/uj Anyone unironically using the phrase “activating ovaries” needs to be punched in the face. I’ve played 8 or so hours of this game and it is in no way “pedo bait”. If you think that you’re self reporting.
JFC Gamers ™ are exhausting.
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No matter how many time people try and explain it to me, I’ll never understand gamers gate
I think all you need to know is that it was an influence by right wing agitators to create a wedge issue and get young men to their side. It was very successful in that measure and a lot of male toxicity online today stems from it.
I mean at a superficial level, sure.
I mean that’s literally what Steve Bannon said it was about after the fact.
He’s a moron who will say anything.
IMO gametgate was a reactionary movement against girls having a place in gamer culture and that’s disgusting.
Yeah but Bannon and his ilk continued to exploit it to get young men into the alt right pipeline
Weird men got super upset that a woman was enjoying their same hobby, and then there was something about feminists ruining everything for them.
To be honest I get pretty lost too, but some people are like really obsessed with Anita S and it’s really weird and gross what they did.
It was nothing until Steve Bannon got involved.
Gamergate was a swell of support for scum like trump and bannon
My understanding is that there were genuine journalistic concerns with regards to Anita Sarkeesian, but then the narrative ended up getting twisted into a sexism thing when sexist gamers got involved. If I recall correctly, the initial issue was that the editor appeared to not be impartial when selecting who to write for what topic, and people believed that the perceived partiality was because of the fact that Sarkeesian and the editor were in a relationship. It’s a clear conflict of interest, but nothing major. What would have/should have been a minor journalistic scandal devolved into creepy incelposting.Which really muddied the waters, because it also caused many regular people to dismiss the initial, core concern that the journal did have a conflict of interest.While Sarkeesian definitely did not deserve the harassment, I think it should also be noted that she is a somewhat problematic individual. There was scandal that came up back in 2020 or so where she accused a game developer/ex-boyfriend of being abusive, which is generally acknowledged to have led to his suicide just several days later. But later reports revealed that many of her accusations were incompatible with evidence, and so it’s unclear how much, if any, of the accusations were truthfulEdit: mixed up two people. I’m unsure how much the wires got crossed, and I don’t have time to fact check myself right now. Please take this comment with a huge grain of salt
genuine journalistic concerns
As if we aren’t talking about video game articles
Journalism is still journalism no matter what topic you’re reporting on, also gaming is fucking huge
It was so weird seeing people suddenly care about journalist integrity when before that, sites like IGN were already a joke with their 7 to 10 grading system.
Oh absolutely, and the vast majority of them were completely full of shit, just using it as an excuse to harass a woman
I get from this post that it is about a game,
Big if true
Anyone unironically using the phrase “activating ovaries” needs to be punched in the face.
It feels like such a male incel coded turn of phrase.
I’ve played 8 or so hours of this game and it is in no way “pedo bait”.
Literally just has a small girl as a protagonist. That’s it. That’s the “bait”. Girl younger than 18 exists.
link is a child in most of the zelda games, i guess that is pedo bait as well lol
You joke, but I would not be surprised if some of these sickos agreed.
He is revived by a child-like android girl, Pragmata D-I-0336-7, who Hugh dubs “Diana”.
It’s not even a human girl. It’s a robot shaped like one.
“Self reporting” indeed.
Why is this game bringing out the weirdest shit?
Idk man because it’s not weird at all. As I said I think if you’re being weird about it you’re self reporting.
I haven’t played it, but I’ve seen a little gameplay. It looks fun. I agree that if you look at the little android girl and think she’s sexualized in the game, that you’re probably the one doing the sexualizing.
“Activating ovaries” means they instantly get baby fever. Usually due to seeing a good parent doing good parent things or a cute small child doing cute small child things.
It has nothing to do with pedophilia. Quite the opposite.
