@HJSDGCE, God’s Wrath
Believe me. I worked at a gamestop. I know.
The screaming brats come in 10 minutes for the parents screeching up and down the very tiny store running into people, slam the game on the counter demanding it yesterday and of course, it’s GTA, CoD. So you go through the whole speel guns, violence, blood,
blah, blah, blah and they’re not even paying attention. They just want to get the game, just to shut their kids up.
I remember when I was a kid, I got a video game when I accomplished all of my chores, got good grade and didn’t flail around the neighborhood like a howler monkey.
An article on
ne Angry Gamer about the white house summit for violence in games
Has a great opinion piece by the author, that I’m going to share as it relates to the subject.
Let’s be absolutely real about the situation…
A lot of this is actually the fault of video game journalists who betrayed gamers by attacking the industry incessantly, gaining widespread and mainstream attention with their unfettered demonization of the industry nonstop for the last four years, starting with mislabeling and attacking the consumer revolt known as #GamerGate.
Polygon, Kotaku, Ars Technica, and game journalist associated with, or part of, the GameJournoPros who advocated and signaled the voice of anti-gaming pundits like Anita Sarkeesian are responsible for the negative image the gaming industry has picked up over the last four years. They’ve also opened up the door for Republicans to come in and continue the castigation against games that was started by video game press.
Some of these sites have attempted to become two-faced advocates, arguing against President Donald Trump’s assertions that video game violence negatively impacts America’s youth while simultaneously agreeing with Anita Sarkeesian that video game sexism negatively impacts America’s youth.
Gamers have called out sites like Polygon and culture critics like Anita Sarkeesian for their double standards, but at this point it’s a little too late to make amends. Republicans are now looking to regulate an industry that Democrats, Leftists and those who identify as “Progressive” journalists attacked, belittled, censured and demonized for the last half decade.
I can do nothing, but completely agree.
They opened the doors after at least half a decade of shitting on gamers for them to move back into the spotlight. Celebrating people with arguments no different then Jack Thompson.
Double standards and hypocrisy from them.