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#Gamergate: when 'Feminists' and Gamers collide! (Patreon)

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2014-11-04 16:30:12
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If you leave it unchallenged, it will spread, like it did with elevatorgate in atheism. However, I have hopes here that this will turn into a brutal defeat for the social justice warrior types, in that this is not just a matter of hijacking a movement, it actually requires companies to drink the koolaide and commit financial suicide. It bugs me to think that what could the game equivalent of a 'work of art', could be dragged down into mediocrity by the 'offended by design' crowd whiners.

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#Gamergate: when 'Feminists' and Gamers collide!

Gamergate: The fight for the radical notion that gaming should be about GAMES!! -and NOT about pushing the social justice political agenda of hipsters by means of a corrupt and ideologically driven gaming media. It takes a degree of 'media studies' degree skill to declare your readership 'dead' as a large section of the gaming media did with #Gamergate.

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Anonymous

A history of the gaming industry shows a rapid decline, from a $3.2B market to a $100M market in just a few years in the '80s. It was the death of the industry, or so they thought. This is what happens to companies when the consumer's interests are ignored. Not offended, not fought against, but ignored. Some people never learn from history.

Anonymous
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I so agree. Hope we all read the news article from early last month when some gamers found where Atari buried millions of dollars worth of ET cartridges. It has now even more energized the 8-bit game market.

Alamandorious

You know, I can honestly say that I didn't know much about Gamergate. What I knew was: 1: It was about corruption in the gaming journalism sector. 2: It wasn't about misogyny. I've been catching up. While the two things I knew about it weren't wrong, I didn't realize just how much of an -understatement- they were. The corruption spreading like an infection from a festering wound, and every time the gaming community stops to scratch an itch, the more filth is revealed. This corruption that Gamegate is trying to counter is insanely powerful for some reason. Somehow, only half the story is being heard by the mainstream, and the rest is being silenced...only on youtube, as far as I know, do you get to see the other side of the argument...the truth. Ordinarily, I wouldn't be alarmed...normally, things that happen online blow over in the real world in relatively short order and business goes back to normal...however, in this case having it blow over the wrong way, that which the feminists and gaming journalists are preaching, could have serious rammifications for the industry, and my personal favourite hobby. Where a country is actually considering putting in a rating of how sexist a game is against women, that tells me that this is having a much greater impact than any other online shitstorm. Remember the furor over the ending of ME3? That was the last huge online whiplash that I remember making the mainstream news...and it didn't really have a reoccurance, lasted for a few days, maybe a week at absolute stretch. The sad part of it is, I can remember the comments made by IGN, Kotaku, and other sites about gamers feeling 'entitled', and that they had no right to complain about the 'art' that are videogames. This was despite the fact that there was a legitimate concern about gamers having been lied to and mislead...and that were it any other form of commercial product, there would have been a much larger inquiry into it. I find now, in hindsight, that events today are related...the gaming media having a total disregard for the people that literally GIVE THEM THEIR JOBS. It's sickening, it's incredibly sickening. And then for them to cry 'sexism in games against women is rampant' REALLY makes me angry, because using their logic than EVERY GAME aside from Tetris, Candy Crush, and games like them (as well as hunting games) are sexist against MEN...how many enemies that you slaughter in droves are male? How many times in games like Hitman do you 'objectify' men by making them background objects (when you sneak by them), or make them objects to be acted upon when you decide to kill them? Their logic is so soundly flawed that I'm surprised that even the gibbering idiots that follow their lead don't say 'Uhhhh...that's dumb'. Ugh. If I go on any further, I'll turn this from a semi-coherent rant into an incoherent one. In short, no-one should let this go, and thank you VERY much Thunderf00t and all the youtube journalists and commentators who are bringing everthing to light and doing their best to keep it there. The real reason for GamerGate should not be lost to the BS that is attempting to shroud it.