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    Anita was on that Colbert show for a few minutes, she handled it pretty well. Damn though, Gamergate sounds so stupid from an outside perspective.
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      Editing … I got 2:30 in and couldn't watch it anymore. Of course their didn't say shit about journalistic ethics and im sure Anita didn't bring it later. figures
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      Editing … I've started listening to an interview Totalbiscuit is doing with the Kotaku editor, and so far (30 minutes in) there is very little levelled against the media. There's the Quinn thing which revolves around 'allegations' and a game nobody will probably play; the Patreon thing which involved a $10 donation; and the mailing list which is imo the only genuinely concerning one.
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      Editing … Oh and they do mention the ethics in journalism thing but Colbert just makes fun of it. I know it will piss you off but I think you should try and watch the whole thing, at least to see another perspective.
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      Editing … I certainly won't watch it any more than I'd watch Fox News pundits being pricks. They can keep their stupidity to themselves as far as I'm concerned. That the beauty of TV, you can turn it off/over when an ignorant prick decides to interview a lying manipulative shrew and not have to expose yourself to their dribble.
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      Editing … MC i've already heard their position many times before. At this point i'm starting to just not care anymore. If these social justice zealots dominate the gaming industry to will just crash and will just rebuild from there. I used to be afraid when people said theirs going to be a another crash sson but now i welcome it with open arms.
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      Editing … I can imagine some militant SJW butchering Bayonetta in a blog or something like that, but I really wonder if they are capable of industry wide change and collapse.
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      Editing … Nothing is gonna change, we real gamers that support the industry just don't give a fuck. Let people get on with trying to give their meaningless lives some reason to make themselves feel important, personally I don't need it, I'm satisfied with how my life is going.
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      Editing … They didn't talk about it because it has never been about journalistic ethics. https://storify.com/EffNOVideoGames/stopgamergate-it-has-always-been-a-spin People really need to relax, tone it down with the reactionary "the-sky-is-falling" clamoring and realize that feminists talking about how developers could make games more inclusive and diverse is not going to cause the whole fucking industry to collapse. If anything, it's the #GamerGate goons who are going to cause the industry to collapse by literally driving creative minds out of the industry with their pathetic threats and causing a big stink in the name of hindering artistic growth. Not to mention turning our community into a laughing stock to any onlooker from outside the community with a shred of damn sense. Literally every artistic and entertainment medium has feminist critique to it. Gaming is not magically exempt from that, no matter how badly you want it to be. Ultimately #GamerGaters don't seem to understand that the "SJWs" they're whining about are gamers too, and we love this hobby as much as anyone. We can love something and want to see it succeed while still critiquing the things we see wrong with it. Shocker, I know! On topic: I wasn't really a fan of Anita's appearance on the show. It didn't really accomplish anything imo, and it's always cringeworthy to me when someone says "do you believe women deserve equal rights? Then you're a feminist" because it way oversimplifies feminism and discourages people from actively engaging more complex feminist concepts.
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      Editing … Yeah it wasn't exactly a profound interview, but I guess the format of the show limited her to short replies. I finished listening to the interview Totalbiscuit did with the Kotaku editor, and really there is no major evidence of corruption or anything to explain the outrage. The main point TB had was that the 'Gamers are dead' articles were intentionally incendiary. After reading three of them though I don't think they were. The Gamasutra one was probably the rantiest but also forgettable; the Dan Golding one was pretty tame and non-aggressive http://dangolding.tumblr.com/post/95985875943/the-end-of-gamers
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      Editing … There's a woman that does some articles on a football site I visit, I know it's her as soon as I read the title! She never does a match report or something basic, oh no, it's always massively in depth about some bad thing. I think she tries too hard to prove herself in a male dominated soccer world, if she just backed off a bit she'd easily be the equal anyway, her writing isn't bad it's just her direction. Anyway, that might not be relevant because I never read anything, I just thought I'd point out something I noticed that was kinda similar.
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