We couldn't even draw the line at hundreds of people harassing women and POC for the egregious crime of being women and POC in the video game industry.
This.
This. Also if anyone here knows when a game getting announced is from these asshole, kindly post in threads to remind me to avoid the game, thanks.
EA saying that if you don't like women characters in Battlefield V, don't play our game, has had a more negative affect on gamers than THQ Nordic being on a child porn site. It is literally worse for publishers to be associated with doing stuff for women then being associated with kiddie porn. That's how bad we are at, and people are kidding themselves that it won't push devs further to the alt right.
This is true of literally anything, though. Everything you do has side effects. "You can't do x or you might hurt innocent y who had nothing to do with it" applies to every decision you ever make. Even something as simple as choosing not to buy a game because it's too expensive "hurts innocent people" who had nothing to do with setting the price.
But that's the whole point. If there were no consequences, then there would be no leverage.
I never, ever, thought I'd say this but: there is a certain base level of toxicity you just roll with when you are enthusiast. You have to read a loooot of mysoginistic, homophobic and transphobic stuff, much anti-Soros stuff...it's par for the course in spanish outlets and most international magazines (thank god for era, where even my idiotic anti-nintendo rants got me banned, for keeping civility among that chaos). But this is just a whole different level, and it's simply too much for me. Fuck THQN, fuck 8chan, and fuck the sick bastards that apologize them.
Perfect.
So all we gotta do is bombard these guys on twitter and social media until it trickles through or they start talking to each other? That seems doable.
This element of the topic just feels like a part of modern internet and insanely low attention span. Over saturation of news articles and insane shit happening and disgusting things and amazing things, all in a feed all rolling by. Whether its a facebook wall, or reddit frontpage or this forum, theres just so much shit going on all the time. You get numb to do it. I'm sure theres a proper name for this thing, some sociopsychological term.
So the game industry is the new NRA. I mean Sandy Hook did fuck all except spread a bunch of conspiracy theories. this won't do much better.
