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It's the dunk tank.
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It is weird to learn that gamergate was right wing infighting
Ian-Miles Cheong and Cadence Owens were both anti-gamergate.
Also, I suspect that there is more than one Hexbearian that was a gamergater back in the day.
I was actually aware that all games journalism is garbage at the age of like 10 because a child can be capable of internalizing that people taking money are going to be extremely charitable reviewing the people giving them money
Turns out when you are fighting over meaningless culture war vidya game bullshit it’s very easy to swap sides since there are no material stakes
Yeah, I mean I was a middle schooler when Gamergate started and I never went harassing people because of it, but I definitely was caught up in Gamergate when it was first going down. It's one of the reasons I'll always love Hbomberguy, because watching his videos was how I ended the youtube algorithm death slide that was Gamergate.
Algorithm death slide is a good phrase, mine ended on the third hour-long unstructured Sargon rant with me going "god this guy is whiny, I'm sick of his voice"
My head hurts now
I was really big into Gamergate for about 45 minutes. Then I looked it up, and it turned out it was just some dude being super pissed off that his ex did The Sex after they broke up.
Yeah, all the "ethics in game journalism" stuff was just code for "we want to make video gaming more sexist."
Anita Sarkeesian for president.
As a bit, Anita Sarkeesian should run on free speech and call herself “Cancel culture’s first victim.”
…because she is. And she has done more for free speech than any CHUD ever will.