When Gamergate was happening, my biggest concern with games was "all the people with the best stats are the ones who can afford better PCs and premium subscriptions and other ingame store items". Not having a predictable income to amply support myself made me start to radicalize through my online gaming experience. I think it was on a gaming forum that I was linked to Capitalism and other Kids' Stuff.

I think this is why gamergate was happening. All microtransaction and capitalist exploitation stuff has just become solidified as "a part of video games" now. It wouldn't surprise me if the gamergate stuff was designed to push people into avoiding developing "class consciousness" for video games.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Sort of reminds me of how all these anti trans bigots are so worried about "fairness in sports" when sports are extremely unfair to begin with. even if you were to stipulate to every claim being made about trans women "cheating", it would still not be a drop in the bucket compared to the different access to stability and wealth provides, especially at elite levels.

A family I know if going through this really hard with their kids right now because they want to play sports with the other kids. But they're not just kicking a ball around, the friends all get coaching, go on trips and play sports with a lot of equipment and other expenses. The kids are so sad and left out because there is no way the parents can even begin to scrounge up the money to have them participate. Not just the money but also the social connections, resources and knowledge that the parents who are immigrants from a different context can't have.

None of these "fairness" advocates care one iota about these children as long as nobody is apparently trans.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

The GG gamers seemed to all have the AAA games though, and computers that could run them. Their "side of the story" as I encountered it was of nerds who had suffered from being ostracized as individuals and as a community, claiming that they were being ignored and denied the identity that was their refuge. Which uh, was eventually understood to refer to women's perspectives being adopted by the industry as well as casual gaming being more normalized.

yikes