this seems true for pretty much any male-dominated hobby, men ruin everything they form communities around. its true for games, guns, history, military, sci fi, martial arts, metal music, anime, etc.. how do straight men even stay attracted to straight women, they gatekeep each other out of their hobbies (or rather, men gatekeep both women from 'men's hobbies' and men from 'women's hobbies'), idk how any straight couple survives without shared interests other than fucking. like the stereotypical boomer couple doesn't do anything together except eat.

The reduction of art forms to a product under capitalism.

Instead of the artist being able to express their creativity and share it with the world, art instead becomes the artist being forced to guess the demands of the non-artistic.

Capitalism hates the artist, because art is unpredictable and unreliable and personal, which is what makes it exciting and unique. Capitalism needs steady predictable productivity that it can sell to it's conservativly trained public, and so it is the antithesis of the artistic process. This is why they are desperate to replace artists with AI.

That kind of dipshit doesn't actually like video games, they like being catered to. A whole expressive medium reduced to consumption and marketing. Something something people don't talk to each other anymore.

This is also partially the fault of capitalism, anti-social shut-ins who spend all day being whiny and precious about their media slop are the most dependable consumers and organic promoters in the eyes of the companies putting said slop out. So for years every press release and piece of marketing content was designed to appease these chuds, because if some weirdos somewhere take ownership of your franchise's success without you paying them anything, they are basically volunteer marketers, even though you are just feeding their unhealthy dependence on their fandom as the sole source of life purpose and community, enabling them to continue sidelining the work of unpacking the traumas that made them this way.

I had a completely different experience watching the summer speed run showcase and fundraiser this past few days, so much love and support for positive things. I just wish I could get over my own nervousness and insecurities and try streaming myself, speedrun or not.

MC in the Fable trailers is "ugly"

She looks like a regular person

This is pretty normal. I know few service workers who like their clients even if they enjoy their work.

G*mers yearn for Battlefield 69 with generic operator guy and even less combined arms and lesser enjoyable gameplay.

Reasonable opinion post locked by Reddit, classic

I think I saw some thumbnails of videos of chud gamers whining about this post on YouTube being shoved down my feed for some reason. Naturally I just told YouTube to not recommend this shit because i assumed those videos were just hog ragebait

When the moniker "gamer" started to reach my ears in the late 90s I was like "hell yeah I'm a gamer. I am a guy who plays videogames." I didn't broadcast it to the world but if someone asked if I played videogames I'd say "yeah, I'm a gamer."

Over the years my interactions and observations of the gamer community shown me almost nothing but toxic bullshit. It flipped me. Now if someone asks if I'm a gamer I'll say "no, I'm just a guy who plays videogames."

Part of it is growing up and being disgusted with the arrested development masquerading as a badge of honor. Snobbish elitism from the formerly bullied nerds. The clique bullshit. And because of the nature of extremism in some places/circles its just gotten worse. There's a celebration of racist opinions that's gotten bolder. I mean, it's always been there, there's the suspect dude who always played for the German team in the online WWII shooter who talked about "historical accuracy" and probably dropped the Gamer Word but that word was ubiquitous so it got lost in the sauce. These days they congregate on social media and feed into each other. Like containment on 4chan broke.

I mean, I don't like how the new Dragon Age looks, but that's been true since Dragon Age 2

I also don't harass people about it

That first Dragon Age trailer did look ass, but I generally agree.

First thing you learn as a game dev: Do no listen to gamers. They demand unrealistic and impossible things. Every gamer wants a game that caters to them and them alone, no matter how much time and effort would be required to make their idealised version of a game. People will complain about games based on how they would like them to be, rather than how they actually are. Video games already give the most amount of fun vs money spent out of pretty much any form of entertainment, and for most gamers, it still isn't enough. They are the most entitled and demanding audience in history.

People everywhere complain on social media about everything. It's not just gamers.

I still want to be a developer. I still fuckin hate gamers. It's an amusing little internal contradictive dichotomy. God willing, I will be the what happens when Suda51 and Donald Glover perform the fusion dance; games Black as fuck, dripping with surrealism, and outright derogatory toward whiteness. I want to piss off the kyles.

The gamers you make the games for won't criticise your game unjustified. They are not found in chats of streams on hate trains. Your game will be played by those as well, they just give you extra money from sales. Money you can spent to improve the game for the people, who do appreciate it for what it is. Thats the way I see it at least.

Consider the bias here.

We know people are more likely to make comments when upset about something.

Unless people are blown out of the water, normal people are probably just watching the stream.