Why do they keep pushing this stupid narrative of black women playing games?

[Rand]

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.

[Vergil]

Most advertising and media can be explained as selling consumers how things "ought to be" instead of reality.

[WhiteShark]

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.

[Roguey]

There are unicorns.

[Oyster Sauce]

I want to see more game adverts featuring people of Down syndrome

[maidenhaver]

The last 3 combined don't make up a quarter of black men who play vidya.

[maidenhaver]

I want to see more game adverts featuring people of Down syndrome

At last, my people rise.

[aweigh]

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.

I heard from a knowledgeable scholar named fluent that they live in retchid (sic) conditions and it don't mean nothing.

[Segata]

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.

[aweigh]

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.

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.

(I don't believe racism exists, btw, there should be no difference in discriminating against someone for arbitrary reasons).

[A Chinese opium den]

(I don't believe racism exists, btw).

What did he mean by this?

[OnTilt]

(I don't believe racism exists, btw).

What did he mean by this?

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.

[Irenaeus]

The ideology is just window dressing - they just hate you and want to demoralize you.

I think this addresses the main point. They couldn't care less about ****** 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.

[Rand]

There are unicorns.

Prove it, sheboon.

[Mondain]

There are unicorns.

I rarely encounter gamers who have purchased props from a video game. It feels like a very try hard thing.

[J1M]

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.

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.

[rusty_shackleford]

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.

[Nooneatall]

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.

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.

(I don't believe racism exists, btw, there should be no difference in discriminating against someone for arbitrary reasons).

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 whatever

[Irenaeus]

They thought they could expand their audience without losing their core audience.

You mean making games targeted at women and still have men playing? Or something else?

[Finarfin]

There are unicorns.

I rarely encounter gamers who have purchased props from a video game. It feels like a very try hard thing.

Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot ****. 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.

[rusty_shackleford]

They thought they could expand their audience without losing their core audience.

You mean making games targeted at women and still have men playing? Or something else?

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.

[machnizedTerror]

Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot ****. 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.

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".

[Irenaeus]

Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot ****. 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.

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.

[rusty_shackleford]

There are unicorns.

I don't play to be the best

fake gamer alert

[Finarfin]

Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot ****. 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.

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".

Are you trying to insinunate something?

[machnizedTerror]

Nah, it's just that normal people don't parade these things around like they're hot ****. 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.

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".

Are you trying to insinunate something?

Are you afraid I am?

[J1M]

They thought they could expand their audience without losing their core audience.

You mean making games targeted at women and still have men playing? Or something else?

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.

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.

[A Chinese opium den]

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".

Are you trying to insinunate something?

Are you afraid I am?

Buying a sword is cool.

[WhiteShark]

Buying a sword is cool.

Buying a sword is ok. Mastering the sword is cool.

[A Chinese opium den]

Buying a sword is cool.

Buying a sword is ok. Mastering the sword is cool.

I recently bought a polish cavalry sabre and I've decided I'm cool autistic 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.