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Most of my favorite games do indeed have a chat function, but I mostly ignore it, competitive games like Dota/CSGO/R6 and even some casual ones like CODMW routinely restrict my chat privileges for having a potty mouth, but I'm okay with that.
As per the MAGA thing, I am European and I love to put MAGA and other American-isms in my name or post that stuff in chat just to rile people up. Especially funny in EU MW lobbies to ask people if they think black lives matter, the best responses are in the vein of "I don't give a shit about n****s in America".
Also, just a reminder, proselytizing is annoying, nobody likes being preached to, and you are not going to make allies out of people you vomit your political rhetoric unto, especially not if they're just playing a game to have some fun or unwind from their day, if anything it creates resentment and enemies.
You don't like Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on your door to tell you about Yaweh, right? You're doing the exact same thing with politicking but in a videogame, and yes people can just mute/block you, but it doesn't make it any less annoying or unwelcome.
I think the preference in the KiA community is to just keep all unrelated politics out of gaming, that doesn't have to do directly with the game lore/story itself. We've also got a lot of Euros here.
The point is to do politics Well. Its the ham-fisted force feeding of politics into games people don't want. If its glaringly out of place, you aren't doing it well. If you have a whole MAGA-Clan in a game, and otherwise play the game normally, who is to object?
Consider an online war game where fellow speakers of languages form their own groups and communities. No one care because that's all and well.
There's no reason to cede extra territory to groups that aren't even playing said games.
You appear to have overlooked the unrelated politics part of my statement. If people want to have their own little MAGA group in CSGO or whatever, and aren't pushing it on anyone else, fine.
It doesn't really have any place in ARK or Crusader Kings 2 multiplayer, though. If I'm playing ARK, I'm there for the dinosaurs, not to have real world bullshit spill over into my escapism. If I'm playing CK2, the politics can stick to 10th-14th century politics, the 21st century can fuck right off. Dragging unnecessary unrelated politics over is just as bad as trying to force social justice bullshit into chat.
I think it often becomes related in the sense that the developers are already infusing their content with unrelated politics, which is the manifestation of SJW. I would say TLOU2 is riddled with unrelated or unnecessary political connotations. These efforts are poisoning the minds of the masses and by countering with the other political view (ours) you at least give some exposure to these NPCs that have been brainwashed to think conservative white people are the root of all evil. I don’t know how much further it would get anyone ahead, but the point is we shouldn’t be afraid to infuse some red pills into our gaming networks if we so choose, and I just don’t believe there are too many natural environments left out there where it would be considered “unrelated politics” since unrelated politics are often already there by design.
That’s true, but they still have their own online communities whether it be Reddit or otherwise where there are opportunities for us to speak up instead of remaining “silent and tolerant” which is bullshit imo.
Decided to make an account to reply to this: Most of my favorite games do indeed have a chat function, but I mostly ignore it, competitive games like Dota/CSGO/R6 and even some casual ones like CODMW routinely restrict my chat privileges for having a potty mouth, but I'm okay with that.
As per the MAGA thing, I am European and I love to put MAGA and other American-isms in my name or post that stuff in chat just to rile people up. Especially funny in EU MW lobbies to ask people if they think black lives matter, the best responses are in the vein of "I don't give a shit about n****s in America".
Also, just a reminder, proselytizing is annoying, nobody likes being preached to, and you are not going to make allies out of people you vomit your political rhetoric unto, especially not if they're just playing a game to have some fun or unwind from their day, if anything it creates resentment and enemies. You don't like Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on your door to tell you about Yaweh, right? You're doing the exact same thing with politicking but in a videogame, and yes people can just mute/block you, but it doesn't make it any less annoying or unwelcome.
I think the preference in the KiA community is to just keep all unrelated politics out of gaming, that doesn't have to do directly with the game lore/story itself. We've also got a lot of Euros here.
Nonsense.
The point is to do politics Well. Its the ham-fisted force feeding of politics into games people don't want. If its glaringly out of place, you aren't doing it well. If you have a whole MAGA-Clan in a game, and otherwise play the game normally, who is to object?
Consider an online war game where fellow speakers of languages form their own groups and communities. No one care because that's all and well.
There's no reason to cede extra territory to groups that aren't even playing said games.
You appear to have overlooked the unrelated politics part of my statement. If people want to have their own little MAGA group in CSGO or whatever, and aren't pushing it on anyone else, fine.
It doesn't really have any place in ARK or Crusader Kings 2 multiplayer, though. If I'm playing ARK, I'm there for the dinosaurs, not to have real world bullshit spill over into my escapism. If I'm playing CK2, the politics can stick to 10th-14th century politics, the 21st century can fuck right off. Dragging unnecessary unrelated politics over is just as bad as trying to force social justice bullshit into chat.
I think it often becomes related in the sense that the developers are already infusing their content with unrelated politics, which is the manifestation of SJW. I would say TLOU2 is riddled with unrelated or unnecessary political connotations. These efforts are poisoning the minds of the masses and by countering with the other political view (ours) you at least give some exposure to these NPCs that have been brainwashed to think conservative white people are the root of all evil. I don’t know how much further it would get anyone ahead, but the point is we shouldn’t be afraid to infuse some red pills into our gaming networks if we so choose, and I just don’t believe there are too many natural environments left out there where it would be considered “unrelated politics” since unrelated politics are often already there by design.
Those games tend not to have any kind of chat function, or even multiplayer, for the most part - which is where OP was aiming his point at.
That’s true, but they still have their own online communities whether it be Reddit or otherwise where there are opportunities for us to speak up instead of remaining “silent and tolerant” which is bullshit imo.