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@gwensnyder I wish I wasn't so close to this piece of history. It was and continues to be horrifying. I recall seeing and dismissing some screed about ethics in game journalism right around the same time I wandered into /r/KotakuinAction for like half an hour, becoming increasingly horrified and disgusted. I quickly locked down my identity info online and was thankful I never posted much to begin with, because I'm a queer woman with opinions about games and other things. 5 comments
@argv_minus_one @rora_borealis @gwensnyder Basically they thought women were trading sex for success in the video game industry, an industry they felt possessive of, and from that moment on the social contract was null and void.  @kandoh @rora_borealis @gwensnyder Well, that's just ridiculous. Trading sex for success in the video game industry is impossible. Bad games don't magically become good just because the developer banged one reviewer. Such a scheme would instantly fall apart as soon as actual players started actually playing and talking about the game. @kandoh @argv_minus_one @gwensnyder That's a pretty succinct description. They didn't care that their initial assumptions were entirely baseless and used the same excuse long after it was fully debunked. It was painful and scary, and it's not really over, just spread out among the culture war bullshit. |
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@gwensnyder The fact that it continues to have an impact surprises me not at all.