PeterAB

Thanks so much, Jess and Jason, for all the hard work you've done and all the great moments you've given us. Wishing you both nothing but the best for what comes next.

And yes, Fandom sucks, but no more or less than any other corporation. Stripping the copper from their own walls, the lot of them.

@gornogorno: Don't know what to say, except that I hope that you and those around you are okay.

I get that you're being flippant on purpose here, to make a point - and it's a fair point - but I guess I'll take the bait a bit, and reiterate what a few others have said already: as ubiquitous as these kinds of games can feel at times, there are obviously many, many, many games of other types out there to play, and more coming out all the time. In fact, the majority of games I play these days don't fit into any these categories - not by really deliberate choice or anything, they just aren't the kind of games I'm gravitating towards most at the moment, and I haven't had any trouble finding other kinds of games that are more of what I'm looking for - on the contrary, there are still more games I want to play than I have time for.

Haven't you answered your own question, here? Some people gravitate towards God of War, some towards Fortnite, some towards Minecraft ... all of which are games. Someone who plays Minecraft isn't "leaving" gaming, they *are* gaming, just as much as someone who plays God of War, or Stellaris, or Pac-Man 99, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, or Hypnospace Outlaw, or Among Us, or Returnal. It's all gaming, just like romantic comedies and psychological thrillers and mockumentaries are all films. If you want to lose yourself in a game for whole weekends at a time, there are games for you. If you want to spend the odd 20 - 30 minutes on a game a few times a week, in between changing diapers or scooping litter boxes or whatnot, there are games for you. If you want a game that's primarily a place to hang out with your friends online, there are games for you. Marketing aside, the games themselves have *never* appealed only to a single demographic, and they certainly don't today.

Language on podcasts doesn't bother me in general, partly because a) I don't have kids myself, b) I mostly listen with headphones in, and c) I don't usually listen to the Bombcast, just the Beastcast, where I think the language is relatively toned down, as others have already pointed out. But while the use of language on the Bombcast doesn't bother me in and of itself, I think maybe it is part of a general vibe that makes the Bombcast a lot less interesting to me than the Beastcast, which just feels more like the kinds of conversations I like to be involved in myself, at this point in my life.

Which leads me to my frustration with the misuse of the word "censorship" in a lot of these replies. Choosing different words for different situations isn't "censorship", it's reading the room, and it's something any adult with a functional work/social life does constantly. I 100% guarantee that a podcaster who swears every fourth word while recording makes conscious decisions about when/where not to swear in other aspects of their life - not because they're being "censored", but because that's how adults get along with other people.

That said, as others have pointed out, the swearing on the Bombcast does seem pretty appropriate to the tone they've deliberately set for that show (a tone which, again, generally doesn't work for me, but does for others). I won't say "If you don't like what they do, don't listen," because you've given the impression that you actually do enjoy most of what they do on the Bombcast. But I will echo what others have said about being careful not to equate swearing, which is a deliberate choice, with filler words, which are usually unintentional, and have a history of being used as an excuse to criticize someone when we've already decided we just don't want to hear from them at all, which clearly isn't your intent here.