I don't even consider basic socialization the problem. Only the fact that the two options are only "high level play" or "don't play at all." You can't go in and have fun, learn and improve. You must already be a great player or you will be kicked, flamed, or both.

Its one thing in competitive environments, though don't get me started on games that are competitive/ranked only no matter what, but its another in just simple playing of the game and trying to progress in a casual manner. Which of course always reaches its zenith on "meta only" requirements, where anything except the best possible comp/spec/class/etc is made basically impossible to join any groups (again, an issue when group content is the only way to progress).

And its fair if you want to use it regardless, I think otherwise because, as in the other response you got, people immediately assume its usage in a particular way because that's 90% of the usage it gets. They aren't wrong for assuming its being used in that way, which ends up with you needing to explain what you mean by it and ending up using considerably more words to do so.

I agree entirely. I've been playing games for decades and I won't even pretend that "toxicity" is some madeup Leftist psyop. What they call toxicity might be, but anyone whose ever played a MOBA knows that its both real and extreme.

Heck I've played WoW since 2006 and I could literally watch it grow in the community year by year. By Legion you were often better off not playing the game unless it was with friends/guildies because of how unbelievable so many people were (thanks to M+ that meant even "casual content" like dungeons became infested with it).

Fortunately, the 2010s are over and with it the "tacked on multiplayer" and "esports push" trend, meaning single player and coop are making a comeback across the industry and with it probably the slow decline of such a problem. Or at least the ability to not get involved.

I will say though that using the term "toxic" itself is probably too full of connotations to specific Leftie nonsense, so we should probably use something else to describe this problem.

Its even more autistic because the plus sign and the cross symbol aren't even the same. A plus sign has equal lengths while the cross places the horizontal perpendicular line further up instead of dead center of the other.

So, as is the Jewish born Woke tradition, this is them deliberately seeking out something to be offended about.

I think too many people plays games for the goal instead of to have fun, and it creates this toxic mindset of "everything not getting me towards the end is a waste of time."

So a single wipe is now a personal attack on their time, a question betrays that you aren't 1337 enough to blaze past this content, and criticism of the game undermines their absurd time spent into it as possibly being wasted.

I love my games, but playing with other people or even engaging in the "community" can often be a huge risk of dealing with the worst people possible. And that was before the Woke infestation added the political possibility onto it.

The fact that the terms "sex work" or "onlyfans model" exist, says otherwise.

Most countries will use "words that sound foreign" to spice up their media. And that's usually enhanced by using real words, because the human brain knows what is a real word versus something completely made up even if they don't know the language.

The Japanese are famous for doing it with basically everything, often to the point where it creates allegories and stories that weren't intended through the depth of what they stole.

Evangelion is a famous example, where they just took so much gnostic and Old Testament shit that just sounded "cool" to them it created an entire mythos that people still read into looking for religious significance of anti-Jewish rhetoric.

The fact that they think their God is a retard bound up in his own rules betrays how highly they think of themselves and how little they actually under the concept of "principles and morality."

Its such a foundational difference built into their very religion that makes them incompatible with almost any society or country, short of a nation of savages for them to exploit.

Well yeah, that is in fact the "third worldization" in action that this entire topic is about.

Its not a "future problem we need to avoid" its a "the name for a problem that has been growing for decades now."

There are so many rules with business cards that it borders on parody when you lay them all out at once. Its actually beyond the famous American Psycho scene, which was an intentional over the top parody.

Japanese social culture is similar to Kanji in a lot of ways. Something almost impenetrably complicated and deep that you need to have been born into it to ever truly understand, otherwise you will spend the rest of your life basically having to be a scholar of it to maintain the usable level of a common man there.

Yankees seriously underestimate how normalized the flag icon is around the South. Its fucking everywhere and its so common that nobody even really considers any racism or the like associated with it.

The only hate it propagates is of the North, and that's shared across all colors.

My personal favorite is whenever a black guy shows up with a Confederate flag in public and their brain just can't comprehend the numerous layers of confusion from it.

Almost like most blacks live in the South and that whole "its about Southern Pride now" thing isn't just a madeup cover for "racism."

Unfortunately that isn't super uncommon these days. A lot of AAA productions will list off every employee of every outsourced nonsense or producer company, and Indie ones will list every fucking backer from the crowdfund.

Its actually clever, because it guarantees most people will skip them and never catch these little things.

The entire Skull and Bones fiasco revealed that it is 100% the case for at least some companies and productions.

We only know about that one because it blew up so bad and spectacularly that they ended up revealing what is usually a background deal.

As is tradition, with Kano in the original movie carrying so hard they literally retconned that version of him into the game and erased his original form.

And the fact that the original movie managed to do it just fine using Johnny Cage for general questions and Lui Kang for specific ones.

Because you know, they also had to learn it originally at some point.

The "very similar" you just said is why I don't trust it. Anything but a hardline definition is a problem because I can see the rabid folks all around already trying to define anyone under 5'6 or with small enough boobs in real life as "basically pedophilia." Let alone just saying "all anime is lolicon" which is a very common belief already.

Especially as, we are two months into Trump with activist judges happily just interpreting the law however they want just to destroy people that they want hurt almost every week. So even more so right now do I not want something so vague as an option on the books.

I don't think its much different than how most men have an innate desire to war and the noble causes therein, its just built into our code.

The problem is these people are acknowledging how weak they are (its why they don't want war but guerrilla type nonsense) while trying to feel the glory of someone who is strong.

Its even funnier because there is a clear "jump" between panels 2 and 3 where they had a conversation that lead to him asking Gore about why he doesn't support this reform.

So he is clearly capable of knowing when superfluous shit needs to be cut, and chooses not to to make sure to get as many zinger one liners in in every panel.

Because if you look, every panel after the original three setup ones is designed to be cut and used as an out of context "mic drop" post.

Literally the only disruption I've seen outside of people claiming it on the news (aka, people paid to lie and exaggerate), is from people overreacting to thinking a big disruption was coming and they were all gonna die.

They literally panicked, threw a tantrum so immense it caused a problem, and then blamed Trump for daring to question and scaring them so bad they hurt something.

just 7 years

I know the government moves at the speed of government, but that's a fucking lifetime of a glacial pace for anyone hoping for improvement. Especially in an economy where more and more people are rapidly approaching that "paycheck to paycheck to barely make bills" point.

It speaks wildly of how out of touch this loser is that he thinks its impressive to accomplish that over the course of most of a decade of work, and that spacing it out over that much time actually translated to real change for anyone who needed that change.

Heck, in the time it took them to accomplish it they probably gained more than that, meaning they only slowed the bloat instead of reducing it.

The boys on the tracks story is so fucking awful and leaves no possible option except for Bill and his lackies being involved in such an extreme level of evil and crime that them killing two random teen boys was just a regular day of the week for them.

And then he was elected President, because the Dem's candidates never have any scandals ever that is allowed to reach mainstream talking points.

Most don't feel guilty about it, they just want a "cause" to feel like they are special and revolutionary. So they'll promote all the Progressive talking points so they can get brownie points as "oppressed minorities" and be the guilt slinger.

Its most prominent in Asians, who are literally doing better than every demographic in America sans the Jews themselves, yet act like they are on the same level as every other non-white in terms of being victims.

And, unlike most arcade kings, maintained most of its greatness when it came to home consoles and was still an absolute top tier game.

Knowing who murdered a sitting American president is always relevant information, no matter who did it. Especially as the man who replaced him did massive sweeping societal changes through his presidential actions, which would lose a lot of legitimacy if say he was involved in the shooting or someone else who wanted him in charge was.

Niggers are absolute monsters against their own kind if they catch a hint of someone "acting white." Which always means trying to improve themselves through legitimate means, studying, being polite, etc. You know, basic societal expectations of decency.

Its one of the reasons why they have such a uniformity in their culture. Because they will ruthlessly destroy anything that doesn't conform to their "ghetto ideals" and send those guys either running to white communities or break them into submission.

Its something that can dredge up a lot of empathy for the ones who do try to make it, but unfortunately too many of them who escape still turn around and shill Woke, Progressive politics that enforce that lifestyle.