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Google Search for topics Sign in Groups 190132く Bryant Francis 3/4/13 This thread is fascinating to me. My answer at first would have that the phrase is "absolutely" valid, because to me, "Gamer" has come to represent a wide-encompassing term that simply covers people who play video games... BUT, looking around, I can see that's not the case, and I had no clue about thatl Fascinating. The company I work for tends to throw the word "gamer" around a lot when we're trying to talk about "gamers are interested in this" "gamers care about that." (I often try to take the side of opening up the definition of that word, but I wonder if I'm fighting a futile battle, and shouldn't just suggest we seek a new term Mark Duval 3/5/13 ← Yeah the word 'gamer is a term I'm somewhat hesitant to apply to myself these days due to the negative connotations (sexism, homophobia, hypermasculinity etc) associated with the word. I used to have gamer in my Twitter profile but l've since removed it for that reason. In the past, I always referred to myself as a gamer because l felt that I had an interest in videogames that was greater than most people in society, so why not embrace the term gamer, right? To me it was like how someone with an intense interest in film might refer to themself as a 'cinemaphile'. However, I'm not so sure anymore, as videogames are no longer a niche hobby and are played these days by a diverse range of people. It was the exclusionary actions of some so-called gamers that put me off the word when lI saw dudebro gamers mock women for playing games, e.g. lol, they only play The Sims, they're not REAL gamers", or mocking people for playing Facebook games or iOS games, or insisting that to be a "real gamer" you had to have an unhealthy diet, embrace sleep deprivation as a badge of honour, and be socially awkward. Nopel No thanks. Then l saw the marketing that went along with the word gamer that was promoting a lifestyle that didn't exactly appeal to me anymore So in conclusion, I guess I still consider myself a 'gamer', but what I mean by that is likely not what some other more stereotypical 'gamers' mean by that. So, eh, whatever. Labels are limiting maybe :l Mark On Monday, March 4, 2013 9:30:55 PM UTC+11, Alan Williamson wrote - show quoted text- TheGameCritique 3/5/13 ← Got to go with the majority of this one. Gamer, unless I'm talking about something community has done, is one of those words I'm excising out of my vocabulary. I have no use for the word and isn't specific to what l'm talking about. I use player, audience or a pronoun almost exclusively - show quoted text

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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