capital-G Gamers fascinate me so much because i cannot fathom the mind of an individual who insists so heavily that the existence of any sort of minority within a game is inherently political, yet also is completely incapable of recognizing when the game is actively making fun of them for bigotry.
like what goes on inside their brains? is it too leaded for the neurons to fire properly? are there only a handful of brain cells floating around clacking into each other like billiards? it confounds me. it makes no damn sense. compels me though
People talk about the decline of media literacy but it's been an issue for centuries. Some people really aren't operating on any high level
They thought Colbert's Colbert character was a conservative, for instance
Correct! The character was entirely meant to be a ridiculous spoof of conservative talking heads, and neither Colbert nor his writers were subtle about it at all; from "truthiness" to his over the top interviews to his skewering of the press corps during the Correspondent's dinner.
And yet.
