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Agar.io represents everything that's wrong with gamers in 2015 (self.GamerGhazi)

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So you may have noticed a little game named "Agario" blowing up on Twitch and Reddit recently. For those that aren't aware, it's a simply game where you move a dot around to eat other colored dots, there's no text or voice chat, you just move the dots around and try to make your dot as big as possible while avoiding the other players dots. It pretty much couldnt be more innocuous as far as games go, right? Wrong.

So what's the problem? Well for one thing, anyone knows how toxic the Twitch community is knows how capable they are of ruining a gaming scene, and if you're in the sub you're already well aware of how bad Reddit is. Our old friends at 8chan /v/ and /pol/ have picked up on this game as well as KnowYourMeme but still... how could there be a problem with a game that features no chat, no messages, no grouping of any kind?

The game, at least at first impressions seems to take the Hearthstone route of not providing gamers with chat functionality in order to starve them of the oxygen they need for harrassment. Unfortunately Shitlords always find a way, and in Agario's case they have resorted to using the functionality of choosing your own name and skin in order to be misogynist, racist assholes.

A quick look at some of the top posts in the Agario subreddit illustrate my point perfectly. Consider there to be a BLANKET TRIGGER WARNING ON ALL FURTHER LINKS IN THIS POST...

Mocking feminism and a rape joke for good measure

More mocking feminism

Homophobia, racism and anti-semitism and oh look feminism is present too I'm sure this will end well...

More racism

Homophobia

It's just "historical roleplay" guise...

Racism

Edgy

One person who voices dislike to the offensive themes is shot down in the name of MUH FREEZE PEACH

Another is met with highly upvoted abject racism

And as per usual on Reddit, Asians are a protected class amongst the rest of the anti-PoC racism

LOGIC & REASON! "This offensive skin is okay because there are other offensive skins in the game"...

Mocking SJWs and cucks? Business as usual...

I think I need to restate the fact that GAMERS ACTUALLY MANAGED TO TAKE A GAME ABOUT MOVING COLORED DOTS AROUND AND MADE IT ABOUT HARRASSMENT.

It would be too easy to blame this ALL on the gamers, as I mentioned above Hearthstone has implemented a system which works quite well. But Blizzard has proved they are willing to moderate and curate their games, and they have at least made baby steps in the direction of Social Justice. However, the dev for Agario not only seems to be revelling in the attention of his Channer, Twitch and Gator fans, but actively encouraging their behavior...

Glancing at the list of skins he has added immediately shows some of the 'edgy' racist, misogynistic and un-politically correct skins available...

8chan, hitler, isis, nazi, north korea, patriarchy, piccolo, satanist, stalin to name a few.

From browsing the subreddit many gamers seem to argue that these skins were added for "historic roleplay" but I think the links I shared above show that they are of course used to create offensive situations.

The silver lining is that his game will never achieve mainstream media coverage and popularity while it's full of nazi and misogynist imagery. Hopefully someone will come along soon to create a sanitzed version that can be played by children and people who don't want to be constantly harrassed, offended or triggered. And by someone who can KEEP THE FUCKING GAMING COMMUNITY IN CHECK.

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[–]LtColStaghornSocial Justice Krampus 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Historic roleplay?

With... colored dots?

[–]cisdealinabsolutes 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Clearly this is an important free speech issue... /s

[–]SickOfTheRedditors 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

And the sad thing is, because this game involves colorful little dots it WILL attract children. Especially if they are seeing it on Twitch and Youtube... and all they'll find is a bunch of channers, redditors, gators etc, basically the scum of the internet, "roleplaying" historical events with dots nah lol jk they'll encounter a bunch of racist and sexist harrassers.

[–]FishAndBone 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (4子コメント)

But...but I was told that the gamer community is a place where everyone is accepted, and I finally don't have to be bullied any more T_T

Oh wait, no, that's GG's mythical idealization of video games for white dudes.

[–]cisdealinabsolutes 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I wonder if CH Sommers actually saw the gamer community in action, ie in this game, rather than sycophantic Gators sucking up to her, she'd still describe gamers as "inclusive, welcoming and polite"...

[–]ElephantAmoreI've got my Orange Crush. 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (0子コメント)

The answer is yes, of course she would. She probably already knows.

She tweets like a 12-year old bully; this is her culture.

[–]adaminator1Based Hawkgirl 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

everyone is accepted

If you're a bigot, the TRULY OPRESSED MINORITY, no matter what kind of bigot you are, you're accepted!

Gamers in general: Loving & tolerant of intolerance and yet hating tolerance since the community's inception. (yet don't you dare suggest gamers can be mostly awful people, or even call the community out, then you're the real bigot)

(#notallgamers)

[–]3classy5me 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Everyone is accepted in gamer culture as long as you are a white dude that doesn't like sports too much.

[–]ThehoennhippoFeminist Otaku 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (4子コメント)

That guy who said "do you hate free speech"... I can't even...

[–]tee96Social Justice Padawan 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'll just paste something I wrote about free speech

Free speech. You can say what you want but that free speech comes with few asterisks next to it and I don't have to listen to you. The only people who can take it away therefore censoring you are those in position of power i.e. government not privately owned websites and subforums. You are in their house either follow their rules or get the boot.

[–]LtColStaghornSocial Justice Krampus 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I love how people don't realize that there's a gigantic chunk of the Internet's userbase that don't have free speech.

Granted, this is probably because these people don't speak Chinese, but still.

[–]BetaMalesAreCool 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

They're too busy "historically roleplaying" with dots with communist flags on them to care.

[–]CrowgirlCKim Crawley 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Actually "free speech" in the American sense, is a concept that only exists in the United States.

Even here in Canada we have laws that make hate speech illegal that don't exist in the US.

And even in the US, there are limits to "free speech": child porn, slander, libel, defamation, blatant lying in pharmaceutical ads, the list goes on...

[–]Clovis42Walking-Sim Apologist 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Hearthstone has implemented a system which works quite well.

You know things are bad in a community when a game gets praised for dealing with the situation by simply removing almost all forms of communication.

Having said that, I prefer Hearthstone's approach to any other I've seen so far ...

[–]socialjusticepriestAgent No-Reply 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes, it's funny how much more tolerable people can be thanks to that. Plus, emotes let me be unfailingly polite to them just to irritate them all the more.

[–]NekryydremaG daednU 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is almost like a word bubble visualization of typical Call of Duty voice chat.

[–]tee96Social Justice Padawan 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That kids is why people hate arseholes. They ruin things with their arseholishness.

[–]benzimoCultural Maoist 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's a cute, fun little game in theory. FYI, you can disable the labels and skins to avoid the assholery. Wish it would be on by default, but seeing how the dev is personally adding these razor sharp edgy skins, I don't see that happening.

[–]VoteRonaldRayGunStop at nothing less than FULL SOCIAL JUSTICE 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Meanwhile in Agario

shutup turbojew

Totes not the bad guys.

[–]KTKittenTell me about the games of your homeworld, Usul 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Dude, it's called humour.

I... what?
It worries me when people think that, essentially, going out in public and screaming "Hitler!" wrapped in a swastika counts as humour. I don't think I'm some kind of intellectual elitist, but surely humour requires thought?

[–]socialjusticeorcLiterally Internet Stalin ☭ 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

99% of "edgy internet humour" is not actually funny, and I say that as a person who can laugh at some pretty offensive shit.

[–]ThreeTimesPlasterOperation Anthy is a weirdo who keeps a snail in her pencilbox 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I tried the game before. This is pretty much what I saw. I noped the fuck out in like all of five minutes.

[–]ListenAndBelieve[S] 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It really is the worst community I've seen thus far. And I say this as someone who was forced to play CoD online at a friend's house once. It's like the dev said, "okay, I'm going to make a game and invite every neo-nazi, MRA, misogynist etc on the internet to come play it!"

Unfortunately, I feel this is what a gaming community looks like in it's natural state when people aren't worried about having their Steam/XBLA/Whatever accounts banned. :(

[–]cisdealinabsolutes 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah I googled it to find out a bit more about it and the highest rated video that came up was from the Twitch streamer Destiny. Yes, that Destiny, from the penis sexting and the KiA AMA... I think I can live without this game somehow.

[–]clampshotFucking Shrill 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

As usual, "FREE SPEECH" applies only to people who are being hateful, bigoted shitheads and not to anyone who would dare to criticize them.

[–]DoBetterReddit 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

KYM says the game was created by /v/, which would explain all of the "edginess" and unwilling to moderate it.

Too bad, because it seemed like a harmless timesink.

[–]PrincessAmericaBased Trollfic Author 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

If you can choose your own name, I'd love to go with "Kill All Men", "Gamers Are Dead", or "Anita Sarkeesian isn't a bad person" and see how these "free speech advocates" react.

However, if the dev is outright encouraging the channers, then this game obviously isn't worth playing.

[–]StrivingAllyPutting Based Gators in the #DerpFreeze 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

"My other fave game is DepQuest"

"Comment is free but facts are sacred"

"I'd rather be playing Dear Esther"

"I <3 ggautoblocker"

"The Escapist is trash"

This does have potential...

[–]ChildOfComplexity 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Poor piccolo.

[–]FearOfAnSJWPlanet 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That fucking rape-joke nod to pro-GG got tiresome a long time ago...

[–]FrozenWesSocial Justice Cannon Gunner 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

However, the dev for Agario not only seems to be revelling in the attention of his Channer, Twitch and Gator fans, but actively encouraging their behavior...

It's even worse, he's promoted the game on 4chan and is adding stuff they ask for. 4chan Is where this game's community began and the result of that is what you see now. Sad really, as otherwise it's a pretty nice game imho.

[–]SpawnzerThe Whitest Knight U Know 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'll admit I laughed at the "historical roleplay" one

[–]lastres0rtMy Webcomic's Too Good for Brad Wardell 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Goddamnit.

If I was still doing my Master's Degree right now we'd both a) be having a field day with this shit and b) tossing out my thesis project work in favor of creating a paper entitled "Why we can't have nice things: GamerGate and why future games will have no room for customization whatsoever"

[–]IMarriedAVoxPopuliEternal Snarkness 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

technically, some of the cited instances of racism are actually xenophobia.

[–]taejones 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Do this then. http://i.imgur.com/hpGnYfk.png

[–]lastres0rtMy Webcomic's Too Good for Brad Wardell -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Or I could just... NOT play a shitty little game whose only purpose seems to be offending people.

Yeah, I think that's what's going to happen here. Enjoy your little shitty dot game.

[–]taejones 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Okay I will

[–]clampshotFucking Shrill -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's actually kind of a cute little time waster with the bigotry removed. I didn't see a single "offensive" name or skin when I played it.