The biggest wake up call came in August when all the journos went in lockstep with the "Gamers are dead" articles, claiming gamers didn't have to and shouldn't have to be catered to as the primary audience for the gaming industry.
Sarkeesian was a woke feminist but even people that supposedly where not woke or feminists claim she "had some valid points" which is basically the same as we are seeing now with folks like Critical Grifter "what is woke?" video or defending the Fallout show. I particularly remember that ****** the "Amazing Atheist" specifically saying word for word that she had some valid points but the way she came out with her message was wrong and he was allegedly 100% against SJW propaganda and had a large platform at the time on Youtube, but not even him dared to denounce Sarkeesian fully.
The journos overplayed their hand. They went too hard and it came off as too obvious, even normies noticed and that opened the floodgates for a lot of grifters to clout chase by parroting the talking points and making fun of the "SJWs" which was the term for woke libtards at that point, but most of the people on the gamergate side considered themselves "LiBeRtArIaNs" or straight up liberals because they didn't want to associate with the religious conservatives that wanted to ban GTA in the past.
I don't think a single one of them ended up actually anywhere and they all eventually disappeared, except Sargon of Akkad which gained a LOT of prominence due to it and he was keen to monetize it for all it was worth. His Lotus Eaters stuff does talk about race so at least they are one order of magnitude less "******" than most but they don't really talk about *******, ****** or women being in power as something wrong, as far as I know honestly I admit I don't really follow their content that much and have only watched a few clips on topics that sounded interesting, like the legions of muslims culturally enriching Japan.
I don't really think it ended up amounting to anything relevant. The people that knew about the feminist/SJW/woketard agenda trying to overtake every medium of entertainment to peddle their propaganda wasn't surprised and the normies quickly forgot all about it in order to not go against the popular thing, which was being a democrat/libertarian/enlightened centrist and being ALL about equality.
Feminists/woketards kept trying to go hard and now there has been somewhat of a pendulum swing, but as everyone can tell its always in hushed whispers. Openly, everyone accepts the woke ******** as true and righteous. And just like before GG, most public figures are openly woketards or at best enlightened centrists. Even the Republicans have a host of RINOs among their ranks.
In the end progressives won. Video games have been completely infiltrated from the top down and nothing short of complete collapse of the industry has a chance of it being remotely salvageable and even that not likely.
The biggest wake up call came in August when all the journos went in lockstep with the "Gamers are dead" articles, claiming gamers didn't have to and shouldn't have to be catered to as the primary audience for the gaming industry.
Sarkeesian was a woke feminist but even people that supposedly where not woke or feminists claim she "had some valid points" which is basically the same as we are seeing now with folks like Critical Grifter "what is woke?" video or defending the Fallout show. I particularly remember that ****** the "Amazing Atheist" specifically saying word for word that she had some valid points but the way she came out with her message was wrong and he was allegedly 100% against SJW propaganda and had a large platform at the time on Youtube, but not even him dared to denounce Sarkeesian fully.
The journos overplayed their hand. They went too hard and it came off as too obvious, even normies noticed and that opened the floodgates for a lot of grifters to clout chase by parroting the talking points and making fun of the "SJWs" which was the term for woke libtards at that point, but most of the people on the gamergate side considered themselves "LiBeRtArIaNs" or straight up liberals because they didn't want to associate with the religious conservatives that wanted to ban GTA in the past.
I don't think a single one of them ended up actually anywhere and they all eventually disappeared, except Sargon of Akkad which gained a LOT of prominence due to it and he was keen to monetize it for all it was worth. His Lotus Eaters stuff does talk about race so at least they are one order of magnitude less "******" than most but they don't really talk about *******, ****** or women being in power as something wrong, as far as I know honestly I admit I don't really follow their content that much and have only watched a few clips on topics that sounded interesting, like the legions of muslims culturally enriching Japan.
I don't really think it ended up amounting to anything relevant. The people that knew about the feminist/SJW/woketard agenda trying to overtake every medium of entertainment to peddle their propaganda wasn't surprised and the normies quickly forgot all about it in order to not go against the popular thing, which was being a democrat/libertarian/enlightened centrist and being ALL about equality.
Feminists/woketards kept trying to go hard and now there has been somewhat of a pendulum swing, but as everyone can tell its always in hushed whispers. Openly, everyone accepts the woke ******** as true and righteous. And just like before GG, most public figures are openly woketards or at best enlightened centrists. Even the Republicans have a host of RINOs among their ranks.
In the end progressives won. Video games have been completely infiltrated from the top down and nothing short of complete collapse of the industry has a chance of it being remotely salvageable and even that not likely.
You want proof? Baldur's Gate 3, chapter 2 and onward (especially chapter 3). And DA from at least DA:I, though one could argue that the decline began with DA:E/2.
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It's what started my journey to the truth, and it was the catalyst for a lot of other guys to do the same from what I read. Many of us used video games to escape the injustices in the real world where everything was being taken from us piece by piece, but we couldn't even have that escapism. They came for the video games to insert their braindead globohomo politics in it and shook nearly everyone out of the trance. From about the beginning of 2011 I could feel the shift away from normalcy to where we are now. The start of the "migrant" invasion of Europe. I still remember being in college at the time and hearing about that Anti-White ****** jew Tim Wise going around brainwashing students into hating/blaming White men for the actions of his own. It's a meme, but really I just wanted to play video games free of disgusting commie jew propaganda, now I realize we are in a life or death struggle for survival and time is running out.
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It was the culture war in microcosm. This isn't a comprehensive history, just what I remember that hasn't been covered already.
You ask what it was like. I don't know how young you were, but things have changed so much that remembering it feels as alien as seeing pictures from a time when everyone wasn't fat. The open hostility and socially invasive schism between right and left didn't exist yet.
Gamergate was the rude awakening of a generation of young adults who never had a reason to question the mainstream political paradigm. The Left was cool, creative, and open-minded, while the Right was stuffy and out-of-touch. There was no right wing as it exists now, at least not anywhere a kid could find it. This generation was too young to have been redpilled by the events going on around them and generally believed what they were taught. The Right was billed as warmongering, greedy Republicans and pearl clutchers crying, "the Grand Theft Autos are brainwashing our children into mass shooters!!" to which gamers collectively rolled their eyes. They had never experienced genuine hostility from the establishment, only the canned kind which fed into the narrative, i.e. toothless "conservative values" whose only purpose was to crumble one-by-one so another generation of domestic liberals could feel like they defeated something in the name of progress.
The P wave of the Gamergate earthquake was the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy in 2012. It was unilaterally decided by both Bioware PR and mainstream gaming media that those who disliked the ending were entitled whiners sending death threats to the devs. In reality, the vast majority of critics were civil and well-reasoned, probably more than they should've been. But a thousand sane people would be ignored in favor of one shitflinger. It was a baffling display of bad faith which flew in the face of the truth which could plainly be seen by anyone (a pattern which would be repeated throughout the decade, culminating in 2020.)
Nowadays gaming media is regarded as a bad joke, but it wasn't that way back then. They were still riding the coattails of the era before Twitter, before Facebook, before mass social media where companies could easily reach their audience without any intermediary (also before Steam and such, when word of mouth and the back of the box was all you had for quality control.) Game journos were the primary source of interviews, upcoming releases, and reviews. Games would sink or swim based on their coverage and approval. On at least one occasion, devs' bonuses were tied to the review scores their game pulled. Gaming media was a big deal; the power they had was absurd.
When people found out that some chick named Zoe was sleeping with dudes to get good reviews for her crappy game, it sparked a bit of outrage. The real significance of the controversy wasn't the thing itself, however, but the heavy censorship it inspired. That is what got people's attention. (GG made it a point to refer to Zoe as "Literally Who" in an attempt to demonstrate that it wasn't about her. As usual, this was ignored, and GG is still slandered as a "harassment campaign" to this day.)
I cannot emphasize enough how different online discourse was from today. People generally believed that they had free speech. The constant battle against hostile algorithms didn't exist (at least not openly.) The Left successfully masqueraded as common sense. The slope was not believed to be slippery because we were still at the top of it. Games had been getting better and better and would continue to do so. (Yes, the decline was already underway and games were dumbed down, but the feeling was that improvement was possible.) The future looked bright. So the sudden crackdown of censorship combined with the forced praise of abject garbage like the ME3 ending and "games" like Gone Home was a real shock. Like with ME3, the lockstep narrative and circling of wagons was uncanny. As others have mentioned, shortly after the pot was stirred, every major gaming media outlet simultaneously published articles titled "Gamers are Dead," saying "gamers don't have to be your audience."
Gamergate believed in their naivete that if they sat down with these ideologues and had a good faith discussion, then their disagreements could be resolved. They thought that progressives could be reasoned with, persuaded, or placated. They had to learn the hard way that the Left has no integrity, no belief in truth, that pointing out contradictions and hypocrisy has no effect, and that talking with them is a pointless, self-defeating waste.
Other major controversies (as far as I can remember; my memory is hazy) were DiGRA getting funding from DARPA and the GameJournoPro list (which led to the uncovering of the JournoPro white/blacklists and the realization that all journalism was corrupt, not just games journalism.) It suddenly became clear that the Left was the establishment, they hated us, and this was much bigger than anyone had imagined. Enter Trump, and the rest is history.
As for KotakuInAction, it was a normie-accessible offshoot of GG's operation from 8chan. Sometime after Trump, leftists infiltrated the mod team, then held a phony poll to oust the originals. By that time it was just another victim of the general death of online discourse.
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2010-2014 was wild. First there was Ron Paul, who I kind of jibed with in terms of ideas, but what made him more relevant was that leftists were calling him "racist" for either no reason or the idea, which seemed completely obtuse to me at the time, "so leftists think blacks just can't compete in a free system?"
KIA was one of my on-ramps to being aware of the progressive playbook before GamerGate, but I naively thought it was localized to freaks on tumblr or weird academics. Once 2014 came around it was all made obvious, and the rest is history.
That cartoon about HL2 is on the nose. I never played it back in 2004, but recently tried to play it because I liked the gameplay of HL1. Despite the gameplay being good, the story was really ******* irritating. The way the devs try and force you to like Alyx and the long in-game exposition and writing on her is really cringe. Granted it's not as bad as modern games, but for a 2004 game it's really annoying. I couldn't have cared less about her or her dad. I guess it could have been worse if they made her into a more masculine *****, but that might be the only positive about her.
Anyway that image is extremely ******* cringe on its own and you can tell that the artist was 100% serious when he drew it. Gaymergayt and anyone who was prominent during that time was a complete moron who missed the forest for the trees and instead of leveraging the movement into addressing actual issues (judaistic talmudians, atheism, materialism etc.) kept talking about ******* videogayms like it's the most important **** ever all while behaving like the fat smelly ******** manchildren they were/are.
Started and maintained by doxxing dumbasses like yourself who swallowed ****** beta bf bait hook line and sinker for no other reason than to quickly radicalize idpolfags and have all that **** spill over into realspace.
Started and maintained by doxxing dumbasses like yourself who swallowed ****** beta bf bait hook line and sinker for no other reason than to quickly radicalize idpolfags and have all that **** spill over into realspace.
Everything you're referring to was tumblr, not gamergate. You're too young to even know.
Slander is a falsehood. Demoman is a ****** that replaced a ginger.
It was sold as comedy, "haha, how ridiculous a black Scotsman, next you'll create a black Irishman" but in retrospect, is it actually? It was just Leftist cucking.
Although ultimately, the ginger character would have probably been way less amusing.
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It was sold as comedy, "haha, how ridiculous a black Scotsman, next you'll create a black Irishman" but in retrospect, is it actually? It was just Leftist cucking.
It always begins as humor for purposes of normalization.
If you complain about anything, they'll say "well you didn't complain about X" when X was a joke
Slander is a falsehood. Demoman is a ****** that replaced a ginger.
It was sold as comedy, "haha, how ridiculous a black Scotsman, next you'll create a black Irishman" but in retrospect, is it actually? It was just Leftist cucking.
Although ultimately, the ginger character would have probably been way less amusing.
2007 was a time before the culture war so I will hear no slander against Demoman.
Slander is a falsehood. Demoman is a ****** that replaced a ginger.
It was sold as comedy, "haha, how ridiculous a black Scotsman, next you'll create a black Irishman" but in retrospect, is it actually? It was just Leftist cucking.
Although ultimately, the ginger character would have probably been way less amusing.
2007 was a time before the culture war so I will hear no slander against Demoman.
My brother in mohamoood, the culture war goes back beyond Civil Rights.
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