It comes from a nationalist mentality. Essentially people think they have to hate everything that is not what they have. These people will dig up every possible reason they can, and just continue to hate for the purpose of hating.
On another point, I don't buy this "hardcore" bs. How can a videogame or videogamer be "hardcore"? To me the whole thing sounds like a euphamistic debate for some sort of social problem for the so-called "hardcore gamer" and a term used to arbitrarilly elevate the status of a game.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.







