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Why do they keep pushing this stupid narrative of black women playing games?
Why do they keep pushing this stupid narrative of black women playing games?
I saw this today:
Demographics of actual gamers (Helldivers 2 players for certain)
1 - white males
2 - oriental males
3 - brown males of various regions
4 - white females
5 - oriental females
6 - brown females
And the last three COMBINED almost certainly do not make up HALF the amount of the relatively small third group.
I would go so far as to say that I expect the demographic representation to halve every step down the chart you go, until it reaches 3, then it is probably divided by at least ten for each subsequent step.
Demographics of actual gamers (Helldivers 2 players for certain)
1 - white males
2 - oriental males
3 - brown males of various regions
4 - white females
5 - oriental females
6 - brown females
And the last three COMBINED almost certainly do not make up HALF the amount of the relatively small third group.
I would go so far as to say that I expect the demographic representation to halve every step down the chart you go, until it reaches 3, then it is probably divided by at least ten for each subsequent step.
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Most advertising and media can be explained as selling consumers how things "ought to be" instead of reality.
As soon as they like you, make 'em unlike you.
The true believers think that the only reason black women don't play video games and get STEM degrees is systemic racism/sexism and a lack of role models. Thus, they depict black women in all sorts of positions they would never take in reality in the hopes that it will uplift and empower all the poor disenfranchised black women who just needed a little push to be big math nerds and scientists.
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I want to see more game adverts featuring people of Down syndrome
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The last 3 combined don't make up a quarter of black men who play vidya.
"Italians & Germans - they're white." rusty_shackleford
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At last, my people rise.Oyster Sauce wrote: ↑ May 26th, 2024, 18:35I want to see more game adverts featuring people of Down syndrome
"Italians & Germans - they're white." rusty_shackleford
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I heard from a knowledgeable scholar named fluent that they live in retchid (sic) conditions and it don't mean nothing.WhiteShark wrote: ↑ May 26th, 2024, 17:26The true believers think that the only reason black women don't play video games and get STEM degrees is systemic racism/sexism and a lack of role models. Thus, they depict black women in all sorts of positions they would never take in reality in the hopes that it will uplift and empower all the poor disenfranchised black women who just needed a little push to be big math nerds and scientists.
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The ideology is just window dressing - they just hate you and want to demoralize you. They don't believe there's really an untapped market out there, that's just their petty lying excuse to bombard you with propaganda.
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i'm sure a large percentage of SJWs unironically believe it, True Believers who genuinely think magical blacks can't achieve what other races did because they're oppressed. A form of "racism", they view blacks as pets or something like that.Segata wrote: ↑ May 26th, 2024, 19:23The ideology is just window dressing - they just hate you and want to demoralize you. They don't believe there's really an untapped market out there, that's just their petty lying excuse to bombard you with propaganda.
(I don't believe racism exists, btw, there should be no difference in discriminating against someone for arbitrary reasons).
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What did he mean by this?
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Answering for him (we'll see if I'm right):
Racism is a form of discrimination. We discriminate based on all sorts of arbitrary things (height, ability, certifications, etc) and no one bats an eye. It isn't inherently evil to discriminate by race, sex, or religion just because they've been labelled "protected categories". "Racism", "Homophobia", "antisemitism" and such are just cudgels used to make you accept things you otherwise wouldn't.
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I think this addresses the main point. They couldn't care less about nigger women, they just think "what's the thing that normal men hate the most?" and plaster their propaganda with it. Today, it's these hideous she-apes, tomorrow it could be anything easily hateable, like Pajeets.Segata wrote: ↑ May 26th, 2024, 19:23The ideology is just window dressing - they just hate you and want to demoralize you.
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Prove it, sheboon.
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I rarely encounter gamers who have purchased props from a video game. It feels like a very try hard thing.
Cynicism: They look at how much they spend on wigs and nails and see a lot of carelessly spent income that could be directed to loot boxes.Rand wrote: ↑ May 26th, 2024, 17:22I saw this today:
Demographics of actual gamers (Helldivers 2 players for certain)
1 - white males
2 - oriental males
3 - brown males of various regions
4 - white females
5 - oriental females
6 - brown females
And the last three COMBINED almost certainly do not make up HALF the amount of the relatively small third group.
I would go so far as to say that I expect the demographic representation to halve every step down the chart you go, until it reaches 3, then it is probably divided by at least ten for each subsequent step.
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They thought they could expand their audience without losing their core audience. It did not work. This is in regard to when it started, anyways. Obviously there's a different reason now.
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I think racism exists and it's good. If you mean systematic racism, yeah that hasn't existed for a long time and couldn't exist today except against whites. Places like India still have it against lower castes or whateveraweigh wrote: ↑ May 26th, 2024, 19:26i'm sure a large percentage of SJWs unironically believe it, True Believers who genuinely think magical blacks can't achieve what other races did because they're oppressed. A form of "racism", they view blacks as pets or something like that.Segata wrote: ↑ May 26th, 2024, 19:23The ideology is just window dressing - they just hate you and want to demoralize you. They don't believe there's really an untapped market out there, that's just their petty lying excuse to bombard you with propaganda.
(I don't believe racism exists, btw, there should be no difference in discriminating against someone for arbitrary reasons).
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You mean making games targeted at women and still have men playing? Or something else?rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 05:20They thought they could expand their audience without losing their core audience.
Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot shit. I have the sword from Kingdom Come Deliverance (The one Martin the Blacksmith and Heinrich made for Radzig Kobyla) on my wall. I don't pose or make pictures of it.Mondain wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 00:25I rarely encounter gamers who have purchased props from a video game. It feels like a very try hard thing.
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There was a trend in the ~2008-2014 period that "gaming was for everyone", an obvious ploy to expand the market base without losing the core audience, it didn't work.Irenaeus wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 12:39You mean making games targeted at women and still have men playing? Or something else?rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 05:20They thought they could expand their audience without losing their core audience.
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I am curious do you consider yourself "normal" for buying these things?Sunsetdrive wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 12:48Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot shit. I have the sword from Kingdom Come Deliverance (The one Martin the Blacksmith and Heinrich made for Radzig Kobyla) on my wall. I don't pose or make pictures of it.
Or is it because you are "normal" that having one these things around is also considered "normal".
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It wouldn't be weird to take pictures of it. When I was in Toledo I bought a couple longswords (like the famous El Cid sword) and I took some pics of them posed.Sunsetdrive wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 12:48Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot shit. I have the sword from Kingdom Come Deliverance (The one Martin the Blacksmith and Heinrich made for Radzig Kobyla) on my wall. I don't pose or make pictures of it.
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fake gamer alertI don't play to be the best
Are you trying to insinunate something?machnizedTerror wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 13:51I am curious do you consider yourself "normal" for buying these things?Sunsetdrive wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 12:48Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot shit. I have the sword from Kingdom Come Deliverance (The one Martin the Blacksmith and Heinrich made for Radzig Kobyla) on my wall. I don't pose or make pictures of it.
Or is it because you are "normal" that having one these things around is also considered "normal".
Jews will call you an antisemite but never a liar.
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Are you afraid I am?Sunsetdrive wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 14:41Are you trying to insinunate something?machnizedTerror wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 13:51I am curious do you consider yourself "normal" for buying these things?Sunsetdrive wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 12:48Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot shit. I have the sword from Kingdom Come Deliverance (The one Martin the Blacksmith and Heinrich made for Radzig Kobyla) on my wall. I don't pose or make pictures of it.
Or is it because you are "normal" that having one these things around is also considered "normal".
Ironically, by making it something with no barrier to entry they probably lost a lot of young people to other activities like "content creation" for YouTube which has a veneer of a barrier to entry.rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 12:50There was a trend in the ~2008-2014 period that "gaming was for everyone", an obvious ploy to expand the market base without losing the core audience, it didn't work.Irenaeus wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 12:39You mean making games targeted at women and still have men playing? Or something else?rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 05:20They thought they could expand their audience without losing their core audience.
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Buying a sword is cool.machnizedTerror wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 14:50Are you afraid I am?Sunsetdrive wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 14:41Are you trying to insinunate something?machnizedTerror wrote: ↑ May 27th, 2024, 13:51
I am curious do you consider yourself "normal" for buying these things?
Or is it because you are "normal" that having one these things around is also considered "normal".
Buying a sword is ok. Mastering the sword is cool.
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I recently bought a polish cavalry sabre and I've decided I'm cool enough to wear it at my waist when I go hiking. I of course practice the blade in my spare time as any god fearing man should.