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In reply to the discussion: If you seriously care about gaming, you better pay attention to #Gamergate and its damage. [View all]Coventina
(27,115 posts)29. Here's the thing about #Gamergate that I really don't *grok*:
Are the "old guard" games really in jeopardy?
Are games like GTA, Call of Duty, Halo, etc. really in danger of disappearing?
I thought they were wildly popular?
Plus, there have always been very popular non (or less) violent puzzle games:
Myst, the Gabriel Knight series, Shivers, 7th Guest, etc.
Those types of games have never posed a threat to the shoot-em-ups, so why all the outrage and death threats now?
I don't get it.
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If you seriously care about gaming, you better pay attention to #Gamergate and its damage. [View all]
Are_grits_groceries
Oct 2014
OP
it may seem that you can't do much, but in my opinion, doing something in your own life
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#7
Still graphic violence though. AND > “Grand Theft Auto V” Is Now A First Person Shooter*
KittyWampus
Oct 2014
#14
My little great grandson plays Mindcraft and plays it with his sister. And I think it is a good game
jwirr
Oct 2014
#42
Yes, I know. The boys in our family are all gamers and if they were misogynists I would be the one
jwirr
Oct 2014
#70
"...but now the whole lot of them are tarred with the poison from those groups."
Android3.14
Oct 2014
#6
see, this is the thing....you'd sound a lot more sincere if you did one thing first....
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#8
you seem to believe that mentioning a serious prroblem--which is acknowledged asa global epidemic --
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#49
ok, there's a basic miscommunication going on here.....right now, I just
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#66
When and how did "gamers" come to mean first person shooters & graphic violence?
KittyWampus
Oct 2014
#9
you just strengthened my analogy to how media refers to Fundies when Christianity comes up...
KittyWampus
Oct 2014
#19
Why is it the obligation of a grandma who plays Farmville to stop the assholes?
AngryAmish
Oct 2014
#18
what defines a gamer in the community? i get where you're coming from; these "people" are scumbags.
dionysus
Oct 2014
#58
In other words, we should consider the media the arbitrar of who constitutes 'gamers'.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Oct 2014
#31
You're right, it's made-up bullshit. An excuse to attack women in gaming. n/t
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#57
Second that. If people are making death threats or terroristic threats, that's a crime.
Comrade Grumpy
Oct 2014
#34
If the ones driving people from their homes are arrested and charged with making terroristic threats
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#59