Nobody has to kill it. Your little subculture is a fungus, and shining a light on it is making it go away all on its own. That's why you're throwing megatantrums. You can see the writing on the wall and know your period of privilege is coming to a close.

Are you serious with that nonsense? You guys got exposed. Your movement is dying.

As Gabrielle Giffords, Nancy Lanza, and the victims of Elliot Rodger can attest: it doesn't matter how many of them are empty threats. All it takes is one.

Yeah, tell that to the women being threatened with rape, death, torture, and having their friends and relatives harassed——-all the while being subjected to the most vile sexist slurs by dozens or hundreds of disgusting little angry shits. The very unreality, the utter disconnection of that anger from reality is…

Do yourself a favor and stop using the term "sjw". It's pejorative nonsense. We should all be fighting for social justice. It's not a bad thing or an anti-gamer thing to point out, for example, sexist tropes in videogames. Sexist tropes exist in all media, and what's important is to recognize them for what they are.…

That's the grand question, man, and it has such a simple answer. If you're upset with Kotaku or Gamespot or GameInformer or whatever, stop reading or, at least, stop taking them seriously. They could easily just watch trailers or gameplay videos and form their own opinions - it's what I do, anyway.

Oh, the "fake feminists" started it? Not the ex who enlisted a bunch of clowns to attack and vilify a woman based solely on the notion that she'd maybe slept with some guys and those guys may have written about her game? Those people jumped at the chance to excoriate Zoe Quinn and when they rightly got called on their…

GamerGate is simultaneously the dumbest internet "movement" I've ever seen and one of the most vile. Anyone who identifies with it is complicit in the rampant misogyny and death threats, all in the name of making writers about VIDEO GAMES hold to the standards of "real" journalism (which is nonsense, and gives video…

How did people let the rest of the world know they were horrible shitheads before the advent of the internet?

They are actually buying the games. That's why it's suddenly a big issue. Because for example, 50% of all the people who play Assassin's creed are women. But instead of giving a woman character for the multiplayer, they made you play a clone of the second guy. Which is random and doesn't even make sense for the plot.…

"Girls who are gamers like you don't deserve the treatment you get."

I was a kid in the early 80s. EVERYONE played video games. EVERYONE. Moms, dads, kids, girls, boys, teenagers. We played the crap out of our Atari 2600s and Colecovisions and Commodore 64s and Vic20s.

"And gamers are under siege. The whole hobby was a clubhouse for disaffected young white dudes, and now a bunch of uninvited people, the same people who made them feel alone and disaffected in the first place, are coming through the door and changing the place."

Except that this hobby was never exclusive to just one type of person. Never. No matter how much you bury your heads in the sand and try to ignore all the diverse voices who have been saying, this entire time, "We've always been here." I'm 32. I've been playing since I was 4. We are all telling these exact same…

The whole hobby was a clubhouse for disaffected young white dudes,

The whole hobby was a clubhouse for disaffected young white dudes,

I'm not snarking on you, but is this really the first time you've heard about women being threatened online with rape and murder? Along with the wish to be extraordinary, there are few things as ordinary as this violence against women. The journalists named in this article are just a few women who've been deluged with…

This until the day I die. The claim that these poor, sad, straight white men are oppressed would be laughable if it wasn't so disgusting.

Back up. Don't you dare say "gamers are under siege" as if you speak for all of us. Most of us are grown-up enough not to be threatened by women. But GamerGate represents a vocal minority who respond by saying horrible, misogynistic crap. And frankly, when that is what you are about (and that IS what GamerGate is all…

"This anonymous (and typical) member of #Gamergate uses descriptors such as "ugly, acne-ridden" and "basement dwelling" to characterize how the rest of the world views other #Gamergate members. By deprecating the entire community under the guise of using "the enemy's words," they unite the entire group, and recruit…