Just this:
https://plus.google.com/+DavidHillJr/posts/fT3tNRVWL3o

No. Just no ;P.

you could have at least mentioned that this is a very one sided argument he makes there mostly only focusing on the hate and deflecting the criticism away from the press and the indidevelopers.

i can address both issues here lets first explore why you should not shift the blame away from the indie media journalism, but even better let someone else tell you why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBoPI5tUxsY (edited the link because it startet at 13min)

As you can see a transgender women was silenced by the press because she die not agree with their SJWmentality
(no chance of making a game with no advertisement) which hurts game diversity.

he is mostly focusin on how bad all gamergaters are.. well there are a lot of instances where the anti-gamergater or SJW are very bad too this is a topic that drives the blood pressure up so there is harrasment on bot sides. if you want i can link you to screenshts of ppl. (men, women, of all ethnics) being harassed. So saying the gamergate movement is toxic is not fully true. the sad thing is the gamergate movement would have a core that would like to talk civilized but every-time someone makes a valid argument. there is either ad hominem argument or radiosilence or some kind of slur but as i said thats normal.

So all in all the article you linked has no point.

He's trying to discredit gamergate based on the fact there are internet trolls and victims. We get it. Threats are not ok ( someone tell that to Leigh Alexander please), but that's an issue with anonymity and the internet, not gamers. This argument has been hashed out endlessly. It's baseless. Then he proceeds to qualify Anita's work as legit. Sorry, not buying it, no matter how much he couches it in fairness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRSaLZidWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF8su7GTGvw

Using sarkeesian as a positive example?

That's some good humor material.

It's another blog that ignores that a lot of people who were on the side of gamergate have come out because the games journalists have outright attacked them. Calling gamers misogynists, exclaiming how we're manchildren who just want our toys and only care about playing with our toys.

And I gotta be honest, that doesn't make me very happy or comfortable, especially with the increasing amount of attacks on gaming lately that seem to have the goal of painting us as misogynists or whiners. How dare we play games like The Witcher, with all of those sex cards! How dare we play a franchise with yet another male protagonist! How DARE Mario Kart not have people of color!

One thing that does interest me is how he claimed that games journalists wanted to have this conversation about ethics and whatnot for a long time. Well, they haven't been shy about telling me how much of a bad person I was for being a straight male, so why have they held back after so long?

That's not to mention the streams of harassment from people who claim to fight for 'Social Justice', that they want to end the harassment, by telling people to kill themselves, doxxing minors for having different opinions, and basically demanding proof that an asian woman might actually NOT be a white male!. How Leigh Alexander has pointed out that no one should be arguing because 'They're louder and they have an army'. That sounds a lot like bullying, from someone who has been both bullied and accused of wanting to blow up my hs when I was 17, all because I didn't fit into a social norm.

A guy at Techcruch asks a question. He makes up his own answer. Nobody is enlightened.
He implicitly suggests that the alternative to SJWs running amok is disallowing games from having any deeper messages. He refers to artwork as something games can be "elevated" to the level of, rather than something they obviously are. He fails to show how giving in to pressure from a fringe group of radical people hellbent on coercing others into following their rules would result in more varied and better games. Best of all - he completely avoids discussing how gaming journalists have slung shit at gamers while pandering to the tumblr cultists for a long time... while having financial and personal ties with people they wrote about... ending in articles symbolically killing and desecrating the corpse of their userbase. No - he got the answer. It's just that people want games to be "less" when they could be "more".

In other news - hypocrisy is the best way of having radically inclusive views while still freely and publicly expressing your bigotry. This is extremely easy if you mostly spend your time arguing for tolerance rather than exercising it.

Gonna make the same reply. This is a disrespectful one-sided argument that still uses the same logic that "people online get harassed, therefore all gamers are harassing misogynists." The overwhelming amount of abuse is coming from the other side.

There is nothing wrong with telling someone who attempts to bully or verbally abuse you that it's not okay. What's not okay is the attempted subversion of a large demographic, by people who don't even care or are invested in this hobby.
That's not okay.

I understand it. Journalists and their support network need a reason to justify their continued existence, especially since we, as consumers, can go get our real news elsewhere, but the amount of outright lies and shadiness they have been using is completely bad.

There can be no common language, if condescension is your only language of communication with the people that essentially enable your career choice. It's literally that simple. Censorship is fascism on a moral level, and there IS no justification for it.

If Jack Thompson made the same arguments about sexism that he made about violence however many years ago, the reaction would have been the same. Now, that being said, is there a problem in the industry itself? Sure! NOBODY is arguing that there isn't. There's just nothing we can do about it, while what essentially amounts to cultural marxists are attempting to subvert, marginalize and coopt and denigrate our voices. I'm doing what I can at the level of involvement I can, which is to say that we're perfectly fine of being able to police ourselves. Stop using me as a boogieman for the lowest common denominator for entitled middle aged white people.

When someone tells me to "check my privilege," what they're really saying is: "Please, please, please...don't check MY privilege, because you'll find out I'm a trust fund baby who has no real struggles of my own. Don't take this from me, or I'll have to be a normal functioning member of society."

If this guy is serious, he needs to change his tone and start talking to people like they're humans. It's that simple.

It is interesting that on an uncensored neutral site most GAMERS seem to agree with the cause of gamergate.
though perhaps there is an anti-gamergate topic somewhere? if not it seems to be roughtly 3 to one in favor of gamergate

edit for anyone interested to read an article about a SJW victim:
http://boogie2988.tumblr.com/post/97472605118/about-that-big-internet-drama-involving-gamers
yay for censorship

This reminds me so much of FOX News. Only instead of us being supposed to be afraid of Muslims taking away our freedoms, we're supposed to be afraid of women and feminism taking away our masculinity^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H games.

Nice callout on this issue on a Cracked article. Happy to see that I read the entrails correctly and was able to dismiss this farrago for its real intent, rather than its purported purpose.

If some good dialogue occurs as fallout from this drummed-up outrage, that would be nice. But the pattern shows that such would be the exceptional case.

TFYC got funded and the suicide hotline had over 2,000 dollars raised for it by GamerGaters. I'd say that's something already extremely positive, no?

It's basically a fringe group of lunatics and their supporters versus those from rest of the world who care about video games enough to speak out. The only way the other side can keep a conversation within the safe confines of its mad little world is through censorship, seclusion, and circling the wagons.
GOG, of all places, has a pretty smart and kind community. Even people here who speak against the gamer side mostly remain polite and rational... On the other hand - the community backlash against anyone throwing dogmatic insults around would've been both relentless and civil. No more surefire way to lose any clout in the discussion, than by insinuating people hate women... or trying to make being a "nerd" an insult.

This reminds me so much of FOX News... Dishonest journalism shamelessly pushing insane agendas for fun and profit!
Oh, wait... Were you making fun of the rest of the world, not the Enlightened Journalists of the Holy Order of Love and Equality (And Fuck Everyone Who Disagrees)? I get confused so easily, I apologize... It must be my privilege acting up. I'd better schedule my check-up ahead of time...

This is the crux:
"Gamers seemingly want games to – at least primarily – be gauged on their qualities as games. The value for money, the longevity, the replayability, the sound, the graphics, the story. Not the degree to which it conforms with arbitrary ideological stances and the commissars that seek to enforce that."

As far as I've read, my "aesthetics, NOT ethics" argument is the soundest way to explain the difference in approach while immediately providing an explanation for why the other side is very likely wrong...

Uhhh ... I just came here thinking that Gamers Gate had some new promotions that I hadn't heard about.


*slowly backs out of the room*