Everything that was right about gaming was when a bunch of authentic, non-glory seeking, hard working men were just dicking around in their dorm rooms to push the limits of technology with zero oversight. "The Germans have uber mech suits, why, because it's cool." "You're shooting demons on Mars because idgaf they killed your bunny." "Your name is Captain Falcon you're a space bounty hunter who drives a hover car really fast." "We finished making that James Bond video game with two weeks to spare, let's add in a way to shoot each other on empty maps."
Everything wrong about gaming is when accountants and HR and underqualified hires were required for videogame dev teams. Instead of being a bunch of friends dicking around with a few hundred thousand dollars making what they wanted to, you have office politics harpies who will throw the one guy who knows how to make edits directly to the game physics engine under a bus because his lunch meetings are with two other men and no minorities. Cyberpunk was more focused on making the reward for the driving minigame be a tranny flag instead of actually having the driving AI work. In the past ten years, videogames went from being a haven for the outsiders to get together and be a part of a community to an invaded hellhole, where the two places that games are talked about is infested with celebs like Aisha Tyler and Drake dicking around talking about adding a new music streaming service onto the game box 9000, and the other place is a groomer paradise where everyone has to state their pronouns because otherwise no one would call the current runner a lady.
The real thing is that videogames are one of the few realms where everyone's voice is heard about as equally as everyone else's (barring deliberately controlled servers), and you can't snuff out all of the authentic non-pozzed voices without snuffing out every voice. Once you exit the echo chamber and people feel comfortable talking, you realize just how outnumbered the vocal minority really is, but rules are in place to prevent directly calling out those for threat of being nuked from space.
Everything that was right about gaming was when a bunch of authentic, non-glory seeking, hard working men were just dicking around in their dorm rooms to push the limits of technology with zero oversight. "The Germans have uber mech suits, why, because it's cool." "You're shooting demons on Mars because idgaf they killed your bunny." "Your name is Captain Falcon you're a space bounty hunter who drives a hover car really fast." "We finished making that James Bond video game with two weeks to spare, let's add in a way to shoot each other on empty maps."
Everything wrong about gaming is when accountants and HR and underqualified hires were required for videogame dev teams. Instead of being a bunch of friends dicking around with a few hundred thousand dollars making what they wanted to, you have office politics harpies who will throw the one guy who knows how to make edits directly to the game physics engine under a bus because his lunch meetings are with two other men and no minorities. Cyberpunk was more focused on making the reward for the driving minigame be a tranny flag instead of actually having the driving AI work. In the past ten years, videogames went from being a haven for the outsiders to get together and be a part of a community to an invaded hellhole, where the two places that games are talked about is infested with celebs like Aisha Tyler and Drake dicking around talking about adding a new music streaming service onto the game box 9000, and the other place is a groomer paradise where everyone has to state their pronouns because otherwise no one would call the current runner a lady.
The real thing is that videogames are one of the few realms where everyone's voice is heard about as equally as everyone else's (barring deliberately controlled servers), and you can't snuff out all of the authentic non-pozzed voices without snuffing out every voice. Once you exit the echo chamber and people feel comfortable talking, you realize just how outnumbered the vocal minority really is, but rules are in place to prevent directly calling out those for threat of being nuked from space.