Renegade Cut makes a video on Gamergate (and Ready Player One) - General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePXqArfdARc Gets basic facts about Gamergate wrong? Check. Deletes any comments that aren't anti-Gamergate, leaving a comment section that is essentially a bunch of comments saying "Look at all these gamergaters in the comments" with no actual gamergaters to be seen? Check. It sucks because I was actually following this guy and watching a lot of his videos.

People are still buttblasted about goobergate?

Has anyone got a video breakdown about the whole gamergate thing. All the things I read I feel are very biased, so it would have to be a contemplative-esque one.

Good luck. GamerGate is more polarizing than abortion. It's probably the most polarizing thing on the history of the internet. I've yet to find a single secondary source that analyzes Gamergate in an unbiased way.

Ready Player One was a deeply alright movie

It's really not the type of thing that you can be unbiased about. If you want a decently in depth look at the whole thing, rationalwiki has an article or two.

Are you fucking serious

It's AsteroidRules, aka person banned (multiple times??) for being a knob in the gg thread. So yes.

Gamergate started after a journalist named Nathan Grayson gave favourable coverage to his friend's game, that friend being Zoe Quinn. This came on the heels of people thinking videogame journalism was pretty shit. This lead to people pointing out a lot of questionable relationships between games journalists and developers. The gaming press closed ranks and announced that "Gamers are not your audience." Which is a blatant sign that they saw their audience with derision. That said I want to note that the big companies like ign or Eurogamer were not involved in the drama, despite getting a lot of criticism they kept themselves clean of the controversy as best they could. Then the press who were scrutiny/attack (depending on your point of view) decided to blame the alt-right, though I can't remember if they were called that at the time. This caused the alt-right join/start making themselves heard. After a few months of non-stop shit flinging from all sides the pro-gamergate people were burned out, the anti-alt-right on both sides were burned out and quite a few games journalists moved on to new careers. Basically everyone came out of it for the worse. These days the only people who still bring up gamergate are the small subset of people who believe gamergate was nothing but a harassment campaign and directly responsible for Trump getting elected (somehow). The pros and antis mostly moved on with bitter dissatisfaction, and the alt-right are busy "owning the libs" by burning their own shoes or whatever.

Whatever this poster advices you to do, No matter what it is, do the opposite. It's a gimmick account.

See this is the problem with Gamergate. This summation is also wrong. The alt-right's involvement did not start with or because of the press blaming them, Milo Yiannopoulos revealed the GamesJournoPros on Breitbart and got involved early on, but even before that the hashtag #Gamergate was also started by a right wing activist and actor Adam Baldwin who IMMEDIATELY began trying to inject politics into the discussion along with many others.

okay just gonna get this out of the way now your next posts are going to be -people tell you you're wrong -you ask for proof -people give substantial amounts of proof -you call them "cultists" or some other benign bullshit -everyone bemoans how much of a bizarro-Tudd you are -repeat this the next time a thread mentioning gg happens and you decide to jump in

That never happened though. Here's the only time Grayson ever mentioned Zoe's game: Admission Quest A list of 50 games added to Steam via Greenlight, and it happened before he even met her.

So it was pretty much a movement against Jeff Gertman vs Gamespot kind of press-publisher relations, but spiralled out of control/was hijacked to become a political statement. Can't anything ever not involve politics. Just because someone has a different idea of what makes for a awesome world, doesn't mean that combined with my opposing ideas we could make it a good world for us both.

It was pretty much inevitable that politics would become involved. Many of the publications that did things that prompted the ethics discussion were very left leaning, unlike Gamespot which didn't talk about politics. One Gamergate happened they found it would be very useful to stoke the political division and start accusing all their opponents of being right wing, of hating women, etc. The amount of harassment that happened against the women involved (such as Zoe Quinn) only added fuel to that fire.

ASparkle is our resident anti-GG. Be patient with him.

I don't have a problem with people being anti-GG but telling people to use RationalWiki as a source for anything is next-level idiocy.

Please be patient with them

Your posts make me advocate for mental health services in hope you'll someday use them.

You do this everytime this subject comes up. Every time, you make yourself look silly because you fail to source anything from anyone OTHER than sometihng like "Rationalwiki", a place that much of the internet knows is too biased to be trusted with cheese classifications, let alone with GG.

Yeah so I like I was saying, one guy thought "ey how can you possibly be impartial", and questioned the guys jounalist(ical) integrity. The rest was just people using momentum for their own personal gain?

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/231158/373aa465-bdc0-41c4-92a3-f5397b29267c/wait what.PNG Okay, I understand not wanting people to name the blacked out (but apparently still recognizable) individuals in the video. Sure, but he is also making it so that every comment has to be approved before being posted? He does realize that this can make an even more one sided discussion depending on how its moderated, right? What's the point of even raising an argument then?

I haven't really participated in these discussions before, would you mind showing me some examples of the "favourable coverage" Quinn's game received?

I made a comment that pointed out a mistake he made and didn't defend GG at all and I'm pretty sure he didn't approve it.

By the time I even heard of Gamergate it was so fucking convuluted that I didn't even look into it. I feel like I made one of the best decisions of my life because holy shit

GJP still exists and still blows up some thing at least once a year, if not more. Leigh Alexander publicly celebrated John Bain's death and Gemma Bain's cancer. What do you think?

That stiff about Bain is pretty serious dude, got a source On that?

It really was a big nothing burger in the end. As people have said, most of the pro and anti gamergaters alike moved on. The only significant aspect of it that's relevant to this day (Milo and Baldwin and co using it as a trial run to stoke alt-right rage), would have happened eventually regardless of whether or not gamergate was a thing. It just came at the perfect time - but if it hadn't, the alt-right founders would have found some other way to stoke the fire. I bet you The Last Jedi and genral Star Wars fandom rage would have been just as an effective catalyst, just to name one example.

https://archive.fo/lfigO

https://twitter.com/leighalexander/status/1000019145314979840?lang=en Posted less than 24 hours after John Bain's death. You could be forgiven for thinking it's a coincidence, if you weren't already aware of how much she hated Totalbiscuit.