Congratulations, fellow gamers! Society never respected us, labeled us childish, but over the years we worked and worked and juuuust started getting mainstream acceptance, and in the span of one year we have become domestic terrorists. Great job, everyone!

The fact that Zoe Quinn even ranks up there as a major concern for “ethics in games journalism” is exactly why GG is so eye rolling. The fact that “ethics” amount to a culture clash with feminists rather than say, dealing with major conflicts of interest between the coverage games journalists provide and the…

Well, assuming we allow the same skepticism given towards GG members on whether they used these same tactics on women in the games industry, I’d say the threats are about on par. But that still leaves GG a mostly-regressive counter-culture backlashing against feminism, masquerading behind the guise of being really…

deplorable

Organizers of the meetup included Christina Hoff Sommers, a professor and critic of liberal feminism, and Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer for Breitbart who claimed on Twitter today that this incident involved “a bomb threat from feminists.”

GamerGate is a hateful, moronic movement, and the idea of having a physical get-together for it hurts my brain, but fucking hell, this is not the way to react to it. Putting people at risk, wasting the police’s time and resources...

Agree or disagree bomb threats are not the way to make a statement.

A year off for maternity leave?! Where is this magical place you live because it surely isn’t the USA. And just so you know there are PLENTY of women who don’t want children and they should not be denied a job just because people like you automatically assume they are based off gener.

That second article regarding work/life balance is spot on. Why people aren’t more concerned about the abysmal labour conditions within the games industry is depressing. Sorry people, seventeen hour, seven day a week “Crunch Time” where you don’t see your family for five months is NOT normal, healthy, or a moral way…

It’s really all about ethics in metahuman journalism

I disagree.

Disgusting. Sadly enough, this sort of shit happens in the humanities as well as the hard sciences. I once presented a paper on the rape of German women by Soviet soldiers in 1945, only to have a peer suggest that because I wasn’t a man, I “couldn’t understand what it was like for those soldiers” — as though a) I…

I think when they write things like this:

Team No One

Bread to go along with the potato? Say what now?

Y’all can snark all you want, but I grew up at the height of piggydom. I loved her. She helped me realize it was ok to be assertive. She was not the stick thin Malibu Barbie I couldn't identify with. She was bold, spoke her mind, and had fabulous style. That's what child me thought of Miss Piggy. I still love her and…

and if it was rephrased as

You make some valid points, but Valve wasn’t taking 75% themselves. Valve’s cut was 30%. Being that they are the distribution platform, they’re right to take their cut. The remaining cut was meant to be something that the publishers decided. Bethesda chose to take 45%, leaving the remaining 25% for the modder.…

Let me be sure I’ve got this right.

Channeling that Magic Knight Rayearth.