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Gamers and the 'hardcore' gaming mindeset that started in the 2000s' ruined the video game community (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hardcore gamer = someone who plays only cinematic grizzed white dude games and/or military fetishizing FPS

Casual gamer = anyone that is not a 15-25 yo male, and/or plays anything outside of the previously mentioned games, especially if those games are colorful.

So basically the gaming community is full of gatekeeping, misogyny, toxic masculinity and general chuddery. They make sure they're the loudest voice heard when anything about games is talked about, and won't be happy until all games a homogenous stream of bland, hyper-realistic but with a grey filter slog of mindless action with no heart or soul. And don't you dare force them to read any dialogue or story.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As much as I appreciate the convenience, I'll also say that every step away from "gaming as a social activity" has made it worse. I'm at least old enough to have seen the changes from arcades to inviting people to your house to play a console to online multiplayer and it all gets weirder at each step.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

G!ming as an illusory parasocial activity has been pretty fucked up. Narcissistic celebrity I N F L U E N C E R S siccing their fake-friend fandoms on each other and sometimes spouting nazi shit for funsies are terrible. heated-gamer-moment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No more LAN support in games since like the mid 2000's :(