Allow me to be meta for a moment, please.
WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I DISCUSS VIDEO GAMES HERE?
If I start a thread saying absolutely anything positive about a game – AAA or Indie, brand fucking new or old as dirt – I'm a "shill." If I start a thread with anything less than a paragraph of information, I'm a "4cuck shitposter." If I start an inflammatory thread pointing out some flaw in the game, I'm apparently either an undercover reverse-psychology shill or a redditor.
I don't understand Holla Forums culture. I didn't understand it on 4chan when I was a teenager and I don't understand it on Holla Forums now as an adult. Everything is whittled down to buzzwords and memes and I can't just start a topic about a game I want to talk about, no matter what.
If I want to talk about a game, I have to wait for someone else who is apparently more indoctrinated than I am to start a thread in the "right way" (which baffles me to this day, I still don't fucking understand what the "right way" is) and post in that, but I have fairly niche taste in games and what I want to talk about isn't always in a thread.
And then the polar opposite can happen, where a game just becomes impossible to talk about because of some sociopolitical scandal that I don't give half a shit about and if GOD FORBID I just plain don't care about what developers, publishers, journalists, the game's story writers or programmers are doing or what their political views are I'm completely and utterly SOL.
I mean don't get me wrong I enjoy shitting on video games sometimes myself, but not in threads where it's not warranted. There are already plenty of threads around here for shitting on games for all variety of reasons, and when a legitimate non-shitposting thread for a game pops up I don't feel compelled to go in there and try to downvote it with sages or check my repeating digits and I just fundamentally don't understand what compels OTHER human beings to do this.
What am I not fundamentally understanding about Holla Forums that makes it impossible for me to either
or
Am I just the wrong kind of autistic for Holla Forums?
Help me the fuck out here.