She single handedly DESTROYED the video game industry FOREVER. And NO ONE ever made a single video game ever since.

It was a sad day when she hunted down every single straight male in the video games industry and shot them with a crossbow.

I was an adventurer once, until I took a crossbow bolt to the knee.

She ruined video games by

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Liking video games as a woman

No, didn't you hear? She had guys sneak into the Democratic party offices, and place bugs!
Or maybe i'm thinking of a different -gate
- Nixon got impeached because he went woke and started recording himself examining video games with basic feminist critiques.

This gamergate thing was one of the many formative moments of my life that pushed me further towards the left. I think it was a crossroads for many people, waking many up, but also plunging everyone else into a deepening pit of reactionary thinking and general bigotry.

It's forever funny to me that people get older, their tastes change, and they attribute their lack of interest to the scene changing and find some villain that changed it.

You see it all the time in music. But it's especially funny to me with games for some reason.

There are so many games these days too. It's an absolute golden era for indie games, but the gamergate crowd only focuses on how the yearly generic military shooter might have pronoun options, or maybe there's a single gay character in an RPG with hundreds of NPCs.
I'm old enough to remember that a gamergate rallying cry was something like, "Don't change our games, make your own games." Imploring folk to make their own games with feminist narratives or whatever. Well we live in that reality now, where the "SJWs" or 10 years ago are making games, or big studios are trying to pander. And yet that was still wrong.
- my fav is the type A type B body selection. Nevermind it's still generally 1:1 mapping with gender binary concepts, nevermind that many Japanese dev studios (bastions of leftist ideology) were using that at least as far back as 2004.
  It's the ascendant left mad with power when it shows up.

She must have bought all those video games just to pose in a picture with them

Those are trophies from all the straight male developers she killed
- She has a closet full of beheaded dakimakura, too, doesn't she?

Did CHUDs forget that they won? When have CHUDs ever lost a culture war in the last 12 years? How about the last 44 years? Anything to the left of Reagan has been irrelevant for decades now.

You guys won already. Literally everyone except a select few people want the Turner Diaries to come true. Give it a rest, you've been doing a ten year long victory dance.

They don't feel like they've won. As long as the existence of anything outside of cis hetero crackers exist, they're mad. Anita Sarkeensian is still alive, and people know about her, so everything feels lost to them
- What’s the ideology called where they rely on an amorphous enemy that they constantly move the goalposts on to maintain people’s sense of outrage to justify hellish domestic policy? I forget.
Struggle is mitochondria of fascism. Without eternal struggle and therefore imagined eternal failure, you eventually gotta stop doing the fascism. If they utterly destroyed an enemy they'd have to keep finding new ones, if they don't have an absolute victory they take it as a defeat. It's cause they're stupid.
Mainstream video games have become more diverse and less horny in the past decade though which is what these guys are mad about
chuds always feel like they're losing, no matter how much they win. That's why they keep pushing harder and harder
they can't be satisfied so you should just put them out of their misery

^video games the second you critique them

>she prematurely ruined video games

People think like this can't be fixed. You'd explain an aspect about capitalism (what really ruined games) and they'd blame it on "wokeness" or something- Pit please

it's crazy fascist G*mers are still malding about her a decade later

And the funny thing is, the right WON that culture war.
Look at progressivism, it's been irrelevant ever since 2014 and anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40.
- posting a bit too close to the doomer sun
- anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40
  ?
  I don't think this is anywhere near right.
- Look at progressivism, it's been irrelevant ever since 2014 and anyone who dares to have an opinion that isn't Hitler good is mocked by everyone under the age of 40.
  I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm pretty sure progressivism is anything but dead.
- But we have the most Progressive president in history

The 2nd most popular game on steam right now is literally one where you can literally kill, skin and fuck both animals and humans.

who is this person and how did they supposedly ruin games?

It's Anita Sarkeesian, a video game journalist who became one of the centerpieces of Gamergate for saying such radical things as "sexism in video games exists and is bad".
Sarkeesian has literally 0 influence on anything, never did, but gamers have hated her with all their might for over a decade now. Her youtube podcast still gets dislike-bombed over 10 years after Gamergate.
- damn I totally forgot about gamergate. hope I forget it again soon.
- Sarkeesian has literally 0 influence on anything, never did
  Literally the only thing I'm aware of her criticism changing is making Emily playable in Dishonored 2.
- "sexism in video games exists and is bad"
  NOO!!!!
  I'd never heard of this person before or Gamergate, but sounds about right for gamers.
- Her critiques weren't even anything over the top. It was very general lib feminism like "the fridged woman trope isn't nice" and "maybe not all female characters should be sex-objects with boob armor?"
- Was she a journalist? I thought she was just a critic?
she treated their favorite form of art (bideo games) as art, which is what they'd been whining for for years. if it's art, you can critique it as art.
they didn't like it.
https://hexbear.net/post/1817387

In any other context this would be schizophrenic ramblings.

They are still focusing mental energy on Gamergate a decade later?

Never bothered with any of it, now, back to Persona 4.

All hail the Dark Mother

If you dont like modern video games, make your own lol

Except chuds believe people are naturally talented and cant be bothered to learn what it takes to make games. Its a dog chasing its tail situation. Most people who go through the process of learning a skill generally tend to humble out, go more left in my experience

They sometimes do make their own games and then people who aren't freaks review them sometimes and they mald about that too and try to threaten, harass, and censor them.
- The games always suck tho

I haven't been able to enjoy a single game since I saw her videos, and now I'm a fucking woman 🤬

Feminists will trans your gender and free you from the shackles of being a g*mer

It was world of warcraft that ruined videogames. After that the videogame companies realized that subscription services and gambling like game desing was way more profitable. Dlc, online only play for single player, simplified game desing etc all come from that.

After that maybe it was age of empires 3 that had the biggest negative impact on videogames. Becasue it sucked and was mucho worse than its predecesdor wich was dated at the time. Insted of realizing that the suits tougth that if even the aoe franchise dosent sell then rts is a dead genere. And so they started making less rts.

After that the videogame companies realized that subscription services and gambling like game desing was way more profitable.
they always realized that. before they called it a "microtransaction" they called it "insert another quarter to continue." People forget that kids in the 80s and early 90s had to play video games in public, and that you would basically spend your entire allowance trying to beat one fighting game on medium difficulty with a joystick the size of a gear shift and 5 fat buttons that were the size of your palm.

i remember realizing one day how stupid i was for playing tekken 3 at the mall and that I had spent way more in quarters on tekken 3 over the course of a year or two than I would have if I had just bought the game for PS1
- There was a brief moment between the death of arcades and the birth of WoW where single player style story based games and local multiplayer were the primary product. And I think that colored a lot of expectations for what video games should/could be.
  Not to say other times were better or worse. Almost all the video games from the late 70s and early 80s would be considered shovelware now. They were largely cheaply made trash imitating other, more popular games. Many of them programmed, printed and shipped in a matter of weeks. The Arari 2600 even had a cartridge with an early modem that had what we'd call DRM today. You'd pay to download a game, you'd play it three times, and it would delete itself. And hilariously the company that made this thing went on to found America Online.
  I think we're at a good moment though with games honestly. Passionate indie creators are making things leaps and bounds ahead of major studios.
- I forgot about that, know that you mentioned it, it seems like the switch was more from phisical machines to software. And so they can rempve the intermediary who used to own the quarter machine or the net cafe.
its hard for AOE3 to be better when AOE2 was a GOAT game.
- If you know how to play multiplayer in the cracked definitive edition please tell me.
You can probably go back and blame Everquest, or Ultima Online, or even the 1991 Neverwinter Nights if you're gonna blame WoW. Even Habitat in 1987 had microtransactions after a fashion.

God I fucking wish.

Save me Anita Sarkeesian....

she still does disc burnings on her of no ppv

how will white boys ever come back from this one

They moved to PlayStation.
- But Playstation ain't got no games!!!
- Actually there's been a lot of gamer-screeching lately over Sony's focus turning west and also their "censorship" of hypersexual elements in weeb games.

Really great litmus test to see if someone you've just met is a terminally online chud is how dilated their eyes get and how red their face turns upon uttering the name "Anita Sarkessian".

I am soooo glad I stopped buying/selling retro games 2 years before this.

The 20th century had Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt, Che, Castro, Mao

The 21st century had Bush, Obama, Trump, Zoe Quinn, Anita Sharkesian

I'm completely out of the loop on this one. Someone care explaining it to me??

Gamergate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign) (cw extreme sexism, mental illness, depression)
Kind of a prequel to
the
made it about SJWs. I really didn't follow closely because I just saw it as CHUD spew and ignored the whole thing.
Innuendo studios has a good accounting of it here and here
- I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video
- Instead of talking about equal representation and change, most of everything she did was just calling things misogynist and sexist etc.(she was going video series, blogs, tweets etc
  And she was 3000% right. Everything she mentioned and criticized literally was misogynist and sexist and deserved to be called out.
  All of her work was baby’s first forays into feminist critiques and she went positively out of her way to say in EVERY SINGLE video that her criticisms didn’t mean that any of the media she was talking about couldn’t be enjoyed but merely reified harmful attitudes and tropes that reproduce themselves because of the inherent misogyny in our society and that critiquing those things is the only way to move towards more equal representation and overcome those problems.
  meant that many games started to either not come out in the west (Japanese ones in particular) or would stay away from controversial topics to not get the game cancelled. Which I think is why many people think she hurt the gaming industry and developers making what they want to instead make safe games.
  Precisely NONE of that shit happened and definitely not as a result of this one woman. Gamers made shit up and used her as a scapegoat for outrage politics. The industry, over the course of years, noticed a trend of a new emerging market of women and non cishet men gamers and began appealing to them little by little which gamers threw an absolute pissfit about bc, even tho this is a predictable outcome of the capitalist system they purport to love, they can’t stand the idea of inclusion in this space they dominated for purely ego based reasons. And it’s is important to note that tons of games have existed and still exist that are entirely revolve around appealing to men and the male gaze.
  Innuendo studios has a significantly more honest and accurate account of sarkeesian and gamers reactionary witch hunt here for anyone interested

oh is that where the million dollars went?