I reported them for harassment with the following statement:
The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam’s TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.
I don’t see this as an issue, I see it as a recommendation list.
These are literally reviews pulling down the review ratings of the games
They are legitimate reviews.
Maybe they’re shit games.
Nah, just shit people promoting their typical conservative bigotry.
I never played Hypnospace Outlaws, but Slayers X by the same dev is awesome. Also devoid of any politics. I have a hard time believing Hypnospace Outlaws has any strong politics other then characters having none-cis identities.
old timey news flash with a spinning newspaper headline flashing into view
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ALL ART IS POLITICAL, IMPLICATIONS STILL UNCERTAIN, AUTHORITIES ADVISE CAUTION WHEN UNDER INFLUENCE OF ART
Tetris has entered the chat.
waves to tetris
Tetris is in good company here!
https://www.wired.com/story/tetris-movie-history-political-thriller/
Yeah, the story behind the game is political, but the game itself isn’t. Not to say those early, arcade games couldn’t be political. The Death Race game, was based on Death Race 2000, a satire on violence in media.
I’m not afraid of politics in media. I just don’t agree with the statement that “All media has politics”. The anti-woke crowd would have you believe that all new media has politics in it, which is an absolutely ridiculous claim.
I think you have this turned around, it is the woke crowd that asserts art is inherently political, it is progressive and “woke” movements like feminism that have had to do a massive amount of work to even frame women’s issues with regards to domestic sexism as political (the women is just expected to do dishes, laundry and clean the house by their husband). It is a long and uphill battle to destabilize the status quo and allow a more honest conversation about the ways in which everything we do has political implications. The many who will defend the status quo will use any rational that fits conveniently but one of the most very common delaying rhetorical strategies they use is to claim what is considered political and what isn’t considered political in society is something that can be expressed in precise and absolute terms, in a sense this line is an expression of logic or laws of nature and the status quo just so happens to dovetail perfectly with that narrative. In reality the line between “political” and “non-political” is nonsense, you are simply referencing where the arbitrary ever shifting battle lines between the oppressed and the oppressors fall at a particular moment.
The work of resistance is developing a salient understanding of this, and it seems you are preceding in the opposite direction which isn’t going to lead you anywhere but yelling at people about how things you think are innocent they think are political and unfortunately if you continue you will have destroyed your intuitive ability to suss out the difference between the two, and you will have reached a point where you stop listening to people who are suffering.
Everything is political, the problem with snowflake conservatives is they use that fact to take “monsters” like normal awesome trans teens who just want to love and be loved and rationalize their hatred of them over them because they dared to challenge a stupid arbitrary status quo.
If they were, they wouldn’t need a group to influence the outcome.
Have you actually read the post?
Sure. For me the score is one of the last things I consider, so review bombing and what ever the opposite is called aren’t all that important.