Still not convinced that gamergate is a hate movement that only serves to damage the video game industry?
Read the posts on this page.
Amidst the literal dehumanisation and the death wishes that users always readily supply while the thread itself never gets closed because of it, self-proclaimed "veteran game developers" whom no one has ever heard from before, with 5 patreon backers and 11$ a month become the new heroes while actual veteran game developers like Tim Schafer are scolded for their association with what basically are neither new nor radical basic feminist ideas.
The movement is so pathetic now that it has to dig out its very own massive embarassments, just because very few of the former gamergate supporting "celebrities" haven't in the meantime turned out to be Trump-supporting alt-right nazis (and/or now live with their mom. Or serve six months in prison for assault). Reentrance for e.g. Jordan Owen, whose cooperation with Davis Aurini has been perfect laughing stock right until it "came out", with the crowning achievement the movie theatre premiere of Owen's version of their "documentary", which no one visited.
Quick reminder: Jordan Owen and Davis Aurini took near 100,000$ backer dollars total and weren't able to finish an even
audible documentary. Instead, we got two non-audible versions, because Aurini wanted the punchline of his version to be the insinuation that Anita Sarkeesian was raped by her father.
So Owen, now considering himself a veteran documentary maker with "published" work, ha ha, wanted to make a documentary about Sierra On-Line. And, whoo-hoo, SURPRISE, the adventure game community thought his former work is slanderous alt-right excrement.
Big surprise!
Or, to quote actual veteran game developer Corey Cole in full:
After Mr. Owen's latest post here on Sierra Gamers, I followed his links to his profile and previous projects, and watched the trailer for his previous documentary, "The Sarkeesian Effect". In this documentary, he shows a complete lack of understanding of Sarkeesian's work, uses the term "Social Justice Warrior" as an epithet, and generally promotes ideas that I consider as hateful as rape, slavery, genocide, and... well, you get the idea.
I've been through this before - a major news network requested permission to film at The Hackers' Conference for use in an upcoming documentary. They managed to edit the footage in a way that completely changed the meaning and tone of the conference. When a speaker excitedly spoke about the power hackers have to improve the world, they edited out just enough of the speech to make him say we would use our power to take over the world. It was a hateful misuse of the power of the free press.
As a result, Lori Cole and I will not allow ourselves to be associated in any way with Mr. Owen's project. I would wish him luck, but I really don't. I expect the Sierra film will be as misleading and despicable as his coverage of Anita Sarkeesian.
For the record, Anita's "crusade" is about receiving *some* realistic representation of women in games and other media. When 50+% of the population appears in far fewer than 5% of lead and important roles in games, that is very wrong and deserves to be pointed out. Sarkeesian is *not* demanding 90% women in lead game roles. She is pointing out that there should be *some*, and that some of those women might actually wear practical, realistic clothing and serve a purpose other than being rescued. I think it's a quite reasonable request.
Along those lines, thank the creators for Rey in the new Star Wars film! There were even haters of that (and of Finn, the rare black co-lead) before the film came out. News blast - having a female lead in one important film does not overwhelm the vast majority of other films with no meaningful female characters. And I'm pretty sure nobody is demanding that *every* film feature powerful, self-sufficient women. Just some of them.
Oh, by the way, largest-grossing film of all time... is it possible that a few gaming and film executives might find room among their prejudices to realize that strong female characters *sell*? "Nobody will buy such a game" is the excuse that's been used for far too long.
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Not sure how old you guys are, but I grew up with Tim's and Cole's games. And basically the lead devs whose games I love the most, from Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, Tom Hall to Ragnar Tørnquist, all think that your gamergate shenannigans are plainly shit. And I don't think that's a coincidence, because I know that you always communicate your values along with the stories you tell.