Optipess author comes out as full aGG
I don't understand. What does one gain from drinking kool-aid? Why do people let others think for them?
Posted Apr 16, 2016, 4:25 AM UTC
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Devil's advocate: That's pretty slim pickings on which to hang an anti sign. I read that as having a dig at drive-by trolls who think they've won the internet by being obnoxious to everyone they meet, not just GGers.
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I thought so too, so I checked his Twitter account last night, and lo, there was a tweet that said "oh yeah, fuck #gamergate." He deleted the tweet, but you can still see all of the replies where people are giving him shit about it.
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The sort of hard-core gamers who are socially retarded and don’t get out much and had never gotten criticized before went completely and utterly apeshit and started howling about how people were being mean to them and oppressing them.
Can somebody tell that guy to stop projecting so much? It's starting to hurt my eyes. I'll address his points here because I don't want that guy's comment section to become a GG vs aGG battleground:
- Exact same level of criticism between games and other media.
Male power fantasy vs romantic novels, surely those romantic novels are aimed towards young men, right?. A beautiful woman in a videogame is sexual objectification, it demeans women and takes all importance from them. In painting, stuff like nude art helps exalt the ideals of beauty. And last but not least, whenever there's a shooting, journalists find out what games and music they are into, as if they had a bigger influence (because they are satanic!) than violent movies or news about the military itself.
- but hollywood and cars magazines are corrupt as well!
Frankly, I don't know why he thought that was a good defense. I don't want gaming to be just as bad as everything else, I want it to be better.
- Video games journalism isn't important.
That's his opinion. "According to the market research firm SuperData, as of May 2015, the global games market was worth USD 74.2 billion" Surely, such a big industry deserves better journalism than "Serenity Flies Again, Sort Of: Okay, it's just a cloud." level of reporting and all the missed disclosures from Kotaku.
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Because Daddy's-money Regressive hipsters are every bit the 'wailing hyper-consumer' they accuse gamers of being.
Kiss the ring and they do pay up, without any of that pesky artistic integrity or honesty that you normally have to employ to win fan loyalty.
What they don't get told, however, is that their new audience is not only anathema to your original, loyal, audience, but their make-up is roughly half magpie, half pirahna - they'll either get bored and move onto the next content creator willing to pander to them, or they'll keep a watchful eye for the slightest transgression from the cause as an excuse to tear them to shreds and parade their head on a stick to show how good an SJW they are.