To answer a question ppl are apparently afraid to ask: gamergate = a very large group of ordinary fucking people, not good or bad on avg.
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In a better world there wouldn't be a fight at all. But the mass of ordinary fucking people didn't go looking for it.
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@St_Rev aGG as in 'people who will say GG is bad when the subject comes up' or aGG as in 'people who actively fight against GG'? -
@tailcalled The latter, plus the ones who led the charge c. 2012-2014. -
@tailcalled Some evidence that a lot of it comes down to a certain politicized indie game faction deciding their time had come at GDC'13... -
@tailcalled ...& selling their narrative to a lot of the indie media. Cue triumphalist declarations dissolving the base & electing new one. -
@tailcalled That's where "Gamers don't have to be your audience, gamers are over" comes from. That crashed into TZP, and boom -
@tailcalled You had a hundred thousand or so Ordinary Fucking People wondering why the news sites were insulting them all of a sudden. -
@tailcalled Beginnings are nebulous, but a few hundred people declaring internet war on a few hundred thousand is some kind of thing.
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@St_Rev unruly posses eager to pounce on people are bad even if there do in fact exist some horse thieves - End of conversation
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@St_Rev I think aGG, like most, just very willing to believe when told there are enemies everywhere. Not egregiously bad, just regular bad. -
@GrimConch extremely bad evil priest caste, ordinary-bad-spiteful followers -
@St_Rev Sounds right, though not sure on the delusion/malevolence split on priests
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