In my experience, the general card gaming community is like that because they're set in their ways, often neurodivergent and lacking social skills despite operating in the social arena. Hopefully you're not limited to one community to check out! I got lucky with a few nice people in my latest stop 🥹
The thing is that I come from miniature wargaming and I feel the same issues should be present there
You right. Are the TCGers particularly sweaty players, just too competitive to be nice? Definitely have seen that
No idea how autocorrect added cautious there
A bit of that mixed with they probably already know each other for a long while while I am cautious some random dude who parachuted