I mean....Stewart says "fuck you" to random states in the USA all the time. Sometimes it's when they do stupid bullshit, and sometimes it's tongue in cheek. Odds are Norway deserved it in that one instance or it was meant with complete sarcasm.

I can't imagine being hurt by that either way.
If it was for something dumb,…

Oh fuck you, I've been gaming literally since I was a small child and now all of sudden I'm not welcome because I think threatening to kill and rape someone is not appropriate response to a feminist (an accepted form of ) critical analysis? You're human bullshit, everything you represent is grossly inhumane,…

They fit exactly here.

Actually the journalists and reviewers weren't the only ones pushing for it. Also, they are gamers too. If some gamers were too busy gaming, what is preventing them from being too busy gaming now? What has changed that prevents them from just taking up a controller and playing, if they're so disinterested in analyzing…

You are right. People who self identify as "gamers" were, as usual, doing nothing relevant or constructive. Because self-identifying as a "gamer" is a major red-flag indicating that one has very little critical faculty and very little cultural or academic experience. It's a stupid, stupid term which should enver, ever…

Definitely not true. I'm a gamer and I wanted gaming to have some recognition and I also recognize exactly what that meant. You can't claim to speak for all gamers with "too busy gaming", because a lot of us are actually caring about the medium as a whole.

That may be your perception but most people I know that games wanted to see it get better as a medium. You don't get better games without being critical of it's design and the thoughts behind those design.

These people want to have their cake and eat it too in almost every conceivable way.
They want games to be considered art, but they don't want to have to have games be critically analyzed in any way that makes them uncomfortable.
They want to be viewed as a huge powerhouse of a consumer base that cannot be ignored, but…

This is what I've been saying the whole damn time.
I mean, boy, what if all these troglodytes could remember a few years ago when they were all pooping their Pampers because Roger Ebert said he couldn't consider a videogame to be a piece of art.?

As someone who has been playing for 26 years, and spent a few hundred thousand hours on gaming forums, no, it was the players crying out 'games are art!' just as much as the media.

Considering all the harassment she and other women (and exclusively women) have received in gaming, they kind of make Sarkeesian's point with every rape threat. It's been quite a lot of evidence in the last couple months.

Translation: "We wanted games to be art until we realized that being an art form means we have to be responsible and learn to accept criticism."

"Cherry pick data"? If you're referring to Sarkeesian's videos, that's...not what's going on. Like, at all. Unless, of course, you want to argue that a huge chunk of academic cultural and media criticism is "cherry picking data".

And everyone has a political agenda. Choosing not to talk about this stuff is political;…

There's a difference between sharing your work through social media channels, image boards, and various forums to gain more visibility, and trying to game a system with your buddies. The former is a natural part of self promotion that exists within the market. The latter is an intentional fraud, abusing a system…

If it couldn't get media attention, then the developers need to find a better way to get media to pay attention to it. They have to fight the same battles as every other indie developer across any platform trying to get their game funded/sold. They have the fight the same battle as every mobile app dev that has to…

Agreed. There's a powerful community on Steam, but the problem is you need to make a good game to get up-votes.

"Many of them have been caught in the cogs of the Greenlight machine for months, with no sign of movement. "

Some people might argue Greenlight is doing exactly is what it's supposed to be doing.

Oh look, indie devs acting in a shady way and trying to game systems for each others benefits rather than acting within the existing rules of a system intended to help them out which had never existed before.

SO, basically, you're saying that she slept around?

Which didn't happen, right? At least in this case. I don't know the whole story, but Grayson never reviewed the game, so I don't really see a problem for Kotaku.