Why I don’t talk to leftists: A short thread 🧵

Image 1: Video of black guy brutally beating an elderly Asian woman. Man suggests the death penalty.

Image 2: Prison abolitionist is appalled, but retreats to credentialism and consensus when pressed about his kooky beliefs.

The leftist evades the simple question: “What should be done about this guy?”

This is because leftism teaches him that black people are not agents of themselves, and prisons exist to oppress black men. As such he has a gaping, unaddressed blind spot.

The RedLetterMedia Problem: A thread 🧵

These two videos juxtaposed show the glaring issue with RLM's coverage of modern Star Wars.

The Acolyte re:View was one of the worst videos I've seen from them, and that's because they're really not invested in Star Wars at all. They spent most of the video talking about how Star Wars has become a cultural battleground, and I do agree with some of the points they made.

But when they were talking about the show ITSELF, there was a terrible lack of clarity and it was clear they were uninterested.

I read the entire "Product Inclusion Action" report from Microsoft:🧵

Any game developers who use this as a blueprint will never, ever have a well written game again. Microsoft certainly won't.

In this thread I'll go over the sections that will fuck up good writing the most. Starting off with the bit that's been floating around. Microsoft doesn't like ass and titties, but there's another issue here.

They want quotas for screen time, speaking lines, and playable characters.

Let me explain why you shouldn't talk to journalists because some people don't seem to get it: 🧵

1. Journalists are not important. Legacy media is dying and random shitposters on social media get more views than their articles do, by far. You're talking to dinosaurs. 2. We know they're lying, they know they're lying, and the proof already exists in their bylines on their articles. We don't need further evidence of this. If people are not convinced by what we already have, they're never going to be convinced.

My (proposed) Gamergate 2.0 Playbook: 🧵

Movements cannot be successful without a plan of action and a win condition. In this thread, I will focus on positive, action-oriented things that we can do as a movement and as a community, based on my analysis of the articles I've read. 1. The boycott: Beware of scope creep. We know that the present state of gaming is terrible, but expanding out from SBI and the other DEI-based consulting agencies can make us lose focus. I'm happy with the focusing on SBI alone right now. We eat the elephant one bite at a time.

My recent threads have been either frustrating or alarming, so I thought we should have a bit of fun today.

So I decided to look at the characters from ValiDate and we can all have a go at them: 🧵

They're right out of tumblr fanfiction, sometimes literally. Starting off with a perplexing one: Emhari Abdi. He's a "bigender lesbian transwoman" hailing from Qatar and South Africa who hasn't medically transitioned and has two children from a divorce.

As you'd expect, dude's an HR rep.

Representation, as a concept, creates bad writing: 🧵

There is a fundamental difference between designing a character that happens to be black and creating a black character in order to represent black people within your game.

Beware any writer that talks about representation. When you create a character for representation’s sake, that character becomes a stand-in for an entire group of people. You have allowed external factors to inform your design choices rather than the story.

You have created an unnecessary meta-narrative on top of your narrative.

I read the The Hill opinion article calling on the US and EU regulators to further clamp down on games and it's actually batshit insane: 🧵

In this thread I will go over everything they suggest and it's particularly alarming, especially when talking about human rights. First off, who is Mariana Olaizola Rozenblat? She received an award from the Soros foundation to gain a JD from Yale Law School, and went on to work with the UN and Council of Europe around the world.

Currently, she's working for NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.

I read WIRED's article about "Gamergate 2.0" and it's exactly what you'd expect: 🧵

Lies, more lies, and completely overlooking the reason people were upset in the first place. They interview SBI employees and of course, they paint themselves as innocent victims. Kim Belair claims that SBI opponents want them to die, lmao.

I read the whole 45 page report from GAO about "gaming extremists": 🧵

Bear with me, because this thread will be long. I will highlight all the parts I found funny or concerning.

It's important to be aware that the government is full of stupid, intrusive clowns. So what is GAO?

It is the Government Accountability Office, headed by the Comptroller General who is appointed by the President.

It supposedly helps the government work more efficiently and tracks how taxpayer dollars are spent.

Not doing a very good job of it I'd say, lmao.

If it really is to be Gamergate 2.0, here are some ground rules that will help: 🧵

1. Do not talk to journalists. Do not reveal any personal identifying information to journalists. If you catch a whiff of a journalist in your groups, remove them immediately. They are snakes. 2. The only winning move is not to play (literally): If you catch a whiff of SBI/woke nonsense in a video game, just don't buy it. It's really that simple.

As for journo articles, archive them all, and only spread the archives. No giving any of them money, passively or actively.

I read the Guardian article about Sweet Baby and it is certifiably insane:🧵

This has to be the worst article about the situation yet, and it calls for gaming companies to "take a stand" about Sweet Baby critics. Downright silly at best, actually mentally unwell at worst. It starts with the crazy implication that Gamergate led up to Trump getting elected. Yeah, you've got your head screwed on right there mate.

Of course, they call Gamergate a harassment campaign, because why wouldn't they?

PC Gamer put out an article defending Sweet Baby and it sucks even harder than the Kotaku one

It lies even more blatantly and misrepresents people's contentions with Sweet Baby even harder than Kotaku did, which is something I didn't think was possible 🧵 It starts off with some weird tangent that this curator group looked like it was warning about DRM. Great writing there mate, top notch.

Just write about what you're writing about, you sophomoric clown.

If you’re huffing and puffing because people are making fun of that NYC leftist activist’s stabbing death, you are an actual retard. Fuck off with trying to cover yourself in respectability, it’s cringe.

Let’s look at how leftists treat people when they die: TotalBiscuit.🧵 I’ve had a few sleepless nights, so I’ve been digging into TotalBiscuit’s final years. He was very left wing, even going so far as to bitch at his wife for not voting, personally blaming her for Trump’s election and the “rise of fascism” in the US.

People keep dunking on this scene, and we instinctively know it's cringe. I'm going to try and articulate why: 🧵

There's a reason "Hasta la vista, baby" has remained in our collective psyche for such a long time. The final quip bookends the relationship between good and evil.

https://twitter.com/DinkDaBird/status/1708299332963762468

That one-liner before the protagonist and the antagonist is a final "fuck you", a cathartic release and a statement of triumph. While nowadays it's usually associated with schlock, it used to be a good way to release tension and complete the arc of the protagonist, and the film.