GamerGate - Autistic MRA manchildren and the twitter feminists who love them

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Terrorist said:
So what was the model of good ethical games journalism supposed to be anyway? Nintendo Power? They never gave a coherent idea of what they were waging internet jihad for. Just a complete joke all around.
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At the time people were big on Giant Bomb and some of the independent journos who had rejected payola schemes from their former employers.
 
Terrorist said:
So what was the model of good ethical games journalism supposed to be anyway? Nintendo Power? They never gave a coherent idea of what they were waging internet jihad for. Just a complete joke all around.
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You bringing up Nintendo Power like it was a bad thing?

To the best of my knowledge, nobody at Nintendo Power ever gave positive publicity to an abusive, dimwitted sociopath in exchange for subpar sex.
 
Terrorist said:
So what was the model of good ethical games journalism supposed to be anyway? Nintendo Power? They never gave a coherent idea of what they were waging internet jihad for. Just a complete joke all around.
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I'll admit that Gamergate was an autistic clusterfuck that was blown out of proportion by internet leftists but good ethical games journalism would be something as simple as not trading sex for a bunch of publicity and favors and minimizing payola.

Granted, payola and sleeping with guys for favors will happen anyway but it's supposed to be a bad thing that gets condemned when you get caught doing it.
 
Terrorist said:
So what was the model of good ethical games journalism supposed to be anyway? Nintendo Power? They never gave a coherent idea of what they were waging internet jihad for. Just a complete joke all around.
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The closest analog for Nintendo Power right now would be the Nintendo Directs: Just a bunch of video showing off games with a over all positive view of gaming overall.

Honestly people just want real reviews from people that actually enjoy playing games. Its why youtube vidoe's reviewer are absolutely destroying the game press now: People find some one that has similar taste to themselves and just follow that channel.
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
If anyone's up for a literal Iliad of text...

GamerGate’s 6th Anniversary – How Gamers Were the First to Stand Up Against Grievance Social Justice

Kind of a fun walk down memory lane, TBH. Too bad it goes on for longer than the Korean War.
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Interestingly goobergrape itself actually blew over in a few months. Pretty much everyone aside from people on this site and a few other places had forgotten about it by the end of 2015. It's weird to see it even brought up these days.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=gamergate
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Interestingly goobergrape itself actually blew over in a few months. Pretty much everyone aside from people on this site and a few other places had forgotten about it by the end of 2015. It's weird to see it even brought up these days.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=gamergate
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Even then, it mostly gets brought up on this site because it produced a lot of lolcows on all sides of the debate. The fact that a good chunk of Woke Left (namely clickbait mill journalists) and OAG to a slightly lesser extent still won't let it go six years later is funny too.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Even then, it mostly gets brought up on this site because it produced a lot of lolcows on all sides of the debate. The fact that a good chunk of Woke Left (namely clickbait mill journalists) and OAG to a slightly lesser extent still won't let it go six years later is funny too.
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The most active GG sped thread is Billy Usher's, because anyone still sperging about GG is a giant lolcow. Other lolcows mention it a lot, mainly in terms of claiming it spawned mega-Hitler, elected Trump, whatever, but only a few (like Jake Alley) still act like it's a real thing.
 
Gee, I wonder what the inspiration for upcoming novel We Are Watching Eliza Bright (a) might be.

Eliza Bright was living the dream as an elite video game coder at Fancy Dog Games when her private life suddenly became public. But is Eliza Bright a brilliant, self-taught coder bravely calling out the toxic masculinity and chauvinism that pervades her workplace and industry? Or, is Eliza Bright a woman who needs to be destroyed to protect “the sanctity of gaming culture”? It depends on who you ask…

When Eliza reports an incident of workplace harassment that is quickly dismissed, she’s forced to take her frustrations to a journalist who blasts her story across the Internet. She’s fired and doxxed, and becomes a rallying figure for women across America. But she’s also enraged the beast that is male gamers on 4Chan and Reddit, whose collective, unreliable voice narrates our story. Soon Eliza is in the cross-hairs of the gaming community, threatened and stalked as they monitor her every move online and across New York City.

As the violent power of an angry male collective descends upon everyone in Eliza’s life, it becomes increasingly difficult to know who to trust, even when she’s eventually taken in and protected by an under-the-radar Collective known as the Sixsterhood. The violence moves from cyberspace to the real world, as a vicious male super-fan known only as The Inspectre is determined to exact his revenge on behalf of men everywhere. We watch alongside the Sixsterhood and subreddit incels as this dramatic cat-and-mouse game plays out to reach its violent and inevitable conclusion.

This is an extraordinary, unputdownable novel that explores the dark recesses of the Internet and male rage, and the fragile line between the online world and real life. It’s a thrilling story of female resilience and survival, packed with a powerful feminist message.
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Let's meet the author (site doesn't archive due to being shitty), shall we?

A.E. Osworth is Part-Time Faculty at The New School, where they teach undergraduates both fiction and the art of digital storytelling and previously served as Education Director of WriteOn. Their novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright, about a game developer dealing with harassment (and narrated collectively by a fictional subreddit) is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing (April 2021).

They spent seven years working for Autostraddle in varying roles, including as Contributor, Staff Writer, and Geekery Editor, where they mainly focused on the intersection of queerness and technology.

They also edited cartoons and wrote about relationships and whiskey.

In addition, you can find their work on Guernica, Quartz, Electric Lit, Paper Darts, Mashable, drDoctor and Argot Magazine.

You can take classes with them at Catapult, where they're leading fiction- and literature-focused courses, and at Fledgling, where they lead the creative-non-fiction-focused generative workshops.
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Note that the full version of that 9.5MB image is displayed on the site in a 260x260px circle.
 
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Water-T said:
That synopsis gave me cancer, then it gave my cancer AIDS, and then my dick rotted off.
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This one (published September 2019) will plug up your new fauxgina. Seems to be selling, doubtless to YA librarians coast to coast.

Amazon
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019!
“Gripping and timely.” —People
“The YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that’ll keep you down for the count. Prepare to BE slain.” —Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out

Ready Player One meets The Hate U Give in this dynamite debut novel that follows a fierce teen game developer as she battles a real-life troll intent on ruining the Black Panther–inspired video game she created and the safe community it represents for Black gamers.
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Slay
by Brittney Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.30 · Rating details · 6,647 ratings · 1,762 reviews
By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the "downfall of the Black man."

But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for "anti-white discrimination."

Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process? (less)
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It was bad. Hilariously bad. Must be read to be believed bad. As in, could have plausibly been written by a white nationalist as a parody bad.
 
Go home gamer grill is being made into a movie starring Alan Page

Ellen Page and Paris Berelc are starring in 1UP, an underdog comedy set in the world of gaming that Kyle Newman will direct for BuzzFeed Studios.

Julia Yorks wrote the script that has been described as being in the vein of Pitch Perfect but set in the world of eSports with a Gamergate backdrop.

REMEMBER GAMERGAY?

The story centers on a female gamer named Vivian Lee

All the subtlety of a brick.

who quits her college eSports team rather than put up with sexism from her male counterparts. But with her scholarship on the line, she is forced to assemble a Varsity caliber, all-women's team that can compete with the boys. With the help of an enigmatic coach who returns to the spotlight after her own GamerGate scandal, the young woman recruits an unlikely crew of unskilled misfits to kick some serious gamer butt.

Guaranteed best picture nominee.


Zoe Quinn has already made a tweetchain crying about it. I'm on mobile so someone else will need to archive it.

 
I'm sure they're also trying to capitalize on the success of Twitch. But it really just sounds like the Bad News Bears/Mighty Ducks underdog sports team formula all over again.
 
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