ultra balanced and optimized multiplayer FPS games, particularly the metagame where you're hardly fucking playing the game but shooting at pixels from different tight wall angles barely ever seeing players, peeking around corners because server lag gives peeker's advantage, etc. To this, I will also add Hero Shooters like Valorant and the 50 million knockoffs that commodify violence with uwu purty colors and superpowers bizarro worlds.
Like, what the fuck is actually going on here? I get it. It's video games. CounterStrike makes sense. It's Cops and Robbers. Kill the bad guys. Difusse/Plant the Bomb. Rescue the hostages (rip). But games like Valorant, R6, I just don't fucking understand what the point of it is. Multiracial/multigendered brightly colored faggots running around with stupid customized gun skins flashing magic powers around so they can...shoot at pixels in tight wall angles barely ever seeing players? Futuristic gladiatorial combat where POC murder each other with quippy oneliners and get ready to do it again next round. It's like violence is commodified down and neutered into the purest form of shit. We carry out simulated acts of terror because it triggers the monkey brain response and sugercoat it with faggotry and black women and pretty colors. And god forbid you show any kind of masculine behavior like trash talk because it gets you banned for being big bop meanine! The fucking cognitive dissonance to exist in this kind of headspace baffles me.