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My Thoughts on Gamer Gate: 10 Years Later.
It’s kind of heard to believe that Gamer Gate started around 10 years ago. To be honest, I don’t think it ever ended. I mean sure, the ramifications of it are so large, it has more reach and relevance to mainstream politics outside of vidya or journalism. At the time that I am making this blog, a lot of gaming studios are dead to me. I don’t give a shit about whatever Ubisoft, Sony, Microsoft, EA, or even some Japanese developers are releasing anymore because they have all drank the kool-aid thinking that falling for EGS investments and appealing to “twitter” cultural norms would be profitable. The things we laughed about being in games 10 years ago are now the norm in most if not all games. Censorship, bad writing, references to modern politics, ugly characters, ugly designs, shitty micro transactions, drm, horrible optimizations, horrible trailers, trying to cash in on Marvel/nerdy humor and the list goes on and on and on. Although these days, it’s sort of annoying to hear people hate watch and review these garbage standard forms of media, it is absolutely justified at least acknowledge that modern video games are absolutely in the gutter. Sure there are indie games, rom, hacks, and we still (for now) have access to old roms and titles that are playable and probably more enjoyable all these years later but those days of getting “hyped” over a new game or console are long over.
I was a totally different kind of guy back when I started blogging back in 2020 and I am even more alien to some extent back in 2014 when the whole gamer gate thing took off. I was already an outcast, even compared to what your typical gamer was back then. It was sort of the twilight years of the dude bro era and there were a couple of noteworthy titles but nothing I was particularly interested in. To me, gaming was already in decline at that point. It has been in declined since the 7th gen. I won’t go into the details but it felt to me like the quality of games was in the decline starting around 2008. But back in 2014, I wasn’t exactly optimistic since I was already out of college at that point, miserable, fat, jobless, extremely depressed, and incredibly lonely. All I had at that point, was gaming, hentai porn, anime, and still learning GNU/Linux to keep me going. I didn’t really believe in anything at that point. I lost my trust in Obama, the Democrats, and just politics right at that point in my life.
So when gamer gate took off it almost gave me a purpose in life again. Something to fight for and something to distance myself from online bad actors. As you can imagine, I ended up siding with 4chan and the like since that was my home turf. I never had social media apart from my old YouTube channel and well, that’s when I started following...well I wouldn’t say outcasts within the gaming spear of influence but at least those who appealed to me. I went from someone who was vaguely left leaning to having more Libertarian (or Lobertarian as I call it). I don’t look fondly being described like that back then knowing how much most of those people had gifted since then. I won’t lie though, it was fun trolling people on YouTube while it lasted. And then when 2016 kicked off, I was full blown right-wing. Something I haven’t been since my middle school days when I had my Nazi worship phase. I was kind of unironically hoping that a right wing president like Trump would save gaming, media, and honestly make my life a whole lot easier being a uni drop out and such where we would be like an American super power again. I was delusional since nothing like that ever came close to happening. Trump ended up being a moderate republican, he never drain the swamp, the economy was stable but it was never as good as it was before 2008 depression (which we still have never recovered from) and the censorship went right up the wazoo when big tech got terrified that he won so platforms like YouTube went on a rampage taking down thousands of channels that were even remotely right wing including those like myself for making a video of Trump dancing to some Future Funk. Oh and the games kept worse and worse. Then 2020 happened, mix in a shady election that would make third world national elections blush, the kung flu, and civil unrest and now things are honestly at the bottom of the pit.
All this time, I was hoping for some kind of civil war, or just something to nuke society and well...that never happened. Because I had learned the hard lesson that despite all that we do online, every post I made in my old YouTube account dunking on dumb teenagers and college kids my age was that it was all pointless when the strings are a being pulled into whatever direction the elites and corporations want. Nothing ever happens and even when something does happen, it is either completley forgotten or amounts to nothing. People were too stupid, especially gamers, so they kept supporting gaming companies like Blizzard and Sony, eating their garbage up despite complaining about the controversial changes they were making. Hey, don't look at me, the last game that disappointed me was Battlefield 3 and I never supported Dice or EA after that and I was right. Triple A video games being censored and having dumb shit in them isn’t outrageous anymore. It’s expected. Even Japanese games aren’t safe anymore. I suppose the only shining light in all this is that a lot of these games are being released to abysmal sales and ridicule and rightfully so. Even with the whole woke left leaning shit pushed in these games, at the very core, they are what I have described as being barely functional software. It’s like the AVGN said: “What’s the most important aspect of a video game...well it’s being able to fucking play it.” and what do you get when you’re game suffers from all those issues above and on top of that, it’s a game as a service bullshit that plays like a free2play shooter from 2007 but with a $90 entry free for the “BASIC” game with no extra dlc bullshit or whatever that won't be playable in a few months. I mean how much of a bottom feeder do you have to be to fall for these gaming scams?
So whenever these games flop, it’s morally acceptable to dance on the corpse and laugh. I mean, I was never going to be interested in these new games succeed and neither are most gamers at this point. I won’t shed a tear if some studio starts laying off even more developers because their expensive ass too big to fail game didn’t deliver on the promises the investors wanted. I don’t see a point in getting angry over these sort of games or IPs anymore. Like I can’t see how anyone could justify spending the full price on something so shitty when it’s out just for clicks and views when they could just wait a couple of years for the game to lose relevancy and value, pick up used or pirate it and then laugh at how we believed it couldn’t get any worse than it is now. Honestly, I don’t think this whole gamergate thing will ever end. Games will keep getting shittier, censored, approved by the government and elites to push social normalization of woke garbage and if a studio goes bankrupt because of it, said government and investors will just print more money to push more garbage software out. Especially with AI being used to “remaster” and shit out new games, you don’t even need willing devs anymore. But we must not forget that we are all here because some slutty bitch with blue hair was giving blowjobs for journalist so she can get good reviews for her shitty indie game.
One thing has remained the same since 2014. As much as I am very critcal of the republicans as of late (especially those of the neo-con variety, bootstrap, Israel loving, immigrantion promoting right wing grifters like Mike Rowe, Jordan Peterson, lobertarian retards, and so on), I do not share one bit of compassion or love for the left leaning, cultural marxists, rich and privalaged, college educated, activists. They are fucking morons, idiots, the kind of people who would go on Reddit to cry about how everything is wrong with America when they are the problem themselves when they support corrupt globalists, elites, and greedy corporations that pretend to be on the side of "LE RESISTANCE". It's so pathetic and laughable. I seriously hope these people are forgotten to history.
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