I don't let shitty people ruin my enjoyment in the things I do.
I mean, you don't have to delve into all of the bullshit within the community and industry itself. Can always just play video games.
No?
It's my hobby so I dont know why I would give it up because of some toxicity in some games.
But isn't that true of many things? Cycling has a stigma of drug cheats, football has a stigma of fan violence, food has the stigma of ethics (animal and environmental). I can appreciate it's not easy but you have to consider yourself first and perhaps avoiding things like NeoGAF and comment sections on websites could help.I try to game but it's just the exposure of it all that's turning me away from it all. I want to game, but all I think of when I play anything is how everything I'm interested in has a stigma attached to it
Would it not be better to just quit reading about gaming on the internet?
Maybe. All I want to do is play overwatch but lately someone I played with was so cool till the moment he started talking about how inferior women and minorities are.
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There's no toxicity when you just play a solo game.
I hate the word "toxicity" but it's the best word I can think of currently.
I think I've reached that point. Tomorrow I'm packing everything up gaming related and taking my cash bounty of 1300 dollars from GameStop and more than likey never touching this hobby again.
Since that nonsense happened a couple of years ago it's been really, really hard to look at gaming in a positive light and wanting to be associated with it.
I read an article, it's politically charged. The comments are a shit show on both sides filled with adults who are way too old to be displaying behavior fit for 3rd graders.
I try to watch streams and people are sexually harassed and being threatened with violence constantly.
I read about museum and video game archival projects that have interested me being shut down because of gamergate.
There's no fun anymore. Everything in gaming has such a large amount of politics and shit people associated with it that I can't by association support it anymore. The dregs of society have won yet again and I guess they got what they wanted by running people like me away from gaming to save "gamers"
I just can't deal with it anymore.
Never noticed it
Block and mute functions have been the saviors of my sanity.