The great GamerGate discussion. (Stuff and things)

@Cyborg_pony  
I don’t see GG2 happening. It was a thing because GGers tried to have an open dialog with gaming journalists and were continuously shut down. Even if you doubt the motives of the GGers, the fact that they tried to appear respectable is exactly what defined GG. I don’t see anyone attempting to try this again.
 
Besides, the wider culture war is, in many ways, a much larger version of GG. A GG2 would have to have some defining characteristic to separate it from the culture war, and there have been some significant world events that have failed to do so, so I don’t know what GG2 could even be.

Man, E3 was kinda disappointing. Take-Two went on to talk about toxicity in gaming culture and I’m like, “Please, I already get that from Twitter. Just show me the games.”.
 
I shouldn’t have to care 24/7. I’m not retarded.

I forgot E3 even existed untill it reared its ugly head this year.
 
Some good Nintendo stuff, though nothing that interested me personally. Microsoft opened strong with starfield and fizzled out hard after.
 
Oh Microsoft, you’re suppose to close with your strongest showing, not open with it. When they opened with starfield I thought we were gonna get an elder scrolls 6 trailer or gameplay reveal or something. What a letdown.

@Scrabbleman @Terminal Red  
E3 is pretty much as dead as the VGAs at this point. Most of is were shills for the typical viewpoints, even Arin going on about how “Toxic” gaming is and everyone’s racist while anyone reminding him of his past sins were quickly banned.
 
There were some games that were interesting that were just made boring by Geoff Keighley and his celeb guest awkwardly trying to pretend they know what they’re doing. Nintendo was really the only thing that had anything worth while that I didn’t already know about.
 
Nothing on that Harry Potter game they made a big spectacle last year… Wonder if they silently canceled it to appease the mob, which never happens.

@Cyborg_pony  
I’m following the subreddit for that HP game. So far, it’s just everyone’s hopes and stuff.

@Scrabbleman  
But Metroid Dread.

@Mikey  
One game out of a list isn’t very passing.

@Cyborg_pony  
Nintendo had a good conference as a whole tbh.

@Mikey  
Which was pretty much the only one. Everyone else was forgettable.

@Mikey  
I might not like Nintendo and their crazy copyright stuff, but man there’s a reason why they’re the top dog in terms of video games.

@Scrabbleman  
It mostly has to do with their copyright laws. Something about if they just let people go unrestrained with the IP, they can lose it - unlike here where stuff like Superman to even Mikey Mouse where supposed to hit Public domain, but the companies in power abuse the system with loop-holes and retain their vice like grip on them.

Was perusing Jim Sterling’s Kiwifarms thread and came across this, where he didn’t actually give the OG Halo Wars a full review despite saying so. It’s also interesting to see that Mister Metokur (then probably still the Internet Aristocrat) criticising games journalism pre-GG.

@Ebalosus
Quite a few people did. Razorfist has a series on terrible gaming media sites, such like Destructiod, Jim’s first place he festered. It was only after the big Quinn scandal happened with a garbage twine game getting so much praise did people began question and then that which was so easily defeated but still the cause of everything bad to today(for them anyways) accrued in the year of 2014 which net lots of them money, and access into the larger part of gaming industry, that Seems to constantly have problems with abusing their power to sexual gain.

But that’s just a conspiracy by misogynists.

@Cyborg_pony
Jim Sterling has his flaws, but what he says about the gaming industry as a whole is pretty spot-on. I don’t think his missteps detract from his overall accuracy.

@Cyborg_pony
Tbh, Jim only got bad in the last 4 years or so. He was actually pretty cool during and after his destructoid days.

@HeadlessHorselessHorseman @Mikey
After he said a game not being prought over due to Sexist reason and people needing to go through import sites at a premium for it in the more “PRO CONSUMER” way. Of course his Lord Talcumbottom defending journos being terrible at the medium they talk about.

Jim has always been the same type of activist hack, now the terrible wig comes on.