So, QAnon....

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(07-20-2020, 01:57 AM)Millhouse Wrote: Im still a gamer, and I consider myself pretty good of being in the overall loop of things. Ive been in online gaming communities going back to the late 1990s. I also started watch video game streamers on Twitch going back to 2013sh or so. That in itself keeps my up to date on things, while also observing. 

Overall the gaming world is no different than the real world. Sure there will be shit people playing games and being just awful people in general in the gaming world. And like anything this is seen more from the outside. But there is a lot of good that goes on as well, from the companies to the players. I could go on quite a bit, but overall from what I have seen, there has been more good than not overall.

Like I said, I'm a gamer too and I agree with you that there are a lot of really great people in our communities. And, while the good definitely outweigh the bad, it's not a good idea to ignore the bad either. Gamergate really exposed how toxic some gaming communities are and it's better to face that head on rather than try to sweep it under the rug. And there continue to be problems, like the response to a transgender person and a lesbian couple being in The Last of Us 2 being the most recent one. Then there are the problems with the companies and loot boxes, working long hours and the often high human cost of making these games, among other things. 

The community has issues, but that wasn't the intention of my original post. I was just pointing out that basically every community that starts out as satirically mocking another group invariably becomes a breeding ground for said mocked group.