I never heard much about game developers, but it seems like GamerGate has put many of them in the spotlight, specially women.
Has the Gamergate movement somehow boosted your popularity and of other game developers and benefited you in any way? Do you regret that a big part your popularity didn't stem from the work you've made all these years in your professional life and rather from a political counter-movement?
Related question: Despite everything, can some good come from GamerGate? It has certainly drawn attention to the topic of harassment of women online, and campaigns like "Disrespectful Nod" actually seem to have backfired and pushed some of the companies targeted to very clearly state their opposition to the movement. I sometimes wonder if we would be where we are now without it.
Related question: Despite everything, can some good come from GamerGate?
Plenty of good [gamergate.me] has come from Gamergate. [deepfreeze.it] The literal salt mine from deepfreeze.it alone shows what good has come from it, not since the 1990's have I seen so much whining and complaining from the press when direct conflicts of interest, and shilling are exposed.
It has certainly drawn attention to the topic of harassment of women online, and campaigns like "Disrespectful Nod" actually seem to have backfired and pushed some of the companies targeted to very clearly state their opposition to the movement.
Citation required, because many companies including game sites have created ethical policies, some have also come out saying that Gamergate was right like Ian Miles Cheong(Gameranx). Some others have even openly come to GG to ask them to give their opinion on their existing, or re-write of their policies. So if you wonder where we would be without it, we'd be back in July of last year and people still getting pissed off at 'games journalism' for being unethical and still trotting down the road that it had been waiting for an even larger explosion.
I'm guessing you either don't play video games, or are pretty young. Otherwise you'd know that a backlash against the gaming press has been building for over twenty years, when you still got your information from magazines.
Just checked out the wiki, is there a reason behind the usage of anime characters and memes?
I feel like that takes a lot of seriousness to the cause you guys are supposedly fighting for.
Self-mocking. If GG is good at one thing, it's mocking itself. Memes are a part of the discussion language which doesn't always translate well outside of the culture. But that's true of any culture right? So in the end it makes sense, GG is an extension of gaming, so gaming culture has a very strong influence and memes are a primary part of gaming culture. That's why boards like KiA exist, because if you don't understand it--someone will explain it to you.
Great post leader. Unfortunately, anytime you post information that goes against what the Ghazians here think, you will not get a reply. They prefer to preach at Slashdot that engage in conversation.
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I never heard much about game developers, but it seems like GamerGate has put many of them in the spotlight, specially women.
Has the Gamergate movement somehow boosted your popularity and of other game developers and benefited you in any way? Do you regret that a big part your popularity didn't stem from the work you've made all these years in your professional life and rather from a political counter-movement?
Sorry for my lousy english.
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Related question: Despite everything, can some good come from GamerGate? It has certainly drawn attention to the topic of harassment of women online, and campaigns like "Disrespectful Nod" actually seem to have backfired and pushed some of the companies targeted to very clearly state their opposition to the movement. I sometimes wonder if we would be where we are now without it.
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Related question: Despite everything, can some good come from GamerGate?
Plenty of good [gamergate.me] has come from Gamergate. [deepfreeze.it] The literal salt mine from deepfreeze.it alone shows what good has come from it, not since the 1990's have I seen so much whining and complaining from the press when direct conflicts of interest, and shilling are exposed.
It has certainly drawn attention to the topic of harassment of women online, and campaigns like "Disrespectful Nod" actually seem to have backfired and pushed some of the companies targeted to very clearly state their opposition to the movement.
Citation required, because many companies including game sites have created ethical policies, some have also come out saying that Gamergate was right like Ian Miles Cheong(Gameranx). Some others have even openly come to GG to ask them to give their opinion on their existing, or re-write of their policies. So if you wonder where we would be without it, we'd be back in July of last year and people still getting pissed off at 'games journalism' for being unethical and still trotting down the road that it had been waiting for an even larger explosion.
I'm guessing you either don't play video games, or are pretty young. Otherwise you'd know that a backlash against the gaming press has been building for over twenty years, when you still got your information from magazines.
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Just checked out the wiki, is there a reason behind the usage of anime characters and memes?
I feel like that takes a lot of seriousness to the cause you guys are supposedly fighting for.
Self-mocking. If GG is good at one thing, it's mocking itself. Memes are a part of the discussion language which doesn't always translate well outside of the culture. But that's true of any culture right? So in the end it makes sense, GG is an extension of gaming, so gaming culture has a very strong influence and memes are a primary part of gaming culture. That's why boards like KiA exist, because if you don't understand it--someone will explain it to you.
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