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0 pointshightrix2y ago0 comments

Wow! I thought you were joking but the first name is the dude at the center of what started “gamergate” and everything that followed it.

Thanks for pointing that out.

This site is just another in a long list of game journalism sites that is worthless.

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pr0zac2y ago

How are there still people that believe this? I seriously thought the claims about Grayson were so widely discredited that even the people still saying gamergate is about "ethics in journalism" stopped making them because it was so embarrassing. Like its obviously not true, go look at the Kotaku website, he never wrote any reviews about Quinn's games, it takes like 30 seconds to check.

DonHopkins2y ago

No, they didn't stop, actually. Even here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38154072

ajmurmann2y ago

I thought a deranged online mob started Gamergate.

zo12y ago

I recall a lot of it was driven by Kotaku, as well as the whole gang of cancel-culture twitter journalists.

It may be wrong, or right, but that is the narrative in my head around this. So it's probably the same in a lot of other disgruntled peoples' minds.

ajmurmann2y ago

Kotaku had the wrong author write a review of a niche video game that nobody cared about. Gamergate was started by people who thought something totally unimportant like that was reason to send death threads to people.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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pr0zac2y ago

DonHopkins2y ago

No, they didn't stop, actually. Even here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38154072

ajmurmann2y ago

I thought a deranged online mob started Gamergate.

zo12y ago

I recall a lot of it was driven by Kotaku, as well as the whole gang of cancel-culture twitter journalists.

It may be wrong, or right, but that is the narrative in my head around this. So it's probably the same in a lot of other disgruntled peoples' minds.

ajmurmann2y ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse