In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.

Liam | 30 | He/Him | Canada | Goblin | Video games, Podcasts, Books, D&D I Occasionally NSFW

[hailraykin-deactivated20230814]

Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

[malibuklaus]

[churlfriend]

who's with me

[poketcg-art]

Chikorita -- kamonabe

[stupid-twink-girl]

[cherriesareyuck]

I am at my clits end

[kosmogrl]

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

[eebie]

The apple they fed to snow white wasnt poision at all it was just a red delicious

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[crazy-pages]

In all seriousness, if you live in the US and you aren't familiar with the misogynistic harassment these people in the game industry faced during Gamergate, you need to watch this series right now.

This was the beggining of the current form of the US fascist movement and it underpins the entire thing about it to this day. If you live in the US and Gamergate isn't familiar to you, you're missing critical history to understanding US fascism. I'm not joking even a little bit here, you will understand modern United States fascism so much better if you are familiar with Gamergate.

[cumaeansibyl]

Not an exaggeration. Gamergate led directly to the redpill/incel movement, which white supremacists exploited and colonized. Not to say that most of the white men in those movements weren't already racist to some extent, but that wasn't an active part of their politics until white supremacist recruiters came along and convinced them that the women ruining their videogames were part of the conspiracy to destroy the white race.

That's a very brief summary but you can go back step by step over the past decade and see how they did it.

[depsidase]

[risk-repeater]

this job market is a fucking nightmare

[itsnotwhatimlike]

embarrassment has good bones

[fairycosmos]

i really don’t have the time to be the way i am

[uesp]

Did You Know: A lich can walk out of the ocean at anytime with an army of the undead? There’s nothing anyone can really do to stop this from happening.

[evilscheme]

A belly can be a "slut waist" too. If you're not a fearful little freak

[carrotssss]

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