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What truly upsets me is idiots who jump on the identity politics bandwagon and expect a high five for their brave decision to profit from a franchise and fanbase they've publicly declared their contempt for. Beamdog is already playing with fire by having the nerve to call their repackaged mod...

There are more examples. It's a theme that runs through the entire expansion and includes a complete retcon of a character from the original game to be less sexist (Safana). The original games had elements of this sort of thing and it was totally fine and no one cared. An example that comes...

What Beamdog did with Dragonspear is moronic and counter-productive. They absolutely earned the backlash they're currently dealing with. Here's the exchange people are fighting about: NPC: "When I was born, my parents thought me a boy and raised me as such. In time, we all came to...

"Somehow". It's not hard. You're exactly wrong, to start with, about about the role intellectuals--and intelligentsia is probably the better word--play in relation to authority. By far the most elegant and scholarly apologia in defense of imperialism and almost anything else we'd rather the...

It shouldn't come as a surprise that gamers resent being bludgeoned by the first two years of some blogger's University education. You say it like it's a bad thing, but "anti-intellectual" and "anti-authoritarian" tend to be two sides of the same coin. And as reactionary as that comment...

I don't dispute that it was a bunch of personal crap not fit for print. The problem is that Kotaku specifically trades in gossipy bullshit and salacious rumor. It's pretty disingenuous to cry about privilege wrt to Quinn since she was the first person in history to benefit from Kotaku's...

GGers absolutely did not have the media hookup that a bunch of members of... the media! did, and that's precisely how you end up with Breitbart of all places carrying the torch for them. I mean it's just insane to suggest that GG get together and write thinkpieces and blogs and hope that...

I didn't say doxing is "okay", I said specifically: a) only one side had the luxury of playing above-board in terms of crafting a narrative, b) it's pointless and hypocritical to whine about a tactic that actually did reveal the identities of people playing identity politics, and c) it's a lot...

GG backlash was funneled into the arms of rablerousers like Breitbart precisely as a result of the gaming press circling the wagons and adopting a policy of not engaging GG on any level. I mean that's literally how it happened. Again, you can cry about this or that being "over the line" but...

You can't reasonably expect your personal information to remain personal when you're making the precise argument that identity, lifestyle, authenticity and experience are the key variables that entitle someone to the kind of petty moralizing in which key GG figures routinely engage in (privilege...

You can't really cry foul about doxing if it keeps turning up new and relevant information. The fact of the primary figures in GG universally turning out to be the same rich snobs who transformed SF into a gentrified fortress for white tech nobility is absolutely relevant to any talk of...