12 ex-Atari women respond to #NotNolan controversy, offer ‘70s perspective

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I read the Kotaku article. For all its words and its research, it is one of the worst examples of moving the goalposts I have ever seen. Now that the anti-Bushnell witchhunt has been thoroughly discredited by everyone who actually worked with the man, the author of the piece now seeks to blame Nolan for the entire four decades worth of negative work culture in the video game industry. Apparently sexy times at Atari are the reason the game industry is supposedly super-hostile to women nearly 40 fucking years later, and so despite the fact that by all accounts and purposes Nolan never did anything without consent, he is still at fault and deserves to be under the crosshairs of the #MeToo movement for the rest of his sorry life.

This is why people don't take games "journalism" seriously. Because while you are normally expected in reputable news organizations to apologize when you dun goofed, people who write for trash sites like Kotaku are not required to walk back anything - in fact, they are being paid specifically to stir the pot until its a bucket of rancid shit, because their websites live and die by the click.