The Hard Times: Fuck It, Gamers Cancelled
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At this point ill take tripping back just to piss the whole smash community, its just a few good apples by now.
Still thinking about how relevant this quote has been for the past nearly six years, tbh:
"When you decline to create or to curate a culture in your spaces, you're responsible for what spawns in the vacuum."
If only the people who defend GTA as satire would understand.
Pretty much said what needed to be said in the wake of all this terrible shit that's come out the past few weeks (or heck the last few years even).
I'm okay with this. I'm going to take up knitting instead. This level of toxicity can't be rampant in the knitting community.
...I heard your favourite needle has less loops-per-second than mine
At the very least this will devastate competitive Smash. Parents aren't going to allow their children into such a dangerous environment whether they're talented at the game or not. And it casts a dark shadow over the industry, just like Gamergate before it.
100% behind this.
Now I wonder how long until someone posts "Wait, I'm a gamer and there's nothing wrong with that!"...
Now I wonder how long until someone posts "Wait, I'm a gamer and there's nothing wrong with that!"...
I stand corrected, I retract my statement. About knitting, not gamers. They still suck.
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"I'm a video game enthusiast" is my personal go to now honestly.
Remember the good old "gaming doesn't have a problem, toxic people are everywhere"? Every aspect from the players to the big corporations is rotten for the most part.
And now you'll always be on my ignore list.
I know people here like to act as if there's a distinction between "gamers" and just people who play games, but I don't think the public sees it that way.
If you play a few hours of games a week you're a gamer, and that includes everyone on this forum.
And I think we all know what it is about games that breeds social incompetence lol
If you play a few hours of games a week you're a gamer, and that includes everyone on this forum.
And I think we all know what it is about games that breeds social incompetence lol
Take up other hobbies/enjoyments like reading, exercising, movies and music alongside games. Gaming needs to cease being an identity and become what it really is, an indulgence.
I feel like "gamer" nowadays has the connotation of being proud of having your identity tied to gaming. That's probably why so many of us refuse to call ourselves gamers, because we don't feel that pride. We know gaming is rotten to the core so I personally feel uncomfortable using that label. I guess it's less of a technicality and more of a statement.
I think it's not so much the content being enjoyed and more the attitude of the community, combined with the size as computer games have become a major tech industry over the last few decades. Gamers have made almost every social hobby space online, whether it's in-game, in discussion or at events, utterly toxic with gatekeeping going hand-in-hand with bigotry as they scream about any attempt to open it up to the wider world rather than it being hyper-focused on the white male nerd space they enjoyed as kids.
There's problems in any hobby, certainly the other geek spheres I'm interested in have their own too, but I think the social nature of tabletop games and perhaps them being less appealing to toxic nerds hiding behind the internet means they aren't quite the same problems to the extent that we've seen in the electronic games industry news this week.
The last thing we need to do is try to pinpoint this on a specific community because it India cages the fact that abuse is pervasive everywhere in all communities when it's not directly addressed
Oh, you're absolutely right. It was meant to be a bad joke about how I wanted to take up another hobby, my bad.
Eh... We are all gamers. There's no escaping it.
Perhaps we should work on bettering our community instead of just saying "Well I'm not like those assholes, I just play video games."
Perhaps we should work on bettering our community instead of just saying "Well I'm not like those assholes, I just play video games."
It would be nice is not only people are held accountable, but their faces/pictures are splattered across every discussion.
Because many are talking about Wiz and that, and not many know what do they even look like.
Because many are talking about Wiz and that, and not many know what do they even look like.
God I love the hard times. Nailed it hard with the Ubisoft line. We are just straight overloaded right now with these scandals. When the dust settles form 2020 I think games and gamer platforms are gonna be a fast evolving landscape that changes to meet all this.
Who knew giving people a platform to become super rich celebrities and influential with zero vetting could turn around and backfire?
Yeah...I can see a lot of platforms looking at vetting issues and how the hell you manage to implement that in the environment that's been made for streamers and pro players to become celebrities with their streams. What a mess.
Who knew giving people a platform to become super rich celebrities and influential with zero vetting could turn around and backfire?
Yeah...I can see a lot of platforms looking at vetting issues and how the hell you manage to implement that in the environment that's been made for streamers and pro players to become celebrities with their streams. What a mess.
Hah, me too. I read about people's computer game backlogs and think 'at least those are only a few inches square' as I look at shelves stacked with board games :D
