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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote (edited )

I'm not too clued up on games, but based on my experience here are some generalisations to contribute:

Gamers:

  • are generally less actively social afk - makes them less likely to have sustained meaningful engagement with marginalised groups. Similarly, if you're a marginalised person fighting hard to get through each day and pay the bills etc, you're less likely to game, so you're less likely to engage with people who game. That says something about the demographics on its own, but also this dynamic maintains this relationship because the gaming world becomes alienated to people who aren't 'gamers'.

  • game a lot. Instead of learning about other things, for example.

Games:

  • generally do not challenge your politics, they often provide a storyline that you inhabit as a character as a roleplay, even when it's not obviously the case. They're an escape from politics rather than an engagement. A favorite quote of mine is "Escapism is the great betrayer of escape".

  • Depictions of other belief systems only go as deep as developers know about them and want to portray them. Games also have to be comprehensible to gamers, so it often does not pay to do anything radically different and these games tend not to be made.

  • though they try to be realistic, games work 'logically' and and are trope-ridden and leave many who play with the impression that life is far less complex that it is. You're less likely to notice the ever-expanding complexity of everything when your very limited mental models of the world imply that you have all the information you need.

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Random_Revolutionary wrote

"games are trop ridden and give a verry limited mental model " Yeah it's one of the things I noticed too, with games but also with mangas/anime. There is a huge presence of racialism in game (especially rpgs): racial traits, factions, ects.. Also in anime: most of the time there is some kind of blood lines, or genetic predisposition of the otherwise regular/boring mc to be the anime hero. It's no surprise that when applying these concepts to real life you end up believing in races and hierarchies between them..

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zorblax wrote

Seems to me that commie gamers(basically all my friends) play more strategy games than say, FPSes or RPGs.

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