I haven‘t listened for that long nor am I that dedicated of a listener, I caught up to release schedule starting maybe, I don’t know, a month ago, and starting from the revival point. I haven‘t been around for long on the forums either. I’ve just been relentlessly WRITING here for the past few days, though, and I‘m very aware of that (NOT apologizing tho!). I’m happy to say that it‘s because I decided I felt comfortable, very fast. I feel like I’ve needed an environment like this for a long time and I‘m very happy to feel I’ve very likely found it. It comes at an especially convenient time too, for reasons similar to what I‘m sure we’re all feeling as we stew in this crappy world, which could very well be the hell of a better world for all we know.
This comes from a place of love and trust, and is kind of my own response in general to the What's Wrong With Videogames Episode (which I greatly think needs to be an ongoing discussion, everywhere, all the time), but, while I was catching up, the cheeky best thing I felt I could say about the Insert Credit Podcast is that it's better than any podcast comprised of four "white" (presumed to be at least, although, I feel pretty sure is by their own admission) "dudes" (ditto) talking about "videogames" (who knows what a videogame REALLY is?) has any right to be. Is there an inverse to damning with faint praise? Praising with faint damnation.
And, well, I don't have a right to say that anymore and the reason is because it isn't holistically true anymore. Perhaps there was community discussion on the forums when that episode dropped, but I feel pretty sure that the commitment to having guests every second episode combined with who those guests have been was an assurance that there was an internal reaction to that discussion, and it didn't just stay a discussion, it was expressed though action. I feel comfortable enough to say that, yeah, it's about the bare minimum we nee, but I can still appreciate it when in a broader context it's downright fervent radicalism, and enough committed small steps can still overturn a culture.
I think that episode and the tone of that episode was very integral to me feeling that there was something I felt I could trust, here. I could go ON, and believe me, if you've seen me posting in here the last few days, you ain't seen NOTHIN yet, but almost nothing is more frustrating to me than people who seem to be legitimately well meaning, and will speak to or even admit culpability for what some serious societal problems are, but then consistently fail to consider moving past that point and just stay in a loop of feeling sorry about it (or rather what is the performance of feeling sorry about it) and then wondering why nothing is changing. So people or organizations who just fuckin realize they can just DO stuff to tip over the first domino and get change actually happening have my respect. And, I think the people who have decided to hang around here must have at least tacitly also decided to support that, so, yeah, here I am. Let's save videogames from itself
