The Venn diagram of shitty gamer dudes who think it’s “weak” to play a game on easy mode and shitty gamer dudes who scream about it being “too hard” to learn consent and boundaries around women is a circle.
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Which, sidebar, I could write an entire essay about how the technological age gap led to a generation of parents not teaching their kids how to control their emotional responses to video game losses like they would sport losses or other such, instead dismissing the entire form -
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- so that now we have a generation of adult gamers overflowing with dudes who unintentionally built and learned from a culture of rage around losing at games, which tied into feeling persecuted for liking them in the first place, and. Well. We all know how that’s worked out.
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The irony is, there’s nothing inherent to video games themselves, as a medium, that made this culture inevitable. It’s just a digital Lord of the Flies situation, where the island was an unmoderated Internet populated by kids whose parents didn’t know what was happening.
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The point being, dudes who pride themselves on playing games on hard mode but who throw tantrums if asked to grow as people IRL don’t actually like the challenge of hard work; they just like taking risks without consequences and feeling entitled to scream when it goes wrong.
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