the stupidity of Goonergate or same shit different ideology

So Goonertgate............. the sudden seemingly pivot of certain creators / influencers to be fighting against "degeneracy" in video games and causing a fair bit of drama and insults etc to happen as other influencers / creators basically went "Wait WTF you guys where's this coming from?"

The way I look on it I'm just seeing the same shit but a different ideology, oddly enough seemingly targeting the same kind of content the woke side was to get rid of.

One of the things that's always pissed me off about the woke side is the push for everything to be basically homogenised Burger King Kindz club esc in terms of the range of character designs and nothing else. All games must cater to everyone and include everyone in some capacity etc etc. I've always said this homogenisation was bad because to use an analogy it's the restaurant equivalent of serving beige slop that everyone can eat but it's not designed for anyone to enjoy especially. Meanwhile in the actual restaurant industry you can go there and order a Steak (which hardcore Vegans would hate) or Veggie burger or Pasta or whatever else the restaurant does and if that restaurant doesn't others likely will offer something you'd want. This idea of different demographics and serving them with different options is something I support and want to see in the games industry. It's something the woke side seem to hate because they see anything they don't like as somehow actively harmful and evil so only their games for them following their ideology should be allowed according to them.

This is why I find those influencers in Goonergate stupid now. The whole "We don't want degeneracy (read Sinful stuff) in this medium". Why not just not fucking play it? It should be an option for those who want it and as some-one whose tastes span from "Hardcore Henry is one of the best films ever made" to "Belle by Mamoru Hosoda is one of the best films ever made" (seriously go watch those films they touch both ends of the spectrum from edgelord violence and tits to actually touching meaningful beautiful hopeful film that Disney wishes it could make) I'll happily enjoy a lot of games.

Goonergate is stupid for the same reason the woke side are stupid. They want to get rid of anything that they disapprove of.

Hell woke content isn't for me but I'm fine with it existing for said demographic for those who claim to want it (shame they never fucking show up and it's all performative BS and rather than make their own content it keeps being injected into big popular IPs and also blaming everyone else for said content failing.

Back in the day even in my most militant atheist days I still found it weird people were mad at the studio making the "Gods Not Dead" movies. Yes they're dumb bullshit but they were made for a demographic by a company who wanted to serve that demographic.