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The Luigi thing is already souring on me a bit as a saw a yter use his actions to threaten gaming companies. (And it wasnt even some super predatory gaming company it was really a "wtf dude" moment. Dont get me wrong im not mourning the CEO, and the McDonald's guy was wrong, but jesus fuck Gamers ruin everything.
E: And it wasn't even about Fortnite, or Roblox like those predatory goes after kids things, nope just some dumb live service game with a cosmetics store badly bolted on in a corner. Sure horse armor sucks, but damn touch some grass and note the difference between lifetimes in debt or die and paying for overprices skins.
gamergaters and their descendants are novel (to me). for them the games themselves are just vehicles for what they really care about, which is despising game developers and journalists. they're far right, but much more specifically than that they're an anti labor movement targeting the labor that makes and writes about one type of product. their primary goal is to make that labor feel frightened, unstable, etc
if you've ever seen chuds cheering mass firings (say by elon at twitter or the white house), gamergaters have the same spirit, except elevated to the top priority
EDIT: which now that I think about it makes it pretty perverse to invoke Luigi - the whole thing that makes the UHC assassination persistently popular is that the target was a person of enormous power and not labor
It's like...they're trying to do a Peronism by hijacking working class ideas for their weird right wing bullshit, but they're lazy computer touchers so they just seem unhinged to outsiders.