This has been something that's been on my mind for a loooong while, ever since the whole Gamergate thing broke. Sure, I didn't like Yahtzee's critiques on video games, and I thought a lot of his fans were unbelievably obnoxious, but let's face it... He's not a gaming journalist. He's not THAT bad, compared to a lot of people who actually consider themselves game journalists... up to and including his former colleague, Jim Sterling.
Yep! Jim Sterling has left The Escapist, and to to be perfectly honest with you, it's pretty obvious to anyone who knows anything about him that he was in the wrong, here. Not that his fanboys are listening to reason, but I'd say at the rate Gamergate is going... well, the indie scene isn't the industry's golden boy anymore. I imagine Sterling will continue to exist, but he's going to become less and less relevant as the material he wants to cover becomes less and less popular.
Again, you can't make a living promoting games your friends make if your friends don't make games in the first place.
Jim Sterling will loss relevancy in time: It's not something we can force. All we can do is wait, and keep pushing Gamergate forward.
Again, I think Shirtstorm proved one, incontrovertible fact about this kind of social justice... they are only allowed to get away with their shit because PEOPLE WANT TO GIVE THEM A CHANCE. When they are blatantly in the wrong, and the masses become aware of it... well, things don't look good for them. I mean, just look at Yahtzee... his newest Let's Drown Out video is filled with people bitching about Gamergate because he pretty much said he hated social justice extremists.
These people can not stand negative publicity. It goes against their core beliefs, and it compromises the way a lot of them make friends and money. I mean, think about it... a lot of these people against Gamergate live in the same city, talk to each other regularly, go to parties together, work together... It's actually kind of sad, in a way. Look at Phil Fish... he actually looked like he was having fun at that party Double Fine threw.
What I'm getting at, in a nutshell, that I think we have bigger enemies to fight than some guy who has objectively wrong opinions about game design on the internet. We have social outcasts abusing the system to push their ridiculous ideology and shame anyone who doesn't agree with their narrow worldview.
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