The difference is, when the media criticized the NFL for its treatment of domestic violence, sports fans demanded change from the NFL, "gamers" took it as an attack on them and want the media to shut up.

I play guitar, I don't call myself a musician. I like bowling, I don't call myself a bowler. I go to the movies a few times a month, I don't call myself a moviegoer.

Do feel free to ignore everything that is #gamergate. I still can't believe that this still hasn't gone away on its accord. I don't know why we keep feeding fuel into this whole situation. That said, I do have issues with Anita Sarkeesian. But that's also okay b/c it is just one man's opinion. She seems like a…

Also, were those threats really confirmed to be from GG?

I went to an office picnic the other day and one of the guys there, who had never played a video game in his life, brought up Anita Sarkeesian. My jaw dropped and I asked him how he had heard of her. He said, and I quote

Gamers: "We want games to be considered Art!"

The interview was very well done and touched upon something that a lot of people fail to realize; being a gamer is not a "lifestyle", it is a fucking hobby, just like para-sailing or scuba-diving. You do not base your entire lives around this one small aspect of it because in the end, it is and always will be just a…

It sounds like your friend is just being an asshole, and using fancy terms s/he learned in PHIL 101 to silence you.

I dislike Miss Sarkeesian for the same reasons Badass Noor does, but you're right. If these hateful trolls hadn't created her platform , no one would even know she existed.

And I applaud them for it. But it does get tiring when they continue to attack 'Gaters with articles like this. It's like ComputerStories says up above, it continues to feed the trolls.

I think the worst part about the whole thing is that they completely stopped making games for white males. You can hardly find a first-person-shooter anymore, they simply just don't make them. The world stands against the gamers, the game has become reality, - and still a girl doesn't want to kiss you.

I'm going to guess that you're a white male under the age of twenty-five. If I'm wrong, then you should be aware that you sound like a white male under the age of twenty-five, which I absolutely mean as an insult, having once been a white male under the age of twent-five.

This sounds more like an attack than I want it to, but how to you feel about basically everyone in the games writing industry who has a history of fighting corruption and unethical business practices being anti-gamergate?

I know. I know.

Like music and writing, games fall into two categories: pop and art. Borderlands is a pop game, made for money. It isn't trying to prove a point. It's trying to sell copies. If an issue arises in their product that may limit the number of copies they can sell, they will address it. They aren't making it for you.…

So you're okay with basically giving your enemy more coverage than you think she deserves. I remember when certain Christian groups used to try to get people to boycott something and just ended up giving those things way more press and making themselves look foolish. Took 'em a while to learn that they're generally…

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…

Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Maybe the problem is that people like Felicia are the ones on the front lines fighting this. Maybe some MEN in the industry need to come out against these fucking psychopaths. I'd wager these basement-dwellers would be a little less likely to act like tough shits if a mass of male game industry veterans came out and…