What Happened to MASCULINE MEN in GAMING!?

[@yilesse]

Him: fat white liberal women Photo he uses to illustrate that: room of women who are not fat, not all white and I assume he thinks they're liberal because two had blue hair. Well. this is off to a good start.

[@Ephelle]

That's more charitable than my assumption. I assumed he thinks they're liberal because they're working and not home taking care of kids or something.

[@zenbear9952]

This guy doesn't realize how gay he comes off as. Like he says none of these women want to make masculine men in their games. Only MEN like and can make masculine men. Only men like men and know what men like. lol this comes off as so gay to me. Nothing wrong with that be your true self my guy

[@TheSpeep]

Theyre women who can read, saying theyre at the very least not conservative is a fair assumption to make.

[@GabeGraziani]

It's also Ubisoft Montréal, which created the Splinter Cell games.

[@restlessoblivion]

"Games have to be soft so they don't offend anybody" Clearly SOMEBODY's gotten offended my dude lmao

[@Gorehoundula]

Careful. Nothing is more fragile and delicate than masculinity.

[@t8chsupp0t8r4]

Well AndyPants Gaming got offended after his debate performance with The Act Man.

[@thebeavpercabethftw9604]

"A woman wouldn't be able to write a manly masculine guy". Should we tell him who wrote Fullmetal Alchemist?

[@SLAUGHTERAMA]

Armstrong is peak positive masculinity.

[@kirkenstiensmonster]

WITNESS MY BEAUTIFUL ALCHEMY PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY LINE FOR GENERATIONS!!!

[@Forsworcen]

@@kirkenstiensmonsterit’s even better that his sister is so much stronger that she terrifies said peak of masculinity too 😂

[@dionysus913]

Armstrong Family best family

[@joearnold6881]

The sister taught me that I can be into strong women who can throw me through a wall, too

[@jackjohnson1128]

This guy showed Duke Nukem when talking about a good masculine game character? From his inception, Duke was a parody of 80's action meat heads like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Ash, and all that. It's literally why Duke is only capable of speaking in corny one-liners (all of which were from those movies). This guy is looking at a literal parody of hyper-testosterone and acting like he's a good example of masculinity. He missed the entire point of Duke's existence.

[@jackjohnson1128]

They eventually stopped lampshading Duke's macho nonsense, but that is literally why Duke was made. I realize that there isn't going to be some kind of pushback in a 90's 3D Realms series, but to pretend Duke's existence and purpose isn't to be a parody of the hyper masculinity of 80's action movies (in the same way that Lo Wang was a parody of kung fu movies) is just missing the point of why he was made. He wouldn't be an 80's action hero if he didn't get his way and save the day in that silly, testosterone-fueled way.

[@yourdad6902]

Dude you failed hard at comprehending Duke Nukem of all things it's literally all a joke do you think the bigger they are the harder they come is a masculine manly man​@PenguinEconomics-st2ws

[@arskakarva7474]

​@@jackjohnson1128 And it bears repeating that satire doesn't require pushback or for the subject to not get what they want at the end. The film adaption of Starship Troopers is kind of a perfect example of this, since there is no direct pushback against the fascist future in the film even if it is a satire of (hypothetical American) fascism, and at the end of the movie the main character gets what he wanted at the start of the film and it's one of the bleakest endings possible.

[@RageOfBeef]

Game devs hate gamers *shows a gane dev accurately describing why many gamers and game devs are getting sick of gamers with a capital G who think every game must specifically appeal to them*

[@CRSB00]

and by specifically appealing to them it means that there must not be any minorities in the game (read people of color, queer folk and women that cannot be goned) other wise they will pitch a hissy fit, yeah I also already started hating *that* kind of gamer too

[@speed0spank]

It's like how I tell people I'm not religious because I hesitate to call myself an atheist. Too many loud asshoes.

[@stephenmarco2927]

It’s absolutely hilarious because even in that quote which perfectly describes the KZbinr Jake is responding to he clarifies it’s probably just a loud vocal minority

[@argonianbum]

lol@ RDR2, there's so many "woke" things in that game. Arthur respects a transwoman's pronouns and never implies homosexuality is negative when he encounters it. A large part of his story arc has to do with challenging the toxic behaviors/mentality he picked up from his idolization of Dutch.

[@argonianbum]

I agree about Arthur being cute omg it made the epilogue that much more difficult

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

It’s is the most woke game by their own standards these grifters are full of crap and personally I want a more grounded military shooter with good story and character and make half of them female not another Fortnite or overwatch clone when we already have that

[@EddieNoon]

Also, Sadie's a strong female character. And she's great!

[@Mecha_phant0m]

Don’t forget the fact that the only time the kkk are shown off in the game there portrayed as unambiguously stupid. Or that time Arthur angrily confronts a “race realist” for pushing his ideology because he knows what he’s saying is incorrect because of his friendship with Lenny.

[@newworldbro]

man I have to go back and finish that game when I’m less busy one day

[@Ink129]

Well, I'd actually like to know: what happened to masculine gamers? Why are gamers today such emasculated crybabies?

[@EpicWinNoob]

They're not, they just actually address their emotions rather than bottling them up and becoming a columbine kid in a trenchcoat blaming the rest of the world for their own sad failing life while all these "emotional crybabies" are objectively doing better than them in every other metric in life There's a reason that dudes like this are bitter as fuck because almost every single time they say "go woke go broke" the company breaks records and makes millions, and that person realizes that their one note boring personality is irrelevant AF and won't admit it to themselves

[@unreasonablyagreeable1081]

LOUDER FOR THE INCELS IN THEIR MOTHERS BASEMENTS

[@VayaKahvi]

Well, they've always been there, it's just gaming used to be a safe-space exclusively for them and now they're mad that they have to share their toys with other people.

[@t8chsupp0t8r4]

Andypants Gaming decide to debate The Act Man which turn into a sh*tshow.

[@lonewolffang]

"I don't want to play a cutsie indie platformer." I don't see him complaining about the Mario or other Nintendo family-friendly based games.

[@alexmorado2182]

I'm not a big fan of cutesy games. I have never played an Animal Crossing or the like. But I just don't play those games. Pretty simple when you think about it.

[@penpointred]

Bet this dude was beside themselves at the end of the original Metroid.

[@joearnold6881]

Fcking girlboss Samus ruining my genre of games that only just started to exist! Metroidvania were better in the 1970s when Real Men made them!!!! 😂

[@MsPoliteRants]

Why are all of his examples of masculine games just…. First person shooters? What an unimaginative dude. I pity him.

[@dalekrenegade2596]

Not even Tekken or Mortal Kombat.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Nah dude is gay can’t admit it and is coping hard to making shite up

[@joelstanley4851]

​@@dalekrenegade2596cause mortal combat is "woke" and gay because it has women in it

[@thenexus8384]

​@@joelstanley4851and LGBTQ+ characters (Kung Jin, Mileena, Tanya, ect) Also kombat*

[@trancandy1]

​@@dalekrenegade2596women or something

[@Infernalhag]

18:03 the "woke" were pretty neutral on stellar blade when it was announced then gooners kept saying how it going to destroy woke gaming and people got sick of hearing it

[@dalekrenegade2596]

And the gooners ended up melting down over it anyway because of a bra or something.

[@Infernalhag]

@@dalekrenegade2596 yeah I think it was because some of the outfits were more fashionable and practical and not a stripper outfit that was designed by someone who didn't know how to work with clothes

[@dalekrenegade2596]

​@@Infernalhag One schizo even did a fundraiser to force the developers to "fix" the design.

[@RageOfBeef]

​@@dalekrenegade2596 I think the melt down was triggered when they were told they couldn't get her naked and if they got as close as possible the game would be made way harder by design

[@SLAUGHTERAMA]

Same thing with NIKKE, ShiftUp's gooner gacha. I play it and I'm the wokiest woke that ever woked, and I have zero issues surrounding anime girls with cake.

[@tubian323]

This guy's not beating the sexism allegations, his whole point seems to be "Men=Good, women=Bad"

[@ChillAssTurtle]

Very based.

[@gekirobo8720]

Or more like, like most "gamers" like him "Men=Good, Women=Only exist to be cranked it to"

[@ChillAssTurtle]

@@gekirobo8720 no they just dont exist to be stronger than a 400lb 7ft tall mongolian warlord in a comical way.. also the games themselves are always shite.. so hes cringe but hes kinda right lol

[@spoonyluv19]

toxic masculinity killed masculine characters in gaming. ppl want to move away from those tropes because of guys like Matt Walsh & Andrew Tate.

[@skybite]

That’s why The Boys made fun of toxic masculinity with Solider Boy. Unfortunately, there are people who think that Soldier Boy is a good guy.

[@Mr.Drew70]

@@skybite He IS a good guy

[@skybite]

@@Mr.Drew70 you relate with Solider Boy?

[@Mr.Drew70]

@@skybite Yeah

[@unreasonablyagreeable1081]

​@Mr.Drew70 lmao. Identifies with soldier boy while hiding behind a catboy pfp. 🤡

[@esbenm6544]

The picture of the women of Ubisoft is disturbing for a whole different reason. Ubisoft is notorious for trying to launder their image of a pervasive reputation for a toxic work environment for women but not firing executives accused of creating said environment. Ubisoft is a perfect example of a corporation where any pretense of promoting progressive values is barely skin deep.

[@zenbear9952]

It apparently works on Mr Manly gamer though not surprising he would only look skin deep

[@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t]

Nothing says "masculine" like whinging about one's insecurities about nonexistent traits of fictional characters.

[@Victorgramatron]

dude is nostalgic for the most artisticly dry videogames of their era. Im 40 years old now and is harder for me to find games that I'll play to completion, but I'll say this era of art in videogames is amazing

[@kyleshape8645]

Imagine being nostalgic for spunkgargleweewee 💀

[@greeneyeballs]

arthur is incredibly woke for his time period

[@Noot-Noot7305]

•A straight white man from 18th century mid west who is close friends with a Hispanic man, black man and a mixed race man doesn’t refer to either them as racial slurs even to other people even in passing. •Is open about believing people of all races are equal. •Is sympathetic to the plight of the Native Americans battling the US government for their homeland being encroached. •Doesn’t object to his partner in crime Sadie Adler for being a woman, nor does he object to her wearing pants and men’s clothing . •Supported Women’s suffrage.

[@arskakarva7474]

@@Noot-Noot7305 Also environmentally-conscious and looks at the toxic runoff of industry with disgust! And probably shot everyone who worked at Pinkerton at the time multiple times over in the course of a single mission.

[@armedweiss5531]

Bruh this guy said Elden Ring is an example of non or anti-woke success, but Elden Ring by this guy's standards is insanely woke. There are tons of women in positions of power, the entire setting of the Lands between was ruled by Marika, a woman. One of the characters Rennala can cannonically trans your gender. And Malenia, a sick, disabled, blind woman who is missing three of her limbs and had to get prosthetics in their place, is one of the strongest characters in the setting and one of the toughest fights the studio ever made even WITH the DLC in mind. What on EARTH is this guy's problem?

[@facundovera3227]

That game has _two_ final boss fights and both are pretty gay.

[@EpicWinNoob]

It's literally just the aesthetic, running around hacking and slashing shit therefore manly I guarantee you if it had mechanics where you could talk your way out of shit, he'd suddenly call it woke because you can choose actively to avoid violence

[@5TailFox]

Let's not forget the whole "Radagon is Marika" thing, or the whole "Miquella is Saint Trina" thing. Two trans celestial beings who literally obtain godhood. By his "weird guy" standards, it can't get more "woke" than that. 😄

[@koshetz]

And possible gay marriage with Ranni!

[@trancandy1]

it's also very woke because every woman i know who's played wants malenia to impale them and whisper sweet nothings as their vision fades and that sounds pretty woke to me

[@darthlordkamisennin5620]

Super Mario was the height of video game masculinity. Italian =Check Drugs=Check Saving a Dame =Check Stomping stuff= Check Breaking Stuff = Check Drugs= Double Check.

[@andyboom2004]

Guy just wants to see masculine men, and is making it everyone else's problem. The internet has lot of pictures of buff dudes that this guy can look at. Why is it OUR problem he doesn't know how to do a simple Google search?

[@bluester7177]

I think he needs to be introduced to "bara" and all his problems will be resolved.

[@justsignmeup911]

Imagine thinking the best games are first person shooters from 2006

[@dalekrenegade2596]

@@justsignmeup911 Halo 3 wasn't even out yet.

[@Aaron_Hayman]

I still remember Call of Duty Finest hour very fondly. Mainly because of Tanya and the rabbit hole I went down discovering how much of a role soviet women had in the war. Seriously, look up the Night Witches or the Fighting Girlfriend tank driver.

[@spacecat6022]

@@Aaron_Hayman I knew about the Night witches but not about the Fighting girlfriend, thank you for the information!

[@kyleshape8645]

A.k.a Spunkgargleweewee

[@SpottedHares]

Half life 2 was 2004( still in the top games ever made list). Apart from gears of war there didn’t seam to be a major shooter(let alone fps) in 2006 that left a long term impact.

[@dersprocket7511]

Dude played nothing but dorito munching, monster energy drinking, generic military shooters and feels nostalgic for what are known to be the worst games of that generation.

[@Supremo801]

Brown and bloom was the worst era of gaming to live through. Anyone that’s nostalgic for that crap just misses being 12 and doesn’t realize it

[@izukurinnvarris7797]

@@Supremo801isn’t the current gen also kinda the worst because ya know late stage capitalism

[@gekirobo8720]

@@izukurinnvarris7797 That too

[@zenbear9952]

@@izukurinnvarris7797 But indie gaming has never been better which is what makes this era better than that one imo.

[@nickmessner700]

Hey, you can still munch Doritos and enjoy a nice monster energy while not agreeing with this guy. Source: Doing it as we speak.

[@brodieorr5393]

remember when rainbow skins were some of the most coveted in COD? and now since its related to the LGBT community they hate it? you're allowed to like rainbows without being gay. I'm a straight dude who happens to think rainbows are dope AF both as an aesthetic and as a natural phenomena

[@bluester7177]

And I'm an LGBTQIA + person who dislikes rainbows, I don't undertand why these people can't just like what they like, taste has nothing to do with s3xuality, the only thing which makes someone g@y is being attracted to the same gender, that's it.

[@Fanrak-2700]

"Behold the Power of the visible lightspectrum"

[@n0etic_f0x]

Man... frame one is off to a bad start. I know masculine gays.

[@nataliadeavilapires2136]

Also really appreciate dudes hot take that games are better when they are actual military propaganda.

[@Pizzarugi]

The way this guy is talking about how some of the old "masculine" games sounds more gay than the modern games he's criticizing.

[@JCstock]

I will never agree that games are for kids, personally.

[@agoo7581]

I thought that stereotype died out when the fucking PlayStation one was released. Lol

[@kirkenstiensmonster]

As a nearly middle-aged dude meselfs, I totally disagree with Jake's sentiment.

[@trancandy1]

boomer take on his part but ik what he was trying to get across. for people like the original poster of the video who don't treat video games like an art and refine their taste, gaming drops off and doesn't feel as good as when they were kids.

[@alexmorado2182]

As I age, I'm much less interested in video games. Video games are generally marketed towards children and teens.

[@ActualJake]

Jake plays games and so do I, he doesn't meant they're literally for children only. - Sarah

[@SkycometAnimeVamp]

Dude has serious Main Character Syndrome. He actually thinks all games should appeal to him. 🙄

[@GenericVillain]

Henry Cavill is the only masculine male gamer I've ever heard of. He's like a unicorn.

[@SaraphDarklaw]

Definitely on the “must defend” list.

[@yourdad6902]

Bro just admit you have a crush everyone else does

[@LtHavoc1983]

Its funny that guy brings up Duke Nukem, because while he is thought of as a sexist and misogynist, this is mostly due to the limitation of Duke Nuke 3D, and it seems that even the devs later on did not get that he was supposed to be the Arnie of video games, who did one-liners left and right, but who was described by the official guide book as "a Lifeguard, there to save you when things go south" and who is also described as respecting woman. I mean, in the console games, he gets orders by a female general, and he never even questions that. Also, Duke Nukem never was meant to be a ultra serious franchise anyway, the whole concept is bordering on parody anyway. The fans got that, and thats how you get all the Gianni memes of Duke doing wholesome stuff all the time. Also, the reason games are bad now has nothing to do with inclusivity or female devs, it has all to do with Capitalism and its never ending greed for monetization. Games are now full of loot boxes, microtransactions and are "Life services" games, that are nothing but giant open world sand boxes, devoid of anything substantial, so you can squeeze more money out of the players by endless slob content that you have to pay for, and that on top of the 80 Dollars you need to churn out for it and then the game is full of bugs, and you have to wait for it all to be fixed.

[@CassiusStelar]

Duke Nukem Forever was pretty Misogynistic but that game was shit all around so eh

[@slammermchammer]

Duke nukem forever is character assassination Duke nukem 3d duke is great and could easily come back imo​@@CassiusStelar

[@LtHavoc1983]

@@CassiusStelar Yes, and that was one of the myriad of problems it had. It is clear, that due to the long dev time and turn around of people working on it, that 3D Realms no longer understood their own creation and simply tried date Frat Boy humor, and it also explains the jarring tonal deafness it sometimes has. catb0mb made a great video about that and under fans, the DNF Duke is often called "Douche Nukem" for that very reason. He simply is not the Duke of earlier games, not even the comics and other expanded material that give him proper personality and all. If I got my way in doing a Duke game, I would make it a reconstruction of Duke and have the bad guy behind everything "Douche Nukem" and would explain that the DNF Duke was a doppelgänger from another dimension or something. A meta commentary on that whole debacle, if you will.

[@theexaustedslime]

Screw everyone, Duke Nukem peaked with 2.

[@draganoidept]

Still 5 minutes in and honestly all this whinning sounds like someone who has wants to be open about big manly man but has repressee those feelings. Truly a sad day to this one youtuber.

[@thebolas000]

I hope he eventually gets to be held by the beefcake he so clearly desires.

[@DisturbedShaman]

This dudes obsession with masculine manly men really says something about him lol

[@EgalitarianDemocrat]

When you're so anti gay that you're literally gay

[@SkycometAnimeVamp]

“Old games were masculine men” The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess be like: ummmm

[@TheInfamousRoo]

This guy seems to unironically think that a game is masculine if it’s color palette only includes brown, black, and sepia

[@lucaswibisono1316]

Game developers hate gamers is somewhat true when you're facing a guy like this (the one who made the whole "masculinity in video game is killed by woke this, gay that, etc." shit). It gives them migraine, or outright headache hearing him. How should they hear proper feedback when they have to face someone rambling like this?

[@syco579]

I love how they bring up Hogwarts legacy and Stellarblade as examples of great anti wome games, both games ended up being mid as fuck and most people stopped playing them within a month

[@bluester7177]

And wasn't hogwarts legacy also kind of woke, the controversy was not because of the game by because of she who must not be named.

[@koshetz]

@@syco579 they act like Stellarblade is an all time success destroyer of woke games forgetting that it sold 1 million copies in oppose to woke Baldur's Gate 3 10 million copies on the same platform (ps5)

[@kerseyHarding]

I love it when dudes who's most notable achievement in life is ranting about gay people in video games try to tell me what's supposed to be masculine. I have more confidence in an apron making cookies than this guys has playing military shooters for 30 hours straight.

[@deGooder]

Haha, imagine using Duke Nukem as an example of masculinity without understanding the character is a parody of stereotypical toxic masculinity.

[@seansteele6532]

Im over here playing Space Marine II wondering what happened to muh masculinity!

[@austinaustinaustin]

this guy watched spike tv instead of going to school

[@spacerewriter]

I love when people are out here proseltylizing about how we should only have muscular and masculine men in games exclusively. Yet, when women exist in a game, that is gay.

[@Valivictus]

So, basically, a cringe dude is frustrated because there are differents kind of videogames?....

[@thedude4840]

No worse cringe dude is mad that nobody is making brown and generic shooters and is making it everyone else’s problem.

[@JCstock]

Saints row 4 has so many gay characters in it. In 3 and 4 you can just play as a trans character. This guy is crazy.

[@Wepospalient]

This is such a 13 year old boy mentality. Clearly this man never matured past middle school.

[@YokaiLover699]

Did someone unfreeze this guy from 2009?

[@Crowley9]

7:01 Nah, he can't play Wasteland Remastered. They ruined it by changing gender-segregated bathrooms in the game to unisex ones. That is literally an opinion I have seen people give.

[@bluester7177]

The bathroom conversation is so exhausting, unisex bathrooms are useful, for parents, disabled people, and just making things quicker. I don't understand why these people want to make everything worse for everyone just because they can't deal with someone being tr@ns.

[@Spider-Dad40]

Simple really they hate any thing fun period and believe that every one should be as miserable as they are

[@ToaOfFusion]

1:00 Nah, disagree. A lot of modern games try to shove a lot of microtransactions and suffer from a lot of stuff involving late-stage capitalism of having to pay more for less as well as other rent-seeking behavior. Older games are still fondly remembered because they are fun, and don't feel like you are getting nickel-and-dimed by some big corporation who will underpay their staff and laugh all the way to the bank.

[@mariusamber3237]

This is in no small part because of the rise of mobile gaming, sadly. Everyone can see how much money gacha makes, especially in East Asia... we joke about whales in the US, but all the ultimate whales are in China/Korea/Japan. That's one of the worst trends in the 21st century so far; basically gambling in video game form.

[@bluester7177]

​@@mariusamber3237gacha happened after they were already making bank, it's just one more in the many mechanics which promote money spending, candy crush has made 20 billions dollars as of September last year.

[@bluester7177]

Also, the highest grossing mobile game is a tencent moba, which has been true for some decades now, no matter the platform.

[@mariusamber3237]

@@bluester7177 Yeah, but the trend of microtransactions, live-service games and stuff like game NFTs has only gotten worse since mobile gaming became a thing on a global scale. I'm not surprised that there are fewer incentives to make other stuff if you can just sell this forever. In Japan mobile gaming basically killed game sales for anything that isn't a first-party Nintendo game, Dragon Quest and a couple random games every now and then. That's unfortunate, but also explains why Sony 'left' Japan.

[@bluester7177]

​@@mariusamber3237I don't disagree, mobile gaming made the industry much worse when they discovered how much they could monetise it, I was just trying to say that it's way older than the gacha trend.

[@TheMightyPatapon]

You know what, if people like this guy are no longer considering themselves "gamers," then maybe that title can be rehabilitated.

[@Oceanity]

It's especially funny to me that this guy said "the men are men, and the women are women" in regards to Saints Row. Fun fact, in Saints Row 2, which lets you create male and female characters, you canonically play as the same character as Saints Row 1, which only let you create male characters, and to explain why it's basically impossible for the two to look identical, there's a story beat in the beginning that your character got reconstructive surgery. So literally, all female characters in 2 have canonically had sexual reassignment surgery. The best part is the other characters from the first game come across as very supportive if you're reading it as a trans narrative, there's a common gag where they will say "You look different, do something to your hair?" and just never mention it again, no matter what character you roll with

[@phillgornall2296]

Wishing for more manly men seems pretty gay

[@leparfumdugrosboss4216]

I've heard exactly the same reactionary gamer rant 10 years ago during gamergate. This must be the less original content creation since The Force Awakens.

[@azazel166]

The uploader is a grifter, he had a console war account that never shot off and started doing this as soon as controversy generated views.

[@possller]

Which plastic box did he shill for? I'm surprised grown adults still fight over toys. Not even children partake in the 'console war' nowadays.

[@trancandy1]

​@@possllerconsidering how much he talked about gears, probably xbox. although from the way he described them in this video i'm almost convinced he didn't actually play them

[@azazel166]

@@trancandy1 Yeah Xbox.

[@t8chsupp0t8r4]

Also, that grifter is a 40 something year old married man.

[@chranke9656]

Funny that he brought up Hogwarts Legacy and Elden Ring, two games that are labelled woke on the gamergate 2 spreadsheet

[@sbushido5547]

I think **I'm** developing a complex from the sheer amount of insecurity dripping off that video...I can't even imagine what it's like to be that guy.

[@bluesolace9459]

Ah yes, the Gears of War trilogy. The game series that shows how horrifying war is for everyone involved and depicted grown masculine men as being emotionally vulnerable and crying alongside their bros. Definitely anti-woke you guys

[@comradequestion4206]

Just reveals that these right wingers are so intellectually lazy that they can only comprehend the aesthetic of a thing, and thats it. They literally just want to watch footage of german soldiers marching, anything else is woke propaganda

[@arskakarva7474]

Also the most bara character design of all time. Bears of War.

[@axtondragunov1784]

The scene from Gears of war that is genuinely hard to watch for me is when Dom sacrifices himself to save the group and when Markus finally finds his father only to lose him again only a few minutes later

[@NGPlus930]

I can smell the flat Monster and greasy Domino's pizza boxes

[@Glamaryllis]

I’m sure this guy will muster the courage to come out some day

[@dengamer9106]

clearly this man has never seen the gigachad Peppino Spaghetti

[@eagonwild]

"everyone went out and bought it" lmao notice how he didnt bring up sales numbers on his idol's slop

[@Vladdyboy]

This guys is straight up lying, 😅 there's no mention in the Saint Row Reboot that says that the original SR characters were killed off or even any mention of them at all. That's why its a reboot, the game started off as its own story not in the same continuity as the old games and not even set in the same state as the old games. 😅 I could form a better argument that GTA V killed off C.J. and the grove street gang from GTA San Andreas because it's set in the same place (Los Santos) and you can even walk up on grove street and see that it's ruled by Ballas gang, the enemies of Grove Street Families OG.

[@kirkenstiensmonster]

Whats more gay than a bunch of manly men doin manly stuff? Also, I'm 38 and I game more now than I ever did. That whole, "you're older, so games aren't fun anymore" thing is horse. Thirdly, Resistance: Fall of Man released in 2006.

[@EmpireGamingWynter]

Dude wants shitty copy and paste first person shooters to be the whole gaming industry 😂

[@porg-fv8vi]

I feel like these guys come unironically as Gay when they demand for masculine men in their games

[@Little_Lepus]

21:41 Does bro know that men used to wear Togas? I think those garbs would be considered pretty feminine today. No respect for the Scottish with their skirt adjacent kilts either, I guess.

[@CraftyArts]

13,000 indie games and 156 aa/aaa games came out in 2023, I'm sure they are all woke and gay

[@EpicWinNoob]

Hogwarts legacy lets you choose your body type and voice and then choose which dorm you live in Rowling seemed to not have much input in development, nor does she get residuals from the game as far as I know

[@PhantomLord]

This guy totally chose to not unalive the KKK in red dead redemption 2. That's why he thinks it isn't woke 😅

[@brodieorr5393]

i would argue that red dead 2 especially does a great job of using the classic masculine cowboy character to portray a positive character. Not only does he help the Women's suffrage movement, as well as standing up for his black and hispanic comrades he also fought for the native Americans and the whole 3rd act is about him grappling with his past and trying to do as much good as he can before he dies. And you get the bad ending if you avoid doing good. Red dead 2 is woke in the best way IMO

[@Kujaguy]

I feel like I'm listening to an 8 year stammer about how Rebecca in 2nd period has cooties

[@ViperG96]

Wait til that guy finds out about Splinter Cell Firewall and Dragonfire. He'll flip his lid.

[@scholaepalatinae4988]

He started the video with one of the worst Call of Duty on the masculine side. Not to mention that he compared two entirely different genres.

[@yellowbutterfly6796]

6:36 "i refuse to play another " no one forced him to play a singular one of those games, that's a choice he made so he could whine or cuz he secretly likes those games, or maybe he didnt play those and he's just whining that games he doesnt personally like exist. to act like shooter games are dying out to nonviolent video games is just outside of reality.

[@bluester7177]

He is whining there are games not catering to his taste apparently, a lot of indies are in game pass that's why there are so many cutesy looking games, also many of them are literally for younger people and children.

[@yellowbutterfly6796]

@bluester7177 ah i didn't notice that and damn, why he can't just change game consoles i don't know. something like xbox or playstation would clearly work better for him edit: unless he isnt on gamepass but saw the list cuz hes obsessive about this - but thats a sadder story

[@theraggingscorpion]

The way it sounded like Jake said, "Cher would be a shame," when doing a LGBTQ mafia voice

[@jankington216]

Some people probably think you're not supposed to hate brucie and mory from gta4

[@trancandy1]

the men are not okay

[@Plutoburns]

This is a man who'd complain that all movies are marvel trash and just...doesnt watch anything else. Like, PLEASE just try something else. Here's a game, El Paso Elsewhere is an indie game with Mad Payne style shooting that is a really well written story about a guy going through a rough breakup with a vampire. Thats very masculine

[@zenbear9952]

He clearly doesn't look very hard at the indie scene especially because he brought up how their all cutesy. Like we are in the era of a resurgence of boomer shooters. There is a ton of them on steam.

[@thedude4840]

@@zenbear9952ah but you see that requires effort and time.

[@skybite]

They could move to Russia. According to a Russian ad, moving out of Russia is not manly.

[@TravfromTO]

Nothing more manly than crying about video games on the internet.

[@Gorehoundula]

I'm pretty sure this says more about one's "masculinity" than fucking fabric... Like for christ's sake, these nerds place such deep and profound meaning and importance on these made up gender concepts, but admit the most defining thing about masculinity to them is what style of cloth you place over your skin....🤦

[@cassthenerd6023]

This dude is a picture of insecurity. "Everything i dont like is woke!"

[@VulpineDemon]

Video games is just another way to push misogeny and homophobia. If there weren't video games, there would be TV, and movies, and other mediums. They don't care about the topic. They use the topic to talk about their true intents. "I'm not playing one more-" then don't. Play the games you like. Play CoD all fuckin' day if you want. Shut up. Let people enjoy good games.

[@unicornjibs2623]

There's a random event in RDR2 where you watch clan members burn themselves to death with thier own cross and Arthur makes fun of them for being idiots

[@emory5533]

They're just making their lives miserable by boycotting games that are actually good for arbitrary (well, hateful) reasons

[@Kenspiracy664]

There's heaps of soldier games? There's multiple god of war games? Multiple rockstar games? What is he complaining about

[@kalebk9595]

COD WW2?? *That's* the game he wants to associate with his views? Yeesh...

[@Scallycowell]

Game Bro’s: “Arthur Morgan is a macho man!” Arthur Morgan: Skillful artist, cat-lover, gentleman feminist, general nice guy

[@Vanithokus]

Wait... I like art, cats and women... does that mean I'm not a macho man? NOOOOO

[@ninegearcrow]

"Where are all my giant, sweaty, perfectly muscular men? I need my big sweaty strong men back on my screen" - heterosexual* man.

[@Sang-Je]

I feel bad that his fallacy died in front of him. What a poor loser.

[@CraftyArts]

Hogwarts legacy has a straight up trans character too, so I guess it's also a little of a self own for this guy too.

[@idreadFell365]

I recall clips from Red Dead Redemption where the player starts beating, dragging, and feeding a feminist to some carnivorous creature for peaceful protesting for equal rights. Perhaps the devs intention was to let players make their own choices but those who decided that path surely wanted to send a message on how they feel about feminism.

[@DuctTapeJake]

He's running into the standard "I'm not enjoying games as much as I did when I was 14" that a lot of people go through. Except instead of realising that it's generally because adults have less time, more responsibility and more important things to spend their money on, he just thinks its because there are not enough generic military shooters like he played a lot of as a kid as has nostaligia for.

[@Gamingpandacat]

nono, gaming sucks because its all made to squeeze all your time and money and prey upon you at every step of the way, some of the older games are actually fun and while the childhood wonder might have fallen off, you really have to dig and will be surprised at what you find fun, people are out here enjoying @ key games in the 20th century and if you want a manly game that will put hair on your chest, the immortal for the nes is waiting for you, growner men have walked away in tears from that nightmare

[@mildlydazed9608]

you just cracked the code of live service games.

[@microArc]

this dude busts out the Kleenex and lotion each time he boots up gears of war, but only when there aren't women in it

[@wantedminion5966]

This Guy would love Ride to Hell: Retribution

[@sporedoutofmymind]

probably too busy whining about wokeness to notice Halsin from BG3

[@yilesse]

Minsc too. Or maybe Boo makes him too unmasculine?

[@DuctTapeJake]

Yeah but Halsin will fuck anything, so unfortunately he's woke.

[@danieltaylor4185]

If by "masculine" this guy means "boring" then I suppose he's correct. Honestly, does he like any games that don't feature almost exclusively characters who are blank-slate tough guys shooting guns at each other? The only characters he likes that are even remotely close to resembling a human being in terms of... having a character at all is Duke Nukem and the guy from Red Dead 2. Edit: To clarify, the qualifier was more for Duke Nukem - John Marston is a good character. It just shows the massive gap between 90% of the characters he likes, and characters who are actually characters in some capacity.

[@Sebastian-fn1qg]

The way this guy talks about "non-woke, normal" men, is... well... very gay.

[@mildlydazed9608]

My favorite Saints Row was Gat out of hell. It was weird and absurd while being in the setting of hell with the goal of "shoot the devil in the face" it never took itself seriously and has a freaking musical moment that contrasts with the hilarious and weird events constantly happening in it.

[@koshetz]

Honestly as a former Saints Row fan (i loved all of the pre-reboot games) i think new reboot failed because developers decided to do a different story with different characters instead of committing to the beat of the last two games. They could do fighting more aliens in space like with gangs in SR1-3, they could made mc to fight heavens and hell. Go stupid go fun and over the top and it could be great! But no and we got what we got, sadly.

[@deltahalo241]

I bet that guy cried when he realized that Halo Infinite had three body options for the player to give their faceless Spartan

[@Mangacide]

Every time they talk it's like that one bird tweet; "I am not okay when we are not about me".