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[DeaDPo0L84]

GLAAD is an absolutely insane organization, they are politically motivated to push bs just like this article.

 

[Sonik]

The cult's propaganda outlets are making up "facts" the cult likes, news at 11

 

[phant0m]

<tucker face>
This brings an important question: are video games making our children gay? I’m just asking questions here.
</tucker>

 

[Papa_Wisdom]

Yep.. my boy and his friends (a group of 7) ALL play some kind of game be mobile/console whatever... my daughter and her friends (a group of 10) couldn't give more of a shit for video games even if they tried.

And thats why, for me, is still baffling this insurgence of female leads we got in the last 10 years in video games, is like 3 in 5 game nowdays have female leads, and since the trend is making women look like man, not even that we can get, we get fat strong jaw bitch Alloy instead.

Could that be because there not actually women but men who identify as such

 

[touchfuzzy]

Obviously untrue, that's like saying 1 in 5 people in general are LGBT+

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

I knew all y'all was gay.

what gave it away?

 

[mitch1971]

An excuse for me to hate gamers even more. Nice.

 

[StereoVsn]

Im gay but... I really REALLY don't care for romance of any kind in games.

Yep, I really wish Romance wasn’t a default option whether it’s hetero, gay, bear, etc…

Self reported surveys are always sketchy.

It’s like saying every alumni member from my grad school makes $180,000.

But that assumes every graduate from my year submitted a number. I don’t think too many unemployed people or masters program grads making $50,000 are going to respond either.

LGBT group is a vocal one and will tell the world anything about their sexuality and gender. No different than people skewing left on the politics scale. The US is roughly 50/50 red and blue yet probably 90% of social media involving self proclaimed political messages lean left.

If a CSR department says they got 80 complaints about orange scented floor cleaner and 20 positive feedback notes it doesn’t mean 80% of people hate it. It just means that portion of people who responded have 80% hate rate of out 100 people. The other 999,900 who use the company’s floor cleaners haven’t even responded.

Yep, the 1,500 audience number isn’t too unusual for these sorts of surveys, but self reporting makes it kind of pointless.

 

[semiconscious]

i tried taking this info to the bank, & the teller just kinda looked at me funny...

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[Quezacolt]

I doubt those numbers. I can bet they cherrypicked the participants.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This means every fifth person commenting is gay. I'll list the first 5, so everyone can be aware. ChorizoPicozo John Bilbo @crackajack @Hollowpoint5557 Fake

Edit: by my scientific calculation, @GrayChild is a gay too

Edit edit: shit shit shit, this comment at #90 made me a gay too. This is bullshit, the post counter skipped #89, it has it out for me.

am i gay?...i must be a lesbian then

 

[Rien]

I’ve got 5 IRL friends who game. Guess I have to waterboard them all until one admits to being gay. Should be fun. Once my lunch break is over I’m going to start interrogating people at work about it.

Or maybe they will waterboard you

 

[Orbital2060]

 

[SkylineRKR]

Yep.. my boy and his friends (a group of 7) ALL play some kind of game be mobile/console whatever... my daughter and her friends (a group of 10) couldn't give more of a shit for video games even if they tried.

And thats why, for me, is still baffling this insurgence of female leads we got in the last 10 years in video games, is like 3 in 5 game nowdays have female leads, and since the trend is making women look like man, not even that we can get, we get fat strong jaw bitch Alloy instead.

There is a lot wrong with the entertainment industry in general. They cater to audiences that aren't there to begin with.

Then they push female leads in gaming, good? no. Because the females have to be toned down in looks. Its offensive otherwise.

Meanwhile I see perfect looking men left and right. Sixpacks in about every single game. But this is apparently a good representation of society, unlike how women are depicted. All real life men look like athletes after all. This is encouraging for many men out there.

Maybe its a fucking game and its made out of pixels and completely fiction, enjoy and move on. Its not real.

 

[graywolf323]

How do they spread their genes and multiply this fast if they're not having babies?

They "identify" as, doesn't mean they actually are.

yep, it’s basically a social contagion at this point

 

[Teh Chosen Juan]

BG3 was not included as a LGBT game because it wasn't tagged as such in the digital store filters. Heh.

This research is heavily flawed and seems to make many assumptions and guesses to make a politically motivated point.

I don't take it seriously and you probably shouldn't either.

exactly. "17% of gamers say they're gay up from 10% back in 2020." SHOCKER! you mean, after 4 years of hardcore propaganda pushing LBGTQIASDPEW+ lifestyle, people under 20 are more likely to idenitfy as some made up nonsense? no way.
and to be clear, i have NOTHING against ANYONE. i just think all these bullshit studies and the propaganda is pathetic. we just want to game. if the need to talk about sexuality in your game enhances the story or gameplay, then do it. but forcing it in there to get your DEI gold star sticker from blackrock and the government? GTFO (speaking of, don't remember any gays in that game.... cancel it!).

 

[John Bilbo]

This means every fifth person commenting is gay. I'll list the first 5, so everyone can be aware. ChorizoPicozo John Bilbo @crackajack @Hollowpoint5557 Fake

Edit: by my scientific calculation, @GrayChild is a gay too

Edit edit: shit shit shit, this comment at #90 made me a gay too. This is bullshit, the post counter skipped #89, it has it out for me.

 

[KàIRóS]

Imagine believing this propaganda BS.

 

[spons]

LGBT+ numbers up, according to an LGBT+ advocacy organization.

 

[samoilaaa]

via Eurogamer

the pandering will get worse every year

 

[MagnesD3]

Did you survey the people who game who arent terminally online lol.

 

[Puscifer]

Not surprising considering how much the "+" has expanded in recent years.

I remember joking once around 2014 with my exes friends that it'll eventually be LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ

What an idiotic thing to speak into fruition

(We're all gay btw, it was just an observation how literally everyone's included in it)

 

[Madflavor]

Methodology and Notes – 2024 GLAAD Gaming Report | GLAAD

Methodology GLAAD partnered with the Nielsen Games team for the custom survey portion of this report. Nielsen is a global leader in audience measurement, data, and analytics. Nielsen’s gaming team was formed in 2005 to provide “exclusive market research and consumer insights across physical and...

glaad.org

Methodology​

GLAAD partnered with the Nielsen Games team for the custom survey portion of this report. Nielsen is a global leader in audience measurement, data, and analytics. Nielsen’s gaming team was formed in 2005 to provide “exclusive market research and consumer insights across physical and digital platforms, devices, and hardware. With comprehensive metrics including awareness and resonance over time, [Nielsen] provides proprietary ratings to help…understand gamer preferences and demographics.”19

Nielsen fielded a 10-minute survey among active PC/console gamers in the United States with a boost sample of LGBTQ+ gamers to help GLAAD better understand the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and the game industry in terms of representation, harassment, and overall attitudes and behaviors.

This study was fielded by Nielsen between June and August 2023 via a trusted third-party panel. 1,452 active PC/console gamers were identified by their self-reported behavior.

Other GLAAD-owned or third-party usage of data and insights is properly sourced or linked within the report.

If I'm reading this right, they sampled 1,452 people who play videos games, in the United States only. That's a very small sample size, and if it's US only, that clearly doesn't reflect the reflect the rest of the world. So claiming 1 in 5 Gamers are LGBT+ is dishonest.

 

[Teh Chosen Juan]

Trust Eurogaymer to come up with this pointless article. Watch out at the next game event you go to, especialy the Eurogamer xpo, you might end up with a big old gamer cock up your arsehole.

it's on Engadget too: https://www.engadget.com/glaads-fir...e-to-tell-us-how-gay-games-are-140021089.html

heroes doing the lord's work!

 

[Kurotri]

Same vibes

 

[Moses85]

 

[Teh Chosen Juan]

More percentages that don't mean shit.Gaming industry has become a fucking joke...

The shit I took today is less than 2% fecal matter than the 5% meat of big mac I ingested yesterday therefore today I feel 10% more inclined to create a gay character in an rpg due to Eurogamer's study and more than 110% less racist because of the Crystal Dynamics racism and etnicity warning on the new remasters of the almost 30 years old Tomb Raider games.

I would be hyperventilating without sites like Eurogamer bringing such important information to light,now I can definitely enjoy my games 2% more.

exactly. and then everyone wonders why games are shit lately. no one can see the correlation of the increase in focus on DEI and other propaganda bullshit (see: taking a moment for BLM when logging into Destiny servers back in the day) and the decrease in high quality, great games. all this shit has effects. when you stop focusing on "best person for the job" and creative freedom, what do you expect? we can only hope the pendulum swings back!

 

[Dynasty8]

I avoid these sites like the plague:

Kotaku
Polygon
Eurogamer
PC Gamer
Verge

I'm sure there are a few others, but in the last few years or so they have become sites WAY more focused on their beliefs and activism than actually gaming. Nothing of value to report, just constant altered statistical "research" to push their "opinions" as facts. It's all bullshit and you can do a simple Google search on the authors to see who they really are.

 

[Fake]

This means every fifth person commenting is gay. I'll list the first 5, so everyone can be aware. ChorizoPicozo John Bilbo @crackajack @Hollowpoint5557 Fake

Fake news.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

Im gay but... I really REALLY don't care for romance of any kind in games.

Same here although in BG3 it was funny, same with cyberpunk.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Coincidentally one out of every five gamers doesn’t use inverted controls.

 

[shamoomoo]

Who gives a shit? Let's just play games and talk about them. Leave that shit at the door.

I would imagine if you are looking at a certain demographic for a particular game type,you know what you are working with.

 

[Reaseru]

Methodology and Notes – 2024 GLAAD Gaming Report | GLAAD

Methodology GLAAD partnered with the Nielsen Games team for the custom survey portion of this report. Nielsen is a global leader in audience measurement, data, and analytics. Nielsen’s gaming team was formed in 2005 to provide “exclusive market research and consumer insights across physical and...

glaad.org

If I'm reading this right, they sampled 1,452 people who play videos games, in the United States only. That's a very small sample size, and if it's US only, that clearly doesn't reflect the reflect the rest of the world. So claiming 1 in 5 Gamers are LGBT+ is dishonest.

Dishonest is they/them middle name.

 

[AgatonSax]

Sure feels like more than 2%.

 

[shamoomoo]

Much more useful data, IMO.

That has not to do with folks who play videogames though.

 

[AJUMP23]

How many game developers identify that way. We know Druckman, but who else.

 

[nbcjr]

58% of the statistics are fake

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I create hyper sexualized female characters in RPGs cause I'm considering being trans, totally not cause I'm some dude that would rather stare a hot chick for hours than a guy.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Much more useful data, IMO.

Telephone polls? I already know this data is useless then. Milennials don't answer the damn phone.

 

[Sacred]

What's the study size and the statistics used for the poll. Sounds like complete bullshit.

 

[daclynk]

i guess many of them are Gen Z.

 

[shamoomoo]

Methodology and Notes – 2024 GLAAD Gaming Report | GLAAD

Methodology GLAAD partnered with the Nielsen Games team for the custom survey portion of this report. Nielsen is a global leader in audience measurement, data, and analytics. Nielsen’s gaming team was formed in 2005 to provide “exclusive market research and consumer insights across physical and...

glaad.org

If I'm reading this right, they sampled 1,452 people who play videos games, in the United States only. That's a very small sample size, and if it's US only, that clearly doesn't reflect the reflect the rest of the world. So claiming 1 in 5 Gamers are LGBT+ is dishonest.

But how big is gaming globally and I'm not talking about mobile. Dedicated consoles or PC, being a niche within a niche gives skewed results.

 

[nani17]

I wonder how many people who care about this actually buy the games.

 

[Dick Jones]

Im gay but... I really REALLY don't care for romance of any kind in games.

I understand. You want a straight in, no kissing game!

 

[Raonak]

That's pretty cool

 

[Singular7]

Aren't something like 40% of zoomers non-binary or gay? Two of my nieces (in high school) came out as trans this year.

What a thing to witness coming from the 90s! LGBTQ-ification of the world.

 

[Meicyn]

How do they spread their genes and multiply this fast if they're not having babies?

It’s partly a matter of circumstances and environment. I claimed I was straight for almost 2/3 of my life. Early on it was a matter of not wanting to make my adolescence more miserable than it already was. As an adult while serving in the military, it was to ensure I wouldn’t lose my career during the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell era.

The reality was I was gay the entire time, but had I been surveyed during that period of my life, I wouldn’t have dared admit it to anyone. Were you to just examine data points without context, someone might look at my life‘s timeline and come to the conclusion that I “became gay” at some point when I was merely hiding who I was.

Anecdotal, but when I came out after DADT lifted, I had two coworkers who spoke to me in confidence and admitted that they were bisexual, one when we were both drunk, and the other when we were at a strip club (fuckers paid a chick to give me a lap dance on purpose lmao). They kept their true sexuality to themselves and exclusively dated women.

 

[Portugeezer]

Anyone with a brain knows that's BS, in reality, the percentage of gamers who are LGBT would be roughly the same as in the real world.

That or they fapped to transgender porn and think it's gay, but that's another debate...

 

[Teh Chosen Juan]

Aren't something like 40% of zoomers non-binary or gay? Two of my nieces (in high school) came out as trans this year.

What a thing to witness coming from the 90s! LGBTQ-ification of the world.

lolz! let me guess: your two nieces are super popular, captains of the cheerleaders and liked by all? oh wait no, they're probably low self-esteemed dorks going through an indentity crisis. yeah, we had those in the 80s. they were called punks. then in the 90s they were goths. then in the 2000s they were emos. now they're "non-binary", "trans", whatever. it's all a stupid phase with kids looking to find community. which, there's nothing wrong with! the issue becomes when the media and government jump on the train and push BS to take advantage of this phase.