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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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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And made vastly worse by the first generation of online games and their associated chats, utterly unmoderated and unfiltered. The awfulness of XBL chat used to be a joke until it escaped.
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Since its easy for toxic voices in a forum to drive out the rest, those open mikes taught a whole generation of gamers that this is what being a gamer meant -- screaming, racial slurs, etc.
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