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Definitely don't agree. There's a difference in people who need support groups to tell them if a game is "too woke" for them / send death threats and people who have RGB.


Perhaps you might be referring to something closer to Gamergaters?


Toxic nerd fandoms do not directly map onto the far-right. Sure, there's overlap, but not all of them share those politics or are even political. There's also plenty of people who'd tar, feather, and run someone out of town on a rail for not being woke enough. Or who just have meltdowns about how the minute something isn't quite the way they wanted it, it's "TOTALLY RUINED!!"

Some small fraction of all of these weirdos would be willing to call in a death threat or actually follow through.


It sounds like you've made up your own definition for something you already disliked and just call it gamers. Anyone reading resetera will know you don't have to be a right wing troll to be toxic.


Feels like you're missing the distinction I made. I'm not saying gamers are bad. I spend a lot of my time with games, I avoid the term for myself but am not calling gamers toxic by any means.




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