I was catching up on the latest happenings regarding the SBI think, and I had a thought as I was watching a Yellow Flash video about that non-profit defending SBI with a Homeland Security grant.
If you can recall, I have said several times before that the D.C. bureaucrats really do believe the bullshit they spout when they talk about "extremism." OK, I can hear you asking, how does that apply here?
Well, Official D.C. has settled onto the belief that gaming fosters "extremism," and that gaming developers need resources to counter this "threat."
In short, Official D.C. doesn't view a gamer as much different than a Trump supporter.
I think that a lot of commentators covering the SBI thing on our side are cynically rolling their eyes over the way government is getting involved with this, and are not taking the threat represented by such involvement seriously. If government gets involved with this, as it increasingly looks like it will, well, GG won't be just a cultural movement in gaming any more.
If you want to know what it looks like when Government goes after "extremists," look at what is going on with Trump, and more importantly, what Official D.C. is doing to Trump's former staff. Going after law licenses via Bar complaints for nothing more than daring to represent Trump in court, and throwing not a few of them into jail on process crimes.
I mean they can learn one of the reasons the Christian right lost their influence in modern times if they try, go ahead mess with something that has over 50 years of ingrained culture into it.
And it'll shutter EVERY western studio which actually promotes THEIR message since most of them are headquartered in America, especially California. The East won't care and continue on as normal while even Europe is falling too fast that they can't even bother to try that.
I can see them trying because of how desperate they are, it's Trump vs Biden round 2 and even the plantation side hates Biden, but it'll fail as the average person is now so jaded that they're more likely to tell the government to fuck off than comply, targeting their escapism is not a winning strategy right now when it's the only thing ACTUALLY distracting people..
Want to know the most ironic thing about it all? If Gamergate never happened as in they just left the entertainment alone at least for gaming and never tried to inject politics into it, they'd probably be in MORE control of the world then they could have ever dreamed of.
We'd all be distracted in our escapism to care the world was sinking more into shit, fine with working soul crushing jobs so long as we could escape into a few hours into a fantasy we had control over.
Ever since they fucked with games, their control has been slipping and it's funny they constantly double down than try to save face and stop any further damage.
Bread. Circuses.
Don't fuck with bread, or circuses. We've known that since Roman times.
Inflation and weird shortages messing with bread, eat the bugs movements messing with bread. GG-related issues highlighting messing with circuses.
They have two jobs, but both are just "don't fuck around with it".
The thing these people want is for people to rely on them for providing the bread and the circuses
It’s an ego thing more than anything. These people want power and they want you to know the power they have over you
That's impossible for someone with the government stooge mindset. You could set them in front of a desk with a PC that had access to all the world's entertainment and a red button labelled FUCKING TOUCH THIS AND DIE, and in 10 minutes, the button would be pressed.