brainwave about the game difficulty wank

[yvannairie]

Do self-identifying gamers get so mad about people wanting accessibility options because they read that criticism coming from a place of entitlement (or preference, to use a less harsh word) as their complaints about the lack of preferred features/content?

Can it be that simple?

It would explain why they seem to mentally add "and that's why it's bad" at the end of "this game lacks accessibility features" and then argue that the germ jurnalists are dishonestly not judging the game by its own merit. You also see this pattern any time a journo says anything positive about a game's diversity -- the argument the self-identified gamer sets out to debunk isn't "this game is good and diverse" but rather "the diversity makes this game good"

Comments

[cassini]

[that was an interesting read. i can see the links between enforcing an egalitarian principle that supports itself as just, and the reaction to the unfair consquences of the principle being 'git gud'. though i'm failing to get the synapses firing on yvannairie's specific example, i'm seeing it through the lens of my career. i can see policymakers deciding the just in a vaccuum, then applying it and telling us to 'git gud' because if we see failings, we must adapt to fit the principle ]

[yvannairie]

Which part of it trips you up? I was admittedly posting pre-coffee, which I shouldn't do |D

[cassini]

[hey for precoffee ethics discos ]

[i just think my brain isn't having it with the sentence you used in the post body, because i understand perfectly what you're saying in your 0935 comment below, so i'll chalk it up to a fault on my part ]