Pardon my English, it is not my native language.
I've been a memeber for quite a few years, lurked a few years before joining. It was just enough time to experience a nice community in the start of 2010s. Then forum started to feel more and more oppressive. I can't really describe the feeling it gave in the past couple of years. A certain repulsion, distaste. It became so extremely political that it was impossible not to be engulfed in a narrow spectre of "the correct thought patterns". I know I'm not the only one who is literally drained of energy in such an evironment.
No, I don't want politics in everything, goddamnit. I love games. They relax me.
Yes, let's discuss politics too, it is a just cause and a needed one, but not in every case every time everywhere. Things to so bad that you could not find a single topic where something was not wrong. Where something was SHIT, where THIS FUCKER or that FUCKER, FUCK HIM, fuck HER.....And half the time there was nothing conclusive. All it took was doubt or insinuation and the mob would grab the pitchforks.
And because of this prevalent current of will even writing these words I can imagine one doubting himself. Do these feelings actually come from some latent racism or negative aspect of ones psyche? I know it happens, since every now and then I stumble upon a topic "Did I just commit unintentional racism today?" where the OP would ask in fear to the justice jurors whether his/her actions were or were not not an act of a latent unmanifested racism within them.
These people are pushed so far that they start doubting their own psyche. Is their human nature corrupt or not and what they can do to stop this evil from corrupting them.
I cannot imagine what such a person goes through. And NOBODY ever suggests talking to a doctor about that, not like in every other health related topic (why you posting this here, go see a doctor ASAP!). Mental issue like these aren't even on the radar. They cannot even conceive that something is seriously wrong with them.
And it's not like one would differ greatly from the general progressive ideas. You sometimes only had to say something in a wrong manner and you became the enemy. It was an actual thought-policing place and for the first time in my life I could feel what living in an orwellian world would feel like. God is that depressing.
Resetera continues these traditions since it was created by the same group leading idealogists and content creators. It is a continuation of the damaged state of GAF before the split.
Although it's not all black and white.
I seriously dislike juvenile rivalries and we have people doing them on both sides. There is good there, like a very active user base, etc. There is good here. There is bad there, there is bad here. So just stop with this pointless narrative.
But the far-left people lost thier way a long time ago. For them every single thing in life is political. You cannot disagree with that, not on resetera. It reminds me of first year university Politics 101 class from a hipster proffessor whose first question to the class was "Can this
oints to some flowers on his desk: bouquet be political?" and the pseudo-intellectual discussion that followed.
And it's even worse here, because there is only one answer. You MUST see politics in everything. You MUST take into account unprivilidged subjects in EVERY SITUATION, otherwise you are labeled a alt-right fascist who is a subhuman entity designated for removal. The really sad thing here is that I believe vast majority of people aren't really bigots, supremacists, etc, yet they are labeled these things for completely arbitrary reasons. And so the entire community starts soiling its own pool.
It is inevitable that in such environment cognitive dissonance develops sooner or later. Depression is also a given. It's is such an unhealthy situation.
It is tragic that people whose hearts are in the right place lose their way so badly and really cannot see the forest for the trees.
I sometimes see certain moderating trying to maybe let some topics breathe a little, a slight change that I didn't see at the old-gaf, but these occurances are drowned in the giant see of social justice politics.
I sometimes wonder if these people lack a certain aspect of intelligence, because I remember reading many times about articles posted, which stated (by field experts) that to argue and attack people with racist views is usually unproductive and actually reaffirms their positins when you react with hate and detachment to them. And people would mostly agree with those messages; let's try to approach them like human beings, even though they are in the wrong, let's not attack them in a straight line, which will only erect a defensive position to end all meaningful interaction. Yet to actually go and practice those methods in reality is something that they refuse with a burning passion.
So they lock themselves in an endless circle of hate - hate other people who in turn hate them.
In the end one does wonder if these tumultuous pools of human interactions are a festering ground for serious social ruptures and a rise to honestly extreme ideologies.
It is really refreshing to be here after the split. It feels more like a normal place again. Sure there are some overenthusiastic right wingers here and there, some actual racists and shovinists, but those get dealt with just as before.
The difference is that I don't need to recheck my post for thought-crime 10 times before posting why I like the new Tomb Rider game or something.
