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Running the Talking to Women about Videogames podcast! - https://t.co/FQt9lINmY5 iTunes - https://t.co/3ftfLInMCc
Nov 27, 2023 13 tweets 3 min read
Thoughts on why this, the recent "We decided to do a serious analyitical essays on games because no one has ever done it before!" guys, and the also recent uproar around paying Youtubers for coverage all show that most people think games are a trash medium When you don't really care if the words you use to describe something are accurate, it's a sign that you don't think what you are talking about is very important. When Get Out was nominated for best comedy, that showed the Oscars did not take Peele's perspective on race seriously
Jun 17, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
I'm going to make some maybe obvious guesses as to what's going on with crying mcmuffin cop, psychologically. I don't think the mcmuffin is her real problem here. This cop is probably just now waking up to the fact that she's assigned herself to a profession that people have legitimate reason to fear and loathe. She probably expected a hero's sandwich that day, and instead got cold coffee.
Nov 15, 2018 12 tweets 3 min read
Talked to another person who voted for trump as a revenge vote against democrats for electing Obama. She said that she loves it when dems say “this is not normal” about trump, because she felt her own sense of normalcy squashed when the country elected its 1st black potus She said trump is a disgusting idiot, but he spoke to her anger about “minorities taking over America”, and she thought he would “fight to put whites back in charge of the country”. This is what “make America great again” means to her
Nov 5, 2018 9 tweets 4 min read
@NPR Thanks for writing this but it would be great if you were to do a deeper dive. For example, Milo Y. a former NPR guest used GG to galvanize anti-feminists and anti-civil rights philosophies in sad men who felt inferior and powerless, looking for belonging through gamer culture @NPR Milo used these steps to indoctrinate into hate groups 1) Praise "gamers" for the things they felt judged for (in this case, gaming and/or being apathetic) 2) Give them a boogie man (feminists, SJWs) 3) Set up an emotional reward system for attacking boogie men (likes, followers)