General Chaos

I appreciate the responses. I've been following the movement for a while. not sure if anything can really change my mind about it at this point. It just bothered me that everybody was so quick to throw the group under the bus when these same people may feel the same way about it that you do. what's nice about this topic is that it is in no way connected to the political aspect of Gamergate. It's EA killing games; regardless of political affiliations or social mores why dismiss potential allies? it's the equivalent of cutting off the nose to spite your face. I didn't come here to add unnecessary tension to this topic, i just wanted to throw in my two cents. and thank you all for remaining civil. it's refreshing in this day and age for people to act cordial to one another.

I don't Understand why members here who WANT videogames to be given respect and not be killed off would be so scared of gamergate involvement. it's not some boogeyman, it's gamers who want the industry to not be meddled with by any political or shady business practices. completely invalidating what their side has to say by calling them "pseudo intellectuals" and "neckbeards" is not really looking at all into the cause. trying to obfuscate this board from gamergate is silly imo. as with any hashtag movement you will always have stupid people who do stupid things, but on the whole there are really compelling and well reasoned arguments for what gamergate does. I don't actively engage in this, but i do follow these events from the outside looking in and seeing these posts making gamergate out to be some horrible boogeyman really bothered me. i just wish people made more of a concerted effort to find out the truth for themselves rather than being told by kotaku, polygon, etc what to believe. and i sincerely hope Ross's campaign gets steam and can actually influence EA. seeing the work of programmers thrown away is truly sad.