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GamerGate Explained!!! [locked]
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09/13/14, 05:42 Locked 01/04/16, 01:39
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@Hinph @Guillaume I don't think we are even discussing it in here much anyway. It was a bad attempt at a joke thread that sort of loosely turned into random posts after. As for threats though, I don't think it is fair to say anyone who takes them seriously is wrong. For one, lots of hacking has taken place and personal information has been released, which, even if it is never "acted" on, can still be scary as hell. I know I wouldn't feel too good if someone hacked my stuff and posted my exact address and told me they were coming to murder me, no matter how unlikely it seemed. For two, people have been using that personal information to try to (and, apparently at times, succeeding) get people fired from their jobs. Including a teacher that people were trying to get fired yesterday, so as a teacher myself... that's pretty scary. For three, people who hate feminists and decide to harm / kill women because of it actually exist. Elliot Rodger is one example. This guy is another. We might be in the position to say no one should take threats seriously, mostly because we aren't living under threats. Others are not so lucky. And that is really part of the issue, right? That the game industry tends to treat women like crap. So yeah, it's nice and all to say why can't we just talk about games? But if gamers continue to create and support a toxic environment where doxxes, harassment and death threats have become the norm, doubly so if you are a woman, then I think the gaming media damn well better be talking about it. |
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Hmmm, okay. I've obviously always been aware that the gaming community is full of shitty, immature people that feel a strong need to identify with this "gamer" title and feel threatened when "casuals" or others want in. I fully welcome anybody in as both players of games or content creators free to develop whatever they want to develop and try to sell it, and I'd never associate with somebody who threatens or harasses women, gays, minorities, etc., so I guess I'm not a part of that problem.
There's nothing that can really be done about any of it other than letting the industry naturally evolve, hopefully into a more mature and enlightened direction. I've always felt that a solid 10-15% of the human population consists of extremely shitty people that the rest of us would be better off shipping into the sun, but we can't exactly do that, so we are unpleasantly stuck with them and the messes that they make of everything. |
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Speaking of being like the NFL, saw this image recently, apparently it was the League of Legends World Championship. I honestly feel so disconnected from video game culture nowadays. I never much got into watching real sports, don't particularly find watching "esports" that interesting either. @Hinph Yeah but "Internet tough kids" are very Internet savvy nowadays and have all kinds of ways to make your life hell even if they will never be anywhere near you IRL. But also real life. "Swatting", for instance, is an actual thing now, and god knows someone is going to get seriously hurt from that eventually. On August 27, 2014, YouTube gaming celebrity Jordan Mathewson, known online as Kootra, live streamed a game of Counter Strike: Global Offensive on Twitch. A viewer called 911 claiming that there was a shooting in the building with hostages. A SWAT team raided the office that Mathewson's gaming company, The Creatures LLC, was operating out of. Mathewson was thrown to the ground and searched as officers searched the room. The events were broadcast live on the internet, until law enforcement set the camera lens-down on Mathewson's desk.[9] Videos of the swatting went viral, gaining over three million views on YouTube and being reported on news programs all over the world. |
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