Gamergate?

Here ya go (tl;dr corruption on gaming journalism)

gamersgate and gamergate are two different things :P Points if you can spot the difference ^_^

I hope this topic doesn't get out of hand since it's such a controversial topic. I'd be happy to catch up on what's going on with gamergate as well.

It was similar to Watergate, but with more " ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A "

Gamersgate? They revoked a lot of keys that sold under the price because of a bug. Anita might be mad because she managed to snatch a game that has been revoked since. /jk

Gamersgate didn't deliver Warock 2 bought for 0 USD, that's what they did!

It's a group of few people that is using the banner of "journalism corruption" and silly things like "gamer identity" to attack other few people they dislike for some (personal) reasons. And then, they end bringing other people into the mess because of these banners.

Anita Sarkeesian raises a valid concern about game culture, but uses mistaken arguments (EDIT: many times). And to be honest, the concern she has can be extended to pretty much every other area in our world. It's changing, though, which is a good thing, even if it's a slow change.

http://gamesnosh.com/gamergate-silly-sounding-sincere-call-fair-representation-gamers-within-media/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCExXie1XB4

http://gamergate.giz.moe/about/

Never knew about doors that played games, can someone enlighten me?

i love gamersgate, back in 2012 they had that price error on the entire bethesda collection and sold a like 400 dollar bundle for 25 bucks.

i got one <3

Gamergate is a group of entitled individuals crusading against the "corruption in gaming journalism" Anita Sarkeesian is a feminist journalist (?) focusing on pop-culture. The rest is just allegations, claimed corruption, accusations and general controversy which I don't really care about.

although FYI Anita Sarkeesian DOES have some valid points.

Don't track that gamergate filth into this respectable establishment please.
Just.
Don't.

Most important and rational movement in gaming ever. They are fighthing a good fight against corrupted opposition.

It started to fight with corruption in gaming journalist.

Now it's mostly about writing beach and cEnt on female gaming persons twitters profiles and sending info about bombing every place said people go. Usually after said people write something like "look at those dumb GG people, come at me you stupid little quacks".

I hate the drama , i just want to play videogames :(

i will ignore both sides and keep playing video games (when i should actually, be studying.... procrastinators assemble? maybe latter?... ok). i don't like extremists...

The real issue how how the media is constantly focusing on the wrong people on both sides of the argument.

When it comes to the pro-GG crowd, the media only focuses on the extremists sending death/bomb threats to everyone and their mother. Basically everyone that is making the entire movement look bad are the only people getting any attention.

On the anti-GG side, the media focuses only on people like Anita Sarkeesian whom cannot distinguish between sexist trope and quality story writing. She takes an opinion, wraps it in misinformation then uses it as a springboard to make jumps to illogical conclusions.

I thought this was a bit interesting...

Too busy gaming to care about this attention whoring.

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I recently saw a hilarious article on Polygon by Danielle Riendeau where she wrote the following:
"In much the same way that Ellen Ripley's tough-talking blue-collar woman spoke powerfully to audiences in the '70s, when women were fighting hard to gain respect in the workplace, Amanda Ripley is a protagonist we can get behind as we fight for better portrayals of women in video games".
She kinda made it sound like a good portrayal in video games = getting respect in the workplace, which is, again, hilarious.

While I generally agree that we need more diversity in game characters, this problem is blown way over proportions. Most games have extremely bad stories and characters, be it male or female. There is only a handful of developers that have managed to write something remotely good enough that is worth mentioning (Valve and Naughty Dog would be my choices, maybe Telltale a bit).

This problem, imho, isn't a problem at all. It isn't something that should get as much attention as it's getting, it isn't something that should be able to start a retarded "cultural war". Which it has. And it is really retarded. Every hour i spend on this bullshit is another hour i could have spent playing videogames instead and HAVING FUN. I'll leave it to Tumblr and rest of the SJW freak parade to torment themselves over these non issues as much as their hearts desire.

But in the end none of that is going to matter to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when he comes from the Heavens and murders us all to give us salvation.

I don't actually care about this, but this is how I see it:

On one hand we have a bunch of entitled people whining about how shit games get high reviews, paid or otherwise, and the general lack of journalism degrees in video game journalism. Generally, shitty video game journalism, which for some reason leads to attacking a bunch of shitty indie game developers who happen to be women and may or may not have slept their way up the ratings scale, but probably didn't.

One the other hand we have a bunch of entitled people who are trying to represent themselves in a better light in video games, and do so by making horrific assertions and misinformation then wrapping in a nice warm blanket of bias, and then spending the rest of their day yelling at game developers on Twitter rather than making their own games because it takes too much time and effort and money.

tl;dr anyone who identifies as either pro or anti gamergate is an idiot and should be blocked, a la Kamiya.

Well... it's more nuanced than most people understand. For a variety of reasons. Most of the people participating in the discussion are naive, misinformed, or exploiting the situation. When you look through all of the issues the only one that sticks out to me is that through all this pandering, marketing, indoctrinating, and exacerbating the situation purely out of greed that these 2bit tabloid bloggers still have the gall to call themselves journalists when they never were.