they called it GamerGate because it opened a portal to a hell.
Anita Sarkeessian did nothing wrong.
Anita Sarkeessian did nothing wrong.
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But she hadn't done anything wrong at *this* point
https://anitasarkeesian.medium.com/ending-my-relationship-with-cards-against-humanity-and-max-temkin-2f25108dfeb4
At the same time, this was a state of being that lasted a very long time and (at least for my money) really damaged my ability to trust her judgment, you know?
(Had flash of reminder last night while seeing Pamela Adlon on 'Midcentury Modern'
"Huh. She's got some good points and some bad points. Whatever." I uttered as the burgeoning radicalization left my body.
and then zoey had the audacity to be more famous than their boyfriend and he took it exactly as you'd expect the proto alt right to.
#luciferdidnothingwrong
#luciferispro-human
*puts it on*
*within minutes dies from a thousand pokes*
Give em a nasty surprise
Blow off his fist if he hits you
If everyone wore Bikini armor, it wouldn't be an issue (see Monster Hunter wilds)
It would be a better world
I just also like big boobies.
Except Rise of Skywalker, I will always shit on that
I don't think I can name a single piece of media I have NO criticisms for
but also it’s one of the lowest things on my priority list of video games
But the critics are also correct, the ass and titties need a person attached to them and that person having agency helps elevate the medium and we should encourage this.
Of course, I'ma still play my Senran Kagura on occasion.
I know it's trash, but I don't care. I just want to eat/play it because it gives me serotonin.
I’m a hetero cis man, I like boobs. I enjoy when video games let you put skimpy clothes on the characters. But I also like when the female armors are cool looking and not stupid looking. BG3 was pretty good with this.
I do wish more media took the "everybody can be sexy" route
it was easy to walk away thinking that the sexiness was the issue, not the dehumanization
frankly i have little interest in having "this conversation" with you considering you're coming in treating me like a child who doesn't know that real women and fictional women are different
but sure, we don't have to have this or any other conversation.
The internet is mostly a context-shearing, low effort void though. Voicing it without a great deal of contextualising is indistinguishable from being wrong on purpose.
*starts furiously writing a scene of a trans woman hewing a platoon of corpo security officers apart with an electrified scythe*
Sarkeessian: “i agree. here is some basic media critique for sloppy babies to get the conversation going.”
Gamers: “i will now make misogyny & fascism core facets of my identity.”
FTFY
Anita made some fairly good if not great essays. She objectively made better critique then most of what existed, and firmly sturgeons laws itself as better then most of what people put out. But she dared to say the golden calf had flaws to be analyzed.
(that still feels bad to say)
*thinks about it for 5 more seconds*
"dear god, that's COMPLETELY true."
easy way to tell was they weren't ever even funny, just mean
I hate it, it's going to be an albatross around my neck in dating, but I don't blame people trying to keep themselves safe.
And your better off not looking it up
I brought up the Brits because they spent YEARS hyping up the steaming pile of shit known as Rise of the Robots.
Just didn't make sense that people were having a shitfit about integrity suddenly when they'd been one of the major names as far as I could remember, and other consoles had their own devoted mags.
A big thing to remember about gamergate was that it became clear very quickly that whatever the reason that was touted for being horrible, it was always just fragile dudes crying and other shitty dudes grifting them.
Which, ta daaaaaa
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Truly a visionary beyond all others that was killed because he was too threatening to the elites.
Unfortunately, I have my DMs set to only mutuals so this will probably not work for me. But thank you anyway.
"She got mad about the misogyny that was a Canary in a coal mine about all this shit. Imma block her and return to my goon cave"
Of course, everyone thought I was crazy back when I was pointing out stuff.
Even games where you wouldnt think it be a problem, nope there there to unfortunately.
It is not, however, this:
If that game’s developer is a woman, we must burn down western democracy forever
His reelection proved white men could lose. That enough people in this country weren't racist.
NeoConfederates lost their minds.
Gamergate is a testament to the readiness of the male ego to rationalize violence over owning its own fragility. There is not one strong Gamergater, in any sense of the word. Not one.
Even if there are some legit criticisms possible, you also don't want to give ammo to the godawful mysognists
there are flaws in the argument, you're making shit up or taking it out of context, ignoring counterpoints and presenting opinion as fact.
but "annoying" ain't even a fraction as bad as fascist so i'll stay in her corner, thanks.
Former you can at least have a discussion - latter is just asswipes that need to behave
What I am saying is these videos had factual mistakes and weak evidence. Not a reason to tar and feather a person and start a screwed up culture war rightwing cult.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Menace
You studied the Orbital Mass Driver
Blade masters got nothing on you
'I STUDIED THE WAY OF THE BLADE!'
*Gets vaporized by a steel ball travelling at near light speed*
I CAN SEE YOUR SHAME. YOUR GAME SHAME.
I guess you have GAME SHAME FAME.
Seems sus and oddly affirming of the GG falsehoods.
Strange that.
Were they terfs? I could see terfs doing that. Terfs aren't feminists. They just claim to be.
I mostly see stuff like this.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09593535241306532
To be clear, I have nothing against actual feminists. My experiences mean I just don't feel comfortable using the term for myself
Just, well, because i treat em as people
Hell, they spent years peddling the "everything is racist, everything is sexist" line despite the actual context.
Billionaire thinking on a beer budget.
People got to start realizing it's not about purity testing and not ever enjoying something with problems. It's about thinking seriously and critically about art sometimes, and that includes acknowledging flaws and discussing how/why they happened.
True to form for a narcissistic sociopath, that all changed once public opinion shifted.
One of many reasons why he's my ex.
So not all her takes were the best, but she was
Which like is not the end of the world.
Of course personally, I dislike her for her running cover for Temkin, which like she should’ve known better. Even she admits she should’ve known better.
Her: I will review video games as art by academic standards & ideas.
Them: NOT LIKE THAT!
(Years later....)
Them: If we keep burning down the country, eventually we'll kill the feminist infestation! Then modern sequels to 80's movies will make me like a kid again!
We are dealing with a global temper tantrum of dudes that desperately don't want to mature
Listen, when i was 20, i didn't know shit, apart from having a less old body i don't want to return to that
Boys are the whales because parents because patriarchy. Patrimony. Etc. ☹️
That show did some insane damage and left a lasting impression.
1) I heard rumblings about this gater thing and tried to figure out what happened. People linked multi hour YouTube discussions and ten thousand word essays but they wouldn't give the simple answer
People trying to convince themselves they're aggrieved for genuinely no cause
"What side were you on for New Atheism?"
*Dips one way*
"But you were on the right side of Gamergate"
*Scale balances*
I don't think the default, basic mode of critique is to know as little as possible about a text and its medium in order to say spicy things.
https://youtu.be/lLYWHpgIoIw?si=A_EeZkSLsdi8xBWI
"WASPs are incensed the government makes their hwait bebbee go to school with "the blacks" and start the long way to put the white man in power and give him full control"
Then says "anti-woke" critics use her model.
Showing he learned fucking /nothing/.
I remember everyone fuckin begging them to say something because they'd listen
*Have spent years defending their community from media's demonizing news saying that games create a culture of violence*
Also Gamers:
*Gamergate*
Everybody has to start somewhere and I had hoped the capital G Gamers would have more open to the discussions but whelp
Anita wasn't going to have one she deliberately avoids debates because she knows her arguments would survive contact with people who could argue even moderately well like the Titanic vs an Iceberg.
Her arguments were video game cause rape and domestic violence lol
Ended up needing that again a couple years later when I came out, lmao.
Is it a worthwhile exercise to summarize a text as negatively as possible, even at the cost of engaging with it or its medium? Sure, yeah. That perspective might contain insight.
Some time after it, we would see disgusting people like Steve Bannon bragging about how easy it was to "mobilize" gamers towards his agenda during his time at Breitbart.
...I absolutely believe it, for so many reasons :x
If you remember, it was a literal slider that allowed you to change the boob size.
The fact that small chested women /could exist/ in games was bad! XD
Well, this has been eye opening.
Shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uA9MR9G6a0
... No, not like that!"
- Gamers (TM)
Which isn't a lot, but it's sad that it happened thrice.