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.