I left all online forums for a while because of weird behaviour. I have basically stopped going very far with sharing any of my ideas that tie directly to the game No Man’s Sky.
Here are two examples where i was showing connections to memory and drinking water where I share images of lore directly from the game itself. Nothing too dismissive was said in the replies or any weird behaviour happened from users, but it did feel like nobody really understood a thing i said or was on about. The lurkers see these and choose not to engage so nobody knows how many truly share any ideas.
MINI ARG Discussion and Speculation - Archive / NMS Echoes - ETARC Community
Future Update Speculation - Archive / NMS Worlds - ETARC Community
I feel like there are weirdly behaved groups of agents who use many names that appear in all the online community areas for all the games. This has me question if there are paid agents with followers who prevent leaks by dismissing all speculation or wild ideas to hide what comes next from being known too early? Those agents who have followers are probably why too many gamers talk about hype and speculation like it is a bad thing towards expectations.
Many youtube channels i loved to watch have stopped talking about the lore all together cause of the gatekeeping trolls that control an army of followers who probably dont even play No Man’s Sky at all.
As anyone asks themselves why many are being so dismissive or not engaging at all with things, you can easily start to believe things are worse than it really is.