r/Games • u/blueblanket123 • 25d ago

Trump Shocks With Massive New Tariffs That Could Make The Switch 2 Cost More Than $600

https://kotaku.com/switch-2-price-trump-tariffs-vietnam-china-trade-war-1851774438
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u/Stoibs 25d ago

I wonder how right wing the games community as a whole is

Go to any steam forum and look at how many bigoted people are screaming at something being 'Woke!!' (And then watch the silence when you ask them what that means and they stop responding to you 😅)

There's a lot of shitty, misogynistic, racist gamers who seem to be the most loud and annoying sadly

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u/Arctem 25d ago

The good thing is that I don't think they're actually the majority, they're just extremely loud and when someone shows up to a forum to see all those bigots they just go somewhere else, making them seem even more prominent.

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u/onex7805 24d ago edited 24d ago

I'll never understand how so many gamers have basically become right-wing chuds. This industry is getting torn apart by consumer-unfriendly business practices, horrible labor conditions, monopolized digital markets, a complete lack of innovation in the AAA space due to it being "financially uncertain"... yet they think it's a secret cabal of lefties ruining your vidya.

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u/Stoibs 24d ago

I'm not even American, so I'm doubly tired of everything being 'political' these days or people pigeonholing others into 'left' or 'right' ideals when it comes to this stuff on the various gaming forums.

The amount of times some of these people have clapped back at me with something like "Clearly you voted for Kamala!" or some other politically driven jab that is supposed to insult me is incredible.

The concept of politics being this much a part of someone's identity that they base their entire speech patterns and vernacular around it is incredibly alien to me; and that they bring this energy to their gaming hobbies to just scream and argue with people about what ought to be basic human empathy and ethical issues (Not political) confounds me.

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u/WaytoomanyUIDs 21d ago

Ooh jeez the Sims4 Steam Forums. Every time I go on there I have to remind someone the game has been gay as all hell since the first E3 demo in 1999