Post #1097901
2026-04-12 17:55 UTC
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@PurpCat@clubcyberia.co 2026-04-12 18:04
@Morghur@decayable.ink @Vidmastereon@detroitriotcity.com >at least the fucking libtards will spend a pittance on the horrible shit they claim to support. For every Undertale/Deltarune or even Cruelty Squad, there's so many flops, games that are like Dustborn but don't even get hate played. Most of the time they end up consooming the big product, and their culture war wins in part have to do with things like the "long march through the institutions"/O'Sullivan's Law (when companies/groups are subverted), nepo hiring, etc. The pittance they'll spend money on are shit like Marathon, Overwatch, etc. I mean AAA games where there's aesthetics or messages or pandering in them. Or it's just whatever Nintendo makes. I think the big issue here is more, there's less people on the right making games. Most of the people from GG decided they'd rather be grifters like Quarter Pounder instead of being gamedevs and look where that got them. Meanwhile the left churns out slop that ends up only noticed when it's in the "LGBT gamedevs for Gaza mega-bundle" on itch.
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@PurpCat@clubcyberia.co 2026-04-12 18:14
@Morghur@decayable.ink @Vidmastereon@detroitriotcity.com also >it's true that rightoids will not unconditionally support something that promotes their ideas unless it ticks a crapload of boxes Leftoids are the same exact way. Tim Soret got fucked hard because the Twitter hivemind (during pre-Elon twitter) found out he said some mild things about GamerGate and he was forced to apologize on stage. He now just posts schizo posts about AI on Twitter with a game update maybe once a year, his game has taken a long ass time to come out, and while in hindsight it might have been inevitable that his game would have merely been a "nice trailer you saw at E3 that one year", it definitely did not help. If you've ever been a chud online, you have to renounce all past beliefs and cut your dick off and post your fantasies about killing your old friends online (and then you can get away with being a 4chan janny even). And the beliefs move fast, in just a few years the left went from shitting on "Corporations are people" to "TRANS RIGHTS", and from "stop hate speech" to carving out an exception for shitting on Israel. Toby Fox is the only person who mostly got this (by using social media as a news RSS feed solely), and he fucked up only when he ran his mouth about a Spanish translation of Undertale. It's a good move because it lowers the risk of pissing off someone who will discover his Earthbound romhack days.