I basically left GameFAQs entirely around 5 years ago, but recently I checked in and saw it was pretty much the same bullshit

thankfully it doesn't have moderation as bad as NeoGAF

ahahahaha

game forum political discussions are leftist like 100% of the time aren't they?

when I was an impressionable young lad, these faggots turned me leftist for most of my teen years

@FLanon yeah, but GameFAQs thankfully is less strict on moderating right wing opinion in comparison to other spaces

I think it's gotten a bit better since then

wtf how is information being public any better

there are a lot of Trump supporters on GameFAQs as far as I can tell, but I'm no longer a regular

that just shows people are sheep and need media attention to find the truth

that's a lot worse

they're still outnumbered by the leftists, but in comparison to the latter days of Bush, and the Obama years, there's a lot more right-wing posters

a lot of them are probably former leftists like me

Yeah, I mean in the climate it was just unpalatable to be right wing

oh and the thing is...many of the people who "mature" from leftist gamer drivel tend to leave GameFAQs and websites like it (like me)

you had 5 years of a useless war on our hands

etc

I'm surprised it's still very active

I recognize one of the users on the Politics thread right now "Turtlemayor333"

that guy was a regular on the RuneScape board back in 2006

jesus

imagine spending over a decade of your life regularly posting on Gamefags

I never really spent too much time on game forums, not political discussion at least

I never was too political until 3-4 years ago

what's funny is that I forgot pretty much every username from my gamefaqs days, so now that I'm currently browsing through it again, some of them are triggering flashbacks

what made you more political ?

The climate

looking around, making realizations

I had read orwell right before going into high school and that really got me thinking

I saw all these surveillance systems and a lot of fucked up shit around and I got to thinking about a lot of things

I was vaguely right wing beforehand, but not really politically literate, just a teenager who played a lot of games like normal

Established humor got more boring, movies got more boring, really celebrity culture made me really become apathetic.

This was around 2015-ish

I look at the sjw owned shit and I was really more egalitarian and the such

Then Trump comes around, and I see this guy who's interesting, more interesting than the movies, more interesting than video games, he really was something

I didn't like him too much at first, I was more of a normie and kinda looked at everything like most other people "he's a joke" etc

The more I payed attention though, the more this guy began to amaze me.

I saw a guy who talked brashly but honestly, a guy with his own businesses and couldn't be bought by pacs. I saw something admirable in that.

I found /pol/ early 2016, and that really got me into politics, I came to realize everything that was going on around me, the corruption, civilization falling apart at the seams, that sort of shit

I really got into the election, rode the wave to the election, got very deep into reading about a lot of stuff, and now I'm here.