That's a good caveat I forgot to add, which is a very salient: second-hand problem solving skills aren't problem solving skills at all (unless it's specifically a tutorial to help you problem solve).
Just like, watching a streamer play puzzle/RTS games and complete them won't help you get better at understanding how to play and beat puzzle/RTS games.
You're actually correct... I am seeing some of them (almost exclusively gay men) speaking out against this, especially in some random YouTube video comment sections.
I think most of the people engaged with that aspect of the culture war have migrated to the equivalent YouTubers/content creators with similar coverage, like Endymion, SyntheticMan, Doctor Disaster, etc.
You cannot really have these conversations on open web forums because it's all controlled by the people who hate you, and places like this will always veer into the upper-hierarchy of the politics related to the social aspects because entertainment culture is all downstream of that (I know there's an argument to be made about the reverse being true, but broadly speaking if you look at places like Russia, Hungary or China, their top-level politics prevent stuff like faggotry from being widely promoted in entertainment culture, hence they have stopgaps in place to corral which direction entertainment moves, politically).
It's a complete toss-up if you go into some normie spaces.
Straight White Males who are not boomers or Gen-X seem to be on-point. It always blesses my heart to go into a Quora thread about gender debates, race issues, or sociopolitics and see SWM standing up and making proper Conservative arguments against Leftist agitprop. (Though it is a bit of a downer to see so many Gen-X'ers and boomers in those same threads defending the various forms of faggotry).
East Asian males are also properly on point, for the most part (especially Japanese men).
The problem is that I'm not seeing this from other groups unless those groups are being infringed upon in some way. For instance, I only see blacks rally against faggotry if the zeitgeist promotes faggotry in THEIR spaces. Otherwise they don't seem to care. Hispanic men seem to go either way (as Jared Taylor pointed out in a recent college talk, a lot of Hispanics have been roped into the identity politics in the West to believe that the system is still "racist" against them, so there are still groups who will side with the Left out of solidarity).
The problem is that the average wench is still a complete lost cause; for every ten crazy Liberal wenches, there might be one Conservative one. This also seems to be regardless of race, which is not surprising, but still not good.
To keep it short, I'm witnessing a fracturing in the normie spaces -- SWM and EAM are tired of it and actively speaking out against it. But the rest of the normies don't seem to care.
I suppose depending on how much they ramp up for this June will depend on how fatigued the normies are and whether other demographics will actually rally against the overt push for faggotry everywhere.
I have never touched a friend slop game and likely never will.
However, it's one of the few good things to come out of today's technology.
Games encouraging communication, teamwork, and critical thinking are all facets NOT being taught in schools, and sadly not being taught at home either.
Streamers are inadvertently working against the zeitgeist by promoting such titles, because AAA games are all about promoting the opposite effect: They want people competing, silent, and following the yellow indicators without question nor thought.
The emergent, sandboxy-style approach some of these friend slop games introduce are good for building problem solving skills, and helping people delegate roles to fixing issues.
This won't stay around for long, though.
When AAA studios and the elites catch wind of this trend they will usurp its momentum like they have every other genre and then put a wench in it, make it lame, and make it gay.
Yes!
Back then there used to be the 250 Games Mega Disc, which came with a bunch of freeware and shareware titles.
Not just mocked... JAILED....
I think something like 22% of the lasses out there think cold approaching is equivalent to harassment.
As a guy, that's close to one in five who might consider your cold approach "harassment", and out of them, there is no telling which ones might record you and call the police.
That is an incredible risk to run on someone who is likely ran-through, a single mother, or a mudshark.
Street Rod.
Loved that game and was basically the first to do tuner culture right. I kind of wish we had a more modern version of that game that wasn't steeped in stupidity, microtransactions, or DEI nonsense.
We come close with games like Car Mechanic Simulator, but it lacks the story and racing elements of Street Rod. I also wish we had more games that focused on taking sleepers and turning them into monster hotrods. A lot of games these days focus on taking popular sports cars and just making them faster.
Racing in the aqueducts for pink slips was such a thrill.
I loved that game; the soundtrack was one of the best. That was back when S3Ms were still novel and Epic Games was publishing shareware titles that used them; it made a world of difference compared to the midi or chiptunes in other games from that era.
Oh no... Razorfist isn't pro-Iran War by using the 1979 attack as an excuse to destabilise the country, enact regieme change and force a forever war is he?
Muslims are only there because of the Jews.
No worries, mate. I'm a little twitchy on this subject.
The audience over on the Chinese Historian are constantly complaining that it's a double standard for SWM to take Ling Lings yet complain about White women mudsharking. Chinese Historian is especially bitter about it because Chinese women don't like him, and he's an incel, and all the Chinese women in Canada are with SWM.
Yeah any company grandstanding and virtue signaling "No AI!" is outright retarded.
Smart people are using it everywhere it makes sense to cut costs, workloads, and streamline efficiency. As a tool it can help in so many areas, from UV mapping and vertices cleanup on photogrammatic scans, to creating unique voice libraries out of a single sample, to helping with motion matching and animation cleanup.
Any company badmouthing AI as a tool to help cut costs and optimise workflow is a woke retarded company who is looking to blow money where they don't need to.
Well, that one was on me.
I suppose, any lass who isn't married yet proselytising on the "tradcon" grift is likely going to be mudsharking (e.g., Pearl Davis, Lauren Southern, etc.)
I had this problem as well.
Try the Epic Privacy Browser, it was how I was able to get around that problem.
Pear-shaped androgynous faggots....
It's been this way since Microsoft overhauled the Xbox Live avatars from some time ago (maybe it started before then?). But after that update and all the avatars had andgrogynous faggotry-features it was just downhill from there.
There have been some videos saying Microsoft is rebranding Xbox and "getting back to form", but all they're going to do is go harder on the DEI nonsense or be more subversive about it.
Just seeing those words in a character creator enrages me.
Absolutely nailed it.
Some of the worst offenders of this are blokes like Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles. They're some of the faces of Conservative punditry in the West, yet simp at every turn.
Until the heads start preaching male leadership in the household and society, and the wench as the helpmate, it doesn't matter if the illegals and brown invaders are rid of if the wenches keep rolling around in the mud. These problems were exacerbated because women were given authority they didn't deserve.
For a minute I thought this post was about Lilly Gaddis, who also mudsharked.
I was kind of shocked to find out she was a single mother as well. She has a bunch of simps for followers, but a few of them regularly call her out in the comments.
How can you advocate for Conservative values and a return to traditionalism when having engaged in all of the Liberal Progressive degeneracy that has helped ruin society?
False equivalence.
What is the abandonment rate of White men with Asian women? Exactly.
White women with black men incurs a 40% additional likelihood of relational failure compared to White men and White women: https://www.connectedcouples.app/blog/interracial-marriage-statistics
The reality is that if a White man marries another race, he is bringing that woman UP to his standards: better living conditions, higher IQ social circles, and surrounding her in an evolved culture.
This is why you see the offspring of White men and Asian women do so well in society, as opposed to the mutts from miscegenation who oftentimes become the dirge of society: likely to end up as delinquents, criminals, or worse.
In short, a White woman getting with anything less than a White man results in her DEVALUING herself and putting out a dysgenic product in society.
TL;DR: White men evolve lesser races when marrying down. There is no upside to mudsharking.
This is such a well written observation of the changing times.
Your point applied to so many "heroes" prior to 1997.
It was basically every action role for Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson.
Even with popular characters like John McClane -- he did not want to get involved with the heist during the original Die Hard. He was trying to get the attention of the police -- in fact, that's one of the very first things he does.
John Matrix has zero interest in going back to work in special forces; he was forced to do what he did to save his daughter. He didn't give two craps about the villain's plot to kill the president.
Rambo is basically the epitome of your comment all wrapped up in a nice bow. He was ALWAYS reluctant to get involved because he knew he cost and toll of combat. The entire series is him basically telling people, "I told you so" about not wanting to escalate things. He only ever got involved to save people he personally cared about or save himself.
Heck, even in Rambo, he led those missionaries practically to their death (even after giving them fair warning), and then had to lead the mercenaries in to rescue the missionaries, and he never took charge of the mission, just kind of followed along until at the end.
It's just cope to get away from the fact that it's meant to be a lazy shortcut to get women invested in the plot when they otherwise wouldn't.
It's more insidious. Movies cannot allow women to be the incentive or impetus for a man's actions if the plot requires her to be harmed at the expense of motivating the hero.
Feminists came up with this ridiculous term called "fridging" after a Green Lantern comic featured his gilrfriend being crushed and stuffed into a refrigerator.
After the 2010s, you'll note that women either cannot be killed to motivate the hero nor be a damsel in distress for the hero to rescue (a good example of this is Peach not being captured in the Mario movie, but Luigi being the dude in distress instead; and even when Peach agrees to marry Bowser, she ends up saving herself, which makes the whole rescue attempt by Mario and Donkey Kong look weak and half-hearted).
Today men are emasculated in films and despite women naturally hating this in men instinctively, they seemingly let this slide or don't see it happening on some level when they go to the theaters
Ironically, they do see it happening, but most wenches are femoids. They just go along with it because the zeitgeist tells them to.
There are a few female content creators who point out that men in movies act effeminate and weak and don't act masculine at all. But they've been fed so much feminist bullcrap they don't actually know how to reconcile the cognitive dissonance fed to them by the zeitgeist that disrupts their built-in biological drive to be drawn toward characters like classic Bond/Indiana Jones.
Absolutely... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XXUS2iUJYQA
You'll need to scroll down a bit beyond the typical "Bernthal is great" and "This is how the Punisher should be!" comments.
The more you scroll down the more the normies start noticing, which is a beautiful thing.
Hilariously, the FtM are usually pretty fucking quiet. Never seem to hear anything from them/about them.
Much like every man below 1.8 meters, they simply become invisible.
Yup, according to Kyle Kulinski, they're just "zygotes and gametes".