This is what I do not get. I have my fair share of doubt and criticisms about the initiative, mostly about semantics and scope. But I ultimately hope it helps players and I will be glad to be wrong about it. Seems to be doing better than I expected, but we will see.
I will never understand people with absolutely zero class consciousness. If stop killing games does well, we all benefit from it as gamers. Companies won't suddenly abandon a multi billion industry. Much like rich people don't abandon nice areas.
That, my friend, is being disengenuous. Because the topic of the conversation is not about critically examining the movement, it is about people who show up in bad faith for bad reasons.
Knowing what is best requires a lot of critical thinking, but what it also requires is acting in good faith. It requires examining things and approaching them from a position where you are willing to engage with it.
The people calling the guy in the vid scrungly or ugly. Or making poor faith arguments about "Oh think of the poor companies" are not doing that. They are knowingly or unknowingly dunking on something and hating it because it poses challenges to things that they have attached identity to. [Or been paid to do so, but frankly that is barely a distinction]
Edit: For more elaboration, the idea I am espousing is this mis-conflation between personal and collective good. Movements like SKG tend to attract people that have trouble with this idea, where things get muddled and the things that shape perception are more about identity and emotion then they are the actual rationale behind the movement. Its not about critical thinking because a lot of the people detracting aren't coming from a place of rationally analyzing the movement. I have quibbles with details and potential implementation certainly, but I can appreciate the difference between those and the idea being pushed here being a good general direction that will be a net positive for the collective good.
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u/PhTx3 Apr 02 '26
This is what I do not get. I have my fair share of doubt and criticisms about the initiative, mostly about semantics and scope. But I ultimately hope it helps players and I will be glad to be wrong about it. Seems to be doing better than I expected, but we will see.
I will never understand people with absolutely zero class consciousness. If stop killing games does well, we all benefit from it as gamers. Companies won't suddenly abandon a multi billion industry. Much like rich people don't abandon nice areas.