It's a real damn shame. Fancy Rats are genuinely sweet and intelligent creatures and people who own them already get a bad rep simply by association. Identifying yourself as part of the alphabet group only stigmatizes the little guys that much more. Because now they aren't hated simply because they're associated with the household pest, they are symbolic of a person's mental and emotional state too.
Anyway yeah, it's hard to discuss video games with pretty much anybody because of how much trannies and identity politics have infected it all. Video games were already kind of considered something exclusively either for kids or outsiders, and in a way that hasn't actually changed much. Except now said outsiders are outsiders for a damn good reason and also indirectly control everything.
Recently got back into the Halo games as they were a big part of my childhood, and I was saddened, but not surprised to find how much the community has been infected by this sort of thing. I saw someone on the Halo subreddit commenting that Master Chief might be a "bottom" simply because he isn't chatty or extroverted like Cortana is. And of course, you have the MCC having banners for stuff like BLM or whatever racial history month it is.
Plus, I think most of these people have forgotten the games were meant to be a Christian allegory as stated by early interviews by the devs. And not just because of the surface level references. Yes you had gay jokes sprinkled in via staring at your allies too long as well as with the IWHBYD skull turned on, but that's all they were, jokes. And stuff you kinda had to slightly go out of the way to find.