• MyBrainHurts ( MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ) 
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    Feels a bit of a weird take… One of the most liked, shared etc video game trailers of all time which is also the least white but because some percentage of people are goofs, gamers as a whole are evil?

    It’d be like saying all the fediverse is tankie crazies because .ml exists.

    I get we like our pitchforks and any attempt to villainize folks but this feels pretty thin.

    • usually the crowd addressed as gamers in these things is the vocal racist and sexist and homophobic loud minority, the ones that still keep the spirit of gamergate going. obviously the text just mentions gamers, but sometimes you can be a bit charitable.

      • M137 ( M137@lemmy.today ) 
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        People who don’t game basically only see that part because they’re the ones getting their knickers in a twist and having public outbursts over ridiculous shit all the time. I think many refrain from gaming just because of that.

    • RmDebArc_5 ( RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip ) OP
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      1. This is humorous post. This is not to be taken seriously

      2. Gamers usually doesn’t just mean someone that likes to play video games, but the specific toxic subset. At least that how most people use in my experience

  • You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore!

    Direct quote by US Vice President JD Vance, 2025.

    Racists feel like it’s OK to be openly racist again. They see people angry at their racism as oppressors.

    Not surprised at all about this cover, though I am surprised Rockstar apparently went so far as to change it.

  • fizzle ( fizzle@quokk.au ) 
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    The “discovery of the number 0” thing always bugs me because obviously no one needed to discover the number zero as it’s used to express “I own zero goats”.

    The important discovery was the use of 0 as a placeholder in a column indicating no value, when writing the number 10 for example. Basically it’s the discovery of a positional numeric system where the position / column of the digits means something.

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      The distinction between the concept of “nothing” as general concept, and “nothing” as a numerical value is non-trivial. And like, a mathematical proof that outlines that numerical concept of “nothing” is important.

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      It may seem natural to us, but conceptualizing zero as a number in its own right (as opposed to “absence of [concrete thing]”) is not trivial. It’s an innovation on par with negative, irrational, and imaginary numbers.

      Your hypothetical goat non-owner would likely say “I don’t own any goats”, and would be confused if you insisted that there is some number of goats they own.

  • Well, to start, they are both cartoons… So I would say they were equally well drawn, but I would also say that outrage one way or another is fucking dumb, so probably the first one was fine.

  • Binturong ( Binturong@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Both are nice, and also there was no need to consider the feelings of incel gamers and more than other groups in the first place, so the second wasn’t needed. If white (skin) boys wanna have a fit over feeling left behind they should talk to white (class) billionaires who steal everyone’s money about it. All this other shit, the performative racism, misogyny and masculinity, is just telling on themselves for having small dicks and being unlikeable becasue they can’t accept reality. Instead, be based: Plenty of people enjoy small dicks, you deserve love and to love yourself primarily, and also eviscerate the oligarchy. All that said, gamers aren’t a monolith of incels and wierdos so this meme fails, because judgemental generalizing is seldom useful in any context.