[ SECRET POST #2915 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2915 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Same, though to be honest, gamers of all kinds are starting to get on my nerves. Nothing against video games or people who play them, but I don't want anything to do with "gamers."

[(Anonymous)]

I think gamer culture, even totally setting aside gamer gate, is kind of absurd and pointless and petty and toxic. But that's not really an indictment of individual people who identify as gamers. They can be perfectly nice even if the culture is a bit silly.

And this is just video games ofc, people who play traditional games are obviously super cool and sexy

[(Anonymous)]

YES. Playing video games is fine, but why does it end up becoming part of so many peoples' identities, and why are people so PRETENTIOUS about it? Like, why does spending hours on end playing video games make you superior to someone who only does it once in a while for fun? You're not accomplishing anything, you're just entertaining yourself and passing time. Why does it have to become such an obsession? I've pretty much lost most of my friends because I don't have the patience to spend hours at a time either playing games or watching them play games, and they just don't have any interest in anything else, or any time for people who aren't super-obsessed with video games.

And the guys who get super mad about anything video game related and practically want to kill anyone they even suspect of criticizing their precious games... WHY? WHY is it so important? It's just a damn GAME!

[kallanda_lee]

I can only speak from personal experience, but I feel it started as a bit of a protest. For many years - and in some circles, still - people had this tendency to see video games as something for kids. Adults gamers, therefore, were sort of looked down on, ridiculed and even initialized.

I feel the whole identifying as a gamer, and "gamer culture" came as a counter-movement to that - a sort of reclaiming of the word, a bit like with "geek".

[(Anonymous)]

That's probably where it came from but tbh that's still slightly ridiculous

[(Anonymous)]

Now I'm imagining an adult man being so profoundly hurt about being called childish for playing video games that he decides to start a """counter-movement""" to defend himself from the terrible opressive world making fun of him...

And that just makes the whole thing more pathetic tbh.

[kallanda_lee]

Honestly I find it more pathetic to ridicule people for something they love in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

More pathetic than creating a whole identity in response to someone calling you childish, for playing video games, thereby proving them right?

Nah.

[kallanda_lee]

People create identities based on subcultures literally all the time.

It's no more pathetic that being a goth, or being vegan.

[(Anonymous)]

They're all pathetic, in a way. No one has to justify any desires to anyone. The phrase "none of your business" has become an unwilling anachronism, but it is still applicable.

[(Anonymous)]

I think both are kind of equally pathetic. It's ridiculous to badmouth people for liking a form of entertainment that you don't, but it's also ridiculous to pretend liking a form of entertainment makes you superior to anyone.

[(Anonymous)]

Not "what they love" but "what they obsess about 24-7 to the extent that they play gatekeeper and construct imaginary worlds where No Gurlz Alloud and basically become the worst possible embodiment of the loser geek."

[(Anonymous)]

I wish that was why it was even started.

It came up as a result of a protracted harassment campaign started by an ex.

He wrote a very long blog piece outlining how he felt she hurt him. I don't care to comment further because other people's private lives aren't my business. He did not feel this way, and shopped the piece around to various nerd centric forums in an attempt to create a grass roots movement to defame her (I believe hoods words were something like "to warn the industry and individuals about her")

He was rejected at almost every forum he posted on due to the ugly, hurtful intent of the post. He was not rejected by /v/

Channers took the defamation idea and ratcheted it up to harassment. In their irc channel, logs show them discussing ways to reframe the harassment to appeal to a broader audience. Since "they had a bad relationship" isn't a relatable reason to harass women, it was suggested it be reframed as an issue of ethics in video game journalism since they could make a connection between ZQ and a journalist.

The original post didn't claim nepotism, but seizing on this would lead to the notorious IA video which furthered the claim. Adam Baldwin tweeted the video with the GamerGate hashtag, and that's how GamerGate began.

It came from people wanting it to be there. Seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

gamergate is not gamer culture. nice try, though.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been calling myself a gamer for appox a decade.

so no.

[(Anonymous)]

100% agree. It's just a hobby, why do they have to be so self-important about it and turn it into an identity thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom in a nutshell.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty fucking much, sadly.

[(Anonymous)]

I think any fandom which is predominantly male is always going to be toxic.

[(Anonymous)]

that sounds like more of a you problem...