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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz -3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Animal Crossing is pretty nontoxic. Also it just wasn't in the cultural zeitgeist at all during the G4 guygaming era and that's probably related.

But I dunno. Nobody has exactly been SWATted, doxxed, or gotten bomb threats over the skin tone of Tom Nook so maybe that's a bad example?

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Its a bad example of "reading the industry for filth" because the entirety of the industry isn't filth.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz -3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The industry made a certain kind of thing financially successful and culturally dominant. I'm sorry you feel like that's a moral judgment on you, it doesn't change what happened

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I guess this series of comments goes to show how little you know of the gaming industry and its cultural impact.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz -5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Die mad about it? Maybe channel that wound into joining a guy militia or something. That's where a lot of those guys went

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

This conversation went from "haha duck guy" to "youre a huge chud who wants to end democracy" real fuckin fast lmao.

The only person in this conversation who's going to "die mad about it" is likely to be you. What a weirdo.