“ Games are a natural fit for realizing the self-fulfilling fantasies of hyper-rationalist numbers-based thinking. Games provide fully realized worlds constructed out of hyper-masculine colonialist power fantasies and filled with racist and sexist caricatures. Games, in general, give a great amount of power to deeply troubling and oversimplified narratives.”

I don’t think the first sentence can be squared with the second and third. As a male gamer, many games provide me an escape from rationality: my problems can be solved by violence (the more reflexive, the better), if I die I get to come back to life, and as part of the combat landscape there are voluptuous women with long, perfectly coiffed hair, suspiciously long legs and whose protective clothing looks rather — um — inadequate for its nominal purpose.

How is this “hyper-rational”?