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F*** Gamergate by LudoCrow
Marc Lepine did his cowardly massacre in MY province. He is NOT an "hero to all men". What he was is a most miserable excuse for an human being if there ever fucking was one.
Sure, people will say that asshole didn't use the hashtag. But ain't it the nice convenience this is happening while a LOT of people like Annita and Quinn are being doxxed left and right on sites and forums affiliated to Gamergate for all the crazies and psychos of the world out there to know where to call to send death threats to them and their families(and then try to defend how, based on an extremely convoluted yet ultimately invalid basis, it is "perfectly legal" to doxx people as they have)?
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Long story short, a former boyfriend of Zoe Quinn, creator of the game Depression Quest, accused her of sleeping with writers from various gaming websites in exchange for positive reviews and exposure. Shenanigans ensue.
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Holy moly. The person who wrote that threat sounds a lot like the Santa Barbara shooter. "Feminism has taken over every facet of society." If that's the case, how do anti-women republicans keep getting elected in the United States? People are taking Sarkeesian way too seriously. I'm not a Sarkeesian fan, but people who write threats like this are only furthering her cause.
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Very much.
I mean, I can't say I agreee with -all- Sarkeesian wrote. But... it's a critic. And at the end of the day... I can take criticism. I mean, a tons of the folks now ranting and raving against Sarkeesian and game journalism are -exactly- the people who were ranting that "game is art and shouldn't be censored" back in the Jack Thompson days.But here's the catch when you call something "art"... for something to truly be considered an "art form", you -have- to be able to take criticism. Movies will get critiqued because of the content that's in them. Painting, comics, books, all of these other art forms will also be. And yes this will include depiction of subjects tying into various social issues. Because true art can and -will- often be the results of the political contexts it's been produced into.
So it's like these folks don't know whether the games they so rabidly defends truly should be just toys exempt/unworthy of criticism, or truly is an art form that can thus be a subject of criticism.
It's like these folks want the cream of the butter and the money of it's sale both. Ontop of seemingly doing their best to actually give reason to the likes of Jack Thompson's rants back in the 90ies.
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What I don't get is how this got to this point. I heard about Zoe Quinn, figured "eh, whatever, sounds like she's annoying or something, I guess some people are upset with her", and then suddenly there's like this, war about it and people are threatening Annita Sarkasian and Brianna Wu. It's confusing. I mean, really, deeply confusing. I'm used to seeing madness on the internet, but this is just weird.
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Just goes to show that fanaticism and ignorance to both fact and history generally go hand in hand.
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This entire thing is making me ashamed to have ever called myself a "gamer" at all.
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Annita is a tad silly with her remarks on how that Dixie Kong wears pink or Ms. Pacman wears a bow makes them everything wrong with how women are portrayed in video games, but it is nothing to get violent over!
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Very much. And even if it can be silly.. here's the thing.
By it's very nature, criticism is -subjective-. It represents one particular point of view. Journalistic objectivity, to a degree, does not exist. And if games are an art form, they -should- be allowed to be the subject of subjective criticism like any other art forms have been throughout history.The criticism that impressionists painters received in the 19th century is a much different deal than the criticism today's critics will give it, for example. All criticism by it's very basis is subjective to the thoughts and beliefs of the writer at the end of the day. And all beliefs are by their very definitions prone to changes, or else we would still be vilifying the impressionists painters of the 19th century rather than now lauding them.
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i know next to nothing about gamersgate
other than every time i do hear something about it, it displays horrible scummy behaviour