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I think video games are starting to fill this niche. Games like call of duty and destiny served as a way for me to socialize and stay in touch with friends from

• Rjevski 8y ago
  The issue with gaming is that the community as a whole is toxic, probably due to the lowered barrier to entry (a redux of the “eternal September”) which means that immature kids can now join games and swear all day on the mic. I remember back in 2008 I used to play Crysis and a side-effect of the game’s insane hardware requirements (for the time) meant it weeded out a lot of bad actors. On any server you’d join the chat was always polite with real conversations instead of swearing & complaining which is all that I seem to notice now on modern games.