The truth will come out, just not at this moment, because I am still talking...

Vengeful ex-girlfriend, and I am MISUNDERSTOOD are missing. Also, God.

WaPo, NY Times, The Guardian UK and other mainstream media are not gaming press.

So because you've never seen it, it isn't common. Check.

There was no 'GamerGate', there was no movement, there was not a huge outcry.

And if it was actually about ethics in video game journalism, it would have started a long time before Zoe Quinn made an indie game for a novel concept.

It also takes two minutes to understand that the originating event behind all of this was some jilted ex's sleazy gossip, but instead of saying "this is none of my business" and running away from it or (even better) directing their scorn at the party who aired his dirty laundry in public, a bunch of Internet…

If you want corruption in gaming journalism to end, then how come your focus is some indie games that were played by like 1000 people and not like, actual corruption in video game journalism? Why didn't Gamergate start when IGN does reviews of Blizzard games without playing them but assuring people that they'll be…

I would, genuinely, love for some Pro-Gamergate person to explain exactly what they're demanding when they ask for "more transparency in gaming journalism" (because, after all, that's what this whole thing is, supposedly, about).

Maybe I'm dumb (probably), but I've been wracking my brain for days trying to figure out…

So ignore the threats and such? Wow, that's a great idea. That'll take care of things SO well.

I dunno, responding to somebody who's posted personal information and death threats would seem to be good grounds for anger.

I thought it started because people cared too much about a female developers sexual life?

I don't know who "Madelaine Davies" is, but she sounds dangerous.

I can't get over how using it makes you look like you're smacking the side of your face.

Why was she carrying around a bottle of hydrogen peroxide? Is this a thing?

Well, quick point of interest - Blyhe Harris, whoever she is, WAS reviewing books, which is why she got free ARCs sent to her. She may not have been a twenty-something teacher but unless she had a whole website devoted to "A Twenty-Something Teacher Tells You Which Books To Read" she wasn't really doing anything…

"The only evidence against 'Blythe' is coming from Hale."

I don't get the cat fishing angle. It't not like the reviewer was trying to be in a relationship with the author. She read the book didn't like it and said so. I wasn't aware I needed to use my real name to review something online.

I say this as someone who adores FKA Twigs but those glasses make everybody look like a dipshit. I'll take those filigree wrist cuffs, though.

Yeah, wow. I mean, pretending to be someone you're not on the internet and possibly receiving free books for it: slightly not okay, but who cares? On the other hand, obsessively stalking someone who said something about you on the internet: seriously unhinged. Kathleen Hale sounds like a terrible person, and the worst…