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Gamers' don't have to be your audience. We Might Be Witnessing The 'Death of An Gaming Is Leaving "Gamers" Behind A Disheartening Account of 'Gamers' are over. _amm The Harrassment Going On In Why the vitriol of the gaming internet is ldentity' Gaming Right Now (And how Joseph Bernstein BuzzFeed Staf Adam Baldwin Is Involved) ed to: SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS 58 minutes ago uest August 28, 20141 By Leigh Alexander I often say I'm a video game culture writer, but lately I dont know exactly what that means. Game e know it is kind of embarrassing not even culture. It's buying things, spackling over memes and in-jokes repeatedly, and it's getting Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, A Guide to Ending "Gamers :57:00 pnm I've been working at Kotaku for nearly eight years now, and while I've seen some online kerfuffles over various issues in that time, I've never seen anything like the past two weeks. The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra's community The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and net Gamasutra s been t e in every conceiveable There has been so much hate. So many angry words, so many aceusations, over...what? Video games? Women in video games? People who write about video games? sense of the word, in some part due t in the concluding chapter of lan Bogost's esca the hundreds of tweets being written about it, we're seeing calls to do away with the concept of The death of the "gamers" and the women t its peak and things me who "killed"hensa certo hea What the hell is going on with gamers right now Anita Sarkeesian Threatened ith R--- and Murder for Daring to Keep Critiquing Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian prove points a certain gamer-type refuses to hear he past several weeks have seen an extraordinary amount of vitriol between some game fans, game makers, and game writers. That anger has started to spill out of traditional gamer-internet silos and onto social networks, and people without ames posted by ANNA MINARD on THU, AUG 28 direct stake in gaming have taken notice. It's prompted some hard questions for game culture, and a lot of soul-searching. Anita Sarkeesian, the woman behind a fantastic web series critiquing misogyny video games, released another video this week. Funded as a Kickstarter project Sarkeesian's Tropes vs. Women in Video Games" series scholarly look at video games through a feminist lens, in which Sarkeesian breaks down a bunch of common female stereotypes in games and explains how to spot them and why they're harmful, with tons of examples (including examples of games really check it It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Why Are Gamers So Angry? A screenshot of a domestic abuse scene from Watch Dogs used a Oh, Anita, you're so beautiful and sexy. you know that? was the nicest terrible thing a random Twitter user said to Anita Sarkeesian, creat peppered her with threats of r---, death, and the address of her home and that of her parents following the posting of her latest video on Monday. The video, which would be right at home on PBS in tone if not content, suggested that many mainstream games represent women as accessories and shorthand rather than as humans, a viewpoint that generated swift and unrelenting rage the Tropes vs Women in Video Games series, as he The subset of entitled, belligerent gamers convinced that bein ny intendo reveals the New necessary are overwhelmin Feminist Video Blogger Is Driven From Home by Death Threats Just because adult women are the largest demographic in The attack on Sarkeesian was among a number of incidents in the last few weeks that exposed some the ugly (yet familiar) attitudes and prejudices that remain deeply ingrained in the gaming culture This time, those sentiments have gotten tied up in ethical arguments in an attempt to highlight Opinion by Chris Plante on Aug 28, 2014 at 1:21p @plante Click for more on how Polygon writes opinion pieces Dan Golding Sexism, misogyny and online attacks: It's a horrible time to consider yourself Last week a game desiger's persoal life was exposed tothe internet and used to Dan Golding, writer and academic. Here's BY JACK SMITH IV 828 10:50AM What an awful week for the culture that surrounds and influences video games. yourself ua academic stuff. This tumblr is for things that t go anywhere else. justify physical threats to both the developer and her colleagues. The designer was one gamer f many people targeted in an orchestrated harassment effort directed at game PATRICK O'ROURKE 1 August 28, 2014 | Last Updated Aug 28 9:33 PM ET More from Patrick O'Rourke l @Patrick ORourke Misogynistic Trolls Drive Feminist Video Game Critic From Her Home The End of Gamers The last few weeks in videogame culture have seen a level of combativeness more marked and bitter than any befo First, a developer-a woman who makes games who has had so much piled on to etuate things by namingh harassment campaign that attacked her personal life and friendships. Campaigns of They are dismayingly common among those who happen to be women, or not white straight men, and doubly so if they also happen to make the sort of game at game devel Anita Sarkeesian has made enemies of misogynists in the gaming community. Time and time again, they've gone much, much too far. (Screengrab via Feminist Frequency) anv through their very existence. The viciousness and ferocity with which this campaign occurred, however, was shocking, and certainly out of the ordinary s hard to take seriously the online cesspools where men's rights activists and not-all-mer apologists congregate. But as ridiculous as they seem, a lot of these guys are dead serious, and capable of causing very real havoc rou routine, shockingly). It was an ugly spectacle that should haunt and shame those involved for the rest of their lives. Anits Sarkeesians Feminist Frequency examines common tropes in video games Here's your daily reminder that Internet misogynists are vile, horrible creatures and that women face threats and harassment on a daily basis just for having opinions and voicing them: feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian has been driven out of her own home after receiving an COMMEN minist Frequency and Anita Sarkeesian's latest video, Women as Background Decoration (part 2), is thought-provoking, eye-opening and most importantly accurate. outpouring of death and r--- threats on Twitter n her latest video Sarkeesian examines how non-playable female characters in video games are often only used as objects of sex and violence. She discusses notable titles like itman Absolution, Bioshock: Infinite, Watch Dogs and massive franchises like the Grand Theft Auto and the God of War series. TECH HEALTH 08.28.1 Fanboys, White Knights, and the Hairball of Online Misogyny ees and r--- threats. The men who defended her were accused A harmless woman is being harassed online by a nerdy subculture. The fact 08/28/2014

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zoë “lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch - 1h Since I'm getting a lot of emails about this: no, l've got nothing to do with That TV show. I learned about its existence at the same time as the rest of you. No, I was not asked, consulted etc. and if I had been asked, I wouldn't have been ok with it. That's all. 5 17 42 408 zoë “lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch · 1h I continue to reject any oversimplification of GamerGate that leaves out its roots in white supremacy, domestic violence, and the pre-existing societal issues it capitalized in favor of a more convenient and inaccurate narrative about it being solely about women in games. t7 78 5 510 @UnburntWitch - 57m zoë “lycan subscribe" quinn If I am portrayed in it, it's without my involvement or any input on my end, and is happening without my consent. If I'm written out of it, well. I'm not so sure how you can present it as an “honest" story. But that's really not my problem, either. 27 10 204 zoë “lycan subscribe" quinn ... @UnburntWitch I don't want to do any interviews on this, I don't want to give any other statements aside from this. It's bad enough having all of this pop up again without any warning or regard for how I might feel about it, so l'd like to just try and ignore it. Thank you for understanding.
zoë "lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch I haven't stopped screaming this for the last seven years because the scarlet letter on me hasn't come off, the harassment hasn't stopped, and people still refuse to learn a god damned thing about what happened to me (and others). Ignoring history enables the repetition of it. * Margaret Sullivan O @Sulliview 7h The AP's treatment of 22-year-old journalist Emily Wilder shows how much newsroom managers still have to learn about bad-faith attacks and online harassment of their staffers, seven years after Gamergate should have taught them. My column washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi. Show this thread 7:00 pm · 27 May 2021 Twitter for iPhone zoë "lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch Replying to @UnburntWitch You might be sick of hearing about it, but I promise I'm more sick of having to say it. It is nothing short of a waking nightmare to be constantly impacted by it for the better part of 10 years despite all attempts to move the f--- on, only to have people say it never happened. 7:08 pm 27 May 2021 Twitter for iPhone cory barlog O @corybarlog 10m ... Replying to @UnburntWitch people are just the f-----' worst. O 1 zoë "lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch · 7m I'm losing my mind dude, there's honestly Discourse saying gg never even happened and wasn't that bad anyway like 2014 never stopped. ... O 11 Cliff Bleszinski O @therealcliffyb - 6m JFC
zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch - 1h wow what a "fun" idea. assholes. O DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm - 9h Ellen Page and Paris Berelc have been cast in the gaming comedy 1UP' for BuzzFeed Studios. The film is described as being in the vein of 'Pitch Perfect' but set in the world of esports with a Gamergate backdrop. (Source: link.hollywoodreporter.com/click/21952263..) IB CAD 44 27 251 M 1.6K zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch 1h love that the psycho ex who ruined my life and the alt-right mob he drummed up basically seems to have won the disinformation wars given the replies to this. big props to everyone who knew better but stayed ""neutral"" during gg. O 6 27 52 O 829 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch - 1h fun reminder: the game review I supposedly "bought" with sex literally never existed in any way, shape, or form, and the psycho ex who kicked up the mob even said so himself. 000 I hate that this still somehow is considered a controversial statement. 27 78 O 771 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch · 1h I hate that I have to keep saying it but I don't know what else to do when people just let the waters be muddied for this long and my existence has been politicized to the point where I can't just live my life. 000 277 O 497 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch - 1h 000 They even named the protagonist "Vivian" so they know enough to know better than to make this a fun comedic romp. O 10 337 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch 57m I'm so sick of talking about this even though it STILL impacts my life every day. I struggle to live my life around it, recover from it, and not let it break me and then stuff like this comes up from time to time and kicks me in the teeth. O 4 27 8 O 386 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O 000 @UnburntWitch Replying to @UnburntWitch Sorry. I know a million more important and f----- up things are happening rn. Logging tf off. 1:57 AM - Oct 31, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone ZOE QUINN GAMERGATE
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