[Karrot_Kream]

You've really succinctly captured why I don't enjoy a lot of modern tech content online these days. It's too self-referential, too steeped in itself. The people involved are motivated by a reaction to other online content and want to produce new online content. Then there's the online beefs.

> Without real life stuff to talk about it's pretty terrible. Video games were the main interesting internet native subject, aside from tech itself in the pure sense, but gaming culture has become almost a 4chan offshoot, less interesting to everyone else, while the games themselves are full of DLC.

I think this is the exception. Most gamers I know find some social connection in it, even if connecting with other gamers about the game they're playing. The programmers just tilt at ever simplifying windmills pursuing their platonic digital ideal.