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faramir77 posted...

Gamergate still holds the record for being the most stupid, embarrassing thing that gaming as a whole has ever been associated with. Literally everyone that ever cared about it, on either side, is a fucking loser.

Gamergate was a legitimate grievance regarding gamer "journalists" literally being in bed with devs. The fact that anybody trusts gamer "journalists" at all at this point is by far the most embarrassing thing in gaming today. Afterward, you have a lot of feminist profiteers jumping in and attacking the industry to try build their personal brands, most of whom were later confirmed (or admitted) barely gamed at all.

And because the anti-GGers were so good at gaslighting and getting people to white knight, everything was written off and nothing was changed. Now things are worse than ever, with sites like Metacritic being pushed by game devs (who advertise on their platform) to restrict when reviews can be posted to ensure that shitty games where the devs bought or coerced reviews from "journalists" can't be outed by user reviews and potentially bite into sales.

And that same manipulated crowd was used by Sony to deflect criticisms aimed at the all-female Ghostbusters reboot.


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