Im still not sure what gatekeeping outside of twitter looks like. I guess it happens in like gamecords but like idk how it stops anyone from buying a cool game on steam and giving it a shot
it can definitely be like, bad interactions in a discord or people being weird on matchmaking chats or w/e, which reduces the amount of people you're willing to play with for a smaller game, which can suck sometimes. it's part of why I play +r and bbcf less and less
it could also be like community-wide things such as prevalent behavior that goes uncondemned by people who represent the scene, like how derogatorily referring to 'strive players' has become a sort of dogwhistle for people who don't care for trans folks in the fgc
No yeah these are like convo ending reasons that I'd never like try to dispute. The main sentiment I've been seeing w uwa's tweet is "im ONLY going to play the game i find fun and there's zero need to branch out" and im just like ??? Feels like such a narrow reason to not explore
Like imagine how good it would feel to see two people on teen titans thinking no one could ruin the mood till you walk up and start hating on robin's bitch ass normals
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