*ruins the industry for over a decade because a literal-who shovelware indieshit game that nobody ever heard of got a...

How did it ruin the industry? All the same problems we have now we had back then too

I blame social media in general for that. After everybody got a smartphone and started using their real names online, "the internet is serious business" stopped being a joke for too many people.

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Who cares? Gamergate is a lowpoint in gaming history. It's a snapshot of the fact that most people investing in gaming at the time were lonely obsessive edge lords who are just as cringe as the millennial feminists whose careers they're propping up. Gamers literally martyred all of these women by being retards on Twitter, and we're still paying for it.

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>notice tip of iceberg
>swim down a little
>notice a whole lot of iceberg

you should've ignored that whore when you had the chance. this wouldn't have happened if no one cared

This. This board wouldn't be in the shitty state it's in if retards knew how to not let their emotions get the best of them and just ignore dumbasses on the internet. But no, they had to go and escalate things. Now this place is an off-topic chud bunker who can't go two seconds without crying over some loud mouth on Twitter.

Sort of, but game journalists are less influential nowadays because everybody just watches stuff on youtube anyway.

This, the whole Zoe Quinn thing was just what made people pick up on bigger issues.

game journalism has never been influential at any point of history whatsoever no matter how much they or you try to claim differently.

Yeah but the cringe edgelords weren't the ones sucking dick to scam people out of money.

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That's kind of a net positive then
However cringey gamergate was and a lot of modern youtubers are, there's not a single "game journalist" that am I convinced is an actual human being

What would you have done differently, assuming you're not just a leftranny pretending to be against feminists to appear neutral and objective?
Gamergate made nothing worse, all it did was force kikes to perform their bullshit out in the open for everyone to see, instead of being sneaky about it.
The games industry wouldn't be any less pozzed today if GG never happened.

Gamers got outplayed so hard. It was never an issue of video games. It's society.

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I don't know, I think game magazines were relatively influential in terms of what games got attention before the internet.

It didn't ruin the industry, it just ruined this fucking board.

SEX FOR FAVORS

where's the chuck tingle game bitch

Meanwhile most people were screaming at that tip like it would make a fucking difference and not just make them look like the schizos they are

not nearly as much as you think. word of mouth has been and always will be the number one seller of anything

game journalism isn't important to consumers but to managers
they unironically demand devs to reach certain metacritic score levels nowadays even though nobody gives a fuck about it

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I miss Vivian's thick fire bush and hairy armpits

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It all would've worked if gamers didn't act more embarrassingly than the journostein crowd

Really opened my eyes as to how to argue with anyone
Just cherrypick extreme opinions from their side and make them defend it

But they're the reason I can't call people niggers on Xbox Live anymore without getting mic banned for six months. Gamergate is proof to me that none of you think before you act. The industry is now permanently cucked because edge lords thought they could beat the media, which they clearly couldn't. They're the media. In response the edge lord, mainstream gaming media effectively killed edginess as a possible form of expression in any game. I hope it was worth it.

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To be fair, the other side did the exact same thing.

I'm convince gamergate ruined everything

>woman makes shitty game
>woman prostitutes herself to at least 5 reviewers
>gamers call out this abhorrent behavior
>"u just hate women"
ok

Nah, this shit was coming anyway and we knew it was soon as hamburger helper hit the scene. Lurk moar, newfaggot.

>GAMERS ARE DEAD
>Sorry gamers but this one isn't for you

>>notice a whole lot of ice(((berg)))
Correct

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How are we paying for anything exactly? I guarantee the idpol shit would have emerged regardless. It was already in progress by the time gamergate started

I liked at least stealing the reddit mascot under their noses until reddit itself turned it soulless

See
Blame the disease, not the immune response.

>ruins the industry
horseshit, how in the fuck do you ever do the mental gymnastics to go from "talking about the shitshow going on in journalism" to "nooo you ruined the entire industry by talking about how garbage these people are at their job and their poor practices and then they went on a tantrum making articles to try and shit on you so you would be discredited"? The industry was already ruined in that case, bringing attention to it didn't ruin it any more or any less

Give me a break. The people crying about GG literally went to the UN to say they were being digitally raped or whatever. Project harder.

>I can't call people niggers on Xbox Live anymore without getting mic banned for six months
;_;

>"u just hate women"
You do. A man buys favorable reviews with money and that's fine, a woman buys favorable reviews with her body and y'all wage war on the media.

>what would you have done differently
I would have done nothing beyond exposing their bias. Trolling normies on social media and sending them death threats just fueled the industry's degradation into a liberal hugbox. Most companies wouldn't have this degree of telemetry on what you say in online games if gamergate hadn't have happened.
>You're a lib
You're a retard if you refuse to view this topic with any nuance. It's possible that the media is wrong and the people are immature. These two conclusions aren't mutually exclusive, and saying that isn't even remotely liberal.

You're a fucking retard, literally all the poz you see in gaming would have happened regardless, the reason GG happened in the first place and took off the way it did was because people noticed how quickly things got bad.
It has much more to do with Blackrock ESG scores and jews in general than anything any gamergatefag did.

It’s very obvious you only care because she’s a woman and you are an incel

This, gamergate wasn't a cause as much as it was an accelerant.

There are better tactics.
Project an extreme opinion to the other side, use your side's army of influencers to make it as an established truth and push the other side to either adopt it or sound dumb at discrediting it.
Verbatim an Alinsky tactic.

Love you mate.
Game journalists are now a joke career though, though I'm not sure if that's what you mean by 'ruin'.
Was her game any good by the way

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NOOO POWER DYNAMICS AND EXPLOITATION OF POWER POSITIONS ONLY EXISTS WHEN YOU DO IT NOT MY SIDE AIYEEEEEEE
kill yourself

gamers were right and the fact anti gg-ers have successfully gaslit the internet into believing that it was over a nothingburger has been disastrous for the internet discussion etiquette

Most people shit on that too. The sex angle just spiced up an issue people were already aggregated about.

>he still thinks gamergate influenced anything

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this board was fucking insufferable during gaymergate and it never fully recovered

Your politics are just a desperate membership card to a clique of faceless people on the internet similar to you. You can't really bare to socialize like a healthy human being. You're so socially and perhaps cognitively compromised that you landed at the gas station bathroom of social groups being online fringe ideologies. You're not revolting against the subversive roots of society by being obscure and reclusive, you're just locking yourself in your own bubble of mentally deranged insulated discussion on the internet, like some kind of alien trying to mimic something of real "discussions". Your ideas will never come to fruition. There is nothing waiting for you because you clutch onto this pseudo-identity. You can't recite any theory or books coherently. You've found a very elaborate way to waste your time, just like any other stupid person. It's all a protrusion of some internal disorder no one ever recognized in you because you're repulsive. Eject from your daydreaming and posturing, take a shower, and build yourself first before ever thinking some ideology from 100 years ago is going to enrich you somehow.

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The woman should use money too.

Imagine if Yea Forums wasn't so retarded that they would've went after the corrupt games "journalists" and their organizations instead of the hole they shared. 5 guys would get fired, it would be memoryholed after a week, and Zoe wouldn't have risen to stardom overnight and bullied that gamedev to suicide. Nothing else would change, though.

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What really ruined it was journos doubling down on their fart sniffing smugness instead lf acknowledging there is an underlying issue with their job, but you won't hear it from them.

Mostly because of the anti-GG crowd, though. I'm not saying both sides weren't annoying, but we got far more of the Tumblr types from that side of the field.

Where the fuck do you think you are?

>gaslit the internet into believing that it was over a nothingburger
It's...it's literally about video games. Toys. The very definition of a nothingburger. You're not some le ebin warrior fighting for justice, user. You're just a screeching manchild throwing a tantrum over toys.

Yea Forums is not a right wing website

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You realize that even if literally no one had sent any death threats, they would've pretended that it happened regardless?
Playing the victim and kvetching over perceived persecution is literally the bread and butter of these people.
The only thing I think GG did wrong is not going far enough, this should have spiraled into death threats not just being threats anymore, these people need to be afraid en masse for anything to ever possibly improve.
>It's possible that the media is wrong and the people are immature.
I don't disagree with that of course, GG was sadly inhabited by far too many manchildren, if it had proper leadership and organization it could've evolved into the foundation for forming real life militias.
Sadly no one did anything like that, but even so GG was a net positive in the end because it woke up many young men to the reality of the media being their enemy, there weren't any negative consequences that wouldn't have happened anyway.

They are a joke now. The rise of games "blogging" was bullshit. I have quite a few friends in the industry with Epic, Harmonix, composers, developers etc. Knew the founders of one of the really big "games blogging" news sites which sold not too long after this bs. They had some good writers and some poor ones. Some more on to bigger outlets like Polygon etc. I used to enjoy objective takes.

The whole BS was blowing/fucking people for review scores. Giving favorable scores or whatever is lame no matter what industry. I would call very few of those who write about games "journalists" today though and even the pure journalism field is tainted and non-credible anymore.

wasnt moot a ron paul fanboy or am i forgetting something

infobros...

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What's zoes real name again? I know she's from old money

You're stupid user. If you protest, the people you're protesting against WILL employ people to false flag you because it's the easiest route to discrediting you. Every single time anything happens on the internet, the auto response from faggots is MUH DEATH THREATS cause they make it up or send them to them fucking selves.
So you wouldn't have done anything different is what you're saying, you would have "exposed their bias" at which point they would immediately scream death threats, post some screenshots and discredit you and take control of the narrative. That is LITERALLY EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED jesus christ lad. You got the fucking fbi saying there's no credible threats and we can't find jack shit, why the fuck would anyone believe the people saying it? Cause they're women and entrenched on the side of the current power.

>out of context
This has to do with /pol/ leaking everywhere, you tranny revisionist. They used to be more insufferable than now.

honestly thinking back on it even though this board still gets off topic twitter screencap threads, things have calmed down a lot around here in 2022 compared to 2-4 years ago. i wonder if /qa/ being killed had anything to do with it

Not really. The fact that you fell for the spin means it wouldn't have mattered if even one guy pooped his pants or something.

GG was the best time to be alive.
Last big hurrah before anti-fun police boarded the whole Internet down.
Everyone complaining about it turns out to be a shill, simp or a jew, the exact people that GG was targeting. Every time they open threads like this is to larp as oldfags and pretend that GG was not inevitable.

This very thread made 8 years after is the proof needed that this shit caused all the good pain to the right asses.

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This chick is nuts but so are those pits

I will never let the faggot that made this, live this one down.

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You're both the fucking worst.
There is nothing less interesting on this planet than righteous indignation, and that's all this shit ever is and was.
Your personal political projects sucked the life out of this place, then flooded it with dumbfuck election tourists, a one-two punch that forever destroyed the signal-to-noise ratio.

You are on a website for losers both left and right. If you weren't a loser, you would not be here.

That's politics and using people in general though. The simple fact is that racism is nowhere NEAR what people claim it is to be. Nor is it a US-majority problem. There's slavery, racism and hatered across the world no one's got a lock on it.

The fact we had a (half) black president, people of color in politics, movies sports etc goes to show it.

And blacks aren't the only race discriminated against or who would deserve "reparations." Plenty of Italians, Irish and Polish who were treated like absolute garbage upon coming to this country. The whole asian hate crime trend is way overblown too especially when 9/10x it's a black person in NYC pushing one onto the tracks or cold cocking one.

the unmistakable tumblrfag stench coming out of post, good god

yes and he's also a cuckold

>Newfag doesn't know about Hal Turner
>only argument is "TRANNIES"
I accept your concession. btw this entire site is /pol/.

I might have agreed with you a decade ago, but nah. It's obviously a widespread issue on multiple levels.

4channel should have mandatory usernames.

So I used to really enjoy Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Kotaku. I can't read any of them anymore the liberal bias and groupthink that exudes from it is like shit from a prolapsed leaky asshole.

All it takes is one faggot to poison the well.

It does, but every username is "Anonymous"

>SJW faggot kills himself
Based Zoey

God thats lame but it sure was fun at the time. I miss 8ch too.

Was the black sun there associated with any eceleb or did they just put it there because it's based?

Bribe is always immoral sorry

that's the point
it's just the main topic of the social engineering to divert people away from the real issues
jeff bezos literally bought the washington post to push propaganda like this to distract from people shitting on him

>You realize that even if literally no one had sent any death threats, they would've pretended that it happened regardless?
Schizo take.
>Playing the victim and kvetching over perceived persecution is literally the bread and butter of these people.
Maybe so, but people on this board definitely sent joke threats to journalists. If they hadn't, there'd be no story just because a few journalists were crying wolf. What should have been a career-ending hit piece on a group of scummy journalists and devs became a rallying point for the libs to justify taking your rights away from you when you log onto a game.
>Playing the victim and kvetching over perceived persecution is literally the bread and butter of these people.
Kek. You're a literal child and/or retard. If you really care enough about corrupt toy review companies to grab a gun and actually endanger someone's life, you're a subhuman nigger who deserves zero autonomy. But who are we kidding. We both know you and others wouldn't actually do shit. Gamergate was a bunch of teenage shit talkers getting BTFO'd by libs with influence. You're a certified retard if you honestly think gamers have any authority over journalists. Fucking KEK

Oh shit Atheistium is in there lol I know her. I remember her being pissed over shit but she was actually chill.

Where's Jim Fat Fuck sterling?

>This has to do with /pol/ leaking everywhere
What do you think GG is? It's /pol/shit.

>signal-to-noise ratio.
How fucking new are you? I remember when this place was 65% "tfw no gf", "shiggy diggy", 4AM threads, or "NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER"/"DESU DESU DESU".

You're right. And they claimed the same shit about him then lauded him years later just like they're doing with Elon. The internet was meant to be free for all, free expression and non-censoring. People go too fucking lazy giving them so much power for convenience.

You're still a revisionist nigger tranny, I used to do the raids back then on Hal Turner.
Axe yourself properly next time instead of just your genitals.

Reminder that the media and gaming industry will still hate Mike Z even though he was in the right

Maybe, but it's inextricably woven into videogames. Maybe if devs would stop being pretentious, proselytizing faggots there wouldn't be an issue.

Yeah but back then when you criticized paid reviews people acted like you were crazy. Now they act like you're sexist which is somehow a step below. Shills thus have two layers of defence rather than just one. Now you've gotta convince normalfags that your opinions aren't sexist NOR crazy, and soon a new layer will develop where you'll have to convince them you're not racist either. Gamergate wasn't wrong in being against paid reviews, but it was certainly made wrong by how many leeches attached to the movement in order to feel like they were part of something and then were easily manipulated into making the movement look sexist rather than against shilling. It's continuing now with all the black female characters (some are fine like Panema, but others like Uncharted gorilla are pure pandering). Instead of just letting it happen, people scream about the overrepresentation of minorities and ruin their stance by citing fine examples alongside the vast amount of forced examples. Once you start lumping good characters in with the bad, you lose your credibility. Marketing will continue to twist that bullshit against the people crying out, and the people crying out will continue to provide free marketing in return as some kind of spastic feedback loop. If everyone just stopped talking about it and allowed minorities to be featured in video games, the sales would reveal that no one wants to play as a female or a nigger within mere years and we could go back to alphas like Sheploo. The controversy is why we keep seeing niggers in video games. You all know by now how video game budgets are 90% marketing. Don't give that marketing away for free.

Still, I have no idea how games "journalism" originally even made it to the Kane and Lynch debacle much less surviving through it though.

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Yea Forums will never be right wing
Trump lost

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I've been here for 6 years, kid. Probably more of an oldfag than you.

It will always be vulgar contrarian libertarian, though. The entire world telling you to stop having fun by saying faggot/nigger or pay the price isn't going to win any constituents amongst non tourists here.