I think the issue was it was an anonymous movement, it let the other side argue publicly uncontested and signal boost the minority of idiots focusing on calling her a slut.
“Gamers” were right but they had no idea how to go about it.
Oh well, the Japanese will still make the games I play.
The producer of this film got fired from Sony for email leaks where she made racist jokes about Obama, and is now the producer of the all-female Ghostbusters reboot.
^ The only reason the ‘other side’ got their story out ‘publicly uncontested’ (arguably) was because they were pretty much the megaphones responsible for reporting the news. And rather than doing their jobs at delivering the truth, they decided to peddle some bullshit narrative instead.
It was just announced yesterday and the entertainment value is already skyrocketing.
Movie’s plot- Literally 2 hours of twitter shit flinging, as the heroine takes a planned vacation trip to Europe while claiming “she had to flee the country for her safety”.
I do have to wonder why this topic makes people so uncomfortable as to try to derail any related threads. If you were so uninterested in the matter at hand, you wouldn’t be on this thread in the first place. Yes, both sides have a very vocal lowest common denominator; that should not mean the discussion shouldn’t exist. To the contrary, I feel that makes resolving this all the more important.
Imagine if Gamergate actually *was *about the declining integrity in the modern video game media and their gradual transformation from being actual news sources to being the PR wing for their friends? How awesome would that have been?
TECHNICALLY it started because she was cheating on her boyfriend, and taking dick from some nobody over at Rock Paper Shotgun, so he would give a good review for her trainwreck of a game. Congratz on fucking her way to mediocrity.