Gaming Culture

The gaming culture is nothing new. We've been around since the 1970's when Dungeons and Dragons was first published and its been an evolving culture ever since. The problem is, that, when some of our more, how should I say this, immature members speak out it does more harm than good.

When our more immature memebers speak out its usually to the tune of somebody sucks, or someone should die, or someone's gay and should shut up. It tends to degenerate into a nonsensical tirade of vulgarity and personal attacks from there. We're not going to win anyone to our side with behaviour like that. It took comic books more than forty years to break the stigma that they were the cause of moral decline and turpitude. Rock music STILL hasn't broken that stigma; and you think that the gaming culture is going to break it in only a few years? Its time to grow up and realize that the only way we're going to be able to break the stigma that gamers have is by showing people that we're not supportive of those kinds of tactics.

I'm not saying that people don't have the right to speak their mind, because they do and its an important right. However I am saying that we can and should chasitse those among us who are doing more harm to the cause than help. We should take companies to task whenever they publish a game that is purely exploitative and made solely for the sake of controversy (Rockstar I'm looking in your direction). We have to take the initiative because if we don't others WILL try to take it for us, and then we've lost.

That's all for now.
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