You really think all gaming harrassment comes from gamergate?
You really think all gaming harrassment comes from gamergate?
"He didn't call it GamerGate, but come on: Kotaku needs their weekly clickbait."
He condemned what needs condemning
No Yannick LeJacq. He was talking about the rampant harassment coming from both sides. But you know, clickbait.
Did you ever stop to think that he may have not said gamergame because he doesn't commit the fallacy of conflating harrasment and gamergate
Whelp, looks like I'm pirating these games. I hate UPlay more than anything.
There's a new energy and excitement to Call of Duty multiplayer matches with Advanced Warfare that I've not felt in years. There's a giddy feeling that comes as the timer counts down to the start of any of the game's dozen or so multiplayer match types. And when that countdown ends, we're not simply deploying — we're…
Cherry reds and blacks don't click, so they're silent unless you bottom out. They're extremely comfortable for gaming, though you need to take some time to get used to the feel of the keys.
Expensive. Not hard.
Extremely relevant.
For those who haven't see it.. Intro is here.
I'm not really a fan of FPS's anymore but I bought this for nostalgia's sake and it was AMAZING. Best impulse buy ever.
The co-opting of a movement by horrible people for terrible purposes happens all the time. The Tea Party (and Christianity in general), Feminism, Islam, Gamergate. It's nothing new or surprising for movements without a strict leadership structure.
people like me did
our message is shown to people by people who don't like us or our message. they're the media, and have the power to manipulate how we're seen by people who never look twice.
Hi! Female gamer here! Casual now but I used to spend a lot more time gaming across different platforms. The games themselves weren't marketed toward me, and that was OK, I could wade past the overtly sexualized representations of women and female 'armor' that looked like fetish wear.
I mean, if you consider the videos linked in Adam Baldwin's tweet that launched the hashtag, it's pretty clear that people interested in social justice in general and feminist readings of video games in particular are the "enemy" and that perspectives sympathetic to social justice have gotten a voice in mainstream…
I work in the industry too, and I'd say within the last 3-5 years, things have begun moving in the right direction but we haven't arrived yet. This is only an anecdotal observation but it seems like more women are starting to work in the games industry and share their input, and that is making a big difference. But…