Gamers Went Anti Woke & Went Broke

[@StripesChaosGremlin]

I'm a gamer from downunder and I don't understand the people that lose their minds over things like character creation or a listing a character's pronouns.

[@Sykxezn]

heck, good bit of games even let you turn pronouns off sometimes

[@Dualbladedscorpion7737]

That's mainly the conservative grifters

[@chriscasperson5927]

I literally will choose the most feminine character because I know it adds extra salt to certain gamers' killscreens.

[@Ar_Ator]

fokcing PRONOUNS

[@-paganless-4248]

​@@Sykxezn I mean if they really hated the pronoun games that much, they should've simply stopped playing them. Doesn't matter. That decision has been made on their behalf.

[@Chris_winthers]

Something something leopards something something faces

[@YusufGinnah]

Om nom nom... 😼🐆

[@Golems_victory]

Something something golem eating Spyro Something something golem eating Spyro without his arguable plot armor 😈😉

[@SgtWilko1979]

Unfortunately the leopards will also eat the faces of those who did not vote for them... 🙁

[@YusufGinnah]

@@SgtWilko1979 That's true, once the leopards are freely roaming the land, everybody is fair game. But the schadenfreude for those that actually made it happen, now that, will be unprecedented...

[@-paganless-4248]

​@@SgtWilko1979 Yep ... This is what happens when tards vote in large numbers. Everybody gets hurt.

[@rootbeerdrunk9609]

People forgot Donald Trump blamed violent video games for school shootings in his first term.

[@warmac88]

True

[@damianfleszar8576]

Oh yes because games are banned all over the world thats why schoolshootings still happen mostly in USA right?

[@P_D-px6iv]

​@@damianfleszar8576It's also funny because Japan literally the biggest, oldest and most influential gaming industry in the world has had 0 school shootings

[@detailed_data4PSN]

@@P_D-px6iv that's true but you also have to take into consideration the gun laws in Japan as well.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

Issue I think you're missing it isn't just Trump. Remember Harris Fortnite had no guns on it. Some parts of the world have very strict rules on violence as well. For most of video game history Germany didn't allow gore/blood and even killing of humans in video games. Japan bans excessive gore from their video games. Which is one area where western games have less censorship than their Japanese counterparts. Basically if it was up to Harris violence in video games wouldn't exist at all. So complaining about Trumps comments is more of a Team Cry Fake vs Team Fake Cry scenario. They both did it.

[@smultronpojke4010]

They fumbled Tim Walz, a would-be first ever gamer VP, for this

[@HermosaFeCatolica]

You think no other VPs in history played video games?? 😊

[@smultronpojke4010]

@@HermosaFeCatolica I mean it's not impossible that some of the recent VPs have, but if they did they've never talked about it. With Walz, we have it on the record that he's a big Crazy Taxi enjoyer

[@yuukovukovich9996]

Well, the shadow president is OBSESSED with Diablo IV

[@Emerald501st]

​@@yuukovukovich9996 Who?

[@améliehester6996]

​@@HermosaFeCatolica Name them. I can wait

[@ZeddtheVHSotaku]

I like calling, "The electoral college is DEI for rural America." to them. And seeing them lose their minds.

[@Greenmoon2040]

@@ZeddtheVHSotaku LMAO so True!!! And 🤡are seething after that I love it

[@creativerealms]

The moment a democrat wins via the EC it's gone forever.

[@texasgirlmomx2342]

Thank you for your service.💪🏾😘 They love MINORITY rule... See the 4 senators from North & South Dakota 💅🏾

[@canaan5337]

That’s exactly what it is, it’s electoral affirmative action for all the hicks that live out in the sticks.

[@YourRealDaddy]

I'm using that 🤣

[@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo]

I find it bizzare how this group of gamers support a party that has historically been extremely hostile to us since games were a thing

[@felinaotsu3161]

You'd think people engaged in a hobby where often their brain has to be used would be smarter than that.

[@slavishentity6705]

​@@felinaotsu3161 Wasn't there a study that proved gamers who harass women were less skilled ?

[@kiriki4558]

​@@slavishentity6705yep

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Yeah, even when Mortal Kombat and Nighttrap were being scrutinized by Congress despite their obvious satire.

[@baranda0]

Probably the same group of gamers who smashed their controllers whenever they lose in a local game setup, probably a “American” thing. Lol too funny 😂😭

[@UberHeroMystic]

They cried about $70 games. Wait until games cost $90 and retail physical copies are more. So now you’re forced to go digital if you like physical copies. Oh but wait, now you’re SSD is full and you gotta buy more memory, but memory is also more expensive because it’s manufactured overseas.

[@authomat6236]

SSD is Storage not Memory 🤓

[@squidwardwithoutaclue]

We out here retro-gaming 🫡

[@gatocochino5594]

@@authomat6236 Storage is another term for non-volatile memory. That is, its contents remain usable after the device is powered off.

[@nickt2822]

​@@authomat6236if you are going to be pedantic make sure you are correct. 🙃

[@Lazshadow]

Ngl digital copies are way more expensive

[@greensciencegeek]

Your wallet Trump’s choice Beautiful slogan

[@slavishentity6705]

Trump is gonna fuck your wallets like he did those women-

[@amyhoard1222]

Women's body Trump's choice

[@JellothePallascat]

Listening to my coworkers complain about woke stuff in games and how they see “all this gay shit” has been so annoying. Mostly cause IM gay and annoyed they bitch to ME about it. But also for the fact they play a lot of “woke” games and are only mad when their respective Tik Tok algorithms say they should be mad. Some gamers are literally cattle brained I swear to god.

[@InterplanarerPennersoeldner65]

Their ideology is literally pavlov'ing urself into perpetual anger and hate

[@WhatWillYouFind]

"Most of humanity*" are literally . . . god

[@rongravelle603]

Tell them Ms Pac Man was the first woke game so it’s been around for 40 years

[@steve94183]

Unironic npc behavior from them

[@TheChoujinVirus]

look on the bright side, the economy will be so bad he won't have to worry about woke shit anymore as he won't be able to afford them

[@MaskedSongbird]

Left-wing and anti-Trump gamer. I'm pissed about this because I voted against it and am still going to have to deal with it anyway but at least know it's coming so I won't be blindsided by it. Super glad all/most of the games I want to play for the foreseeable future are in my library already. Guess I just won't buy new games. Honestly, compared to the right threatening the lives and rights of my queer, woman, and minority friends, this feels like something bordering on a non-issue. All of this because of irrelevant character creation cosmetics. This whole thing is so fucking stupid.

[@Greenmoon2040]

Same these 🤡 think that optional stuff is the end of the world when it “panders to the woke agenda” When in reality it is optional for people to choose.

[@rongravelle603]

I feel for you. I’m related to people who died in the camps during the war. I tried to warn them.

[@Rebelnutt]

Cry more

[@ibisskb]

​@@Rebelnutt You'll be the one crying when all the "violent games" you enjoy so much are banned because we all know Trump scapegoated them in his last term.

[@Rebelnutt]

@ibisskb oh yes you guys can try and groom kids off of them.

[@TVClaireBear]

Go right wing, and you lose everything

[@Irobert1115HD]

you could say: get woke go broke? because a lot of these annyoing wokeness cases are actually folks like trump trying to add inclusion stuff to their game.

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Go left wing and New York is the reality.

[@Yo1297]

@@absolstoryoffiction6615 New York is a beautiful state what are you talking about?

[@TheSilkKing1]

@@absolstoryoffiction6615 A wealthy state that is the center of economics, fashion, and culture?

[@zezohon117mr.taylor9]

​@@TheSilkKing1sounds like shii

[@jandebosschere]

Gamers are Tariffied.

[@ωις-λ3π]

Nice.

[@rongravelle603]

You win the comments section for today. Also: bad pun. You are thereby confined to the punitentiary.

[@K0BRAH95]

U won the comment section 🎉

[@northleedspoppa]

If trump mandates bathing they will be terrified

[@petertaylor4954]

😂

[@fl00fydragon]

"The year is 2027, the new Pokemon game requires you enter your legal identification information to determine if you play as a boy or girl where the gameplay for each is different where boys can play classic pokemon whilst girls can only play contests with battle mode being rigged to ensure they lose any battle. Old copies of pokemon where you can choose your gender are banned in the united states and can go for tens of thousands of dollars on the black market. This resulted in an illegal underground pokemon tournament from which any member of the banned minorities play on these old copies for a chance at a monetary prize that could buy them a ticket out of the country. I am one of these brave trainers and this is my story to become the very best like no one ever was, for I have no other option."

[@mac533]

Also, you can't evolve your pokemon, because evolution is evil or something.

[@arthurrodrigues451]

This is meant to be parody, but christian nationalists absolutely WOULD push for this dystopia

[@alanbareiro6806]

​@@arthurrodrigues451 They would just ban Pokémon outright. Because of satanism and stuff.

[@slavishentity6705]

​@@mac533Hear me out, you can't evolve your pokemon because you can't change what you were born as 😂

[@AnonimusQualquer]

This sounds funny, but I have a bad feeling someone is taking notes

[@WarPoodle-pc5wu]

It sucks being a non man/conservative gamer. Its watching my favorite hobby getting taken over by the worst people on the planet. And any real concerns about games gets drowned out by weird bigoted casual gamers. So games keep spiraling into worse and worse pay to win and micro transaction filled poorly written slop that half the time isnt even finished being shoved on us. The only criticism that gets any attention from developers is the anti woke BS so they just write off criticism as all a part of that.

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

Yep, I concur.

[@SkycometAnimeVamp]

I hear that. I refuse to talk to my male gamer counterparts until I’m sure they’re not incels

[@Talking_Ed]

Being normal in 2024 feels rare, I hate how they hide their homophobia behind being anti woke

[@yuukovukovich9996]

I bet the AAA companies are gonna throw in the towel and remove character creation "woke" options just to bend the knee in advance. Indie developers will still stand up for what they believe in.

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Never be Disney.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

Or they'll just remove those options in the US version. Media getting censored depending on region has been a thing for decades, now the US will get their own special "limited edition" but not in the way they envisioned.

[@kiriki4558]

Not necesarily because they are "weak" but because they will be legaly obligated.

[@souledgekirby]

So we don't buy them, like we weren't going to already

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

​@@SaHaRaSquadwelcome to china!

[@dylanporpoise2566]

can't wait for every video game to cost $120

[@docmanhattan9042]

That will just be the base game. Like just the menus will be $120. Trump will let activision and other studios to really let loose with the pay to play scheme. Won't even come with characters, weapons, or levels.

[@Nutzac]

Ps5 will cost $1000+

[@buckiesmalls]

They will still blame hunters laptop.

[@nostrum6410]

but games wouldn't have any tariffs

[@rongravelle603]

Already the consoles are being sold for $1000

[@eloquentire]

19:35 YEAH! i studied sociology in college & the most frustrating thing about reading about the history of civil rights in the US is that, taken broadly, Black people have kind of been trying to save this country from itself for a long time. for example, anti discrimination laws made it so that Black people could freely engage with the market that used to be white-only. guess what? those businesses made more money!! when educational institutions were forced to accept black & immigrant students, their enrollment skyrocketed! which meant endowments & tuition grew! legalised discrimination shrinks the economy & contracts society. it is in everyone's interest to just play together. i am losing my mind

[@ladylaurus8493]

Exactly and the people who are for discrimination also don’t realize that DEI didn’t just benefit POC but also massively benefited white women…but then again they want discrimination on all levels so they can silence and control the people they hate or don’t want to have rights which is what they want even for women they see as the “ideal” woman.

[@Krystalized_Python]

Anything against unity and respect will be the end of us as a species.

[@warheadsnation]

Fascist economics replaces free markets with Volkish privilege, while the capitalists are rewarded with government contracts. The only way to speed up such an economy is to build weapons.

[@MyNameIsBucket]

It's part of the plan. Societies that have their financial and health needs taken care of tend to be more progressive.

[@thorveim1174]

so, wanna talk about the legalized discrimination called DEI then? the thing where you can be refused a position in the company despite being the most qualified cause you dont check a diversity box and dont fill the almighty quota? Racism didnt die with all of this, on the contrary it got revitalized if not straight up dug up from the grave it was beign buried in. Its just that some refuse to see it because they dont recognize racism as soon as it doesnt go the same way that's in the history books. We were better off in the time period when people genuinely didnt give a rat's ass about someone's skin color, but now its back to being something important, and that should be enough to tell you how wrong this is.

[@GreatValueDianaVreeland]

I truly do despise and loathe hateful and bigoted conservative zealots.

[@subaru4920]

If they cared, they wouldn't have voted for him after the last trade war. I really hope these companies communicate with the consumers as to WHY this is happening.

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

EA: "Sorry brother. We are not here for you."

[@lisashapiro9165]

I read that one company told their employees they weren't getting their bonuses cause the company has to buy lg amounts of their products

[@Arcee-1995]

This is why digital copies needs to cost less. There’s nothing physical being imported.

[@chriscasperson5927]

Still produced outside the US. You'll have to play US produced games to avoid a tariff. Enjoy.

[@a.e.richardson218]

a lot of what you're paying for is labor thats always been the biggest cost of games

[@StormsparkPegasus]

@@chriscasperson5927 Piracy and black markets, at least until we can get asylum and get out. If you're in the LGBT spectrum, a woman, or of Latino descent, you will be able to get asylum MUCH earlier. The rest of us will have to wait until the atrocities start. Every Australian I know has versions of games that are banned there for example.

[@SgtWilko1979]

@@chriscasperson5927 but... but... the chuds only like japanese games as they still objectif- I mean show how sexy women are. Oh noes!

[@ajgunter8932]

lol, thats some serious Copium you got.

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

Who woulda thunk tariffs are regressive 🤔

[@rongravelle603]

“I don’t care about you I just want your vote” “B-but I voted for you and MY prices are going up” “did you hear what I said? I’m the snake! I’ve been telling you that for years!”

[@ajgunter8932]

@@rongravelle603200% correct

[@speedy01247]

​@@rongravelle603 they'll just blame Democrats or claim Harris would be worse.

[@GothMusicLatinAmerica]

People who remember learning about the Smoot-Hawley Act

[@scratch7971]

@@speedy01247 They absolutely will, and it will succeed.

[@mando9364]

I know I'm gonna get screwed over as well, but I'm not gonna lie, the idea of these anti-woke gamers having a meltdown because prices for games are too high is actually funny to me. Best case scenario to me is that this'll lead to the collapse of those chud "gamer" channels like geeks and gamers.

[@detailed_data4PSN]

Theirs a silver lining to everything

[@Jess-iq1bw]

I'm fine with playing/reply playing the games I have and downloading roms anyways. I'm excited to see the meltdown of those anti-woke gamers too! (^_^)🎉

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Nothing new. Have you seen $80 games of the "new standard" today? Corporations know exactly what they do. And it's still a terrible product.

[@Eman-San]

They will find someone to blame. They are professional victims.

[@Gangerworld]

God I hope so

[@nyrociel2552]

Whenever somebody tells me that games with woke content always fail and suck, I ask them to explain Baldur's Gate 3's success to me.

[@amyhoard1222]

Much like gaming companies saying single player games are dead, yet if that was so, then why do single player games still sell well 🤔

[@alexlewis5365]

Games like that helped me to realize 'get woke, go broke' is just nonsense.

[@aerrae5608]

@@alexlewis5365 Yep only bad games go broke, like Forspoken. It's not the gender or color of the protagonist, it's that the game isn't good. Unlike the weirdo anti-woke, woke people play good games not just games that cater to their political stances. Almost like actual gamers. Huh.

[@ArthurMorgan-v1b]

This is why I'm not sure if I buy the narrative that the left abandoned these people. The gaming community is a great example of this. For years, they were being radicalized on one issue alone, and that is simply any time there is a woman or ga y person, or even a racial minority in games or other pop culture media. That was the dominant "issue" that made all of these men shift to the right. Ofc the many insidious influencers like the Quartering, capitalized off of that and made it worse, but like it or not, that is what made them angry in the first place. They were convinced that censorship and authoritarianism is when those characters exist or if they can't say the f slur or n word on certain platforms lol. You really think these people will care if prices go up? You think they will care if actual censorship is implemented? Nah, the conservative influencers will tell them its the fault of the ga ys, or whoever else, and they will praise it.

[@Rebelnutt]

Groomer

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Oh sure... Disney seems to be "fine" if thyn was right. Just saying... I don't care. It's a video game. Nothing real. But don't defend corporations who cry about "Western appeal". This trash has been a thing for almost two decades. Eastern Games have done much better, yet they are forced to change under Western Idealogy. The West can eat dirt.

[@ikrIkarus]

Some will, some won't the more outlandish it gets, the more people won't believe it.

[@cobaltrogue9175]

Nah, the Democrats are a bunch of spineless enablers. Politicians in general abandoned the people because they benefit from money in politics.

[@ArthurMorgan-v1b]

@@ikrIkarus I hope you are right

[@Eunacis]

Literally 1984.

[@Greenmoon2040]

Literally

[@Rebelnutt]

Groomer

[@mykoal5]

Bingo

[@Savage.-_.Gamer1]

This is even worse. Now everyone is silenced. And the population can do nothing about it because the majority, they've been misinformed. What a twisted dystopia we're getting ourselves into?

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

literally 2024

[@aliasfakename3159]

Project 2025 would declare GTA 6 pornography and have it banned before it hit shelves. Hell, you'd have to go to the black market to buy it

[@TheSatiricalRabbit]

Lol, not even. I doubt that shit will jeopardize GTA 6. I'm sorry, I'm not too sure Project 2025 will effect any video games. You know how much that would hurt gaming companies, at least in the US? Foreign companies not so much. Guess we'll see. I just don't believe it'll happen.

[@Toastcat890]

That's hilarious

[@ladylaurus8493]

Listening to gamers belittle and abuse people for multiple reasons is sickening…I’ve even had abuse leveled at me…not only am I a woman but I am also disabled and I have Native American boarding school survivor and Jewish holocaust survivor ancestry…

[@PrincessofKeys]

People rather not support each others human rights and instead want everything to be more expensive and harder to get 'cause yoru going to be broke now. Guess people should start buying their games and anything else they want now before it gets more expensive.

[@ultimatewinfestation7194]

Assholes are the reason that we can’t have any nice things.

[@amyhoard1222]

Yet even if you aren't a gamer, tariffs will make everything cost more if it is not made in the US and doesn't require parts made in some other county. Just because a lable says it was made in America does not mean the unassailabled parts are all from America. This screws everyone.

[@52770kat]

Yall can’t vote for the Devil & then cry about hell🤯

[@protosonic17]

At least you can beat the devil in devil may cry

[@KaaneDragonShinobi]

The devil would probably be a better president

[@smokyquartz5817]

Amen.

[@sagittariusa7662]

Yep. Human stupidity prevails once again. "He is supposed to be on my side!" You going to do something about it? "No, I am too fat!" LMFAO!

[@alcidesprieto1967]

Banning corn and gaming is asking for an uprising.

[@hrodebertcoad9848]

I thought you actually meant corn at first and thought about how Trump banned corn exports to China and tanked my state's economy last time. Yet my state STILL voted for him this year and in 2020. I'm surrounded by complete idiots.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

Utah already did it so they have a blueprint on that. Then again, those Moroni morons are hypocrites...

[@Echo81Rumple83]

​@@hrodebertcoad9848"corn" minus the "C" and place the "P" in front of the word. It's a substitute word like "grape" because yuutuub hates it when you use wrongthink that gets the advertisers and religious yahoos clutching their collective pearls. Right up there with "unalive" and "seppuku". Just because they censor it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. They rather deal with a room full of elephants than to address the fact that humans are horrible creatures.

[@Timmy-mi2ef]

​@@hrodebertcoad9848 He said he'll magically fix America's issues though. Noone would ever lie to gain power

[@keirfarnum6811]

@@Timmy-mi2ef Just like covid will magically disappear.

[@synthetic1]

The "go woke, go broke" grifters in the gaming sphere has got to be the most obnoxious thing to happen in gaming, maybe ever. They just whine all the time. To quote Grandpa Simpson, "Bitch, bitch, bitch!",

[@Sola-Noir222]

He has done nothing but LIE to his supporters ~ and they are going to feel it no matter who they are so I believe it will be a def effect their support of him when they finally face the truth.

[@duckified.]

maybe some of them, but cultists are willing to die for the cult.

[@Brothaflex]

Imagine they block GTA 6 from releasing because they don't like the violence against cops aspect of it........

[@Dexter037S4]

It's also Anti-American, it's 1000% getting banned

[@ThermaL-ty7bw]

i don't think a gta 6 is ever going to happen , it's been Too long now and haven't seen Anything at all about the game if you're looking for some free games and haven't heard of '' usbhelper '' , give it a try there are a few videos on youtube how the program works , it's not too hard to figure out , but once you do , you get to play Breath Of The Wild , Super Mario3D , Fast Racing Neo and 100's of other games from Wiiu , Wii the N3DS games can't be downloaded anymore , so you can filter those out the search list ... but the games like Breath of the Wild and Super Mario 3D , Fast Racing Neo ( which is the best racing ever invented ! ) , can all be played in 4K or higher and 120fps or higher , if your system can handle it ... also playing Kick and Fennick on Cemu , the emulator to play the games , which usbhelper automatically installs after you prepared a game for emulation ... it takes a little time at first , to figure everything out , but after 1 game , the next one you'll know what to do , it's so easy

[@christianlimonsoto1596]

And sadly when asked why they did the ban they will say it’s because one of the playable characters is a non white woman remember the fake rumor that the female protagonist was part of the lgbtq community (i don’t remember what it was stated she “was”) soo it would not surprise me if in the beginning people will believe geek and gamers and others like them only for in the end to come out that the reason is they don’t like violence against cops.

[@DakumunDahBat]

Lol, that would really get conservative gamers angry. Remember people.

[@Toastcat890]

I would die laughing

[@Zecuu]

As funny as this is... it's hard to laugh when I know this is also gonna be my problem now too. But to be honest, with Project 2025 being a thing alongside Trump's mass deportation plans, videogames costing more are the least of my worries right now.

[@ultimatewinfestation7194]

I’m in the same boat too. Congratulate America, you used your stupidity to screw yourselves out of a decent future.

[@ultimatewinfestation7194]

I’m in the same boat. Congratulations America, you used your stupidity to screw yourselves and possibly the rest of the world out of a decent future.

[@smokyquartz5817]

And you know, the lives of women. Oh and video games and corn.

[@ThotdFan127]

The administration gonna introduce bills to ban so many games the chuds like and I’ll laugh and say “this is what you voted for”.

[@theEDMdragon]

As a supposed “woke” person, Ha. Haha.

[@FemboyKaiSaku]

HAHAHAHAHAH

[@Sykxezn]

BAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHHAAH

[@PrincessofKeys]

Being "Woke"isn't even a bad thing in itself its how its implemented I'm media I guess.

[@Lostforstories]

@@PrincessofKeysyeah like they think another other race than white and the gender female as the main character, not straight character is woke. Classic 💀

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

@@PrincessofKeys”woke” used to mean questioning both sides of government, challenging abusive authority and helping those who have been victimized of said governments. No wonder why mass media turned it into a weaponized buzzword

[@RadioactiveChannel06]

Film and game preservation will become even more of a hot button issue than it already is if it goes through. Hopefully there’ll be enough resistance from lower courts and advocacy groups to fight this kind of legislation over the next four years.

[@detailed_data4PSN]

This is true Censorship, and we had gooners complaining about Stellar Blade

[@dtariushale2511]

Yup they got greedy thinking games were just for them, and now they lose too.... Even as a gamer I've always said gamers are one of the dumbest most easily influenced group of incels that are one of the hardest groups of people to please. At least if it gets ruined for me by Trump's tariffs( I already can barely afford my hobby as I'm disabled), I won't be alone😈 Man if we all survive this at least a lot of people are gonna learn some much needed lessons after this election(we can only hope I've kinda lost faith in their ability to evolve consciously as humans).💯

[@detailed_data4PSN]

@dtariushale2511 Absolutely it's kinda satisfying in a way I'm not much of a serious gamer anymore anyway I just do it pass the time so not much of a loss in the grand scheme of things.

[@alanbareiro6806]

Man, we had people in the Sonic fanbase complaining about Rouge's breasts being covered up in the Generations remaster...

[@detailed_data4PSN]

@alanbareiro6806 All in all it's pathetic outrage for no reason.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Speaking of "gooners," guess who else will be losing another hobby that the hyper religious right will ban because "purity" culture?

[@chrisduke1010]

The ACA wasn't an Obama executive order, it was a more than 2000+ pages bill he signed into law. Just to clarify & correct the record

[@Echo81Rumple83]

"Yes! Repeal Obamacare! Just be sure you leave Medicare/Medicaid and the ACA alone!" 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@robo08ify]

And people forget that the basis for ‘Obamacare’ was developed by a Republican, Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts. The Republicans went apeshit about it only when it was improved on and signed by Obama.

[@djrosette]

​@@Echo81Rumple83whichever idiot said that should be institutionalized cause they're obviously mental if they don't know that Obamacare is just another name for the ACA

[@kated3165]

Omg Baldur's Gate 3 is SO getting banned... no way Astarion is passing their gay bans either!

[@ωις-λ3π]

I suppose I better buy it now.

[@Golems_victory]

😢

[@Golems_victory]

He’s one of my favorite characters in it 😢

[@mr.ashenfire2624]

So much for freedom of choice they think freedom is taking choice.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

@@mr.ashenfire2624 well what about their freedom to force you to live by their religious rules?

[@reginafuller7786]

People worried about the price of games and I'm over here worried about food prices going up and one of my major appliances going out. Glad i replaced old clunker of a car this year.

[@amyhoard1222]

I agree, people stay focused on 1 thing, whether it be the price of a game or the price of whatever they think is most important, yet fail to realize it will effect something in everyone's life. You should be more concerned about your food, gas, and job more than the less necessary things. I love gaming, but i'll just end up being more selective on games i buy and work on my backlog of games i have that would take yrs to finish.

[@smokyquartz5817]

Don't forget your health and medical care. I would get caught up on your appointments before he takes office. Good luck.

[@bradhaley8432]

I know for a fact that conservatives have been targeting the assassin's creed series since 2017, and i wouldn't be surprised if Donald Trump decides to outlaw the series. Conservatives have claimed that the assassin's creed series has gone "woke" by incorporating none Christian white men as the main characters of the last 3 entries and conservatives have already started targeting assassin's creed shadows because of Yasuke being a black playable character.

[@nostrum6410]

put down the social media, its warping your brain

[@laughingalex7563]

To be fair, a series shouldnt portray itself as “historically accurate” and then change history non stop. Even more left leaning history geeks will be angry, let alone conservatives who take it more seriously. Even the total war franchise drew scrutiny, especially the origjnal rome total war.

[@bradhaley8432]

​@laughingalex7563 you are aware that ubisoft has never claimed that the assassin's creed series is historicaly accurate right?. In the beginning of every single assassin's creed game the following sentence is shown: This work of fiction has been created by a multicultural team of various religions,faiths and beliefs.

[@KodachiC]

​@@laughingalex7563So you mean ancient aliens were real😂

[@ultimatewinfestation7194]

Stuff like this just shows that conservatism is a disease.

[@Celtics18thbanner]

I voted for Harris. I would do it again.

[@michaelshigetani433]

amen

[@dennisflood7246]

Same.

[@fuzzypickles3959]

We lost before we began...so fishy smells like a wet market.

[@CHarris1066]

She's a black woman in case you didn't know. Joyyyyeth cometh in tha morrrrrning 😂

[@-paganless-4248]

Don't wanna come out as arrogant but, I saw this exact thing coming. I did think it would affect console prices before the actual games, but I guess you win some you lose some.

[@bunnybreaker]

You saw this coming and voted Harris, right?

[@-paganless-4248]

@@bunnybreaker I don't live in America, so I didn't vote for any of them.

[@bunnybreaker]

@@-paganless-4248 Fair enough

[@LiliaArmoury]

as someone who was wanting to get into making games to tell stories that involved trans characters i don't look forward to the future or know if it is even worth the effort

[@WASDLeftClick]

Make your art. The indie scene is the future of gaming anyways.

[@bunnybreaker]

@@LiliaArmoury Trans game dev here. Don't be discouraged. Even if you have to sell abroad, there's a market out there. Also art and any form of trans expression is resistance. 🖤

[@2265Hello]

Dont be discouraged but to be on the safe side you may want to consider the trans themes to be written more subtly. I mean many American have little to no reading comprehension meaning it will go under the radar

[@slavishentity6705]

4 years without selling to America? Making games takes time don't it?

[@LiliaArmoury]

@@slavishentity6705 assuming it's only four years and assuming that trumps censorship doesn't make distributing on all us owned platforms harder if not impossible.

[@buckiesmalls]

And they will still blame hunters laptop and dei.

[@rongravelle603]

A lot of that is foreign bots and trolls who haven’t received their new scripts

[@buckiesmalls]

@@rongravelle603 Not many bot on steam forums. Because it is becoming clear they are a large part of trumps win.

[@buckiesmalls]

@@rongravelle603 Not many bots on steam forums.

[@buckiesmalls]

@@rongravelle603 And its become clear, that this demographic was a large portion of his win. Via the analytics.

[@Seducier]

Wut are you talking about Dei is literally garbage

[@Aquelll]

I think the character creation is smallest of the gamers problems. Trump has said he wants to ban violent games. That is a totally different rabbithole.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

And given how nebulous that phrase is, it can mean anything. I still remember how Nancy Reagan have Congress go along with her crusade against videogames and other things in the 1980's because all of them are attacks on their "values" as a country...

[@duckified.]

banning COD would cause a catastrophe akin to that of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

[@lost_pmc_3927]

First his dam tariff would make warhammer more expensive than it already was and now wtf man?

[@johntipeti4597]

yup his idiotic tariffs

[@lost_pmc_3927]

Fuck it I’m getting a resin printer

[@nextstep8373]

​@lost_pmc_3927 print yourself a warlord titan now xD

[@whentheyD]

@@lost_pmc_3927 resin prices up 400% lolol

[@smokyquartz5817]

Right? And all those dying women and children.

[@tkauff713]

Last time trump tried to ban Violent video games after school shootings. remember the past what will violent mean. This bothers me profoundly mak people remember this happend.

[@lynneurbanik8703]

He's violent himself,.watch how bad he becomes in the coming months, he now has no guardrails stopping him

[@jordanedwards3114]

They won't flock to you. They and Trump will find a way to blame immigrants or gay people like he always does...how are u still this optimistic at this point?

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Pain is a valuable lesson. And if not, they might "hurt" themselves to the point that they're taken out of the gene pool. Some people would call it a tragedy. I CALL IT NATURAL SELECTION.

[@torrinowens4376]

I hope that if this does go through, the representation will just go back to what it was when it "wasn't allowed." Fans will ship anything, but sometimes characters are legitimately gay or trans and the evidence is just hidden between the lines. To the conservatives it will look like they won, but anyone with any critical thinking skills will know.

[@sakutaro3musik486]

no i hope games just get banned and the us gamers pay the price for being incels and learn to be decent human beings from now on

[@irinaiturri]

Sad. I prefer a world that I can create these things whitout any censorship

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

Of course he won't ban gaming, I happen to know he regularly plays Mass Effect with Barack and Joe.

[@69Kazeshini]

Don't forget JFK and kim jun joins in sometimes

[@theannoyedfiremage8721]

Oh my goodness, I forgot that channel existed. I've missed a lot of the "lore" that's been/being established because I'm not subbed but with recent events I cannot bring myself to actively seek it out at this point because it's just freaking depressing at this point. Hitler 2.0 won and jokes won't change the reality we're bracing ourselves for. (And I'm not even American!)

[@feuerling]

​@@theannoyedfiremage8721 what channel?

[@theannoyedfiremage8721]

@@feuerling I wasn't subscribed so I don't know the specific channel name. It just always showed up in my Shorts feed every single day for weeks and weeks on end. I'd imagine you can find the source by using keywords like "biden obama trump AI" or something similar.

[@atarifanboy1977]

In regards to gamers being anti woke. I am a huge gamer and am trans. When I came out as trans, I decided to distance myself from gaming culture. A lot of gamers are anti trans, anti gay, racist, sexist POS. I'm hoping that gamers get priced out the hobby.

[@2265Hello]

Its ridiculous really. Like who wastes their time being this angry about this. Well to be fair more than half of these ppl who are anti-woke are grifters *cough* *cough* Grumz *cough* *cough* *cough*

[@ladylaurus8493]

I’m hoping those gamers get priced out of the hobby.

[@2265Hello]

@@ladylaurus8493 they wont. They will just finally hit their backlog

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Sounds like a personal issue. I don't care. But oh, do companies play you all like a fiddle. Acting like they stand for that community when in reality... No... Yet they do. And it shows in their product. A waste of money. That's the truth. Acting like companies are for one community is but a page from a book of lies. It has only been for profit and to for agendas. Not honesty nor integrity.

[@Thelma7361]

And they just voted for the religious conservative side that plans to ban porn. They can say goodbye anything deemed overtly sexual in games as well. Literally cut off their own noses to spite their own faces in order to stick it to women and minorities.

[@FK74396]

As a black gamer, I’m disappointed in not only what the average gamer is but what they spread, say, and believe.

[@chriscasperson5927]

Tim the Enchanter: I warned ye! I warned ye! But did ye believe me? But,noooo, you knew it all, didn't you?

[@Echo81Rumple83]

is jus' a wee, 'armless li'l ra'bit!

[@turbosnail413]

PirateSoftware: "games could be $100 and I think that would be fair" *finger curls on the monkey's paw*

[@mementomori7825]

Depends on the game. Call of duty, no. Fifa, no. Baldurs gate 3, yes.

[@Finalslashes]

@@mementomori7825yea games can be relative to the content like totk is worth its price

[@SoramimiKeiki]

These gamers "played" themselves. 🤣🤣🤣

[@bigbrohybrid]

As a progressive, Hispanic gamer, I saw this exact shitstorm coming from mile away and the fact that other gamers swear that he would “make the economy good for us” pisses me the fuck off. I never liked the “gAmEz aRe wOkE u gUyZ!” sentiment that gamers constantly seethe about. Trump's win is a 10000% net negative for EVERYONE, EVERYTHING, and ANYTHING.... including games. To me, gamers who vote for Trump are as deluded as as “Latinos for Trump”. Any given vote for Trump no matter who the voter is, are basically saying “please ruin everything, ESPECIALLY for me”

[@ashlynnday9890]

I work for my Trump voting family and if my FFXIV sub goes up, I’m gonna demand we get raises. I’m not taking a hit to my standard of living because of their beliefs. I sure hope their hobbies get way more expensive too, and it’s racing so it probably will lmao

[@keirfarnum6811]

You’re gonna need a bigger raise!

[@BreathFreeAndRemainNameless]

sounds like you wouldn't have a job without them.. do you live with them also?

[@bugg6597]

As a gamer, I don’t know someone who voted trump. Gamers around me know what’s going on

[@earlyriser03]

I believe many do, but there’s been a great enough push online with anti-woke slop channels and losers like Grummz aided by algorithms that their tired narrative has become part of the conversation. It’s going to take games and hardware becoming even more expensive due to tariffs and the hobby and its enjoyers being demonized by conservative lunatics for the next 4+ years for general audiences (and the algorithm) to finally reject these grifting losers.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

The people whining about such things in games aren't actually gamers but chronically online people jumping at every reason to get angry. They don't actually make up a significant part of the community as could be seen with BG3's success

[@bugg6597]

@ many, like you fail to see why people complain. It’s not that there is gay relationships that are a problem, I love female leads, lesbians, all that stuff. But if you do it poorly, there will be backlash. You make something good, then you can have all the representation they want. You can’t start with representation and ask how to make a good game from there. Same for film. People are currently irritated at constant female leads, but it’s not the female lead that’s the problem, it’s the garbage writer behind them. Aliens is a great example of good writing and a good female lead. Bad writing, good female lead, backlash. Bad writing, bad female lead, backlash. Good game, good female lead, good portrayals of gay relationships, overwhelming success. You can’t dismiss people for not being gamers, or being sexist, that’s strawmanning the actual problem. Poor writing, or writing that serves a political goal more than making a decent story. Robo cop and ghost busters are political commentary, but most don’t even realize it, right and left enjoying both movies not knowing which of the two mocks them. Political commentary in movies used to be so good you couldn’t see it, kids just grew up seeing that and followed in the ideals. But if a particular political message is always handed down with bad writing, that will turn people on the political messaging in the product. Sincerely, a writer

[@SaHaRaSquad]

@@bugg6597 99% of people I've seen complain about this content do it as a blanket generalization. A recent example is Concord, which failed for many reasons but bad representation is only really a side effect there. But good luck finding the few people who don't reflexively blame "wokeness" as not just the biggest but the only noteworthy reason. I fundamentally agree with you, but I wouldn't call all that a strawman. It's ridiculous how some people are now using "DEI" as a catch-all label for anything they find bad, it's become the gaming equivalent of communism.

[@bugg6597]

@@SaHaRaSquad the people who scream woke and dei at stuff are too simple minded to express their complaints on the deeper levels. It’s like saying ‘that’s dumb’ but they can’t actually explain how, they are ironically too dumb to have deeper ideas or explain the why behind something being broken. Most people can walk up to something broken and quickly figure out it doesn’t work, but not everyone can explain how and that’s the difference. I legitimately think most people are a little simple minded about it. Ideas like maybe making the bad guy these days the evil white dude all the time isn’t winning the writers who make those any friends. Rather they turn more men against this type of writing and all inside when they are constantly the butt of the joke or the minority character always saying white people are evil. Not everyone can explain that just maybe that only adds more opponents to the product, the writing style and messages within. It’s a super simple idea, but many on the left don’t get it and the right can’t explain it either but it’s simple as can be

[@daveindezmenez]

The gamers just voted for Trump and with it tariffs. Tariffs will affect prices of games and gamers will be paying the increase. Great job gamers.

[@Sleepylevi]

Trump was never on your side

[@michaelshigetani433]

and everyone who thought otherwise is so sos wrong

[@liminal-angel]

government approved christian gaming experience😭😭

[@potoo6122]

I find it so funny that they got so upset about gays in games they voted in a tyrant - in real life.

[@amethystglare]

There’s a lot of cool games coming out next year, so I’m going to try and preorder what I can before the idiot comes to power!

[@dalekrenegade2596]

Especially Monster Hunter Wilds.

[@therealivydawg]

Make sure you buy physical copies. Digital ones can be controlled easier.

[@bishoppax9995]

The only protected class is the 1% and the property they own, property including the peasantry that makes up the middle class.

[@nielsjensen4185]

That's what has always been the true core of Conservative ideology. The elite loathes the people and it has been systemised ever since The Second French Revolution.

[@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p]

I heard some gamers think that graphics cards will come down in price with a Trump win. Such deluded fools.

[@CaffeineJittters]

This is going to be a major "Leopardsatemyface" moment.

[@octoberward3243]

Lol love that forum

[@digitallds717]

Recognizing something as woke, is by definition woke. Watching old cartoons you watched as a kid and realizing all the adult innuendos is an example of being woke. Recognizing things in media that doesn't conform to the current social standard is woke. Being anti-woke is woke because you recognize the woke references.

[@WhatWillYouFind]

I hope he does half the shit he has said, so I can rub it in and tell them " I've been warning you on and off since before his 1st election."

[@narachi-]

crazy thing is i dont think many companies are even able to build AAA games from the ground up anymore, and weve all been playing games with spaghetti code no one truly understands. afraid to take risks, and afraid to hurt feelings. they answer to shareholders, not gamers. gta 6 will be a big line in the sand and can be used as a wind sock to predict the future of the industry.

[@Superherofan1621]

I think you should say gamers went toxic and got broke

[@rongravelle603]

They’re realizing that all their hateful comments are abuse and we don’t want to put up with it any more. This is why so many of us flocked to blue sky and liberally apply the block options

[@uncle-bin1750]

"Gamers" as if we share anything else. All my life I was a gamer. The right wing politics are pushed extremely hard into every place gamers meet. As a lefty I feel like I'm part of a fringe minority since almost a decade. Most decent folks either left the media sphere or went apolitical while the right wing dictates the narrative...

[@Pixelflame5826]

Dang, by banning violent video games, they would just completely ruin all of the attempts of the US Army trying to conscript gamers using Call of Duty.

[@SurgeryIsWoke]

Watching people so trigged at pronouns in games is hilarity.

[@maj0ga.]

Cost will only effect the average gamer. High-end streamers will care less because either the extra cost is still chump change to them or they'll just mark it as a business expense.

[@TheBloodyGenocide]

To my fellow gamers that voted trump. Shut up. You RQ in games and you brought it into irl due to your dumb red pill buy in. IF these things happen, i want all of you to keep your basement dwelling, COD raging, gotta break keyboards to be even remotely "funny" asses quiet and let the actual free thinking non sheep individuals do the talking from this point forward.

[@ChrisF_1982]

They complain about an option that they don't have to use.

[@True_NOON]

*_Go woke or broke, marketplace of ideas_*

[@Chaoticchips]

Anytime I hear people who cry about games being woke, I laugh at them and disregard anything they say. The right wing “gamers” throw around woke and dei as trigger words. They’re ruining gaming for the rest of us

[@ADudeWhoDo]

Gamers are oppressing themselves.

[@perfectlysureunknown]

Well, looks like I have completed my game collection

[@Spraybottle521]

You have been able to change your gender in WoW for well over a decade

[@drakkenmensch]

Way back in TF2, there was the Pyro who is non-binary by the technicality that we never had a confirmation of their gender from Valve.

[@steel5897]

There's a big venn diagram overlap between being anti-woke, voting for Trump, playing video games, and complaining about how high prices are for Nvidia GPUs. They're in for a shock!

[@bijou3000]

"Hey, what do you wanna play?" "Ourselves!"

[@TheBokdol]

people forget that the prices went to 69 dollars and has not gone back down.. now they will think 69 was the new low price.

[@jessicathompson2914]

At this point, I'm a gonna start calling the people who are anti woke people who get upset over every little thing the "woke police" because I'm sick and tired of them constantly woke policing my games. I just want to have fun!

[@Rebelnutt]

@@jessicathompson2914 ok groomer

[@Dualbladedscorpion7737]

Well yeah we're fucked

[@smokyquartz5817]

And women are dead.

[@JonathanJimbo]

2:23 Missed opportunity for a VPN sponsor to change your location outside of US!

[@Raptorman0909]

It's not just in-game insults etc, when I find a troll and go to their homepage it is remarkable how often the homepage reveals a gaming focus. It's not 100%, in fact it's probably more like 30%, but the other 70% is mostly channels with no content at all and often very new.

[@cheater87]

Video games were protected by the 1st amendment in 2011, but that can be overturned.

[@SteadyEddie543-cb4uv]

They will ban GTA6

[@bchristian85]

I've been saying all year that if Trump got elected, GTA6 will never happen.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

This is more likely considering that even Hillary Clinton wants it banned when GTA San Andreas was first released...

[@PizzaMineKing]

Hope this doesn't end up affecting europe too much...

[@ajkulac9895]

My greatest fear is EU figuring out how much power modern graphics cards are using. They banned overpowered vacuum cleaners, imagine what they would to to a 4090 😱

[@JJKillerElite]

He may or may not "ban" gaming, but one things guaranteed, your about to pay almost 1000 for a console with new Tarrifs. anti woke gamers are a joke. 80% use female characters but cry about trans issues 😂

[@galacticwarlock2271]

If Trump took out gamers... That would be the end of Trump.

[@irinaiturri]

I hope so

[@Mitchthemysteryman]

Gamers are about to get a wedgie from the guy they voted for.

[@Schwoomy]

My Steam Deck filled with [TOTALLY LEGALLY ACQUIRED] Nintendo roms and other games I already own are gonna carry me through the next few years I imagine, while also only buying things during sales

[@Toastcat890]

I doubt indie games will cost more as most are digital and that is likely where people will go for games.

[@obredaanps3]

Electronics prices have been skyrocketing since 2018 thanks to the Trump tariffs. The facts over feelings crowd tend to be wrapped up in their feelings when it comes to these simple facts.

[@MsOSheDidIt]

Yeah all their little gaming stuff. The price is going to go up cuz guess what tariffs they are are coming. You think all your little goodies that you buy at the store made here dude. They are going to be so disgusted when they realize they can't even afford a damn egg