Devon Del Vecchio / "Dev" / ShortFatOtaku / @sleepy_devo - Degenerate loser, honorary whiteknight for Lilith Lovett, constantly at odds with his own viewers for being a centrist

Sounds like we're on the same page then. Will go into detail agreeing with you though.

I admit that "faction" exists. There is no political will to make it reality.
Agreed. From what I understand (not a yank) Christian Nationalists hate Trump because he said he wouldn't sign a national abortion ban. Which makes GoonerGate all the more absurd (and thus funny, if we consider Dread and Mac lolcows in this case).

That was a tale of living WITHIN the government. Ergo, follow the law no matter your beliefs. That sounds like misinterpretation. Because that story is anathema to "take control, censor everything!".
That's what reasonable tradcons say. Not a bible person so I have to take their word for it. This is also why I object to Devs label of tradcon, and why I think "woke right" or "Christian Nationalist" is more appropriate, but again, pedantic details.

looking at Dev's motivation, I don't think it was about the censorship.
His inability to shut up about his horniness.
As said, the optimist in me wants to say that this is Dev getting back on track. I choose to be optimist.

Cynically though, it could be a case of Devs TDS not appearing simply because GoonerGate was a "right wing" L and thus it's baked in by default. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out.
 
Sounds like we're on the same page then. Will go into detail agreeing with you though.


Agreed. From what I understand (not a yank) Christian Nationalists hate Trump because he said he wouldn't sign a national abortion ban. Which makes GoonerGate all the more absurd (and thus funny, if we consider Dread and Mac lolcows in this case).
This is true. The abortion issue is dead on a national level. The Christian faction is not what it was even 20 years ago.
That's what reasonable tradcons say. Not a bible person so I have to take their word for it. This is also why I object to Devs label of tradcon, and why I think "woke right" or "Christian Nationalist" is more appropriate, but again, pedantic details.
If you put it like that I have no objection, because what you describe is people stretching a story about following the law into "we're going to take control and MAKE the law.".
As said, the optimist in me wants to say that this is Dev getting back on track. I choose to be optimist.

Cynically though, it could be a case of Devs TDS not appearing simply because GoonerGate was a "right wing" L and thus it's baked in by default. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out.
I would like to be optimistic as you man. I just have seen Dev do this before. It feels like he is "realigning" after Trump's win. This goes with his general attitude towards "the state is right". Now if he is getting back on track, cool. Happy days. I just don't see it. This was a easy dunk and fits his interests in vidya and politics to make this video.
 
Dev is performing the tried and true tactic of "Realize your actual opinion is toxic, so revert to doing boilerplate responses that agree with stuff you know the majority of people already agree with. Do this, until people forget and get less angry about your revealed retardation".

His "Good" video sounds like exactly that. Just the absolutely most milquetoast opinion that 90+% of people will agree with. Presented in a quiet and loose framing of "I know I will get flak from this" meant to engender a circling of the wagons on the position that... everyone agrees with. It is the Midwit Special, done by people around the world who know what they believe is hated but have no idea how to actually dress it up when they let the mask slip off.
 
If you put it like that I have no objection, because what you describe is people stretching a story about following the law into "we're going to take control and MAKE the law.".
It's the other way around.

The "normal" Christians are citing Render Unto Caeser to slap down the Christian Nationalists.

The Christian Nationalists are citing "Kings 2" as why censoring games is important.

I've not read Kings 2. Google brings up a passage about someone getting swept up in a whirlwind, which makes no sense in this context. And a summary of it I listened to claimed it was about various leaders who kept allowing false idols and their nations collapsed as a result. Best I can figure, their point is Trump will fail unless he runs the US as a Christian nation?
 
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It's the other way around.

The "normal" Christians are citing Render Unto Caeser to slap down the Christian Nationalists.

The Christian Nationalists are citing "Kings 2" as why censoring games is important.

I've not read Kings 2. Google brings up a passage about someone getting swept up in a whirlwind, which makes no sense in this context. And a summary of it I listened to claimed it was about various leaders who kept allowing false idols and their nations collapsed as a result. Best I can figure, their point is Trump will fail unless he runs the US as a Christian nation?
Ah. See this makes sense to me. Kings 2 is in the Old Testament. Ceaser getting his taxes are in the New Testament. They are talking past eachother. Kings 2 is historical. Jesus paying taxes was a lesson. They are citing scripture they don't get and lack context.
 
are making the same arguments and using the same tactics as the "woke" they've been complaining about for the last decade or more, doing the same shit older gamers saw in the 90s and 00s. They got dunked on and couldn't handle it.
Disclaimer: I don't care if people like anime butt, but "gooner" is a good adjective to speak about a certain section of the internet.

I think I've written about this before, but what got under my skin is how "our side" reacted. Literally you're not allowed to have limits, or taste, you have to swallow it all or you'll get punished.

I mean if you want to go with the angle "they are are turning into woke", you can see gooners calling people fascist and monetarily supporting ESG/China just because of ass.
It seems to me that they just want to enjoy the "protection" that wokies enjoy to being beyond criticism or reproach of any kind.

And the funniest part is that if you check the numbers, The Last Descendant, for example, has lost 90% of its playerbase in less than 6 months. The average internet gooner does not represent gaming at large and it annoys me that they pretend they do.

Also I was under the impression that the so called "woke right" was people against immigration and Israel. But then again, I'm still following James Lindsay and he's turning into a lolcow himself. So I'll declare myself ignorant on that subject.
 
Well damn, Dev failed to make his so called rebuttal againts Aydin, Scrump and Ace that we are now past 200 pages and its mostly just Off-topic stuff, maybe its only because of my own personal problems IRL, but it just dissapoints me.
 
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Well damn, Dev failed to make his so called rebuttal againts Aydin, Scrump and Ace that we are now past 200 pages and its mostly just Off-topic stuff, maybe its only because of my own personal problems IRL.
Dev's response video has NO SET SCHEDULE. The video is done when it's done and will be released when it's done.
 
Well damn, Dev failed to make his so called rebuttal againts Aydin, Scrump and Ace that we are now past 200 pages and its mostly just Off-topic stuff, maybe its only because of my own personal problems IRL.
He'll never release it, and if he does he will just pretend that a mountain of evidence proving otherwise doesn't exist. Dev has no way to defend himself, he's just going to do what he normally does and pretend that you don't know what your talking about while lying to make himself look innocent. Basically, he'll become this meme and ghost you when you have him cornered.

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He'll never release it, and if he does he will just pretend that a mountain of evidence proving otherwise doesn't exist. Dev has no way to defend himself, he's just going to do what he normally does and pretend that you don't know what your talking about while lying to make himself look innocent. Basically, he'll become this meme and ghost you when you have him cornered.

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And yes I admit that "faction" exists. There is no political will to make it reality.
The more I hear about the Woke Right, the more that I'm convinced that it exists, especially when people say it doesn't exist.

I agree with your conclusion though. They don't have political power and probably won't in the future because coomers outnumber the Right and don't consider the Bible as an authoritative source. That's how Melonie Mac and others like her got BTFOd immediately, because regular people recognized the overbearing Christian censorship pattern.
 
"Woke Right" exists only as as a name being given as a insult to many of the right wing people unwiling to play by outdated rules and paradigms. It's the name being given to people who no longer give a shit about saying they do not want to be slaves to corporations to make the line go up, who say that them being capitalists doesn't mean licking corpo boots.
 
"Woke Right" exists only as as a name being given as a insult to many of the right wing people unwiling to play by outdated rules and paradigms. It's the name being given to people who no longer give a shit about saying they do not want to be slaves to corporations to make the line go up, who say that them being capitalists doesn't mean licking corpo boots.
It's just normal people with normal values. That includes not getting replaced, and yes, having a limit with debauchery. It had another name in the 70s: the silent majority
 
"Woke Right" exists only as as a name being given as an insult to many of the right wing people unwiling to play by outdated rules and paradigms. It's the name being given to people who no longer give a shit about saying they do not want to be slaves to corporations to make the line go up, who say that them being capitalists doesn't mean licking corpo boots.
Seriously. It says more about the person using it, than whoever they level it at (which changes rapidly).

It’s perfect for a disingenuous politicuck like Dev, and his academic equivalent, James Lindsay, is going harder for it than anyone else.
 
He'll never release it, and if he does he will just pretend that a mountain of evidence proving otherwise doesn't exist. Dev has no way to defend himself, he's just going to do what he normally does and pretend that you don't know what your talking about while lying to make himself look innocent. Basically, he'll become this meme and ghost you when you have him cornered.

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How have people not cottoned on to exactly what Dev is doing? He has done this a few times now with the Trucker video being the most prominent example. He references a large video he 'is making' and how it will completely support his side then... never releases it. People wait for it to be released to call bullshit on him -in case- he can actually back up his claims but the whole point is to never release it so he can hide behind its alleged existence.

As long as it remains unreleased he is Schrodinger's Cat, both immensely wrong and possibly right. And the only way to know for certain is for him to release the video.

The more I hear about the Woke Right, the more that I'm convinced that it exists, especially when people say it doesn't exist.

I agree with your conclusion though. They don't have political power and probably won't in the future because coomers outnumber the Right and don't consider the Bible as an authoritative source. That's how Melonie Mac and others like her got BTFOd immediately, because regular people recognized the overbearing Christian censorship pattern.
The "Woke Right" does exist... and always has. Its the evengelicals, the religious right, the people everyone knows exists and has for a long time. Dressed up in a new name to actually hide who is being talked about. Why hide it? Because everyone knows the evangelicals have lost power and are not as threat. The term "Woke Right" is an obfuscation of who is being talked about to hide the fact its referencing a faction without power.
 
The GoonerGate video got pulled and then immediately reuploaded. Supposedly YouTube didn't like "the lifeguard joke". Basically a clip of bad acting.

I think I've written about this before, but what got under my skin is how "our side" reacted. Literally you're not allowed to have limits, or taste, you have to swallow it all or you'll get punished.
You can have limits, but an adult woman in a thong is not it imo. If it is for you, you can not play it. It's, what, two AAA games in a sea of uglified slop.

It's like the Ciri thing. I didn't see that as it happened, and only ever see it brought up by "anti-gooner" people. Everyone on "our side" thinks it's dumb, with some citing the real issue is it breaks Witcher lore/canon. So much so that I'm starting to suspect it's a false flag.

The more I hear about the Woke Right, the more that I'm convinced that it exists, especially when people say it doesn't exist.
The "Woke Right" does exist... and always has. Its the evengelicals, the religious right, the people everyone knows exists and has for a long time. Dressed up in a new name
Agreed. But at the same time it feels astroturfed. Especially when I see leftie types using it. It feels like one last swipe before the door is slammed in their face.
 
Agreed. But at the same time it feels astroturfed. Especially when I see leftie types using it. It feels like one last swipe before the door is slammed in their face.
Of course its astroturfed. That's the whole point. It is hiding who it actually references so they can claim its a problem without immediately having bullshit called on them. It is emphatically not a problem, the evangelicals have gained no power in over a decade. The president-elect is a multiple divorced, serial adulterer. There is literally no reason to even bring them up -except- as a desperate attempt to claim that the right is just as bad -in the now- as the left has been and is-, and that claim only passes the most -basic- of scrutiny by hiding the who.
 
The "Woke Right" does exist... and always has. Its the evengelicals, the religious right, the people everyone knows exists and has for a long time. Dressed up in a new name to actually hide who is being talked about. Why hide it? Because everyone knows the evangelicals have lost power and are not as threat. The term "Woke Right" is an obfuscation of who is being talked about to hide the fact its referencing a faction without power

The problem is that the people using this are diluting the term "Woke" to mean... well to the best of my ability something like "When you like want to use power to do things and believe there's groups of people and interests man, and then you prefer a group and it's like not fair bro"

It's retarded and meaningless, I guess everyone was woke until the hippies in the 80s(obviously the highest form of life) figured out "Just live and let live mang".
Evangelicals, hardcore trad Christians, Puritans whatever, these groups want very different things than modern progressives to whom the term applies, and the best people calling them both woke can muster as connective tissue is "They would like both censor people if they could bro.". Grats you have now applied the term with every group of people that ever existed that in any way had values.

As far as I'm concerned the level of power evangelicals ect had back in the "Satanic Panic" and/or "They're banning vidya" days has always been overblown, you can tell that by the fact that everything they criticized just became more popular, it seems like they were just a convenient boogeyman to help turn a generation against religion and or boost product sales.
Compare their "censorship" and the results of it to the censorship and results of the modern day woke movement.


Woke means progressive worldview, progressive values. If you want to be more specific it's specifically the new brand of particularly obnoxious progressive values, worldview that gained public prominence in the 2014 onward.
 
The problem is that the people using this are diluting the term "Woke" to mean... well to the best of my ability something like "When you like want to use power to do things and believe there's groups of people and interests man, and then you prefer a group and it's like not fair bro"
That is part of the point. "Woke" as a term hit the mainstream and now its in the mind of the general populace as something bad. Conflating "Woke" with the right serves two main purposes. The first is as said it is meant to reskin a faction that has no power and allow the left to claim that the right is currently engaging in the same shit it is. And to dilute the damaging term to allow its power to be reduced in the long term and hopefully allow them to return to DEI initiatives once it is less toxic.

The end goal, alongside rebranding all DEI initiatives under a new label and a quieter façade, is to allow themselves to retain all current policies while attempting to use the wave of backlash agaisnt them against their opponents in turn.
 
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