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To be fair, being angry is basic state of mind in many gaming communities. Gamer getting angry is default reaction in quite a few gaming subcultures.

Not all of them and not everyone, but it is not remarkable that gamers got angry.

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I'll never forget witnessing the beginning of the development of PSIO: a complete CDROM Emulator for the PSX that aimed to provide the ability to boot games off a SD card. At the time in the early 2010s it was considered a far reaching project. The creators took so much abuse for years because so many in the "community" thought it was vaporware and damn these people for even trying. One of the creators was a high school student who took the time to learn low level FPGA coding, board layout and software dev so he could contribute to a lot of the core codebase. Eventually they actually launched and the product works! Now they get crap for other things that are equally silly(ex. Firmware downloads require inputting account, different firmwares for different revisions, not focusing on stupid things like Mem card backups in favor of bug fixes). It also made me think, man I never want to get into a gaming related business. These are the types of customers no self respecting business would want to deal with.

I make software for the space industry and get attacked on things I can and will call utterly silly. Before that I wrote invoicing applications, and that was far worse.

My question is: are there places where people don't scream at you for silly reasons? (and do any of those places need a competent C++ programmer?)

At Antithesis we are pretty calm and working on very interesting stuff. (You would have to relocate to the DC metro area, though.)

Well the most vocal are always those riding on their emotions, like anger. For every angry gamer theres a larger group who couldn't give a s***. Nor is any of this limited to gaming. People will get angry about any form of entertainment, whether its a remake of a cult fav movie, a band changing their sound, you name it there is someone whinging about it. All that anger fuels the net, driving up those ad clicks with divisive headlines so they can fill those rotten comment sections.

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