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GAMERS ARE MYSOGINISTS, WE WOMEN SHOULD STICK TOGETHER AND SPEAK FOR EACH OTHER! ACTUALLY, I'M A FEMALE AND SUPPORT GAMER GATE, DON'T USE ME AS YOUR SHIELD WHA? A FEMALE... THEY DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT THE FEMALES AND MINORITIES TOO! [BLANKET STATEMENTS] RESPECTFUL NOD THERE ARE ACTUALLY A LOT OF FEMALES SUPPORTING US. MINORITIES TOO. WE JUST WANT JOURNOS TO STOP BEING F------. EVEN SMART ONES WOw WITH GOOD ART STOP USING 、 WOMEN AS A SHIELD GAYMUR GAYS STAIRCASE DIDNT EVEN TRY, JESUS F---

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A Guide To Ending "Gamers" By Devin Wilson

A Guide to Ending "Gamers" by Devin Wlson on 08/28/14 07:57:00 pm The following blog post The thou ghts andopinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Whether it's in the condluding chapter of lan B End of Gamers'), Dan Golding's more recent blog on the subject (with the same title, oddly enough), or the hundreds of tweets being written about it, we're seeing calls to do away with the gamers a to Celebrating that uncertain victory now is premature, hubristic, and an insult to the people who As such, I'd like to postpone our back-patting and think about solutions for bringing this change IS We can't just Twitter-block the problem away. Even a video series critical of the medium is only a partial solution. Games culture needs to change at a grassroots level, and each of us have a part to play in that revolution if we want it to happen. It's not only the worst of us who need to change None of us are outside of this system. None of us are completely above its effects. None of us are entirely innocent We all need to work to make our role in games culture more positive (which absolutely does not mean " So here are some preliminary tactics I propose for transforming games (feel free to propose your 1. We don't wait. We don't wait until after that big, exciting sequel is out We don't wait until after E3, GDC, or PAX We don't wait until we finish this game we've been investing hours into, or until after we unlock that new assault rifle. We don't wait for other people to fix this There's just going to be another E3 and another newly-announced game and another excuse to not look at the present state of games culture. This industry has been distracting us with carrots-on-sticks since its inception, repeatedly pulling the rug out from under us before we could even get oriented in the first place. There's always been a promise of something better around the comer, so we don't bother examining or acting-on what's right in front of us. But we must examine ourselves and act, right now. We've been doing far too much waiting in games. We need to raise our expectations and stop waiting for the medium to mature. Its 2014. The first generation of consoles was decades ago. The only reason for games to be immature is if its consumers and producers are allowing them to be that way The people who have decided to terrorize this medium aren't waiting around, so we 2. We listen to those who are less privileged than we are, and we don't adopt a default stance of skepticism towards their views and daims. We support them when we have the power to, we involve them when we have the power to, and we don't ignore it when institutions fail to do these things. We each proudly claim the label of social justice warrior (if only to subvert its use as a pejorative). We do whatever we can to learn about the ne what we can do to change things for the er 3. We display broader interests as individuals who make and play games. We spend about the world beyond this industry. We put more e games about things other than what we've already seen in games. Apparent sources of inspiration for likely to ignore al of the things outside of their window when they decide to make a game. There's a lot of fascinating, beautiful, and homifying stuff going on out there, and it's more important to understand that than indulge in yet another r isolating games, i ne medium is designed for people to stay secluded for dozens of hours while having their egos stroked, then we reap what we sow in terms of the kinds of people who emerge from this pastime. We need to consider the very real possibility that the offensive behavior displayed by gamers in recent weeks is not unrelated to the artifacts they rally around (which I doubt are especially obscure). These people didn't come from nowhere to fight about nothing. s to y're organic results of the m all played a role in cultivating, and they won't go away if the medium doesn't change nificantly 5. We become far more mindful of the games we make and play. Sexism in games is s pervasive and toxic. Racism in games is pervasive and toxic. Violence in pervasive and toxic. Despite the skepticism really looks like violent games "do* make us more aggressive and less empathetic. If researchers are repeatedly suggesting this and then we complain that the vilest people in our communities are too aggressive and not empathetic enough, aren't we partially to blame for our general eagerness to make and play games that have these overall effects on people? If you think you're not affected, you're sorely mistaken and you sound no less people who claim t doesn't work on them (By the way, k 6. We maintain a critical eye towards the e-sports scene and its accompanying machismo. We've been trying to make careers out of playing what seem like the videogame equivalents of American football (MOBAs) and mixed martial arts (fighting games), in a warped attempt at gaining legitimacy for our pastime. Back when the genre of choice for the e-sports hopeful was first-person shooters, I had an intimate view of what these intensely competitive videogames of Let me assure you that it's very sad and ugly, and it doesn't seem like that's changed obsessing the internet (in hopes of eventually doing it professionally) is scary and I deeply mistrust it 7. We change to be less about buying and rating games, and instead develop a paradigm that is more about playing and thoroughly investigating games. The reason this is so vital is because to be a-gamer" is not merely to At its core, to be a perceived value of their investments. We can subvert that by making and playing more free games, changing the ways we evaluate and discuss games, and finding new ways to fund 8. We jettison the hardcore/casual dichotomy. It's utter garbage that's only used for three reasons 1) to feel superior to others, 2) to tragically submit to unjust hierarchies of play, or 3) to sell products (and effectively reinforce the other two). Besides, what's more casual or the latest murder simulator that you bved you were 9. We let the industry's tentpoles fall to the ground more often. We stop allowing ourselves to be told which games we need to play. We're smarter than that. We abandon any skepticism any of us have towards underrepresented people's deep concerns about the medium, and we are instead skeptical of game publishers' interests in our well-being their customers to have fun too 10. We always remember that we don't need to buy new things in order to legitimately appreciate games. We play od games until they've revealed all of their secrets, and then we play them some more. We stop implicitly accepting the idea that games are meant to be disposable. We dissect gaming's recent and ancient past (and everything in between) instead of just perpetually flailing around in its cacophonous, slippery, and overwhelming 11. We stop upholding "fun" as the universal, ultimate criterion for a game's relevance s ideal at best and a y of categorically unhealthy things are fun". Let's try of the altenatives will have similarly fuzzy definitions, but let's aspire to qualities like your own altematives to "fun" in games (while avoiding terms like "cool" and "awesome" and any other word that simply caters to existing, unexamined biases) 12. We don't afford any credence to the idea that games are "just for fun". Games are not neutral. Anita Sarkeesian is not imposing her feminist values onto games, she's dentifying the misogynistic values that incorporated into games. You don't have to think her efforts are perfect, but what she's t game developers have (sometimes unwittingly) ng is not ina xpressed by gamesi to regularly compare our we games' expressed values to our own real values conclusions about what different games mean, but we need to stop asserting that they're 13. We make and play fewer linear games about one person saving the world Take a look at the people terrorizing games culture lately: they're almost all tyrannical brats with messianic delusions. Where do you think they're learning this behavior from? seeing lately is not merely a mob of odd hobbyists frustrated by change, but an army of what games need to be (a theological approach, to be sure) and they express a devotion to 14. We make gaming more like recreation or reading than it is like religion. What we're to be a holy crusade. These people have dogmatic the game industry that makes Mitt Romney's tithing look stingy. Forget The Beatles, Mario us now, and an is going to be by some as blasphemy. This is partly because we tend to treat gaming like it is a special club. But playing games isn't s 15. We get serious about inclusivity, which means understanding that game" is a very loose asses an astonishing range categoryt activities. This means that we should associate less strongly around such a vague term. Being interested in games doesn't mean you need to play every game that comes out and have an opinion on it. It doesn't mean that every game is for you. The games press creates an illusion that every big game needs to be played by everyone who likes games Games as a medium (or-more accurately to my mind, lately-a plurality of media) are more diverse than all of film, radio, television, print, etc. Compare two random works of one of those other media forms. Then compare two random games (digital or non-digital) There's no contest the breadth of games is staggering, and we need to cool it on the and exposure-to all 16. We do not assume that the harassment we've seen lately is a complete aberration. We understand that there is a link between this medium that terrorists see 17. We agree that caring about the world and its inhabitants is more important than 18. We all grow up (starting this very instant), and we bring games along with us. This doesn't mean making·grittier" or "darker" games Rather, we make and play games that we have no reason to be ashamed of importantly-we're honest about t may very well be shameful about games

A Guide to Ending "Gamers" by Devin Wlson on 08/28/14 07:57:00 pm The following blog post The thou ghts andopinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Whether it's in the condluding chapter of lan B End of Gamers'), Dan Golding's more recent blog on the subject (with the same title, oddly enough), or the hundreds of tweets being written about it, we're seeing calls to do away with the gamers a to Celebrating that uncertain victory now is premature, hubristic, and an insult to the people who As such, I'd like to postpone our back-patting and think about solutions for bringing this change IS We can't just Twitter-block the problem away. Even a video series critical of the medium is only a partial solution. Games culture needs to change at a grassroots level, and each of us have a part to play in that revolution if we want it to happen. It's not only the worst of us who need to change None of us are outside of this system. None of us are completely above its effects. None of us are entirely innocent We all need to work to make our role in games culture more positive (which absolutely does not mean " So here are some preliminary tactics I propose for transforming games (feel free to propose your 1. We don't wait. We don't wait until after that big, exciting sequel is out We don't wait until after E3, GDC, or PAX We don't wait until we finish this game we've been investing hours into, or until after we unlock that new assault rifle. We don't wait for other people to fix this There's just going to be another E3 and another newly-announced game and another excuse to not look at the present state of games culture. This industry has been distracting us with carrots-on-sticks since its inception, repeatedly pulling the rug out from under us before we could even get oriented in the first place. There's always been a promise of something better around the comer, so we don't bother examining or acting-on what's right in front of us. But we must examine ourselves and act, right now. We've been doing far too much waiting in games. We need to raise our expectations and stop waiting for the medium to mature. Its 2014. The first generation of consoles was decades ago. The only reason for games to be immature is if its consumers and producers are allowing them to be that way The people who have decided to terrorize this medium aren't waiting around, so we 2. We listen to those who are less privileged than we are, and we don't adopt a default stance of skepticism towards their views and daims. We support them when we have the power to, we involve them when we have the power to, and we don't ignore it when institutions fail to do these things. We each proudly claim the label of social justice warrior (if only to subvert its use as a pejorative). We do whatever we can to learn about the ne what we can do to change things for the er 3. We display broader interests as individuals who make and play games. We spend about the world beyond this industry. We put more e games about things other than what we've already seen in games. Apparent sources of inspiration for likely to ignore al of the things outside of their window when they decide to make a game. There's a lot of fascinating, beautiful, and homifying stuff going on out there, and it's more important to understand that than indulge in yet another r isolating games, i ne medium is designed for people to stay secluded for dozens of hours while having their egos stroked, then we reap what we sow in terms of the kinds of people who emerge from this pastime. We need to consider the very real possibility that the offensive behavior displayed by gamers in recent weeks is not unrelated to the artifacts they rally around (which I doubt are especially obscure). These people didn't come from nowhere to fight about nothing. s to y're organic results of the m all played a role in cultivating, and they won't go away if the medium doesn't change nificantly 5. We become far more mindful of the games we make and play. Sexism in games is s pervasive and toxic. Racism in games is pervasive and toxic. Violence in pervasive and toxic. Despite the skepticism really looks like violent games "do* make us more aggressive and less empathetic. If researchers are repeatedly suggesting this and then we complain that the vilest people in our communities are too aggressive and not empathetic enough, aren't we partially to blame for our general eagerness to make and play games that have these overall effects on people? If you think you're not affected, you're sorely mistaken and you sound no less people who claim t doesn't work on them (By the way, k 6. We maintain a critical eye towards the e-sports scene and its accompanying machismo. We've been trying to make careers out of playing what seem like the videogame equivalents of American football (MOBAs) and mixed martial arts (fighting games), in a warped attempt at gaining legitimacy for our pastime. Back when the genre of choice for the e-sports hopeful was first-person shooters, I had an intimate view of what these intensely competitive videogames of Let me assure you that it's very sad and ugly, and it doesn't seem like that's changed obsessing the internet (in hopes of eventually doing it professionally) is scary and I deeply mistrust it 7. We change to be less about buying and rating games, and instead develop a paradigm that is more about playing and thoroughly investigating games. The reason this is so vital is because to be a-gamer" is not merely to At its core, to be a perceived value of their investments. We can subvert that by making and playing more free games, changing the ways we evaluate and discuss games, and finding new ways to fund 8. We jettison the hardcore/casual dichotomy. It's utter garbage that's only used for three reasons 1) to feel superior to others, 2) to tragically submit to unjust hierarchies of play, or 3) to sell products (and effectively reinforce the other two). Besides, what's more casual or the latest murder simulator that you bved you were 9. We let the industry's tentpoles fall to the ground more often. We stop allowing ourselves to be told which games we need to play. We're smarter than that. We abandon any skepticism any of us have towards underrepresented people's deep concerns about the medium, and we are instead skeptical of game publishers' interests in our well-being their customers to have fun too 10. We always remember that we don't need to buy new things in order to legitimately appreciate games. We play od games until they've revealed all of their secrets, and then we play them some more. We stop implicitly accepting the idea that games are meant to be disposable. We dissect gaming's recent and ancient past (and everything in between) instead of just perpetually flailing around in its cacophonous, slippery, and overwhelming 11. We stop upholding "fun" as the universal, ultimate criterion for a game's relevance s ideal at best and a y of categorically unhealthy things are fun". Let's try of the altenatives will have similarly fuzzy definitions, but let's aspire to qualities like your own altematives to "fun" in games (while avoiding terms like "cool" and "awesome" and any other word that simply caters to existing, unexamined biases) 12. We don't afford any credence to the idea that games are "just for fun". Games are not neutral. Anita Sarkeesian is not imposing her feminist values onto games, she's dentifying the misogynistic values that incorporated into games. You don't have to think her efforts are perfect, but what she's t game developers have (sometimes unwittingly) ng is not ina xpressed by gamesi to regularly compare our we games' expressed values to our own real values conclusions about what different games mean, but we need to stop asserting that they're 13. We make and play fewer linear games about one person saving the world Take a look at the people terrorizing games culture lately: they're almost all tyrannical brats with messianic delusions. Where do you think they're learning this behavior from? seeing lately is not merely a mob of odd hobbyists frustrated by change, but an army of what games need to be (a theological approach, to be sure) and they express a devotion to 14. We make gaming more like recreation or reading than it is like religion. What we're to be a holy crusade. These people have dogmatic the game industry that makes Mitt Romney's tithing look stingy. Forget The Beatles, Mario us now, and an is going to be by some as blasphemy. This is partly because we tend to treat gaming like it is a special club. But playing games isn't s 15. We get serious about inclusivity, which means understanding that game" is a very loose asses an astonishing range categoryt activities. This means that we should associate less strongly around such a vague term. Being interested in games doesn't mean you need to play every game that comes out and have an opinion on it. It doesn't mean that every game is for you. The games press creates an illusion that every big game needs to be played by everyone who likes games Games as a medium (or-more accurately to my mind, lately-a plurality of media) are more diverse than all of film, radio, television, print, etc. Compare two random works of one of those other media forms. Then compare two random games (digital or non-digital) There's no contest the breadth of games is staggering, and we need to cool it on the and exposure-to all 16. We do not assume that the harassment we've seen lately is a complete aberration. We understand that there is a link between this medium that terrorists see 17. We agree that caring about the world and its inhabitants is more important than 18. We all grow up (starting this very instant), and we bring games along with us. This doesn't mean making·grittier" or "darker" games Rather, we make and play games that we have no reason to be ashamed of importantly-we're honest about t may very well be shameful about games

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Kotaku's "Death Of Gamers" Article By Luke Plunkett

LOG IN SIGN UP +FOLLOW We Might Be Witnessing The 'Death of Ain ldentity Luke Plunkett 218.503 174 ★ Flled to: SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS 8/28/14 8:00pm EXPAND 「ve been working at Kotaku for nearly eight years now, and while I've seen some online kerfuffles over various issues in that time, Ive never seen anything like the past two weeks. There has been so much hate. So many angry words, so many accusations, over...what? Video games? Women in video games? People who write about video games? It would be absurd if it hadn't forced people out of their homes for fear of their personal safety The Problem With 'The Casual Cruelty' Against Women in Video Games Violence against women is an ugly reality that's all too common, no matter what walk of life. Read more There are a lot of opinions going around about this sad state of affairs at the moment, and you don't have to travel far to find some, but if you want to read something beyond a simple recap, something more substantive, my advice - as someone horrified by the degree of hostility, bigotry and sheer inhumanity that has been on show - is to start with these two articles. The first, by Dan Golding, is called "The End of Gamers". "On the evidence of the last few weeks", he writes, "what we are seeing is the end of gamers, and the viciousness that accompanies the death of an identity. The second, by Leigh Alexander, is called "Gamers' don't have to be your audience. Gamers' are over." It's a similar piece, albeit one aimed a little more at developers. "Gamer' isn't just a dated demographic label that most people increasingly prefer not to use", she writes. "Gamers are over. That's why they're so mad." "These obtuse shitslingers, these wailing hyper-consumers, these childish internet-arguers - they are not my audience. They don't have to be yours. There is no 'side' to be on, there is no debate to be had. Note they're not talking about everyone who plays games, or who self-identifies as a "gamer", as being the worst. It's being used in these cases as short-hand, a catch-all term for the type of reactionary holdouts that feel so threatened by gaming's widening horizons. If yo u call yourself a "gamer" and are a cool person, keep on being a cool person. Once you're done here, I'll see you next week, where we can hang out as thoughtful, considerate human beings and enjoy video games as they are, not what some folks feel they can dictate from a dark corner of the internet. 174★ 2087 Reply Luke Plunkett's DIscussions All replies

LOG IN SIGN UP +FOLLOW We Might Be Witnessing The 'Death of Ain ldentity Luke Plunkett 218.503 174 ★ Flled to: SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS 8/28/14 8:00pm EXPAND 「ve been working at Kotaku for nearly eight years now, and while I've seen some online kerfuffles over various issues in that time, Ive never seen anything like the past two weeks. There has been so much hate. So many angry words, so many accusations, over...what? Video games? Women in video games? People who write about video games? It would be absurd if it hadn't forced people out of their homes for fear of their personal safety The Problem With 'The Casual Cruelty' Against Women in Video Games Violence against women is an ugly reality that's all too common, no matter what walk of life. Read more There are a lot of opinions going around about this sad state of affairs at the moment, and you don't have to travel far to find some, but if you want to read something beyond a simple recap, something more substantive, my advice - as someone horrified by the degree of hostility, bigotry and sheer inhumanity that has been on show - is to start with these two articles. The first, by Dan Golding, is called "The End of Gamers". "On the evidence of the last few weeks", he writes, "what we are seeing is the end of gamers, and the viciousness that accompanies the death of an identity. The second, by Leigh Alexander, is called "Gamers' don't have to be your audience. Gamers' are over." It's a similar piece, albeit one aimed a little more at developers. "Gamer' isn't just a dated demographic label that most people increasingly prefer not to use", she writes. "Gamers are over. That's why they're so mad." "These obtuse shitslingers, these wailing hyper-consumers, these childish internet-arguers - they are not my audience. They don't have to be yours. There is no 'side' to be on, there is no debate to be had. Note they're not talking about everyone who plays games, or who self-identifies as a "gamer", as being the worst. It's being used in these cases as short-hand, a catch-all term for the type of reactionary holdouts that feel so threatened by gaming's widening horizons. If yo u call yourself a "gamer" and are a cool person, keep on being a cool person. Once you're done here, I'll see you next week, where we can hang out as thoughtful, considerate human beings and enjoy video games as they are, not what some folks feel they can dictate from a dark corner of the internet. 174★ 2087 Reply Luke Plunkett's DIscussions All replies

The First "Death Of Gamers" Article By Leigh Alexander

Our Properties: Gamasutra GameCareerGuide IndieGames GDC Vault GDC IGF App Dev Stories ADC GAO GAMASUTRA The Art & Business of Making Gones EVENTS Gamers' don't have to be your audience. Gamers' are over. auses August 28, 2014 1 By Leigh Alexander I often say I'm a video game culture wrker, but latelyI dont know exactly what that means, Game oulture as we know t is kind of embarrassing it's not even in-jokes repeatedly, and its getting mad on the August 28, 2014 It's backpacks and jutting promo poster rols, Queing passionately for hours, at events around the world, to see the things that marketers want them to see. To find out whether they should buy things or not. They dont know how to dress or behave. Television cameras pan across these Istless queues, and often catch the expressions of people who don't quite know why they themseves are st > Cryptic Studios Games cuture is a petn dish of people who know so ttle about how human social interaction and professional lfe works that they can concoct onlne wars about social justice or 'game journalsm ethics, straight-faced, and cause genuine human Because of video games. doing here. And I know I'm not abne. est Blogs Al of us shoukd be better than this. You should be deeply questioning your life choices if this and ths and this are the prominent publk face your business presents to the rest of the world This is what the rest of the world knows about your what does $100 buy in you decline to That's it. You should absolutelly be better than thes create or to curate a How to bring your game You dont want to "be divisive?' Who's being divided except for people who are okay with an infantiized cultural desert of s----- behavior and people who aren't? what re in your s spaces, you re responsible fo Spawns in the Our Games Right, let's say it's a vocal minorty that's not representative of most people. Most people, from indies to Industry leaders, are mortfied, furious, disheartened at the vacuum drection industry conversation has taken in the past few weeks. It's not like there are reputable outlets pub|shing rational articles in favor of the trols side: Don't give press to the harassers. Dont blame an entire industry for a few bad apples RSS August 28, 2014 Yet disdaiming liability is clearly no help. Game websites with huge communty hubs whose fans are often associated with blunt Twitter hate mobs sort of shrug, they say things lke 'we delete the realy bad stuff what else can we do' and 'those people don't represent our communty'but actualy, those people do represent your community, That's what your community is known for whether you lke it or not. Dive: Am nesie's Sanity When you decline to create or to curate a culture in your spaces, you're respons ble for what spaw ns in the vacuum. That's what's been happening to games That's not super surprising, actually. Whie video games themselves were discovered by strange, bright outcast pioneers they thought arcades would make pub games more fun, or that MUDs woud make for amazing cross-cultural meeting spaces- the commercial arm of the form sprung up from marketing high-end tech products to 'early adopters. You know, young whte dudes w th disposable income who like to Get Suddenly a generation of lonely basement kids had marketers whispering in their ears that they were the most important commercial demographic of al time. Suddenly they started wearing shiny blous es and pinning bikini babes onto everything they made, started making games that sold the promise of high-octane masculinty to kids just lke them. By the turn of the milennium those were games only main cultural signposts: Have money, Have women. Get a gun and then a bigger gun. Be an outcast. Celebrate that. Defeat anyone who threatens you. You dont need cultural references. You dont need anything but gaming. Public conversation was led by a games press whose role was primarity to tell peopke what to buy, to score products competitively against one another, to gleefully fuel the "team sports atmosphere around creators and companies It makes a strange sort of sense that video games of that time would become scapegoats for moral panic, for atrocities committed by young white teen boys in hypercapitalist Amenca not that the games themselves had anything to do with tragedies, but they had an anodiety in common, an amorphous cultural shape that was dark and loud on the outside, hollow on the Inside. Yet in 2014, the Industry has changed. We still think angry young men are the primary demographic for commercial radition r on year, with only a few stering brands enjoying predictable and economically, like the It's clear that most of the people who drove those carapace of a bug." revenues in the past have grown upether out of games, or into more fertile spaces, where small and diverse titles can flourish, where communties can quickly spring up around creativity, sef-expression and mutual support, rather than cons g Studio is audiences and new creators alke there. Traditional "gaming is sloughing off, cuturally and economicaly, ike the c This s hard for people who've drank the kool ald about how their identity depends on the aging cultural signposts of a rapidly-evolving, increasingly broad and complex medium. It's hard for them to hear they dont own anything, anymore, that they aren't the world's most special-est consumer demographic, that CREEDS UNITY We also have to scrutinze, dosely, the baffling, stubborn slence of many content creators amid these scandals, or the fact lots of stubbom, myopic intemet comments happen on business and industry stes. This hard for old-school developers who are being made redundant, both cuturaly and kerally, n their unwilingness to address new audiences or reference points outside of blockbuster movies and comic books as their traditional domain falls into the sea around them. Of course it's hard. It's probably intense, painful stuff for some young kids,some older men. he Fallen- World But t's unstoppable. A new generation of fans and creators is finally aiming to instate a healthy cultural vocabulary, a language of community that was missing in the days of gamer pride" and special interest groups led by a product-guide approach to conversation with a single presumed demographic This means that over just the last few years, wrting on games focuses on personal experiences and independent creators, not approval hungry obeisance to the demands of powerful corporations. Its not about being a reviewer anymore. It's not about teling people what to buy, t's about providing spaces for people to discuss what (and whom) they support. Blog Director These straw man game journalism ethics conversations people have been having are largely the domain of a prior age, when all we did was negotiate ad deas and review scores and scraped to be caled 'reporters, because we had the same powe had. Now part of a writer's job in a creative, human demographic inclusive cuture and a lack of commtment to that just people increasingly prefer not to Gamers are over. howling trolls who ve latched onto 'ethics' a as the latest flag Developers and writers alike want games about moreThat's why they're so abstract art. We wil get this, because we're creating culture now. We are refusing to let anyone Gamer Isnt just a dated demographic label that most people increasingy prefer not to use, Gamers are These obtuse shitsingers, these waiing hyper-consumers, these chidish internet-arguers they are not my audience. They don't have to be yours. There is no·side, to be on, there is no 'debate, to be had. There is what's past and there is what's now. There is the role you choose to play in what's ahead.

Our Properties: Gamasutra GameCareerGuide IndieGames GDC Vault GDC IGF App Dev Stories ADC GAO GAMASUTRA The Art & Business of Making Gones EVENTS Gamers' don't have to be your audience. Gamers' are over. auses August 28, 2014 1 By Leigh Alexander I often say I'm a video game culture wrker, but latelyI dont know exactly what that means, Game oulture as we know t is kind of embarrassing it's not even in-jokes repeatedly, and its getting mad on the August 28, 2014 It's backpacks and jutting promo poster rols, Queing passionately for hours, at events around the world, to see the things that marketers want them to see. To find out whether they should buy things or not. They dont know how to dress or behave. Television cameras pan across these Istless queues, and often catch the expressions of people who don't quite know why they themseves are st > Cryptic Studios Games cuture is a petn dish of people who know so ttle about how human social interaction and professional lfe works that they can concoct onlne wars about social justice or 'game journalsm ethics, straight-faced, and cause genuine human Because of video games. doing here. And I know I'm not abne. est Blogs Al of us shoukd be better than this. You should be deeply questioning your life choices if this and ths and this are the prominent publk face your business presents to the rest of the world This is what the rest of the world knows about your what does $100 buy in you decline to That's it. You should absolutelly be better than thes create or to curate a How to bring your game You dont want to "be divisive?' Who's being divided except for people who are okay with an infantiized cultural desert of s----- behavior and people who aren't? what re in your s spaces, you re responsible fo Spawns in the Our Games Right, let's say it's a vocal minorty that's not representative of most people. Most people, from indies to Industry leaders, are mortfied, furious, disheartened at the vacuum drection industry conversation has taken in the past few weeks. It's not like there are reputable outlets pub|shing rational articles in favor of the trols side: Don't give press to the harassers. Dont blame an entire industry for a few bad apples RSS August 28, 2014 Yet disdaiming liability is clearly no help. Game websites with huge communty hubs whose fans are often associated with blunt Twitter hate mobs sort of shrug, they say things lke 'we delete the realy bad stuff what else can we do' and 'those people don't represent our communty'but actualy, those people do represent your community, That's what your community is known for whether you lke it or not. Dive: Am nesie's Sanity When you decline to create or to curate a culture in your spaces, you're respons ble for what spaw ns in the vacuum. That's what's been happening to games That's not super surprising, actually. Whie video games themselves were discovered by strange, bright outcast pioneers they thought arcades would make pub games more fun, or that MUDs woud make for amazing cross-cultural meeting spaces- the commercial arm of the form sprung up from marketing high-end tech products to 'early adopters. You know, young whte dudes w th disposable income who like to Get Suddenly a generation of lonely basement kids had marketers whispering in their ears that they were the most important commercial demographic of al time. Suddenly they started wearing shiny blous es and pinning bikini babes onto everything they made, started making games that sold the promise of high-octane masculinty to kids just lke them. By the turn of the milennium those were games only main cultural signposts: Have money, Have women. Get a gun and then a bigger gun. Be an outcast. Celebrate that. Defeat anyone who threatens you. You dont need cultural references. You dont need anything but gaming. Public conversation was led by a games press whose role was primarity to tell peopke what to buy, to score products competitively against one another, to gleefully fuel the "team sports atmosphere around creators and companies It makes a strange sort of sense that video games of that time would become scapegoats for moral panic, for atrocities committed by young white teen boys in hypercapitalist Amenca not that the games themselves had anything to do with tragedies, but they had an anodiety in common, an amorphous cultural shape that was dark and loud on the outside, hollow on the Inside. Yet in 2014, the Industry has changed. We still think angry young men are the primary demographic for commercial radition r on year, with only a few stering brands enjoying predictable and economically, like the It's clear that most of the people who drove those carapace of a bug." revenues in the past have grown upether out of games, or into more fertile spaces, where small and diverse titles can flourish, where communties can quickly spring up around creativity, sef-expression and mutual support, rather than cons g Studio is audiences and new creators alke there. Traditional "gaming is sloughing off, cuturally and economicaly, ike the c This s hard for people who've drank the kool ald about how their identity depends on the aging cultural signposts of a rapidly-evolving, increasingly broad and complex medium. It's hard for them to hear they dont own anything, anymore, that they aren't the world's most special-est consumer demographic, that CREEDS UNITY We also have to scrutinze, dosely, the baffling, stubborn slence of many content creators amid these scandals, or the fact lots of stubbom, myopic intemet comments happen on business and industry stes. This hard for old-school developers who are being made redundant, both cuturaly and kerally, n their unwilingness to address new audiences or reference points outside of blockbuster movies and comic books as their traditional domain falls into the sea around them. Of course it's hard. It's probably intense, painful stuff for some young kids,some older men. he Fallen- World But t's unstoppable. A new generation of fans and creators is finally aiming to instate a healthy cultural vocabulary, a language of community that was missing in the days of gamer pride" and special interest groups led by a product-guide approach to conversation with a single presumed demographic This means that over just the last few years, wrting on games focuses on personal experiences and independent creators, not approval hungry obeisance to the demands of powerful corporations. Its not about being a reviewer anymore. It's not about teling people what to buy, t's about providing spaces for people to discuss what (and whom) they support. Blog Director These straw man game journalism ethics conversations people have been having are largely the domain of a prior age, when all we did was negotiate ad deas and review scores and scraped to be caled 'reporters, because we had the same powe had. Now part of a writer's job in a creative, human demographic inclusive cuture and a lack of commtment to that just people increasingly prefer not to Gamers are over. howling trolls who ve latched onto 'ethics' a as the latest flag Developers and writers alike want games about moreThat's why they're so abstract art. We wil get this, because we're creating culture now. We are refusing to let anyone Gamer Isnt just a dated demographic label that most people increasingy prefer not to use, Gamers are These obtuse shitsingers, these waiing hyper-consumers, these chidish internet-arguers they are not my audience. They don't have to be yours. There is no·side, to be on, there is no 'debate, to be had. There is what's past and there is what's now. There is the role you choose to play in what's ahead.

G.G KoTa心 "Why don't we just give up, Pardner?"

G.G KoTa心 "Why don't we just give up, Pardner?"

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Probably a troll

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A game Dev Notice us and put us in their Alpha

Credits Current Version Version Alpha (2009) Matt Mitchum, designer Margaret Slaples. programmer Rebecca Nicol, unity cient developer Aldon Baker, original sounds and music Matt Mitchum', designer (2006) Marcia Burrows'", programmer (2008-) Eli Owens, art-director (2007- Stig Guekens. (2009) Texic, artist (2009) Angela Dunn, artist (2009) Margaret Slaples'. project-manager (2006-) Sheetal Goyal, programmer (2009) Vangelis Drosos, artist (2009) Sarah Shaw, artist (2009) Darren Geers, artist (2009) Special Thanks to those in #gamergate working to empower ethics in games journalism and to connect indie developers with the journalists who want to play and write about new games Several years back, just before and as the economy was crashing, we attempted this design with a larger team. Much of the art created is sbill used, and all contribubions made in the first attenpt are sbll appreciated. If someone who threw in on that project has been missed here, please let us know so that we can include them Tweetlord Alumni

Credits Current Version Version Alpha (2009) Matt Mitchum, designer Margaret Slaples. programmer Rebecca Nicol, unity cient developer Aldon Baker, original sounds and music Matt Mitchum', designer (2006) Marcia Burrows'", programmer (2008-) Eli Owens, art-director (2007- Stig Guekens. (2009) Texic, artist (2009) Angela Dunn, artist (2009) Margaret Slaples'. project-manager (2006-) Sheetal Goyal, programmer (2009) Vangelis Drosos, artist (2009) Sarah Shaw, artist (2009) Darren Geers, artist (2009) Special Thanks to those in #gamergate working to empower ethics in games journalism and to connect indie developers with the journalists who want to play and write about new games Several years back, just before and as the economy was crashing, we attempted this design with a larger team. Much of the art created is sbill used, and all contribubions made in the first attenpt are sbll appreciated. If someone who threw in on that project has been missed here, please let us know so that we can include them Tweetlord Alumni

Today we strike

#GAMERGATE YESTERDAY THEY SAID WE WHERE DEAD TODAY WE STRIKE LIKE LIGHTENING

#GAMERGATE YESTERDAY THEY SAID WE WHERE DEAD TODAY WE STRIKE LIKE LIGHTENING

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Evidence

HOW DOES #GAMERGATE SUPPORT IT'S ARGUMENTS? WITH EVIDENCE

HOW DOES #GAMERGATE SUPPORT IT'S ARGUMENTS? WITH EVIDENCE

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George Reese deletes "ISIS" tweet

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Notice the issue date in the bottom-right: 1995

The False Narrative: Tumblr Edition

CATHODE DEBRIS Video game culture, italo disco and found space trash Archive First uses of the #gamergate and #notyourshield hashtags There's been some suggestion lately that #gamergate and #notyourshield are semi-legitmate hashtags. There's been some suggestion not everyone is there to attack women, but to express genuine outrage at corruption in the games industry, or to identify themselves as minority members of the "gamer" subculture The most basic dilligence shows that they certainly didn't start this way. The events of the last two weeks will be refered to for years to come, and it's important the astroturfed origins of both #gamergate and #notyourshield are recorded #gamergate users generally claim to be against corruption of the video game blog scene and that they do not support the harassment of women. I used twitter analytics website topsy.com to find the originator of the hashtag and check this claim out Full Metal Jacket's Animal Mother and noted right winger, on the 27th of August It was used to promote a chemtrail-esque conspiracy video harassing game developer Zoe Quinn after her ex-boyfriend aired his grudges over the internet Adam Baldwin @AdamBaldwin Follow #GamerGate: pt. 1: m,youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51P. pt. 2: youtube.com/watch?v=pKmy50 Reply Retweet ★ Favourite More YouTube 一, PLAYLIST | 2 /29 Quinnspiracy Theory: In-N-Out Edition 1960 IN-N-OUT BURGER »1 ) 0:00 / 24:45 0You Tube Quinnspiracy Theory: In-N-Out Edition Whose a guy gotta f--- around here to get some fries with this? All Links Included Below The Break ZoePo View on web RETWEETS FAVOURITES 131169s 6:22 pm -27 Aug 2014 Flag media In conclusion #gamergate began as a means to insult, harass and objectify a female developer #notyourshield has even more blatantly manufactured origins ltasplanned by users of website 4chan as a "special jamming op (read: culturejamming) to use alledged minority viewpoints as, well, a shield for the harassment of female gamedevs THE TADS TOOETHER NOTYOURSHELD EVERYONE RETWEET THE ELL #notyourShield was first deployed by twitter user @Ninonu on September 2nd Conclusion: #notyourshield is an example of cynical cultureamming intended to deflect criticism of the ongoing harassment of Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, their friends, family and a growing circle of female or female friendly developers and journalists The idea that these tags represent legitmate flustration is wrong and harmful #gamergate #notyourshield

CATHODE DEBRIS Video game culture, italo disco and found space trash Archive First uses of the #gamergate and #notyourshield hashtags There's been some suggestion lately that #gamergate and #notyourshield are semi-legitmate hashtags. There's been some suggestion not everyone is there to attack women, but to express genuine outrage at corruption in the games industry, or to identify themselves as minority members of the "gamer" subculture The most basic dilligence shows that they certainly didn't start this way. The events of the last two weeks will be refered to for years to come, and it's important the astroturfed origins of both #gamergate and #notyourshield are recorded #gamergate users generally claim to be against corruption of the video game blog scene and that they do not support the harassment of women. I used twitter analytics website topsy.com to find the originator of the hashtag and check this claim out Full Metal Jacket's Animal Mother and noted right winger, on the 27th of August It was used to promote a chemtrail-esque conspiracy video harassing game developer Zoe Quinn after her ex-boyfriend aired his grudges over the internet Adam Baldwin @AdamBaldwin Follow #GamerGate: pt. 1: m,youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51P. pt. 2: youtube.com/watch?v=pKmy50 Reply Retweet ★ Favourite More YouTube 一, PLAYLIST | 2 /29 Quinnspiracy Theory: In-N-Out Edition 1960 IN-N-OUT BURGER »1 ) 0:00 / 24:45 0You Tube Quinnspiracy Theory: In-N-Out Edition Whose a guy gotta f--- around here to get some fries with this? All Links Included Below The Break ZoePo View on web RETWEETS FAVOURITES 131169s 6:22 pm -27 Aug 2014 Flag media In conclusion #gamergate began as a means to insult, harass and objectify a female developer #notyourshield has even more blatantly manufactured origins ltasplanned by users of website 4chan as a "special jamming op (read: culturejamming) to use alledged minority viewpoints as, well, a shield for the harassment of female gamedevs THE TADS TOOETHER NOTYOURSHELD EVERYONE RETWEET THE ELL #notyourShield was first deployed by twitter user @Ninonu on September 2nd Conclusion: #notyourshield is an example of cynical cultureamming intended to deflect criticism of the ongoing harassment of Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, their friends, family and a growing circle of female or female friendly developers and journalists The idea that these tags represent legitmate flustration is wrong and harmful #gamergate #notyourshield

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Keep writing emails

#GamerGate intel PULLED THEIR ADS IF YOU WANT OTHERS TO AS WELL: KEEP WRITING E-MAILS

#GamerGate intel PULLED THEIR ADS IF YOU WANT OTHERS TO AS WELL: KEEP WRITING E-MAILS

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Dell purely fuck you

H IM GEORGE REESE, EXECUTVE DIRECTOR AT DELL AND MY HOBBY IS MAKING IOTIC, INSENSITIVE COMMENTS IN PUBLIC HELP!! GET OVER IT YOU WMtNY 8ITCHI THI NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT · VIDEOGAME JOURNALISTS IN SAN FRANCISCO HAVE TO ENDURE! STOP DERAILING 90 AND REMEMBER KIDS AMERS ARE A BUNCH BY THE WAY THESE HOLIDAYS DON'T FORGET TO BUY AN ALIENWARE GAMING PC so I CAN GET MY BONUS! AND ALSO TERRORISTS HO HO Ho! BROUGHT TO YOU BY... DELL Purely F--- You

H IM GEORGE REESE, EXECUTVE DIRECTOR AT DELL AND MY HOBBY IS MAKING IOTIC, INSENSITIVE COMMENTS IN PUBLIC HELP!! GET OVER IT YOU WMtNY 8ITCHI THI NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT · VIDEOGAME JOURNALISTS IN SAN FRANCISCO HAVE TO ENDURE! STOP DERAILING 90 AND REMEMBER KIDS AMERS ARE A BUNCH BY THE WAY THESE HOLIDAYS DON'T FORGET TO BUY AN ALIENWARE GAMING PC so I CAN GET MY BONUS! AND ALSO TERRORISTS HO HO Ho! BROUGHT TO YOU BY... DELL Purely F--- You

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Sears PR has been made aware of the situation..

$防民之口甚于防川 AndreaBettis_ . 13h Reminder that we still need to keep emailing @Sears. #GamerGate reddit.com/r/KotakulnActi AneiDoru @AneiDoru 12h @AndreaBettis_@Sears yes! keep e-mailing, every small victory is a step in the right direction! Sears @Sears Follow sears @AneiDoru @AndreaBettis_ Hey there, what's going on? Reply Retweet * Favorite More RETWEETS FAVORITES 6:24 AM-7 Oct 2014 Reply to @Sears @AneiDoru @AndreaBettis_ AneiDoru @AneiDoru 5h @Sears @AndreaBettis_pbs.twimg.com/media/BzKNk_P... we have been emailing your site because Kotaku has lost journalistic integrity \ AneiDoru @AneiDoru 5h Sears @AndreaBettis_ And be sure that if you pull ads from Kotaku, you will get customers from me and many others the madmax of comedy @DrNeckbeard 5h @Sears @AneiDoru @AndreaBettis_We're worried about you, Sears! Sears @Sears 5h @uhavenocontrol @AneiDoru @AndreaBettis_We truly appreciate your feedback, and we will make sure to look into this. Thnx 4 reaching out. sears$

$防民之口甚于防川 AndreaBettis_ . 13h Reminder that we still need to keep emailing @Sears. #GamerGate reddit.com/r/KotakulnActi AneiDoru @AneiDoru 12h @AndreaBettis_@Sears yes! keep e-mailing, every small victory is a step in the right direction! Sears @Sears Follow sears @AneiDoru @AndreaBettis_ Hey there, what's going on? Reply Retweet * Favorite More RETWEETS FAVORITES 6:24 AM-7 Oct 2014 Reply to @Sears @AneiDoru @AndreaBettis_ AneiDoru @AneiDoru 5h @Sears @AndreaBettis_pbs.twimg.com/media/BzKNk_P... we have been emailing your site because Kotaku has lost journalistic integrity \ AneiDoru @AneiDoru 5h Sears @AndreaBettis_ And be sure that if you pull ads from Kotaku, you will get customers from me and many others the madmax of comedy @DrNeckbeard 5h @Sears @AneiDoru @AndreaBettis_We're worried about you, Sears! Sears @Sears 5h @uhavenocontrol @AneiDoru @AndreaBettis_We truly appreciate your feedback, and we will make sure to look into this. Thnx 4 reaching out. sears$

gamergate #gamergate

Fall of 4chan and the Rise of 8chan

Moot oks censorship of #gg "Gamer is over" articles published across a number of mainstream publications. (Gamergate) Zoe Quinn's ex reveals that she was sleeping with a number of the Daily Pageviews per jorealists giving her positive press 8chan.co 15 10 www.alexa.tom May Jul Aug Oct Jun Daily Pageviews per User 4chan.org 12 www.alexa.tom May Jul Aug Oct Jun

Moot oks censorship of #gg "Gamer is over" articles published across a number of mainstream publications. (Gamergate) Zoe Quinn's ex reveals that she was sleeping with a number of the Daily Pageviews per jorealists giving her positive press 8chan.co 15 10 www.alexa.tom May Jul Aug Oct Jun Daily Pageviews per User 4chan.org 12 www.alexa.tom May Jul Aug Oct Jun

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Gamasutra tears

Drinking Gamasutra Tears #GamerGate

Drinking Gamasutra Tears #GamerGate

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