GamerGate

[Radiation]

Yes, let's keep this conversation civil.

i understand this is a contentious issue but it doesn't do any good when both side end up mudslinging and not getting anywhere.

[WatermelonRat]

This is starting to get silly.

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[Sigmaleph]

I'm pretty sure that's just trolling.

[WatermelonRat]

I'm pretty sure that's just trolling.

Both of those guys are prominent gaming journalists.

[Art Vandelay]

I'm pretty sure that's just trolling.

Both of those guys are prominent gaming journalists.

All the more reason to suspect trolling.

[Cloud3514]

I'm pretty sure that's just trolling.

Both of those guys are prominent gaming journalists.

Here's a thought: Maybe they're bitter and frustrated by random people telling them they're corrupt and evil with no proof? Maybe they can say things just as motivated by emotion as anyone else?

[WatermelonRat]

I'm pretty sure that's just trolling.

Both of those guys are prominent gaming journalists.

Here's a thought: Maybe they're bitter and frustrated by random people telling them they're corrupt and evil with no proof? Maybe they can say things just as motivated by emotion as anyone else?

Aren't we all, but somehow I doubt you'd consider that a valid excuse if it were a gamergater going off the rails.

In any case, this was no isolated outburst. They've been at this from the beginning.

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Also, Faraci has doxxed people.

[Sigmaleph]

I'm pretty sure that's just trolling.

Both of those guys are prominent gaming journalists.

Cite? I can't find anything written by Andrew Ross Atkinson.

[Ultimate Paragon]

It looks like Intel stopped sponsoring Gamasutra.

Also:



Consistency?  What's that?

[WatermelonRat]

I'm pretty sure that's just trolling.

Both of those guys are prominent gaming journalists.

Cite? I can't find anything written by Andrew Ross Atkinson.

Atkinson's description says "I studied journalism because I had ideals, I found other work because I have bills" so I assumed he was a part time writer, but now that I look further it does seem I may have been mistaken. He doesn't seem to be a troll, though, given his other tweets going back to 2009.

[Ultimate Paragon]

And it looks like Leigh Alexander is being a millstone for anti-GamerGate again:

[Lt. Fred]

Okay, so has anyone bothered to suggest that, possibly, there might be corruption in the gaming journalism industry outside the B-developers? Perhaps even in the triple-As?

[Art Vandelay]

Okay, so has anyone bothered to suggest that, possibly, there might be corruption in the gaming journalism industry outside the B-developers? Perhaps even in the triple-As?

All of the big review sites are funded through advertising. Given their audience, the people willing to buy ad space (or perhaps the people willing to pay the most for it) are big publishers, often for the purpose of marketing their new game. Effectively, these sites that are supposed to be giving unbiased reviews of the latest big release from EA or Ubisoft or whoever are also at the time getting a hell of a lot of their income from advertising that same game. That's pretty much the standard business model ever since game reviews first became a thing.

It's pretty much a given that that there's corruption between gaming journalism and AAA publishers.

[Askold]

[I am lizard]

Why are those sections of the tweets underlined?