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the difference is gay and faggot are still very very much linked to homophobia and so regardless of the context they're still going to be upsetting to people. maybe like 100 years from now if that trend continues faggot will actually be disassociated from its origins enough that when you say it you won't automatically link it with gay men, but as it stands regardless of how out of context you're using it when you say it people are still going to think "that's a derogatory term for gay men" so it's still going to hold its power.

The only difference is time. We live in a time where those words are perhaps generally accepted to have homophobic connotations but there will never be a time when they aren't if people insist on the definition. "100 years from now" doesn't exist in a vacuum - it is a gradual process. Enough people are using the word gay to refer to a specific idea unrelated to homosexuality that it can be considered an alternate definition. Especially in gaming "gay" is a shorthand for bad although it has perhaps been falling out of style recently. It doesn't necessarily imply that gamers are homophobic, especially evident if you compare "gay" to completely uncharged words that do not necessarily invoke all of the possible homonyms or shades of meaning. In that case it is less offensive and less tempting to argue words actually have any inherent meaning. It means what you and other people agree it means, nothing more and nothing less. Trying to ensure that everybody is free from any possible unintended harm is one of the worst things about PC culture.

save yourself the trouble just don't use the words at all since there's like 3580837 other words you could use that would communicate the same message and wouldn't potentially seriously upset someone.

Why filter yourself? If the first thing that comes to mind is the word "gay" and it accurately expresses what you want it to express, and you can be reasonably sure that the people that hear it will understand the meaning, why not use it?

it's not really your place to be telling someone who is directly impacted by that kind of language how they should feel or that they're being too sensitive by not understanding context, cause they can be incredibly hurtful regardless of how you use them.

No, but it's also not anybody's responsibility to ensure that their speech is so neutral and beige that absolutely nobody will be offended by it. I choose not to constantly parse my thoughts for "offensive" language and spew out the most disgusting prose. I don't personally use the word gay to mean bad because the word doesn't appeal to me very much although I do sometimes use it to refer generally to homosexual people (and it's my experience that people, even homosexuals, are starting to use it more and more in that sense although that's beside the point.)

Let's not forget that we live in a technological age of the internet and mass media. Ideas can be transmitted extremely quickly and its effects on language are already apparent. It doesn't take decades for a specific word definition to become standard usage anymore, it can happen in a matter of weeks.

EDIT: But you know, whatever. If you feel differently then power to you.