I tried to just bring up the video and not the full post, so sorry for the cursing. We all know by now that Hasan Piker is a jerk. The dude is so known for shocking his own dog to keep it on camera for the views that Vice President J.D. Vance even called him out on it. As you can see, Grummz on X/Twitter called him out for comments he made involving the game Pragmata, where you play an armored fighter dealing with crazed robots while bonding with an android in the form of a little girl who is also your ally.
That Park Place contributor Trevor Denning points out how stupid Piker’s statement is that gamers can’t relate to this situation because they can’t “get with women” (although there are plenty of gamers who can easily disprove that statement. Even if somehow he was, what he and too many modern storytellers don’t realize is that you don’t have to live an experience to empathise with one, plus you kind of are living the experience virtually through the game. One shouldn’t have to live in a fantasy world or be a gangster to get into stories based on those premises, or fight robots with an android companion hacking their systems so you won’t die. So why would a father/daughter dynamic be so hard to understand?
I’ve seen play of a demo and it looks like a fun game. As for the people trying to connect this to pedophiles or saying men can’t have paternal instincts…seek help!
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[…] Remember the lame discourse around the new hot game Pragmata? One critic claimed men can’t connect to a child the same way women do, lacking a parental instinct. Another said gamers shouldn’t be relating to the game or the support character Diana, the android little girl, because of some rather insulting interpretations of gamers. That’s ignoring the pedo accusations. Well, here’s another example of why they’re idiots. Geeks & Gamers is reporting on a Reddit thread by a man who saw aspect of his late daughter, who died at an early age from illness, in the little girl. Sounds like the character mattered to him and he could relate to the player character rather well. […]
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[…] Remember the lame discourse around the new hot game Pragmata? One critic claimed men can’t connect to a child the same way women do, lacking a parental instinct. Another said gamers shouldn’t be relating to the game or the support character Diana, the android little girl, because of some rather insulting interpretations of gamers. That’s ignoring the pedo accusations. Well, here’s another example of why they’re idiots. Geeks & Gamers is reporting on a Reddit thread by a man who saw aspect of his late daughter, who died at an early age from illness, in the little girl. Sounds like the character mattered to him and he could relate to the player character rather well. […]
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