Granted it was during a bleak period of my life when I was so reactionary. But my god, to think these goobers are still around today, still doing racism and sexism, just moving from target to target to take out the impotent rage on.
Just reminded of it today with the “discourse” of Yasuke being in Ass Creed and G*mers changing any woman not white and waifish with AI.
👵 Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… I think back then I was SRS and an anarchist 🤷♀️
I had a reactionary period of my life as a young teen and I value it. It gave me a window into their mindset that I use to understand it and better my criticism of it. I grew up a pretty devout catholic, for example, and that enables me to not have boilerplate reddit atheist criticism of it. I go for the soft spots. The real juicy morsels.
When gamergate dropped I was dating and living with a “not like other girls” woman but luckily neither of us got invested into it despite being a little “primed” so to speak. If I had been some doomer incel maybe I’d have gotten into it but the bullet was dodged. I still had some reactionary views and lots of room to grow and still do but that’s life. It is a process and anyone who has 100% “correct opinions” is regurgitating something they were told without really thinking aboutit, a liar, or they’ve never been tested.
It’s okay to look back and go “yeesh those were dark days” but don’t be too hard on your younger self. You wouldn’t be here without them and think about how much weirder it would be to have those growing pains now. Think about other dumb shit we do as kids like climbing a tree only to fall and break an arm. I’d rather use youthful bone growth at 14 than 45.
For about five minutes I was interested in the fake “ethics in game journalism” thing before I saw all the death threats and hilarious racism. During that time I also watched some cring new atheist “debunk the creationists” slop, then they also got racist/sexist/transphobic lmao. They really can’t hide it for long huh.
Anyway then I became a godless queer authoritankie
I still don’t know what gamergate was and I have no interest in learning. I feel like it would just be a complete waste of time. I think it had something to do with a bunch of nerds being angry a woman was taking games seriously as art and critiquing them as such?
I think it had something to do with a bunch of nerds being angry a woman was taking games seriously as art and critiquing them as such?
That’s as good an explanation as you’re going to find about it. Far right operatives latched onto them and juiced it up which is why it wouldn’t go away
Even dumber than that, it was kicked off by a jilted boyfriend who aired out their dirty laundry on Tumblr and the whole discourse centered around how women keep getting a pass for everything.
But yeah, life is too short and precious to spend any of it caring about gamergate.
every time you mention Dan Olson some reactionary chud comes out of the woodwork to say “umm you mean the guy that posted CP on 8kun?” oh shut the fuck up you lying sack of shit.
For real? I don’t think I’ve noticed that so far, though it wouldn’t surprise me. Dan’s been styling on chuds for a long time. I suspect his reading of fight club as a feminist critique of toxic masculinity left a core trauma for some of these bozos
The best thing about the whole to me was that it showed how reactionary most g*mers are, and it soured me forever on being in any video game related online spaces unless they explicitly don’t allow reactionaries.
The other day I logged onto my private server for FFXI and I saw someone with the username “didyouassumemygender” and I was like “great”
