A Starship Troopers inspired game inspired mass patriotism easily, lots of games inspire people to learn more about resource management, land management, building infrastructure and earning your own prestige (grinding)
Of course gaming could be conservatives best friend, name me a game that champions Christian values more than Doom? The problem is, and it's why I despise the 'old guard' conservatives the most, is they argue more on 'the morality of our actions and the process of how we do it' than actually doing something.
They're the type to complain we shouldn't use certain weapons because they're too barbaric while me I'd use whatever is the most effective and keeps the majority of my people and stuff safe. It'd be better if the Daily Wire types where just put in the retirement home while the main conservative view should be use everything available until you can purge them all from EVERY position of power.
At a glance this Brandon Morse guy does at least seem more genuinely interested in gaming news: a look through his history of published articles brings me stuff indicating a much more consistent approval of games, disapproval of censorship even on moralistic grounds, and support for gamers, like this article about Stellar Blade and how there's nothing wrong with Eve's sexiness or this one from last November shitting on Alan Wa/oke II. And he does outright describe Matt Walsh's take to be completely wrong very early on in the above linked article. Perhaps we're starting to see tension in the online conservative media sphere between dinosaurs like the Daily Wire and more tech-friendly, forward-looking young guard types?
Anyone more familiar with Brandon Morse and RedState, please do help me fill in the gaps of my knowledge re: how real & reliable they are, at least in comparison to blatant opportunists and fake & gay neocons like Walsh and the Daily Wire.
I'm hesitant about RedState because they've published TERF shit in the past (using terms like "toxic masculinity" in an anti-troon article) but I don't know how representative that is of the site in general. I'm not familiar with Morse but I like what I see so far. Pro-gamer voices in the conservative media is a good thing as long as they don't expect us to be the tradcucks' house niggers.
I mostly remember RedState for being a battleground between pro-Trump and never-Trump voices on their staff back during the 2016 election, which eventually resulted in the former winning and purging the latter shortly before election day (they then fucked off to neocon sites such as Bill Kristol-sponsored The Bulwark and Erick Erickson's The Resurgent). In more recent months & years, when I take a look at their front page I've sometimes seen dueling articles between pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine writers.
Having done a bit more digging, they seem to be a site that tolerates debate & rivaling viewpoints as long as those viewpoints remain broadly right-wing and nobody goes so far as to support the Democrats, which IIRC was the tipping point that precipitated the purge of the Never-Trump RINOs in 2016. Interesting place to be for a conservative website, I suppose. Hard to say whether that's true of their view on gaming too since Morse seems like the only guy who talks about vidya at all on the entire site - if there are any Walsh-types on board, they're keeping it to themselves so far. Then again Morse is apparently a senior editor on there, which may be a good sign depending on the sincerity of his views of gaming.
Final note, it turns out RedState has actually been around longer than the Daily Wire (founded in 2004 vs. 2015) and they're owned by Salem Media Group, a Christian conservative media conglomerate that's been around since the 1970s but has seemingly always had ambivalent relations with the Buckley-Reagan-Bush 'fusionist'/neocon consensus which dominated the American right wing until Trump. Actually all their websites (Townhall, PJ Media, Hot Air - they got rid of Allahpundit a few years ago) have been turning increasingly overtly unfriendly towards the Republican establishment alongside RedState since the mid-2010s, and RedState was also the first site to break the financial scandal that decisively forced Ronna McDaniel out of the RNC. Frankly if these trends continue, I'd rather these guys be the future of the conservative media sphere than more of Fox and the DW.
Wasn't that literally the reason why Milo was sent way back in the day by his boss to get involved with the blossoming GG movement? Because they saw a huge swath of angry young men on the cusp of hating/leaving the Left and knew it would be effective. Heck that was one of the creations of the brief actually self named "alt-right."
Its just the same purity spirals the Right is always caught in. Where anything that might not jive with their exact idea of "ideal" must be dismissed entirely as beta, soy, pedo, simp, kiddy, etc. Followed by the belief that, much like their old father taught them, you can just beat the "sissy" out of a kid and turn him into a man just like them.
Conservative Inc is an enormous detriment to the cultural pushback against woke ideology and Globalism.
Whether it's because they're there to gatekeep and prevent the start of an actual populist cultural movement, or because they're just stupid, the result of the Boomercon approach taken by guys like Walsh and Shapiro and the rest who look down on the pop culture facet of the culture war is the same. They're not only deliberately giving up ground in the battle for our society's cultural soul, but that they're actively pushing young people into the hands of leftists, who do understand the political importance of this space.
Yall really must not watch Walsh. He hates nerd culture because he sees it as weakening our society. Even when he's obviously self censoring he'd fit in on this forum otherwise
This forum is still rooted in GamerGate. We are here because of nerd culture. Pop culture is by definition the facets of culture that young people are interested in. If conservatives refuse to fight for it, we are giving that generation to the left. All of their cultural experiences will be shaped by communists, globalists, anti-white narratives and LGBTards, and the right will continue to lose by sitting back and whining about how childish it is to care about that stuff at all. By deriding pop culture, Matt Walsh isn't fighting the degradation of our society: he is actively encouraging it.
I was here before virtually everyone else. The absolute obsession with video games and defending Amy criticism of them is the problem. We haven't won shit on the video game or pop culture front yet yall keep insisting that everyone should continue consuming it en mass.
Most of our problems are exactly because people have allowed pop culture to dominate their lives. I love much of pop culture as entertainment but it doesn't offend me if others don't like or even dislike the things I do
We're not talking about a difference in taste here. We're talking about how all of the establishment boomercon pundits seem intent on alienating and making themselves irrelevant to young people by not only dismissing pop culture and video games, but by routinely shitting on people for liking it.
The fact that you're sitting here accusing me of engaging in that behavior when we've spent decades on the receiving end of it from guys like Matt Walsh, Stephen Crowder and Gavin McGuiness proves that you're the one who isn't paying attention.
You're still whining about people not liking your shit. Also the fact that you include Crowder speaks volumes to your sensitivity since he's been talking about pop culture being infected for years.
If you get butthurt and decide everything based on whether someone likes your pop culture shit then humanity deserves the rot it's experiencing
No. Two entire generations of young men have grown up playing video games as their principal entertainment medium. For more than a decade, those same young men have grown more and more frustrated and alienated as their go-to form of escapism has been increasingly infested by leftists who want to use it as yet another stick go beat them with, to bully, harangue and demoralize them, and call them manbabies and racists when they speak out against that trend.
And so they turn away from the cultural left to more right-wing spaces in order to find like-minded people. These are the young people who might be more open to conservative ideas. But for every one of them who finds Nerdrotic, or Geeks + Gamers or even Sargon, there are another two or three whose first interaction with a rightist space is Matt Walsh calling video games demonic and his producer calling them manbabies for disagreeing with him.
QBG quit Crowder's show for the exact reason that he was constantly looked down on and treated like the kid in the room for caring about pop culture franchises and wanting to discuss the free reign that the left has enjoyed in those spaces, and in the social consciousness of the mostly young people who consume that material.
This attitude is the reason the right has lost the culture war, and two whole generations of potential allies.
A Starship Troopers inspired game inspired mass patriotism easily, lots of games inspire people to learn more about resource management, land management, building infrastructure and earning your own prestige (grinding)
Of course gaming could be conservatives best friend, name me a game that champions Christian values more than Doom? The problem is, and it's why I despise the 'old guard' conservatives the most, is they argue more on 'the morality of our actions and the process of how we do it' than actually doing something.
They're the type to complain we shouldn't use certain weapons because they're too barbaric while me I'd use whatever is the most effective and keeps the majority of my people and stuff safe. It'd be better if the Daily Wire types where just put in the retirement home while the main conservative view should be use everything available until you can purge them all from EVERY position of power.
Underground death coaster tycoon. Lol.
At a glance this Brandon Morse guy does at least seem more genuinely interested in gaming news: a look through his history of published articles brings me stuff indicating a much more consistent approval of games, disapproval of censorship even on moralistic grounds, and support for gamers, like this article about Stellar Blade and how there's nothing wrong with Eve's sexiness or this one from last November shitting on Alan Wa/oke II. And he does outright describe Matt Walsh's take to be completely wrong very early on in the above linked article. Perhaps we're starting to see tension in the online conservative media sphere between dinosaurs like the Daily Wire and more tech-friendly, forward-looking young guard types?
Anyone more familiar with Brandon Morse and RedState, please do help me fill in the gaps of my knowledge re: how real & reliable they are, at least in comparison to blatant opportunists and fake & gay neocons like Walsh and the Daily Wire.
I'm hesitant about RedState because they've published TERF shit in the past (using terms like "toxic masculinity" in an anti-troon article) but I don't know how representative that is of the site in general. I'm not familiar with Morse but I like what I see so far. Pro-gamer voices in the conservative media is a good thing as long as they don't expect us to be the tradcucks' house niggers.
I mostly remember RedState for being a battleground between pro-Trump and never-Trump voices on their staff back during the 2016 election, which eventually resulted in the former winning and purging the latter shortly before election day (they then fucked off to neocon sites such as Bill Kristol-sponsored The Bulwark and Erick Erickson's The Resurgent). In more recent months & years, when I take a look at their front page I've sometimes seen dueling articles between pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine writers.
Having done a bit more digging, they seem to be a site that tolerates debate & rivaling viewpoints as long as those viewpoints remain broadly right-wing and nobody goes so far as to support the Democrats, which IIRC was the tipping point that precipitated the purge of the Never-Trump RINOs in 2016. Interesting place to be for a conservative website, I suppose. Hard to say whether that's true of their view on gaming too since Morse seems like the only guy who talks about vidya at all on the entire site - if there are any Walsh-types on board, they're keeping it to themselves so far. Then again Morse is apparently a senior editor on there, which may be a good sign depending on the sincerity of his views of gaming.
Final note, it turns out RedState has actually been around longer than the Daily Wire (founded in 2004 vs. 2015) and they're owned by Salem Media Group, a Christian conservative media conglomerate that's been around since the 1970s but has seemingly always had ambivalent relations with the Buckley-Reagan-Bush 'fusionist'/neocon consensus which dominated the American right wing until Trump. Actually all their websites (Townhall, PJ Media, Hot Air - they got rid of Allahpundit a few years ago) have been turning increasingly overtly unfriendly towards the Republican establishment alongside RedState since the mid-2010s, and RedState was also the first site to break the financial scandal that decisively forced Ronna McDaniel out of the RNC. Frankly if these trends continue, I'd rather these guys be the future of the conservative media sphere than more of Fox and the DW.
I vaguely recall Morse from the heydays of Gamergate. I think he was one of the good ones.
Lots of conservatives dont agree with matt. Just cause he's dwire doesnt mean hes a conservative for everyone
Wasn't that literally the reason why Milo was sent way back in the day by his boss to get involved with the blossoming GG movement? Because they saw a huge swath of angry young men on the cusp of hating/leaving the Left and knew it would be effective. Heck that was one of the creations of the brief actually self named "alt-right."
Its just the same purity spirals the Right is always caught in. Where anything that might not jive with their exact idea of "ideal" must be dismissed entirely as beta, soy, pedo, simp, kiddy, etc. Followed by the belief that, much like their old father taught them, you can just beat the "sissy" out of a kid and turn him into a man just like them.
What's so bad about Walsh anyway? Seems like a typical big R conservative.
Conservative Inc is an enormous detriment to the cultural pushback against woke ideology and Globalism.
Whether it's because they're there to gatekeep and prevent the start of an actual populist cultural movement, or because they're just stupid, the result of the Boomercon approach taken by guys like Walsh and Shapiro and the rest who look down on the pop culture facet of the culture war is the same. They're not only deliberately giving up ground in the battle for our society's cultural soul, but that they're actively pushing young people into the hands of leftists, who do understand the political importance of this space.
Yall really must not watch Walsh. He hates nerd culture because he sees it as weakening our society. Even when he's obviously self censoring he'd fit in on this forum otherwise
This forum is still rooted in GamerGate. We are here because of nerd culture. Pop culture is by definition the facets of culture that young people are interested in. If conservatives refuse to fight for it, we are giving that generation to the left. All of their cultural experiences will be shaped by communists, globalists, anti-white narratives and LGBTards, and the right will continue to lose by sitting back and whining about how childish it is to care about that stuff at all. By deriding pop culture, Matt Walsh isn't fighting the degradation of our society: he is actively encouraging it.
I was here before virtually everyone else. The absolute obsession with video games and defending Amy criticism of them is the problem. We haven't won shit on the video game or pop culture front yet yall keep insisting that everyone should continue consuming it en mass.
Most of our problems are exactly because people have allowed pop culture to dominate their lives. I love much of pop culture as entertainment but it doesn't offend me if others don't like or even dislike the things I do
We're not talking about a difference in taste here. We're talking about how all of the establishment boomercon pundits seem intent on alienating and making themselves irrelevant to young people by not only dismissing pop culture and video games, but by routinely shitting on people for liking it.
The fact that you're sitting here accusing me of engaging in that behavior when we've spent decades on the receiving end of it from guys like Matt Walsh, Stephen Crowder and Gavin McGuiness proves that you're the one who isn't paying attention.
You're still whining about people not liking your shit. Also the fact that you include Crowder speaks volumes to your sensitivity since he's been talking about pop culture being infected for years.
If you get butthurt and decide everything based on whether someone likes your pop culture shit then humanity deserves the rot it's experiencing
No. Two entire generations of young men have grown up playing video games as their principal entertainment medium. For more than a decade, those same young men have grown more and more frustrated and alienated as their go-to form of escapism has been increasingly infested by leftists who want to use it as yet another stick go beat them with, to bully, harangue and demoralize them, and call them manbabies and racists when they speak out against that trend.
And so they turn away from the cultural left to more right-wing spaces in order to find like-minded people. These are the young people who might be more open to conservative ideas. But for every one of them who finds Nerdrotic, or Geeks + Gamers or even Sargon, there are another two or three whose first interaction with a rightist space is Matt Walsh calling video games demonic and his producer calling them manbabies for disagreeing with him.
QBG quit Crowder's show for the exact reason that he was constantly looked down on and treated like the kid in the room for caring about pop culture franchises and wanting to discuss the free reign that the left has enjoyed in those spaces, and in the social consciousness of the mostly young people who consume that material.
This attitude is the reason the right has lost the culture war, and two whole generations of potential allies.
Typical big 'L' conservatives judging by how well they perform sans Trump.
that's how they trick you. come on guys you know better. skinsuiting is one of their favorite tactics.
Seems like a typical big R conservative.
Walsh like the rest of dwire are very big establishment conservatives, which a lot of people dont like. They're like a step above rinos