Post #3958784
2026-07-11 10:12 UTC
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@Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-12 00:30
There seems to be an entire genre on YouTube of absolutely godawful human beings just being fucking horrible in the guise of “game reviews”. I mean, just really unpleasant people who within about 30 seconds you know would be domestic abusers if they ever met a girl. Is this the edge of the manosphere? It’s absolutely revolting, whatever it is. This has always been a problem in the gaming community, but it’s been especially rampant for the last decade or so since Steve Bannon identified gamers as a demographic (largely comprised of insecure teenage boys) that is particularly susceptible to fascist messaging and threw money into signal-boosting the worst of it, and a bunch of impressionable dumbfucks went along with it.
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@CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 2026-07-11 12:32
I understand your desire to not use youtube, but you are missing out on The Spiffing Brit and Let’s Game it Out If you aren’t familiar, they are game breakers. Spiffing brit tends toward grand strategy games, and finds balance issues in them for a living best I can tell, and lets game it out griefs NPCs and systems to see how much abuse a game can take and what sort of tomfoolery he can manage. He tends toward very complex base building and mining type games. Even if neither of those genres are your thing to play (they aren’t really mine), the channels are funny as hell and totally enjoyable.