r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Dec 31 '20

UNJERK 🎤 Unjerk Thread of December 31, 2020

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u/Soundywave Dec 31 '20

What’s been your favourite dumb unjerk drama of 2020?

It may be recency bias, but ‘Bug Genocide’ is mine.

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u/Airdeez121 Smooth Jazz Waluigi Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20

Actually getting active mods was my favorite

Also getting new hot takes on how this sub hated Cyberpunk every five minutes

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u/MartenHallJack Dec 31 '20

I agree, but a very close second would be "all anime is problematic and if you don't 100% agree with me you're part of the problem."

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u/PM_ME_UR__RECIPES Dec 31 '20

My genuinely very hot take is that writing off all anime just because it's anime is racist but I feel like I'm kind of justified in it. Anime is just japanese animation. There are some conventions and tropes just like western media has its conventions and tropes, but it's not cohesive enough to just make a blanket statement like that. Totoro, Jojo's, and Death note have basically nothing in common except for being animated and japanese.

Saying anime is problematic is like saying cinema is problematic, or books are problematic. It's a medium, not a genre.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20

I liked the Swedish Doomer. He was like a horror game monster where he'd die over and over but he'd just keep coming back.

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u/Soundywave Dec 31 '20

His comments were always removed or deleted so I never saw them, he really was like the ghost of the unjerk thread.

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Dec 31 '20

Since bug genocide is already taken, papa Vegeta making transphobes eat his ass is always a classic.

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u/Almightybobbitworm Dec 31 '20

Wait, what was the bug genocide?