I tried posting this to KiA, but I never realized how many KiA Prime people are blue pilled thinking things will go back to normal after this.
Seeing how most of you here are far more aware of what's going on, I'm going to copy pasta what I posted on Prime before the dumb mods deleted it since most of you aren't rabid TDers but also understand the "bigger picture":
My original post below.
So all the things we warned about 6 years ago has more or less come to fruition, and the safeguards and actions we took to keep it from getting worse has more or less been removed or neutralized to allow unethical behavior, blatant biased news that denigrates gamers and other arbitrary groups is now everywhere. Every gaming urinalist and game development outlet has an Anita Sarkeesian type or 10 working for them. Reddit went from a place where disparate ideologies could bicker with each other to a site where small pockets of "The resistance" (moderates, conservatives) are allowed to stay quarantined in certain areas but the ideological moderation is rampant in other subs.
Youtube, Twitter, etc., the stuff the normies consume that aren't alt-tech have now openly abused Section 230 in open defiance of the current administration. The mask has come off, and we've run out of options at this point at any possible way to enforce full on freedom of expression and speech under the law.
Where do we go from here?
We have alt-tech, but as many of you have realized, alt-tech popularity undermined by the mainstream outlets that try to demonize them. We now have a giant ideological chasm between us moderate lefties and right wingers and the establishment "liberals". It's unrepairable, so where do we go from here?
All the things you "consoom" has been tainted by this stuff. You can only resort to removing yourself from that pool so much until it comes to a point where you are essentially isolating yourself from society, so where do we go from here? If everything has SocJus, if everything has TOSes that violate freedom of expression, then what is left to turn to?
What is practical that we can do tomorrow while continuing our everyday lives on this bucket of a planet we call Earth?
That point on not being demoralized is spot on and I was at least trying to say that without saying it in one of my comments. If we allow ourselves to not have the correct positive outlets and get totally demoralized, they win and it's over. That's what they want.
I like the thought about being focused (on games in this instance) where at least perhaps you can do something. I've not been around this community long, but I'd definitely be down to join in on online games and such, the only reason I ever quit is my friends got out of it and the general community was horrible. General caveats, I have none of this "skill" so if there's a grand dream of being elite competitive uh yeah you won't get that with me, and no I will not play yet another battle royale game.
I've piddled around with making a throwback website celebrating games I loved growing up and encouraging checking out older games and things that still hold up. Maybe I need to revisit that, I've got a lot of content worked out but crap if I didn't figure how quickly how many layers of rust there were on my website building skills.
Edit: if you see this, I forgot, how is the GOTY going? Still happening? I'd been reading the post for electors only and forcing myself to not start spouting opinions but it's gotten buried or I can't find it.
See, but this is why I think this is totally good, though.
I pay attention to my replies. And it getting buried is part of the reason I'm okay with it. Give the electors a little bit of privacy to make the decision. I think we've got 6 of the 12 responding now. We'll see about how the weekend goes.