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KotakuInAction is the main hub for GamerGate on Reddit and welcomes discussion of community, industry and media issues in gaming and broader nerd culture including science fiction and comics.


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Welcome!

KotakuInAction is the main hub for GamerGate on Reddit and welcomes discussion of community, industry, and media issues in gaming and broader nerd culture, including sci-fi/fantasy, comics, and animation.


Happenings Timeline


What is GamerGate?

Summary of early events in GamerGate

Occupy WWW Street — Internet Activism and Media in the Age of Social Justice

Blame GamerGate’s Bad Rep on Smears and Shoddy Journalism

DeepFreeze (Cataloging ethical failures in gaming media)

GamerGate Wiki

GamerGate in 60 Seconds (VIDEO)

If It's Not About Ethics... (VIDEO)

The effects on developers

No, GamerGate is not right wing

Crash Override Network Leaks: A digest

Vivian Pictures n' Artists

Epic Game Store Wall of Shame


Our Mission

KotakuInAction is a platform for open discussion of the issues where gaming, nerd culture, the Internet, and media collide.

We believe that the current standards of ethics in the media have alienated the artists, developers, and creators who perpetuate the things we love, enjoy, and enthusiastically build communities around. We have observed numerous incidents involving conflicts of interest and agenda-pushing within media which we feel are damaging to the credibility of the medium and harm the community at large. We believe much of the current media is complicit in the proliferation of an ideology that squashes individuality, divides along political lines, and is stifling to the freedom of creativity that is the foundation of human expression.

KotakuInAction is a community that condemns willful censorship, exclusion, harassment, and abuse. It is a community that organizes to hold the media accountable to the concept of artistic freedom by standing up for the artist, the developer, the writer, the filmmaker, and all who enjoy the freedom to create, explore, and expand. It is a community that allows the exchange of information, supports the ongoing discussion of media ethics, and protects the right of the individual to embrace their personal interests in entertainment and fandom.

KotakuInAction is built around a core focus on reasonable, friendly discussion of the issues related to gaming culture, and those involved in it. That is not all we are about, but it's where we began and will remain our core. We hold ourselves to be politically neutral ground, not forcing anyone to conform in their opinions, and permitting a wide variety of viewpoints to express themselves in a civil manner.


Posting guidelines

Whitelist

Permanent Items
Gaming
Journalism Ethics
Censorship
Official Social Justice
Media Meta
Nerd Culture
OC Artwork
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Blacklist

Permanent Items
Unrelated Politics
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Forum Noise
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RULES

1 Don't be a Dickwolf.
2 Don't post personal information
3 Posting guidelines
4 Post Intelligibility
5 We are not your personal army
6 Archive as much as you can
7 Don't post misleading content
8 Do not repost
9 This is not a Metareddit sub

If you have any questions or concerns, please message the moderators before private messaging an individual moderator.

You can find our rules and much more in our Wiki.


Use tags for spoilers

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See Also  
/r/DeepFreeze /r/ResetEraInAction/
/r/Gamers /r/KiAChatroom
/r/MozillaInAction /r/NeoGaming
/r/ShitGhaziSays r/HorusGalaxy
/r/TorInAction /r/WerthamInAction
Lifeboat /r/StopBeingEvil
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Links to comment sections in the above are allowed, except when marked with *.

Regarding the use of archives, see the Wiki for our complete Blacklist / Recommendations of relevant sites. (In progress)


IRC: irc.rizon.net #KotakuInAction


Moderation Log

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3

Could Jesus Survive the Evil Dead Turns into a 40 Minute Conversation Covering Everything from Woke Culture to Race to Christianity

So this conversation started it a stream where we were discussing the reaction people had to a particularly controversial video where I discuss if Jesus could Survive the Deadites from Evil Dead which snowballed into a 40 minute conversation about Religion, Race, Culture, different communities and everything else under the Sun.

Enjoy.

2 Comments
2024/12/02
03:40 UTC

166

Audio & Music Dev at Wrong Organ (dev studio for Mouthwashing) contradicts studio's statement against harassment of artists making racy art. Goes protected.

41 Comments
2024/12/02
03:19 UTC

106

New Manga Labeled Racist by MangaPlus Commenters.

Actual aliens seem to be conflated with immigration. From what I can see.

57 Comments
2024/12/02
01:05 UTC

93

What other industries are this toxic to their own customers?

I was thinking.... (as the title reads) What other industries are this toxic and openly spiteful of their own customers?

I can't think of any other case of an entire industry reviling its customers to the extent that the game industry has.

I think the woke cult that has infested popular media knows that it (and its strange ideology) has been soundly rejected, and they plan to go down with the ship, Jim Jones "Kool-aid" style.

What say you?

89 Comments
2024/12/02
00:35 UTC

140

Do you think it was pure self-assured pride that pushed Matt Hansen to say the things he said? or is he just genuinely that stupid?

Given the general shakeups within video games it feels almost like sabotage to say what he said. Is he so caught up in a bubble that he didn't realize the backlash that was coming? It completely boggles my mind how anyone can either be that naive or that unstable as to ruin not only his career, but the reputation and, most likely sales figures judging by the steam discussion page, of a game that's been in development for at least 4-6 years. I just can't wrap my head around it.

63 Comments
2024/12/01
23:00 UTC

180

Why do so many people try to paint the stuff this sub fights for as 'ridiculous', 'stupid', or 'pathetic'?

I dunno, I don't find a group of people looking at the dead, rotting, maggot infested corpse of Concord or the slightly less decaying corpse of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and saying 'yeah, let's please not let that happen again'.

Personally, I just don't want poorly written preachy politics in games. Politics in games can be really good when done WELL (see Metal Gear Solid and Fallout: New Vegas) but...

'do ten pushups cause you got a pronoun wrong' what the fuck is this

We just want better writing, better journalism, and DEI consultation companies gone. Because DEI isn't something that needs to be forced in, because a well written story WILL ACQUIRE IT NATURALLY.

My theory is that their seeing the actual losers who are being dicks and immediately assume the entire group is just like that.

I dunno, what are your thoughts?

66 Comments
2024/12/01
21:12 UTC

1,042

Dragon Age: The Veilguard fosters a friendly welcoming community — insensitive laughing bigots need not apply.

118 Comments
2024/12/01
12:15 UTC

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Rule 4 update and Monthly General Discussion Thread December 2024

What changed?

Rule 4 has been updated and has three changes:

the first change is to clarify the language around translating non English articles and that if the translation is a machine translation for it to be marked as such. This will ensure that the full article (and so the entire context) is translated and that if the user has relied on a machine translation it is clear and the context and evidence of what the article says is preserved.

The second update is that "Posts of video title screenshots do not pass and a link to the video must be provided as well as a summary of the videos longer than 5 minutes" and third update is "Screenshots of only the title of the article will not pass and a link to either an archive of the article, screenshot of the entire article, or a link to the article must be provided."

Why the change?

Recently we have seen an increase in posts of this sort (screenshots of titles). Kotakuinaction is an information and evidence based discussion sub. Screenshots of titles of articles and videos doesn't meet the standard of information gathering and evidence. Headlines and video titles have always run on the side of clickbait/outrage bait and the context of the headline with the information of the article or video should be the focus of the discussion or at least available for users to review. If you are unsure of how to archive we have a post stickied on the sub with the guide of how to archive an article.

Can I give feedback on the change?

Yes. Please do but please make it in this thread. Especially if the language isn't clear. I do understand some people will be annoyed that its a little harder to archive an article than simply taking a screenshot of the headline but we do want to make sure that we have the relevant information in the post and that to be the discussion had with the full context of the article or video rather than just what is potentially an outrage bait/clickbait headline.


Also as always if you have anything that is not directly related to KiA but just want to chat about it, post it here.

Rule 3 does not apply as this will be just comments, though the other subreddit rules and sitewide rules obviously will still apply.

10 Comments
2024/12/01
09:50 UTC

112

Mainstream Media now attacking Star Wars

36 Comments
2024/12/01
04:34 UTC

791

Behaviour Interactive (devs of Dead by Daylight) made their employees undergo DEI training which included the ''Wheel of Privilege''

221 Comments
2024/12/01
00:09 UTC

1,319

Avowed's art direction vs Skyrim's modders

149 Comments
2024/11/30
22:37 UTC

39

Ayakalounge rules misunderstanding due to old staff (retired)

Dear everyone,

I checked this ToaKraka (Another BS-free alternative to Nexusmods)

I wrote: my comment

These old rules were written by a different staff (retired) before I took it, and these rules haven't been updated since last year, The old staff has been kicked out of my forum due to drama and they don't like modding community for implemented in future as my suggested. That's why I took it and changed the domain to kick out all of the old staff. So these rules have been removed and updated to 4.2

Mods are always welcome, and you are free to do what you want.

If there is anything you'd like to give an opinion or suggestion, feel free to ask me anything!

4 Comments
2024/11/30
20:03 UTC

471

What happened to muh preferred pronouns? Dragon Age The Veilguard after Taash death

After Taash death, her preferred pronouns "They/Them" no longer matter to Isabela.

From 35:31 To 37:09

https://youtu.be/FTt2_p9Mqzw?t=2131

70 Comments
2024/11/30
17:40 UTC

26

The Problem With Warhammer 40K

84 Comments
2024/11/30
15:24 UTC

92

TheGamer article writer goes on unhinged tirade on Elon Musk

https://www.thegamer.com/elon-musk-wants-to-start-an-ai-game-studio-dont-worry-about-it/

something about AI game studios but I didn’t catch any of it because the bulk of the article is calling Elon Musk names. I just laugh that these losers let Musk live rent free in their heads. Also, this is the same “journalist” who wrote that Dragon Age Veilguard article earlier about her being the “friend that’s too woke” lol

24 Comments
2024/11/30
01:41 UTC

171

WTF is happening in Uncanny X-Men

For those of you that don't know, Gail simone started writing Uncanny X-Men this summer and since then all have been bizarre plots about motherhood. All the female characters talk about if they want to have children or not, how many they have, how is to be a mother. The villain is someone from Xavier's past (how original, Gail), that had a psychological pregnancy and smells Rogue's p***y (I wish I was exaggerating here) to see if she's pregnant.

What the fuck, Gail? What's wrong with you? Why Tom Brevoort is allowing this?

https://preview.redd.it/c7g5ecr4y04e1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=f35d2929b369f88bc3db97f0f2e7c594d4d3c6de

90 Comments
2024/11/30
11:29 UTC

145

Kirsche and the Pushback Against DEI (plus how companies will try to hide how they really keep it)

32 Comments
2024/11/30
05:53 UTC

673

Gaming was better when Japan was the dominant force in gaming

I yearn for the days when Japan was the dominant force in gaming ever since the American gaming industry became the dominant force they have only made gaming a pile of crap they used to make good games but they’re damaging the gaming industry more every day

177 Comments
2024/11/29
23:51 UTC

77

Do you guys know any game devs who’ve been fired and/or blacklisted from the gaming industry for supporting GamerGate?

I’ld just like to know.

26 Comments
2024/11/29
20:30 UTC

25

GOG GIVEAWAY: Oaken available for ~66 hours

Genre: Strategy - Turn-based - Roguelike

"The world of Oaken is a mythical place, existing in a not easily defined space and time. It is stretched among the branches of the Great Oak. Its inhabitants are spirits that listen to the same voice, called the Oak Song.

The loss of that voice starts a series of events leading to a struggle that may either heal or destroy the Great Oak."

Features: - Roguelike, hero-oriented campaign with deck management.
- A mystical world inhabited by spirits with celtic and tribal vibes.
- A randomly generated world map with tons of levels, bosses and events to be discovered.
- Unique, highly tactical battles on a hexagonal grid, where position and rotation is everything.
- Upgrade your spells and spirits the way you want.
- Easy to learn, hard to master - chill and challenge modes suitable for any player.

Overall rating 3.9/5 - "EA Review - Potentially Great", "Nice Puzzler - Early Days", 'Oaken is nice mix of roguelike, deck builder and turn based tabletop with mini figures on hexagon board. I love it.'

There is a demo and a 'supporter pack' DLC available.

https://www.gog.com/#giveaway

2 Comments
2024/11/29
19:43 UTC

51

I miss the Conservative Moral Activist at least I could RESPECT THEM Woke activist have zero MORALS

54 Comments
2024/11/29
19:37 UTC

122

Brigading on Veilguard steam scores?

Veilguard has steadily been dropping in its user scores, until the last 2 days in which there was a sudden reversal and uptick at a faster rate than it was falling. This indicates there was an influx of ratings, but the player counts did not spike at all. Could be a Thanksgiving effect but actually smells of EA trying to force Veilguard to stay above 70% (above Mixed) to me. What do you guys think?

37 Comments
2024/11/29
16:00 UTC

66

Marijam Did & Josh Sawyer - Obsidian Entertainment Design Director Shares his Opinion about "Woke"

68 Comments
2024/11/29
14:03 UTC

706

VISA's Regulation of Adult Content in Japan Discovered to Have Been Conducted by Americans in VISA Japan

https://x.com/kilica/status/1862109514897703326

アダルト拒否は「ブランドを守るため」

質疑応答の時間には、昨今、(日本国内において合法な)アダルトコンテンツの販売を行なうサイトではVisaが決済に利用できなくなっているケースについて、その理由が問われた。

キトニー氏は、Visaには合法で正当なものには可能な限り使えるようにするという方針がある一方で、「時には、ブランドを守るために、使えなくすることが必要になる」とコメント。実情として、グローバルの方針とローカルな方針の両方が絡む複雑な判断になっているとした上で、「誠実さや完全性を維持することも重要で、今後も続けていく」と、一連の決定が一時的なものではないことを示している。

Adult content rejection is “to protect the brand”.

During the Q&A session, Mr. Kitney was asked about the recent situation where Visa is no longer accepted for payment at sites that sell adult content (which is legal in Japan).

Mr. Kitney commented that while Visa has a policy of allowing the use of Visa for legal and legitimate items as much as possible, “sometimes it is necessary to disallow it to protect the brand. The reality is that this is a complex decision involving both global and local policies, and it is also important to maintain integrity and integrity, and we will continue to do so,” he said, indicating that the series of decisions is not a temporary one.

https://megalodon.jp/2024-1129-2017-03/https://www.watch.impress.co.jp:443/docs/news/1642732.html

96 Comments
2024/11/29
11:17 UTC

118

Henry Cavill's Amazon series and its rumors

In about half a month, it will be officially confirmed whether the series has been officially aborted and its subsequent impact.

According to some rumors on the Internet:

1.GW once asked Amazon that the adaptation must conform to canon, which made Henry confident in it, but Henry was angry because of the retcon of female custode.

  1. Due to GW's "betrayal", Henry made new demands for complete control of the show, but it seemed to be rejected by Amazon and GW.

  2. The current stalemate will last until 12/18, after which Henry will completely leave the project.

  3. However, GW and Amazon will continue the cooperation plan without Henry's participation, and it is expected that Amazon will gain more dominance.

Below some sources from internet:

https://fandomwire.com/theres-only-1-month-left-for-henry-cavills-warhammer-40k-show-absolutely-no-one-from-amazon-has-denied-the-report/

https://spikeybits.com/warhammer-40k/henry-cavill-warhammer-movies-tv-amazon-guide/

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=henry+cavill+leave+40k&sp=EgIIAw%253D%253D#filters

34 Comments
2024/11/29
07:22 UTC

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