‘Too many women, or too many queer characters’ at least comes from a place of personal experience.
There are some pieces of toxic gaming discourse that I understand, toxic though they are. Difficulty is one of the most toxic of video game discourses, and it has no right to be. Meanwhile, those on jalfrezi would have been pressured to challenge themselves with madras, while the madras group would not have truly eaten curry until they’d eaten a vindaloo. Maybe you’d call it ‘video game journalist curry’, seeing as it’s not particularly difficult to eat. In the video game world, my curry is not a real curry. Everyone ate their own dish, enjoyed it, and went home. A jalfrezi, two madras, and a tikka masala were also ordered in our group. Two others, who had lost the vote to go elsewhere, ordered a plain korma. The last time my friends and I went out for a curry, I ordered something sweet and mild - a malayan.
