They’re also expanding, and coming to include new types of people. That’s the source of this whole brouhaha.
Being a “gamer” does not mean that the “gamers” can not be any other type of thing. Gamers include the 95 year old lady in a wheelchair playing Wii bowling to a 5 year old playing Pokemom to the feminist-men-hating assholes.
From Clickhole:
“In order to clarify their message, members of Gamergate have seen to it that any individual who unfairly singles out the violent and bigoted aspects of the movement for criticism immediately becomes the target of sustained online harassment.”
That you misread my post (and it’s not like it was at all cryptic) somehow fails to surprise me since I’ve come to accept that you’re kind of dumb and prone to say any fool thing that comes to mind as long as it’s contrary for the sake of contrary.
…this blog post from Felicia Day is both brilliant and heartbreaking.
And predictably, not long after posting, someone posted her home address.
Oh my god, the comment immediately after the doxxing thread (“no one from gamergate has doxxed anyone”) is comedy gold in an incredibly depressing sort of way.
The tumblr responses on that post (which seems to have had Disqus comments removed, probably due to the doxxing post) include a bunch of other cases of the gators being entirely up their own asses.
My…ah…‘favourite’ is claiming that walking across the street to avoid people you’re afraid might do you harm is WAY worse than threatening rape and murder.
Do we actually have Gamergate defenders on this board? I’d… have thought better of us.
Not reading the entire 20 pages, but thanks to the people who are spending the time to smack this nonsense down.
I might have read it in this thread, where a poster asked two boys about the gamergate thing, and one of them started to kind of defend gamergate, and the other one just stopped the other and said “that’s fucked up”. So I thought I’d just chime in to give some moral support.
This shit is fucked up.
Thanks for making me want to throw up.
I guess I’m a “gamer” of sorts, and I’m just learning about “Gamergate” now. I’ve only read a few things about it, so I don’t claim to know the whole story.
What I do know is that, if the video game industry wants to thrive, we need to really except, and embrace, diversity in gaming. I think people should be excited about women and minorities expressing themselves through gaming. I don’t think that means that what’s currently available will have to change in order to cater to everyone, I believe it’s just that consumers will have more options. Games are getting boring and repetitive. We shouldn’t discourage more diversity if we want games to thrive. We’re limiting ourselves if we do that.
Video game journalism is mostly a joke IMHO. It hasn’t evolved into what it should be, which is covering and critiquing a very serious business.
The fuck ? Even Felicia motherfucking Day isn’t sacred to these people ? And they call themselves gamers ?! :mad:
There is apparently very little you can do in terms of visibility, displayed knowledge, personal investedness, and direct hands-on experience in terms of being included as a “gamer” that isn’t undone in some people’s minds if you don’t have a dick.
Well, I was waiting for this…
I’m not posting this as any sort of “this side is being as bad as that side!” thing, but rather I was just waiting for poor ole Gamersgate to catch flack over the unfortunate naming. Gamersgate already suffered a multi-day DDOS attack last week which is thought to have been connected to #Gamergate.
Oh, quote was from Polygon, I believe. Already closed the tab.
You’re not looking hard enough.
Could you recommend anything Justin_Bailey?
I’ll walk this back pre-emptively by saying that while the DDOS attack last week was very real, connections between the two are theoretical. No one has said “We attacked them because…”
Leigh Alexander of Gamasutra is a good start. I like Polygon’s editorials as well (especially Ben Kuchera) and USgamer does some surprisingly good stuff too. Surprising, because I don’t think most gamers have any idea that Eurogamer launched a US site a few years ago.
I also like Chris Kohler of Wired and Kyle Orland of Ars Technica, but both also dabble in pretty mainstream news/previews/reviews reporting. So if you’re looking for somebody who goes deep they might be more hit and miss. And if you’re looking for business discussion, you can’t beat Rob Fahey of GamesIndustry.biz. But he can be infuriating sometimes, so be ready to get mad.
Heh. Tragically insightful post over on another forum :
Extra Credits posted this on facebook:
Yeah, I think we’re done here.