The Culture: Mainstream Visibility Is Entirely Expendable

Both in Vidya and in Tabletop, the Gamer yearns for the Clubhouse.

Yes this is what I want.

I want gaming to lose mainstream support and be an edgy niche again. I want outsiders to not understand it, raising the cost of entry into the subculture.

Better than the universalized lifeless gray slop we've all been subjected to for the past decade. https://t.co/YHyyVDzI5u

— Dev (@sleepy_devo) May 15, 2024

Dev (aka Short Fat Otaku) is no Dissident Right edgyboi. He's a shitlib, and he too has had enough of this crap.

If the price for culling the Death Cult from the medium is the destruction of its viability and visibility in the mainstream, hobbyists will pay it gladly.

People are independently coming to the conclusion that the Shiba of Color summarized a while back: to return to the underground, as a non-commercial pursuit, kept secret from outsiders. In short, a lodge- a Clubhouse.

As things get worse for Conventional Play in Tabletop and AAA in Vidya, this will become increasingly obvious. So what if ShitCorp goes under? The games can and will go on without them, and if it means boiling off the dead weight and bad actors as seen with Tourists and Casuals (like we saw the other day) so much the better.

You can't poz what you can't see, and you can't choke off what you can't touch, both things doable by going strictly non-commercial hobbyist-for-hobbyist work.