That mid to late 2000s period where they pushed the gamer label really hard

>tits and ass marketing
>weirdly anti-Japan bias
>Guitar Hero meals at Taco Bell
>XBOX 360 as a status symbol in America
>the attempt to replace the nerd image of gaming with a dudebro buttchugging mountain dew playing Halo 3
>general shift to multiplayer post CoD and at peak WoW

I hated it at the time but in retrospect it was the last time I actually felt connected to new games and the developers behind them.

don't lie to me anons will the raptors suck for another 20 years
we were supposed to be a mar-keyed franchise

to a world where everyone is vaguely liberal and left leaning but not all that interested in politics? everyone got along so much better in the 2000s without all the culture/gender/race wars bullshit