Can someone accurately explain GameGate in a sentence?

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRAyG-BuFE
Before GG, before h8chan.

[Dior]

It started off because of the Quinnspiracy shit. Basically a game dev (I'm not using the gender because it doesn't matter what it is) slept with with journalists and got positive reviews from a game that got mediocre reviews from other reviewers who didn't sleep with the game dev. When it came to light what the dev had done by an ex the shitsunami hit the shitcoast with the force of a thousand shitsuns (but not really.)

Nerds got mad, made vids but didn't actually do anything like boycott the reviewers site or the game. They just amped up the sales and traffic to both.

However, in the last month or so, the gamergate shit got hijacked by Anita Sarkeesian and somehow the harassment she received was thrown in to derail the previous event. Right now, Sarkeesian has gotten loads of press for her series and traffic to her blogs and the aforementioned journo/dev fuckfest has been forgotten.

To me, some pr folks got a hold of the situation and combined the two series of events so as to take the spotlight off the relationships between developers and reviewers.

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by Dior [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It started off because of the Quinnspiracy shit. Basically a game dev (I'm not using the gender because it doesn't matter what it is) slept with with journalists and got positive reviews from a game that got mediocre reviews from other reviewers who didn't sleep with the game dev.

This is the nonsense that is gamergate.. This is the lie that they believe.

The journalist that she slept with gave no such mention of her game. Nor did any other article on the same publication for which he works for, ever say anything about her game let alone whether it was good or bad.

It's such a stupid cause.

[Dior]

Originally Posted by iruinedyourday [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is the nonsense that is gamergate.. This is the lie that they believe.

The journalist that she slept with gave no such mention of her game. Nor did any other article on the same publication for which he works for, ever say anything about her game let alone whether it was good or bad.

It's such a stupid cause.

The whole thing is pretty retarded.

Men crying about women is pathetic enough, but the fact that these babies fail to understand that simply ignoring these people, who clearly want the attention, would do a lot more than making a hastag and talking shit in a forum.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by iruinedyourday [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is the nonsense that is gamergate.. This is the lie that they believe.

The journalist that she slept with gave no such mention of her game. Nor did any other article on the same publication for which he works for, ever say anything about her game let alone whether it was good or bad.

It's such a stupid cause.

You are really bad at this game.

His name is in the credits of the game. He admitted to being there since the alpha testing phase.

Not that any of that even matters...

What part of "its about the games journalists collectively defending a confirmed liar and a fraud and processing to shit on their customers" don't you get?

[Dior]

Originally Posted by KagatobLuvsAnimu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What part of "its about the games journalists collectively defending a confirmed liar and a fraud and processing to shit on their customers" don't you get?

I think the reason no one takes the shit serious is because creators/journos being chummy with each other has been a thing forever, in every industry. When mentions of the whole thing first surfaced and other forums started deleting threads on the situation, people automatically assumed it was because she was a chick pushing a feminist idea, instead of understanding that what she did, everyone does and no one likes what they do to be outed. The big companies and the reviewers don't want to explain what exactly is their relationship to one another, so the whole thing got derailed into shit about gender. Which of course lights the fire under every virginal grand wizard on the interwebs.

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by Dior [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think the reason no one takes the shit serious is because creators/journos being chummy with each other has been a thing forever, in every industry. When mentions of the whole thing first surfaced and other forums started deleting threads on the situation, people automatically assumed it was because she was a chick pushing a feminist idea, instead of understanding that what she did, everyone does and no one likes what they do to be outed. The big companies and the reviewers don't want to explain what exactly is their relationship to one another, so the whole thing got derailed into shit about gender. Which of course lights the fire under every virginal grand wizard on the interwebs.

Yeah that's pretty much how I understand the whole thing. It also seems to be a complete waste of time on both sides. In 6 months to a year it will be reduced to a punch line in a meme. Its annoying to say the least, on both sides, but beyond that I'm not sure why everyone is so hung up on this right now. Plenty of other more important things to expend my energy on.

[LulzSect]

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[Glenzig]

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Her knee must have had too much thin privilege.

[iruinedyourday]

There is nothing to fix. If you don't like what x person is saying, kaga... Then don't watch their YouTube videos, dummy.

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