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That’s why it’s fun to go back and look at pdfs of old gaming magazines from the 80s and early to mid 90s, it really was quite a niche subculture. You’d have these small 5-10 developer teams making just the oddest, but fantastic games that you only ever see in indie games rarely nowadays (itch.io is a fun place to go for those kinds of weird, off the wall games these days). Once the Playstation/N64 era took off gaming just getting progressively bigger and aiming for the lowest-common denominator of players. I still game but rarely ever big AAA games, mostly its retro games/hacks on emulators and indie games.
Gamers are the fucking reason the GOP isn’t an irrelevant laughingstock and this is how they repay them?
Progressivism never took root in chanlords because gamers didn’t see themselves as oppressed nerds but as temporarily embarrassed jocks.
Night of the Long Knives etc.
Ah, the original fell for it again award
The Jack Thompson impulse always re-emerges, bannon trying to make a
coalition or no
ed: I assumed “gamers” would be the Mr. Freeze “gamers” emoji, and it wasn’t
post-US crash gaming should’ve stayed niche. Madden, FIFA, and CoD have
you know the thing.
That’s why it’s fun to go back and look at pdfs of old gaming magazines from the 80s and early to mid 90s, it really was quite a niche subculture. You’d have these small 5-10 developer teams making just the oddest, but fantastic games that you only ever see in indie games rarely nowadays (itch.io is a fun place to go for those kinds of weird, off the wall games these days). Once the Playstation/N64 era took off gaming just getting progressively bigger and aiming for the lowest-common denominator of players. I still game but rarely ever big AAA games, mostly its retro games/hacks on emulators and indie games.