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Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26

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NEWS Report: Man Behind Pelosi Hammer Attack Was Radicalized By Gamergate Alleged posts from David Depape's now-deleted blog suggest that he was connected to the far-right movement By Sisi Jiang Published 2 hours ago | Comments (17) | Alerts
NEWS Report: Man Behind Pelosi Hammer Attack Was Radicalized By Gamergate Alleged posts from David Depape's now-deleted blog suggest that he was connected to the far-right movement By Sisi Jiang Published 2 hours ago | Comments (17) | Alerts

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WOMEN? IN MY GAMES??

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IT'S BEEN 7 YEARS ALREADY. AsHiON IT'S OVER. MOVE ON. SIPER GET A НОВВУ ОR SOMETHING-
IT'S BEEN 7 YEARS ALREADY. AsHiON IT'S OVER. MOVE ON. SIPER GET A НОВВУ ОR SOMETHING-

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The Activision-Blizzard Scandal Exposes The Hollowness Of The Anti-GamerGate Movement Gamers were never the reason women struggled to find a place in the video game industry. In 2014 a thing happened called GamerGate. It was a weird time. I wish Adam Baldwin had never coined the term. Gamers were upset about "ethics in video game journalism" among many other things. I won't go into all the unpleasant details, but I'll offer up a very brief account of what happened. Gamers were enraged when discussion of Eron Gjoni's post about his ex Zoe Quinn was shut down on basically every online forum. The post-which included accusations of allegedly unethical dealings between Quinn (a game developer) and a game journalist Quinn was in a brief relationship with-was seen as an ethical red flag and people were eager to discuss it. Instead of letting that discussion take place so that the whole thing could fizzle out, the powers that be tried to stifle the conversation-on reddit, in comments at gaming sites, even at 4chan (which is why we have 8chan and whatever the new version of that is, and indirectly sort of why QAnon is a thing). As we all know, shutting down conversation usually has the opposite effect. Things got worse and worse from there. That's one of several reasons I'm not a fan of censorship. Gamers are dead. After this, the Op/Eds started dropping-because hey, if you can't shut down the discussion you may as well douse it in gasoline and light a match. Things kicked off with Leigh Alexander's infamous "gamers are dead" piece at Gamasutra. That piece was aped by a couple dozen other writers at various outlets, all slamming gamers as evil neckbeards (incel wasn't a term yet) who hate women and who were trying to drive women out of the video game industry with their rampant misogyny. This was, to put it mildly, a gross overreaction that broke the internet's first rule of thumb: Don't feed the trolls. Not only did it smear all the gamers who were actually concerned about ethics issues in the game industry (many of whom were the same people upset by the Mass Effect 3 ending, and video game publishers in general) it gave actual trolls plenty to work with. Flame wars ensued. We hear a lot about the online harassment that took place, but nobody every wants to talk about the degree to which this was provoked and invited by the very people denouncing it. The sheer amount of clickbait was staggering. I can't even recall how many "concerned" articles I read that were clearly just attempts at driving traffic via conflict. A lot a lot. Frankly, nobody looked good after the dust settled. I felt like I needed a month- long shower. It very nearly broke my brain (and then along came Trump, just two years later to finish off the job). To me, this exposed many things about many people, including the ideologically driven nature of the gaming press and the willingness of gamers-as a crowd-to follow whoever would speak up for them, even if it meant following Milo, a man who gave exactly two s---- about video games, gamers or the industry, who saw all of it merely as a jumping off point to a much more fabulous career championing his own weird brand of right-wing politics-aka, trolling the libs. Lost in all of this was the real story. And so we come to the Activision-Blizzard lawsuit which alleges both harassment and discrimination at the World Of Warcraft and Call Of Duty maker. The Real Enemy What the anti-GamerGate movement missed, obviously, was the real problem facing women in the video game industry: The industry itself. The institutional hurdles facing women in video games at video game companies. The bad people who worked at these publishers. Why waste precious time writing about how awful these incel gamers are when the real villains, the mustache-twirling m------------, are the ones in the high towers calling the shots, not holding their managers accountable, not paying their employees well enough, burdening their developers with crunch, turning a blind eye to rampant sexual harassment, laying off hundreds or thousands of employees while laughing all the way to the bank with their bonuses and stock options and massive profits? Sure, there are plenty of bad, racist, sexist annoying gamers also. The video game community can absolutely suck at times (anyone who plays competitive games knows this) but you can't change human nature. You can, on the other hand, hold companies' feet to the fire. Or you can try. That's why I think the anti-GG movement was so hollow, so pointless, so much about virtue signaling and having some fun fanning the culture war flames rather than making the video game industry better-the exact sort of movement that would inspire quite possibly the worst episode of Law & Order: SVU ever made. It's not hard. It's not hard to attack "teh gamerz" or any other amorphous group. The "basket of deplorables" or the "commies" or whatever "other" you want to attack. Frankly, many within GamerGate fell prey to the same b-------, often taking sides with game publishers against journalists, as though that's going to solve the problems with the game industry. Meanwhile, the real assholes keep getting away with it, whether these are businessmen or politicians, bankers or game publishers. Revelations about abuse at Ubisoft Singapore (and throughout that company) and at Activision-Blizzard should be viewed as the tip of the iceberg. The rot runs deep. If you think it's limited to just a couple publishers, think again. I'm sure there are some studios where this kind of thing isn't tolerated, but even "woke" developers like Naughty Dog have been exposed as altogether too willing to employ crunch to get a game like The Last Of Us Part II out. Here's my point: GamerGate was a deeply flawed movement, but it sprung up out of a sense that game journalists didn't represent consumer interests, that instead they were industry shills, bought and paid for by the big publishers. Game journalists kept taking the industry's side over and over again, as we saw during the Mass Effect 3 scandal (silly entitled gamers!) and plenty of others. Now, fast forward seven years and we see the that the true rot in the industry is clearly at the dark heart of these massive corporations; that people were rightfully concerned that journalists were too cozy with these entities, flown off to lavish preview events, wined and dined at conferences, showered with swag and so forth. Mistrust in the media is at all time highs for a reason. Whatever the case, something needs to change. I'm just not sure anything meaningful really will.
The Activision-Blizzard Scandal Exposes The Hollowness Of The Anti-GamerGate Movement Gamers were never the reason women struggled to find a place in the video game industry. In 2014 a thing happened called GamerGate. It was a weird time. I wish Adam Baldwin had never coined the term. Gamers were upset about "ethics in video game journalism" among many other things. I won't go into all the unpleasant details, but I'll offer up a very brief account of what happened. Gamers were enraged when discussion of Eron Gjoni's post about his ex Zoe Quinn was shut down on basically every online forum. The post-which included accusations of allegedly unethical dealings between Quinn (a game developer) and a game journalist Quinn was in a brief relationship with-was seen as an ethical red flag and people were eager to discuss it. Instead of letting that discussion take place so that the whole thing could fizzle out, the powers that be tried to stifle the conversation-on reddit, in comments at gaming sites, even at 4chan (which is why we have 8chan and whatever the new version of that is, and indirectly sort of why QAnon is a thing). As we all know, shutting down conversation usually has the opposite effect. Things got worse and worse from there. That's one of several reasons I'm not a fan of censorship. Gamers are dead. After this, the Op/Eds started dropping-because hey, if you can't shut down the discussion you may as well douse it in gasoline and light a match. Things kicked off with Leigh Alexander's infamous "gamers are dead" piece at Gamasutra. That piece was aped by a couple dozen other writers at various outlets, all slamming gamers as evil neckbeards (incel wasn't a term yet) who hate women and who were trying to drive women out of the video game industry with their rampant misogyny. This was, to put it mildly, a gross overreaction that broke the internet's first rule of thumb: Don't feed the trolls. Not only did it smear all the gamers who were actually concerned about ethics issues in the game industry (many of whom were the same people upset by the Mass Effect 3 ending, and video game publishers in general) it gave actual trolls plenty to work with. Flame wars ensued. We hear a lot about the online harassment that took place, but nobody every wants to talk about the degree to which this was provoked and invited by the very people denouncing it. The sheer amount of clickbait was staggering. I can't even recall how many "concerned" articles I read that were clearly just attempts at driving traffic via conflict. A lot a lot. Frankly, nobody looked good after the dust settled. I felt like I needed a month- long shower. It very nearly broke my brain (and then along came Trump, just two years later to finish off the job). To me, this exposed many things about many people, including the ideologically driven nature of the gaming press and the willingness of gamers-as a crowd-to follow whoever would speak up for them, even if it meant following Milo, a man who gave exactly two s---- about video games, gamers or the industry, who saw all of it merely as a jumping off point to a much more fabulous career championing his own weird brand of right-wing politics-aka, trolling the libs. Lost in all of this was the real story. And so we come to the Activision-Blizzard lawsuit which alleges both harassment and discrimination at the World Of Warcraft and Call Of Duty maker. The Real Enemy What the anti-GamerGate movement missed, obviously, was the real problem facing women in the video game industry: The industry itself. The institutional hurdles facing women in video games at video game companies. The bad people who worked at these publishers. Why waste precious time writing about how awful these incel gamers are when the real villains, the mustache-twirling m------------, are the ones in the high towers calling the shots, not holding their managers accountable, not paying their employees well enough, burdening their developers with crunch, turning a blind eye to rampant sexual harassment, laying off hundreds or thousands of employees while laughing all the way to the bank with their bonuses and stock options and massive profits? Sure, there are plenty of bad, racist, sexist annoying gamers also. The video game community can absolutely suck at times (anyone who plays competitive games knows this) but you can't change human nature. You can, on the other hand, hold companies' feet to the fire. Or you can try. That's why I think the anti-GG movement was so hollow, so pointless, so much about virtue signaling and having some fun fanning the culture war flames rather than making the video game industry better-the exact sort of movement that would inspire quite possibly the worst episode of Law & Order: SVU ever made. It's not hard. It's not hard to attack "teh gamerz" or any other amorphous group. The "basket of deplorables" or the "commies" or whatever "other" you want to attack. Frankly, many within GamerGate fell prey to the same b-------, often taking sides with game publishers against journalists, as though that's going to solve the problems with the game industry. Meanwhile, the real assholes keep getting away with it, whether these are businessmen or politicians, bankers or game publishers. Revelations about abuse at Ubisoft Singapore (and throughout that company) and at Activision-Blizzard should be viewed as the tip of the iceberg. The rot runs deep. If you think it's limited to just a couple publishers, think again. I'm sure there are some studios where this kind of thing isn't tolerated, but even "woke" developers like Naughty Dog have been exposed as altogether too willing to employ crunch to get a game like The Last Of Us Part II out. Here's my point: GamerGate was a deeply flawed movement, but it sprung up out of a sense that game journalists didn't represent consumer interests, that instead they were industry shills, bought and paid for by the big publishers. Game journalists kept taking the industry's side over and over again, as we saw during the Mass Effect 3 scandal (silly entitled gamers!) and plenty of others. Now, fast forward seven years and we see the that the true rot in the industry is clearly at the dark heart of these massive corporations; that people were rightfully concerned that journalists were too cozy with these entities, flown off to lavish preview events, wined and dined at conferences, showered with swag and so forth. Mistrust in the media is at all time highs for a reason. Whatever the case, something needs to change. I'm just not sure anything meaningful really will.

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How do you do, fellow gamers?

dHY GRI Kathy Griffin O @kathygriffin A HELL OF A STORY Hey techie, smarty pants followers of mine! Do you think what happened with my trump photo scandal being such an international overblown outrage could have been because of this "GamerGate" thing l'm just learning about? 8:47 AM · 24 Jan 21 · Twitter for iPad 77 Retweets220 Quote Tweets 957 Likes MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW GAMERS?
dHY GRI Kathy Griffin O @kathygriffin A HELL OF A STORY Hey techie, smarty pants followers of mine! Do you think what happened with my trump photo scandal being such an international overblown outrage could have been because of this "GamerGate" thing l'm just learning about? 8:47 AM · 24 Jan 21 · Twitter for iPad 77 Retweets220 Quote Tweets 957 Likes MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW GAMERS?

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Madeleine Roux blaming the GamerGate textbook for revealing Krystina Arielle's anti-white tweets

Madeleine Roux Follow @Authoroux First, no she didn't Second, this is the same G*mer G*te textbook horse s--- they've pulled on me and countless others. Learn the pattern, folks, they have exactly one move. Jack Posobiec 000 @JackPosobiec Star Wars: The High Republic Host Krystina Arielle Calls All White People Racist AR ARS KRYSTINA ARIELLE ytnaree Newly Announced Star Wars: The High Republic Host Krystina Arielle Calls All Wh. Krystina Arielle, who recently announced she will be the host of the newly announced Star Wars: The High Republic show, appears to take issues with white. & boundingintocomics.com 11:46 AM - 22 Jan 2021
Madeleine Roux Follow @Authoroux First, no she didn't Second, this is the same G*mer G*te textbook horse s--- they've pulled on me and countless others. Learn the pattern, folks, they have exactly one move. Jack Posobiec 000 @JackPosobiec Star Wars: The High Republic Host Krystina Arielle Calls All White People Racist AR ARS KRYSTINA ARIELLE ytnaree Newly Announced Star Wars: The High Republic Host Krystina Arielle Calls All Wh. Krystina Arielle, who recently announced she will be the host of the newly announced Star Wars: The High Republic show, appears to take issues with white. & boundingintocomics.com 11:46 AM - 22 Jan 2021

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Please, make it stop.

DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm 000 Ellen Page and Paris Berelc have been cast in the gaming comedy '1UP' for BuzzFeed Studios. The film is described as being in the vein of 'Pitch Perfect' but set in the world of esports with a Gamergate backdrop. (Source: link.hollywoodreporter.com/click/21952263..) IB CAC 5:10 PM - Oct 30, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone 31 Retweets 688 Quote Tweets 633 Likes THE RIDE NEVER ENDS!!!
DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm 000 Ellen Page and Paris Berelc have been cast in the gaming comedy '1UP' for BuzzFeed Studios. The film is described as being in the vein of 'Pitch Perfect' but set in the world of esports with a Gamergate backdrop. (Source: link.hollywoodreporter.com/click/21952263..) IB CAC 5:10 PM - Oct 30, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone 31 Retweets 688 Quote Tweets 633 Likes THE RIDE NEVER ENDS!!!

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"What year is it?"


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S rainbowloliofjustice forbes.com Gaming Skill Matters To Gaming In The Same Way Reading Is Necessary To Understand Literature > Ollie Barder gamer2002 Overlooking the obvious fact that if you are writing about or even making games for a living then having at least a competent level of gaming skill is necessary, much in the same way being able to read is important if you want to comprehend literature. The real issue here is that there are those that don't want to acknowledge that gaming skill is a valid form of expertise. There are reasons as to why this situation has come about but it's mainly to do with how the games industry is now currently structured. In a political sense, if gaming expertise were to be openly acknowledged as being useful to the medium then most people in publishing would be out of a job. daisenseiben Here we all were, innocently chucking rocks at the gaming press, when Old Man Forbes walks up and shoots it in the head. zerotide ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS GIT GUD Source: gamer2002
S rainbowloliofjustice forbes.com Gaming Skill Matters To Gaming In The Same Way Reading Is Necessary To Understand Literature > Ollie Barder gamer2002 Overlooking the obvious fact that if you are writing about or even making games for a living then having at least a competent level of gaming skill is necessary, much in the same way being able to read is important if you want to comprehend literature. The real issue here is that there are those that don't want to acknowledge that gaming skill is a valid form of expertise. There are reasons as to why this situation has come about but it's mainly to do with how the games industry is now currently structured. In a political sense, if gaming expertise were to be openly acknowledged as being useful to the medium then most people in publishing would be out of a job. daisenseiben Here we all were, innocently chucking rocks at the gaming press, when Old Man Forbes walks up and shoots it in the head. zerotide ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS GIT GUD Source: gamer2002

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Journalists in the 1950s: Journalist now: The mafia might kill me but FI follow the story anyways Some gamer called me gay so l need a 1 month vacation
Journalists in the 1950s: Journalist now: The mafia might kill me but FI follow the story anyways Some gamer called me gay so l need a 1 month vacation

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It will never end

2030 20 GAMERGATE Est 2014 GAMSRGATE 14 personal responsability- PPeople who disagree People who
2030 20 GAMERGATE Est 2014 GAMSRGATE 14 personal responsability- PPeople who disagree People who

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It's time to stop.

JOURNALISTS STOP IT GAMERGATE WAS IN 2014 GET SOME HELP 6,
JOURNALISTS STOP IT GAMERGATE WAS IN 2014 GET SOME HELP 6,

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According to some of the press

Opinion Everything is Gamergate
Opinion Everything is Gamergate

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5 years on .... the fear remains

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Game Journalism for Dummies

Game Journalism for Dummies 1.) Major in Journalism with a minor in Gender Studies 3.) Use your Gender Studies lense to find every single non-issue in a game 4.) Write article complaining about the biggest non-issue you can find in the game, demanding the non-issue be "fixed." 5.) If the gaming company caves, cool, move on to the next game and start over from step 3. If they don't cave, move on to step 6 6.) Choose "marginalized" community and use your Gender Studies lense to figure out how the non-issue "harms" that community 7.) Write article accusing the gaming companies of being "bigots" for their refusal to "help" the marginalized community 8.) Label any criticism of you as "hatred of the marginalized community" 9.) If anyone from the marginalized group criticizes you, call them sockpuppets or accuse them of having internalized (insert 'ism' here) 10.) Collect money from rage clicks, move on to next game, and return to step 3 Brought to you by: The Game Journos "We hate you, and we like it that way."
Game Journalism for Dummies 1.) Major in Journalism with a minor in Gender Studies 3.) Use your Gender Studies lense to find every single non-issue in a game 4.) Write article complaining about the biggest non-issue you can find in the game, demanding the non-issue be "fixed." 5.) If the gaming company caves, cool, move on to the next game and start over from step 3. If they don't cave, move on to step 6 6.) Choose "marginalized" community and use your Gender Studies lense to figure out how the non-issue "harms" that community 7.) Write article accusing the gaming companies of being "bigots" for their refusal to "help" the marginalized community 8.) Label any criticism of you as "hatred of the marginalized community" 9.) If anyone from the marginalized group criticizes you, call them sockpuppets or accuse them of having internalized (insert 'ism' here) 10.) Collect money from rage clicks, move on to next game, and return to step 3 Brought to you by: The Game Journos "We hate you, and we like it that way."

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An anon provides some interesting insight into the politicization of games and the game journos behind it.

O Anonymous 03/19/19 Tue 15:53:10 No.455102790 22455102902224551032472245510382722455104056 >>45510494322455105180 >455105329 he 455105731 455106318 455 0 532 450107 57 455 1077 了 eb4561 7793 455 i00 13 455 10864§ 455 109945 455 D MO 4551 9 1 455 109 i40 455118021455118932 4551190921551215751223394551227551243YO455125143455122455131681 455132961455133004 455133301 455133351 55134150455134637 45513492445135289513690551374545513944551 10394 455140531 Why do journos want games to be political when people who actually play them want the exact opposite? What causes the divide? Anonymous 03/19/19(Tue)16:55:34 No.455109640455109869455140765 (OP) P> This is an interesting question, and I think it has to do partially with journalism as a profession. Journalists like to claim, nowadays, that all games are inherently political, which is obviously untrue. There's nothing political about Tetris, or Super game than the creator intended. Sure, you could write a bunch of articles about the gameplay mechanics of the latest AAA game, but what about its POLITICAL message? If it doesn't have one already, you can just invent one Obviously, there are exceptions. Some games, like that last Wolfenstein game where B.J's dad had the Trump hair, are transparently political in an obnoxious, ham-fisted way. Other games, like Deus Ex, are also very political, but present their political messages intelligently. However, most games today keep their politics outside the game itself. You could play Overwatch, for example, and have no idea which characters are and aren't gay (I don't see sexuality as a political issue in and of itself, but it's often used as one). But if you read all the background material, you can figure out who's a crypto-lesbian and who's not. They don't directly inform you via gameplay, but they get progressive points anyway by telling people about is that plenty of games will be retrofitted with politics, either by the developers or the slimy world of gaming journalism, which creates the divide. Players don't analyze the game politically because they're busy playing it, journalists do because they wearit io Int you in click ni I Îİ Kliai įiclen, aari:1 If tTK2liai įlcles i ar.alx>ut pnlitlt . Ix:tipk: will cilt k on il Klll.
O Anonymous 03/19/19 Tue 15:53:10 No.455102790 22455102902224551032472245510382722455104056 >>45510494322455105180 >455105329 he 455105731 455106318 455 0 532 450107 57 455 1077 了 eb4561 7793 455 i00 13 455 10864§ 455 109945 455 D MO 4551 9 1 455 109 i40 455118021455118932 4551190921551215751223394551227551243YO455125143455122455131681 455132961455133004 455133301 455133351 55134150455134637 45513492445135289513690551374545513944551 10394 455140531 Why do journos want games to be political when people who actually play them want the exact opposite? What causes the divide? Anonymous 03/19/19(Tue)16:55:34 No.455109640455109869455140765 (OP) P> This is an interesting question, and I think it has to do partially with journalism as a profession. Journalists like to claim, nowadays, that all games are inherently political, which is obviously untrue. There's nothing political about Tetris, or Super game than the creator intended. Sure, you could write a bunch of articles about the gameplay mechanics of the latest AAA game, but what about its POLITICAL message? If it doesn't have one already, you can just invent one Obviously, there are exceptions. Some games, like that last Wolfenstein game where B.J's dad had the Trump hair, are transparently political in an obnoxious, ham-fisted way. Other games, like Deus Ex, are also very political, but present their political messages intelligently. However, most games today keep their politics outside the game itself. You could play Overwatch, for example, and have no idea which characters are and aren't gay (I don't see sexuality as a political issue in and of itself, but it's often used as one). But if you read all the background material, you can figure out who's a crypto-lesbian and who's not. They don't directly inform you via gameplay, but they get progressive points anyway by telling people about is that plenty of games will be retrofitted with politics, either by the developers or the slimy world of gaming journalism, which creates the divide. Players don't analyze the game politically because they're busy playing it, journalists do because they wearit io Int you in click ni I Îİ Kliai įiclen, aari:1 If tTK2liai įlcles i ar.alx>ut pnlitlt . Ix:tipk: will cilt k on il Klll.

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