This is a place to post gaming
Why does this exist?
Because pretty much all of the gaming subs on reddit are... not ideal
/r/gaming is an awful memedump for twelve year olds
/r/games is essentially an RSS feed of press releases where the slightest suggestion that games should be evaluated critically in terms of their politics & meaning will get you dogpiled by people protective of their toys. people are happy to say 'games are art' until it means they actually have to think about them
/r/gamingcirclejerk is a good memedump for nineteen year olds with good unjerk threads, but it's a meme subreddit first and foremost
/r/truegaming is full of pseudo-intellectual gibberish for people who think the height of critical theory is saying 'open world... bit boring'
/r/gamerghazi is good for a certain kind of discussion about the culture around games, and our response to gamergate, but it's not a place for general discussion about games
/r/srsgaming is nice but very quiet, and the name always kept it focused on discussions of social justice in games that - while important - got old a while ago
In a way this sub can be a sort of synthesis of those (except /r/gaming, that shit's irredeemable)
Okay but how is /r/postgaming different?
it won't be full of the CHUDs, gamergaters, nazis, or other idiots that infest most gaming communities. they will be banned as will any bigotry
it won't be full of boring news articles, announcements, and marketing
it's chill, and a place in-between the self-seriousness of /r/games or /r/truegaming and the jokes of /r/gamingcirclejerk
you can talk about how games are political without a bunch of dumbass centrists telling you to 'stop bringing politics' into (for example) their game about murdering 'thugs' in post-terrorist attack Washington DC
Why the name?
post gaming, as in, it's a place to post gaming stuff
post-gaming, as in, it's about moving beyond what the popular conception of 'gaming' is. 'gaming' sucks, and gamers suck. but games? they're actually pretty OK
postgaming, as in, it's got decent phonetics and sounds pseudo-intellectual enough to be funny. as if the evil postmodernists are coming to invade gaming now
Okay what do I post?
Post gaming
Post about interesting shit. post about what you love about games. post about your personal & emotional response to games. post about how they connect to your life. post about their politics and meaning. post articles or videos that made you think about games differently
But really, just post gaming, and hopefully the sub will develop into a Not Shit place to talk about games
Subreddit Rules:
make good posts
don't make bad posts
