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  • Yeah, its like making assumptions about cinema and TV show fans, but many don’t keep up with celebrity news or culture. Its just a source of entertainment to them they like to watch.

    Games being some niche demographic that is in the loop of every discourse is a very outdated old person view now. Its actually so popular now the revenue from it is more than film and music combined.

    Even something like Marvel and DC being the stereotypical interest of some nerds no longer applies once it became mainstream, and that’s where games have been at for years now.


  • That sounds to me like theorizing if perhaps there is a difference between people who play football and people who identity as a footballer.

    What does that really mean?

    Both enjoy their hobby with the only difference being if they choose to introduce themselves by the hobby, but still doesn’t really tell us much about them.

    Other than I guess other than some anecdotal assumptions that are going to widely vary on peoples personal interactions and which social media they choose to interact with.



  • Yeah, I’m into gaming and still in the dark about what gamersgate is about. I was on reddit but not using other social media like twitter, so maybe that played role in not getting much exposure to it.

    I don’t think average gamer kept up with gamersgate, since they just were more interested in what games came out, reviews, and discussions about games.











  • I think it is more that whether benevolent or malevolent there are more decisions that align with what PC gamers want compared to other gaming companies.

    Like push for Linux and trying to make it more accessible to the average user. Compared to where Linux was when the first Steam Machine came out and how much more user friendly it became after the Steam Deck is one area. Still lot of work to do, but leaving Microsoft behind isn’t as daunting as it used to be for gamers.

    With other consoles the stands outs are more the exclusives.

    But, there are more clashing of ideas like paid online, requiring locked down hardware, and inability to install whatever you want on consoles. Console ecosystem has been much more confrontational just because of being a closed ecosystem for those that want a more open one.




  • I used to do old.reddit/RES and list of subs I wanted to follow to lurk, but then reddit killed off old.reddit for people who aren’t logged in this week.

    And the regular reddit interface looks so ugly with how little content it shows in comparison. Switched to a redlib instance and set UI to wide and compact, but still miss RES with old.reddit. But, not enough to login with an account to use reddit.

    On Android I was using Stealth just to get feed of subs I’m interested in, but it is dead now because it relied on old.reddit to retrieve stuff. And it hasn’t been updated to work with redlib. So I’ve just been using redlib in browser.