like how do two different lego games devolve into culture war
Very easily actually, do you remember ROBLOX vs Blockland? There were even culture wars between different free v0002 overhaul mods.
I think it started when Brickadia first sorta came out of the shadows and everyone instantly jumped ship to Brickadia leaving Blockland with depressingly dwindling player counts. When this happened it felt important to try and warn everyone to not invest their chips too heavily into Brickadia because, due to technical limitations of UE4, the game was going to have objectively inferior mod support compared to Blockland for a significant period of time. Regular players do not understand what modding requires or entails, nor do they understand implications of an engine change, so we wanted to tell people to stick around in Blockland for a little longer because ultimately gameplay is more important than graphics and we didn't want to drop our huge Blockland mod projects halfway through because everyone was too busy oogling over ~shiny brick~ to play Blockland.
This issue eventually resolved itself when ComputerMix, a meth addict who manipulates his parents with threats of Self Delete for more drug money, destroyed Blockland with an exploit and forced it to go steam-only which murdered the playerbase far more effectively than Brickadia ever could.
But at the time, the response from the devs, when we finally got it, was to just dismiss that fact and tell everyone that we're a bunch of idiots that have no idea what we're talking about because mod support is totally possible in UE4 even though to this day the only evidence we've seen of it existing is an image of scratch events which is obviously just a mock up. This ultimately sent a bunch of angry goons to each side but everyone in support of Blockland just got banned as soon as they stepped foot in the discord, which brings us to the next point of contention.
Brickadia's moderation style is extremely heavy-handed, compared even to normal "no drama" discords like BCC. In addition, it is directly tied to your ability to play the game. On top of that, Brickadia's early userbase is almost completely comprised of BLF refugees with crazy vendettas who want to gatekeep the community. This isn't a political thing, some of these people are insane right wingers like Planr who apparently go around harassing transgender and homoloveual members of Brickadia off-site by sending them Bible verses that tell them they're going to hell. He's actually by far the most outspoken anti blockland advocate right now. This guy got me banned because he went sobbing to the moderators and had to explain his pregnancy special interest in detail so he could send them out of context screenshots as evidence I was targeting him for harassment when I was making stupid fortnite research jokes with my friend at 3AM, and he joined under the name "door ladder" or "I eat wholesome bee" or something. All because he is still mad at me that I called him out for saying that watching lolicon is a "god given right". I didn't even loving know it was Planr, but this scheme somehow worked because the entire moderation board is made up of people that hate my friend group. So, go figure. It's not because there's a bunch of freshmen wanting to say the N word, every discord on the planet has that issue. It's because Brickadia is full of ex-Blocklanders who lost arguments in the past and want to make sure it doesn't happen again.