• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    How is it that gaming as both an industry and as a hobby so consistently manages to attract the worst people you can imagine?

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        7 months ago

        I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to look at your past comments you’d prove my point for me. You might do it right in this thread for that matter

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      7 months ago

      It’s an escapist thing. People just trying to escape the reality of their lives.

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        7 months ago

        I definitely play games for the escapism (have you fucking seen this shit that’s going on?) but I manage to not be a bigoted conservative sociopath just fine. I don’t think that’s the cause

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          7 months ago

          You know there are mods to remove/replace all the pride flags around the map in Spider-Man (2018)?

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            I didn’t but that does not surprise me at all. Apparently reich-wing chuds even made a mod to remove the ability to choose “they” as a pronoun in Starfield – I guess the fragile little flowers felt that they were being forced to accept the existence of us queers?