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Stephen Totilo Django Yesterday 7:07pm Django Stephen Totilo Yesterday 1:22pm I find this a nice 180 after the whole "Gamers are dead" spitting match between gaming journalists and gamergate. Rather than threatening gamers in a childish manner (And losing intel as an advertiser) you are now taking the high road and not pushing for the super-political ethical battles through video games. Kotaku, I commend you on actually backing away from the controversy by not posting as much about Anita and her gang as of late. The way to make it all go away is to not pick a side and let the gamergaters and their adversaries fight their own war. Choosing sides only leads to lost revenue for you. Soooo good on you Kotaku. On a side note: Let's not lose track of what us gamers actually do ;) I am currently sitting here with my new intel i5 469ok, waiting to install it into my new PC build for christmas. It will be purring alongside my EVGA 970 FTW edition. I can't wait to play me some Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, Assassin's Creed: Unity, and Alien: Isolation. This is no 18o, and we didn't "threaten" gamers before. We're also not backing away from covering "Anita and her gang".I think Anita Sarkeesian's videos have been a useful added perspective about the cliches game creators often resort to when depicting women. Confident creators can absorb that technique and react to it or discard it as they will. o As for us, we will always champion the f gamers, game creators and g themselves. We'll always prefer that doors are open for more types of people to feel There are a ton of things to cover in gaming, and we do our best to cover as much as possible. For better or worse, we do relatively few stories about class, gender, ethnicity and the like-certainly compared to thousands of stories we publish per year-but it doesn't mean that my team and I don't think that it's important to look at games and the gaming scene through those lenses. We'll continue to do so. I am against the shittiness of the style of argument we've seen so much these last few months... the hounding and haranguing and the disinterest in treating other people like, well, people. It sounds like that's part of what you're reacting to, and while we may disagree about how the situation became so rotten, my hope that 2015 is a year of finding common ground for more Lower your expectations for Unity and, as Luke suggests, play it in French with English subtitles. He had a better time with it than I did. Perhaps for that reason. 5. 16★ | Reply peop le in the gaming community. Good luck with those games. 10.11★ | Reply Stephen Totilo Stephen Totilo Yesterday 10:33pm Whoops. "technique" should be "critique". You get the idea. Weird autocorrect. ★ | Reply

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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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