Sounds like it’s a pretty prolific/systemic thing, based on my own experiences and others. Liberalism organically reproducing the same type of response due to similar material conditions? Or some of it perhaps due to state infiltration in organizations, I wonder? At first glance, the infiltration thought might sound odd for something like game forums, but I remember stuff in the past about like the CoD series having former state dept type people involved. The connection there was more obvious why, with what those games are like, using their storytelling to push imperialist narratives. But I would not put it past happening in other game contexts too. A platform like Steam would certainly make sense for a thing like that, with how wide-reaching its influence is in gaming.