Did they actually create anything that they said they would with the money they begged for?
They're responsible for a decade of shitty Western female character designs, for sure.
Not for internal/HR. DEI positions are getting cut all over corporate America right now (there's big layoffs in general), especially in tech because they don't contribute to the bottom line.
The money is still strong in marketing departments though, because they've proven it does.
Bye Anita, thanks for playing.
I'm surprised it was still going. It was a decent idea, I even enjoyed it at first, I found the deconstruction of some of the more tired tropes interesting. But they quickly lost me by starting to misrepresent some games, and trying to portray them as misogynistic. E.g. I still remember when they were trying to spin Hitman Absolution as female murder simulator by deliberately going after some strippers (basically random NPCs) at a bar.
In her honor
Man I hate thisHer legacy:
Colossal failure more like. There was a suicide recently because of one of these botched diversity sessions. A man renowned for his work with minorities was wrongly labelled a white supremacist and bullied by his colleagues because he dared to question the validity of the speaker's facts. These things are modern struggle sessions. All data points towards them creating more resentment in the workplace rather than cohesion.This I can believe. Those positions was mostly for changing company culture to be more amiable to those ends, hoping for an increase in productivity. It has been mostly a failure.
Was it good ol Bishtits? Sent back from the future to tell users he doesn't agree with to piss up a rope and grift his Dino comic? LOL Good times.I remember replying to a thread on here when the other mods was here with one of her videos, it was the first time I saw her and I asked the simple question.
"Is she serious?"
Got a temp ban for 4 weeks I think
I think it goes far beyond character designs. She began palling around with druckmann after he finished tlou part 1 and i legit believe that she had an impact on the direction neil took tlou part 2 in. Honestly, i saw the bizarre Elena 180s that saw her turned into a jealous angry housewife from an action junkie in the first three games, and immediately realized that there was something wrong there.They're responsible for a decade of shitty Western female character designs, for sure.
Nah I think he wasn't around then or I didn't see much of him.Was it good ol Bishtits? Sent back from the future to tell users he doesn't agree with to piss up a rope and grift his Dino comic? LOL Good times.
I Googled the suicide and did not find anything. The thing I find weird is that none of this is done by the "minority" groups in question, but instead the majority. It just a cover for bullies to act morally superior. We have to start teaching alot of these progressives how to stand up for themselves and be willing to call these bullies out for the hypocrites they are, as many of them do not hold the values they castigate others on.Colossal failure more like. There was a suicide recently because of one of these botched diversity sessions. A man renowned for his work with minorities was wrongly labelled a white supremacist and bullied by his colleagues because he dared to question the validity of the speaker's facts. These things are modern struggle sessions. All data points towards them creating more resentment in the workplace rather than cohesion.
Google "Richard Bilkszto"I Googled the suicide and did not find anything. The thing I find weird is that none of this is done by the "minority" groups in question, but instead the majority. It just a cover for bullies to act morally superior. We have to start teaching alot of these progressives how to stand up for themselves and be willing to call these bullies out for the hypocrites they are, as many of them do not hold the values they castigate others on.
You're not getting any pussy around here buddy, you can drop the actProbably , not probably but a very unpopular opinion here, she's had a positive impact on the industry. Her whole impact on the industry, specifically after gamergate helped stop the fan base from going to an extremely toxic place that it was going towards and opened up gaming to a broader base by including new perspectives and voices. It's become less of a "boys club" since then which I do appreciate.
Her views were surprisingly small on her channel given her media push.
Her legacy:
I think it goes far beyond character designs. She began palling around with druckmann after he finished tlou part 1 and i legit believe that she had an impact on the direction neil took tlou part 2 in. Honestly, i saw the bizarre Elena 180s that saw her turned into a jealous angry housewife from an action junkie in the first three games, and immediately realized that there was something wrong there.
She was also out there giving lectures to BioWare. You know the studio that used to write fantastic strong female characters before feminist frequency was even a thing and then completely lost its way over the last decade or so.
As far as I’m concerned, she ruined two of the best fucking studios in the industry with her nonsense.
Google "Richard Bilkszto"
I blame the studios themselves for all that. They fell hook line and sinker for the BS snake oil of a disingenuous grifter.
The games industry has seen far more diversity in female characters of all stripes than almost every other entertainment media. Quite why this new younger generation of devs suddenly started listening to Anita's revisionist history on female representation in gaming, is baffling. But it highlights their own willful ignorance of their own medium.
Probably , not probably but a very unpopular opinion here, she's had a positive impact on the industry. Her whole impact on the industry, specifically after gamergate helped stop the fan base from going to an extremely toxic place that it was going towards and opened up gaming to a broader base by including new perspectives and voices. It's become less of a "boys club" since then which I do appreciate.
I honestly blame the people that send Anita death threats. She was a nobody before she got signaled boosted by the rejects of the internet, with gamer gate being a huge push for her and many others.
This the most neutral thing I could find, which is a statement from his lawyer. I can agree with you the bullying from the mob causes his death.
Considering how much of a successful grifter Anita and co were, at this point I don't believe their claims of having received significant genuine death threats. I think she lied and victimized herself to boost her celebrity.
Sad but people need to learn the weaponization of words is meaningless in this day and age. If a black man can be a white supremasist, it has absolutely no meaning.Colossal failure more like. There was a suicide recently because of one of these botched diversity sessions. A man renowned for his work with minorities was wrongly labelled a white supremacist and bullied by his colleagues because he dared to question the validity of the speaker's facts. These things are modern struggle sessions. All data points towards them creating more resentment in the workplace rather than cohesion.
Sad but people need to learn the weaponization of words is meaningless in this day and age. If a black man can be a white supremasist, it has absolutely no meaning.
I remember replying to a thread on here when the other mods was here with one of her videos, it was the first time I saw her and I asked the simple question.
"Is she serious?"
Got a temp ban for 4 weeks I think
Anita and her cronies absolutely helped create Gamergate and much of the toxicity online.
Had they not been out here disingenuously misrepresenting games to push a false narrative, as well as falsely accusing all games and any female sexualization at all as "problematic" (meanwhile the feminist thots that follow them continue to get their tits out on Twitch streams for cash), then none of that shit would have occurred.
I am only replying to the bolded part of this message.Are there toxic elements in gaming? Sure. But there always have been and always will be. Games are effectively toys, so it stands to reason many immature people of all stripes will be attracted to the medium. But Gamergate was mostly the result of a vocal minority of privileged white liberal feminists getting rich off claiming victimhood due to a horde of online hate they received largely because they spent every waking hour fuelling it with rage-bait and shouting down any and all genuine critics of their work as sexist misogynists.
Sad but people need to learn the weaponization of words is meaningless in this day and age. If a black man can be a white supremasist, it has absolutely no meaning.
This is still the Anita video that made the most sense.
You can get death threats online for posting the wrong opinion on a forum, and a harassment campaign if your personal information is in the offending profile. It such a common response. Plenty of devs got death threats for far menial things because quite a few gamers are unhinged.
The bold here stood out to me. Two parts.
1. As you mentioned in the second part of thus post (I sectioned it off for a completely different discussion point), the gaming culture has always had some toxicity. There is sexual harassment at gaming conventions, people refusing to shower during smash tourneys, the online gaming culture in the mid 2000s which was inudated with Racial epithets and sexual harassment, leaks about foul behavior from companies,
etc. Anita did not cultivate that, nor did any feminist. Implying such remove the agency from the people that did such things, infantilizing them to a level of incompetence where they could only react, not give level headed responses.
The reality here is people used the anonymity of the net to attack people consequence free, and gamer gate was really just Twitter mob culture before it became a thing.
This is somewhat changing because gaming also became significantly more profitable (as you noted with the rise of social gaming) and corporations started aggressively culling negative behavior to protect their branding from bad PR. Games became much more attached to a company pr as social media took more of a front, and the news was more than happy to decimate a company image.
2. Sex workers are not inherently feminists. Some are though.
Games are not just "games" anymore. A better term is interactive media for how much investment has gone into the medium, being the most profitable, and rapidly most expensive entertainment medijm, and the wide variety of media that it encompasses. The level that people attach their identity to these products demand more of a serious label then just games. It help put into context why we have so many strong reactions to products that company releases, and the criticism of these products. I use games as just a colliqualism for discussion, but I do not really see them that. Sorry for any discrepancies.
None of that is under any contention. There are nutters online.... and?!?
Does that mean that every claim of someone having received death threats is real? Of course not.
And when the person in question is as scummy as Anita is, yeah... I just don't trust a word that comes out of her mouth. You might, and if you do, good for you.
Barely any of this has changed significantly. These bad actors have stopped going to tournaments and conventions, but they still exist and now just spew vitriol online.
That said, you're trying to equivocate gaming as an entertainment medium with the tiny minority of nerds and gaming media personalities that attend US-based conventions, trade shows, and gaming tournaments... LOL
The majority of gamers are nothing like these folks. What you're describing is a particular American nerd culture bubble that has very little in common with the wider global gaming audience.
The folks sexually harassing people at trade shows aren't rational people. They are infants if they think that kind of behavior is OK. And no, people harassing folks at trade shows are not the vocal online mobs who are very much easily inflamed by the rage-bait Anita and her cronies consistently put out.
I'm glad you admit this, as it just proves my point. The insensate, seeming mindless Twitter mobs are exactly the right analogy, as they predictably fall for exactly the same rage-bait political grifters use today, as Anita and her feminist cronies used ten years ago.
It's okay. She's not extreme enough for her flock anymore.She's only in remission, she will crop back up down the line.