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Did I mention already how this shit is getting way out of hand? Yeah, pretty sure I did do that. (By the way, when I say "this shit" I am, of course, not talking about that article itself, but the asinine #GamerGate bullshit that is the subject of the article, just to be crystal clear.)
Also, I didn't even know that the term apparently originated from, or at least was popularized by, Adam Baldwin... someone who has long been a voice of importance in the video game industry??? Apparently? ō_ô Oh well, if nothing else, he fits right in with all the other asshats like Breitbart and the rest who are proponents of this shit, I guess.)
Found this via Wil Wheaton, in a weird roundabout way via Tumblr, via Facebook. And before you (of the hypothetical variety) get all uppity about how Wil Wheaton has just as much or as little say in this sort of thing as Adam Baldwin does... have you been paying attention to Wil Wheaton at all for the past decade or more? The dude's a nerd through and through (and, obviously, I say that in the best possible light), so I'm much more apt to listen to his take on this sort of thing than some random douchebag like Adam Baldwin or whoever.
Lastly, and I think this is the nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned, #GamerGate (before getting that label thanks ostensibly to Mr. Baldwin) apparently had its origins in goddamn motherfucking 4chan. That, right there, should be all you need to know about this horseshit, if you're familiar even a little bit with 4chan. Note how a lot of those links in that Google search there also implicate 4chan as the source of the recent celebrity photo leaks scandal (and that, indeed, that very Wikipedia page also implicates 4chan in the scandal)? Yeah, these are the same assclowns who are now faffing around about "corruption in the game industry" or whatever. What a fucking joke.
So, yeah, in conclusion, fuck #GamerGate in the ass with a cattle-prod wrapped in necrotizing fasciitis-infused razor wire. That's my take on the whole thing, anyway.
Also, I didn't even know that the term apparently originated from, or at least was popularized by, Adam Baldwin... someone who has long been a voice of importance in the video game industry??? Apparently? ō_ô Oh well, if nothing else, he fits right in with all the other asshats like Breitbart and the rest who are proponents of this shit, I guess.)
Found this via Wil Wheaton, in a weird roundabout way via Tumblr, via Facebook. And before you (of the hypothetical variety) get all uppity about how Wil Wheaton has just as much or as little say in this sort of thing as Adam Baldwin does... have you been paying attention to Wil Wheaton at all for the past decade or more? The dude's a nerd through and through (and, obviously, I say that in the best possible light), so I'm much more apt to listen to his take on this sort of thing than some random douchebag like Adam Baldwin or whoever.
Lastly, and I think this is the nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned, #GamerGate (before getting that label thanks ostensibly to Mr. Baldwin) apparently had its origins in goddamn motherfucking 4chan. That, right there, should be all you need to know about this horseshit, if you're familiar even a little bit with 4chan. Note how a lot of those links in that Google search there also implicate 4chan as the source of the recent celebrity photo leaks scandal (and that, indeed, that very Wikipedia page also implicates 4chan in the scandal)? Yeah, these are the same assclowns who are now faffing around about "corruption in the game industry" or whatever. What a fucking joke.
So, yeah, in conclusion, fuck #GamerGate in the ass with a cattle-prod wrapped in necrotizing fasciitis-infused razor wire. That's my take on the whole thing, anyway.
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Date: 2014-10-18 03:07 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2014-10-18 03:51 pm (UTC)From:Or, at least, it started that way, but was then co-opted by right-wing idiots like Adam Baldwin and Andrew Breitbart (who almost assuredly only really care about the so-called "issue" to the extent that it gets them ratings or page views or followers on Twitter or whatever), and then turned into the Next Big Thing™, apparently now worthy enough to be reported on by the likes of the New York Times or whatever.
These GamerGate twits aren't representative of gamers, in particular, or Americans, in general. It's kind of like how the Ku Klux Klan, Lord's Resistance Army, or Westboro Baptist
CultChurch aren't representative in any real, meaningful way of the majority of Christians, or how ISIS or al-Qaeda aren't representative of the majority of Muslims. Yeah, it may be a bit hyperbolic to compare these doofuses to terrorists like that, but still... that's about how mainstream these guys are, in reality. The problem, in this case, is that most people at least for now seem to be treating the GamerGate guys as though their stance is something to actually be considered and debated seriously and not simply dismissed out of hand like the travesty that it really is. There are actual, real problems with the ethics of video game journalism and the industry as a whole that are getting buried under the unwarranted mountains of vitriol and horseshit (and death/rape threats) that the GamerGate guys are spewing, all because some girl who happened to be a video game developer happened to fuck some dude who happened to be a video game journalist a couple months ago.The entire thing has been blown hugely out of proportion. It was just 4chan throwing crap at a wall like they always do and hoping something would stick, and this time it seems to have stuck, at least for the time being. If anything good comes out of this, maybe it will be, finally, the rest of society collectively standing up and telling these morons to sit down, shut up, and grow the hell up already, once and for all. I'm not going to hold my breath on that, though. ¬_¬