Let’s not forget that Russia was playing both sides. As soon as GamerGate started, a bunch of games “journalists” all posted garbage articles like this, in the same day, pushing this shitty “gamers are now dead” message, fanning the flames even further and basically just pissing everybody off.
Sorry, I’m a gamer. I’m still alive, even ten years later. Gamers ain’t dead.
And then CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and the rest all ran with it to treat it like a horse race, which is exactly what the Russian experiment was trying to achieve.
Articles like this sound a lot like that garbage back then.
hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
I swear the Steam discussion threads for any new game have at least a couple chuds in there going “I can barely even see any labia through this character’s costume! When will this censorship madness end? Absolutely unplayable!” Like, dude. Some of us aren’t playing Stardew to jerk off to.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Maybe we’re in different spaces, but those kinds of sexist posts don’t usually do very well / don’t seem to gain much traction.
Asafum@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Seriously lol monster hunter wilds was pretty frustrating with that shit… Like ok Olivia isn’t traditionally “hot” but wtf not every character in a game needs to be a supermodel for you to jerk to. I kinda like the strong woman theme anyway, she’s attractive in a different way.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
The steam discussion forums shouldn’t exist. Steam doesn’t want to moderate them and neither do the developers. Absolutely garbage feature.