First off, I get that it’s a joke, but somebody playing Wolfenstein on “gigachad big penis difficulty” is ime going to be way less problematic than somebody who plays an online FPS like CS or CoD. These days the main source of difficulty discourse is the Soulslike genre, and those don’t have difficulty selectors at all.
Second, and almost entirely unrelated, I always find it interesting to see this kind of backlash to the nerd-jock dynamic of the internet (yes this is simplified but it’s about a meme so whatever). Something about resentment toward whoever’s viewed as being on top of the hierarchy of the “world”, whether that be real or internet, perhaps.
Originally, nerds are demeaned IRL while jocks are valorized
Online becomes the domain of the nerds, nerds demean jocks and valorize their own hobbies
Online becomes increasingly mainstream and we see the beginning of a flip where the nerds, who have been elevated on the internet up to this point, are now occasionally demeaned while jocks are occasionally valorized
Kinda similar to the modern rebuke of “reddit atheism” followed by the acceptance of religious beliefs.
the disasterous acceptance. reddit atheists were annoying and often racist, the christian nationalists are actively taking away our rights and are always racist.
both of them seek to preserve white nationalism. reddit atheism in practice just means bill maher pro-imperialist muslim hatred. religion in the west is at most subordinate to imperialist ideology and without it the amazing atheists of the world would find another excuse to be fascists.
religion in the west is at most subordinate to imperialist ideology
i don’t agree, the end-times christians definitely want some stuff that’s detrimental to the empire and they seem to be getting their way. look at pete hegseth and his crusader shit that echoes the previous wars.
reddit atheism in practice just means bill maher pro-imperialist muslim hatred
idk there was always a faction who understood the greatest religious threat to people in the west was dominionism and didn’t lose their minds like sam harris did. i don’t recommend the group after their big transphobia schism a few years ago but if you want to listen to a decade of a public access call-in show the atheist community of austin would regularly correct people who were trying to be primarily mad about muslims.
end-times christians definitely want some stuff that’s detrimental to the empire
i said subordinate, not completely powerless. they definitely do some stuff that other factions would rather they didn’t. but they aren’t gonna blow it up like walter white, and they aren’t powerful enough to do these things alone. there are material justifications for this iran stuff &c beyond just bringing about the rapture.
the atheist community of austin
but public-access tv atheism is much more niche than reddit/eglin air force base atheism. i could bring up liberation theology as a counterpoint to this, because at the very least, liberation theology has had more impact on the world than the various atheist “movements” in the us. which is to say, not a ton.
First off, I get that it’s a joke, but somebody playing Wolfenstein on “gigachad big penis difficulty” is ime going to be way less problematic than somebody who plays an online FPS like CS or CoD. These days the main source of difficulty discourse is the Soulslike genre, and those don’t have difficulty selectors at all.
Second, and almost entirely unrelated, I always find it interesting to see this kind of backlash to the nerd-jock dynamic of the internet (yes this is simplified but it’s about a meme so whatever). Something about resentment toward whoever’s viewed as being on top of the hierarchy of the “world”, whether that be real or internet, perhaps.
Kinda similar to the modern rebuke of “reddit atheism” followed by the acceptance of religious beliefs.
the disasterous acceptance. reddit atheists were annoying and often racist, the christian nationalists are actively taking away our rights and are always racist.
both of them seek to preserve white nationalism. reddit atheism in practice just means bill maher pro-imperialist muslim hatred. religion in the west is at most subordinate to imperialist ideology and without it the amazing atheists of the world would find another excuse to be fascists.
i don’t agree, the end-times christians definitely want some stuff that’s detrimental to the empire and they seem to be getting their way. look at pete hegseth and his crusader shit that echoes the previous wars.
idk there was always a faction who understood the greatest religious threat to people in the west was dominionism and didn’t lose their minds like sam harris did. i don’t recommend the group after their big transphobia schism a few years ago but if you want to listen to a decade of a public access call-in show the atheist community of austin would regularly correct people who were trying to be primarily mad about muslims.
i said subordinate, not completely powerless. they definitely do some stuff that other factions would rather they didn’t. but they aren’t gonna blow it up like walter white, and they aren’t powerful enough to do these things alone. there are material justifications for this iran stuff &c beyond just bringing about the rapture.
but public-access tv atheism is much more niche than reddit/eglin air force base atheism. i could bring up liberation theology as a counterpoint to this, because at the very least, liberation theology has had more impact on the world than the various atheist “movements” in the us. which is to say, not a ton.