people should know that I stand with The Wrong People, probably.

In another, messier thread about gatekeepers, I noted that it is a wonderful new time where no-one really has the power to stop you from making the game you want to make, but there is a great deal more widely-distributed power to make you feel bad about a game thing you made.

That’s just sort of a niche-specific component from this whole new mass discovery that anyone on the internet can basically ruin the day of anyone else that’s regularly on the internet, if they really want to do that.

I see a lot of frustration about imposter syndrome, self-questioning, fear of scapegoat violence and reactionary lashing out. It’s a shit time to be a creative – at the exact same time when the tools have never been easier and the audience never more accessible, the gulf between potential awesomeness and mass embarrassment can just feel utterly, disillusioningly… Insurmountable.

And then, yeah… get politics involved, and it’s even messier.