The Exigent Duality
Useless Websites - 15:37 CST, 1/26/21 (Sniper)
Every time I read an article on a video game or tech web site-- which is becoming increasingly infrequent, by the way-- I look up the author to see what their political affiliation is. So far, I have ten people in my notes: nine of them are complete, absolute, and extremely vocal libtards. The tenth-- some guy named "Fraser Gilbert"-- didn't mention politics anywhere I could find on his Twitter feed, which tells me he may be a Conservative.

And that's the closest you'll find to a Conservative in game or tech journalism today: someone who doesn't say anything one way or the other-- a sort of "theoretical Conservative". Either these people are apolitical, or are afraid to speak their minds for fear of inevitable reprisal.

This is happening across all of journalism, incidentally. In 1971, Republicans made up 25.7% of journalists, whereas 35.5% of them identified as Democrat. By 2018, it was found that in financial journalism at least, only 4.4% of them identified as Right-of-center. With tech and game "journalism", I'd be surprised if the number was even that high.

I gave up reading "professional" game reviews many, many years ago. Someone told me recently that out of all the issues which "Cyberpunk 2077" has-- and believe me, the problems are myriad-- all the "journalist" class could talk about is how poorly the game allegedly "represented" trannies. That, of all things, was the key talking point for them!

I should make a flow chart of what a Leftist sees when they look at someone, it would be quite hilarious-- that exercise can be for another day. But when it comes to video game and tech web sites, they ceased being useful to me long ago, because rather than talk about the actual topic, they discuss how the subject matter filters through their political lens instead.