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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMSkarka" data-source="post: 1994576" data-attributes="member: 763">I honestly believe that a depressingly large segment of the gaming population is still struggling psychologically with having been ostracized/bullied in their developmental years, and this sort of vehemence is nothing more than lashing out at the ghosts of their pasts. They set themselves up as opposed to something, and then rail against it, because it alleviates the issues of helplessness and ineffectuality that they struggled with when they were growing up.  It gives them a sense of identity, and more importantly, allows them to dish out some of what they had to endure themselves.I'm not trying to be snarky or insulting with this---I've seen this behavior the entire time I've been involved in gaming (professionally since 1988, as a gamer for about 8 years prior to that), and I really do think that it is a factor.   It's not a majority of gamers (thank god), but it's definitely there....and it's quite sad, when you think about it.</blockquote>