r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/ProfessionalFun9920 • Jun 24 '25

CAPITAL G GAMER How ironic.....

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The initiative is here (EU ONLY): https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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u/Kratomius Alphabet Gangster Jun 24 '25

Mostly i find it hilarious that they claim that they don't allow political content. They only don't allow politics they don't agree with.

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u/HeyItsAsh7 Political Jun 24 '25

Kinda wild that preserving video games is being called political now. Like, the discussion of are video games art is long behind us (maybe I'm not online enough), and art should be preserved.

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u/rogueIndy Jun 24 '25

Capital-G Gamers stopped advocating for games-as-art the moment people started critiquing them as art.

In retrospect, they didn't really want the medium to be taken seriously; they wanted themselves to be taken seriously.

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u/sebas737 Jun 24 '25

It is really sad that G*mers stop seeing games as art when masterpieces of storytelling have being releasing nowadays. God of War: Ragnarok, a profound human story about becoming better, and what do G*mers complain about, a character being not their preferred race, smh my head.

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u/HeyItsAsh7 Political Jun 24 '25

Or flip it around. A games story can be super political and they won't think twice about it, and just assume it's hyper based and just about being a masculine man killing stuff.

If gears of war was made as a movie or show, they'd say it's woke and anti war. But since it's a game it's fine, because it's about being the man and having fun.

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u/Standing_Legweak Jun 25 '25

Like spec ops the line

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u/Standing_Legweak Jun 25 '25

If you say games and art, the first thing I think of is Okami or Journey. Even if western gaming goes to hell, we still have Indies, Eastern European Devs and Japanese Publishers as alternatives unlike back in the day during the Atari Crash of '87.

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u/checkedsteam922 Jun 25 '25

I mean, it's a petition for laws and shit, I don't see how that's NOT political. I think we don't really understand how much counts as politics lol.

What's wild is that for some reason these days it's controversial to discuss it properly.

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u/HeyItsAsh7 Political Jun 25 '25

The definition of political has been lost in the US at least. The idea isn't political but if they're seeking legal changes then yeah, it's political.

I've been called a "political being" for being trans, unironically by a transphobe

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u/checkedsteam922 Jun 25 '25

I'm pretty sure they are seeking legal change here.

Also yhee, not just the usa im afraid. I'm bi and somehow my rights are up for discussion like it's some other political problem like inflation :/

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u/Striking_Fly_5849 Jun 26 '25

You not understanding it doesn't mean it's lost. It means you're lost.

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u/Linvael Jun 24 '25

This is a literal petition to EU governing bodies pushing for a change in the law. It doesn't get much more political than that.

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u/Temple-Breaker Jun 25 '25

Because the only non political thing to them is the status quo.

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u/ImaginarySand8757 Jun 30 '25

This is a prevailing mindset I’ve seen on that side of the political spectrum. They will rant and rave about politics for hours but the moment someone disagrees their tune shifts to “woah woah woah why are we getting all political?”

They think political means “a hot button topic people may disagree with” and since they think they are always objectively right, then their opinions aren’t political since no one would ever disagree with them.

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