>>537653707
I also remember lurking r/stalker quite often back in the day when CoC was popular. Then Anomaly became popular and the amount of tourists asking whether they have to own or play the original games before playing the mod began to become frustrating. Gatekeeping became the most common buzzword there from that moment on. The last straw was the drewski incident and hundreds of thousands of new tourists convinced that stalker is a milsim survival sandbox game. Only then did I realize that I can't do anything about it anyway and my seething is both pointless and fucking ridiculous, it's just a fucking subreddit, I can count on my fingers the number of users with whom interactions were worthwhile. So I just left and learned to ignore the fanbase of this or any other media, I see what you mean by saying that it's a valuable life lesson, it really was for me as well.
>comfy camps like the c-con discord
Is it bearable? I avoid pisscord like the plague, but sometimes I'd like to discuss stalker with someone other than anons here.