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Being a party to the dispute and a target of the games journalism consumer revolt, Kotaku should be treated as a biased source. Chrisrus (talk) 03:33 25 June 2015 (UTC) Yes, they are revolting consumers, but that fact that they dont shower before leaving mom's basement to get their dorito's and mountain dew is really neither here nor there. TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:52, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

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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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BATCOMPUTER四/他 INFORMATION 1/3 SOCIAL OUTCAST "Y do u attack B@man? He is BASED! U r a fa- Riddler deleted the email, and all the others like it, as prickly hot anger and shame squirmed through his insides. No point denying it: #CrusaderGate had been a disastrous social media campaign. He couldn't understand it. It seemed the internet's idiotic and easily roused rabble could froth itself into a full-fat cappuccino of frenzy over 'white knights'. But offer it up a Dark one on a plate!-and you get a soy latte's worth of indignation at best! Didn't they understand what Batman had done? Back A Cycle

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The New Narrative. SJWs declare gaming has "finally grown up"

The New Narrative. SJWs declare gaming has "finally grown up" (self. KotakulnAction) submitted an hour ago by arbitor365 There are a ton of articles coming out pushing the narrative that this E3 was groundbreaking and finally showed that gamers are "growing up" and accepting women and that it was a renaissance of female protagonists. And if you recall last year's E3 it was slammed for lacking diversity by just as many sites. Well there is an interesting comparison (that some of you probably have seen) that shows the level of narrative-pushing and bias going on here Big productions with a female lead only E3 2015 Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Horizon E3 2014 Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Alien: Isolation, Bayonetta 2 Smaller productions with a female lead only E3 2015 Michonne, Recore, Nier, Beyond Eyes, Adr1ft, Tacoma E3 2014: Infamous: First Light, Life is Strange, Dreamfall Chapters, Murasaki Baby, Night in the Woods, Roundabout, Velocity 2X, A Hat in Time Games with selectable gender of the protagonist E3 2015: Fable Legends, Battlecry, The Division, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Dishonored 2, FIFA 16, Fallout 4, Halo 5: Guardians XCOM 2 E3 2014: Fable Legends, Battlecry, The Division, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Evolve, Bloodborne, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Dead Island 2, Destiny, Splatoon, Sunset Overdrive, Project Spark, Hyrule Warriors, Fantasy Life Xenoblade Chronicles X You see, they have changed their tune, because they know that can't get the narrative across that gamers are terrible and misogynistic. So they are saying that gaming has been "saved" and it has "seen the light." Basically, they want everyong to think that it was terrible and was not diverse up until this point, but the SJWs have changed us. That way they can re-write history and act as if we somehow adopted their way of thinking. Gaming stood on its own and spat in the face of these SJWs. And not just male gamers but gamers from all walks of life. We called them out and showed these journalists to be the d-------- that they are. So, if we are going to be a hero, they will turn us into THEIR hero. To save face

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The Hypocrisy is stunning

June 16th, 2015, 10:03 PM #15 CalBear o Moderator Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: In a house on Sol-3 Posts: 1000 or more There are actual no taboo subjects. There are taboo views/positions To use the easiest, most obvious, example: You can discuss the Holocaust, debate exactly when the Reich decided that the answer was mass murder, if the massacre of the Jews somehow makes people forget about the rest of the Cap's victims, etc. These discussion happen all the time, both in Chat, and depending on the way it is brought up, in post 1900. No harm, no foul, lots of really thoughtful comments. What you can NOT do is claim that the Holocaust did not occur (Denial), that the victims "deserved" it (justification), or engage in whataboutism (The Allies nuked Hiroshima so...). Nazism is also a automatic kill. War Crime denial is something of a wobbler, but can fall into this category as well. Any of those are one way tickets out of town. Racism/overt insulting bigotry are also potentially ban-worthy first time, depending on how overt and offensive it is Gamergate has lots of recent victims, not because of Gamergate as a subject, but because every single effort made here to support it was, at the core misogynistic. That doesn't mean a reasonable defense can't be mae assuming someone can find it (although I am frankly hard put to come up with even a reasonable devil's advocate position), it means it would have to be based on fact, not opinion or sympathy for gamers who started the crusade. Eddie would go! In the end it wasn't guns or bombs that defeated the Russians, but that humblest of God's creatures, the Irukandji jellyfish. LSC Quote

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Metacritic9S 8.0 GREAT 75 Taken slowly, Sunset is a beautiful Sunset YES Kotaku Meanwhile THE 905 ARE OVER Polygon Kotaku NO Review: Hatred Do you hate 5.5 Hatred 48With bad A.L design i repetitive combat what there is to enjoy in Hatred quickly fades to black Rock, Paper, Shotgun Allright, so gaming sites project the same image; Sunset is an incredible work of art, while is a total failure. ...Then how come This is the conclusion?... SUNSET DE QUITS COMMERCIAL GAME c DEVELOPMENT V TALE OF TALESSunset studio Tale of Tales is closing Auriea & Michaël @taleoftales @jeroendstout Hahaha. I'm so free Look at me. I can say F--- GAMES! F--- GAMERS! F--- THE GAME INDUSTRY! DIE! DIE!DIE! And rot in hell! 12:01 pm 22 Jun 15 Auriea& Michael jeroendstout Perfect. Goodbye, gamers! May you die in the same agony that you caused to thousands of defenceless virtual creatures. 158am 2 Despite controversy, Hatred is a Steam Top Seller Love it or Hate it, Hatred Shoots to the Top of Steam's Best Seller List WITCHER CHIVA Hatred releases on Steam and becomes a top seller and The Witcher3 upon au Gaming journalism cannot be taken seriously

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Sunset developer blames gamers for the failure of their game

Auriea & Michaël · Follow taleoftales @jeroendstout Perfect. Goodbye, gamers! May you die in the same agony that you caused to thousands of defenceless virtual creatures. Auriea & Michaël # Follow taleoftales @jeroendstout Hahaha. I'm so free. Loolk at me. I can say F--- GAMES! F--- GAMERS! F--- THE GAME INDUSTRY! DIE! DIE!DIE! And rot in hell! When the chips are down, these... these civilized peopl they'll eat each other. See. See, I'm not a monster I'm just ahead of the curve.

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Pong: The Original Source of Video Game Bigotry

Pong: The Original Source of Video Game Bigotry Similar to Polygon's statement that "all video games are stupid" I'd like to state that "all video games are racist and sexist." All of them. You see the problem stems from the very first successful video game back in 1972. While there were games before Pong, it can be said Pong is when the industry truly begun. It's massive success lead to video games exploding in popularity. Without Pong it is reasonable to assume that video games would not be as popular nor the industry be as large as it is today. However, while video games since have copied Pong's formula for success, in doing so they have also brought over Pong's awful bigotry resulting in all modern video games having horrendous social issues. Let's start with Pongs horrible racism and diversity problem. In Pong you can are either one of two white protagonists. There are no people of colour in this game at all. Diversity is non-existent. It's as if this game was designed by Stormfront. Not only are you two white men (more on that later) you are playing over a "black" background. This is obviously a metaphor for the white man completely running over black people as if they were nothing. Think about how much whites stand out when black people are put in the back. This was all purposely done to symbolize white superiority Now in regards to Pong's sexism problem you may wonder how anyone could assume that the player characters in Pong are male given their complete lack of detail. Well if you are wondering that you obviously don't possess a progressive mind like mine, that can find bigotry and outrage in even the minutest details (it truly is a curse). The two Pong "paddles" are clearly two phalluses which are a representation of male sexuaity. This also re-iterates the white male patriarchy Now you may assume that this game has no female representation which makes it sexist but the truth is actually far worse. You see as Jonathan McIntosh, and later Anita stated (it's uncanny, it's like they're the same person!), "In the game of patriarchy, women are the ball." So that ball that you're hitting around is actually a woman, a woman being passed around from one male to the other by being slapped around by a hard white penis. Children were being taught at a young age that passing a woman around like currency was fun Even more horribly sexist is the scoring system. If you manage to hit the woman so hard she avoids being r---- by the other player you get a point. Do this enough and you win. It demonstrates that the most important thing is the patriarchal domination of females. You are meant to own that woman/ball and wreck her so hard that "if you can't have her, no one else can." It would have been better there were no females in the game instead we get a deplorable domestic violence simulator To further prove the point of sexism look at the controller for the home version of Pong does it remind you of anything? (Once again you may need a "progressive mind" to notice this.) The home controller is clearly two breasts that you are meant to fondle to play and have fun. The twisting nob is clearly a nipple, areola and all. Even worse is the idea that you're meant to harass this controller with a friend or family at the same time. If sexual molestation isn't bad enough, Pong was teaching people that for maximum enjoyment you need to double team the woman It is no wonder that video games are the atrocious cesspool of racism and misogyny they currently are when Pong was what started it all. This appalling, ghastly piece of technical bigotry was the grandfather of all modern games so I think it is fair to blame it for the downfall of all humanity. If only Gone Home was that original trendsetting game back in 1972 then video games wouldn't need saving Read more high quality journalism on STOPGAMERGATE.com

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GamerGate and devs

GamerGate Class 307: Why GamerGate does not run organized boycotts of game developers Over the past several weeks there has been a concerted effort by elements of the GamerGate consumer revolt to expand the efforts into a boycott of games developers who have either taken an openly hostile position against GamerGate, or have employees which are hostile. While it's always tempting to meet hostility with a response, boycotts are not actions to be taken lightly. Pulling off a successful boycott requires key elements for success, and the consequences for failure are severe and embarrassing. What is required for a successful boycott? Harvard Business Review's Daniel Diermeier outlines four key factors for a successful boycott: 1 Customers must care passionately 2. The cost of participation must be low BOYCOT There is no doubt that GamerGate participants are passionate about gaming. While getting people to boycott unethical games sites is easy, since there are dozens of other sources of information, asking gamers to not purchase the game they've been looking forward to playing for months or even years is a high price for participation. #2 is where a game dev boycott begins to stumble. 3. The issues must be easy to understand Communicating our desire to establish ethical guidelines in games journalism can be tricky, but add in another level, where we're punishing game developers who don't support establishing those guidelines muddies the waters to the point where no neutral is going take the boycott seriously let alone participate 4. Mass media support is crucial. Like it or not, boycotts cannot garner widespread support without media backing them. “While social media platforms have made it easier for activists to gain support, activists need coverage in the mass media for a boycott to be successful." (Diermeier) Add in issues where devs who already support #GamerGate are put into a situation where they can be accused of violations in law, as well as the fact that the game journalists and their supporters would desperately love for us to focus on attacking devs instead of their unethical behaviors, there simply isn't a good justification for going down this road. GamerGate does not dictate game content, nor do we attack game devs who make the games they want. We all understand the desire to make devs thick twice about bashing their customers, but keep in mind you don't go into a losing battle on principle, if it puts the entire war effort at risk of failure. https://hbr.org/2012/08/when-do-company-boycotts-work/

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Well, Palle Hoffstein seems to hate us........for some reason.

Palle Hoffstein @Palle_Hoffstein · Follow Finally signed up to @ggautoblocker. Done listening to GG. What a bunch of assholes. Mayence, Rhineland-Palatinate RETWEET FAVORITES 1:29 AM - 20 Jun 2015 Palle Hoffstein @Palle Hoffstein 2h ggautoblocker We'll see if I stick to it. I like the idea of being accessible to talk. Palle Hoffstein @Palle Hoffstein 2h @ggautoblocker But too often my being accessible results in people trying to threaten my career. wow a red ghost @wetsprocket 1h @Palle_Hoffstein so much for them being pro "game dev わ ★ …

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It's Because We Love This Industry and The People In It.

Ethan James Petty @EthanJamesPetty Follow A sincere thanks to all you gamers who call BS and stand up for your developers. I know not all of us have the ability to defend ourselves. わt3 ★ … RETWEETS FAVORITES 170 250 11:14 AM-19 Jun 2015 Mug33k@Mug33k 4h @EthanJamesPetty why devs are not able to defend themself? わt3 ★ ..。 Ethan James Petty @EthanJamesPetty 4h @Mug33k Because people ignore the "my opinions are my own" disclaimer if they feel justified in their own opinions. t3★2 ..。 Mug33k @Mug33k 4h @EthanJamesPetty Are you saying some people will try to get devs fire even if they make a reasonable (based on fact and nimber) opinion?

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Lessons in videogames with Vivian James and Occulas

Occulass and Vivian Occulass demands devs change things in games she'll never play. just plays games that interest her. OM Occulass complains online about things keeping women out of gaming Vivian makes her own games.

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Being a party to the dispute and a target of the games journalism consumer revolt, Kotaku should be treated as a biased source. Chrisrus (talk) 03:33 25 June 2015 (UTC) Yes, they are revolting consumers, but that fact that they dont shower before leaving mom's basement to get their dorito's and mountain dew is really neither here nor there. TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:52, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

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