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Polygon NeWt REVIEWS FEATURES VIDEOS FORUMS OPINION PLATFORMSMORE 'Big indie' Kickstarters are killing actual indies OPINION Press Star Witcher e hall of farm By Owen S FOLLOw POLYGON NOW! S- O 362K) 当FOLLO、 Opinion by Katie Chironis on May 19, 2015 at 1:25p Click for more on how Polygon writes opinion pieces. Modder br outrageou Grand The Elsinore, a time-looping adventure game by Katie Chironis KICK STARTER KICKSTARTER A 929 PICK backers $26,637 pledged of $12,000 goal (2x asking goal) (55 hours to go) (May 24th 2015) (Staff pick) PLAY hours to go LSINORE Back This Project Dawn of the First Day 72 hours remain This project will be funded on Wed +03.00 May 19th 2015 Katie Chironis @katiechironis " Follow My first Polygon article is up! Thanks @BenKuchera for the awesome editing pass. Now to go to lunch while my twitter feed explodes :) Bellevue, WA RETWE FAVORITES 10.40 AM-19 May 2015 Journalists Outlets Articles Entries About Ben Kuchera Polygon, Senior editor Previously: Ars Technica, Penny Arcade Report Editor-in-Chief Member of GamejournoPros. Proven to have been active, and alleged to have had significant pull in the list. Gave positive coverage to SportFriends, without disclosing his financial backing of the project- although he did disclose properly in a previous article. Gave positive coverage to Zoe Quinn while financially supporting her, Claimed to have been harassed by GamerGate, while claiming he wasn't receiving any messages on GamejournoPros. Directly attacked Forbes writer Erik Kain, explicitly stating his intent to hurt his career, for an article linking to an emulated version of a Super Nintendo game- despite having written about similar topics himself multiple times. Harassed game journalism blogger Ben Paddon, because he was using donation money he promised he would use for rent to buy medicine for his girlfriend instead. Escalated a Twitter argument to threats by repeatedly trying to get his opponent fired, by repeatedly contacting his employer Harassed EA head of communications Chris Mancil, calling in his employers, for linking to an article of his in his blog, in an entirely positive light. Attempted to censor discussion of journalistic ethics on The Escapist's forums by bullying then-Editor-in-Chief Greg Tito on GamejournoPros-accusing him of enabling harassment and calling free speech concerns a technicality Reblogged Kotaku's article on the false Brad Wardell accusations, originally stating that it contained "damning evidence". While every other outlet republishing the accusations eventually apologized when they were proven false, Kuchera never did. Took part in the Dragon Crown moral panic initiated by Jason Schreier Apparent GG Autoblocker user Portrayed in the People of GamerGate series.

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Like...is there any solution to this? Should we start something?
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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