I still contend it was all a domino effect from Anita. GamerGate was still ultimately just an inevitable reaction to what people like her were pushing.
It's very possible. And Anita herself was a reaction to other things. She didn't appear one day from thin air, some college turned her into that.
But I think Anita was the point where the culture war could no longer be averted. You can make people tolerate many indignities as long as they're left their bread and circuses. She was so blatantly taking away our circuses of course people started fighting back.
And then the games press, the people who SHOULD speak for gamers, took her side. And they took Bioware's side during the Mass Effect ending clusterfuck, they took Ninja Theory's side with the DMC "entitled gamers" thing. They were supposed to be OUR voice, and they always sided AGAINST gamers.
So you had two big forces, social justice ideology pushing into gaming and destroying it, and the games press hating its audience. Eventually, inevitably, those two trains were going to collide and cause the culture war. If it hadn't been GG it would have been something else.
I never used to believe that, but after TLOU and the Max Temkin thing have made it fairly obvious she's running a protection racket...yeah there's a good chance of this.
There's an interview that she took part in once where she said she only recently started playing videogames (this was around the time she started going big) meanwhile she claimed to play videogames since she was a child to establish some kind of credibility.
Dickwolves is what made me raise my head and pay attention, then literally who and literally who2 cemented the reality of it.
I've followed the Gamergate saga from the beginning and I've watched it morph into a variety of things, but ultimately it's always been true to it's core, criticism of journalistic ethics.
Now we get to watch the same core subject writ large as the MSM twists itself in knots trying to manipulate the public at large
fun times ahead and this new place has new car smell
man, I forgot about dickwolves. It's crazy to go back and read the old posts when that was going on. the penny arcade guys roasted the hell out of their critics, and fought and fought but eventually ended up laying down and groveling to the mob. i hear PAX is now run by critical race theory marxists.
god, i wish i saved all the counter-arguments claiming that GG was overreacting, and socialists arent ruining entertainment and would end up ruining society. im not even a gamer, i just followed GG from the beginning because i recognized the SJWs were everywhere, and Gamers were bringing the fight.
Gamergate tuned me around too. I was an Obama toadie who wanted "free" healthcare. Thankfully I was snapped out of that shit. I am glad other Wins are popping up.
The machinations have been in progress for years, but the great Ethics Shitposting Wars was the canary in the coal mine warning us how this whole thing was about to go on the global stage.
The insane suicide cult of the left had been getting more and more brazen after 2006+. Unlike in the 90s when the cult tried and failed to make headway, this time around it has metastasized. Gamergate was 100% the first real pushback it received. Anyone who watched the absurdity of it in real time can't be gaslit. The abusers were the abused, the anti-racists were the racists, and the allies were the predators. The entire media was complicit in lying and gaslighting. Once you saw it in gaming, you saw it everywhere. Fuck the media and fuck the insane cult of the left.
Make Nerds Videogames Popular Again!
The SJW Marxist have no power over us anymore.
It's ok for things to not be political.
It's ok for things to just be fun.
Make The World Sane again. Playing defense didn't work, we just racked up L's. Time to go on the offensive. GAMERSUNITE!
The .win fleet is the sane network.
Welcome fren!
Fuck the Last of Us 2! Cant wait for based Cyberpunk this Thanksgiving!
Is Cyberpunk 20whatever based? I haven't heard any backlash against it, so I assumed it wouldn't be.
INSTITUTIONALIZED NERD OPPRESSION
I still contend it was all a domino effect from Anita. GamerGate was still ultimately just an inevitable reaction to what people like her were pushing.
Maybe you're right, but I'd contend even Anita and the reaction to her was just another domino pushed over by the Penny Arcade Dickwolves fiasco.
It's very possible. And Anita herself was a reaction to other things. She didn't appear one day from thin air, some college turned her into that.
But I think Anita was the point where the culture war could no longer be averted. You can make people tolerate many indignities as long as they're left their bread and circuses. She was so blatantly taking away our circuses of course people started fighting back.
And then the games press, the people who SHOULD speak for gamers, took her side. And they took Bioware's side during the Mass Effect ending clusterfuck, they took Ninja Theory's side with the DMC "entitled gamers" thing. They were supposed to be OUR voice, and they always sided AGAINST gamers.
So you had two big forces, social justice ideology pushing into gaming and destroying it, and the games press hating its audience. Eventually, inevitably, those two trains were going to collide and cause the culture war. If it hadn't been GG it would have been something else.
I never used to believe that, but after TLOU and the Max Temkin thing have made it fairly obvious she's running a protection racket...yeah there's a good chance of this.
There's an interview that she took part in once where she said she only recently started playing videogames (this was around the time she started going big) meanwhile she claimed to play videogames since she was a child to establish some kind of credibility.
Dickwolves is what made me raise my head and pay attention, then literally who and literally who2 cemented the reality of it.
I've followed the Gamergate saga from the beginning and I've watched it morph into a variety of things, but ultimately it's always been true to it's core, criticism of journalistic ethics.
Now we get to watch the same core subject writ large as the MSM twists itself in knots trying to manipulate the public at large
fun times ahead and this new place has new car smell
man, I forgot about dickwolves. It's crazy to go back and read the old posts when that was going on. the penny arcade guys roasted the hell out of their critics, and fought and fought but eventually ended up laying down and groveling to the mob. i hear PAX is now run by critical race theory marxists.
Fuck Marxism.
That is what I got from the entire thing. An attempt to play the victim and take over the industry, invited or not.
god, i wish i saved all the counter-arguments claiming that GG was overreacting, and socialists arent ruining entertainment and would end up ruining society. im not even a gamer, i just followed GG from the beginning because i recognized the SJWs were everywhere, and Gamers were bringing the fight.
WE DIDN'T LISTEN!
Gamergate tuned me around too. I was an Obama toadie who wanted "free" healthcare. Thankfully I was snapped out of that shit. I am glad other Wins are popping up.
It started long before any of us. We, and you, keep it going.
The machinations have been in progress for years, but the great Ethics Shitposting Wars was the canary in the coal mine warning us how this whole thing was about to go on the global stage.
BURGERS AND FRIES LMAO
Not a gamer, just a friend from TD.WIN. Welcome!
PS - Fuck TLOU2
The insane suicide cult of the left had been getting more and more brazen after 2006+. Unlike in the 90s when the cult tried and failed to make headway, this time around it has metastasized. Gamergate was 100% the first real pushback it received. Anyone who watched the absurdity of it in real time can't be gaslit. The abusers were the abused, the anti-racists were the racists, and the allies were the predators. The entire media was complicit in lying and gaslighting. Once you saw it in gaming, you saw it everywhere. Fuck the media and fuck the insane cult of the left.
Can confirm. This is pretty much what happened to me, and it opened my eyes to what the media was doing.
this post is accurate.
Goddamn right we did. This crew recognized and called en masse gaslighting for what it was right from the start.
One of my favorite things from way back in the day:
La resistance lives on!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRAyG-BuFE