Sometimes, hanging out here gets me a little sad because I'm older than the average here (late 30s). Being closer to death means less chance of seeing the death of America or even a real revolution.

But there are also times when I can smile. Like when you all bring up gamers. I'm juuuust old enough that I never had to experience gamer culture. My high school and college years were spent with 4P N64 games with IRL friends.

Its why i play with chat muted 90% of the time. The only consistently cool group of people i played with was an arma 3 clan that was openly communist, and had quite a few trans people in it. Everyone slowly went away from it, sadly.

Wow, you people here call everyone racist. It's not racism, they have a completely valid reason for their treatment of Chinese players. They also have a valid reason for their treating Jews badly. Also a valid reason for treating black people badly. Also a really valid reason for treating Middle Easterners badly. Also a really valid reason for treating Roma badly. Also a really valid reason for their treating Latino people badly. Also a really good reason for treating Indians badly. And it's not all non-Western European countries or peoples either! They have some really harsh criticism for anyone who comes from a European country that welcomed refugees and migrants too.

I mean you people call everyone racist.

There is a reason I avoid most online multiplayer games unless it's with people I know.

Nerd culture was always a home for maladjusted people who bred more maladjustment together, even before video games. The internet magnified this bad culture creation. I think they are aware of how shitty they are, but for the wrong reasons. Technology, capitalism and failed masculinity guarantee the existence of this group imho.

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I only play single player and occasionally in person multiplayer. Solves that.

WHY? Why are they like this? Do they have no compassion? Do they have no fucking empathy for anyone? What even is their problem?

They're just poorly socialized. They're basically children who grew out of only the endearing aspects of being a child.

One time I was in a Squad game with two Chinese guys in a tow technical in the middle of nowhere and someone actually went out of their way to tk them. We revived them though. The chapo mc server was a breath of fresh air because there's none of that shit and everyone jokes about doing a capitalism with the villagers.

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Was it Flamuu?

Please please please let it not be Jingles

Marx failed to consider video g*mes

I just don’t understand how g*mers sprinted to the right so damn fucking quick…

1. All male communities

2. All male development studios

3. Entire communities of socially inept people. With the loudest voices being the most socially inept people because visibility and recognisability in a community is determined by activity-level. The most active rise to the top. This group with the highest activity and most recognisability become leadership in the community. A vanguard of sorts, if you will.

4. Development studios influenced by what they perceive to be the feelings of the community, which are actually the feelings led by this socially inept vanguard.

5. Development studios begin to become filled with this vanguard of people, who are deeply attracted to the industry because the games being made are being made specifically to be attractive to this vanguard.

6. The vanguard leads the studios. Games get ever more reactionary. Attract even wider reactionary communities, create reactionaries all by themselves. Create huge reactionary networks of online fans. Create reactionary videomakers. Create reactionary streamers. Create reactionary journalism. All aspects reinforce the problem.

7. Through polling, studio execs begin to recognise that to make more money they must be less reactionary. Studio execs begin to push back, fighting the reactionary shit because they want to appeal to wider audiences rather than a niche market of reactionaries they've created. In particular they want more women and "normal" people.

8. This creates a contradiction in gaming. A contradiction between the wishes of the vanguard of the community and the wishes of the business execs. Everyone recognises that this clash occurs both inside studios and outside in the community itself.

9. The existence of a contradiction and the elevating of the contradiction by the business side creates a reaction. The reactionaries double, triple and quadruple down upon their reactionary behaviour. Gamergate and every instance of reactionary Gamer-drama since it are the series of events I am referring to here. It works however, the business execs were right and their market continues to grow by their actions to push back against the reactionary vanguard.

10. You are here. Modern gaming. The videogame audience are now a community split completely in half by the reactionary side that we call "Gamers" and the non reactionary side that we call "people who play games".

Obviously I'm only doing this as a very quick breakdown. I suspect you could write an entire book on the series of events that would lead to this point. I don't mean this to be completely correct but a rough breakdown.

It really comes down to the vanguard or "power users" if you prefer. The problem of the most active community members rising to the top and becoming your defacto leadership in a community, with that leadership being the most influential in shaping the feedback you get from the community. Studios and their communities listening to and empowering this vanguard is the pivotal point in the history of gaming at which things took the turn towards the reactionary direction of today.

Don't know how helpful this is as advice, but here's how I avoid awful people in most games:

Step 1: Become a furry. Step 2: Join furry clans/guilds/etc in whichever game

I've never really had bad experiences this way, furries are usually extremely chill. Though my experiences are still limited, YMMV.

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