The real issue with this shit is going to be endlessly gaslighted until people give up trying to explain why it's a problem and life will go on. Enjoy the good fight while it's still here bois, we all know how this ends.
Could you explain that term to me? The way I understand it is like making somebody believe something happened when it didn’t actually but I’m not sure. Googling it hasn’t helped much.
Pretty widely accepted definition is "Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity" but in more practical ways it's this:
Person 1: "I wish DICE remained faithful to historical accuracy in BF 5's setting. This seems really strange."
Person 2 responding to person 1: "Wahaaaa ermegehrd muh vidya games! No girls allowed!!!".
So, what person 2 is clearly doing is painting person 1 as irrational by rewording their statements in the most extreme and hyperbolic ways possible to make their opinion seem insane. It's a more insidious way of building a straw man argument except you're not even acknowledging the other person even has an argument you're just painting them as fringe or lunatic.
What I'm saying you'll see happen across this sub is exactly that. Everyone who isn't comfortable with liberties being taken in BFV's historical setting will be pushed to the outside of every discussion over time as some sort of Incel or misogynist or even an alt right regressive until people just say fuck it and stop complaining because they don't want to be labeled or associated with these groups.
I'm already done raising my concerns about it and it's only reveal day. I'm just leaving the discussion all together and keeping an eye on the game to find out what the finished product looks like.
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u/[deleted] May 24 '18
The real issue with this shit is going to be endlessly gaslighted until people give up trying to explain why it's a problem and life will go on. Enjoy the good fight while it's still here bois, we all know how this ends.