Gamergate.
"We..WE DIDN'T LISTEN!"
greetings from the first, but not the last, WIN.
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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.
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.