An Issue With Agendas Why do gamers From the point of view of the journalist, their agenda is a positive thing They are trying to pet more female protagonists in games and making games trying to pet more LGBT representation in games, and trying to pet more racial diversity in games So when readers say that their sendup of Final Fantasy for having no playable female characters and the op ed about heterosexual white man being life's easiest difficulty setting" are bad because they are agenda driven, they react with confusion and hostility Its easy to assume the majority of gamers are just misogynist assholes when faced with this reaction, but in my opinion is not so black and white Gamers aren't against progress, they've just against your approach to roges supporters of bottom-up progress; which in this case is providing diverse games that mathod, tearing dows works for no mocing thair lofty standands. I wantto examine the issues with this practice, and why i【 pisses so) many games t and games chemselves. You seldom hea praise from the big sites about how the new Laca Crodt is a capable protagonist. But you will hear that she's "agiel trying to escape a man's world" that her constanc lnjuries are feeishistie and one death scene in game The joumalists behind these articles lnow that there are more clicks in a This game promoces misogyny!" article than there ave in a "This game ls a good esample of a strong female charactes" article, so almost all of thei critique trends towards the negacve We see reviews that mack a game down that this video game makes us equate kissing with killing Their method of to find something they perceive as objectionable and then denounce it. When you're told over and ver that everything you libe is terrible, its easy to become frustrated wich those doing the telling My Equality is Better Than Your Equality I believe it would be hard to find a gamer who believes that amyone should be restricted from making games, writing about games or becoming imvohred in the the ripht to pursue their goals, whether that poel is to write, to write about prevenking that, they should be removed.If everyone has the opportunity to contribute we will have more diversity of product and the market will choose who deserves an audience This is the kind of equality I, and I believe many other gamers believe in The prevailing attitude of gaming media seems to be that of equality of results Every person in this case ones who they perceive as margnalized or oppressed) deserves to enjoy the same level of success, unless you disagree with them of course So when a Semale developer or critic produces something,it cannot be criticied lest we deive more women out of the industry. If it is not nursed on a steady diet of ueved pras, we will lo these important voices in our indusitty The media needs to understand that While gaming journalists may beliave they are doing chis for the b, the delicate fowees froem criticism, this atitudo barms the creatoes COOT woest thing you can do for somsone's act is to tell them it is perfect whan it isn't When you hear nothing bur universal praise and dismiss cricicism by its very nacure, where then is t gaming industry trom cricicism you ace telling them "this is good enough, do yourselr This is what gamers hate about the modern industry, success does not seem to be achieved theough skuill, bu by playing by the nules. When chese is a megaphone" walting to crush your dreams, why divert from the narrative? wane good games. If people to take criticism then they shouldn't be in this Iindustry This is an argument that has been made since we were able to make sprites bigper than a few plooels. And we've won. The Supreme Court ruled that video games are protected under the same laws that peotect other art. Games courses exist alongside fine arts Mamy parts of development teams are known personally and professionaly s artists. Games are Now,like other forms of art they are experiencing external censorship and If someone creates a painting that you hate, a painting that you find horrible and is a representation of all that is ou still have no right to change it You can choose not to look at it or you can refuse to bay a print but the artist is under no obligation to change it based on your opinion For better or worse, everything in that painting is the choice of the actist Game critics don't seem to asp this idea Games appear to be the only art form that must appeal to and sepeesent every demographic simutaously They will demand pluryable female characters when the game was not written for a playable female character, Mighty No g, Assassin Creed Unity. They will decry freedom of choice bul into a game because if as sexist, HiIman GA ame And they wall claim 3o year old gamas are eamples of modens societal issues Drogon's Lair,Ms Pa The trapc part is that these were the people who led the"games are art" charpe They campaigned for legitimacy and respect for our medium and when they got it they set about burning it down They told game developers Yes what you made is art, now lets start talking about how your art can What I, and I believe marry gamers would love to see is less attacking of tng and more provision of against diversity of sex, race or sersual oeientation on sczeen or in would just trips. Yelling at a game for featuring peimacily white men is the negative approach, providing oppoctunities for minority dvelopers to gee th industry and change that is the positive Tearing down a game bacause it uses he negative approach, trying to go gicls insoested in ga and ented as all things forcaed upon you are. If it comes Erom a grasstoots movemet, it will be much mone lkely to be embraced as a cepeesentation of This is why gamers loved The Fine attacking video games, it wasn't teling us that wonen are special by their a wary to show the wold "Women have good ideas for video games too and we're going to prove they can make money" The reason it got funded Is not spite, it is because this is the way we wan to see women succeed in the gaming industry, on the strength of their ideas, not the It's all about the money And at the end of the day, thats a major issue with an agenda driven crusade Games developers and games publishers, while they have varying degrees of passion for the art, are driven by money For years gamers have bought wha they're currently buying, games like CoD, Assassin's Creed and Battlefield are licenses to print money, so diverting from the foremula that made these for not being diverse enough, not being going to fall on deaf ears when they see that they made 1.3 bilion dollars last There will be token efforts of course; such hiring "consultants" and engaging with these big as video games, none of the big companies want to be the first to take a drastic risk To change what is produced in the industry, you cannot relr on changing the current mindsets of the people in power, you need to focus on getting people into the industry But the cucrent practice is the opposite of this, it breaks down into a vicious cycle of Journalists decry video games- game devs make token efforts->It isn't good enough-Journalists decry video games I level, but in If these game journalists are true believers and not just clickbaiters they meed to see the necessity of breaking that cycle If a particularh egregious example of sexism or racism agpears ina video game, by all means report on , but that cannot be the sum of your efforts When you ignone effoets to pet womer into gaming like The Fine Yong Capitalists in favour of writing anticles about how gamers are dead it comes across as abhorrently self serving You are shouting from a platform about an issue while real people are below you If you tnuly believe the best way tox video games is to do whar you currently doing, thin I won't change your mind. You'se going to call ma a seyou'll just asume I'm scill to tell you that what we hace is gamer but the means bry which you addeess it We doet hate women in gaming Jade are all great examples of women whose success in gaming came as a result od chele skill, not their gender do is hate women and promote misogyny, we will stand in your way

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu

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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An Issue With Agendas Why do gamers From the point of view of the journalist, their agenda is a positive thing They are trying to pet more female protagonists in games and making games trying to pet more LGBT representation in games, and trying to pet more racial diversity in games So when readers say that their sendup of Final Fantasy for having no playable female characters and the op ed about heterosexual white man being life's easiest difficulty setting" are bad because they are agenda driven, they react with confusion and hostility Its easy to assume the majority of gamers are just misogynist assholes when faced with this reaction, but in my opinion is not so black and white Gamers aren't against progress, they've just against your approach to roges supporters of bottom-up progress; which in this case is providing diverse games that mathod, tearing dows works for no mocing thair lofty standands. I wantto examine the issues with this practice, and why i【 pisses so) many games t and games chemselves. You seldom hea praise from the big sites about how the new Laca Crodt is a capable protagonist. But you will hear that she's "agiel trying to escape a man's world" that her constanc lnjuries are feeishistie and one death scene in game The joumalists behind these articles lnow that there are more clicks in a This game promoces misogyny!" article than there ave in a "This game ls a good esample of a strong female charactes" article, so almost all of thei critique trends towards the negacve We see reviews that mack a game down that this video game makes us equate kissing with killing Their method of to find something they perceive as objectionable and then denounce it. When you're told over and ver that everything you libe is terrible, its easy to become frustrated wich those doing the telling My Equality is Better Than Your Equality I believe it would be hard to find a gamer who believes that amyone should be restricted from making games, writing about games or becoming imvohred in the the ripht to pursue their goals, whether that poel is to write, to write about prevenking that, they should be removed.If everyone has the opportunity to contribute we will have more diversity of product and the market will choose who deserves an audience This is the kind of equality I, and I believe many other gamers believe in The prevailing attitude of gaming media seems to be that of equality of results Every person in this case ones who they perceive as margnalized or oppressed) deserves to enjoy the same level of success, unless you disagree with them of course So when a Semale developer or critic produces something,it cannot be criticied lest we deive more women out of the industry. If it is not nursed on a steady diet of ueved pras, we will lo these important voices in our indusitty The media needs to understand that While gaming journalists may beliave they are doing chis for the b, the delicate fowees froem criticism, this atitudo barms the creatoes COOT woest thing you can do for somsone's act is to tell them it is perfect whan it isn't When you hear nothing bur universal praise and dismiss cricicism by its very nacure, where then is t gaming industry trom cricicism you ace telling them "this is good enough, do yourselr This is what gamers hate about the modern industry, success does not seem to be achieved theough skuill, bu by playing by the nules. When chese is a megaphone" walting to crush your dreams, why divert from the narrative? wane good games. If people to take criticism then they shouldn't be in this Iindustry This is an argument that has been made since we were able to make sprites bigper than a few plooels. And we've won. The Supreme Court ruled that video games are protected under the same laws that peotect other art. Games courses exist alongside fine arts Mamy parts of development teams are known personally and professionaly s artists. Games are Now,like other forms of art they are experiencing external censorship and If someone creates a painting that you hate, a painting that you find horrible and is a representation of all that is ou still have no right to change it You can choose not to look at it or you can refuse to bay a print but the artist is under no obligation to change it based on your opinion For better or worse, everything in that painting is the choice of the actist Game critics don't seem to asp this idea Games appear to be the only art form that must appeal to and sepeesent every demographic simutaously They will demand pluryable female characters when the game was not written for a playable female character, Mighty No g, Assassin Creed Unity. They will decry freedom of choice bul into a game because if as sexist, HiIman GA ame And they wall claim 3o year old gamas are eamples of modens societal issues Drogon's Lair,Ms Pa The trapc part is that these were the people who led the"games are art" charpe They campaigned for legitimacy and respect for our medium and when they got it they set about burning it down They told game developers Yes what you made is art, now lets start talking about how your art can What I, and I believe marry gamers would love to see is less attacking of tng and more provision of against diversity of sex, race or sersual oeientation on sczeen or in would just trips. Yelling at a game for featuring peimacily white men is the negative approach, providing oppoctunities for minority dvelopers to gee th industry and change that is the positive Tearing down a game bacause it uses he negative approach, trying to go gicls insoested in ga and ented as all things forcaed upon you are. If it comes Erom a grasstoots movemet, it will be much mone lkely to be embraced as a cepeesentation of This is why gamers loved The Fine attacking video games, it wasn't teling us that wonen are special by their a wary to show the wold "Women have good ideas for video games too and we're going to prove they can make money" The reason it got funded Is not spite, it is because this is the way we wan to see women succeed in the gaming industry, on the strength of their ideas, not the It's all about the money And at the end of the day, thats a major issue with an agenda driven crusade Games developers and games publishers, while they have varying degrees of passion for the art, are driven by money For years gamers have bought wha they're currently buying, games like CoD, Assassin's Creed and Battlefield are licenses to print money, so diverting from the foremula that made these for not being diverse enough, not being going to fall on deaf ears when they see that they made 1.3 bilion dollars last There will be token efforts of course; such hiring "consultants" and engaging with these big as video games, none of the big companies want to be the first to take a drastic risk To change what is produced in the industry, you cannot relr on changing the current mindsets of the people in power, you need to focus on getting people into the industry But the cucrent practice is the opposite of this, it breaks down into a vicious cycle of Journalists decry video games- game devs make token efforts->It isn't good enough-Journalists decry video games I level, but in If these game journalists are true believers and not just clickbaiters they meed to see the necessity of breaking that cycle If a particularh egregious example of sexism or racism agpears ina video game, by all means report on , but that cannot be the sum of your efforts When you ignone effoets to pet womer into gaming like The Fine Yong Capitalists in favour of writing anticles about how gamers are dead it comes across as abhorrently self serving You are shouting from a platform about an issue while real people are below you If you tnuly believe the best way tox video games is to do whar you currently doing, thin I won't change your mind. You'se going to call ma a seyou'll just asume I'm scill to tell you that what we hace is gamer but the means bry which you addeess it We doet hate women in gaming Jade are all great examples of women whose success in gaming came as a result od chele skill, not their gender do is hate women and promote misogyny, we will stand in your way

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Or even better:

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