Sacred Symbols+, Episode 207 | Gamergrate (Patreon)

For some people, politics and video games go together like peanut butter and poop. But -- irrespective of the naysaying -- the two are natural bedfellows, as politics is with any entertainment medium or artform. To explore the positive and negative intersections of these two seemingly-disparate but deeply-interconnected worlds, I invited podcaster, social commentator, and Gamer (with a capital G) Noam Blum (also known as neontaster) to +. Together, we delve into the culture, politics, and social ramifications of gaming, touch on the origins of Gamergate (and Elevatorgate!), discuss Anita Sarkeesian, Jonathan McIntosh, Zoe Quinn, and others, consider the inevitability of a 'gaming president,' dissect the cliquishness of the very media overseeing its own destruction, the problems of translations and localizations, and a lot more. No politics in gaming? Not 'round these parts.