or poopblazer for short!

I did actually come across this—but I didn't go into the comments, so I missed the download link. That's why I missed it, but I'll add it now.

Honestly? I think the fact that you're covering this is fucking awesome. More of these in-depth sub-culture articles, please. Really digging the direction Kotaku is taking lately (and not just because it's exploring "taboo" ground like nude mods, which most gaming websites wouldn't give a thoughtful feature).

If it is so common, why is it so undercovered by mainstream games press? Mainstream games press will sometimes cover things like Skyrim nudity mods. Why not this?

Oooh, that's good. I like it.

Ok, so you've been upset about gaming journalism. Then a "sex scandal" arises where it has been proven that there was no journalistic impropriety from anyone involved. A group of sociopaths decide they should try to ruin this woman's life. And you think to yourself, "If I latch onto those nutjobs this is the…

What moral highground are you talking to me from?

You know ONE view.

Here is what I see:

You're a bit backwards, here. GG was created specifically *for* harassing women - at the time, it was specifically Zoe Quinn, although it quickly spread to 'everyone who GG sees as a "SJW" scumbag'. It was only later that others began to claim, "Nuuu, it's about game journalism! It's totally a righteous cause!" even…

I feel like "stopping" it just puts us back at square one. We need some sort of pro-active hashtag, something like #InclusiveGamers or #GamesForAll, because that's what gaming SHOULD BE. It SHOULD be inclusive. It should be for everyone. For all walks of life. For men, for women. For kids and adults. For geniuses and…

Yep, and it's amazing to me how long people try to hang on to these sort of ridiculous things. It's not like you can't get a new hashtag, people. They don't cost money. You want to ditch the bonkers misogyny, and actually talk about ethics in game journalism? Ditch that hashtag and the people who go with it.

The best coverage of it so far came from Deadspin yesterday.

Gamergate, first coined by actor Adam Baldwin, is an amorphous campaign that is ostensibly about ethics in video game journalism and defending the "gamer" identity but has come under fire for its links to a wave of harassment, particularly of women, in gaming.

Because there really are some sections of the gaming community that are horrible like this and they've spent the last few years convincing themselves more and more that they're under attack from "feminists"... and the Venn diagram of them has a lot of overlap with the MRA crowd that idolizes Elliot Rodger and other…

The Southern Poverty Law Center does consider them a hate group.

Okay, seriously. What in the actual fuck, folks?

I teach English at the college level; last year, I was privileged to teach ENG 230, which at my institution is a rotating (through the faculty) course that is generously labeled "Special Topics in Literature."

I taught my course, for two semesters, as "Gaming: Literary…

So, a long time ago, I developed a pretty basic theory about how we respond to games: the closer to a game's release, the less critical of we are. There's just something about how the act of play changes our brain chemistry, and not necessarily in the best ways.