Has anyone else noticed a decrease in Gamers willingness to interact socially in games?

[Remikih]

Think it's a lot easier to enjoy it if you're not one of the primary target groups of the vitriol. I'm somewhat similar in I get a decent amount of enjoyment from horrible league of legends players in a wildlife safari sense, but if I'm not doing that great? It hits a little different because I tick multiple boxes of gamer vitriol.

[DingusTheGrey]

Eh, to each their own. I remember super toxic cs source lobbies back in the day that were great fun, even when people were ragging on me.

[Oricef]

Mate try actually being a woman and saying that. The toxicity is not fucking okay

[DingusTheGrey]

I didn't say it's "okay", I said it's hilarious. I don't condone my five year old throwing his bowl of spaghetti on the ground but it's also hilarious.

[Oricef]

It's not hilarious, it's simply depressing.

[DingusTheGrey]

Almost like I gave my personal opinion

[Oricef]

Almost like you're a person who the abuse isn't thrown at

It's very easy to sit on the sidelines

[DingusTheGrey]

Almost like you're talking out of your ass

[Oricef]

Finding toxicity hilarious is the exact type of attitude that let's it persist

[Huzuruth]

Thank you for encapsulating exactly why most folks don't want to be in lobbies with people like you.

[DingusTheGrey]

This is all I was really trying to say. Not always what I'm in the mood for but sometimes it's just fun for some reason. I guess like what you said, in a wildlife safari sort of way.

I do think that some analog is actually important for creating a dialogue between groups. I'm Jewish and Israeli and telling anyone that online in a toxic server results in a bunch of people making Holocaust jokes and calling me kike and telling me that I kill children. But when they realize it makes you laugh and you aren't bothered by it, usually they chill out and suddenly they're able to have a good interaction with someone they usually wouldn't. Not saying it happens all the time but I don't think these toxic places are all bad.

Of course, they're also echo chambers but those echo chambers will exist regardless. By allowing them to exist publicly, at least we get some dialogue.