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PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse 2h It would be nice if 2015 was the year we realised Valve is doing extremely bad s--- and effectively picking up policy from GamerGate ★ 12 PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse 2h Like I'm fine with a refunds policy! Just not one that can immediately be weaponized against small developers & used for piracy against them PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse 2h The second hand games market at least requires a purchase be made before a game enters into the system and keeps retailers afloat PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse 2h What Valve have done is penalise small indies with ethical DRM policies and that's unforgivable PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse 2h ALL of this services GamerGate's toxic consumer-first ideology and complete lack of ethical fibre regarding piracy 4 PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse 2h And then, Hatred. A vile, s----- stereotype of violent videogames, fast tracked from the far right to Steam by Gabe himself PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse 7h What if Valve are actually just a toxic structure of rich libertarians who became central to PC gaming? PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse 7h Here's hoping Sony keeps publishing indie s--- on PS4 and Vita more and more, this could f--- PC gaming though Jonathan Humphreys @RichieStacker 7h @knifehorse If there were an easier way to direct both developers and customers to the likes of itch.io, that would probably... Jonathan Humphreys @RichieStacker Th @knifehorse . give Valve a sorely-needed slap while not f------ over PC indie games Jonathan Humphreys @RichieStacker Th @knifehorse Of course, though, Valve has way too much of a foothold in so many ways, it's atrocious. な 塩Follow PYRAMID BLASTER @knifehorse @RichieStacker people still think they're the second coming based on two overrated corridor shooters 8:48 AM-8 Jun 2015

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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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