Ken WhiteApr 13, 2023

This is exactly why it’s unnatural and dangerous for #gamers to be employed

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Show threadKen WhiteApr 13, 2023
There are people who play and enjoy games, and then there are GAMERZ, and gamerz are shitty people from a shitty culture.
Show threadsortius

@Popehat this is the dumbest, most meaningless, toot I've read so far.

You're trying to 'no true Scotsman this" but it has nothing to do with "GAMERZ" (not a thing), and everything to do with fascism.

The shittiest people are Americans trying to ignore that their whole culture is a broken mess of failure and contradictions

Apr 13, 2023 at 8:48pmWeb
Show threadJonathan HendryApr 13, 2023

@sortius @Popehat

People whose nation is a glass house shouldn't throw stones.

Show threadsortiusApr 13, 2023

@jonhendry @Popehat I like how the replies are just butthurt Americans ignoring what I tooted, and proving how broken their culture is.

I'm happy to critique Australian culture, hell, I can rattle off exactly how Australian culture is broken with no qualms, but we're not forcing our culture on the world.

Show threadJonathan HendryApr 13, 2023

@sortius @Popehat

Where was Murdoch spawned, again?

Show threadsortiusApr 13, 2023

@jonhendry Australia. Yep, he came from here. No problems admitting he came from Australia.

Although, I'm not sure why you think the "I know you are, but what am I?" approach to discourse will work. I mean, I just have to say "mass shootings" and there's little you can come back with.

But, hey, you keep drinking from the American Exceptionalism cup, and we'll keep pitying your country for being such a sad mess of broken people

Show threadWayne SebbensApr 15, 2023
@sortius @Popehat you realise Popehat distinguished between gamers ("those that enjoy playing games") and the toxic subculture that intersects it ("gamerz"), right? They're not being equated.
Show threadsortiusApr 15, 2023

@sebbs @Popehat there's no such thing. It's a meaningless "distinction", and a logical fallacy (the "no true Scotsman" fallacy), that is just a way to make this about gamers, not fascists.

It's like saying there's "people" and "peoplez". Or "gays" and "gayz". Or "Muslims" and "Muslimz". You're still talking about the same people, and trying to link terrible behaviour to a part of someone's identity.

Not buying any of the shit that Popehat is selling.

Show threadWayne SebbensApr 15, 2023
@sortius @Popehat I think we'd both agree that there's shitheads in any group/culture that are not representative of the whole or even majority of the group. To me, that's the distinction Popehat is making. He's not lumping all gamers in or blaming games.
Show threadsortiusApr 15, 2023

@sebbs @Popehat nah, he is, that's all he's doing by that toot, and it takes a terrible person to try to do that.

The whole narrative right now has been about him being a gamer, not him being a fascist MAGA supporter, pretending that this is a gamer thing, not a fascist thing, is to lump all gamers together.

Jack Thompson is getting a raging boner at all this "games made him do it" crap, which is 100% what Popehat was doing

Show threadJulian ♪🌻🥥🌴♫Apr 15, 2023
@sortius
Not what Ken said. He said that games attract a certain group of people, who then form a subset of gaming culture. Of course the underlying issue is American, but one can't ignore the smaller context either.
@sebbs @Popehat