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Assumptions About the Gaming Crowd

Human Angle is an ongoing series done by Polygon that focuses on the people on the periphery of the video game scene. The focus of the latest one was on the queer demographic of game developers. While I found the subject interesting, there was something else that stuck out to me. The comments and likes were disabled by Polygon. One can assume that this was done to avoid a homophobic firestorm of comments. It's times like this where I feel disappointed about the tendencies of anonymous internet jerks. I applaud the leg work done by Polygon to track down the folks behind the games and give some exposure to things other than triple-a blockbusters and its a shame to see that they have to eliminate the possibility of discussion and feedback because of the tendency for comments on the internet to devolve into nonsense. The sad part is that I know that the gaming community is rad by evidence of things like PAX. In person, there’s a really dope atmosphere that feels friendly but online, legions of obnoxious folks swarm over everything and just bum me out with childish antics. Time and time again, a certain vocal minority makes all video game players look immature, sexist, homophobic. I hope that one day I can say I play video games without feeling ashamed or having associations with flagrant 12 year olds on Xbox Live but maybe I’m fooling myself on that one.

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