[–]SushiNoSaamon [score verborgen] 56 minutes ago I somewhat disagree with that. In my opinion, I feel that some of them are certainly reading what we are saying. They just choose to willfully ignore it. There is a sort of mental twist with us, you see? We are making real, positive change such as: Charities & Fundraisers Ethics reform in existing games journalism/blogs FTC improvements New games journalism being created Fanart for days (Yes, I view created culture as something important weve done) And most importantly, building a community of people who have zero tolerance for the BS we have been dealing with for years and are finally fighting back effectively. The problem is that the opposing sides (and it is sides with an s, plural - we are not up against one, unified group in any fashion) is that they seem to have a very black and white, authoritarian view of things. Look at the concept of No platform - controversial ideas should not even have the opportunity to be heard. That is abhorrent, authoritarian, and downright frightening to the health of a free society. It may not factor into their heads that perhaps we are not cartoon supervillains who hate women. (Sometimes we have a similar problem with painting all of our opposition with the same brush, mind you.) We are the bad guys, we must never be able to speak or be heard, we can never be right. No redeeming qualities, period. Similarly, there may be people very well aware of this fact but they can not come out and say it outight. Look at what happened to Claire. She just took the time to engage and talk with us and that was enough for her to be ostracized by people who are utterly disingenuous at best and insane at worst. We are never going to win the PR war and we should not try. We just do not have the resources to do it. The biggest journalist we have on our side is probably Milo, and while he can garner a considerable audience we can not get someone to do a BBC or ABC or MSNBC piece on us. Even if we did, the time and effort spent doing that could otherwise be better spent making actual changes. Would you prefer that we are thought of better, or would you prefer that the FTC cracks down on Gawker and other shenanigans because we finally hit the tipping point?
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:51:26 +0000
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