#gamergate 2

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Man, I like Daily Wire in concept but Matt Walsh needs to shut the fuck up about video games. The same guy who tried to resurrect the tired old "violent video games are harmful!" crap is now acting like he's the first person to notice that video games are pushing woke nonsense (even though there are about a hundred channels and outlets that have been talking about this for years) but his solution is to, of course, for the right to stop playing video games.

No. Just, no.

This is the same "bury our head in the sand and pretend pop culture doesn't exist" mindset that got us into this situation in the first place. You can't win a war (and there is a culture war going on, no matter how many people on both sides want to pretend otherwise) by retreating from every battlefield. You win by raising awareness of a problem and then offering a real solution.

And it's especially stupid seeing this cultural retreat mindset from someone working for DW because DW actually knows exactly how to fight this battle. They created their own media company to fight against woke Hollywood. Are all their movies and shows good? No, not at all. But they still did the right thing. They put their money where their mouth is, and created an alternative.

A much better example is Angel Studios, which is probably the only Christian movie studio I've ever seen that puts out top quality content with great acting, writing, and production values. They're raking in money and getting their content onto mainstream streaming services as well as theaters. In other words, they're taking their message to the people who need it the most. The ones who aren't already in the echo chamber. Unlike Daily Wire, which only offers its content on its own website through a subscription service to its own audience, and never advertises anywhere.

Another successful example outside of movies is Eric July's Rippaverse. He's been killing it with his comics, with every single one of his campaigns raking in over a million dollars, every cent of which is reinvested back into his business, helping it grow, creating more content, and expanding his already impressive roster of writers and artists. Mainstream writers and artists, by the way. Like Chuck Dixon, the guy who co-created Bane and wrote the seminal Tim Drake Robin comics, among many other credits, and Mike Baron, who wrote some of the best early Punisher comics. Eric had a following before he started the Rippaverse. He runs a successful YouTube channel and he's a regular contributor to The Blaze. He could have walled himself off with his fanbase, wrote comics about ancaps saving the world from the evils of government, and made some money while pandering to the people who already agreed with him. Instead, he went big. He invested his own money, runs his own distribution center, owns his own business with zero outside investors, hires the best talent he can, and offers a product that focuses on story and characters over messaging. His work isn't even "anti-woke". It's just not woke.

And that's what we need in video games. We need alternatives. We need to roll up our sleeves and wade into the deep waters and actually contribute our ideas and our talents. Offer an alternative. Hire people who know what they're doing, who care about quality content first and social engineering never. There is a huge untapped audience who would pay hand over fist for good video games free from microtransactions and woke nonsense.

But retreating is not an option. It's not brave or moral to hide in our echo chambers and scoff at anything fun. Entertainment is necessary. And maybe more importantly, it's not going anywhere. We will never live in a world where people go to work and spend time with their families at home and do nothing else. We need to engage with the world as it is. Not wait around for whatever our idea of a perfect world is to magically form so we can finally interact with it. You can't change society if you keep pretending large swaths of it don't exist.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

She's protested that it's a quote from Animal Farm ( which it is), but I'm not sure reading the word "men" as "humankind" improves her look all that much: is it better to carve into your skin that you openly hate ALL human beings who have ever existed rather than just half of them?

[jinglebellrockstars]

Hot Take:

[troythecatfish]

[rav-rabies]

Went to the ER. Came home took a nap and woke up to:

Stonetoss doxxed. (not shocked by it happening or how he looks)

The creator of Mandela catalog is a creep. (Was surprised)

Andrew Tate was arrested again. (ha ha)

And GamerGate 2 might be happening. (Ugggggh)

[grimlocksword]

Kotaku game journalist wants to FIGHT Youtubers! Vara Dark STEPS UP and ...

[boss-hoody]

So I guess GamerGate 2 is a thing thats happening

Same creepy sex negative weirdos clutching their pearls and screaching. Just when it seemed gaming was finally healing from the last time these fuckwits reared their multicolor haired heads. So annoying. This is why I stick to the Japanese side of the industry. Western gaming industry is in decline anyway. Gee, I wonder why

[ultramaga]

"Black women and BIPOC women" Notice Leftists are now separating the two. Maybe they use a swatch, maybe it's a dice roll as to which category you get assigned. "WytFolk" Imagine being so racist you can't even spell the name of other races without being triggered. "I'd hoped people would have learned their lesson" We did. We stopped listening to the corrupt game journos. Their industry collapsed. So they tried a State funded back door, Sweet Baby Inc, and that collapsed. So now they are calling for the Feds to arrest everyone who .... won't buy their shitty games.

We learned our lessons well, commie. Have you?

"You who claim to be progressive" You tell them. You tell the few who still sit in your camp that they are scum. Please, recruit for us. Did you know young men are overwhelmingly turning towards our movement? It's not because of our charisma. It's because of you, and people like you, who are so overwhelmingly awful that the young dudes take a look at you and rebel. You are the Man now. You are the mainstream, the Institution, the machine, and the punkest act a dude can do is to tell you to go fvck yourself. "Give BIPOC women money" Go out and get a job, you useless parasite. Or go over to sub-saharan Africa, away from the WYTES, and see how life goes for you. Tell them you are just too black to be expected to work. I am sure they will be very impressed.

Yet Another Thing Black women and BIPOC women in general have been warning you about since forever that you (general You; societal You; mostly WytFolk You) have ignored or dismissed, only for it to come back and bite you in the butt.

I'd hoped people would have learned their lesson with Trump and the Alt-Right (remember, Black women in particular warned y'all that attacks on us by brigading trolls was the test run for something bigger), but I guess not.

Any time you wanna get upset about how AI is ruining things for artists or writers or workers at this job or that, remember that BIPOC Women Warned You and then go listen extra hard to the BIPOC women in your orbit and tell other people to listen to BIPOC women and also give BIPOC women money.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.

Give them money via PayPal or Ko-fi or Venmo or Patreon or whatever. Hire them. Suggest them for that creative project/gig you can't take on--or you could take it on but how about you toss the ball to someone who isn't always asked?

Oh, and stop asking BIPOC women to save us all. Because, as you see, we tried that already. We gave you the roadmap on how to do it yourselves. Now? We're tired.

Of the trolls, the alt-right, the colonizers, the tech bros, the billionaires, the other scum... and also you. You who claim to be progressive, claim to be an ally, spend your time talking about what sucks without doing one dang thing to boost the signal, make a change in your community (online or offline), or take even the shortest turn standing on the front lines and challenging all that human garbage that keeps collecting in the corners of every space with more than 10 inhabitants.

We Told You. Octavia Butler Told You. Audre Lorde Told You. Sydette Harry Told You. Mikki Kendall Told You. Timnit Gebru Told You.

When are you gonna listen?

[burnouts3s3]

A content creator I used to follow, Matt Jarbo aka "MundaneMatt", was one of the original people who got doxxed and had his videos taken down during 2014 and Gamergate.

Matt was caught falseflagging other creators and since apologized for Gamergate.

[miochimochi]

There is a legitimate "wokeness" problem in media that most people don't want to talk about. One group talks about it, another group takes strawmans and extremes and runs with those in their opposition to those talking about it, and so any reasonable discussion about things like "using a hip-hop beat as the backing track for a dreadlocked black man from Africa (Yosuke didn't even have dreads irl) in Sengoku period Japan is extremely stereotype-minded and is demonstrative of a deep-seated bias the creators hold about people with dark skin, always associating them with hip-hop and dreadlocks." Most people I interact with, this is what their problem is when they talk about "woke culture", not "oh, I sure do hate them womens and minorities" (and it's often women and minorities that have the biggest problem with these things but they're erased by their detractors because they're supposed to have the "right opinion"). There is a bigotry that presents itself as benevolent, that pretends it's not bigotry, and yet it's defined by lower expectations and homogenization of entire groups of people sharing a particular trait. Not being able to reasonably talk about this stuff without someone screeching pushes people away from talking about this stuff and thus making this stuff worse.

[troythecatfish]

[tachyonblu]

It’s irresponsible for Mark Kern to rile his followers up into believing that an amorphous mob of people is going to kill them. And that is what he’s doing. He is also quick to make things up (non-existent violence during GamerGate). Few, if anyone, would call Mark a “GG expert.”

Mark is also quick to attribute various things to the amorphous mob. Some of which did occur, others which didn’t (i.e. assault you) and others which may well have been the actions of third party trolls. Many who opposed GamerGate have done harm and spread misinformation.

That should be opposed and those who actually know about GamerGate have been working to do just that. Spreading misinformation and fear-mongering about amorphous groups of people assaulting and murdering your followers, isn’t going to solve anything.

Ask yourself this, what games has Mark worked on in the past decade? What is his interest in all of this? If you want to learn about GamerGate, seek out a variety of perspectives. Many experts other than just I.

[grimlocksword]

BLACKLISTED! Sweet Baby RIPOFF group wants Grummz FIRED and homeless! Ga...

[ultramaga]

The American public is being forced to subsidize communist activists?

Why are the Democrats at war with gamers?

[youcallyourselfafilmcritic]

Hey fam-looking for games which say white men are bad, got any recs?