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Capitalism did destroy the tabletop hobby in an effort to bring more people in. Wizards of the coast alienated their core fanbase in order to attract casual players. The kind of people that once mocked, and bullied tabletop hobbyists.

The Pathfinder franchise owes it’s entire existence to this change in direction. The OSR ttrpg community wouldn’t exist without it either. But this was bound to happen anyway.

Once a form of entertainment gets too popular. It begins to dilute, and change form. The presence of profit only accelerates this. Some say that the core fans should just get over it, and adapt.

But for many people these hobbies were the only source of community they had. Because they were pushed out of everything else or simply didn’t fit in anywhere else. No one wants to acknowledge a simple truth.

Gaming got gentrified by normal, and popular people. The last refuge of the nerd was stripped away. Capitalism pushes for cultural homogenization.

There is no diversity of culture in a capitalist society. The nerd has every right to be upset that their community is gone. Socialism also enforces it’s own cultural homogeneity. Depending on what form it takes. Some brands of socialism are better than others.

Cultural appropriation, gentrification, and the stripping away of uniqueness is an integral part of liberal capitalism. You can’t retain cultural uniqueness in a universalist for profit system.

Decisions have to be made.