetic man is a racist sexist transphobic incel that deserves to fall off of the face of the fucking earth

[@Illumirage]

​@@gojizard704you sound so tolerant.... so inclusive... I'm actually screenshotting this it's so bigoted...

[@gojizard704]

@@Illumirage youre fucking kidding right?

[@SourRobo8364]

I'm sick of how complacent others have become. Everyone is making fun of people like us complaining about the little changes in Dead Space. When we all know damn well that the crazy left would lose their minds if the opposite happened. It's the little things that matter.

[@BlackMetalVengeance]

They use shame tactics to demoralize and discourage us while being completely disingenuous. Those changes were added because it obviously matters to them, not because they were small and inconsequential. A good example being American Krogan who's making a Fallout4 mod that removes the modern political aspects from the setting, and he's getting attacked from all sides.

[@JohnSmith-cb9hb]

Right. We don't like a game, so we complain and don't buy. These regressive don't like a game and try to get everyone involved de-personed, and physically assault people. The two sides are not the same.

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

They all know they would lose their mind, they're not crazy, they're dishonest and immoral. They have no values or principles.

[@BlackMetalVengeance]

@@nigeltheoutlaw Their values and principles change with the news cycle, or else they get a free struggle session to help them "do better".

[@echomjp]

The "Crazy Left" would lose their minds, sure, but people like me wouldn't give a shit either way. That's the difference between people with their brains on identity politics, and people who want to just enjoy games for what they are. Many people over-analyze every last aspect of video games and fiction in general, trying to find potential parallels to reality and then exaggerating them to inflate their own ego. Others though, like myself, prefer to consider only the question: does it make sense in the universe? That is the most important factor to me being immersed, and I don't consider real-world politics after considering that question unless the examples are particularly egregious. The changes in Dead Space as far as "political" angles go, frankly, are so minor as to make any complaint about them absolutely nonsensical. Because none of the changes at all break immersion with the universe as written, and in fact I would argue they are sometimes more believable in such a futuristic setting. What is more realistic the far future at the rate we're going: that you would have space crews made up of racially diverse members, or that they are mostly all just white guys - including on their posters?

[@mananlak]

fucking crying laughing when the dude with the Drive jacket turned around and it was you he's literally me bros

[@Rihcterwilker]

People nowadays need to have a mirror of themselves on screen to be able to identify with a character. We used to identify with actions of well written characters, not the physical appearance of a cardboard surface-level trophy inclusive character.

[@redninja3056]

Why not both? Even when someone makes their own black characters you guys still get mad and call it woke

[@Rihcterwilker]

@@redninja3056 woman king rewrote story, tried to call whoever wasn't interested in it racists, then black panther are ok movies that people elevate to absurd hype, like it should win an oscar. As long as people keep making an spectacle out of representation, making headlines with "first black" this and that, it will not feel natural. Older movies didn't make a big deal out of it and everyone loved them for that.

[@redninja3056]

@@Rihcterwilker so what? You guys elevate top gun like it's the best movie In years because it doesn't have politics in it you guys do the exact same thing just for different reasons, and the woman King thing makes sense, but if you want to go to extremes how about I point out how you guys threatened a girl just because she plays someone in the last of us part 2 they're are extremes on both sides you can't just group everyone together

[@Rihcterwilker]

@@redninja3056 she's a victim, i agree with you. A victim of the fraud that is Neil Druckman and his horrible writting, where virtue signaling has priority over a good story. Add to the victims the girl that played Sarah in the show, or the girl that played Ellie. He knew that they were going to get backlash, he wanted it, it generates discussions, that turns into free marketing. They want it to go ahead, the narrative of "them vs us", the race swap, the strong women that have no flaws and has dumb men in their movies. It moves the industry. Hollywood doesn't give a f# about any minority, no one's feelings is important. Don't be innocent, they care about your money. Your wallet is what they see, not the person. You're defending the big corporation, not the little girl that got an angry message of a lonely loser.

[@redninja3056]

@@Rihcterwilker you think I dont know that? Of course the companies want my money that's what companies were made for in the first place, but that doesn't mean no one wants to see their race in media some people do care about that and I don't see why they can't or shouldn't this isn't about companies it's about race and whether people should or shouldn't care whether their race is on screen, I don't see why they can't but you have a problem with it that has nothing to do with companies

[@Hank..]

I was NOT expecting to hear Dr. John Money mentioned in this, but I'm glad that there are people who haven't forgotten about that guy. That's someone who should REALLY be brought up more when gender nonsense is discussed, because he's the one who broached it (when he wasn't busy sexually abusing children under the pretense of research, of course)

[@nitrateodin]

TLOU2 affected me so negatively that I was forced to make a video about it outside my channel's comfort zone, about wokeness. My channel is just memes gameplay. But I'm glad I don't feel I have to make anymore of those kinds of videos since you got it covered, Synth. So thanks and keep speaking the truth.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

We ought to forget it exists

[@josh043p6]

😂😂

[@jaredweiman2987]

The same people that wrecked the world and made escapism essential destroyed every avenue of escape from it. Do not forget what they’ve done. Do not forgive them for what they’ve done.

[@Sleezy5711]

Corny

[@SlickOnTop]

Shut it down!

[@solidhutyr1815]

Facebook ass Comment

[@nadiaromantini8836]

"My video games have gender neutral bathrooms- the west has fallen, billions must die"

[@epicjonny155]

@@nadiaromantini8836 a feature that would be hard to spot killed my grandma!

[@adaptivegamer9905]

Exactly right about gate keeping. They gas lighted so much I was questioning myself! But then I’m like wait no that’s not gate keeping though it’s what you said to preserve what we love from grifters.

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

No, I want the mona lisa repainted into a man to be more inclusive!

[@Dragonage2ftw]

You people are the grifters, though. None of you actually care about gaming, you're just mad that minorities have rights now.

[@patigelstarberry4302]

Gatekeeping is a doubled edged sword, if you ever played OSRS you would find there is such thing as too much gatekeeping.

[@adaptivegamer9905]

@@patigelstarberry4302true. Never played it but hate keeping to an extent is needed 100%. We need actual fans of the content to be allowed in. Otherwise we get the annoying twitch & streamers who are funnily enough mostly liberal women who grift off of our beloved hobbies for $ & completely twist what we used to love into something hideous because they screamed “misogyny & toxic masculinity in gaming”. Hence rockstar, CD PROJEKT Red, naught dog, Santa Monica etc. changing course completely

[@einbrecht6600]

Gatekeeping is a good thing. Its how I keep my circle of friends small and localized to people who don't get offended over jokes.

[@42Mrgreenman]

Yeah, if you don't keep the gate, nere' do-wells will infiltrate your castle and destroy the cohesion of the community...

[@lackybracky8414]

in Hat in Time, theres also a secret book in the Subcon purple rift that basically says capitalism has done nothing good and is 100% unethical. which means buying the game is unethical lol

[@Gopnikawa]

There was also a Workshop mod that removed the secret tr00n flag in Nyakuza Metro. The mod stayed up for some years until it was eventually removed, and the mod that turned every decal into this flag appeared shortly after. This is basically Spider Man Remastered Nexus flag drama before it was cool.

[@K0dAHeY]

That's just sad.

[@Mr.House38]

Keep fighting for what you love, we need passionate people like you.

[@SamGoeltz]

You are passionate afraid of real men like me

[@fashydecimus3783]

@@SamGoeltz lmao ‘real man’ get a haircut you fucking hippie any commenter on here could smack you down to the floor

[@amadeusagripino6862]

@@SamGoeltz you're not a real man, you're jewish

[@SamGoeltz]

@amadeusagripino6862 your a terf and a coward. I can show my face and you can't, typical terf boy, if I ran into you, you would be sitting down to P.

[@oimickey6110]

Best argument for why there should be gatekeeping at 7:00. Nailed it.

[@sulijoo]

Recent leaked documents prove what we all thought, that CoD is literally a propaganda and recruitment tool for the US military (former head of Activision Blizzard even worked at the DHS). I think we're all becoming painfully aware now that video-games are little more than vessels for carrying and transmitting a particular message. It's bad, whoever is doing it.

[@skyhunter996]

Oh no, the game that quite obviously glorifies us army is actually a recruitment tool for them 😱 how come we didn't see earlier???

[@ramonandrajo6348]

@@skyhunter996 Salty.

[@jackd8933]

It’s almost like politics have always been infused with media.

[@U47VII]

You brought up an interesting point - the same people pointing out everything is political and demanding everything has to be political are the ones who complain as soon as someone notices it and try to smear him as an extremist or idiot. This is something I see in many art forms, whether it's movies or music as well, even here in Europe. We've basically imported college politics from the United States, we've just exchanged "Latinx" for "Middle Eastern". Make of that what you will, just wanted to let you know that things here in Europe are heading in the same direction, just with different cultures. Oh, and we're not armed, so we're basically done here.

[@mrscruffles801]

I just got attacked by some teenage cholo at a a gas station who repeatedly kicked my car for no reason. As I'm sitting at home now winding down from the incident, I'm thinking "no modern game or movie would ever portay what had just happened the way it did. They'd likely try to make him the sympathetic one who was just desperate, and me somehow the one who started it.

[@mrscruffles801]

@xid Ahaha

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

Media will never present brown people's actual behavior for what it is, despite their bleating about "representation".

[@amadeusagripino6862]

You live in US? Don't you have ARs and the 2nd amendment over there? What stopped you from tearing him a new arsehole?

[@mrscruffles801]

@@amadeusagripino6862 Two things: 1. The courts on the us are basically slot machines where instead of winning money you're winning your freedom 2. Didn't have any weapons on me, a mistake I will not repeat

[@josh043p6]

What's sadder is how much that bothers you 😂

[@solidsnake-gy3rw]

synthetic man acting is worthy of a oscar

[@cloudstrife4324]

Hell yeah

[@golDroger88]

You're not complimenting him.

[@duffystrings9680]

You will make people mad with this video I wanted to let you know you are justified and right about it.

[@fnafenjoyer2858]

You killed me with the Drive jacket. Awesome video!

[@fastenedcarrot9570]

Not even the least bit surprised he owns one. I'm very jealous.

[@ExtremeMan10]

Only guy on platform that is still speaking truth in raw proportions without using safe words like "one of" or "in my opinion" guy straight up tells it how it is, gaming is dead. You know its bad that people go back to books instead of gaming.

[@ExtremeMan10]

@@roundtabledetails3307 Its no longer gameplay sandbox how it used to be, they are becoming more and more like movies, which is bad. If game isnt talkative to make zoomers not fall asleep, nor edgy, nor egs, nor simp fantasy, then its "trash" but if it has woke nonsense its suddenly a masterpiece.

[@rhyssaunders1323]

@@ExtremeMan10 or its just a good game

[@ExtremeMan10]

@@rhyssaunders1323 no it aint, its garbage. Games are meant to be interactive and fun. Not walking simulator or messageing propaganda.

[@Th3BigBoy]

@@roundtabledetails3307 This is going to sound abrasive but I'm trying to be kind here. But how in rhe actual hell can you look at the state of affairs in this world, in it's industries, particularly in gaming. And think to yourself that it's anything BUT dying? The gaming industry is as decadent as the minds who create the games are. Surely you can see that?!

[@rhyssaunders1323]

@Mattriones like 90 percent of it is combat, but according to you, it's just a walking simulator. have you even played it

[@Grumbledookvid]

It's worse than you say. Majority of consumers are so obsessively addicted to 'the next thing' that they simply don't care whether it's good or not, only that it exists, and another will exist shortly after. Consooming garbage without consciously even acknowledging that its bad because they're so desperate to separate themselves from their problems in real life. If you wanna fix art you're gonna have to fix society collapsing, which can't be fixed

[@arminius504]

Yep and subconsciously they are being brainwashed.

[@VoidDweller86]

Video Gaming in General NEEDS to come back to being on an elevated plateau and elevated ground instead of being deep down in the sewer dumps.

[@VoidDweller86]

4 Qualities That Video Gaming in General should REALLY be about are Fun Factor, Compelling Factor, Captivating Factor and Fantastic Quality, Period Dot Dash. I am 36 years old by the way, Black American male.

[@sunsetman22]

something like that is happening with the DC films I think

[@Dipj01]

People just keep buying and supporting shitty games. That's why the studios continue to do this, because they can get away with it.

[@jurassictastic9532]

Glad to know someone isn't afraid to speak the truth

[@thesaltybeard1793]

Yeah. I really felt it when he talked about how a fat librarian and ugly people are ridiculous. Every librarian I know is a part time runway model!

[@cassiushellsin6243]

This guy always says things I wanna say. Like “art is supposed to be beautiful” and so on. Truth is, every single developer who makes these “political” changes have a frail hope of “changing the world,” that’s why the TLOU Part 2 is hated so much. Neil wanted it to be “deep” and be seen as some sort of philosopher but ffs it only made him look like a fool.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Problem are the idiots reviewing the game now in a restrospective and saying it's good. BS.

[@mladens1779]

Art is not supposed to be beautiful but to make you feel something. Try learning about art history.

[@cassiushellsin6243]

@@mladens1779 Well said. I find it intriguing how paintings back in the day were becoming so “realistic” that other artists began to fuck around with their creativity. Like “yes this is good but it can also be THIS” like depictions of Hell or whatnot. I think video games are reaching that point where mainstream games just want “realistic-looking” characters (who just look ugly) so it wouldn’t surprise me if other devs saw that and just go “yeah, no” and proceed to make all their characters hot out of spite lol

[@mladens1779]

@@cassiushellsin6243 Actually, no. Artists did stuff differently in order to push boundaries, explore possibilities what can be done in art so they could expand how they can express themselves. The first thing artists have to learn is how the real world functions, movement, anatomy etc. Only when they've mastered it can they expand on it. Go check out Picasso's portraits before he went into Cubism. It's not just developers that want realism, it's the gamers as well. And not for all genres. Making characters "hot out of spite" wouldn't be any kind of artistic statement if the argument was that characters in realistic games are "ugly" as context and purpose matter. Also, insisting that characters have to be hot by default - especially the female characters - is a very shallow way of thinking about art. And, contrary to what his videos say, making characters "ugly" is not communism.

[@cassiushellsin6243]

@@mladens1779 I see I see. I do like the concept of characters who look attractive but it contrasts the messed up things they go through. It’s not a “default,” more of a “contrast” between what the viewer sees and what it’s eventually revealed about said characters they like. Also, the problem with “ugly” characters isn’t that it isn’t realistic or “communistic,” it’s that it seems to dictate their character. Have you noticed how all “woke” shit is simply saying “ugly can be heroic,” “female strong,” “strong man can be weak,” etc. and it’s just… stereotypes. The developers/writers are trying to make a statement by making their writing fit with what they make. It all turns goofy. Can’t make a female strong without them making or even admitting to their mistakes because that would make them, well, flawed, and the writers don’t want that because that would make them feel insecure about themselves. That’s what I’ve gathered, however. That’s why making characters “attractive” while still being flawed and in-perfect would completely contrast what woke media wants. Also, I’m practicing animation, so learning movements, anatomy , proper proportions, and even a sense of speed and weight, etc. ARE what makes it worth it for me. That’s what I love about animation: it’s an art form that can have both realistic and over-exaggerated properties.

[@TransConservativewaifu]

when we say 'we dont want politics', we mean we dont want real world politics. we dont mind fictional politics, we just dont like the real world stuff raining on our parades.

[@Mr_Mistah]

Exactly. This is one thing I love about anime and manga is that they handle politics from a more "duality of man" style rather than a "here's what's progressive and if you don't support this you're a bigot" style

[@lordphill807]

They know exactly what you're saying, they just don't care. They'll gladly twist your words and arguments to depict you in the worst way. People are against activism and one sided, hamfisted, moralizing.

[@screwgoogle4993]

@@lordphill807 Most of it coming from Hollywood pedophiles too.

[@prometheusjackson8787]

The same people that talk about the importance of rights and freedom, will attack anyone that has any opinion different from the state ideology

[@K1181-r4o]

The whole point is these people don't want you to be able to escape it. They want you thinking about their politics 24/7 365.

[@Otherwise_1]

true, politics is biggest scam

[@nitrateodin]

The message must be broadcast.

[@darken2417]

The Enclave in Fallout 3 actually did have complexity if you look a little deeper. The devs really could have went further with them. Ex: We know there were Enclave soldiers who tried going against President Eden's plan the ones you fought through to leave their base. Eden wanted the player to contaminate the water purifier because his followers turned against him because it was seen as an insane AI. The devs could have put in a way to join Colonel Autumn against Eden and his loyalists, of course not to make this a good faction but just not an absolute antagonist faction.

[@Mirthful_Midori]

That would require nuance and Emil Pagliarulo is a talentless hack, with less writing skill than the guy writing jokes for popsicle sticks. His "Talks From Story" is a must watch for anyone wondering why Bethesda is so bad at making games. It's also funny that his presentation explains everything wrong with Bethesda, but he does it entirely by accident. Like how he inadvertently admits they don't follow design documents. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJqYYmCtn8iqppo

[@AWESOMEX711]

I agree, it should have been possible to join the enclave in the Fallout 3. They could have let the player join colonel autumn or even the AI if they got creative with it. Imagine how cool If they gave you the option of fusing with the AI and becoming a cyborg warrior to conquer the wasteland for president Eden. So what if the player wants to play an evil character and opress the wasteland. More options add replayability for the games. But we know what is the most likely reason they don't give that option. Letting the player ally with Enclave isn't seen as a viable option because of the similiarities with facist regimes and that wouldn't be politically correct.

[@Mirthful_Midori]

@@AWESOMEX711 I would've had the human members of the Enclave join the BoS in 3 and form a new group, leaving Eden and his robots as the main villains. I don't really like them reusing the BoS and Enclave in 3, but that's how I would've done it.

[@jameslilly3750]

Why would autumn who outside of eden was in command let the person theyve been trying to kill let you join them.

[@nelsonsham2368]

If Bethesda could write any story after FO3...like they outright remove any story and tried to remove modding in FO76 pretty much gives you a clue

[@adrianinha19]

As a creative person it worries me that the characters I pour my heart and soul to create get race/gender/sexuality swapped when I obviously made them the way they are for a reason. Hard times for all creatives out there.

[@derealized797]

What we have happening today, as vile and backwards as it is, is not happening purely by chance. It isn't natural. And no, I'm not religious, and I'm not a "conspiracy theorist". Some of this has happened before, for example, if you look at what Mao did to China in the 60s. And some of it was just planned out to take it's effects over time. This IS a culture war. cultural marxism, and everything we're experiencing was talked about years before. I'm not about to write a novel here, and I'm expecting anyone to care about this comment, but i have been researching all of this. Take a look at this list, which goes back to the 50s (so some of it has changed a little) but you'll notice how some of these seem very familiar. Instead of going "dur ok boomer!" Like a typical zoomer social media addict burnout or smug cringy redditor, if you actually go over the details and think for yourself then it all starts to make sense. www.ethanallen.org/45_communist_goals_from_58_years_ago

[@derealized797]

Also I've been thinking, that at least until everything is too heavily censored, and we are heading that direction. We could actually use creative people, to create our OWN entertainment. Like indie games or mods or whatever. Like there was underground comics in the 70s. Pirate radio. I wish we could put something together so that we *can* have escapism in some forms, alternatives to the woke trash. We *need* that today. What's the point of the same crappy hollywood copy paste template with woke shit smeared over it? Games that are barely playable because they wasted so much time with their "ethics department" deciding if it was progressive enough for the special interest groups. You get more from watching paint dry. Seriously, we shouldn't be dependent on only mainstream big budget garbage.

[@slowpoke9364]

@@derealized797 conservatives aren’t creative. All good music art film games etc are made by liberals. Sorry cry about it x

[@solidhutyr1815]

How so? Do you mean as In the way their Character was Written was Changed? You Don't Obviously mean they Were Ruined Beacuse they Made them gay lmao

[@derealized797]

@@slowpoke9364 Ok, so in typical far-left tag along fashion, you've done absolutely no research on that topic. Obviously. Making up desperate claims to feel relevant only proves how gullible and low info your decision making is, which explains why you voted this senile potato into office, bringing us closer than ever to wwiii (90 seconds to midnight on the doomsday clock) and raised the cost of living making everyone's life harder. I mean, look at your democrat "run" toilet cities, or CA... now there's some 'bragging rights' eh? Gotta be "creative" to find an area of sidewalk that isn't covered in dirty needles and human waste, to set up your dream tents. Not surprising that it was the Republicans who freed the slaves, it's always been them that clean up the messes you alt-left fascists create.

[@eotikurac]

help us, synthetic man, you're our only hope.

[@nolanlehman6392]

fucking criiiiinge good lord

[@SamGoeltz]

Only hope for b1gots like you

[@eotikurac]

@@SamGoeltz explain what b1got means

[@SamGoeltz]

BaconKwagga people who play games supported by transphobes, people who hide behind their keyboards and run their little mouths. Well Sam is here now, better hide better terf.

[@eotikurac]

@@SamGoeltz i'm not even sorry your single mom never had any attention left for your sorry ass

[@megaortiz6632]

That's why I embraced the old stuff more than before.

[@bilbobaggins9451]

The 2000s was the last good decade. Even half of the 2010s were decent, but we could see the rumblings of the decline.

[@kastifur]

Man, I’m so happy you’ve got a sponsor given all the shit you’ve had to deal with lately. Your persistence is admirable brother.

[@np4231]

Good stuff man, glad you’re not afraid to state the obvious when we are actively gaslighted by grifters. Thank you for keeping it real.

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Same here

[@seanoggy5889]

Gaming as a medium has not evolved for a while, we're still using ps1/ps2 game mechanics in our modern titles.

[@Burns_RED]

I hate that A Hat In Time had to virtue signal like that. I almost don't even want to play it now because of that. I hate child groomers.

[@SuperBlueOasis]

Social media brought even more eyes to niche spaces and communities. Normies water down, gatekeep, and thought police spaces they were never apart of in the first place. For example, in the Anime and Manga community like not even that long ago you could talk about who’s your favorite “waifu/husbando” is without having scorn and droves of Twitards talking down to you. Heck even some of my normie friends don’t find it acceptable to even date most of the cast in PERSONA 5. Trying to talk about the meta-discourse of what is morally acceptable with ANYONE nowadays brings up suspicion of being a p*do. So now it’s even taboo to talk about the taboo. Its awful. Everyone would rather moral grandstand. We live in an atrocious timeline. The only thing we can do is learn to gatekeep better.

[@Akira-Strider]

agreed, i think a lot of anime and manga fandoms don't gatekeep their community well tbh, reminds me of the guilty gear strive controversy with bridget and testament, how that just let in a flood of these twitter weirdos and take over the community so much that even older fans lost interest in the game.

[@Akira-Strider]

the people who accuse/call everyone predators and care so much about fictional characters and love to preach about their phony "morals" are the biggest hypocrites and who constantly get caught being predators themselves, they are not taken seriously at all when you see a lot of videos from Hero Hei and Rev Says Desu(even on Kiwi Farms) covering these idiots.

[@ExtremeMan10]

@@Akira-Strider Remember how people said gatekeeping is bad in JJBA community and not even 3 years later after letting normies in the same people cried their fanbase got destroyed. Same with Yakuza and Dark souls.

[@Akira-Strider]

@@ExtremeMan10 Exactly

[@KratostheThird]

@@ExtremeMan10 What’s wrong with Dark Souls and Yakuza?

[@downward7296]

Great job on getting a sponsor man. Keep on doing what you do.

[@Nimbereth]

As a catholic I mostly play old games or switch games (besides some Fifa with my mates). The fabric of the world is at decay.

[@KratostheThird]

A fellow Ptolemy subscriber. Thank you.

[@Nimbereth]

@@KratostheThird The most based channel on youtube.

[@KratostheThird]

@@Nimbereth He just uploaded a new video.

[@wrenboy2726]

Why is there an African girl in a Nordic videogame? 🤣

[@zmss8537]

Cuz black people are weak and pathetic and need the sjws to left them up and defend their rights.

[@MC-kk8xu]

Because a certain group of rich, powerful, greedy, ugly-nosed 'individuals' who rub their little hands together, wearing small circular hats, hate anyone or anything European. They control the investment hedgefunds that back and ultimately dictate what game publishers and developers produce. Hence why they want us to worship black people exclusively, and make us feel ashamed if we want to celebrate our own culture and history.

[@TheTBCNinjas2]

@@MC-kk8xu precisely

[@altairsvk2929]

Hats off Synthetic Man. One of the last content creators who is not slowly or completely falling for this woke BS. More and more of the others that I used to follow are getting dangerously close to the legacy media waters.

[@SamGoeltz]

You all support a b1g0t

[@U47VII]

Some Australian dude comes to mind.

[@amadeusagripino6862]

@@U47VII correct, sunny jim

[@aurancrash4654]

@@U47VII You referring to Skill Up? He's been on the wagon for months.

[@U47VII]

@@aurancrash4654 I was referring to GMan. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think some people might agree with me.

[@anthonyguerrero4612]

Once genuine artists manage to reign the industry back under their influence, and gaming inevitably drops in popularity cause we've lost all the woke non-gamers. Lets try our best to keep it that way. Really elevate gaming back to a fine art.

[@derealized797]

I'm going to gatekeep the F out of it, and make sure that we all stick to it. I never realized before just how important it is that we do.

[@dan4992]

You do realise your definition of genuine artist aligns with your political beliefs too. You are two sides of the same politically retarded coin

[@solidhutyr1815]

Woke is when not White Male

[@TheodoricEichen]

Fat chance. Look at AGDQ. The gaming community, and particularly the speedrunning community, has a greater percentage of social rejects and people on the autism spectrum than most other hobbies. These people are particularly vulnerable to the transtrender propaganda, which gives a possible solution to their feelings of not fitting in, even if that solution means mutilating their own genitals and ingesting unnatural amounts of hormones. They are some of the most vocal proponents of transgender degeneracy in the entire world.

[@christopherbaker1716]

Is Dead Space Remake not a "fine art" because there's not as many white people compared to the original? I mean, seriously lol. You guys have some issues. I'll call a wambulance.

[@martyfromnebraska1045]

The gaslighting is the best part. “[Massive over]representation isn’t political!”

[@christopherbaker1716]

Isn't dead space in the future? Trends show white people will become a minority within the next few decades.

[@TristanB4]

Lol what makes it (over) representation? Just that your candy ass is offended by it? Sad.

[@tylersummers1466]

Wtf is is over representation? Sorry well go back to 90% white people in media

[@FastAkira]

It's impossible to escape reality. Miyazaki: hold my ashes.

[@Warriors210]

Body Type A and B lol.

[@Devin7Eleven]

@@Warriors210The Japanese version funnily enough doesn’t use that

[@reprobateisdead]

The Drive jacket part got me,My man.A synthetic human bean and a synthetic hero

[@mooddood4570]

Sounds hella liberating

[@amadeusagripino6862]

Literally me lol

[@maxden80]

At least I’m not the only one who thinks the Necromorphs in the remake are borderline comedic and over the top. The first couple I came across in the Dead Space remake actually had me chuckling with the puppet like movement and the noises that reminded me of the kinds my friends and I would make when we would try to imitate something scary as kids. In the original they seem much scarier. It’s almost like they tried too hard.

[@VTorner]

Funny that a KZbinr called "Under the Mayo" made a video basically mocking who criticized the wokeness of Dead Space Remake. This modus operandi by the progressists is interesting: put subliminal degenerate things in a game then call anyone who point it out unhinged/drunk, nitpicking on meaningless issues. And it's the same freaking people that cry because there aren't enough Africans in Medieval Europe or because some close male friends in a series aren't a couple . Meaningless my ass.

[@Shieftain]

Skimmed through the video just now... Goddammit, talk about not seeing the forest for its trees. What an absolute mid-wit. These people just cannot seem to notice that it's been death by a thousand cuts for quite some time now, and those who point it out get mocked for it. It's too bad, because I liked UtM for his in-depth DOOM Eternal videos, his thoughts on other boomer shooters and even his "controversial" video about God of War (2018).

[@BlackMetalVengeance]

Motte and bailey tactics. Demand outrageous things, then scale back the demand to something that is less extreme, but still pushes in the direction that they want. Start by asking for a thousand dollars, then eventually scaling it back to 100 or even 10 dollars, or whatever amount people give in at.

[@Safarichromosomeslol]

Mayo got butthurt over Elden Ring and Prodeus for not being close in gamestyle to Doom Eternal (and how this made those games """terrible""". The guy is as reliable as a twitter snowflake

[@thekittenthatwantschicken8018]

@@Safarichromosomeslol he's just an eltist boomer shooter youtuber

[@sunsetman22]

calling close friends in old media "queer coded" or shit like that is insufferable and it's an obvious attempt at rewriting history

[@KyleEHanophy]

*"They hated him because he told the truth."*

[@SIGNOR-G]

@Hostmann Socrates Overeactive? Perhaps. Crybaby? I dont think so.

[@np4231]

@@hostmannsocrates4703 More gaslighting

[@punishedmatteson7108]

@Hostmann Socrates "don't complain when we ruin everything" Shut up.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@Hostmann Socrates everything you love is being ruined by ideologues hell bent on cultural vandalism, but you're just overreacting if you complain about it.

[@djhurt4005]

@@hostmannsocrates4703don’t worry these rednecks transphobic loser are thinking they are telling the truth but the actual truth is that they hate gay people,they Hate trans people,and they hate their life’s just move on with your day and ignore all those annoying comments

[@Bestwick1983]

I was trying to explain this concept to a friend of mine recently. She's relatively new to gaming and pretty politically ignorant. Me trying to explain why I simply cannot "lose myself" in gaming like I used to didn't make much sense to her. I guess ignorance is bliss in this case.

[@SamGoeltz]

You tried explaining why you don't support trans rights? Yeah now you are scared little boy.

[@friendofp.24]

Ignorance is always bliss. Turn off your brain and consume. Consume and agree with everything in front of you and you'll never be challenged.

[@SamGoeltz]

Friend of P. oh look another coward afraid of big Ole Sam.

[@Bestwick1983]

@@SamGoeltz Are you bored or just looking for attention?

[@SamGoeltz]

@@Bestwick1983 I don't mind the attention of terf boys like yourself. Come at me all you want. I got all the time..

[@bish0p2004]

19:15 regarding the "politics have always been in games" comment. The problem with it is, is that it only goes one way and that's the progressive way. Furthermore, since things seem to be accelerating, it's easy to see the kind of politics that were being pushed in the past that a lot of us were blind to before. For instance, I never realized until recently that there were so many anti-Christian movies in the past 30 to 40 years that I grew up with. I also looked at the background of the people who made the movies and it starts to make sense why some people think the way they do.

[@lowerclassbrats77]

Going forward, wouldn't be shocked if They/Them Tube bans people from streaming Hogwarts Legacy or a game like it.