I’ve got this ad before for this video in my youtube and I shared it here on hexbear. It’s so fucked up, some real hatred towards women radiating from the thumbnail.

Shout-out to that video of Miyazaki yelling at those students for doing zombie 3d animation

There should be a special place in hell for people who think it’s funny to traumatize others so much

I’ve loved zombie games my whole life, but when someone suggested this one to me i decided to give it a miss. Partly because I’m absolutely sick of playing games set in LA, but mostly because facial graphics have gotten to the point where the zombies actually look like people and not generic undead enemies. And I know the genre is already reactionary, has mostly always been reactionary, but it seems like lately the creep factor has kicked up a couple notches. Maybe I’m just not the target audience anymore, or maybe I’m still riding the high of Dying Light, but I do not feel drawn to the photorealistic bikini woman dismembering game.

Ah, you know what else? It’s the hair. In Dying Light, it’s a rabies virus so all the infected lose their hair. So whatever their gender or dress, they all have the same bald snarling face with open sores and bloodshot eyes, which makes them scarier and less empathetic. Seeing a zombie with a hairstyle though, reminds me that this is/was a person who chose to look this way to express something that was going on inside their mind. Yeah, now I’ve figured it out. Signifiers of interiority squick me out in the context of a game where you’re supposed to have a rad, Dew-chuggin time crushing those character’s skulls in 4K Liveleak detail. Idk, someone more versed in the language of cultural criticism could probably tie this very easily to the rise of gamer fascism.

BlockTube for firefox can block obnoxious videos and channels from showing up in your recommendations. I’ve used it to block all those channels of middle-aged men whining about disney movies being woke.

in freetube you can browse with thumbnails blurred out, it’s pretty great

freetube itself is kind of a mixed bag, some days it works great and some days it’s laggy as hell. on bad days I find videos in freetube and then load them up in an invidious instance

If you get traumatized by a clearly animated game model, you cant use the internet folks. Maybe consider using youtube kids if you need your reality perception prefiltered.