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Gamergate, to a certain extent, was indeed about ethics in game journalism. It just got hijacked into culture war bullshit like everything else. But who cares?

Gamergate, to a certain extent, was indeed about ethics in game journalism. It just got hijacked into culture war bullshit like everything else. But who cares? As long as the sheep keep preordering the music won't stop.

DonHopkins 3y ago
GamerGate was pure unadulterated juvenile misogynistic right wing culture war bullshit from the start, and had absolutely nothing to do with ethics or game journalism, and everything to do with intolerance and harassment and misogyny and abuse, and you know it, so stop trolling.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  Regardless of what you think, anytime you talk about games journalism, even a decade later, you risk falling into the horrible black hole. Successful poisoning of the well. I just don't bother with reviews anymore. Stopped reading every gaming website except Gematsu (which rarely reviews) and I follow certain niches of you tubers to see if a game has the right pulse. If I wanna know how a Sonic Game is, why not peer into various sonic you tubers instead of trust which IGN reviewer won/lost the straw?
  - DonHopkins 3y ago
    Maybe you fall into black holes and believe misogynistic conspiracy theories all the time, but I don't. They only successfully poisoned your well, you didn't have to drink the GamerGate kool-aid and declare it a success, because most people in their right mind who aren't misogynistic sexually frustrated incel teenaged boys or angry right-wing Q-Anon man-children can see through it, and don't believe that unmitigated bullshit. There's nothing special about game journalists. Most journalists have always been bought and paid for, but not the way your GamerGate conspiracy theories claim. If you needed Milo Yiannopoulos to "open your eyes" to that for the first time, you weren't paying attention and have been living under a rock or in your mother's basement, and you're getting your bullshit and conspiracy theories from somebody much much worse than game journalists.
DonHopkins 3y ago
I noticed you never responded to my points countering you lies. How do you even look at yourself in the mirror after lying to defend GamerGate? Why do your conspiratory theories about ethics and game journalism compel Q-Anon freaks like you to break into a house, try to kidnap an elderly defenseless man, and attempt to murder him with a hammer? Do you believe that's ethical, and will you also lie to defend David DePape? Are you living in a garage without a toilet or shower, playing video games in an inflatable unicorn costume all day too? Pelosi hammer attack accused David DePape tearfully testifies of bizarre plot: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67411189 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67411189 Giving evidence for more than an hour on Tuesday, Mr DePape said his political transformation started when he was living in a garage without a toilet or shower, playing video games for hours at a time. He said that in the course of looking up information about video games he became interested in Gamergate, an anti-feminist campaign that targeted prominent women in the gaming world and became a huge online trend starting in 2014. He began listening to right-wing podcasters and watching political YouTube videos. "At that time I was biased against Trump," Mr DePape said, "but there's, like, truth there. So if there's truth out there that I don't know, I want to know it." He said he formulated a "grand plan" that involved luring "targets" to the Pelosi home. [...] He said he planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and upload his interrogation of her online. He was arrested with zip ties and duct tape in his possession.

DonHopkins 3y ago

GamerGate was pure unadulterated juvenile misogynistic right wing culture war bullshit from the start, and had absolutely nothing to do with ethics or game journalism, and everything to do with intolerance and harassment and misogyny and abuse, and you know it, so stop trolling.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
Regardless of what you think, anytime you talk about games journalism, even a decade later, you risk falling into the horrible black hole. Successful poisoning of the well. I just don't bother with reviews anymore. Stopped reading every gaming website except Gematsu (which rarely reviews) and I follow certain niches of you tubers to see if a game has the right pulse. If I wanna know how a Sonic Game is, why not peer into various sonic you tubers instead of trust which IGN reviewer won/lost the straw?
- DonHopkins 3y ago
  Maybe you fall into black holes and believe misogynistic conspiracy theories all the time, but I don't. They only successfully poisoned your well, you didn't have to drink the GamerGate kool-aid and declare it a success, because most people in their right mind who aren't misogynistic sexually frustrated incel teenaged boys or angry right-wing Q-Anon man-children can see through it, and don't believe that unmitigated bullshit. There's nothing special about game journalists. Most journalists have always been bought and paid for, but not the way your GamerGate conspiracy theories claim. If you needed Milo Yiannopoulos to "open your eyes" to that for the first time, you weren't paying attention and have been living under a rock or in your mother's basement, and you're getting your bullshit and conspiracy theories from somebody much much worse than game journalists.

DonHopkins 3y ago

I noticed you never responded to my points countering you lies. How do you even look at yourself in the mirror after lying to defend GamerGate? Why do your conspiratory theories about ethics and game journalism compel Q-Anon freaks like you to break into a house, try to kidnap an elderly defenseless man, and attempt to murder him with a hammer? Do you believe that's ethical, and will you also lie to defend David DePape? Are you living in a garage without a toilet or shower, playing video games in an inflatable unicorn costume all day too? Pelosi hammer attack accused David DePape tearfully testifies of bizarre plot: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67411189 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67411189 Giving evidence for more than an hour on Tuesday, Mr DePape said his political transformation started when he was living in a garage without a toilet or shower, playing video games for hours at a time. He said that in the course of looking up information about video games he became interested in Gamergate, an anti-feminist campaign that targeted prominent women in the gaming world and became a huge online trend starting in 2014. He began listening to right-wing podcasters and watching political YouTube videos. "At that time I was biased against Trump," Mr DePape said, "but there's, like, truth there. So if there's truth out there that I don't know, I want to know it." He said he formulated a "grand plan" that involved luring "targets" to the Pelosi home. [...] He said he planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and upload his interrogation of her online. He was arrested with zip ties and duct tape in his possession.