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Back in the day if you were playing D&D you were worshipping the devil - now if you play video games you hate various societal groups. So interesting how purit

by yannis7 10y ago

Back in the day if you were playing D&D you were worshipping the devil - now if you play video games you hate various societal groups. So interesting how puritanism evolves

spriggan3 10y ago
> So interesting how puritanism evolves More like the main stream media which love to run these "white male gamers/developers pushing women/minorities out of gaming/tech" stories. Their business is outrage, that's the result of the click bait culture. They don't do that because they believe in that crap, they do that because it drives ad-revenue. Unfortunately they don't understand that by publish content that sides with extreme ideas,they are alienating their own audience on the long run.
- jt2190 10y ago
  I've up voted you because IIRC some game producers have been caught running fake protest groups. http://kotaku.com/5289471/eas-fake-protest-riles-some-religious http://kotaku.com/5289471/eas-fake-protest-riles-some-religi... As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
zyx321 10y ago
It seems much more commercialized these days. Even a cursory background check into any of the big names will reveal a Patreon/Kickstarter/etc fundraising campaign. Being outraged is outrageously profitable.
lghh 10y ago
Those really are not the same thing at all. Nobody that has any sort of voice says that if you are playing video games you are anti-women/minority/whatever like they were with DnD and Satanism. There are people that say there is disparity in representation of genders in video games, and that's hard to dispute, but not that the act of playing them is an act against any of those groups.
salgernon 10y ago
Due to an unfortunate series of events I ended up at a private military-themed school in south Texas for several years of high school (80s). I was told that D&D was not allowed because it would make you communist. And when the school chaplain (!!) found out I was an atheist he interrogated me and flatly stated that if I didn't believe in got that I must therefore worship Saran. I think it's a (religious?) tendency to condemn any activity that they can't completely control.

by yannis7 10y ago

Back in the day if you were playing D&D you were worshipping the devil - now if you play video games you hate various societal groups. So interesting how puritanism evolves

spriggan3 10y ago

> So interesting how puritanism evolves More like the main stream media which love to run these "white male gamers/developers pushing women/minorities out of gaming/tech" stories. Their business is outrage, that's the result of the click bait culture. They don't do that because they believe in that crap, they do that because it drives ad-revenue. Unfortunately they don't understand that by publish content that sides with extreme ideas,they are alienating their own audience on the long run.

jt2190 10y ago
I've up voted you because IIRC some game producers have been caught running fake protest groups. http://kotaku.com/5289471/eas-fake-protest-riles-some-religious http://kotaku.com/5289471/eas-fake-protest-riles-some-religi... As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

zyx321 10y ago

It seems much more commercialized these days. Even a cursory background check into any of the big names will reveal a Patreon/Kickstarter/etc fundraising campaign. Being outraged is outrageously profitable.

lghh 10y ago

Those really are not the same thing at all. Nobody that has any sort of voice says that if you are playing video games you are anti-women/minority/whatever like they were with DnD and Satanism. There are people that say there is disparity in representation of genders in video games, and that's hard to dispute, but not that the act of playing them is an act against any of those groups.

salgernon 10y ago

Due to an unfortunate series of events I ended up at a private military-themed school in south Texas for several years of high school (80s). I was told that D&D was not allowed because it would make you communist. And when the school chaplain (!!) found out I was an atheist he interrogated me and flatly stated that if I didn't believe in got that I must therefore worship Saran. I think it's a (religious?) tendency to condemn any activity that they can't completely control.