Unhelpful Contrarian wrote: β
September 14th, 2024, 02:46
Pretty much agree. However Iβm a centrist at heart . Never been truly a leftist because Iβm to pragmatic in the realities of human nature but never a conservative since I'm live and let live type of person ( within reason obviously)
Honestly the disillusionment of western society hurts the most. Realizing your fellow man is ******* ****** who almost no smarter than a sub 80 IQ Haitian man from Haiti is deeply blackpilling.
In a that way, I would still be a 'centrist' too. If the other party is willing to have a discussion, where the intent is to explore a certain topic in meaningful ways, for example - to learn and understand different perspectives, I like to
listen, to the other side, give proper consideration and evaluate what they're saying whilst standing by my own beliefs. There's a balance of course, because we are dynamic in nature and constantly evolving, so I think it's okay to have a mindset where you adapt your views as you grow up, but within reason. But it's tricky of course, because at what point do you become a gutless fence-sitter and abandon what you believe in?
But as you said, your fellow man is a ******* ******. This entire "scenario" can only exist in an ideal world. A constructive discussion can only go on as long as ALL parties are willing to listen to, accept and consider the points of the other party, despite whatever biases they may have. The minute that unified purpose goes away, it's ******* chaos. So many people have zero sense of self-awareness, are egotistical, obstinate, and resort to personal biases the second they are met with disagreement. As such, I have stopped trying to be a "centrist" in the way I described above, because as much as I would love to live in that kind of fairytale world, the reality is, people are ********, and there is no merit or virtue in being such a 'centrist'.
This is something I learnt as I got better in my studies, went looking for jobs and opportunities, and started meeting "successful" people (some of them were old friends). You know,
driven individuals who are top performers in their subject areas, doing startups or some cutting edge work in their field. People who care about what they're doing, and believe in putting time, effort and thought into things they believe in. People who operate on a completely different level to your average citizen in the way in which they do things in general. It's when I started talking to people like those did I realize just how mentally ill your "average" fellow man is.
Rand wrote: β
September 14th, 2024, 03:27
I blame a different thing: consoles and corporations.
When games were a niche market or, like Nintendo, an all in-house process, there was no interest and no room for the leftist activist scum, anyway.
Once we got Sony post original Playstation and (especially) Microsoft's excremental Xbox, that led to such potential sales that now corporations could enter for real.
Bioware was a niche company when it produced all of its greatest hits, same with old Activision, even Electronic Arts, once upon a time.
Once it goes corporate, you get suits. And suits want empires and "business structure" for the sake of their C-suite nonsense.
Then you get HR, marketing and PR "creatives" and that's a way in for the untalented leftist scum.
Add on Fink the Jew of Blackrock "forcing behaviors" with ESG money, something apparently no executive can resist, despite they should know their customer will despise it (Budweiser, Harley Davidson, etc...).
Then it's a poisonous environment for the guys that used to make the good games. And it is 99.9% guys.
Welcome to hell. Capitalism is a good thing, but corporations are 100% toxic ****, in my experience.
Once upon a time they were highly regulated, because the people then knew better than to trust a group of rich greedy fucks with legal protection from their business decisions.
Yeah, I can see this. I think it's a failure to gatekeep at all levels, but I speak from inexperience so I could be wrong.
Can't really blame the corpos for taking advantage of a consumer base that just didn't give a **** about the future trajectory of their hobby. In a way, I can't blame the average "gamer" that existed back then; assuming all they wanted to do was just enjoy the games and the sub-culture for what it was, and not get involved in stuff they have no interest in and thought were a hassle to think about. But at the same time, I think gamers as a collective failed to reject corpos and the leftist infiltration until it was too late. A person is smart, people are dumb, and it takes one hell of a **** up to unite millions of people for a common cause.
At the same time, those who were at the equivalent of C-level in the industry, the ones creating and distributing the games, didn't do **** to turn away the suits and in fact, allowed them to "run their business", which led to investments funds like Blackrock getting their dirty hands on the industry. Because let's be honest, who doesn't love the prospect of "expansion" and massive future growth/monetary gain? Now, the corpos control the direction in which this industry will go, and I feel like no matter how much gamers cry and rage, it's far too late to do anything.