And the wild part is I remember for a time G*mers screeching about wanting critics like Roger Ebert to take games seriously as an art. Now they got their wish, developers are treating their projects like art, and they don't like it because it dares to make them uncomfortable sometimes.
We are so fucked with these people gaining so much outsize power and influence
That recent news where corpo media announced it'd have committees of fans to fandom-check new projects to avoid offending them made me feel pretty fucking doomer.
Within our lifetime we will see the rise of the first gooner "auteur"
Already happened, kind of.