GamerGate 1 year later

[wisdomwizard]

It's been one whole year since a number of articles entitled "Gamers Are Dead" headlines plus the censorship on 4chan and everywhere covering for Nathan Grayson incensed a lot of gamers enough to band together on Twitter. We've had our own threads in the past about how messed up video game journalism is. These guys are the closest thing to stand up against it.

So, let's keep things civil and discuss away!

[The Tank]

The only thing I want to discuss is society needs to stop f***ing putting "_Gate" on every scandalous thing that ever happens.

[BorneAgain]

I give this thread a full two hours before its closed.

In the interim, may I just add that GamerGate as a word sounds like a rejected Nickolodeon Game Show from the early 90s. Like it be's some spin off of Nick Arcade where players can only go further on the path by beating certain game challenges from different genres before the reach the final test, the large and colorful "Gamer Gate" where they have to beat 5 different game challenges in succession without knowing what they'll be.

[Dub H]

I think the mods have a "No Gamergate discussion from eithe side" in here so don`t expect much time

[Cyno]

One year later and people are still gullible enough to believe this is about ethics in game journalism.

[Deleted]

this takes me back to the asmb message board back in 2001, but ...

inbtl

also, if the op were being facetious like this on twitter, this would be masterful trollery.

[One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel]

I never really saw it as anything but an awful and childish hate spree under the guise of ETHICS IN VIDYA GAEM JOURNALISM.

When I start my crusade to get all penguins a punch in the face, it's gonna be a campaign against ethics in food labeling.

[Zombie Mod is not a ghoul.]

Aug 27, 2015 18:00:05 GMT -5 One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel said:

I never really saw it as anything but an awful and childish hate spree under the guise of ETHICS IN VIDYA GAEM JOURNALISM.

When I start my crusade to get all penguins a punch in the face, it's gonna be a campaign against ethics in food labeling.

you cant punch penguins in the face, their beaks get in the way.


and now you know why I'm banned from three separate zoo's.

[One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel]

Aug 27, 2015 18:02:10 GMT -5 Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. said:

Aug 27, 2015 18:00:05 GMT -5 One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel said:

I never really saw it as anything but an awful and childish hate spree under the guise of ETHICS IN VIDYA GAEM JOURNALISM.

When I start my crusade to get all penguins a punch in the face, it's gonna be a campaign against ethics in food labeling.

you cant punch penguins in the face, their beaks get in the way.


and now you know why I'm banned from three separate zoo's.

We here at Labelgate promise to find a workaround to this problem, but first we need to harass some zoo keepers on twitter.

[wisdomwizard]

Aug 27, 2015 17:49:29 GMT -5 The Tank said:

The only thing I want to discuss is society needs to stop f***ing putting "_Gate" on every scandalous thing that ever happens.

To be fair, it had two names before, but they put too much emphasis on Zoe Quinn and not Grayson and the state of game journalism. Ideally it would be #GamersUnite or something similar but the name stuck and despite controversy people had over the name it's still been going strong.

[Stu]

I'm not convinced we need this thread, but it's here anyway. So if you're gonna discuss this, don't give us reason to lock it.

[wisdomwizard]

Aug 27, 2015 18:12:20 GMT -5 Stu said:

I'm not convinced we need this thread, but it's here anyway. So if you're gonna discuss this, don't give us reason to lock it.

This is just a general warning to everyone, right? Because I know I wasn't giving any reason.

Don't know why Labelgate decided to invade this thread though.

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

One year later and I still have no f***ing clue what GamerGate actually is.

[wisdomwizard]

Funny thing about the whole thing is I almost was against GG until I looked closer just by searching through Twitter, and I saw a number of people calling these game sites out and having arguments with people that tar an feather them because of what happened with Anita Sarkessian's planned speech. Thing is, they caught the guy that actually responsible for the threat but she's still hasn't said anything about it.


I am fully on the pro side, because I feel that these sites hid behind claims of harassment because they knew there were certain people out there that believe them. I don't believe that GamerGate is responsible for what some trolls do.

Aug 27, 2015 18:16:07 GMT -5 Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill said:

One year later and I still have no f***ing clue what GamerGate actually is.

Just read the opening post again.

[weaselboy]

Aug 27, 2015 18:29:36 GMT -5 wisdomwizard said:

Funny thing about the whole thing is I almost was against GG until I looked closer just by searching through Twitter, and I saw a number of people calling these game sites out and having arguments with people that tar an feather them because of what happened with Anita Sarkessian's planned speech. Thing is, they caught the guy that actually responsible for the threat but she's still hasn't said anything about it.


I am fully on the pro side, because I feel that these sites hid behind claims of harassment because they knew there were certain people out there that believe them. I don't believe that GamerGate is responsible for what some trolls do.

Aug 27, 2015 18:16:07 GMT -5 Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill said:

One year later and I still have no f***ing clue what GamerGate actually is.

Just read the opening post again.

The guy who threatened her is obviously an unstable maniac, why would she wish to further engage him or comment on him? She hasn't commented on him because he's been dealt with. She's too busy rightfully pointing out the numerous flaws in the gaming industry and having to constantly move house, due to receiving repeated death threats for doing so.

[Dub H]

Aug 27, 2015 18:47:58 GMT -5 weaselboy said:

Aug 27, 2015 18:29:36 GMT -5 wisdomwizard said:

Funny thing about the whole thing is I almost was against GG until I looked closer just by searching through Twitter, and I saw a number of people calling these game sites out and having arguments with people that tar an feather them because of what happened with Anita Sarkessian's planned speech. Thing is, they caught the guy that actually responsible for the threat but she's still hasn't said anything about it.


I am fully on the pro side, because I feel that these sites hid behind claims of harassment because they knew there were certain people out there that believe them. I don't believe that GamerGate is responsible for what some trolls do.

Just read the opening post again.

The guy who threatened her is obviously an unstable maniac, why would she wish to further engage him or comment on him? She hasn't commented on him because he's been dealt with. She's too busy rightfully pointing out the numerous flaws in the gaming industry and having to constantly move house, due to receiving repeated death threats for doing so.

The rightfully part is a topic that would need it`s own thread

[Speedy Cerviche]

Aug 27, 2015 17:49:29 GMT -5 The Tank said:

The only thing I want to discuss is society needs to stop f***ing putting "_Gate" on every scandalous thing that ever happens.

GateGate is a perfectly fine name for that one time some dishonest person left the side gate open and let my dogs out on the road. Lucky none of the dogs were hurt.

[Dub H]

The way i see it ,I believe there is some people that truthfully believe in the ethic part and are slandared without mercy. Gamergate become the scapegoat of all to the big figured in journalists too,if someone was harassed or something is wrong just blame GG.


I can`t say ,verify or gaurantee if at the start with Zoe Quinn wans`t very hate fulfilled ,but what it is right now it is not a woman hating movemente and has many different types of people.You can argue they are mrybabies ,that what they fight for is not important and maybe even childish(they aren`t perfect,many people i saw in GG have a sense of being more important than they are) but they have legit arguments about a very corrupt field.


People say that the notion of corrupt jorunalsit in gaming is absurd, but a gorup of diverse people of ALL over the world hiding into the excuse of WANTING UNCORRUPTED JOURNALISMIM IN GAMING of all things just so they can say hate?Now for me,that is absurd and the definition of being gullible

[weaselboy]

Aug 27, 2015 18:50:11 GMT -5 Dub H said:

Aug 27, 2015 18:47:58 GMT -5 weaselboy said:

The guy who threatened her is obviously an unstable maniac, why would she wish to further engage him or comment on him? She hasn't commented on him because he's been dealt with. She's too busy rightfully pointing out the numerous flaws in the gaming industry and having to constantly move house, due to receiving repeated death threats for doing so.

The rightfully part is a topic that would need it`s own thread

Sorry mate I've read the other halves argument so I'll summarise:

"SHE SAID RYU SAYS SHRYUKEN WHEN HE THROWS A FIREBALL, WHEN HE ACTUALLY SEZ HADOKUEN!!!!!! Therefor I am immediately going to ignore all her previous comments about the horrible sexism in both video games and the industry because she's CLEARLY not a proper gamer!!!!!!"

[Dub H]

Aug 27, 2015 18:56:32 GMT -5 weaselboy said:

Aug 27, 2015 18:50:11 GMT -5 Dub H said:

The rightfully part is a topic that would need it`s own thread

Sorry mate I've read the other halves argument so I'll summarise:

"SHE SAID RYU SAYS SHRYUKEN WHEN HE THROWS A FIREBALL, WHEN HE ACTUALLY SEZ HADOKUEN!!!!!! Therefor I am immediately going to ignore all her previous comments about the horrible sexism in both video games and the industry because she's CLEARLY not a proper gamer!!!!!!"

This is nowhere near what it happens,though some people do just say she is not a gamer without even looking at why people say that.At least try to place it without trying to sound like flamebait,we are trying to not have this locked