“turns out i’ve got nothing so i’ll just suggest her game sucks instead”

GDC was in march, the alleged affair was march/april, and grayson wrote about the game in january.  the thing he wrote in march was about game jam, which only mentions depression quest insofar as it’s zoe quinn’s claim to fame.

so unless i’m missing something in the whopping two gaming news outlets he has worked for this year: you are completely wrong, try again

oh i see you already tried again

Even if the start of this was a little shaky (I’m fairly sure it wasn’t) it’s evolved into something much bigger. We’re not concerned with Quinn’s antics anymore, we haven’t been for a while. We’re mostly dealing with nepotism and corruption.

rofl “we’re not concerned with quinn’s antics any more” and then you open with quinn’s antics, jesus christ.

so, you’re “fairly sure”

you have a whole big clusterfuck of people here running around leveling accusations carefully designed to threaten whole careers

and you are “fairly sure”

it also turns out you are “completely fucking wrong”, just like almost everything i’ve been told is the root of this circus.  just like every idiot who’s approached me on twitter to tell me i’m wrong, then mumbled “ummm do your research” when pressed for concrete detail

nepotism?  corruption?  like the accusation that zoe quinn doxed TFYC, which never happened?  like the positive reviews for depression quest in exchange for sex, which don’t exist?  like the condemning of leigh alexander for the crime of owning a side business?  like the disparaging of jenn frank for writing an article supporting someone she knows?

that is an exact exhaustive list of the examples of “corruption” i have been given, and wow, hey, what an incredible coincidence: those people are all women.

giving you the benefit of the doubt that you’re not just a raging woman-hating misogynist, i’m sorry to have to tell you: you have been had by some raging woman-hating misogynists.  they have framed their crap in terms of Our Tribe Is Under Siege Oh No and you have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.

it’s basically the same tactic the republican party uses to keep racism alive: just use the word “welfare” instead, along with the traditional stereotypes of laziness and inferiority and worthlessness.  people will practically turn it into us-vs-them for you.  it’s like magic!  if you’re lucky, they’ll even spice it up with some moral panic!

this isn’t about the generalization of gamers, or corruption in journalism, or whatever slimy excuse 4chan is puking out now.  it’s about a bunch of maladjusted teenagers who have absolutely nothing going for them except that they know how to move a crosshair with a joystick, and they are fucking terrified that no one’s impressed by that any more.  even girls can do it now!  what happened!  CORRUPTION

don’t get me wrong, there’s totally corruption in the game industry.  but most of it lies with the publishers.  strange, isn’t it, that this flash mob is going after the journalists instead of the people who have all the actual power and control?  why do you think that is?

i have a guess: because doing a goddamn thing about the real sleaze in gaming would require not playing a popular game.  and for a group of people whose very identity revolves around suckling the teat of big publishers, that is literally unthinkable.

tl;dr you and all of gamergate are completely full of shit