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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1892403" data-attributes="member: 19893">It was an example of something that is going on in gaming. These people are out there, for sure.But in a marginal hobby, the "fringe" of that margin often ends up with an undue level of influence.It happened in Furry fandom, for example.. where the vast mainstream of furry fans just really liked anthropomorphic comics with cat-girls or bunny-samurais.  But the extreme fringe tie that element into their sexual fetishism, start taking over cons by making spectacles of themselves (both in terms of costumes and of sexually inappropriate activity in public places), flood the furry-art scene with pornographic drawings of 12-year old wolf-cub boys being raped, and next thing you know "furry" becomes a dirty word.Probably 80-90% of the people who were into the Furry comics didn't have those um.. "views" or "opinions" about what Furry should be about, but they ended up being dominated by a small but very vocal/influential minority.In the Furries case it was the cry of tolerance that let the fringe take over the whole scene ("you have to let me draw pictures of a horse-girl being eaten by a snake-man while she's violated by wolf-hermaphrodites! otherwise you're prejudiced!").In the case of Gaming, it could well be academic plague.. there's the other side of academic plague.. for every pseudo-intellectual writing something complicated to try to seem smart, there's someone out there who's under the opinion that what the guy writes must be smart (because he can't actually understand what the writer is saying), so he decides to pretend he understood and supports the writers views/game/etc. in an effort to seem also smart.There isn't much support for the Forge's games, but there is a general viewpiont in gaming fandom (at least online) that the Forge is full of really smart people and that the games they are making are really smart. They aren't, and neither are their games.Its just pretentiousness.Nisarg</blockquote>

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