>>133251I fully get what you mean. As an example I wanted to get into Helldivers so I could play with my friends, and then Sony did its thing and soured me on it. It had nothing to do with the actual quality of the game and I'm only vindicated for "dodging the bullet" when more shit happens that I get dripfed through word of mouth and games """news""" outlets. What I want to avoid is locust behavior where I jump from one thing to the next getting my enjoyments worth before it falls apart and dies. Seen that happen with AI services and is a good lesson on how callous the average Anon is. Just because time changes and things come and go doesn't mean you cant hold onto something or another.
Everything is unfortunately so impersonal these days, online spaces being the worst. People are aggressive or derisive, falling back onto tribal behavior and refusing to see alternative points, arguments about a topic are more often than not two retards screaming past each other. Argue for a different point of view and they'll dogpile you with whatever buzzword gets people mad. I see this a lot with Touhoufags, I have no problem following the blacktewi.png philosophy of respecting headcanon, but there's always fags who want to make their vision of how things are the only one.
If it's a multiplayer game you're invariably screwed since there's no getting around interacting with other people unless you have friends to pull in and suffer with you. When you do want to discuss it; either to get better at [thing] or learn more about it. You seek out existing forums or start new threads or posts on the topic. This runs into the risk of reading into the rabbit hole through no fault of your own and can lead to what you spoke about. And just posting blindly goes against the "lurk moar" philosophy and invariably some asshat is going to come out of the woodworks because of some unspoken verboten thing you did.
From what I found the best thing is to avoid chans and similar, just get stuff from the OP. They have information and things like mods or whatnot that is nowhere else, but they're just as likely to be holding onto old community drama and namefags because moderation just doesn't exist and keeping threads on topic requires too much effort. They will do anything but talk about the hobby. If that's not good enough there are entire groups of sad people who make it their job in life to make whatever community they've attached to worse and make people like you jaded and resent it, like Warhammer on /tg/.
>>133252It goes to hell when you notice that the hobby is the community or trolling the community over the actual material you came for in the first place. At which point there's nothing there for you, scrape what you can and go somewhere else.