To me, the modern era though, won't actually be colored by how gaming went mainstream, or by any event involving gaming at all. Gaming is just another thing that people do, on computers, phones, whatever, wherever. There's still a spectrum of different kinds and different levels of dedication, but the lines are firmly blurred. There's really no such concept as a "capital-G Gamer" in a society where pretty much any kind of person plays video games to at least some degree. What happened in this time period, though, is interesting. You can see this especially in the bizarro way that people have become regressive about sexuality in video games-I'm not really sure how a bunch of people were convinced to go all the way from 90's style "toxic masculinity" to a totally puritanical anti-sexuality stance in such a short period, but I'll be damned, they really managed to do it. The only irony is that it feels like somehow, people's more progressive attitudes manage to have even less nuance than the older "unrefined" opinions that have since been walked back on by many. It became mostly known for the stereotypical attitudes that people have since come to dislike, which you can see manifested sometimes e.g. Had its problems, but the thing is, it did feel like people were sharing their genuine and honest opinions as a capital-G "Gamer" more often. I'll admit I do miss the older generation of video game 'journalism' nonetheless. I'm not sure it was ever really 'journalism'. I think there's a general feeling that all journalism has faltered a little bit in the face of the Internet and a 24 hour news cycle, but I'm not even sure video game journalism was ever good. I do agree, the bickering about politics is a little silly when you consider just how terrible the actual "journalism" part is.
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