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guerilla interference that would later coalesce intothe Social Liberation Front, local and federal lawenforcement agencies in the United States wouldsimple give up and make it clear that it was up toonline communities to police themselves.The fact is that the games communitywas forced into this positionboth by violently entitledfans and by the ineptitude of thesystems that are supposed to protectthem.When pop-game icon David Jaren received complaintsabout his absence on the PAX Prime 2022Mega Blast Mountain design panel, he respondedjovially. “I feel very blessed everyday to have myfans’ affection and support,” Jaren said.“Without them I wouldn’t have a job, but I alsohave that job to do, and attending conventions toanswer the same questions again and again isn’tpart of it. People will complain if I don’t go to aconvention, but they’ll also complain if the nextBlast Mountain gets pushed back, so I have to pickmy battles.”Notoriously weird art-games creator Paige Leavenworth(winner of the 2019 IGF Nuovo Award andthe IGF’s Seumas McNally Grand Prize in 2021 and2023), paints an even starker, and frankly, moreaccurate, picture of fans in the poem they postedon their website after they were targeted by Hammerfesthackers last year:We are not kings & queens, held high by our subjectsand honor-bound to preserve their lives andvouchsafe their happiness.We are not politicians, elected to our station bypopular vote and beholden to keep election promisesor else.We are wizards and priests, empowered by the