• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    My favorite male fantasy that games allow me to realize is that of becoming a successful man despite not executing any meaningful work.

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    1 month ago

    I know this is a meme but I’m really really hoping that top line is from a skit or something

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      1 month ago

      Nope. It was a BuzzFeed thing about a very very feminist person talking about how gaming only appeals to men. I am feminist, and the piece still got a massive eyeroll from me. They cherry picked a few things and said because of those things gaming was only catering to men.

      Worse is that they didn’t tackle any actual issues going on in gaming. Just lame ragebait.

      IIRC one of the examples was an NPC in GTA 5 making a sexist comment. In GTA 5, which is of course a parody of modern culture, completely out of context.

      https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/video-games-appeal-to-the-male-fantasy

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        1 month ago

        Ugh so typical buzzfeed clickbait slop then. Thank you for explaining. /gen

        Guess I’ll go back to putting up with all the male fantasy in the cat adventure game I’m playing 😂

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    What was the original game actually shown to her that led to that video clip? Who chose the game, etc?

    Meming this is totally justified though. You could easily say that about any and all entertainment media formats without even looking very hard for examples. Its just without knowing the original context I can’t help but feel the woman got the short end of the stick with whatever show that was from.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      GTAV, a scene at the Vanilla Unicorn strip club specifically

      It’s… A really fucking stupid thing to bitch about specifically in that game, honestly. Of course a strip club objectifies women, and of course a game about criminality and the seedy underworld will have one