> Targeting female indie developers is complete weaksauce. And the
> fact that this comprises the vast majority of #GamerGate's "activism"
> proves the allegation that it's filled with whiny man-babies.
Not only man-babies, but principally man-babies.
>> And note, that, it's not only gamers who support GamerGate, but
>> also game developers, including females (see #NotYourShield).
>
> You know what I *don't* care about? People I don't know who
> supposedly shagged other people I don't know.
Boom.
So, a 'movement' that claims to want "journalistic integrity", which
absent press censorship means "self regulation", can't be bothered
policing its own ranks to stop misogynistic slander and death-threats.
How many "Gamergaters" spend time chasing others for doxxing,
threatening and slandering women in technology? As many as actually take
part in these acts? I doubt it, and I see no evidence of such
self-policing at a meaningful scale.
I'm sure there are honest, decent people using the "Gamergate" flag to
call for something-something, but the fact that they're using that flag
after it's been so thoroughly dragged through the muck *by other
gamergaters* shows that they are content to accept misogyny in exchange
for trending status on Twitter, rather than forking what's become more
of a *bowel* movement into something with a measure of the integrity
they claim to demand of others.
As often, Chris Straub summed it up well (Warning: Allegory):
http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/10/15/the-perfect-crime/
On 27/10/14 02:48, Griffin Boyce wrote:
Dāvis Mosāns wrote:
Anyway GamerGate is really complex issue and it's not only
about journalism. My suggestion would be, look here
If gamergaters spent half as much time trying to fix systemic
problems that they claim to care about as they do correcting
"misconceptions" about gamergate, I *might* start to take them seriously.
Want to fix games journalism? Why not start with the large
corporations that bribe their way into getting good reviews at large
publications that lead to millions of dollars in sales. Target EA, who
just this week went to court to defend against a class-action lawsuit
filed by gamers. While the court found in their favor, they *also*
determined that the statements put out by EA were "puffery" and did not
reflect reality. How will this impact the industry going forward? Does
#GamerGate bother having an opinion on this?
Targeting female indie developers is complete weaksauce. And the
fact that this comprises the vast majority of #GamerGate's "activism"
proves the allegation that it's filled with whiny man-babies.
And note, that, it's not only gamers who support GamerGate, but
also game developers, including females (see #NotYourShield).
You know what I *don't* care about? People I don't know who
supposedly shagged other people I don't know. No one whose opinion
matters cares about this hypothetical scandal. It's all a
pseudo-intellectual circlejerk.
You either care about journalistic ethics enough to target large
corporations and key players, or you're just fucking around. Seriously.
This is as true for you (yes, you personally) as it is for the #NSA
#GCHQ crowd.
~Griffin
