Gamers seem to be very hard to get along with these days

[JayJ350]

It's like you would think video games would attract an easy going crowd but that totally doesn't seem to be the case these days. Just about every gaming forum I visit seems to be full of smug douchebags who get really cliquish and bait, troll, and insult everyone that feels differently from them. Even this place can have shades of that, but most users here at least seem to know how to have a discussion. With most gaming communities these days it's like there's no discussion to be had, it's all about pushing bullchit with some hive mind simp ass support base and to hell with anyone outside it.

I feel like I can't really discuss video games anymore and don't really enjoy doing so because of it, and it's pretty rare when I find anyone I can talk to about them without resorting to some really focused communities around some specific things I like. Doesn't help how most gaming communities seem to be oddly political these days as well, like everyone needs to be some sort of hardcore leftist to be a part of the social circles, it's really weird and off-putting. The whole video games media and gamer scene feels like a total turnoff and a complete mess, a center of people trying to cope with social disorders and chit. It's sad what it has become.

[PopASquatt]

It's been taken over by casuals for years now. Right around the time the word "toxic" started being thrown around.

Theres very few good games being developed anymore because they focus-group cater to the mob of idiots you mentioned above.

Team-arena / battle royal shooters steeped with slot machine rewards and Marxism. An ironic combination...

[taskmob]

It's been taken over by casuals for years now. Right around the time the word "toxic" started being thrown around.

Theres very few good games being developed anymore because they focus-group cater to the mob of idiots you mentioned above.

Team-arena / battle royal shooters steeped with slot machine rewards and Marxism. An ironic combination...

Seriously this. Been playing League for 6 years and the community is filled with crybabies. All they do i bich about toxticity then riot bends the knee and puts out new chit about how they gonna combat toxticity banning streamers and members over trivial bullchit. Man who cares? If you suck and you're a ******* I will call you that in game.

[chrsschb]

Happened around 2004-2005. Not gonna get any better.

[swolefnatic]

Miss the old days when gaming was still a pretty small niche and everyone was super friendly and chill ever since it got taken over my left-wing politics the neckbeards emerged

But then again I don't think gaming is the only culprit here. I think everything social media related became toxic. Look at ********, instagram, twitter which used to have a completely different vibe back in the day (pre-2011), it was super chill and just a place to socialize. Now they are just hotbeds for people trying to 1-up each other and keeping up with the joneses. Pretty sad how low we've sank as a society.

[eod8989]

The super nerds and sjw's' took over after 2005-2007 tbh

[blissful88]

Basically everything said ITT yes


Half the games I've opened in the last 2 months have had BLM messages and that's all you need to know

[JayJ350]

It's been taken over by casuals for years now. Right around the time the word "toxic" started being thrown around.

Theres very few good games being developed anymore because they focus-group cater to the mob of idiots you mentioned above.

Team-arena / battle royal shooters steeped with slot machine rewards and Marxism. An ironic combination...

Yup, it's like I can't have good things anymore because the hateful mob of neckbearded douchebags gotta be front and center all the time. Seems like everything needs to revolve around what those simps like and it's a rare event for me to get anything that actually appeals to me. When I look at where gaming is headed it's just ugly. If it wasn't for the way I can look back at how it used to be I probably wouldn't have anything to do with it. The only reason I am still engaged in it is because of my past enjoyment being a part of gaming. I would have a hard time seeing myself getting into it today and I definitely wouldn't have the passion for games that I used to.

[JayJ350]

Miss the old days when gaming was still a pretty small niche and everyone was super friendly and chill ever since it got taken over my left-wing politics the neckbeards emerged

But then again I don't think gaming is the only culprit here. I think everything social media related became toxic. Look at ********, instagram, twitter which used to have a completely different vibe back in the day (pre-2011), it was super chill and just a place to socialize. Now they are just hotbeds for people trying to 1-up each other and keeping up with the joneses. Pretty sad how low we've sank as a society.

Yeah it seems like everything really went to hell in the 2010's. I remember how 00's internet was so much more chill and relaxed. Even when people were douchebags they were a lot cooler about it back in the day, it was much more lighthearted and playful, sort people just trying to have fun more than anything. Now a days it's just full of these smug neckbearded losers trying to get off on how pedantic they can be, everything is about trying to one up everyone and the douchebag bullchit has a real meanness to it where they are trying hard to attack you. It's like they don't really seem to get along with anyone besides their fellow neckbearded leftists.

[mgftp]

Yeah it seems like everything really went to hell in the 2010's. I remember how 00's internet was so much more chill and relaxed. Even when people were douchebags they were a lot cooler about it back in the day, it was much more lighthearted and playful, sort people just trying to have fun more than anything. Now a days it's just full of these smug neckbearded losers trying to get off on how pedantic they can be, everything is about trying to one up everyone and the douchebag bullchit has a real meanness to it where they are trying hard to attack you. It's like they don't really seem to get along with anyone besides their fellow neckbearded leftists.

Honestly you just seem to be an angry white conservative child who has strong opinions. I'd imagine getting along and not getting offended is tough for you.

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in on the weekly jayj350 thread complaining about gaming and gamers.

[Schism45]

I think reddit is responsible for most of the cultural shift, dead srs. There's been a huge change in gamer culture since reddit ate every forum out there by the mid 2010's. And where every forum and game used to have a unique subculture, reddit homogenized them all which makes sense when you think about how the platform works where your one interest is buried underneath 10-15 minimum big subs with big politically subversive intents and all uniform in message.

The amount of power social media has on culture is staggering.

[JayJ350]

Honestly you just seem to be an angry white conservative child who has strong opinions. I'd imagine getting along and not getting offended is tough for you.

Spoken like the kinda douchebag who is a part of the problem.

[JayJ350]

I think reddit is responsible for most of the cultural shift, dead srs. There's been a huge change in gamer culture since reddit ate every forum out there by the mid 2010's. And where every forum and game used to have a unique subculture, reddit homogenized them all which makes sense when you think about how the platform works where your one interest is buried underneath 10-15 minimum big subs with big politically subversive intents and all uniform in message.

The amount of power social media has on culture is staggering.

Yeah definitely, the cultural shift happened right around the time reddit took over as the big popular gaming forum site, and I always hated going there for anything gaming related as it's just impossible to really have a voice there. Everyone just seems to circle jerk the usual popular opinions among the hardcore gaming crowd and anyone outside of that just gets downvoted and ignored with their topics buried under loads of bullchit. All the older forums are just some total chit show these days with some chitty cliques of neckbeards running everything jerking off to their chitty like-minded opinions. They are also really big on trying to exclude everyone possible from their boards despite their declining popularity with phucked up leftist moderators running everything into the ground.

It's like looking back 2010's culture was a real dumpster fire and it has led to the worst kind of people having power over everyone on social media. Everyone who is chill with their own opinion is just ousted from the current scene, it feels like everything is completely off balance in social media these days.

[MiamiLife305]

I feel like nothings changed...

People troll as they always have been

No idea what most of you are talking about

[BigElephant]

I definitely get what you're saying. Especially the hivemind part. There are certain games that I think are bad, but if you say anything negative about them you get the hivemind completely ripping you apart. It's like they have a gaming version of Stockholm Syndrome or something, and feel the need to browbeat anyone who doesn't circle jerk their ****ty game.

I feel like the quality of gamechat has gone downhill also. I mean it was never great, but back when I was on Xbox360 days I would meet some cool guys every now and then in gamechat that I would add and we would play together regularly. Nowadays, 90% of gamechat is squeakers, ragers, racists, drug addicts, people who sound like they have 10 year old mics or Kinect or some ****, or just general douchebags. I've met a few good people through gamechat on PS4, but they were from a more niche game that had a smaller community (PVZ Garden Warfare 2) and they recognized me from seeing me so much (I have 2500 hours of playtime and I'm a god tier Cactus main) and they invited me to a party and they were all very friendly. This seems to be an outlier though. Playing more popular games like COD or even Battlefield talking to people in gamechat is a total ****show.

[JayJ350]

I feel like nothings changed...

People troll as they always have been

No idea what most of you are talking about

Feels like something people would say if they only experienced 2010's social media.

[mgftp]

Spoken like the kinda douchebag who is a part of the problem.

"I can't get along with anyone"

"Everyone else is the problem"

lmao

[WHChampion]

I think reddit is responsible for most of the cultural shift, dead srs. There's been a huge change in gamer culture since reddit ate every forum out there by the mid 2010's. And where every forum and game used to have a unique subculture, reddit homogenized them all which makes sense when you think about how the platform works where your one interest is buried underneath 10-15 minimum big subs with big politically subversive intents and all uniform in message.

The amount of power social media has on culture is staggering.

I think it's more twitter than anything that's responsible for every industry going full libtard recently. Just too much easy access to publicly shame anyone into following their ideology.

Reddit is mostly cancer because of the bigger or politically charged subreddits but most of the niche ones aren't bad. stuff like r/buildapcsales are really useful.

[JayJ350]

I definitely get what you're saying. Especially the hivemind part. There are certain games that I think are bad, but if you say anything negative about them you get the hivemind completely ripping you apart. It's like they have a gaming version of Stockholm Syndrome or something, and feel the need to browbeat anyone who doesn't circle jerk their ****ty game.

I feel like the quality of gamechat has gone downhill also. I mean it was never great, but back when I was on Xbox360 days I would meet some cool guys every now and then in gamechat that I would add and we would play together regularly. Nowadays, 90% of gamechat is squeakers, ragers, racists, drug addicts, people who sound like they have 10 year old mics or Kinect or some ****, or just general douchebags. I've met a few good people through gamechat on PS4, but they were from a more niche game that had a smaller community (PVZ Garden Warfare 2) and they recognized me from seeing me so much (I have 2500 hours of playtime and I'm a god tier Cactus main) and they invited me to a party and they were all very friendly. This seems to be an outlier though. Playing more popular games like COD or even Battlefield talking to people in gamechat is a total ****show.

Yeah for sure. Feels like it's been a very long time since I last made friends with some randoms in a game. I used to shoot the chit with people on Xbox Live all the time back in the day, I remember getting to know all sorts of people as we just kicked it playing some game chatting the whole time. That's definitely a past generation thing that largely went away as the 2010's came around, now it's like I don't even bother trying to get into any online communities because hardly anyone seems to chat anymore, and the few people who do chat seems like they have no interest in just having a chill conversation, they just want to do the usual douchebag chit. I think there is a lot of things to blame for this. Partially the competitive gaming culture, partially the way games are played online now, it just seems like it's a far more closed off community these days.

[JayJ350]

"I can't get along with anyone"

"Everyone else is the problem"

lmao

Once again spoken like the kinda douchebag who is a part of the problem. I get along with plenty of people, just not people like you.

[JayJ350]

I think it's more twitter than anything that's responsible for every industry going full libtard recently. Just too much easy access to publicly shame anyone into following their ideology.

Reddit is mostly cancer because of the bigger or politically charged subreddits but most of the niche ones aren't bad. stuff like r/buildapcsales are really useful.

Yeah I think the smaller and more focused subs can be chill, it's like I can actually say something there and have a real conversation with people. It's just the way the big subs have become some insane hive mind bubble that tend to rule over the culture presents the biggest issue.

[MiamiLife305]

Feels like something people would say if they only experienced 2010's social media.

I think the problem is just you

You are coming off like a HUGE ******* in this thread

just lol

[mgftp]

Once again spoken like the kinda douchebag who is a part of the problem. I get along with plenty of people, just not people like you.

lmao

[JayJ350]

I think the problem is just you

You are coming off like a HUGE ******* in this thread

just lol

Oh yeah right, that is why it's just you and mgftp trying to be a douche about this. Phuck off.

[KingSWRV]

Honestly you just seem to be an angry white conservative child who has strong opinions. I'd imagine getting along and not getting offended is tough for you.

Douche

Perfect example of what OP is talking bout

[MiamiLife305]

Oh yeah right, that is why it's just you and mgftp trying to be a douche about this. Phuck off.

You start a thread calling out gamers

We disagree

And you start throwing a tantrum

Age : 32

[JayJ350]

You start a thread calling out gamers

We disagree

And you start throwing a tantrum

Age : 32

Oh right so you speak for all gamers. Once again a perfect example of the kind of douche I am talking about. How about you just realize how this thread isn't for you and phuck off somewhere else.

[KingSWRV]

You start a thread calling out gamers

We disagree

And you start throwing a tantrum

Age : 32

Another culprit exactly in tune with the message in the OP

Location: Florida

[MiamiLife305]

Oh right so you speak for all gamers. Once again a perfect example of the kind of douche I am talking about. How about you just realize how this thread isn't for you and phuck off somewhere else.

When did I say I speak for all gamers?

I said we as in me and mgftp

Now that my opinion doesnt agree with yours this thread isnt for me?

Just lol @ you man