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If people fail at fighting against corruption in Games Journalism, how on earth would they be able fight any injustice of greater magnitude? Might as well just let the demons run amok and enjoy the show instead.

http://imgur.com/a/vpJX8 Holy hell, the amount of salt.

[citation needed] https://archive.today/J41zZ //Edit: Zorapor was faster.

I am pretty sure that Gawker Media, after losing money in the seven figures thanks to GG, are already involved in operations such as these. Why shouldn't business protect their interests? I think that you are confusing me with someon else btw, i haven't talked about any "ebul libruls".

...Feminists are secretly funded by Big Pharma? Yes. Exactly.

While digging, always keep this in mind:

This is quite fascinating. I always assumed that people went into the industry that they like or have proficiency for. If the workplace did not work out in any way or the other, they just switched to another job in the same industry. For example, If you love plumbing you look around until you find a good firm or employer, what more is needed? Who the discusses politics in the workplace to begin with? Professionalism is expected.

Jonathan Blow is just such an insufferable, stereotypical high-brow **** to such a degree that he is just funny instead.

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I see no meaningful difference between "will not game because games don't appeal to me gameplay-wise" and "will not game because games don't appeal to me representation-wise". I meant "I am not interested in games. Period"-kind of people. "Pander to non-normal people". How classy. Also, "small teams in basements and garages" might have been a viable business model 20, 30 years ago, but nowadays odds are overwhelmingly against you. I mean, Minecraft's been a hit, but that's one game out of what? Hundreds? Thousands? There is absolutely nothing wrong with calling people non-normal. They are outside the norm, therefore not normal. A Bangladeshi in Japan identifying as a dragon is not normal in a Japenese society, for example. I can't help wondering if the phrase "CIS" and such only exist to dimish the very existence of normal, because then it is valued as just one of many gender identities, instead of one being the standard and everything else is just a deviation from this very standard. As for viable business model, it is still so. You are not building a power plant or anything, you are building a piece of software. The only tools required is still a regular computer and the know-how on how to program and to design good mechanics. Super Meat Boy also sold millions despite being developed by two guys, where one of them lived at home with his parents. There is no excuse really. If anything, it is easier now when your business model is not dependent on a publisher for manufacturing the physical product.

Not really the same thing. There is a difference with a game creating a new segment compared to testing on people with no interest in gaming. They might overlap, but i would not call them equal. They make them because it is the safest investment conserning the circumstances. Forcing diversity upon in them order to pander non-normal people will make no one happy. All emerging markets has started from a small team in basements and garages. If there is a market for marginalised people, then there is no one stopping them in creating them. Btw, am i the only experiencing a fudgy reply window? I cannot change my settings and everything is in one font on a white background, etc...so this

http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/core-gamers-expected-drive-market-growth/ But they should be dead

They are universally wrong and i do not need to be personally affected to point out that they are full of ****. Agreed. Fair enough. But why would it matter for people that are not interested in games to begin with? they have zero market value and offer no value for the hobby itself. Why? Diversity is a result of an organic process of people liking the same thing. Trying to force it in any way is tyranny. Surely you understand that people will not give up their freedom of creativity and choice to satisfy an abstract notion such as that? No said anything about an iron grip. It is definately the most popular one among authoritarian ones.

About Cultural Marxism, is this the product of insane right wing thinking? http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sc1pi4

So what i got out of your two points is that Sargon has doubtful connections (what do you even mean by that?), inane opinions (how?) and fail to comprehend anything (what?). Do you even have an argument? Because you're not saying anything at the moment.

I just have no idea why you think the fact that you're not their audience and they make this quite clear must mean they have a general disdain for the people they do consider to be their audience. Also, giving a game a lower rating based on "questionable content" is, ultimately, as much a subjective metric as giving a game a lower rating because it lacks a FOV slider. It's not like you a/ can't just read the article and adjust the final rating based on the fact that the complaints raised are irrelevant to you, and b/ are forced to only consume reviews by people who assign ratings based on criteria you feel are irrelevant. This is the beauty of the free market. By that logic there are no reasons to join Greenpeace until one is personally affected by pollution or environmental damage. Things do not work that way. And it has been proven again and again that it is not the free market in motion that has lead to GamerGate. Your point only refers to the idea of what the market would be with more diverse opinion, but again it has been showed that it hasn't worked that way at all.

Check Mark Kern's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/grummz

More info about Mark Kern and his treatment by Polygon: http://imgur.com/gallery/anq6b/new

The producer of StarCraft, Diablo II and Team Lead for World of Warcraft tweeted this about GG: https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/572212550106021888 *crosses fingers*

Aluminiumtrioxid: we've been on this ride for 6 months. Wasting an hour here or there is a drop in the ocean. My conclusions derive from giving lower ratings for games with questionable content, click-bait journalism and general disdain for the audience. No self-respecting person would conduct in such behaviour unless they want to the change/destroy the industry. Of course the customers did not agree and here we are.

As long as they have no ties with UBM, i do have high hopes for them succeeding.

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Triggered by bigotry-filled language. Post reported. Expect disciplinary action shortly.

[citation needed] All pointing to the same article by Dan Golding. //edit: ...and of course the emails in GameJouroPros.

Ehh not really. So they really love gamers, but fail to conduct the message in positive way like a bunch of tsunderes? They're profoundly disgusted by a certain subsegment of gamers (a feeling I can actually relate to), but a/ obviously don't see said subsegment as "their audience" (the original Alexander article was published in a website geared towards developers, not gamers, and the ones following it were mostly reporting on said article and the reaction surrounding it, not repeating the same sentiment), and b/ their reason is not hatred and bigotry. Ehh not really. They believed in their own conjured delusions of what gamers were and declared all gamers as such and should've die as 'a culture'. They do not like games or the medium itself and therefore they wish to change it according to their whims. They approve of corruption or turn the blind eye to it as long as it is for a greater good, which is to consolidate the market for more progressive 'games', which are not bound by market forces, but rather by the approval of themselves. Their behaviour is similar on how cult leaders expel unwanted elements that refuse to follow the line.