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It was a sad day when she hunted down every single straight male in the video games industry and shot them with a crossbow.
She ruined video games by
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Liking video games as a woman
No, didn't you hear? She had guys sneak into the Democratic party offices, and place bugs!
Or maybe i'm thinking of a different -gate
Nixon got impeached because he went woke and started recording himself examining video games with basic feminist critiques.
This gamergate thing was one of the many formative moments of my life that pushed me further towards the left. I think it was a crossroads for many people, waking many up, but also plunging everyone else into a deepening pit of reactionary thinking and general bigotry.
It's forever funny to me that people get older, their tastes change, and they attribute their lack of interest to the scene changing and find some villain that changed it.
You see it all the time in music. But it's especially funny to me with games for some reason.
There are so many games these days too. It's an absolute golden era for indie games, but the gamergate crowd only focuses on how the yearly generic military shooter might have pronoun options, or maybe there's a single gay character in an RPG with hundreds of NPCs.
I'm old enough to remember that a gamergate rallying cry was something like, "Don't change our games, make your own games." Imploring folk to make their own games with feminist narratives or whatever. Well we live in that reality now, where the "SJWs" or 10 years ago are making games, or big studios are trying to pander. And yet that was still wrong.
She must have bought all those video games just to pose in a picture with them 
Those are trophies from all the straight male developers she killed
She has a closet full of beheaded dakimakura, too, doesn't she?
Did CHUDs forget that they won? When have CHUDs ever lost a culture war in the last 12 years? How about the last 44 years? Anything to the left of Reagan has been irrelevant for decades now.
You guys won already. Literally everyone except a select few people want the Turner Diaries to come true. Give it a rest, you've been doing a ten year long victory dance.
They don't feel like they've won. As long as the existence of anything outside of cis hetero crackers exist, they're mad. Anita Sarkeensian is still alive, and people know about her, so everything feels lost to them
What’s the ideology called where they rely on an amorphous enemy that they constantly move the goalposts on to maintain people’s sense of outrage to justify hellish domestic policy? I forget.
Struggle is mitochondria of fascism. Without eternal struggle and therefore imagined eternal failure, you eventually gotta stop doing the fascism. If they utterly destroyed an enemy they'd have to keep finding new ones, if they don't have an absolute victory they take it as a defeat. It's cause they're stupid.
Mainstream video games have become more diverse and less horny in the past decade though which is what these guys are mad about
^video games the second you critique them
>she prematurely ruined video games
People think like this can't be fixed. You'd explain an aspect about capitalism (what really ruined games) and they'd blame it on "wokeness" or something- Pit please
it's crazy fascist G*mers are still malding about her a decade later
And the funny thing is, the right WON that culture war.
Look at progressivism, it's been irrelevant ever since 2014 and anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40.
posting a bit too close to the doomer sun
anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40
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I don't think this is anywhere near right.
I think it might be hyperbole
Look at progressivism, it's been irrelevant ever since 2014 and anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm pretty sure progressivism is anything but dead.
The 2nd most popular game on steam right now is literally one where you can literally kill, skin and fuck both animals and humans.
who is this person and how did they supposedly ruin games?
It's Anita Sarkeesian, a video game journalist who became one of the centerpieces of Gamergate for saying such radical things as "sexism in video games exists and is bad".
Sarkeesian has literally 0 influence on anything, never did, but gamers have hated her with all their might for over a decade now. Her youtube podcast still gets dislike-bombed over 10 years after Gamergate.
damn I totally forgot about gamergate. hope I forget it again soon.
blessed are the people with empty heads
I just happened to be absent when gamergate happened and never bothered to look it up. It sort of feels like I skipped a cut scene accidentally cause my ass was on 4chan at the time.
I just lost the Game(rgate).
Sarkeesian has literally 0 influence on anything, never did
Literally the only thing I'm aware of her criticism changing is making Emily playable in Dishonored 2.
"sexism in video games exists and is bad"
NOO!!!!
I'd never heard of this person before or Gamergate, but sounds about right for gamers.
Her critiques weren't even anything over the top. It was very general lib feminism like "the fridged woman trope isn't nice" and "maybe not all female characters should be sex-objects with boob armor?"
she treated their favorite form of art (bideo games) as art, which is what they'd been whining for for years. if it's art, you can critique it as art.
they didn't like it.
If you dont like modern video games, make your own lol
Except chuds believe people are naturally talented and cant be bothered to learn what it takes to make games. Its a dog chasing its tail situation. Most people who go through the process of learning a skill generally tend to humble out, go more left in my experience
All hail the Dark Mother
In any other context this would be schizophrenic ramblings.
They are still focusing mental energy on Gamergate a decade later?
It was world of warcraft that ruined videogames. After that the videogame companies realized that subscription services and gambling like game desing was way more profitable. Dlc, online only play for single player, simplified game desing etc all come from that.
After that maybe it was age of empires 3 that had the biggest negative impact on videogames. Becasue it sucked and was mucho worse than its predecesdor wich was dated at the time. Insted of realizing that the suits tougth that if even the aoe franchise dosent sell then rts is a dead genere. And so they started making less rts.
After that the videogame companies realized that subscription services and gambling like game desing was way more profitable.
they always realized that. before they called it a "microtransaction" they called it "insert another quarter to continue." People forget that kids in the 80s and early 90s had to play video games in public, and that you would basically spend your entire allowance trying to beat one fighting game on medium difficulty with a joystick the size of a gear shift and 5 fat buttons that were the size of your palm. 
i remember realizing one day how stupid i was for playing tekken 3 at the mall and that I had spent way more in quarters on tekken 3 over the course of a year or two than I would have if I had just bought the game for PS1
There was a brief moment between the death of arcades and the birth of WoW where single player style story based games and local multiplayer were the primary product. And I think that colored a lot of expectations for what video games should/could be.
Not to say other times were better or worse. Almost all the video games from the late 70s and early 80s would be considered shovelware now. They were largely cheaply made trash imitating other, more popular games. Many of them programmed, printed and shipped in a matter of weeks. The Arari 2600 even had a cartridge with an early modem that had what we'd call DRM today. You'd pay to download a game, you'd play it three times, and it would delete itself. And hilariously the company that made this thing went on to found America Online.
I think we're at a good moment though with games honestly. Passionate indie creators are making things leaps and bounds ahead of major studios.
God I fucking wish.
Save me Anita Sarkeesian....
she still does disc burnings on her of no ppv