Outro makes me feel the opposite of a positive polly.
colonelj
good show
Benjamin Rood
Jim was 100% right. But people can't help themselves, they *want* to be normies and fit in.
Benjamin Rood
My hot take is that Leigh Alexander's original article ("Gamers are dead") was right, and I agreed with her at the time.
People are pathetic, why do they want to be identified as a label? "Gamer" is a marketing category, it's not an identity. Everyone who takes these things on as their identity is a smooth-brained consoomer. You enjoy playing video games, you are a human being, but you are not a marketing demographic, you are not a "gamer". Well, at least you shouldn't *want* to be.
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Outro makes me feel the opposite of a positive polly.
good show
Jim was 100% right. But people can't help themselves, they *want* to be normies and fit in.
My hot take is that Leigh Alexander's original article ("Gamers are dead") was right, and I agreed with her at the time. People are pathetic, why do they want to be identified as a label? "Gamer" is a marketing category, it's not an identity. Everyone who takes these things on as their identity is a smooth-brained consoomer. You enjoy playing video games, you are a human being, but you are not a marketing demographic, you are not a "gamer". Well, at least you shouldn't *want* to be.