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Sk3tz0
September 1, 2014 at 17:03
He seems Awesome..
PERSONA 5!!!! (Umar)
September 1, 2014 at 17:12
I love this man…Seriously….I’m sick to death of all this negativity…When…when did it become this way? Why do people even have to push such things, I hated this article by Gamasutra ….
In any case. I love being a gamer, I love playing games, I love all gamers whether you’re black, white or Asari…I don’t care….I love you all and for heavens sake can we all just along,please….Why do we have to continuously fight like this. Even non-gamers. I can go onto Twitter now and someone is having some religious or racial argument. Is it really that hard for us, to realize we’re the same? I bleed the blood that is in your veins. I breathe the same air that is in your lungs. We’re human..
Whether or not we call ourselves gamers means absolutely nothing. We love the same things therefore we are family. Even if you don’t like video games, we are all kin…
Rinceable
September 1, 2014 at 18:21
I bleed pink!
PERSONA 5!!!! (Umar)
September 1, 2014 at 18:22
I know you do. You’re Lightning’s biggest fan afterall
Rinceable
September 1, 2014 at 18:23
LIES!
PERSONA 5!!!! (Umar)
September 1, 2014 at 18:26
TRUTH! ADMIT IT!! You love her depressive personality!
Rinceable
September 1, 2014 at 18:32
Bwahahah 🙂 But, she smiled, ONCE. I was told this by a reasonable source…
PERSONA 5!!!! (Umar)
September 1, 2014 at 18:36
LOL Best day of my life dude!
Alien Emperor Trevor
September 1, 2014 at 19:30
I HATE YOU SONY FANBOI!
… he said expressing his manly feelings of agreement & affection.
PERSONA 5!!!! (Umar)
September 2, 2014 at 07:41
I hate you too!!! *hugs*
Spaffy
September 2, 2014 at 07:35
lol
Brady miaau
September 1, 2014 at 17:12
Um, what is the scandal?
From what I read, it seems that some people are upset with some other people cause of what they said about our Sharon at the last family braai. Or something.
Is this an actual issue or is it being made to seem like a issue? I cam confused. And that does not happen easily. Only when I breath or think.
Whatever. Great piece by Mike Bithel though.
Alien Emperor Trevor
September 1, 2014 at 19:28
I also don’t know what it’s about, and couldn’t care less beyond now mild curiosity… but not enough curiosity to spend my upcoming gaming time googling other peoples stupid crap.
Vinzenz Stemberg
September 2, 2014 at 22:34
Basically someone slept with a few someone elses to get their game promoted and to win some contests. Which wasn’t all that big a scandal at first, but then some ‘journalists’ pushed back HARD. And it turned out because they were involved with or supported games that won previous IGFs/Indiecades for much the same reason. Zoe accidentally exposed a wholly corrupt industry totally by accident. If she hadn’t been going behind her boyfriend’s back about it, or if she hadn’t called in to defend her people she shouldn’t know or were unrelated to it, the whole thing would never have broke.
I think even though she got her game promoted in a completely negative way Zoe might come out of it an accidental ‘saviour’ once everything dies down (at least to the people not offended by people with multiple partners). Imagine that. Saving gaming because you got caught sleeping around. The investigation she touched off is pretty much proving indie gaming just as corrupt as mainstream, only the payoffs involve sex instead of doritos and a few less 0s before that decimal point. The fame is worth more than the money in this crowd.
frumpus
September 5, 2014 at 01:57
Except it’s absolutely not about that. It’s about a bunch of asshole misogynists trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. So many female developers have quit because of all the harassment you gamergate fucks have given them.
Disagree
September 9, 2014 at 13:40
Gonna have to disagree about the Mountain out of a Molehill thing. When #GamerGate people say “The Gaming Media is corrupt and doesn’t represent us.” and the gaming media responds by saying “YOU ARE ALL FAT UGLY NECKBEARD VIRGINS!” (Are we going to accept that this was a prominent response, or am I going to have to whip out the specific articles?) I don’t view it as *that* much of a logical jump to say “Hmmm. Maybe they *are* being inadequately represented by these people/the gaming media has some sort of contempt for what is supposed to be their target audience.” Is there a faction that is more about shitting on a handful of women involved in the industry as much as possible? SURE IS. But the opposing side of the isle (Especially from major publications) utter refusal to accept the fact that you know, one or two people under #GamerGate/#NotYourShield are more concerned about problems within the gaming media, combined with their vitriolic articles against anybody who brands themselves a “Gamer”, just empowers the movement.
Let me close on this – I disagree with this “Factions in GamerGate are mysoginistic assholes, therefore GamerGate is about mysigony.” line. It’s akin to saying “The WBC is a thing, so Christianity is the WBC” “Heathenry has a White Supremacist Faction, so Heathenry is White Supremacy.”
It’s a faction, and it’s the loudest faction, but there is another one more concerned by the fact that the Gaming Media is responding to all this by hurling talking points on a Fox-News esque level.
Disagree - Cont.
September 9, 2014 at 13:46
The central point of said talking points being – To stand against us is to be an evil mysoginist racist and #NotYourShield is an elaborate conspiracy to trick us (But Quinnspiracy is still proof of how ridiculous these people are, amirite?)
Sir Rants A Lot: On Pandora
September 1, 2014 at 17:18
Give that man a Bells! In an appropriately themed gaming Whiskey Tumbler…. I’ve just had the most awesome idea ever! My wife is gonna be real upset when I start having gaming themed tumblers made for the house!
Mark Treloar
September 1, 2014 at 18:09
Did you get a T-shirt?
Rinceable
September 1, 2014 at 18:21
You and Mike Zoe! Get a room!… I am sure you have tried 😛
Sageville
September 2, 2014 at 09:32
Nooo, when Zoes make scandals the internet tubes get blocked!
Rags
September 1, 2014 at 19:14
I hope he checked his privilege before making such a fucking reasonable post. 😀
Rags
September 1, 2014 at 19:33
Then again. He is a game developer. This seems to be a common theme amoung ‘journalists’ the last few weeks. Its just too much work to be journalists and expose these toxic people in our industry. The best is slate with:”don’t criticise women”. I wish I was paraphrasing. You are all lazy bastards giving them a free ride on the back of decades of hard work getting us here.
Just last week there was another promo ad on Lazygamer for Anita and her incredibly bad videos.
Sorry guys but its your job to put in the work to keep your house accountable and in order. Next week we have more shit from these journalists, developers and pop culture critics only because you allow them to. Given them a free pass on some of the worse offences you can commit in your profession.
Its ironic that the guys over at 4chan and youtube who are just bloggers and forum users doing all the journalistic work. It’s time for some introspection.
meeeeeee
September 6, 2014 at 21:29
Oh look real journalists.
PureSophistry
September 17, 2014 at 14:51
The difference between news consolidation in the gaming world VS others mediums is absolutely staggering, discussion between veteran news anchors and gaming journalists ahead……..
http://www.640toronto.com/2014/09/16/vgs-sexist-gaming-culture-vs-journalistic-integrity-how-do-you-fix-a-broken-system-with-nhl-15/