That’s specious on its face, because the underlying issue is still, really, what the fuck is going on with “any other game reviewer” and/or journalist. And from there there’s the point that there isn’t any actual separation, let alone any sort of ethical requirements that legitimate journalists – gaming or otherwise – live by as a professional necessity.
Furthermore, there’s the massive gap between “this method of monetizing games is bad for games (and maybe for the people who play them)”, with the parenthetical being easily separated into an editorial thinkpiece, and “This engenders basic social inequality”. The latter inherently calls for social change on a deeper level, and that’s based on the social difference of social equality as opposed to commercial equality. An equal equivalence is absolutely disingenuous.
Actually, no. He didn’t get “treated poorly by his partner”, he had massive boundaries of trust breached by someone who has serious emotional problems. This isn’t MRE (and I had to look up this nonsense concept along with Gators and SJW, because apparently everything now needs a Team Jacob/Team Edward/Dumbledore Dies flagpoint).
One of the major things that seems to be swept under this particular rug is that if the roles were reversed, with Zoe in Gjoni’s place, what would happen in the whole matter? What if Gjoni not only cheated on Zoe with multiple partners (unprotected, on top of it) while feeding her lines about trust and faithfulness, then came out to have done so under such a regular influence of alcohol that he couldn’t pony up when directly questioned because of the effects therein? What if she brought that out as the story of, let’s say, Depression Quest?
I would label him as an abuser and congratulate Zoe on outing him as such. But I guess because it’s a guy, any of the behaviors we’d expect from people who care about social equality just don’t apply?
That’s one of the main lynchpins of the matter. It just so happens that on top of it, it’s also a really convenient smokescreen for flat out sociopathic behavior from one side that just so happens to find its equal in massively sociopathic behavior from the “opposing” side. Wrap it in the fact that these sociopaths are in a field where their opinion ostensibly matters, but is regulated by absolutely nothing of what governs journalistic integrity? Welcome to the mess.
And there are many, on both sides; it’s a big shitfight between both political parties (and that’s really what it is now, since anyone in the middle automatically gets attributed to one or another like they were being picked for a game of kickball), with the issue largely being that the videogame industry is fucking crazy by design, right down to the fact that it deliberately cultivated media this corrupt, uneducated and delusional; the media cultivated an audience that was stupid enough to keep reading while most saw the writing on the wall and said “Yeah… I’m too old to care. Don’t need these people, don’t need these people… hey, let me watch let’s plays and actually talk to people so I can make my own decision”.
It really isn’t. Is relationship equality now not that equal anymore, on the cusp of it maybe being equal in videogame land? Seriously, find a female who had this level of shit run on them, and tell them that it’s “next-level shit” and that they should just get over it. And then tweet it to Zoe. I’ll get the popcorn and relish the internet world of people who have never had friends of either gender who had really shit relationships.
Pretty much. There is no effective difference between those labeled as being part of “GamerGate” and those labeled as “SJWs”. It’s essentially two camps of the same anon/lulzsec horseshit slamming into each other. Not in affiliation, but in mindset.
Problem is, what is pro-GG media if the entire construct is, really, horseshit? Because the core of the matter is still that it’s looking a lot like the pro-horseshit media is the entire circle of what the gaming industry has cultivated.
