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Most gamers prefer single-player games [teenagers prefer Online PvP tho] (www.midiaresearch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I dont mind teenagers, it is the absurd toxic masculinity culture I hate, which isnt really a teenager specific thing in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, you're more or less correct although toxic masculinity feels pretty immature, and certainly more common with teenage boys. Given the number of muscle cars nearly running me off the road these days, I certainly agree they're not all teenagers, though!

Gotta wonder if that guy who just said he slept with your mom on COD was really 30+ year old "alpha male" lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I agree and I think a salient reframing of your statement is teenagers typically more than anything else want to be treated as adults, to be a teenager is to constantly be observing young adults and attempting to emulate their social behavior. So the question becomes why do we tolerate toxic adult conservative men setting such a cruel and hateful example that teenagers then copy and magnify?

What some teenager screams at you in an online match is just a shrill echo of the serious and dangerous ideologies modern (and not modern) conservatism is explicitly founded on and violently defends the "right" to spew everywhere in every context consequences be damned (the consequences being a feature not a bug).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's definitely an aspect of catharsis in showing that kind of person how much better at the video game you are though. I don't play a lot of PvP but when I do, and everything clicks, I absolutely get it