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An Issue With Agendas Why do gamers From the point of view of the journalist, their agenda is a positive thing They are trying to pet more female protagonists in games and making games trying to pet more LGBT representation in games, and trying to pet more racial diversity in games So when readers say that their sendup of Final Fantasy for having no playable female characters and the op ed about heterosexual white man being life's easiest difficulty setting" are bad because they are agenda driven, they react with confusion and hostility Its easy to assume the majority of gamers are just misogynist assholes when faced with this reaction, but in my opinion is not so black and white Gamers aren't against progress, they've just against your approach to roges supporters of bottom-up progress; which in this case is providing diverse games that mathod, tearing dows works for no mocing thair lofty standands. I wantto examine the issues with this practice, and why i【 pisses so) many games t and games chemselves. You seldom hea praise from the big sites about how the new Laca Crodt is a capable protagonist. But you will hear that she's "agiel trying to escape a man's world" that her constanc lnjuries are feeishistie and one death scene in game The joumalists behind these articles lnow that there are more clicks in a This game promoces misogyny!" article than there ave in a "This game ls a good esample of a strong female charactes" article, so almost all of thei critique trends towards the negacve We see reviews that mack a game down that this video game makes us equate kissing with killing Their method of to find something they perceive as objectionable and then denounce it. When you're told over and ver that everything you libe is terrible, its easy to become frustrated wich those doing the telling My Equality is Better Than Your Equality I believe it would be hard to find a gamer who believes that amyone should be restricted from making games, writing about games or becoming imvohred in the the ripht to pursue their goals, whether that poel is to write, to write about prevenking that, they should be removed.If everyone has the opportunity to contribute we will have more diversity of product and the market will choose who deserves an audience This is the kind of equality I, and I believe many other gamers believe in The prevailing attitude of gaming media seems to be that of equality of results Every person in this case ones who they perceive as margnalized or oppressed) deserves to enjoy the same level of success, unless you disagree with them of course So when a Semale developer or critic produces something,it cannot be criticied lest we deive more women out of the industry. If it is not nursed on a steady diet of ueved pras, we will lo these important voices in our indusitty The media needs to understand that While gaming journalists may beliave they are doing chis for the b, the delicate fowees froem criticism, this atitudo barms the creatoes COOT woest thing you can do for somsone's act is to tell them it is perfect whan it isn't When you hear nothing bur universal praise and dismiss cricicism by its very nacure, where then is t gaming industry trom cricicism you ace telling them "this is good enough, do yourselr This is what gamers hate about the modern industry, success does not seem to be achieved theough skuill, bu by playing by the nules. When chese is a megaphone" walting to crush your dreams, why divert from the narrative? wane good games. If people to take criticism then they shouldn't be in this Iindustry This is an argument that has been made since we were able to make sprites bigper than a few plooels. And we've won. The Supreme Court ruled that video games are protected under the same laws that peotect other art. Games courses exist alongside fine arts Mamy parts of development teams are known personally and professionaly s artists. Games are Now,like other forms of art they are experiencing external censorship and If someone creates a painting that you hate, a painting that you find horrible and is a representation of all that is ou still have no right to change it You can choose not to look at it or you can refuse to bay a print but the artist is under no obligation to change it based on your opinion For better or worse, everything in that painting is the choice of the actist Game critics don't seem to asp this idea Games appear to be the only art form that must appeal to and sepeesent every demographic simutaously They will demand pluryable female characters when the game was not written for a playable female character, Mighty No g, Assassin Creed Unity. They will decry freedom of choice bul into a game because if as sexist, HiIman GA ame And they wall claim 3o year old gamas are eamples of modens societal issues Drogon's Lair,Ms Pa The trapc part is that these were the people who led the"games are art" charpe They campaigned for legitimacy and respect for our medium and when they got it they set about burning it down They told game developers Yes what you made is art, now lets start talking about how your art can What I, and I believe marry gamers would love to see is less attacking of tng and more provision of against diversity of sex, race or sersual oeientation on sczeen or in would just trips. Yelling at a game for featuring peimacily white men is the negative approach, providing oppoctunities for minority dvelopers to gee th industry and change that is the positive Tearing down a game bacause it uses he negative approach, trying to go gicls insoested in ga and ented as all things forcaed upon you are. If it comes Erom a grasstoots movemet, it will be much mone lkely to be embraced as a cepeesentation of This is why gamers loved The Fine attacking video games, it wasn't teling us that wonen are special by their a wary to show the wold "Women have good ideas for video games too and we're going to prove they can make money" The reason it got funded Is not spite, it is because this is the way we wan to see women succeed in the gaming industry, on the strength of their ideas, not the It's all about the money And at the end of the day, thats a major issue with an agenda driven crusade Games developers and games publishers, while they have varying degrees of passion for the art, are driven by money For years gamers have bought wha they're currently buying, games like CoD, Assassin's Creed and Battlefield are licenses to print money, so diverting from the foremula that made these for not being diverse enough, not being going to fall on deaf ears when they see that they made 1.3 bilion dollars last There will be token efforts of course; such hiring "consultants" and engaging with these big as video games, none of the big companies want to be the first to take a drastic risk To change what is produced in the industry, you cannot relr on changing the current mindsets of the people in power, you need to focus on getting people into the industry But the cucrent practice is the opposite of this, it breaks down into a vicious cycle of Journalists decry video games- game devs make token efforts->It isn't good enough-Journalists decry video games I level, but in If these game journalists are true believers and not just clickbaiters they meed to see the necessity of breaking that cycle If a particularh egregious example of sexism or racism agpears ina video game, by all means report on , but that cannot be the sum of your efforts When you ignone effoets to pet womer into gaming like The Fine Yong Capitalists in favour of writing anticles about how gamers are dead it comes across as abhorrently self serving You are shouting from a platform about an issue while real people are below you If you tnuly believe the best way tox video games is to do whar you currently doing, thin I won't change your mind. You'se going to call ma a seyou'll just asume I'm scill to tell you that what we hace is gamer but the means bry which you addeess it We doet hate women in gaming Jade are all great examples of women whose success in gaming came as a result od chele skill, not their gender do is hate women and promote misogyny, we will stand in your way

An Issue With Agendas Why do gamers From the point of view of the journalist, their agenda is a positive thing They are trying to pet more female protagonists in games and making games trying to pet more LGBT representation in games, and trying to pet more racial diversity in games So when readers say that their sendup of Final Fantasy for having no playable female characters and the op ed about heterosexual white man being life's easiest difficulty setting" are bad because they are agenda driven, they react with confusion and hostility Its easy to assume the majority of gamers are just misogynist assholes when faced with this reaction, but in my opinion is not so black and white Gamers aren't against progress, they've just against your approach to roges supporters of bottom-up progress; which in this case is providing diverse games that mathod, tearing dows works for no mocing thair lofty standands. I wantto examine the issues with this practice, and why i【 pisses so) many games t and games chemselves. You seldom hea praise from the big sites about how the new Laca Crodt is a capable protagonist. But you will hear that she's "agiel trying to escape a man's world" that her constanc lnjuries are feeishistie and one death scene in game The joumalists behind these articles lnow that there are more clicks in a This game promoces misogyny!" article than there ave in a "This game ls a good esample of a strong female charactes" article, so almost all of thei critique trends towards the negacve We see reviews that mack a game down that this video game makes us equate kissing with killing Their method of to find something they perceive as objectionable and then denounce it. When you're told over and ver that everything you libe is terrible, its easy to become frustrated wich those doing the telling My Equality is Better Than Your Equality I believe it would be hard to find a gamer who believes that amyone should be restricted from making games, writing about games or becoming imvohred in the the ripht to pursue their goals, whether that poel is to write, to write about prevenking that, they should be removed.If everyone has the opportunity to contribute we will have more diversity of product and the market will choose who deserves an audience This is the kind of equality I, and I believe many other gamers believe in The prevailing attitude of gaming media seems to be that of equality of results Every person in this case ones who they perceive as margnalized or oppressed) deserves to enjoy the same level of success, unless you disagree with them of course So when a Semale developer or critic produces something,it cannot be criticied lest we deive more women out of the industry. If it is not nursed on a steady diet of ueved pras, we will lo these important voices in our indusitty The media needs to understand that While gaming journalists may beliave they are doing chis for the b, the delicate fowees froem criticism, this atitudo barms the creatoes COOT woest thing you can do for somsone's act is to tell them it is perfect whan it isn't When you hear nothing bur universal praise and dismiss cricicism by its very nacure, where then is t gaming industry trom cricicism you ace telling them "this is good enough, do yourselr This is what gamers hate about the modern industry, success does not seem to be achieved theough skuill, bu by playing by the nules. When chese is a megaphone" walting to crush your dreams, why divert from the narrative? wane good games. If people to take criticism then they shouldn't be in this Iindustry This is an argument that has been made since we were able to make sprites bigper than a few plooels. And we've won. The Supreme Court ruled that video games are protected under the same laws that peotect other art. Games courses exist alongside fine arts Mamy parts of development teams are known personally and professionaly s artists. Games are Now,like other forms of art they are experiencing external censorship and If someone creates a painting that you hate, a painting that you find horrible and is a representation of all that is ou still have no right to change it You can choose not to look at it or you can refuse to bay a print but the artist is under no obligation to change it based on your opinion For better or worse, everything in that painting is the choice of the actist Game critics don't seem to asp this idea Games appear to be the only art form that must appeal to and sepeesent every demographic simutaously They will demand pluryable female characters when the game was not written for a playable female character, Mighty No g, Assassin Creed Unity. They will decry freedom of choice bul into a game because if as sexist, HiIman GA ame And they wall claim 3o year old gamas are eamples of modens societal issues Drogon's Lair,Ms Pa The trapc part is that these were the people who led the"games are art" charpe They campaigned for legitimacy and respect for our medium and when they got it they set about burning it down They told game developers Yes what you made is art, now lets start talking about how your art can What I, and I believe marry gamers would love to see is less attacking of tng and more provision of against diversity of sex, race or sersual oeientation on sczeen or in would just trips. Yelling at a game for featuring peimacily white men is the negative approach, providing oppoctunities for minority dvelopers to gee th industry and change that is the positive Tearing down a game bacause it uses he negative approach, trying to go gicls insoested in ga and ented as all things forcaed upon you are. If it comes Erom a grasstoots movemet, it will be much mone lkely to be embraced as a cepeesentation of This is why gamers loved The Fine attacking video games, it wasn't teling us that wonen are special by their a wary to show the wold "Women have good ideas for video games too and we're going to prove they can make money" The reason it got funded Is not spite, it is because this is the way we wan to see women succeed in the gaming industry, on the strength of their ideas, not the It's all about the money And at the end of the day, thats a major issue with an agenda driven crusade Games developers and games publishers, while they have varying degrees of passion for the art, are driven by money For years gamers have bought wha they're currently buying, games like CoD, Assassin's Creed and Battlefield are licenses to print money, so diverting from the foremula that made these for not being diverse enough, not being going to fall on deaf ears when they see that they made 1.3 bilion dollars last There will be token efforts of course; such hiring "consultants" and engaging with these big as video games, none of the big companies want to be the first to take a drastic risk To change what is produced in the industry, you cannot relr on changing the current mindsets of the people in power, you need to focus on getting people into the industry But the cucrent practice is the opposite of this, it breaks down into a vicious cycle of Journalists decry video games- game devs make token efforts->It isn't good enough-Journalists decry video games I level, but in If these game journalists are true believers and not just clickbaiters they meed to see the necessity of breaking that cycle If a particularh egregious example of sexism or racism agpears ina video game, by all means report on , but that cannot be the sum of your efforts When you ignone effoets to pet womer into gaming like The Fine Yong Capitalists in favour of writing anticles about how gamers are dead it comes across as abhorrently self serving You are shouting from a platform about an issue while real people are below you If you tnuly believe the best way tox video games is to do whar you currently doing, thin I won't change your mind. You'se going to call ma a seyou'll just asume I'm scill to tell you that what we hace is gamer but the means bry which you addeess it We doet hate women in gaming Jade are all great examples of women whose success in gaming came as a result od chele skill, not their gender do is hate women and promote misogyny, we will stand in your way

Parody of the Megaphone

Why gamers are literally the worst f------ people ever I often say I'm a video game culture writer, but I f------ hate video games and video game culture. I especially f------ hate gamers. When you think of "gamers," you think of a physically repulsive creature with Flamin' Hot Cheeto dust in its disgusting neckbeard. "I like playing video games," it vomits out of its s------- before masturbating itself into a diabetic coma. September 4, 2014 1 By Lee Axelberg 6 comments More: Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Business/Marketing, Exclusive 8+1

Why gamers are literally the worst f------ people ever I often say I'm a video game culture writer, but I f------ hate video games and video game culture. I especially f------ hate gamers. When you think of "gamers," you think of a physically repulsive creature with Flamin' Hot Cheeto dust in its disgusting neckbeard. "I like playing video games," it vomits out of its s------- before masturbating itself into a diabetic coma. September 4, 2014 1 By Lee Axelberg 6 comments More: Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Business/Marketing, Exclusive 8+1

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Will Wheaton

Wil Wheaton @wilw 11h really hope there's some serious discussion at #PAX about the cesspool of misogyny that's trying to ruin gaming t3 492 ★986 Wil Wheaton @wilw 10h This is representative of the dudes in my mentions right now. I just don't even know what to say to these people @wilw I'd preter a talk on the ram t corruption in games journalism 1m @wilw how about a discussion of corruption of gaming journalists instead? wilw #GamerGate what about gaming media corruption, lack of ethics and censorship? 51s @wilw a lot of this so called "misogyny" is just feminist trying to shut down real criticism. 3254 ★394 View more photos and videos Wil Wheaton @wilw-10h As they say, the comments on any article about feminism justify the need for feminism. Grow up, boys. Women are people. Get used to it. わt. 2,059 ★2.7K Wil Wheaton @wilw-10h Oh. Wait. I get it, now! These are the same people who ruined online multiplayer gaming by being raging asscocks all the time わ 216 *810 闸 Wil Wheaton @wilw-10h And I just won whatever bingo we play when these morons come out to tell us all how incredibly stupid they are £359 *353 Wil Wheaton @wilw 10h YESS!! SUCK IT, WORLD! RT @thevowel: @wilw congratulations! Achievement unlocked 1000G-Internet Misogyny Bingo Winner t3 81 ★426 View more photos and videos wil Wheaton ewilw 1oh Keep hearing "blah blah both sides blah but the thing is, I can't recall women threatening to r--- and murder men they don't like わt3 1.6K ★2.2K。.. Wil Wheaton @wilw-9h Anyway, my original point: I really hope there's some serious discussion at #PAX about the cesspool of misogyny that's rampant in gaming t3 254 ★682

Wil Wheaton @wilw 11h really hope there's some serious discussion at #PAX about the cesspool of misogyny that's trying to ruin gaming t3 492 ★986 Wil Wheaton @wilw 10h This is representative of the dudes in my mentions right now. I just don't even know what to say to these people @wilw I'd preter a talk on the ram t corruption in games journalism 1m @wilw how about a discussion of corruption of gaming journalists instead? wilw #GamerGate what about gaming media corruption, lack of ethics and censorship? 51s @wilw a lot of this so called "misogyny" is just feminist trying to shut down real criticism. 3254 ★394 View more photos and videos Wil Wheaton @wilw-10h As they say, the comments on any article about feminism justify the need for feminism. Grow up, boys. Women are people. Get used to it. わt. 2,059 ★2.7K Wil Wheaton @wilw-10h Oh. Wait. I get it, now! These are the same people who ruined online multiplayer gaming by being raging asscocks all the time わ 216 *810 闸 Wil Wheaton @wilw-10h And I just won whatever bingo we play when these morons come out to tell us all how incredibly stupid they are £359 *353 Wil Wheaton @wilw 10h YESS!! SUCK IT, WORLD! RT @thevowel: @wilw congratulations! Achievement unlocked 1000G-Internet Misogyny Bingo Winner t3 81 ★426 View more photos and videos wil Wheaton ewilw 1oh Keep hearing "blah blah both sides blah but the thing is, I can't recall women threatening to r--- and murder men they don't like わt3 1.6K ★2.2K。.. Wil Wheaton @wilw-9h Anyway, my original point: I really hope there's some serious discussion at #PAX about the cesspool of misogyny that's rampant in gaming t3 254 ★682

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IF T'VE LEARNT ANYTHING FROM VIDEO GAME, IT IS THAT WHEN YOU MEET ENEMIES, IT MEANS THAT YOU'RE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. quickmeme.com

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OH NO! IT'S THE GAME DEV THIS DOES NOT MEET OUR DIVERSITY QUOTA. D-CUPS CAN'T EXIST, IN FICTION, SHITLORD JW SEXIST SAY GOODBYE TO ANY CREATIVE FREEDOM, NERD THIS GAME PANDERS TO OUR WORLD VIEW NOW THE LITERATURE YOU BASED THIS ON IS MISOGYNISTIC. You MAY ONLY USE OUR LITERATURE

OH NO! IT'S THE GAME DEV THIS DOES NOT MEET OUR DIVERSITY QUOTA. D-CUPS CAN'T EXIST, IN FICTION, SHITLORD JW SEXIST SAY GOODBYE TO ANY CREATIVE FREEDOM, NERD THIS GAME PANDERS TO OUR WORLD VIEW NOW THE LITERATURE YOU BASED THIS ON IS MISOGYNISTIC. You MAY ONLY USE OUR LITERATURE

what leigh alexander thinks of "hood people"

Racism Leigh Alexander @leighalexander 7 Feb 2010 Really really f------ tired of hood men harassing me from cars. Can a violent cultural backlash start yet? Can I start it? Expand The tweets below are in reference to Leigh's above tweet using the term "hood men" while wishing for a violent cultural backlash against African Americans Unfortunately, the above tweet is not archived, but subsequent references to it are Below she is passing off her racism as legitimate views against "harassment". Nick @kromovaracian Sep 19 @leighalexander if videogames transmit misogyny, what does asking for violent cultural backlash" against "ghetto" people transmit? Reply t Retweet * Favorite More Leigh Alexander @leighalexander Follow @kromovaracian (i don't believe ppl want to actually have conversation re my beliefs in 2011, but fwiw i meant 'against street harassment') Reply t Retweet ★ Favorite More 7:35 AM -19 Sep 2014 https://archive.today/ti01k

Racism Leigh Alexander @leighalexander 7 Feb 2010 Really really f------ tired of hood men harassing me from cars. Can a violent cultural backlash start yet? Can I start it? Expand The tweets below are in reference to Leigh's above tweet using the term "hood men" while wishing for a violent cultural backlash against African Americans Unfortunately, the above tweet is not archived, but subsequent references to it are Below she is passing off her racism as legitimate views against "harassment". Nick @kromovaracian Sep 19 @leighalexander if videogames transmit misogyny, what does asking for violent cultural backlash" against "ghetto" people transmit? Reply t Retweet * Favorite More Leigh Alexander @leighalexander Follow @kromovaracian (i don't believe ppl want to actually have conversation re my beliefs in 2011, but fwiw i meant 'against street harassment') Reply t Retweet ★ Favorite More 7:35 AM -19 Sep 2014 https://archive.today/ti01k

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DISGRACED FEMINIST ACTIVIST JOURNALIST LEIGH ALEXANDER PRESENTS HERSELFAS CHAMPION FOR "SOCIAL JUSTICE" CAUGHT THREATENING TO DESTROY DEVELOPERS WHO DON'T TOW PC LINE. SAYS PREJUDICE AGAINST MALES AND CERTAIN RACIAL GROUPSIS ACCEPTABLE

DISGRACED FEMINIST ACTIVIST JOURNALIST LEIGH ALEXANDER PRESENTS HERSELFAS CHAMPION FOR "SOCIAL JUSTICE" CAUGHT THREATENING TO DESTROY DEVELOPERS WHO DON'T TOW PC LINE. SAYS PREJUDICE AGAINST MALES AND CERTAIN RACIAL GROUPSIS ACCEPTABLE

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Christina Sommers

This lady is your FRIEND Christina Sommers She fights for FREEDOM Pestee 455918

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Kingdom come: deliverance

RETWEET/SHARE THIS PLEASE ANTI-GamerGate Sites are Blacklisting Kingdom Come: Deliverance Kingdon Cam Let's help these fine folks out and spread word of their game. Retweet this link, post it to your facebook, share this to whatever social media site you use. Don't let the politics of corrupt journalists hinder coverage of such hard work and dedication. WARHORSE Support: @WarhorseStudios Support: @DanielVavra #GamerGate #NotYourShiel

RETWEET/SHARE THIS PLEASE ANTI-GamerGate Sites are Blacklisting Kingdom Come: Deliverance Kingdon Cam Let's help these fine folks out and spread word of their game. Retweet this link, post it to your facebook, share this to whatever social media site you use. Don't let the politics of corrupt journalists hinder coverage of such hard work and dedication. WARHORSE Support: @WarhorseStudios Support: @DanielVavra #GamerGate #NotYourShiel

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