I like this question, but I'm not sure I can answer it well.  I can say there were some people who in their mind had a lot of assumptions built in before starting a conversation. The quality of these people's work tended to be worse than the people who had a more open mindset. So I tended to focus more on and talk to the open minded people just because their work was more interesting. I would also say the only very extreme people would even agree with the wording of games cause "_____." It isn't very accurate.  When talking about human behavior, it is hard to say anything causes a certain behavior because there are so many factors involved. Other debates focused on policy were a bit more focused. For example, there were talks on increasing diverse representation in the video game industry as a whole. I may have been absent from previous talks, but no one seemed to question is there a diversity problem, why is there a diversity problem, how did the diversity problem get to such level, what factors led to the diversity problem, should we do anything to "fix" the diversity problem, is the problem fixing itself, what would fixing the diversity problem look like, or what are the cost/benefits/risks in fixing the problem using "x"? The discussion was mostly people telling others of "privilege"  to spread the wealth.