Pro or Anti GamerGate?

[Shole]

Do you support the movement or are you against it ?
I support it because I am against this corruption in he gaming journalism and I mean common calling gamers dead...how dare they?

 

[DrLeftover]

Never heard of it.

Please explain and / or post some informational links for both sides of the matter and I'll give it a once over.

 

[Payton]

I think that #GamerGate has been annoying and unbelievably dumb from the very beginning. It has not exposed any real corruption in anything, but it has exposed a bunch of closet misogynists. All I've seen come out of the movement is unwarranted death threats, harassment, and scarily concentrated efforts at hurting legitimate businesses, for a cause so childish as it is. There is no prejudice against gamers.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Never heard of it.

Please explain and / or post some informational links for both sides of the matter and I'll give it a once over.

I need a little backstory...

 

[DrLeftover]

I found some 'backstory'.

Twine, the Video-Game Technology for All

NOV. 19, 2014

Perhaps the most surprising thing about “GamerGate,” the culture war that continues to rage within the world of video games, is the game that touched it off. Depression Quest, created by the developers Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey and Isaac Schankler, isn’t what most people think of as a video game at all. For starters, it isn’t very fun. Its real value is as an educational tool, or an exercise in empathy. Aside from occasional fuzzy Polaroid pictures that appear at the top of the screen, Depression Quest is a purely text-based game that proceeds from screen to screen through simple hyperlinks, inviting players to step into the shoes of a person suffering from clinical depression. After reading brief vignettes about what the main character is struggling with — at home, at work, in relationships — you try to make choices that steer your character out of this downward spiral. The most important choices are those the game prevents you from making, unclickable choices with red lines through them, saying things like “Shake off your funk.” As your character falls deeper into depression, more options are crossed out. You can’t sleep; you can’t call a therapist; you can’t explain how you feel to the people you love. In the depths of depression, it all feels impossible.

Although Quinn expected negative reactions to the game, things became frightening this summer after she released the game through Steam, a prominent (and mainstream) gaming platform. A jilted ex-boyfriend of hers posted a nearly-10,000-word screed that accused her of sleeping with a journalist for positive reviews. The claim, though false, set off a wave of outrage that eventually escalated into a campaign against all the designers and critics who have argued for making gaming culture more inclusive. At their most articulate, the GamerGate crusaders denounce progressive voices in games (whom they derisively call “S.J.W.s,” or “social justice warriors”), claiming that they have needlessly politicized what should be mere entertainment. At their least articulate, they have carried out sustained and vicious harassment of critics, prompting at least three women to flee their homes in the wake of rape and death threats. In Quinn’s eyes, the real motivations are clear. This is a battle over not just entertainment but identity: who gets to be called a gamer, what gets to be called a game and who gets to decide.

Much More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/magazine/twine-the-video-game-technology-for-all.html