So, since it seems to have died down a bunch by now, I feel OK about writing about gamergate.
No, I ain't capitalizing or "hash-tagging" any of that.
From the distance where I'm viewing it, the whole thing is the natural fallout of a bunch of internet shitbags getting clobbered for being the same horrible fuckjobs they always have been online.
I'm a gamer. I've been doing this since the NES came out, I hacked my way into E3 back when it was still cool, and I've written for more gaming publications than you. I still hold world record scores on a few games. I also absolutely hate gamers. I play everything offline, because the online community has ALWAYS sucked. Every goddamned minute being exposed to those fucking goblins drives me up a wall. By now, I have been called a faggot in game chats about four hundred thousand times, and again: I Very Rarely play anything online.
So. My initial response when hearing about this garbage was "Oh? Well, yeah. That's what they do. They're assholes." At this point, I imagine that I feel a lot like a Log Cabin Republican. I really like this one thing, and everyone else involved with it is an overstuffed dumpster of cocks that I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.
There ain't shit going on here about "games journalism", it's just doxxing, slut-shaming, and the bog-standard violent stupidity of the entire fucking community. People online are monsters, gamers are not exempt, and we've been doing this for a long time. Except now, it's all about death and rape threats with directions to people's homes. Progress!
The cost of entry for the new media is zero, ya'll want a better "games journalism" platform? Fucking start one. But, because it's more fun to move the goalposts and harass women online, we get gamergate. Going back to my offline games now, where I don't have to be associated with any of those idiots.
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