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Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.

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Hardcore gamer = someone who plays only cinematic grizzed white dude games and/or military fetishizing FPS

Casual gamer = anyone that is not a 15-25 yo male, and/or plays anything outside of the previously mentioned games, especially if those games are colorful.

So basically the gaming community is full of gatekeeping, misogyny, toxic masculinity and general chuddery. They make sure they're the loudest voice heard when anything about games is talked about, and won't be happy until all games a homogenous stream of bland, hyper-realistic but with a grey filter slog of mindless action with no heart or soul. And don't you dare force them to read any dialogue or story.

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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Hardcore gamers" = the people who had enough money and free time to have a console (or two) and buy and play all the big releases. This group is mostly white, male, decently wealthy, and reactionary (in the same way any given white petit bourg is). The people shaping the game industry range from sicko libertarian dipshits (Carmack) to sicko capitalist [redacted] (Bobby Kotick). It hasn't ever been "good" tbh.

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[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't really think this took off until Dark Souls though.

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Souls fans when you use anything other than level 1 naked wretch with club the way miyazaki intended

Sorry but the ds1 taught me that running away to do a cheese attack that deals half of the boss hp is the way souls is meant to be played (never fight fair)

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