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The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Silverseren@fedia.io to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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While some of their language has changed, the sentiment of this latest aggressive movement is just as distressing. It’s time for the games industry to stand up to it

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

[false claims that] journalists gave the recent PS5 game Stellar Blade (pictured below) bad reviews because its female characters are too hot

That seems an inadequate way of summing up the Stellar Blade controversy which on the whole was considerably more ridiculous than that.

[–] xep@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it's a small but loud group of unpleasant people on the internet, can't we just do what we've always done and ignore them?

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Those of us who aren't being harassed and sent death threats by them can, sure. But that's kind of the problem.