Beamer wrote on Oct 11, 2014, 19:21:
ything is to be "collectively ignored?"
What I have repeatedly said is that there's no way #GG is about "ethics."
Because you and your kind wont let it be about ethics. Its YOU that keeps trying to make it be about something else and then everyone is forced to refute your stupidity, and the conversation is derailed. Which is exactly what you want. You don't want to have a conversation about journalistic ethics in gaming. That conversation isn't something you care about, as you've proven time and time again. So you'll just throw shit at the wall in every thread just to see what sticks so that you can harp on your pet topic again, and again, and again. And game journalism sites enable you in this endeavor because it's in their best interest to misdirect the conversation as well.
Here, let me give you the simplest possible breakdown of whats going on.
Gamers: Hey, journalists, I'm worried about this secret insider mailing list crap, and cruising dangerously close to sex-for-coverage stuff. Don't you think it's affecting your integrity? Isn't this kind of stuff an abuse of the power you have to make or break indie developers?
Journalists: Uhhh... well... you see....
Some Random Troll: Hurr women suck stupid sluts! *doxxes some random female game developer/journalist*
Journalists: HEY LOOK OVER THERE ITS A MISOGYNIST!!!!!! *points to Gamers and then runs to hide behind a box*
Gamers: Wait that wasn't us, that was th....
SJWs: GET EM!!!! *pitchforks*
Gamers: Fucking god dammit.
Perhaps this will help you understand why people are so pissed that they are COMPLETELY UNABLE to even have a conversation on the topic they want. You just won't let it go. Every time some asshole on the Internet does something, you hold them up as the official representative of everyone who has concerns about games journalism. You're being used to further a smokescreen, and you don't even care because it gives you an opportunity to rant on one of your favorite topics.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?