Edit: I was feeling self-righteous and wrote a lot of words again, oops.
That is one of my main problems with GG and the way people act in general discourse now-a-days. You see it in politics and a lot of other places now. It's that discussing things has broken down to the point where trying to find a middle ground, trying to compromise, is seen as a weakness and is almost as bad as admitting defeat.
In the Gawker instance, they already forced an apology out of the guy who wrote the bullying tweet and an apology from one of their media director guys, but that isn't good enough for some of these people. They want them forced from their job over saying something stupid.
I see it time and time again in the news, someone says or writes something stupid and a twitter mob forms and tries to ruin them.
It's these young twenty-somethings that think writing something on a piece of paper and snapping a pic of it with their iphone and posting it to a hashtag on twitter means fuck all in the real world. That's not activism, that's jerking off in front of a mirror.
What happened to that Kony thing? How many girls did they bring back? That cancel Colbert thing sure worked out well. GG is just the latest in a line of the same bullshit of wrangling up a posse and riding out against whatever offended you and trying to remove it rather than trying to counter it productively. They aren't trying to reform anything, they are just trying to burn it all down.
And for what? For all the millions of tweets and the dozens and dozens of articles about it, for the damage that was caused to people, mentally and monetarily, what was accomplished? They got a couple of glorified bloggers to have to disclose that they are writing about their friends shitty twine game that almost no one will ever play? Gee, what an amazing fucking victory.
While the AAA's continue on with business as usual fucking us over with day 1 DLC already on the disc, DRM, microtransactions out the ass, seasons passes, rushed, broken game launches that require extensive patching, games that score 7 to 10 almost regardless of quality (I bought a game in 2009 that was broken on release that required a patch to even launch and it was getting 9/10 all over the place, even on this site here, which finally compelled me to write my own review on it)
In regards to Jack Thompson, he was more of a threat than AS is. He was actively going out and trying to sue people over stuff. AS made a couple of youtube videos. Her channel had/has less than 200k subscribers, where as popular youtube gamers have millions. Who do you think has the larger influence? If all those young rage monsters would have just ignored her rather than obsess over her, nobody would know who she was outside of her small group of followers.
I was sympathetic to the GG people at first, but as I've followed it these past few months, I've grown further and further away from it because these people are too focused on the small fish, a few no names, small timers and individuals rather than the big money and big companies where the real problems are.
