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dragondicks Imagine if we reviewed other media the way gamergate wants games to be reviewed though. Imagine if when we reviewed movies we were like "ok I'm not going to talk about the writing, the story, the characters, the theme, the atmosphere, I'm not even going to mention if it's full of bigotry that feels like it belongs in media several decades ago, I'm just going to review it by talking about whether the actual filming itself is done competently and leave it at that jack and jill review: competently filmed. 5/5

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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The members of GamerGate who are discussing the idea of how sites like Polygon approach reviews are viewing it from the standpoint that moral bias should be removed from the review, or at least not impact the score.

A more apt comparison can be made with the movie A Clockwork Orange. To many people, Clockwork Orange has content that goes against their morals. However, it is still a masterfully made movie from all perspectives, be they filming, writing, theme, etc. If Polygon were to review the movie from the way they reviewed Bayonneta 2, they would probably give it a 7.5/10 just because the rape scene was triggering.

The people are advocating for factors that are far more relevant to the medium to be what determines how a game is reviewed, not the moral beliefs of an author.

People really need to stop strawmanning.

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Let me think about this for a second. If we assume that AAA titles that received praise across the board would be the equivilent of a big budget movie that everybody liked…and "full of bigotry that feels like in belongs in media several decades ago" equates to at least 30 year in the past…I think I've got something here:

"Hollywood sells out to the patriarchal slime once again, with a movie that has only a handful of confirmed women in its cast. Yes, one of these women is a main character…but only as some kind of DAMSEL IN DISTRESS that establishes a goal for a MAN to save…and then immediatly get HARRASSED by a mysoginistic anti-hero/comic relief. I'm also positive the meathead's entirely-neckbeard friend threw in some insults as well in some kind of foreign ISIS language. There was something about some kind of space powers and laser beam stuff, but the story, effects, music, and everything else was too hard to pay attention to. I quit watching after the "good guys" make a plan to blow up a giant grey space boob planet…which is an INSULT to the female form, but planning to blow it up is the BIGGEST INSULT TO WOMEN EVER.

In summation, Movie Polygon gives "Star Wars" a 7/10."

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