All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
The "sleeping around" thing was a total fabrication of her jilted ex.
All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
Excellent. Fuck Gamergate.
Honestly, I'm surprised the movement is still going. You'd think assholes on the internet would have gotten bored by now but for some reason, some people have such vapid lives that they really have nothing better to do than harass women online every day for years.
All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
Excellent. Fuck Gamergate.
Honestly, I'm surprised the movement is still going. You'd think assholes on the internet would have gotten bored by now but for some reason, some people have such vapid lives that they really have nothing better to do than harass women online every day for years.
I think you forgot to sign into your other account before making that post, mate.
You've played her game? I know a few people who suffered with depression and they thought her game captured the disease pretty well, actually.
You have this mixed up. Phil Fish made a game, took a shit (on Japanese developers), went to sleep, and then started calling everybody names the next day. I don't know where Zoe Quinn fits in.
why is that all you know? there are a lot of resources out there that explain what actually happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=135783202#post135783202
I mentioned this before but they spread out to other fandoms. For example... Last year, several offshoots poisoned the nomination phase of the Hugo awards (Scifi & Fantasy) with by filling them with relatively unknown works from an uber conservative publishing house: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/hugo-awards-controversy
Serious question: why aren't these threads in OT? Seems to have very little to do with, you know, gaming. Just a chance for virtue signalling/misogyny.
I'd wager no more than a handful of people of GAF have ever met the people concerned and can offer a reasoned view. Can't we just leave it alone? Seems like these threads are just wastelands of banning and accusations, hardly healthy discussion. Keep the SJW vs MRA shit on Twitter where it belongs?
I've probably offended someone with this post, but I really see little debate or evidence just two sides shouting "No you're a monster!" At each other.
That makes sense. It seems like GamerGate started from one bitter ex-boyfriend piggybacking off of all the pathetic misogynist manchildren out there in the world who are just looking for reasons to attack women for not liking them. Redpillers, MRAs, and so on. And then the internet echo chamber effect keeps it going?I mentioned this before but they spread out to other fandoms. For example... Last year, several offshoots poisoned the nomination phase of the Hugo awards (Scifi & Fantasy) with by filling them with relatively unknown works from an uber conservative publishing house: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/hugo-awards-controversy
All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
It's a tired formula that's been repeated over 200 times already. It's one of a few formula that gets repeated ad nauseam whenever a thread gets posted with one of the targets for gamergate in the thread title:
That makes sense. It seems like GamerGate started from one bitter ex-boyfriend piggybacking off of all the pathetic misogynist manchildren out there in the world who are just looking for reasons to attack women for not liking them. Redpillers, MRAs, and so on. And then the internet echo chamber effect keeps it going?
First off, that's terrible that her ex started that nasty rumor about her. Secondly, yes I played the game. I've had bouts of depression, but not clinically depressed or anything. Thirdly, I'm in this thread to try and learn the truth about what happened. Sorry, that I didn't spend hours researching it.
And what the hell are you talking about, with signing into another account? I'm not your mate, pal.
LOL
Thanks for the links!
What is gamegate?
Great post.
It's a tired formula that's been repeated over 200 times already. It's one of a few formula that gets repeated ad nauseam whenever a thread gets posted with one of the targets for gamergate in the thread title:
make throw away account on neogaf with the hopes of becoming a martyr for the cause → Post libelous information (that was even verified as a lie on day one) as if it were true → get banned for posting character assassinating factually incorrect libel and contributing to a trend of harassment against someone in the industry (against the TOS) that even a second's perusal of google can show was bullshit to begin with → brag on your social media platform of choice that you have become a martyr
People would have more patience for it if it wasn't the 200+th time that they've seen that exact scenario play out.
We've seen the people gloating on their threads/subreddits/subverses/imageboards that they got banned for doing the above. We've seen the accounts with 0 posts before diving into this bullshit pattern above. It's tiring and after a certain point, people stop giving a shit about caring to engage with people whose sole goal in posting on NeoGAF is getting banned so they can then show their friends that they got banned. Fuck them.
It's such a pain in the ass to get a GAF account. You have to wonder about the psyche of the type of person who would get a non-free email address and then wait months to be approved for the sole purpose of getting banned. It's like those people who create accounts and dwell on something minor only to bump a long dead thread to prove a point. Gators need state-mandated psychiatric care.
A miserable little pile of sexists. But enough talk, have at thee!
Why was the group called GamerGate?
That's partially why it was confusing to me. I thought GamerGate was just the name of the scandal like any -gate thing, but then people kept saying they are apart of or against GamerGate.
My understanding: It's about someone who used her influence with multiple men to get positive game reviews, then hid behind feminist flags when people called her on it.
Why was the group called GamerGate?
That's partially why it was confusing to me. I thought GamerGate was just the name of the scandal like any -gate thing, but then people kept saying they are apart of or against GamerGate.
"What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?"
Shame about the ban because the user name certainly fit
Yay! Hopefully this is the start of many victories.
Why was the group called GamerGate?
That's partially why it was confusing to me. I thought GamerGate was just the name of the scandal like any -gate thing, but then people kept saying they are apart of or against GamerGate.
This is good news...but it feels a bit hollow since it doesn't seem like this BS is going to stop any time soon. Christ this really all started almost 2 years ago, it's insane.
This is good news...but it feels a bit hollow since it doesn't seem like this BS is going to stop any time soon. Christ this really all started almost 2 years ago, it's insane.
Nope. Bring up to a gator that their whole movement was founded on dudes getting angry over ethics in free flash games and watch their heads melt from cognitive dissonance. Then watch them slink away while muttering 'it's not about that anymore'Why would she even go through these lengths to get positive reviews for a free therapeutical game like Depression Quest? Has any GGer ever actually thought this through?
All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
Why would she even go through these lengths to get positive reviews for a free therapeutical game like Depression Quest? Has any GGer ever actually thought this through?
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/depression-quest said:Critic Reviews
Positive:0
Mixed: 1 out of 1
Negative:0
ActionTrip
Sep 2, 2014
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While it does an okay job presenting what it is really like to have depression, it sets the player down the exactly same depression path, no matter what is chosen.
Gamergate had massive implications outside gaming. It has been an ongoing news topic -- as in, mainstream news, political news -- for a long time.
Get out of your bubbles.
Christ, people really can't help getting themselves banned, can they? Like moths to a flame.All I know about Gamergate is that it seemed to start with Zoe making a shit game, sleeping around, and then Phil Fish getting called all kinds of names for sticking up for her.
Christ, people really can't help getting themselves banned, can they? Like moths to a flame.
The funny thing is if an a gator wanted to come in here and make an actual point not based on long debunked accusations and have a discussion they probably wouldn't be instabanned. Instead they play dumb and use the 'all I know about gg is x' format. They literally have the intelligence and reasoning skills of a virus trying to multiply lol.Any kind of victory for her is good news. Fuck Gamergate.
Christ, people really can't help getting themselves banned, can they? Like moths to a flame.
Oh wow, that's even more damning for the movement's cause.Do you have an alternative explanation that's not "she whored herself out" that explains how she managed to rack up all this critical praise?
Did anybody get mad any other time the dev/pub side of the industry got too cozy with the critical side ... say over ad revenue?
Not that I'm accusing Zoe of actually doing anything wrong, because it clearly looks like a smearjob, just curious if the vitriol and hate was ever directed at anyone else over actual bullshittery.
If I recall, she was also harassed and is still receiving said harassment, too.