Current Events > Vice: Red Dead Redemption 2 Players Are Excited to Kill Feminists in the Game

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev3gmm/red-dead-redemption-2-players-are-excited-to-attack-and-kill-feminists-in-the-game

wow
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you can find people excited to do just about anything in a game. seems like a weird thing to write an article about
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vice dot com
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not gonna read that lol vice
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Lmfao that pic in the beginning
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Hey, remember killing prostitues in GTA3 to get your money back causing a big uproar?
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crusader kings 2 players enjoy marrying their siblings/mothers/mothersiblings, raping their prisoners and killing all the jews

they're video games
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Thompson posted...

Hey, remember killing prostitues in GTA3 to get your money back causing a big uproar?

I do.

Your first name wouldn't happen to be Jack would it?
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Hot takes draw page views. All you need to know.
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after reading the article the author doesn't seem to understand games too well and alludes to blaming games for real world violence...not a good look
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It's them trying to push the whole narrative of: "Normal gamers are so toxic. We're so much better. Look at our social peacocking. We're such good people. You should listen to everything we say because we're the moral authority of the world."

The narrative is so dumb. People have been killing annoying NPCs in games for years.
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What happened to Vice
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YouTube banned the dude's account. Wow.
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gamers rise up
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They leveled up.
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iPhone_7 posted...

What happened to Vice

George Soros money happened.
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Menardii posted...

The narrative is so dumb. People have been killing annoying NPCs in games for years.

It's one thing to kill an NPC. It's another to do it and receive praise in comments saying, "Yeah! This is what every feminist deserves!"
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AngelSeven posted...

Menardii posted...

The narrative is so dumb. People have been killing annoying NPCs in games for years.

It's one thing to kill an NPC. It's another to do it and receive praise in comments saying, "Yeah! This is what every feminist deserves!"

I don't see how that's the youtuber's fault if the comments go to hell. You can find awful comments on 95% of youtube videos.
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iPhone_7 posted...

What happened to Vice

Tim Pool left.
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lol. In GTA I enjoyed entering a police station and murdering all of its denizens, and proceeding to mangle people as they entered the front door, until I got bored of it. Doesn't mean shit.
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The article is hot garbage and is only written because he's butthurt that Rockstar even allowed for it to be an option, but the only "decent" point (and I'm putting it very lightly) I can find was when he mentioned that Rockstar made a conscious decision to not allow your character to kill children. I mean it's obvious why Rockstar wouldn't allow it after the recent school shootings we had. Video games are a fantasy, the whole point of it is we're allowed to do things we can normally not do them out in public. Even then RDR2 actually makes you have some sort of consequence when doing bad things like make your morality go down.
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who were the feminists in the wild west? the women that owned the brothels and functionally ran the towns?
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Menardii posted...

AngelSeven posted...

Menardii posted...

The narrative is so dumb. People have been killing annoying NPCs in games for years.

It's one thing to kill an NPC. It's another to do it and receive praise in comments saying, "Yeah! This is what every feminist deserves!"

I don't see how that's the youtuber's fault if the comments go to hell. You can find awful comments on 95% of youtube videos.

I'm sure the Youtuber must have had other content or warnings that warranted the ban. My point is that the narrative isn't dumb as you say because this isn't just people killing "an annoying NPC" -- not when they're hi-fiving one another and relating it to real life feminists.
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Menardii posted...

The narrative is so dumb. People have been killing annoying NPCs in games for years.

Hi, I'm Noober. Nice place, huh?
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I understand the its a video game perspective but some people were just too eager to beat the shit out of her
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Prestoff posted...

The article is hot garbage and is only written because he's butthurt that Rockstar even allowed for it to be an option, but the only "decent" point (and I'm putting it very lightly) I can find was when he mentioned that Rockstar made a conscious decision to not allow your character to kill children. I mean it's obvious why Rockstar wouldn't allow it after the recent school shootings we had. Video games are a fantasy, the whole point of it is we're allowed to do things we can normally not do them out in public. Even then RDR2 actually makes you have some sort of consequence when doing bad things like make your morality go down.

Are there even any children in RDR2 other than Jack?
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I wish I could remember who it was that posted that disturbing video of a guy playing GTA V going around killing the women NPCs and just spewing vile shit about women while he did it. There are some disturbed gamers who get off on doing shit like that

Roxborough4Ever posted...

iPhone_7 posted...

What happened to Vice

George Soros money happened.

I thought they got bought by Robert Murdoch which also own Fox News?
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Was anyone complaining when everyone was slaughtering the KKK in the game.
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AlephZero posted...

vice dot com

SSJCAT posted...

not gonna read that lol vice

RiderofHogs posted...

Was anyone complaining when everyone was slaughtering the KKK in the game.

Yeah i'm sorry but personal feeling for Feminists aside you can't compare them to the KKK.
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I wasn't on CE, but were people complaining about knocking the reporter out in Mass Effect 1-3?
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Yeah, it's a videogame, and killing everybody is fun, and all that.

But what's telling is that at this time period in the game, all women wanted was the right to vote, and some people still call the character an annoying feminist and gleefully attack her. Just a weird reaction to a completely reasonable demand.
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jborgan posted...

But what's telling is that at this time period in the game, all women wanted was the right to vote, and some people still call the character an annoying feminist and gleefully attack her. Just a weird reaction to a completely reasonable demand.

This is also a really good point

jborgan posted...

Yeah, it's a videogame, and killing everybody is fun, and all that.

But what's telling is that at this time period in the game, all women wanted was the right to vote, and some people still call the character an annoying feminist and gleefully attack her. Just a weird reaction to a completely reasonable demand.

The character is designed to be annoying. She has constant lines of "Let me vote, let me vote, let me vote. I can do this all day, let me vote" I agree with the message, but the character is set up to be annoying.

Not only that but she says that women are superior to men too, which isn't what feminism is supposed to be about.
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Gamers are so fucking fragile lmao

Players are also excited to kill klansmen, is vice going to bitch about that too?
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jborgan posted...

Yeah, it's a videogame, and killing everybody is fun, and all that.

But what's telling is that at this time period in the game, all women wanted was the right to vote, and some people still call the character an annoying feminist and gleefully attack her. Just a weird reaction to a completely reasonable demand.

Men have an irrational fear of feminism. They sure as shit don't want women to have equality, which is kinda funny given they don't want women to be clingy "gold diggers" either (aka want men to actually be something other than a waste of oxygen).

Anyway, yeah, of course certain groups of people are excited about killing feminists in a video game.
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Aren't people also excited to kill KKK members? Is there anything to this beyond sensationalist jargon?

also lmao at comparing feminism to the KKK.
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_Lyonidias posted...

Men have an irrational fear of feminism

Only stupid men.

But feminism isn't "women are superior" like a lot of the modern feminists preach. Feminism is actually "women and men are equal" which I can subscribe to
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_Lyonidias posted...

also lmao at comparing feminism to the KKK.

I was just about to say this. I swear people come up with the stupidest arguments .
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Axiom posted...

jborgan posted...

But what's telling is that at this time period in the game, all women wanted was the right to vote, and some people still call the character an annoying feminist and gleefully attack her. Just a weird reaction to a completely reasonable demand.

This is also a really good point

keep in mind a good chunk of people supported roy moore, who openly bemoaned how women voting and the end of slavery fucked our country...
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Menardii posted...

_Lyonidias posted...

Men have an irrational fear of feminism

Only stupid men.

But feminism isn't "women are superior" like a lot of the modern feminists preach. Feminism is actually "women and men are equal" which I can subscribe to

Most modern feminists don't preach that.
Certainly there are some misandrists who do, and who make feminism look bad, but it isn't "a lot" of modern feminists.

Men and women are yet to even be seen as equal and modern feminists want to move society closer to that goal.

Exposing people who take a specific and rather odd amount of joy in unleashing their hatred of feminism by killing them in game is fine, and illustrates that there are still people who would honestly quite like to see violence committed against actual feminists irl.
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AngelSeven posted...

_Lyonidias posted...

also lmao at comparing feminism to the KKK.

I was just about to say this. I swear people come up with the stupidest arguments .

Well the fact this whole thing even exists is just as stupid.

It is a video game and you play as an outlaw.
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