Is that Dush The GamerGater?

Khrosh the Uncaffeinated. Hate of alarm clocks. Battle-hardened.

Bullshit - these folks hated Anita from day one. As an academic, I find her critiques of games to be mild and straightforward. That your average gamegater sees her work as some sort of deceitful, hate-filled diatribe tells us a lot more about them than it does about her. (And as for that Hitman thing being a lie - I…

Well, we're talking people who don't see any merit in feminism to begin with. I've no issue with more of it, but many act as if feminist critique is inherently zero sum. There's either feminism in gaming and fewer "male oriented" games, or no feminism in games, and more "male oriented" games. Which is silly.

No it's not, it's called being pragmatic and decent. Gamergate has contributed too much misogynistic hate towards and terrorizing of women to be taken seriously as a socially productive group or movement. If you truly care about your cause, and truly want to distance yourself from gamergate's misogyny, then it is…

Wait, so you can't kill strippers and drag their bodies? Or can you?

"However, assuming that all GamerGate supporters are in league with criminals like those is just rude and insulting. "

If movies, music, and all other forms of art can survive feminist critique, assuredly, so will gaming.

None of this has been necessary, and the storm doesn't have to continue.

Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.

I've been saying this for a while now.

I grew up in a time when being a "gamer" was cause for ridicule. Shit, admitting to owning a Nintendo in the mid-80's was a good way to get your ass kicked at my school (not at all schools, I understand).

Now that gaming's finally mainstreamed, and the hobby has -finally- gained…

What strikes me about the doxxing comment I saw was that it was posted as a weird, fucked up way of reassuring Felicia Day—their assertion was that the info was easy to find, so all her fears were silly. And it's just such ridiculous logic. Here's someone being vulnerable, and that's how you respond?

I keep quiet for a number of reasons, but it's primarily out of fear. Fear of uttering an opinion only to be sea lioned into circular debates that feel engineered more to exhaust than to enlighten. Fear that the fact that I briefly backed Zoe Quinn's Patreon for a total of $10 might be used an excuse to make me into…

IT IS SO GOOD. SERIOUSLY. SO GOOD.

Needs more Frank Sinatra though

RE5 has more of those details then you give it credit for.

Prepare to Fry edition?

Great read, Stephen. If anything Gamergate has made me tired, too. I used to read every article, but I just feel as though I can't anymore. It's just depressing.

Meh, I'm not feeling her on Gotham. She's going for some campy, Eartha Kitty, operatic fierceness. Which could be cool but all I can see is the sweat stains. I don't think it's great acting, but it's a whole lot of acting. Like showing up with a guy on a leash? I like your accessories, Jada, but can you just be her by…

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