People randomly following me through my occasional gaming tweets had better take a look at my pinned tweet first, lest they be surprised. (tl;dr: I play a lot of combat games, I'm vehemently against unregulated firearm ownership. And certainly against fascism.)
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Replying to @asteris
Do you find that a lot of people who play these types of games have fascist tendencies? it is an interesting discussion
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Replying to @melusinagr
Not in general. There are racists & fascists on YT comments and in communities doing "outreach," ofc, but generally not dominant, and are often held in check in no uncertain terms. But I do tend to see gun afficionados, to put it politely, follow randomly after gaming tweets.
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Replying to @asteris @melusinagr
It is indeed an interesting discussion, but not in the terms usually presented to the general public. I wish academic gamers would make more of an effort to research the social landscape & showcase solutions for toxicity (which certainly exists.)
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Replying to @asteris @melusinagr
PS: I also don't enjoy PvP games, which generally engender more competitive toxicity. There's ribbing, and bragging, and trolling in coop games too, but usually of lower toxicity/intensity (though there's plenty of entitled nagging :p).
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Replying to @asteris
Yea, a lot of my classmates are writing linguistics papers on gendered language in games, but there isn’t much out there that studies gamers in the same way book history studies readers, which would be quite revealing, I think.
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Only academic gamers (soc/anthro etc.) can really research this, in vivo. Can’t parachute it, or even rely on assumptions older than the last dev cycle. I’d be glad to help w empirical feedback.
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