I reported them for harassment with the following statement:

The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam’s TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      5 months ago

      I never played Hypnospace Outlaws, but Slayers X by the same dev is awesome. Also devoid of any politics. I have a hard time believing Hypnospace Outlaws has any strong politics other then characters having none-cis identities.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        81·
        5 months ago

        old timey news flash with a spinning newspaper headline flashing into view

        SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ALL ART IS POLITICAL, IMPLICATIONS STILL UNCERTAIN, AUTHORITIES ADVISE CAUTION WHEN UNDER INFLUENCE OF ART

            • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              5 months ago

              Yeah, the story behind the game is political, but the game itself isn’t. Not to say those early, arcade games couldn’t be political. The Death Race game, was based on Death Race 2000, a satire on violence in media.

              I’m not afraid of politics in media. I just don’t agree with the statement that “All media has politics”. The anti-woke crowd would have you believe that all new media has politics in it, which is an absolutely ridiculous claim.

              • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                2·
                5 months ago

                The anti-woke crowd would have you believe that all new media has politics in it, which is an absolutely ridiculous claim.

                I think you have this turned around, it is the woke crowd that asserts art is inherently political, it is progressive and “woke” movements like feminism that have had to do a massive amount of work to even frame women’s issues with regards to domestic sexism as political (the women is just expected to do dishes, laundry and clean the house by their husband). It is a long and uphill battle to destabilize the status quo and allow a more honest conversation about the ways in which everything we do has political implications. The many who will defend the status quo will use any rational that fits conveniently but one of the most very common delaying rhetorical strategies they use is to claim what is considered political and what isn’t considered political in society is something that can be expressed in precise and absolute terms, in a sense this line is an expression of logic or laws of nature and the status quo just so happens to dovetail perfectly with that narrative. In reality the line between “political” and “non-political” is nonsense, you are simply referencing where the arbitrary ever shifting battle lines between the oppressed and the oppressors fall at a particular moment.

                The work of resistance is developing a salient understanding of this, and it seems you are preceding in the opposite direction which isn’t going to lead you anywhere but yelling at people about how things you think are innocent they think are political and unfortunately if you continue you will have destroyed your intuitive ability to suss out the difference between the two, and you will have reached a point where you stop listening to people who are suffering.

                Everything is political, the problem with snowflake conservatives is they use that fact to take “monsters” like normal awesome trans teens who just want to love and be loved and rationalize their hatred of them over them because they dared to challenge a stupid arbitrary status quo.

                • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  12·
                  5 months ago

                  One of the main taking points of the anti-wokes is that people are shoving politics into every piece of media and that they’re being oppressed as a result. Just because many “wokes” are asserting media is inherently political, doesn’t make it true.

                  In reality the line between “political” and “non-political” is nonsense

                  I disagree. I’m going to broadly define “political” as things involving how people interact with each other. I’d rather call it “social” and further limit political as referring more formal, legal policies, but that does get more muddled.

                  I already mentioned the original Death Race 2000 as a satire of violence in media, but it seems the remakes and its squeals missed that memo. What’s the messages of the Fast and the Furious movies? Tom and Jerry?

                  Japanese director is a good case study for Political vs non-political messages. Is Utena political? That show is about how teenages are in this in between phase often put an adult importance on childish things. Penguindrum is about how Japanese culture had a conservative as a result of the sarin gas attacks, which is absolutely about policy and politics. Sarazanmai is about the difference between Want vs Need and Love vs Lust, which to me is less politics and more Human Condition issues.

                  I assert Human Condition isn’t inherently political. If you disagree, what’s the “politics” of WORLD OF TOMORROW? I just get uncomfortable feelings regarding my mortality. IT’S GREAT!

                  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                    2·
                    5 months ago

                    I assert Human Condition isn’t inherently political.

                    shakes head sure if you treat that as an axiom I am sure it would completely confuse your understanding of the world.