Ars TechnicaAt trial, accused Pelosi attacker says Gamergate led him to far-right conspiracies
DePape: Searches for game tips led to "talk about how toxic Anita Sarkeesian is..."
Camerondotca@arstechnica gamergate was the entry point for so many of these little fucks
SaftyKumaGamergate and MAGA are part of the same movement.
Matt Hunstiger@camerondotca @arstechnica but I'm reeeely concerned about ethics in video game journalism 🙄
@mdhunstiger @arstechnica The 400th time I heard that I was ready to kill someone
Lothus Marque@camerondotca @arstechnica I'm still pretty sure a bunch of that was a dry run for agitation in later elections. It followed a similar pattern, screaming accusations at any possible listener and nebulous enough to catch a wide group of people who wanted to fight over random relatively unrelated pet issues.
Somehow it "surprised" everyone that, shocker, a publishing sector that lives by press releases and free review copies might not be /entirely/ unbiased...
Somehow it "surprised" everyone that, shocker, a publishing sector that lives by press releases and free review copies might not be /entirely/ unbiased...
@camerondotca @arstechnica Plus it fed into a whole lot of "it used to be better" nostalgia.
"Everything's garbage these days and this MUST be why. I don't ever have the same feeling I got when I used to open Nintendo Power as a kid!"
"Everything's garbage these days and this MUST be why. I don't ever have the same feeling I got when I used to open Nintendo Power as a kid!"
@lothus @arstechnica but it was never about journalism. Ir was about punishing women for *checks notes* existing.
@camerondotca @arstechnica While that stupid journalism line was the catchphrase, it was VERY telling that the biggest targets were generally female or someone who had defended them, and IIRC a good bit started with one allegedly bad relationship story...Yeaah.
But I'd been pointing at the STATED reason for the "upset" here because that didn't make a lot of sense for the level of upset on the face of the claim, even before you looked closer at who got yelled at the most.
But I'd been pointing at the STATED reason for the "upset" here because that didn't make a lot of sense for the level of upset on the face of the claim, even before you looked closer at who got yelled at the most.
kevin3kon@arstechnica That was always the intent by the right wing. It is f*cking disgusting. They went after, brainwashed, and turned a segment of gamers into hate-filled, sexist, bigoted, violent extremists.
And contrary to popular belief, gamers are not naturally violent. They were just trying to be entertained. They were victims.
Emphasis on "were." Once they cross the line and become perpetrators and/or brainwashers themselves, I won't call them victims anymore.
This is Hell@arstechnica Maybe misogyny is the actual root of all evil?