Okay...but then what makes that games about hunting, fishing, football, nascar and so on?
In the past, I've labeled such games as "bro games". Games played by people who measure their self worth in their physical ability, even if said physical ability is at least partially virtual (I have no idea if they play these games to compliment their hobbies/lifestyle or to replace them).
This is an interesting viewpoint. I don't agree with it (IMHO, politics is a part of life. Just as you cannot have characters without ANY skin color, you cannot NOT have a politically motivated narrative if you want a game having a narrative), but there is certainly something to be said here.
What you describe doesn't appear to be anti-political, but rather a countermovement to the (admitted) pretty liberal political agenda of developers. If people truly wouldn't give a fuck about politics, there wouldn't be trolls or review bombs. And while these could still be made by a vocal minority, the latter example says it best: the sales figures suffer because of it.
Can't say much about doom eternal, but to me that link just points to a few people without humor ("calling a demon is mortally challenged is not funny". yeah...excuse me while I go laugh my ass off to prove my disagreement
).
I would say about the only enjoyment I get from sports games is creating an OP team in some NFL game that lets you create custom players and teams and laughing my ass off to my brothers' frustrations in trying to defeat yours truly using the team! XD
When it comes to the liberal agenda of producers, it's more about how they're trying to clearly paint a biased picture (see: Black Panther 1 with the hero being MLK and the villain being Malcolm X, but yet it features black people calling white people colonizers even though they're in a secret nation that had the fortune to avoid being conquered by the European slave dealers who sought the manpower of these individuals by holding them up at gunpoint and rounding them up and look where we are in the New Ten's...for some reason.) at the expense of other paying customers who not only aren't racist, but when you keep telling people that they're animals and they start acting like animals, well what do you expect? It's kind of like how some people are reacting to the genderfluid thing that's been a popular liberal talking point now for the past few years, at least. You can't refer to someone as he/she/sir/ma'am without the risk of something like the following occurring:
Take the situation with Extra Credits and that Nazi video that got them skinned alive and you have a similar situation.
Personally, I don't get it. So a girl who's tomboyish, for example, feels like a man, and now, she wants to identify as a man because...she's not comfortable with being a woman because she's doing things that are what "society" tells her are "masculine" even though, if she's truly passionate about the hobby/job she's doing, she shouldn't give a shit?
Look at characters like Misato and Asuka in Neon Genesis Evangelion (for those watching the show on Netflix for the first time, for one thing, this anime has been out for 20+ years and you're now watching it? On a more important note, spoilers may abound in the next paragraph), they can act more "masculine" than Shinji at times, but they never feel any less of a woman than they did before they start getting loud and boisterous in Asuka's case, or Misato being all action girl in her having a leadership role and for a few brief moments in the show's climax. Does Shinji ever feel like he was meant to be a woman? Outside of some fan theories regarding a certain major spoiler, it always seemed like Shinji had a thing for women, as obvious in the show's...ahem...*clears throat*
climax (wonder if
that will be in the Netflix adaptation? Is EOE even a part of that? Like, is it on the list of episodes after the endings so incomplete that it makes Mass Effect 3's original endings look complete by comparison).
To me, it always seemed like people were making out the feelings in their mind to mean way more than they really did in these cases. I'm not very talkative myself in real life. I don't play a lot of sports, but that doesn't mean I don't mind doing some lifting here and there at my job or at home, or taking a leadership role here or there. You could interpret the lifting as masculine, but the thing is, I never looked at traits like that and attached all of these identities to them. Everyone has some form of leadership, lifting, and desire for some sort of action in them. Whether that action is something that will get you gainful and hopefully consistent employment in the workforce is an entirely different matter, but at the end of the day, being someone your that's low management-maintenance, friendly, easy to work with, hard working, going above and beyond all others, and so many other traits are just that-traits, that yes, certain parts of society may attach all of these identities, -isms, and other nonsense that unfortunately can play a part in how things work in the world, but at the end of the day, no one is saying that humility, diligence, carefulness, selflessness, etc. is bad. What is bad is expecting others to conform to an idea that they may not agree with, otherwise known as the thoughtcrime. It'd be like if I was sitting next to a girl while I'm playing my Nintendo Switch on a train and suddenly, for no reason, with no provocation of mine on any part, she's accusing yours truly of sexual harassment because I chose to sit next to a girl because of the crime of yours truly being a man and her paranoid belief that all men are Harvey Weinsteins. Like, why are we making these issues a big deal all of a sudden? It's almost like people are using labels to...discriminate against others.
Huh. And now we're back to businesses being paranoid about men and women working together in the workplace because of a movement that may have had good intentions for some involved in it, but for others it's becoming a tornado of ugly things that don't need to be made public (imagine all of the outcry Harrison Ford's many marriages would cause in today's day and age had the divorces occurred now and not in the 70's/early 2000's?) becoming knowledge that everyone is talking about? Like, I predicted that there was more to the whole ProJared affair when his wife said one thing, Jared's girlfriend said another, Jared said this thing after those two had their catfight on Twitter, etc..
Point is, people need to learn who they are, find out what they want in life, and be happy with it. Cut out the things that aren't important, and move on. No one said you had to go to college right out of high school other than maybe to get your general ed's out of the way because
fuck general ed's. Seriously. If you're a woman wanting to be a man for real and not because you want to own the cons or some other BS, have at it. Be yourself at the end of the day. You do you. Because at the end of the day, who the fuck am I to tell you how to live your life? It's a giant world out there, and we're just a pale blue dot in a huge galaxy which is itself just one galaxy out of many. It is truly up to you to decide what you want to do. Do you want to build up a better world for everyone else and yourself, or tear it all down to the worsening of others' living conditions? I know this all sounds like it's big and it's gonna take a lot of work, but Rome wasn't built in a day. Fix yourself first as best as you can, and keep doing that while you keep working and trying to become a benefit to society, no matter how small that benefit may seem to you. Sure, that item you're stocking on that shelf may end up in someone else's hands and the shelf may be bared of all of the item stocked by the end of the night or in the next day, but you helped others' day by making that item available for purchase which will help the store get more of that item and invest into other things that could improve the store itself in more ways than one. But it's up to you to make that first step to figure out what needs to be done.
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Gee I wish the OP would answer the first question asked of him in this thread
