https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1624205184141520897?s=46&t=3ip7DIadB1dJ1KupEQoNzQ

  • CetaceanPosadist
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    1 year ago

    i still dont know what gamergate actually is and with any luck i never will

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      In the 70s, the CIA broke into a hotel and Nixon tried to cover it up since it was linked back to him. He formed a secret internal group called "The Plumbers," led by brothers Mario and Luigi Lombardo. "The Plumbers" would later go on to inspire Nintendo's Mario series, thus, birthing "Gamergate"

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Some woman cheated on her psycho boyfriend and he claimed there was a vast conspiracy because her freeware game that was really more of a short-form interactive fiction about depression got a mention in Kotaku or some shit.

      :gamer-gulag: types took this, specifically, to mean that video games journalism was unethical, not the preceding decades of magazines and then websites with advertisements for games right next to the review that tells you to buy this game, it's so great, 10/10 trust me i'm a journalist