But it's kind of a big deal. And especially after the ABC piece on it I am curious as to how gamers (and fellow retrogamers here) feel about it.
So, just "For it" or "Against it" or "In the middle", and a reason.
I am totally for it. I have been peeved by the SJW movement in games for a few years now. From the "controversies" with Bayonetta and Dragon's Crown, to the sites like Kotaku and Gamasutra...well, just doing what they do. Actually, I used to like Kotaku. But since they got taken over by Gawker, they have the SJW thing going on. It's weird, because Gawker has the lewdest click bait in the world, I think. Really LOW site.
For me, I think the problem I have is, I feel that non-gamers are coming in and telling us what we like is bad, and we are bad for liking it. And it offends me. I was a total dork in high school and they remind me of the cool kids (thought they are not very cool...hipsters maybe) putting us geeks down. But now in a grown up fashion. And games to me isn't a "boys club", but it is a place for like minded people. And a lot of us are or were solitary and maybe not the coolest kids out there.
These folks act as if they love video games and our culture, but it seems like they don't, and want to change everything about it.
After that, it's about censorship really. It's so weird to be labeled misogynist for just liking sexy looking girls in games. I mean, that is something we have always liked from TV to movies to games and comics. It's pandering to a certain type of person (most males), but so what? I don't see what's wrong with it. And honestly, I think that argument is a joke. I don't know any gamers personally who actually hate women. I've tried to get my girlfriends to play games with me (as many other gamers do), and a lot of us would like to hook up with a female gamer. There's some people here and there that talk shit but I think it is totally the minority.
Another thing...I'm hoping that after the ABC piece that gamers will start getting the idea that the journalists and games media have a lot of us under attack and are demonizing us. They are also not letting us on any of the shows for counter debates. Why not let Boogie, Thunderfoot, Sargon, or Internet Aristocrat (back when he was in the movement) have a second or two to say something? A rebuttal at least? Everything is so one sided in the media.
And of course this doesn't even take into account those wonderful articles about how "gamers are dead". To me, this is personal. I feel that they just don't want games that appeal to a whole new audience, but to have a new audience to replace us. Because we aren't on the same wavelength as them.
Also, I hope if people look into Feminine Frequency more carefully, that they will start to see they really are about changing games. They are like Jack Thompson with SJW ideals. They say the same stuff. That games affect us subconciously and all this and that. Even though violent crimes have consistently gone down in the years games have been on the rise. And most of the "big" games are violent as hell.
I'm not all into everything being so violent or games being so pandering, but I don't like being painted as a bad person for disagreeing with censorship. Or trying to bully devs into doing something they don't want to do.
Some gamers are starting to get the picture like Alpha Omega Sin with this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDTtO_lDTs
All the death threats/rape threats/yadda yadda yadda.... That's bad yeah, but Jack Thompson got death threats too and no one cared. And no one has been hurt and I hope to God no one does. But so far it just looks like trolls. And the other side seems to use that as a smokescreen when you start talking about GG. "Hey, you know Anita raised over a hundred thousand dollars and has only released a few videos, uses "Let's Plays" without asking, has said in the past she doesn't like video games, has been involved with shady pyramid type characters". And then they throw "she got death threats". And that's it.
And I got banned from NeoGAF for just disagreeing with her. I got a "you're not a good fit..banned indefinitely". It kind of blew my mind. But I feel like this is how the industry could get if they get more and more power. Disagree with us and you're gone.
Poor Boogie got banned too, just trying to take up for gamers. That's low as he's one of the nicest guys in gaming.
Hopefully this topic won't bore you to tears since it has been going on for a while. But the Nightline piece seems to riled up more gamers who were on the fence, up to this point. So, I thought I would see the effect it has here.
And I don't really care one bit about Zoe Quinn, so let's just skip that if possible (even though that started it).
