Games After Gamergate - [Techcrunch boards the condemning a year of gamergate train]

Most of us who remain continued to not take the GG ideology seriously and yet find its continued presence depressing.

Does he realise GamerGate is not a unanimous ideology and not a singular entity?

I admit I went through a phase where I lost faith in games because gamers disappointed me.

How can you be disappointed by the dead? I mean we're apparently over already.

It was watching kids roleplay

Plenty of us are adults, thank you.

GG eventually acquired the same shape as all other rage media in that solely existed to exist, an audience for an audience’s sake. But beyond that it proved to be a great bilious nothing that reassured us that it wasn’t going away because… Because.

Beyond that it proved that it wasn't going away because there's still problems with how video game journalism works, Tadhg. And the SPJ AirPlay and the push for FTC guidelines are steps towards fixing that problem.

So they lashed out from their attics and basements, their middle-of-nowhere homes and their part time pizza delivery routes (and insert other stereotypes here) maybe because that’s all that they had.

You're starting to sound like Leigh Alexander with your strawman stereotyping bullshit. It's of course easier to build up a strawman to tear down than actually addressing the arguments presented, but I guess that would take effort away from writing your precious book.

It’s not your fault that your game speaks to a lot of people and a few rage-ridden dip shits feel it threatens their whole world view.

... What? There are a myriad of reasons why someone might think a game is shit - having it "threaten your world view" is a laughably strawman-like rarity.

Two years ago I had faith in the creative momentum of games. A year ago I lost hope because of Gamergate. Now I have it back.

If your faith in "the creative momentum of games" is so frail, maybe you should find something more solid to base it on.

Sounds like a sophist. Into the trash it goes.

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