“Every game, the communities around them, the discords for said games, and so on. You get banned or muted for basically saying anything in chat, people cry about toxicity everywhere, we use AI to moderate voice chat in games now, it's just getting ridiculous.

I'm really tired of studios trying to make gaming into a little safe space for fragile egos. Who even asked for it?”

“It was never a safe space. It was "safe" because everyone in the gaming sphere was a nerdy as fuck outsider and they all shared a lot of the same interests. It was never safe from the kinds of things they want to make us feel bad about. Mockery and insults were common but mostly innocent. Depending of course on how deep into a specific scene you were as some were more hardcore than others. There was a sense of camaraderie but always a sense of competition as well and competition breeds conflict both innocent and extreme.”

“It was "safe" because everyone knew that everything was just online and it wouldn't go into the physical world. Guys let off steam when they're gaming.

The problem is women taking online banter seriously as if a bunch of nerds would follow through.

It's ruined so many online spaces that now have real-world rules applied to them.”