I'm really developing a violent reaction to the "video games are escapism" line.
Like, that's all the art form is to you? A means to escape your life and turn off those dumbass noises in your head for a while?
Also, 
escape from what, exactly? 
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People who hide behind the word "escapism" are absolutely the sort of people who will go off on a rant about how places like China or Russia or [insert target country here] are full of unthinking drones that wouldn't dream of contradicting the status quo. :projection:
The main goal of the Nazi film policy was to promote escapism, which was designed to distract the population and to keep everybody in good spirits; Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.
Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.
What a dumbass. Not only did he want to reduce art to a distraction, but his analysis of the war is also completely wrong. What no material analysis does to a mf
Common Nazi L
Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.
Bro thought the HOI 4 wiki was a tactical handbook
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Don't trans people have the right to escape from transphobia also? Flip it on their heads.
They would say that trans people not coming up at all would be an escape from transphobia lol
"Keep politics out of games" and the whole "escapism" line are nonsensical the more you think about it.
Video games are not an "escape from reality" into something completely new and different, they will always be reinterpretations of our current reality because that's all we know and all we can create. Reinterpretations that display how we believe the world works, how we feel about the world and what we would like it to be. Any piece of art involving any kind of society will therefore always be political, because you can't write a society without displaying how you believe societies work and/or how they should work.
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damn that's crazy, anyways, any of my trans and NB comrades want to hop into tf2 and legally convert everyone into a femboy?
What’s with right wingers and this constant, child-like insistence that everything they do is escapism and coping. It sounds like they want a safe space
: "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from speech."
I can't support trans rights because the transes killed 30 million people.
Oh wait that was the nazis.
Literally half of all players on TF2 are LGBT. I've been playing TF2 about 20 hours in the last 2 weeks and I have YET to see a non-trans medic.
They all have Mediguns labeled "Estrogen Dispenser" or other such trans references.
I have YET to see a non-trans medic
The real transmedicalism, smdh
All of them get the gulag.
as always, the gulag is for those who can be saved. they'll get the pit and they'll like it
Oh would you look at that, this gulag is actually just a pit! This is the problem with bureaucracy...
Shove AAAAAA~AAAAAYOUGUYSARETHEREALNAZIIIIIIS!!!~
You can't just not follow through on the order without a mountain of paperwork, and filling a notice that this is a pit and not a gulag will take the better part of a year to go through the correct channels!
~thud~
I hear you comrade, it feels like the gamer rehabilitation agency doesn't care sometimes.
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i know its preaching to the choir here but the trans = nazis shit is especially insane considering the institute that developed a proto-gender dysphoria diagnosis and treatment was destroyed by the fucking nazis!!! 
And after the war, unlike many other victims of the Nazis, the west German regime refused to award them compensation, effectively legalising the repression.
*keeping legalized.
It's not like the nazi regime was an illegitimate government.
Trans Fortress 2 
The same fandom that full-throatedly supported Ukraine because some dipshit made SFM meme videos and hyperlinked his fascist government's military bank account for donations.
Well, I screamed in excitement and pride when I saw that sign. So, by the comparison, would you scream in excitement and pride if you saw a supportative neo-nazi sign, mr. Spino?
Would you, mf?
At least the comments are all telling them to fuck off and it's been downvoted to 0.
The whole argument that video games must be complete escapism has been twisting my brain in knots.
Like there's a lot there to be analyzed. The need for "escapism" over just playing a game because its fun is a scary turn.
These dorks are annoying, yes, but holy shit are they okay? Like there's so many threads I want to tug on but I'm afraid to. Like why do they need to escape? Why can escapism only be right wing? Where does this start, when they're kids or when they're older and disaffected? where in the video game culture is this idea presented and supported?
Even the basis that "games are escapism", means one is playing games in a way someone does drugs. A comfort, an escape, the inability to address issues in ones own life.
I'm not remotely qualified to analyze any of this but it just feels really dark and foreboding overall.
They probably consider Call of fucking Duty to be neutral and not ideology
The played fallout 4 and thought liberty prime was a cool robot that made some good points.
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Customer base has a lot of trans people
Developers recognize that and throw in an easter egg.
"YO WTF how can this be happening? I DEMAND THE ARTISTS PRAISE MY BELOVED HITLER!"
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damn theyre getting dragged in the comments too
lol the kid who made this doesnt have a clue how many trans people play this game does he? Its also funny to age and recognize who's a kid based on the things they say and the things they post, the person who made this is very, very young, which is frankly quite sad, imagine having your brain rotted by culture wars this early...
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This line of thinking is way too prevalent. Things are only good and neutral when there is no ideology, beliefs, or politics and yet at the very same time, the existence or even reference to a trans person, or a poc is politics.
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CW Transphobia / racism
Looks like Zesty is in refrence to streamer "Zesty_Jesus" whose pfp is a catboy with masive tits. The stream was partially taken down because he "accidently doxxed" himself , conveniently removing the anti trans rant. ( and is constantly retweeting COMMISIONED art of him as a muscular woman with massive tits. )
https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Zesty_Jesus
Drama with TF2 workshop creator Atom_HEV605 , https://nitter.net/Atom_HEV605/status/1733689071187218932#m
Zesty has been in trouble b4 for his racist trasphobe rants.
Yeah it's weird to me how many people try to defend him because of his opinions on the game's art style, ignoring (or downplaying that) he's still a piece of fucking shit.
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e s c a p i s m
the trans ideology
:steamfront:
escaping so hard rn by blasting a australian man with a stupid hat in the face with 20,000 rounds of ammunition
The two genders: trans and nazi. You have to pick one.
I yearn for the days when conservatives just thought RATM were angry at taxes, this most surface level media literacy and analysis possible is honestly even more annoying than none
Soon we'll have to stop writing the subtext in crayon
seeing the nazis and thinking "ah yes the problem is ideas and not the fact these ideas suck"
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