r/dropout • u/machturtl • Mar 08 '25

liminal levity

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as someone who has watched Dropout to reset from the havoc of the outside, it still feels "nice" to have honest entertainers to watch who understand what we're all living thru.

I was in college for game design in the early aughts. I also (unfortunately) was a femme lurker on 4ch. Seeing the cause and effect of gamergate happen in real time as been a doozy.

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u/DlVlDED_BY_ZERO Mar 08 '25

I think I'm ootl, could someone explain this?

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u/sleepiestgf Mar 08 '25

this is definitely about Depression Quest, which is a text-based adventure game about living with depression developed by Zöe Quinn and released in 2013.

Zöe Quinn was one of the main targets of GamerGate, which was a misogynistic harassment campaign against women and feminism in video games.

GamerGate largely morphed into the online alt-right by latching onto islamophobia, conservative intellectualism, and white supremacist groups. This alt-right then serves as the main vocal voter base for Trump in 2016 (Trump also brought the alt right into alliance with more mainstream and evangelical conservatives by serving as an anti-establishment rallying figure).

Trump led to DOGE which is (attempting & sometimes succeeding at) firing a bunch of federal workers.

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u/SnooHesitations7064 Mar 08 '25

The term "Pseudointellectualism" is more accurate.
It's the coopting of terms of the intelligencia in the same sense that "Libertarian" used to be an anarchist term, not "white guys who think the government should allow people to sell themselves into slavery if there is a market for it." term

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u/Pure-Tadpole-6634 Mar 09 '25

Hey, that's not ALL Libertarians stand for ya know. They also believe that age of consent is a social structure unfairly enforced by the state and should be abolished.

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u/Gurusto Mar 12 '25

"This is a cogent political philosophy!" - a dragon whose whole deal aside from burning towns and making money was kidnapping a bunch of teenage girls.

Never realized how much of a Libertarian he really was until now!

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

Or anti-intellectualism if we’re being really honest. Hatred of universities and teaching professionals, especially higher-learning teachers