At this point going to a "super-spreader" event is probably safer than going to a Penny Arcade Expo in the early 2010s.
Completely off topic to TwitchCon, but seeing PAX mentioned got me thinking. Has the Penny Arcade community always been such a lefty shit hole? I used to love posting in their forums in the early 2000s, and I don’t remember it being so overwhelmingly batshit crazy leftist. Especially the D&D sub-forum.
Maybe I just didn’t care about anything other than games at the time, so political leanings were meaningless to me, but every thread I look at there now seems to have certain political opinions and talking points crop up periodically with precisely zero counterbalance.
Was there always such a one size fits all political consensus over there that I just don’t remember? Did it just get selectively modded in that direction over time? Maybe my decades long hiatus just gave me fresh eyes to see political leanings that were always there. Maybe it should’ve been a permanent hiatus.
Completely off topic to TwitchCon, but seeing PAX mentioned got me thinking. Has the Penny Arcade community always been such a lefty shit hole? I used to love posting in their forums in the early 2000s, and I don’t remember it being so overwhelmingly batshit crazy leftist. Especially the D&D sub-forum.
Maybe I just didn’t care about anything other than games at the time, so political leanings were meaningless to me, but every thread I look at there now seems to have certain political opinions and talking points crop up periodically with precisely zero counterbalance.
Was there always such a one size fits all political consensus over there that I just don’t remember? Did it just get selectively modded in that direction over time? Maybe my decades long hiatus just gave me fresh eyes to see political leanings that were always there. Maybe it should’ve been a permanent hiatus.