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Failed? Sorry, did you slept through 2024 where a dozen AAA games bombed and thousands of devs and journos lost their jobs?

I can see the argument of prioritizing progressiveness being that same prioritization of profits, not sure I entirely agree, but I can see it for sure. The only thing these companies believe in is making profit, and by any means that will lead them there.

We need a blocklist for all of the anti-woke mob so sensible people know who to click do not recommend on their list.

Let's not forget the face of a lot of this, Dominic Littlewood who, seemed to get pleasure out of making working class people look stupid. He hid behind his working class roots in order to validate the shows he fronted.

"When did games become so soft?!? 😭" Meanwhile there's a video I saw the other day whining about "Why is violence always the default?!? 😭"

The "Vibes" Argument is the sibling of the Sovereign Citizens Movement.

We should start prefacing any mention of Steve Bannon with “failed WoW Gold miner”. Because THAT is where he found his mark in angry online gamers, also to make a point against people who want to INSIST that “it was all in the past, stop bringing it up why haven’t your talking points go a past 2014” (They say, clinging to memories of ‘simpler times’ when in reality they just were younger and want their innocence (read: ignorance) back)

The "failed" more than 30k devs lost their job because people didn't buy their games

Lol, Skillup is just a smarter version of Andy. He will never give a game labeled as woke a good rating

I'm not sure a counter culture is really going to be what stops grifters considering that was in large part what fueled it in the first place. Personally I think part of it is having to dumb down critiques of grifting down to a point where people can actually understand it. MIghtyKeef's skits in particular seem valuable on this front as they often turn their complaints into an absurd and therefore funny racist caricature to mock.

These right-wingers think they're brining legitimate arguments to the discussions they're inserting themselves into. It's frustrating.

Failed resurrection? Are you high on copium buddy? Az was vindicated and the forced ideological obsessions of American progressives in gaming has been a failure. Starfield failed. Concord was a disaster. The new Arkham game was a hilarious catastrophe. Dragon Age Veilguard lost millions. Assassins Creed is getting delayed again and again as the studio is terrified of releasing it. Meanwhile, games that don't shove "modern audience" down our throats are doing perfectly fine. This new Gamergate actually worked. I have no idea what you are smoking but it stops you from engaging with reality.

It's never over, ayah. -Little Jacob Grand Theft Auto IV

i think it's wrong to say that the zoe quinn accusations were false, when kotaku themselves admitted it. The problem is that wikipedia has followed a media driven fact system, which in most cases works fine but not in zoe's case, as despite her NUMEROUS terrible actions, they're are brushed aside afterwards or not written at all since wikipedia require some "legitemate" media source. If you're wondering just look up alec holowka and his suicide. needless to say i don't like her much at all, and i don't think people should cover for her to "protect" their ideology, just because someone shares some of your ideals doesn't mean you have to protect her, as if an attack against them is an attack against yourself. She's a bad person through and through does that mean i think gay people or trans or whatever the fuck is bad? no, i hope people reading this don't just read the first half and just assume i do, because i truly don't care if there are trans people, pronouns or whatever the fuck. good game good, bad game bad, irrelevant of sex. i just think people have been woefully misinformed of gamergate and believe that they have to side with zoe (or against her), to prove they're left/right wing

Im so glad I left that "movement" All it was, was right wing MAGA bullshit trying to get people to vote Trump and act like they're the victims

Anyone that cries about "muh leftist infighting" is someone I can safely disregard. That rhetoric is exactly what enables left authoritarianism.

Gb news is annoyed

Hi. I'm a Lefty that supported the first GamerGate, and you're full of crap about what it was about. The first gamergate showed a massive web of e-mailing lists that connected all the journalists in gaming at the time. It was also about calling out bad actors, like Anita Sarkeesian who basically took the money pledged to her for more Feminist Frequency and then ran. As for Zoe Quinn, the one who got GamerGate kicked off, it was found the dude who was writing about her only wrote about her once before they started dating. She also accused the designer of Night in the Woods, Alec Holowka, of abuse, both physical and mental. He ended up offing himself because the accusations ruined his life. It was never proven he did anything. I think the think that peeves me off the most about this entire video, is you're JUST like those idiotic reactionaries. You present half-truths to boost what you want the situation to look like, excuse anything the side you like does because the other side CLEARLY deserves it because they're evil. Lastly, about Indiana Jones. As much as you're huffing your own farts about colonialism and whatnot, a lot of museums don't have the security/protection that places like the western museums have. See Mosul Cultural Museum, which was torn to shreds by ISIS. Arguably, it's safer in the West than in it's homelands, pal.

One more time. I've seen music game franchises that I used to love either ramp up the difficultly past the moon or incorporate ridiculous mechanics that made the whole game nearly unplayable. I was there for the complete lifespan of Guitar Hero and watched it degenerate from a colorful, fun-filled romp to a screwy "immersive" experience which emphasized all the wrong things and killed all hope for the series dead. In the early 90's Nintendo made a decision which was so jaw-droppingly reactionary, it all but ruined the SNES and convinced me to buy the Neo Geo (basically the SNES with about 50% more quality and 500% more cost) and Neo Geo CD (basically the SNES with about 50% more quality and 1/50 the speed). I watched Assassin's Creed go from a fairly challenging but completely playable and continually innovative franchise to the abomination that was Unity, and then the complete waste of money that was Origins because apparently every game in the universe had to be a ripoff of Dark Souls now. I used to buy things like Gamesharks and Codebreakers as insurance against excessive difficulty or pain. Ended with the PS3, XBox 360, and Wii. I used to be able to hold a light gun right next to the screen. The later games made me stand so far back a narrow side of a barn was now a challenge. In the past, if a game went out that was too easy or had an exploit, tough, that was the game. Now anything can get a gigantic difficulty spike at any time. Nobody ever asked me if I was okay with any of this. Nobody ever patted me on the back and told me that everything would be all right. Nobody ever offered to make amends or concessions. *It was video games. Nobody got pity for having a bad experience with video games.* Where do these goobers get off thinking they're entitled to _anything?_ Companies make what they think is going to sell. If you hate it and it still sells, _you're wrong, SUCK IT UP._ Or maybe you're right, but _it doesn't matter_ because in the business world making money is the only thing that determines success. None of this should be new to anyone.

"Explain it to hardcore gamers like you would a child" this video basically and i love it. Anyone who unironically uses the word "woke" as a descriptive negative is not someone to waste your time with...outside of making a video like this once in a while.

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I like to call the new version Goonergate since a large amount of it is "this game is woke because the female character's aren't sexy enough for me!"

In fairness I've never watched his content so maybe he's undergone some character growth, but I'm 99% sure Actman was on the anti-sjw train last time around

For me, the thing that annoyed me the most is that EVERYTHING is sooooo obvious Like, the first thing you're greeted when you boot up F76 is an ad for the ingame store... I know that's part of the bait, but godamn! Who falls for this thing, jeez!

Glad I grew out of this annoying childish mindset years ago. Whining about DEI, instead of actual issues in the industry is so childish

Did Gamergate 2.0 fail thought? Trump got elected again.

I find it deeply funny how many people in this sphere love FO:NV, a game which is enormously loved by a lot of left-wing gamers and spends a lot of time criticising right-wing and reactionary ideology. Of course you can play as the villains, it's a CRPG, I can't think of many CRPG's that exist that DON'T let you do morally reprehensible things because villains are nearly always a point of attraction, but do they miss the entire rest of the game that levies a lot of good critique towards the ideology they cling to?

Photos and video of Bannon needs a content warning, hahaha. The man is a nightmare inside and out.

It’s literally 5 buttons to enter he/him why does it matter for this human thumb? 0:00

That’s it’s! I can’t watch another second of this video >:( Don’t want to get Great Circle Spoiled

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't gamer gate originally about game journalists and video game news media being basically a marketing tool for publishers and devs, instead of an objective tool to help people decide on their purchase and people got fed up with it, and then a bunch of rumors got thrown around about a journalist girl and everything escelated because of antisocial nerds and trolls and it turned into a hate campaign. Idk how, if its even connected to Trump, I guess in a sense it is, with young impressionable people being drawn to extreme politocal opinions on both sides, but I don't fully agree with the interpretation at the start of the video.

Anyone who calls anything woke makes their opinion completely invalid imo

Failed huh. A ton of “progressive” + diverse game devs, journalistz, etc etc are getting fired and studios shutting down slowly but surely... Primarily because most gamers or consumers are non-delusional and have been fed up with so much pandering, as well as other liberal ideals. Keep telling yourself everything is going well or whatever BS lies.

hi mate this is unrelated but I remember a little while back you mentioned in a video that you might do some more commentary on the problem with giftaid at some point? Ive been asked to sign for giftaid twice today and I very awkwardly declined but I still don't know why 😂 PLEASE DIVE INTO THIS 🙏 ALSO congrats on this video doing so well and I like your new setup! X

I've never noticed how much the pronouns guy looks like baron Harkonnen.

Andypasts copyright striking Act Man was the biggest mistake of his life

Ganergate is when you use cringesoy to fight cringe

There is no goddamn way that AndyPantsGaming is a real person. It has to be a parody.

"Failed" Sure fella. The only people that tried to resurrect it were journalist grifters who use it as a catch-all boogeyman.

You are implying that GamerGate ended, rather than getting elected twice. I would disagree.

If you don't want to have pronouns, then you also can't use the pronouns "I" and "me." And nobody else can call you "you." You have to be referred to in the third person by your name all the time. Have fun with that.

There's outrage and selective outrage about representation regarding the lgbtq+ community, people of color, differen't ethnicities and women when there shouldn't be any outrage about that at all. How those characters are written should be the only issue. Just like how that's the only issue with straight characters and men to the same people who have an issue with certain kinds of representation or a selective issue with it. And even when they only have an issue with how a straight man is written certain people would see showing emotion or having respect for women as an issue.

I've been thinking about this a lot. I feel like my feed is inundated with "anti-woke" content and it's exhausting. I mainly make gameplay content, but I was recently motivated to make a video pushing back on the negativity shown to upcoming games like Witcher 4 and Intergalactic the Heretic Prophet, which to me looked really interesting. But of course after the announcement of these games there was a slew of content decrying them as "woke." Now, critical analysis is not my strong suit and the video I ended up making is clumsy and not as well polished as other videos of that nature. And as a very small creator, hardly anyone actually saw it. But I've been thinking of doing more like it, just a bit of push back to the overwhelming sea of negativity that the TH-cam algorithm loves to promote. I'm glad that others are wanting to do this as well. Sorry for the long-ass comment.

the most biased retelling of gamergate ive ever heard. making it out like anita wasnt actively provoking people.

I think at the end of the day the worst part about that kind of content isnt all the damage it cause, plenty of way worse people make way worst damage.... its just that its boring, I mean, a gamer that hates women and DEI??? wow I am thoroughly impressed on how little research you made about this and how most of your arguments fall apart if you think about them for more than 30 seconds! like, enterntainment comes from subjugading expactations, just saying what everyone expect from you isnt entertaining

I think the reason Gamergate 2 feels like such a nothing burger is because it just feels like more of the same. We've had ten years of reactionary rhetoric polluting various forms of discourse since the first Gamergate, and as a result, more people have caught on to what tactics are at play here, and less people are being convinced by it. The ones still believing the rhetoric are those who were radicalized by it years ago.

One of the key reasons for the rise in reactionary gaming content is the algorithm. Right wing grifting is simply EXTREMELY profitable with the way the enshittification algorithms work. The "starfield pronoun guy" was just cringe, yes Starfield is not a good game and is an example of half finished shovelware masquerading as AAA games, but there are MANY legitimate things to criticize it for without going into pronouns.

By the way, if you are compelled to watch dudes like that, Andy pants Gaming that you talked about on this video, be sure to sign out of your TH-cam account, use a VPN if possible, and use adblock if possible as well. This will allow you to get the contents without benefiting them in anyway, and also without it affecting your feed algorithm.

A supposed “alpha” male crying about a lack of attractive women in VGs is the height of cringe.