Gamergate ruined so many things.
If anyone’s interested in a comprehensive overview of Gamergate, Ian Danskin has a fantastic video: A Case Study in Digital Radicalism
Sent this to my sister, she immediately “lmfaooo DAMN YOU GAMERGATE”
Needs to start at Lowtax banning hentai from Something Awful.
I don’t know the connection to that. First incident I know of Gamergate was the Zoë Quinn pile-on.
Hentai getting banned on SA is what caused Moot to found 4chan.
Of course this all happened because of sexual repression in society. It makes so much sense.
Understanding politics as derivative from a psychosexual origin point is a shockingly useful lense to use.
This is impossible to 100% confirm or deny with solid evidence at this point but uh…
Good chance it wasn’t just hentai.
It was loli. Drawn CSAM.
Fair enough.
lmao of course that’s what spawned it
ADTRW was basically 4chan but with names.
You had to work extra hard to be outcast, but moot managed
4chan organized a lot of brigading and the early rough memes (u mad bro?) that became gamergate and spawned many anti-SJW superstars.
It has taken a hard right turn from the days of operation chanology.
Crazy how it’s all connected…
The world is far smaller and far dumber than any of us ever thought back when we were young
well at least it’s dumb in a predictable way once you understand the rules :)
It’s a thinker, but god damn, that’s a good meme
Wait Im out of the loop, what are the in-between correlations?
steve bannon weaponized gamergate to normalize his far right ideology. that far right movement elected 45/47. 47’s tariffs ar, making the nintendo switch prohibitively expensive for the same crowd that was his original driving force
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Gamergate was a 2014 campaign to “get politics [women and minorities] out of video games” and is thought to have helped create the ongoing “culture war” in the US as far right leaders learned to use the same rhetoric.
Ngl, I’m kinda feeling vindicated reading this post. I’d been saying for years to my friend (who doubted me on this) that gamergate started this whole division politics. Making the zeitgeist pendulum swing from one polarity to the other. It led to me-too/cancel culture, which then swung the pendulum towards trump 1.0 fake news and anti vax, then swung to BLM and Lgbqt movements then it finally swung to trump 2.0’s vengeance we’re seeing today.
All this bullshit started from game journalists. Jfc, I miss the uncomplicated days before 2014, when we could all just enjoy TF2 and collect hats without a care in the world of what anyone thought of anything. Hard to imagine our favorite innocent hobby got distorted to lay the groundwork for the divided mess we’re in. And its only going to get cataclysmically worse.
I want to go back…
It wasn’t started by game journalists, it was started by the same deplorables who helped elect 45/47. Gamergate was just a successful trial run of that battlefront tactic. It’s all astoturf, smoke, and mirrors but it’s still the same class war.
Gamergate, Bannon’s strategy for drawing out young voters, Trump, tariffs.
Ohh, I get it now.
Wait, this is a good meme.
I will wait for the emulator and then I will acquire my legally purchased games, no one will make me pay $80 for a game
You reminded me of Yuzu and Riyujinx. Hadn’t thought about them in a long time. Are there any in development emulators anymore?
Especially when all the new titles are just graphics updates on older games.
I don’t give a fuck if Mario has DLSS on his eyeball so you can really feel his pain when he’s hit with a blue shell.
The Wii was a notable exception to the rule. Can’t really do Wii Sports on an Xbox controller.
I set up Wii Games so you can play with a Dualsense controller using its gyro functions natively and it worked pretty well after a brief adjustment period, at least for games which use the Wii Remote + Nunchuck. You are right in that Gyro is an absolute necessity for Wii games, an Xbox controller won’t work. Maybe for some games which aren’t as motion heavy (simple actions can be simulated) but most you need some kind of gyro controls to play comfortably.
For me it’s just those Wii games left that I play on my original Wii but everything else, including other Wii games that can be played with pro controller, I use dolphin and other emulators, it’s more convenient than having to dust off the old device
