I am not a people person. At all. You may think it’s because I don’t like people–and you would be right. In general. I don’t like people in general, I mean. But I do like certain people, and the RKG slug community (long story) has many of those people.
RKG is on Patreon and at any tier, you have access to the Discord (I believe). I poked my head in when it first started, but found it too overwhelming. It was just one big forum at the time, which I found to be too much. I quietly left and never went back. Until.
Krupa is currently doing the Dark Solus III plat as a producer-tier stream. He platted the original game at the beginning of the pandemic and started DS III soon after. I actually bought the game on PS4 so I could help out, but I was more of a deterrent the one time I got summoned. Then, he had to take a break for awhile after the fourth stream, and I decided to jump into the Discord before the fifth stream–which was last month.
I had a pseudonym when I first jumped in, one that was leftover from my younger years. I commented a few times before I realized that I was not matching the name I use in the YouTube channel (my real name). I quickly switched to my actual name and people were quick to welcome me. One even said that he had been disappointed not to see me when he first joined. I remembered him because he had asked during an earlier stream about how to join Discord, and I hooked him up.
RKG make it clear in their videos that they will not tolerate any kind of hate in their community. There was one in which the lads are doing jelly shots and talking about what is considered acceptable to say and what isn’t. Apparently, one said something so horrific as a joke. Rory said he hoped no one in their community watched that shit. Krupa said quickly that they could fuck off if they did. Then, in typical RKG fashion, they followed that up by talking about nutting. Nothing wrong with that!
They have also called out the last president in their videos and made it pretty plain that they are for progressive policies. It’s really cool, and it spills over into the Discord. Just today, there were a bunch of us in one of the channels talking about being queer and all the different flavors of that. There was a person who is similar to me in that he will go with he/him, even though he feels closer to agender than anything else. Which is pretty much where I’m at. I’m not he/him for sure, but I’m also not she/her or they/them, but I’m fine with being called either, really.