On today’s installment of Walt Right Perspectives I shoot the shit with my WASPy friend and business partner
—now Captain of the Tortuga Society.Topics include:
Are video games low status? Do womyn find them repulsive? Are Millennial guys being cringe when they feel ashamed of their gaming habit and hide it?
Generational differences in how video games are perceived
Are Millennial Matrons registering an increasingly strong ick response toward vidya because they view it as a source of male arrested development?
Walt and Theon debate the status of gaming in the aughts / 2010s
The Lana song “Video Games”—gaming couldn’t have been low status in the 2010s if she was singing about the dude playing them instead of fucking her
Are Walt and Theon still gamers? What about Millennial at large?
Gaming as occasional indulgence vs. lifestyle / hobby
Status valence of gaming compared to sports gambling and television
Compared to Millennial subcultures Zoomer microcultures are a lot more opaque and sex-segregated which makes them spergs and exacerbates the Incel Question
Walt tries to convince Theon of the merits of Stalkermaxxing
How Straussian should we be with normies about womyn and capitalism?
Are young men too cynical these days?
How optimization around the three point shot ruined basketball
Walt and Theon reminisce about Disney’s Toontown
Habbo Hotel and the Pool’s Closed raids
Neopets, Maplestory, Runescape
Theon’s earliest gaming memories of Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, early Pokemon
Which console generation was best?
Theon explains how Sony won the Console Wars
Is Xbox mexican-coded?
The disastrous rollout of PS3 at E3 and Xbone years later
Zoomers need three screens of content at once these days
Aughts online piracy culture
Will they ever release Elder Scrolls VI or just keep rereleasing Skyrim?
Morrowind vs. Oblivion vs. Skyrim
Why is Bruma colder than Riverwood?
Do the Altmer code as Jews? Do Indians map better to Dunmer or Argonians? Are Imperials implicitly WASP?
Oblivion’s fantastic Dark Brotherhood questline
Theon’s memories of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts
Is Aerith implicitly a prostie? Or is Walt just being lewd?
Tifa vs. Aerith—who is hotter and which is WASP-coded vs. Ellis Islander?
How did Final Fantasy and Disney blend so well?
Gen X dads are much better at understanding gaming than Boomers
Theon explains why open worlds are fake and gay
Walt defends lesbian haunted house simulators
Theon decries scope creep and photorealism in modern game design
Medium budget projects with simpler gameplay loops are suceeding
Roger Ebert’s famous quote that video games aren’t art—and how Millennials overreacted to it compared to how Zoomers would have metabolized it
Do video games cause violence? Do they maladaptively suppress it?
WRPGs don’t give straight men decent love interests anymore
Kids who’d run around like Naruto
Was it acceptable to like Pokémon in the aughts?
The merits of collect-a-thon / platformer-type games
Why don’t Zoomers have as many platform-defining RPGs
Are normie genres predominating now because gaming itself is normie?
Theon explains competitive Pokémon battling
Pokémon Yellow made Walt a special snowflake
Walt and Theon both cheesed Gen II with their overevolved starter
Zoomer resistance to Millennial optimizationbro analysis
Boomers asking you to pause MMOs
Walt praises Zoomer Boy humility
Being a young guy finding all the bugs in the system at your first job
The tension between vitalism and sinecurism
Walt and Theon give career advice to young guys
Zoomers are so aware of asymmetry it undermines a lot of guys’ motivation
It’s all about gumption and grit now
Zoomers could have benefited from Jordan Peterson
Discord / Telegram killed Millennial subcultures and gave us microcultures
