I’ve replied to the person in question.

You may have picked the wrong instance then, because as the blahaj.zone instance admin, I actively remove “mean things”. Words designed to harm others, whether it’s bigotry, or harassment or insults, are not an “occupational hazard”, they undermine the community and hurt folk when they’re vulnerable.

Hateful words will get you banned here, and apologism for them and downplaying their impact is not welcome.

You’re the only person to mention trans people in this thread. It’s got nothing to do with trans folk…

decided this is a hateful post based on prior comments without watching the video.

I had to watch the video to see her dog whistle.

And the whole thing about red flag/dog whistle comments is that they’re designed to seem like nothing to people who don’t recognise them. You not recognising a dog whistle doesn’t mean it isn’t one…

The fact that she shouts out another steamer that was banned from twitch for bigotry isn’t a co-incidence. It’s a red flag for a reason

Absolutely. Sticking to the things they know and avoiding the recs is how a lot of people use Youtube. But all of the things you avoid are thrown in your face in the recs. Clickbait titles, bait and switch content, dogwhistling videos that start people down the path of ever more bigoted content (for example, the video the OP posted).

I generally don’t engage much with video content though, so I’ll just continue to ignore it

As I’ve said three times now, I barely use YouTube and then only direct links. This isn’t that. YouTube rewards civil bigots so civil bigots are common and have big audiences

I barely use youtube. I actively avoid it as much as possible

She shouts out a racist who was banned from twitch for bigotry, so I’d say it’s pretty spot on as a red flag.

Gamergate is not a very specific circumstance. It was a widespread harassment campaign involving the entire industry. This is a follow on from that movement, and any game that releases a female protagonist that isn’t soft and demure gets active push back from this group.

YouTube, like other corporate social media and engagement platforms, thrives on anger and conflict, and pushes shitty takes higher up the recs list to get angry engagement.

So it’s more likely to be bad than good.

she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations.

These are very common talking points of gamer gate bigots. It’s a giant red flag, because the people who talk about it are bigots

I rarely click on YouTube links. For some reason I gave this one a try. Turns out she’s bigoted.

That’ll teach me for clicking

Any reason you didn‘t opt for a 7900X3D?

No particular reason other than slightly more expensive

It’s running smooth as butter, but I haven’t got any late game saves at the moment (they’re all for older versions with DLC etc)

That being said, this machine is pretty grunty. Ryzen 9 7900X, 64GB of RAM and an Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super

Just got a new PC, and I’m running Linux as my only OS now, so I’ve been spinning up some of my old favourites to test things out.

Mechwarrior 5, Crusader Kings III and even a bit of Cyberpunk (technically older than 12+ months, but it doesn’t feel in the spirit of this community)

Your profile has “Nazis can fuck off”, but you’re here calling out people who have issues with Rowling, a bigot who stans Nazis like Kellie-Jay Keen

Supporting transphobes is wrong. Millions of people supported a transphobe. For me, that’s not being smug, it’s being terrified

I always think back to the original two Fallout games vs the ones that came later.

Scenes were set pieces, and travel was something that occurred on a map, with random encounters that occurred along the way as you moved from one location to another. It wasn’t fast travel, but nor was it “experience every mile of your journey in real time”. And depending on the path you took, you could still stumble across secrets, unique locations etc.

That remains my favourite travel method in games, and though it’s rare, it is still done well in some more recent games. Owlcat is particularly good at it, and their Pathfinder games did it really well, and as does Rogue Trader (though it isn’t a game for this sub yet). Solasta: Crown of the Magister also does it well

Exactly! I’m much more inclined to not revisit things these days. The original Fallout games fall in this category for me

Pretty much all of the iconic games from my early teens. (I was a teen in the late 80s and 90s). The games that I grew up with, that I fell in love with, are unplayable now.

Dragonstrike, a flight sim where you fly a dragon in the D&D Dragonlance world was mind blowing when I first played it. Now, it’s so bad that replaying it spoiled my memory of the original experience!

Crusader Kings. I keep coming back to it when I’m between other games and I don’t see that ever changing

As soon as I realised that fold phones existed, I had to own one. My preferred phone is a phablet, but the size makes them non feasible for day to day use. Fold phones solve that problem nicely. I don’t think I can go back.