It depends how you define right-wing. I was listening to The Lotus Eaters talking about the success of the Reform party, and they were complaining they aren't right-wing enough.
Very few cared what Anita Sareesian, Zoe Quinn, and game journalists had to say, but here we are. More over, the left completely disowned many of the big names of GamerGate 1 as they were left behind by the constant shift leftward.
Do not get me wrong, I am not saying that many or even that most of them are trustworthy. But the old guard is dying. Saying that you hate videogames is not the riskless statement it once was now that it became the biggest form of entertainment in the world. Gamers vote now and they will vote with their controller. Not to mention at least some politicians are playing an ecchi waifu gacha that they do not want to see DEI-ESG bullshit in.
You're thinking boomers, these game haters are genX and still have a good 20-30 years before retiring from politics, and I've seen not just millennial but even zoomer conservatives being anti games.
If they did this wokeshit would've ended before it even began, but here we are.
I am not talking about actual bible holding conservatives. Rather, I am talking about moderate right wing that are willing to play ball, centrists that want to play their games in peace without being preached at and the alienated left that is not into this commie bullshit. I now that those politicians are small in number but 1 is a higher number than 0. I am not trusting either side. We merely have a better chance with the right than with the left. It is not perfect or even good but it is a better start.
Are you sure the right is better? Won't they claim that vidya is a distraction from going to church & making babies & is a sign of moral decay? Neither the right nor the left are good choices in my opinion. No side is a better choice than the other.
Mechwarrior and CNC are dead. Microprose, FASA, and westwood will never come back. Were these AAA? They were to me!
Everyone right of Stalin is considered right wing in the eyes of the modern left, from the stoners that do not want to think about politics to the gays that would rather not fuck the trans. Not to mention that there are many Christian that are pretty chill as long as you do not antagonise them. The difference is that the left has become so unreasonable that they pushed everyone reasonable to the right. Do not get me wrong, the modern right is still mostly shit, it is just that the modern left is exclusively shit.
You're right. There were games that were cancelled or censored in various ways back then. The difference is that it was better.
Your mileage may vary on that.
The 1993-1994 Senate hearings which led to the ESRB (which happened partially due to panic over shootings, to deal with cybertoaster's attempt at a point) were primarily led by such luminaries as Joe Lieberman. Guess the party.
Everything is relative. The right might come on TV, say games = violence and receive asspats from the old folks and flipped birds from the rest of us with nothing going the politician 's way in the long run. The left is engaging in economical and social blackmail in order to get what they want and in many ways they nearly got it. In this case, the right is the lesser evil.
Everyone forgets that Hilary Clinton was leading the charge on the Hot Coffee incident with San Andreas and even proposed legislation that Jack Thompson thought went too far.
I’ve always maintained that the problem isn’t they’re inserting politics, they’re inserting the politics and making things shit.
And even that is too much now for the modern Left
