Implosion

At this point, every week, the largest game company in the world does something else stupid.

Today was another, and I will spare you the details since enough people are talking about it.

When I was in middle school, my best friends were an African American kid and a gay kid.

And we played D&D together as the outcast nerds. In the early 1980s. We were all today's "marginalized groups," and even more so because everyone thought we were devil worshippers for playing the game.

People just found a new way to hate people they already disliked. Namely, us.

And today, companies are infected by people saying stupid crap just for popularity points on social media or what they think people would like to hear. The company they work for is burning down around them.

And they dump on entire groups when people in those groups are honestly trying to "be someone different" and have that experience outside their little box. And now people in these companies are telling entire groups, "leave the hobby," or if this is taken another way, "certain groups can't be creators in the hobby."

In a hobby where honestly, everyone is a creator.

Back then, when my best friends and I were trying to get into other hobbies, people didn't want us in or create art and music; we were told to leave those hobbies too. You don't belong here.

Toxic.

A trash fire.

Embarrassing.

And a game I loved goes up in flames.