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    "When I see an article titled “Gamers are dead,” referring to the death of the popular trope of a pasty young man in a dimly lit room, it fills me with joy, because it means WE FUCKING WON.

    So many people are playing games now that they are popular culture.

    They are not going away.

    All sorts of cool things, that I like, are now things that a whole bunch of other people like!

    There’s enough space now for people to make games that are strange and disturbing and maybe highlight a different perspective of the world, because gaming is no longer a niche activity, it’s something that everybody does.

    There is room for art in video games. That’s awesome!"

    - Chris Cluwe, former NFL player; his opinion piece can be read on medium.com
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      Editing … Can't wait for all these gaming blog sites to go out of business.
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      Editing … "All sorts of cool things, that I like, are now things that a whole bunch of other people like!" Just because more people play games doesn't mean they like the same games as you. Chris is just grouping people together by proxy.
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    “Games culture is a petri dish of people who know so little about how human social interaction and professional life works that they can concoct online 'wars' about social justice or game journalism ethics, straight-faced, and cause genuine human consequences. Because of video games.”

    - Leigh Alexander, Gamasutra
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      Editing … I'm not mad at you at all, but that kind of quote really ticks me off. I genuinely hope anyone like him/her that generalizes gamers like that and insults them loses their jobs and don't get rehired. That kind of sick us vs them antagonizing and generalizing attitude games press have shown in the past couple weeks is literally everything wrong with the gaming industry. All because people have the audacity to point out how biased the vast majority of the gaming press is and show genuine cases of corruption and important news stories which no major gaming news sites have had the balls to cover. I could really go on about this because it makes me fucking sick but I'll just point out that people like that want to be considered professional "journalists" whenever it suits them and they can get free review copies and passes to parties with a bunch of free alcohol and etc., but they don't want to have any sort of integrity or accountability, if you point out something wrong they're "just bloggers" and you're a bully. "Just games" are these people's entire careers and the only reason they have food on their tables each nights yet they still feel the need to constantly piss on the people who support them. If "gaming culture" or "gamers" really are soooo awful then piss off and leave it to the people who actually do like games. (that's aimed at them)
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      Editing … While that particular quote doesn't sound to good on it's own, I did agree with a bunch of the points he made in his article.
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      Editing … That article is particularly bad, but it's not limited to just that. Yes there are some bad apples that do horrible things as there is in any group but if you went off what sites told you, you wouldn't know there's just as many bad apples on BOTH sides. I've seen similar pieces on Kotaku and Polygon aswell in the past couple days also saying how gamers are horrible awful people. This is the prevailing attitude, that games journalists are "holier than thou" and much better than the filthy peasants that give them money and support. They constantly berate the people whos interests they're supposed to serve yet have the audacity to whine about people using adblock and they wonder why they have to keep cutting staff left and right while LPers (who do the job GJs are supposed to do much better than them) make millions. I honestly think the future is in users hands, the trash most professional games journalists put out is much worse then community run blogs on the very same sites. I've already seen various disgruntled users turn away from mainstream sites and turn to blogs and niche sites, and that's what I've done. If this recent incident doesn't show you something is seriously wrong then nothing will. Anyway I got kinda off topic there but yeah those are my thoughts/feelings. Also I'm going to try and go to sleep so I won't be able to respond if anyone has questions or something
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      Editing … Just to point out that Gamasutra is one of the sites that got caught out doing all of this censoring nonsense that's been going on. Them going "waah I don't like all the people that are making us look bad, they are the enemy / their points are invalid / it's just games / ignore them." is not a particularly surprising turn of events. http://makealist.com/content/quinngategamergate-boycott-list
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      Editing … Did ... did you just show your support for an industry wide blacklist? What decade is this? I didn't realize witch hunts were still a thing
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      Editing … No? it's a just a list. I don't need to boycott things I don't even use. Nice sidestepping though.
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