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Aurondarklord 19 points ago +19 / -0

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.

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Aurondarklord 17 points ago +17 / -0

Now that we have our free speech back, let's start helping make sure the angry mob wins against metacritic's 503 "error" fuckery, if you haven't already left a review, do eet.

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Aurondarklord 16 points ago +16 / -0

Streets Of Rage 4 is a breath of fresh air in current year. Blaze is hotter than ever, I'm so glad she didn't get censored. And game's still crushingly hard.

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Aurondarklord 6 points ago +6 / -0

We're GamerGate. Hello. Also ewwwww.

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Aurondarklord 26 points ago +26 / -0

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.

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Aurondarklord 38 points ago +38 / -0

I wish. We've actually been quietly working on this for a few weeks now. It probably would have been a few weeks more before we announced, to get rules and CSS sorted, if reddit hadn't forced our hands.

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Aurondarklord 46 points ago +47 / -1

Congratulations, you won first new thread! The prize for making it this faggotry is a free helicopter ride!

(ladies and gentlemen this is called being allowed to make jokes again!)

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