It can be trying and tiring for sure. Although there are many game fans who you can kinda tell are more so apolitical and just don’t say much on the subject, sometimes the stereotypes about them behaving like adult children are true and some of them have clearly reactionary views. Like I don’t often see the level of racism you described, but I do see a lot of capitalist apologia and general hating on the customer side of things from people who are themselves customers. Stuff like a person complaining about how something works in a game and maybe, god forbid, they even hint at asking for something to be easier. This immediately attracts the jerks who show up to say that “people don’t want to work for things” like they’re Reagan talking about “welfare queens.” The aggression of it never ceases to amaze me. I can only surmise that some of these people have an enormous amount of impotent rage going on and poor emotional regulation in general, and they take it out on whatever scapegoat is nearest.