Role Playing, Video Games and SJWism

[heydaralon]

Something occured to me. I know a person who is big on video games, anime, and D and D/Magic stuff. This person has decided they are a woman trapped in a man's body. An extreme example, but it does seem like many SJW types are really big on this video game etc shit. They dovetail nicely together. Personally, I don't think gamer culture is as bad as anime culture, but its almost a wash in many ways. I wonder if the rise of all this choose-your-own-gender/beauty/reality etc is heavily tied to video game and fantasy groups.

If you think about it, it kind of makes sense. Lets say you are a loser who doesn't fit in, in the real world. So you get into all the shit I mentioned. And its perfect for you, because you can thrive and adapt in the virtual world, where you pick your own avatar, or in the roleplaying world where you do the same. You can become immersed in either. I sucked at sports. I can't even dribble a basketball. But sports reinforce your failures in a very visible way. If I went into the ring with an MMA fighter or went one on one with Lebron James on the court, my failures and abject subhumanity would be on display for all to see, and empirical proof of this would be demonstrated. What do I do then? Well, video games allow you to remain anonymous online, and they also allow you to continually restart, log off etc, something you cannot do on the physical playing field. If you have these personal flaws, and play these games enough, surely you would eventually want this video game mentality to be reflected in your actual reality. Especially since with the internet, you can attempt to get others to agree with your screwed up views via social media.

I read an article where a sports journalist went around and interviewed a bunch of high school sports coaches and asked them about declining youth sports participation. Eerily, all the coaches interviewed gave the same answer: Video games. Once you start looking at SJW shit through this prism, it kind of makes perfect sense. Fags of a feather get AIDS together. Playing online can be competitive, but unless you are a South Korean in a StarCraft convention that is livestreamed, you can anonymize yourself and continually change your online appearance. You can keep changing the reality and editing it until you enter into circumstances that you can win easily. You can even set the computer to easy setting (I used to do that in Rise of Nations) and beat it indefinitely. It is perfect for a certain type of person (sadly I am in that category atm)

I know quite a few people whose video game activities are only interrupted by sleep, work, and meals. They basically live online. This make believe world is the only part of their life worth living. Is it really that much of a leap for these people to take the conditioning and factors of gameplay they have been doing for decades and to apply it to day to day life? I don't like being a man in real life. I'm going to change my irl avatar to a woman! I don't think I'm fat irl. Lets take the virtual reality logic and apply it to beauty standards in the real world! Not to mention, they hang out online with other weird maladapted people who bombard them with their own fucked up Social Justice nonsense nonstop. It creates conditions of normalcy in their minds, and helps them cross the virtual barrier into the real world.

Anyway, this is not true across the board. Many gamers are not like this, but my muddled thesis is that all this video game and fantasy socialization has exacerbated these social problems and much of the warped logic of SJWs is amplified and carried over from vidya games. Idk

[TheReal_ND]

Skyrim is a great game

[TheReal_ND]

[Ph64]

I dunno, I was playing Zaxxon and Invaders and such in the arcade in HS (late 70s), and Zork on the TRS80... Then got into Doom, Hexen, Wolfenstein on the PC (FPS games), but honestly was growing out of "gaming" by say 30. I'll still fire up the original Doom or such now and then just as a distraction and have a bit of fun, but i haven't bought any new games in a decade+. Plus most new games focus on online multiplayer (and loot box crap) and honestly I play to escape not "commune", thus single player and I'm not really interested in online.

Even in my heyday though I couldn't have seen playing games all day every day. FFS, there's a job to go to, bills to pay, a house to maintain, other hobbies, reading, etc... I've seen several people just game their friggen lives away, lose relationships/divorce, etc. Just like having people almost walk into me at the store they're so busy staring into their "smart" phone they're not paying attention to the world around them - I feel like screaming at them "wake up, it's not reality, experience the real world around you!!". It fine to escape once in a while - a good movie takes you away for a couple hours, maybe a good book... But not live in it 24/7.

Shit, I had a female friend who divorced (her drinking probably played a big part there too), was gonna walk away from her $2000+/mo mortgage to move to SanFran to rent an apartment for $3200/mo with a guy she'd never met in person, only knew through WOW. She was literally showing me apartment listings she was considering, while I'm suggesting maybe she should get into reality, maybe actually meet this guy she's planning on living with first before picking apartments out, etc? Literally was SMH at it. (It didn't even make it to them meeting IRL).