GamerGate - (read from bottom to top) Total Biscuit Nukes Leigh Alexander from Orbit After she Goes After Ken Levine

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Not Genna Bain Totalbiscuit Let me never become so cynical as to spend my time as Leigh Alexander does, attacking storied developers far more talented than they わta * Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscuit Following .imgur.com/FQrAHV3.png Anton Ego: In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscult Following imgur.com/lk0VaB2 Oh I see an outmoded design form, its called traditional games journalism ur # Leigh Alexander @leighalexander Follow most of the devs who have been pompously 'neutral' or in favor of GG are over a certain age and work in outmoded design forms わt3 http://archive.today/Vxnr4 14 AM-26 Feo 2015 Leigh Alexander Follow i wonder if ken levine is ever kept awake at night, haunted by how many poorly-read objectivist gamers he unwittingly created 32 PM 26 Fob 2015 https://archive.today/6Bplz Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscuit Or perhaps that's just what happens when you find your journalistic inspiration at the bottom of a bottle. Sigh. わ£7 . な Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscuit Following Takes quite a bit to push me off the fence to go after someone in particular. Going after a reasonable and talented dev will do it Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscuit Following Compared to people like that we critics, all critics, are garbage. There is no rung lower, learn some goddamn respect for your betters わ ★ な Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscuit Following The difference is some of us are happy being the best damn garbage we can be and others just resent even being in the industry at all Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscult ng If you fall into the second category, the door is right there Not Genna Bairn @Totalbiscuit Following Thankfully, most people seem to actually like being in this industry. Most games journos are good people Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscuit Following l transitioned out of industries I hated into an industry I loved and never let me forget how fortunate am to have been able to do that な Not Genna Bain @Totalbiscuit Following Here endeth the morning sermon. Go forth and enjoy videogames

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BroskiMcBroham

Feb 27, 2015 at 03:31PM EST

"Journalist inspiration from the bottom of a bottle"

I'm thoroughly enjoying my meal waiter, but it appears as if my sides have disappeared.

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WezliGiantsbane333

Feb 27, 2015 at 07:31PM EST

>I transitioned out of industries I hated into an industry I loved

I've long suspected this is a big part of the underlying reason for all the vitriol the game journos have for the gaming public; I don't think the majority of them love games.

I think they all wanted to write for SPIN or VICE or Rolling Stone, but didn't have the right connections. Or they wanted to be novelists, but didn't have the talent.

So then they thought to themselves "well, I played SMB a few times when I was a kid, I guess I'll be a games journalist," and here they are. Stuck in an industry that wasn't their first, second, or perhaps even third choice. And all that regret and resentment gets channeled at their audience, because they can't admit to themselves that they just weren't cut out to be what they wanted to be.

/rant

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