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Google Search for topics Sign in Groups 190132く Bryant Francis 3/5/13 ← Well it also has to do with basic required skills. Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed or really any console game aren't that difficult to anyone who grew up learning how to move in 3-D spaces like that, but it's waaaaaaaaaaay harder to those who haven't. Call of Duty may not be "hard" but imagine time after time if you're unable to continue through the story because your body/thumbs isn't used to orienting itself by way of the controller What this really points out is that difficulty is largely arbitrary and relative to the gaming population. That's one advantage that mobile, tablet, and motion gaming have had in attracting larger audiences-the difficulty curve is less intrusive to people without traditional gaming backgrounds On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:40:55 AM UTC-8, psepho wrote It's also weird how little relation to reality the hardcore/casual dichotomy has: is a game like Dys4ia hardcore or casual? It's not mechanically challenging but it sure as hell isn't'easy' mass market. What about your CoDs etc? apparently hardcore but they don't present a significantly different or harder challenge than previous iterations. Is it really 'hardcore' to be playing a game that is (more or less) the same as one you beat a decade ago? And I'll bet that a ton of people happily play both Halo 4 and The Room at different times Kaitlin Tremblay I think the problem is that while "gamer" isn't inherently bad it's being used in a territorial fashion now. I think it's been pointed out that words and connotations change, and I think once we accept the word "gamer" as widespread as a term like "reader" then it's power in being used against people will lessen. But the problem with this is that it is being used against people (Ive come up across it against myself and it's laughable, but also incredibly sad in that people do think that way), so a change in terminology can help a change in attitude Cha Holland Gamer isn't a useful term in most of my writing, but I do use it a bit in a more personal sense. I wouldn't call someone else a gamer, unless possibly I know they self-identify that way, but I would say that I'm a gamer, and it's precisely because of all these issues. I very clearly don't fit the narrow definition of gamer that pops into people's heads, and so I have the potential to broaden people's minds. It might be a bit theoretical, but that's important to me - 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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