to think that lolicons are not pedophiles in any sense of the word is to be retarded. If one person has a sexual attraction to drawn “childlike” characters who is it to say that they don’t have that same attraction for real child like children?
people running defense for resident evil 5s depiction of africa never fails to fry the fuck outta me. if u cant feel the postcolonial racism & vitriol these images exude u deadass might be a lost cause lmao. yall love to preach media literacy, and yet...
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
I'll say it:
As a grognard of GSGs, I am immensely grateful that we got a more casual crowd in the genre and specifically in CK3 now.
It's a lot more fun to talk about the game with people that are actually having fun with it even if it isn't 100% how I have fun with it.
Pleeeeeeeease stop using pissfilter AI thumbnails for your CK3 mods.
I don't care if you write the script with AI, personally. I know how to write Paradox Script - you don't have to. It's fine.
But stop with the dogwater thumbnails that pollute the whole Workshop.
It looks ass.