Post #2467180
2026-05-03 18:00 UTC
“Calling women fake gamers, larpers, attention-seekers, or outsiders for visibly enjoying games is gatekeeping. It turns a hobby into a status boundary and makes gaming spaces worse.”
That's the point I got from GPT-5.5.
I disagree with the conclusion - I don't think gate-keeping is bad. I used to think it wasn't, but I see a lack of gate-keeping spaces, on both a local and national level, as the cause of certain issues. Go create your own damn hobbies with sparkle-ponies and hot-Antonio-Banderas lookalikes. Just leave mine alone.
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@baines@piefed.social 2026-05-03 19:57
gate keeping on controllable things that are bad is fine see Elon Musk lying about being a top Path of Exile player, when he payed some farmer for his account shitting on women gamers because they don’t play game exactly like you do is shit behavior (not saying you are doing this) it does suck though when your favorite gaming space no longer cares about your demographic though when you were there first fuck the fallout series post 2 except nv (tactics was a guilty pleasure) i think there should be space to complain about the changes without attacking people genuinely enjoying a game in their own way (not aholes trying to make money off of it)