Shitty People are Hogging Game Discussions & I'm Tired of It

hell yeah! looking for cool games from cool people and promoting culture preservation.

Appreciated the zine! I too am pretty tired of "wokeness" and "DEI" becoming a talking point about why games are good or bad; bad games existed long before those concepts did and I have yet to see an argument that could legitimately claim that whatever resources went into making a game inclusive, or it being inclusive at all, was also what skewered it. Not that I see any of those arguments moving in good faith either anyway, so that's never really the point.

I also appreciate the touching on of homophobic critique of games. I still remember the first time I had someone I was close to A) refuse to stop using "gay" as a pejorative when I told them it made me uncomfortable and B) reject games I suggested we play together because they couldn't stomach the "queer aesthetic". People are allowed their preferences of course, but I can't stand that, like...I'm not sure how to articulate it. There is no reason to propagate the way the world already tries to make us less proud, I guess.

Representative art was what finally gave me a window into who I really was, and yeah, in these shitty times, we need more of it.