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I think people are starting to realize that no amount of information is going to end this. Zoe has already done a ton of bad shit but is often viewed as the victim because the information that proves otherwise only circulates by word of mouth or image files. It's been proven multiple times that Kotaku writers were only looking out for their friends and offering nothing resembling a disclosure (except they went back and added them recently once all this shit happened) but nothing really happened. I think that's making many people frustrated and confused so when some journalist shows up and pretty much says "I'll take it from here" he's met with open arms.
The funny thing is that anything associated with 4chan had a shit reputation before going into this. Even if things blow up against /v/ it won't change things that much so in a way they're one of the few groups that will come out of this pretty much how they went in.
That's the problem with all of this - to get the topic out there, you need proper journalists and proper articles made about the incident, and gaming journalists have the edge in that regard. They can write whatever drivel they please on their website and people will follow and/or dismiss the argument because they use them for reviews. That's kind of why I was hoping a proper documentary would be made to serve as an eye-opener, but all we've got is this Sarkheesian Effect project that may not even get off the ground, let alone use unbiased narrators. A documentary with a relatively neutral point of view, yet examined all the facts would be very helpful in this case.
I just hope Horse_Ebooks doesn't enter the #gamergate fray. That guy has always been a bastion of truth and honesty and how many times have you wished you were strong enough to concentrate your mind, your daily life, and also in difficult and trying situations.
I'm glad I don't buy games based on reviews anymore. I mostly go by what my friends recommend or whatever is popular on the internet. Actually, most of the games I've bought recently I got because someone I follow on YouTube did a one-off playing it and I liked what I saw. Still, I know there are a lot of people who put faith in gaming journalism, and it really does cost people time and money. It also promotes mediocre games at the expense of fantastic ones.
I don't get those people who still rely on that stuff. It's completely insane in this day and age to rely on written reviews, when there are LPs showing the actual gameplay in real time. Maybe because it can be spoilerrific, but who cares if you have a plot point from the first, like, 5% of the game spoiled? On youtube, it doesn't matter as much if the player is biased, because you still see the gameplay right in front of you and can make your own decision. The bigger issue I have with gaming press is when they act as a gatekeeper on who gets coverage (friends with benefits?). because you can't judge whether a game is good or bad if you've never heard of it. Also, fuck clickbait.
I saw that earlier today, but with the nosedive Cracked has taken into just straight up SJW/Buzzfeed clickbait, I'm not really shocked. Now I can only read the articles that are like, based on history or something, where the chance of being exposed to the author's idiotic politics is minimized.
It's been a couple of years since I've been on Cracked. Not quite sure what was the breaking point for me but I do know that part of it was the very noticeable drop in quality.
List reposted because I hate going back 10+ pages just to see and update it:
Sites:
Kotaku
Polygon
Vice
Rock Paper Shotgun
Gawker or any Gawker owned site
IGF
IndieCade
Giant Bomb
IndieFund
SilverstringMedia
Cracked (and I used to love that site, and their magazine )
Individuals, Devs and other asshats to avoid or boycott their products:
Zoe Quinn
Arin Hanson (Egoraptor)
Markus Persson (Notch)
Phil Fish
Leigh Alexander
Anita Sarkeesian
Dina Abou Karam
/u/el_chupacupcake (reddit mod)
Maya Kramer
Devin Faraci
Brandon Boyer
Nathan Grayson
They've gotten to a point where I was reading an article about some old timey comic book character and the first two were "He really hates fat people," and "He really hates women," and I honestly 100% sincerely thought when I went to the next page it was going to say "He really hates trans people/otherkin."
Good point. This whole mess does make me appreciate the casual games industry a lot more. Sure a lot of the games are cookie cutter, it's choked with hidden object stuff and we're probably never going to see another game in the Jojo or Dash series, but at least the creators aren't dicks.
I kinda lost interest in Cracked when all their articles started being really misleading with their titles ("How shows like Hemlock Grove are ruining TV" Turns out being a article about some dude criticizing Netflix with pictures of him in his couch bored) articles with no substance but tons of pages, and the usual pandering to hipsters (with ironic dick jokes thrown in and all) and photoplasties.
They used to have good articles. Now they're just Cosmo for 20 year old men who haven't discovered reddit.
Goddammit... and I really like Cracked too. Seanbaby had just come back on board and was writing again...
Although to be fair, most of the articles I read on there now I'd just skim through. That's a real damn shame.... I'll probably lurk via donotlink, but yeah... *sulks*
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