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Some tweets from piratenation and asmon about the bald protag in intergalatic got, lets say 20k-40k likes on Twitter. Which is a lot for the platform. Lets say that it was 50K though, lets ignore how many of those are bots Let's ignore how many of those wouldn't be interested in the game anyway Let's ignore how many might follow them without even being gamers really but just bc they are part of the culture war BS let's ignore that even on twitter they got ratioed by a tweet that got 300K likes

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My go-to is just flipping the script on them.

I accuse them of wanting to gentrify gaming (and in a weird sense, I’m not wrong.) and they’re the tourists that are ruining games for the sake of their agenda.

If I need something particularly devastating, I accuse them of being Just like Jack Thompson, some whiny right-wing soccer mom that wants to take away games.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's all just straightforwardly true

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly it’s fun just taking right-wing language and redirecting it. Like literally one of my favorite things to do is just say “stunning and brave” any time a reactionary gloats about how he’s sooooo bad for essentially conforming to popular opinion.

Just call them “the real SJWs” if they’re the first to bring up identity.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

The old classic