Hardcore gamer = someone who plays only cinematic grizzed white dude games and/or military fetishizing FPS
Casual gamer = anyone that is not a 15-25 yo male, and/or plays anything outside of the previously mentioned games, especially if those games are colorful.
So basically the gaming community is full of gatekeeping, misogyny, toxic masculinity and general chuddery. They make sure they’re the loudest voice heard when anything about games is talked about, and won’t be happy until all games a homogenous stream of bland, hyper-realistic but with a grey filter slog of mindless action with no heart or soul. And don’t you dare force them to read any dialogue or story.
Remain convinced the only good community in games is the fighting game community. But, alas, they engage in the bad shit too from time to time.
The smash community has been pretty horrific over the years even by gamer standards.
Street fighter just got a massive influx of new fgc players so I can’t really tell.
Guilty gear community is very supportive of Bridget
By the sheer virtue of being a mixed bag the fighting game community probably wins least toxic.
There’s something about Nintendo fandoms that makes them more tribalistic and toxic on average than competing equivalents.
I firmly believe that it’s because you can get punched IRL for being out of line
Yeah arcades/local fight game spots are cool because people gather in person, so there’s less of a problem of someone being a shithead because they get booted or shunned.
since I’m a newbie and just getting into SF6, I’ve been trying to find good streamers to watch that haven’t been “cancelled” or problematic or are ragers when they lose. mainly stick with Justin Wong, Maximilian, and Japanese streamers lol.
I dunno the sexism is pretty bad especially when they complain about the woman fighters boobs being smaller or whatever