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We've moved geek culture from our darkened rooms into the mainstream, games as a medium have greater exposure that ever before. We're reaping vast benefits from
by hartror 12y ago
We've moved geek culture from our darkened rooms into the mainstream, games as a medium have greater exposure that ever before. We're reaping vast benefits from this, not a day passes now that I don't find a new game worthy of my attention (and dollars). But this wider audience comes with price, no longer can games and gamers get a free pass on what broader society considers distasteful. This won't restrict the gaming experience, if anything those that enjoy the seedier side of gaming will get enjoyment through the disgust of broader society, Hatred for example seems to be targeting this cohort.
Maybe I live in a happy little feminist echo chamber but the general mood appears to me to accepting and even espousing this cultural change. This upheaval seems to reflect many of the important cultural shifts we have experience more generally in society. A loud minority fight the change, often through intimidation, while the mainstream more or less accepts the change (please correct me if I am wrong I am not a big student of history!). They will continue to grumble and disrupt for some time but they will tire.
As Katherine Cross said in Polygon a few months ago. They're not coming for your games.
- Goladus 12y ago> A loud minority fight the change, often through intimidation, while the mainstream more or less accepts the change (please correct me if I am wrong I am not a big student of history!). That is the narrative, the problem is that it isn't true. The vocal minority isn't fighting the supposed change so much as it's fighting the corrupt, hypocritical agents of that change (Vox and Gawker in particular)
- hartror 12y agoThat has shown to be overblown rubbish time and time again over the past month.
- Goladus 12y agoNo, it hasn't been SHOWN to be anything. Opponents aren't showing anything they're just yelling the same lies over and over.
- hartror 12y agoInnocent till proven guilty? The onus is on gamer gate proponents to show there has been a conflict of interest . . .
- Goladus 12y ago> Innocent till proven guilty? The onus is on gamer gate proponents to show there has been a conflict of interest . . . If you're only reading Polygon you aren't going to see GamerGate showing you anything. And if you're skeptical of my sincerity I'll have to apologize: this obscure thread is not worth the effort to educate you.