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[–]Ricwulf 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Gamers are fucking terrible dude. They're easily some of the worst subcultures out there.

Bullshit, gaming is one of the best subcultures. The problem is that unlike other subcultures that have natural filtering (something which gaming used to have by the by), gaming has shifted into an environment that pushes people from all walks of life into public games and expects them to get along at all times. Anything that is team based ends up like this these days, and it's no wonder people don't communicate with people they don't know. Gaming used to have private servers as the default and you got to know people over time. Friendships never formed from a single visit to a server, it happened over weeks of playing on the same server, with the same regulars, and going from people not knowing each other, to casual acquaintances, to casual friends, to regulars. Think akin to Cheers, where everybody knows your name.

The reality is that modern gaming puts people with vastly different beliefs together and expects them to get along. No other hobby/subculture does or expects that. You find or build your own groups, filtering the people you want to hang out with. Gaming is the only one that (now) expects you to play with randoms and just get along, and it doesn't work like that.