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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8706542" data-attributes="member: 6696971">No, I get it.Everything I wrote still stands.If you’re at the nexus of an endless deluge of negativity (in gaming or elsewhere), it’s statistically rather probable that you have something to do with it (even if it’s merely the company or micro-culture you tend to gravitate toward). Perhaps inventory that.Just like in physical systems, in social systems, rote or ritualized positivity and negativity are both infectious and amplify existing internal and external paradigms. If you’re a freakishly improbable statistical outlier and just surrounded by terrible people and terrible gaming…then…I don’t know? Quit gaming and causing yourself self-harm? Find something more healthy to do until you can move away from the weird black hole of terrible people you’re gravitationally captured by. Or…try that internet thing! Keep trying it until you find a few trustworthy, kind, and capable players! Take heart! They are out there!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 8706542, member: 6696971"] No, I get it. Everything I wrote still stands. If you’re at the nexus of an endless deluge of negativity (in gaming or elsewhere), it’s statistically rather probable that you have something to do with it (even if it’s merely the company or micro-culture you tend to gravitate toward). Perhaps inventory that. Just like in physical systems, in social systems, rote or ritualized positivity and negativity are both infectious and amplify existing internal and external paradigms. If you’re a freakishly improbable statistical outlier and just surrounded by terrible people and terrible gaming…then…I don’t know? Quit gaming and causing yourself self-harm? Find something more healthy to do until you can move away from the weird black hole of terrible people you’re gravitationally captured by. Or…try that internet thing! Keep trying it until you find a few trustworthy, kind, and capable players! Take heart! They are out there! [/QUOTE]

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