Imagine gamers wanting to play and discuss video games. How fucking dare they.
Dear sir, you are clearly mistaken in your priorities here. As we all know, the focus of the video game industry has always been the personal politics of Jim Sterling, the most enlightened, gorgeous thinker to ever grace our Planet. When Jim opens his mouth, Plato and Aristotle stay quiet and listen. Video Games are first a medium for a middle aged fatso brit in a dress and an entertainment and art vehicle second, so please keep this in mind!
Wait till Jim realises that every hobby has bigots (both real and imagined) because even arseholes have outside interests. It’s always funny watching people abandon shit they love because it doesn’t give off some kind of bigot repelling aura.
Precisely, Jim is so deep into his own narcissistic delusions that he fails to realize this. There isn't much of a correlation between hobbies and the people in them, but depending on the place you get bigots from both sides in sizeable numbers, as you said it best, even assholes need to breathe a little in between the worries of life. It gets worse if booze is involved, and Jim being the bitch he is, would either start shit with some random guys while outside or stay put and then make up a story about how he bravely shut down some drunken guy talking shit during an RPG session or some other horseshit!
It shows how tribalistic and immature this guy is, can't deal with opposing viewpoints or nuance without freaking out and taking hard measures like never setting foot back in a place. If everyone started self exiling every time they saw some asshole in a place they like, most people would need to skip town to do basic shit after a short while lol!
Let me stop you there. Realizing is not Jim's specialty. It requires situational and self-awareness. Jim didn't get where he is in life by realizing his situation. Keep in mind that he realized he was trans because he worked a skirt to avoid feeling fat for a day.
Jim is the kind of guy that won't wake up and smell the roses until he's deep in the fields and cut to shit by the thorns. He makes everything he touches about himself, has a tribalist worldview based on hostility to anything even mildly against his principles and won't stop riding high on his ego no matter how bad things get. He's had two major milestones of failure so far yet he hasn't changed a thing on his work, and keeps doubling down on catering to his delusions of being some sort of sex symbol. This isn't self esteem and confidence, it's narcissism and delirium, there isn't anything wrong with being non-binary or whatever the fuck (I don't do pronoums for reasons I have explained before, and it's not like I care about what this bloated fuck thinks) he is feeling he is but this guy took this aspect of his personality and let it dominate his life!
My theory? He discovered himself in this, which is okay, but the narcissistic perspective he took lead him to overindulge in this newfound confidence and go wild on his ego tripping. If you think about it, it's the perfect situation as it gives him a way to justify to himself his hatred of his own audience and his clear fetishism. This won't bide him well for the future, actively fucking over his own income isn't sustainable for anyone, let alone a guy who burned as many bridges as he did!
