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[ComeAgain]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alyssa-mercante-has-an-important-message-to-the-industry.894765/page-2?post=124150344#post-124150344

"You know what I want? I want people in the industry to be a little bit louder about people being mean to other people. And maybe say it's not a good thing. Maybe say we don't want you around if you're gonna be a c*nt. And hateful. And that, the game's industry is diverse naturally, not because anyone's making them be diverse. Because the world is diverse. You stupid motherfucker. And if you have a problem with that, come fight me, physically. Bitch."

"Did anyone taken you up on that yet?"

"No, cause they're all pussies."

Beautifully put. Most specifically, Steam needs to do something

It's amazing how Steam has done such good for gaming as a unified store front. But then allowed hate groups to grow. At this point the only 2 options are that Valve leadership and Gabe are either alright with the hate, or agree with it.

Gabe is a known libertarian so I'm sure they're ok with it because "everyone's opinion is valid" or some stupid shit

And the chuds will complain how she's advocating for violence and she's the problem. Damn babies.

Not just in gaming, but all fandoms. I'm fucking over these charlatan cultists that have invaded the spaces! They're not real fans of anything, only cosplaying to spread their garbage rhetoric!

Exactly.

"I can't believe women and gays are into my precious D&D and Warhammer! It's been ours forever, it belongs to us!" says white man who has been watching Japanese animation for 20 years and listening to rap music since he was born.

Fuck yeah. Bigots don't deserve to have a safe space where their disgusting views are tolerated.

Fuck bigots. Their viewpoints are entirely misaligned with reality and their outrage and discomfort with reality is entirely their own moronic undoing. They are forcing themselves to be unhappy by being intentionally cowardly and stupid, and nobody has time to suffer that bullshit.

Deplatforming hateful people makes the places that do the deplatforming better. Alyssa is right, and the game-industry focal point of the current GamerGate 2.0 bullshit that has led to her harassment and the harassment of countless others has been Valve and Steam, where bigots are allowed to run free on both the store and the "Community" features.

Gabe & Valve are the same as Zuckerberg & Facebook, Elon Musk & Twitter, and also Jack Dorsey & Twitter before that.

Also, amazing point about diversity. Diversity isn't being forced on you, bitches, people who aren't white, straight, protestant men have always existed, and it's just that your smooth brains can't even handle a peek of someone slightly different from yourselves.

Honestly, I think it's more likely they just don't want to be stuck having to do a ton of extra moderation work.

Then they should delete the Steam Forums from the whole platform and rethink their whole slate of "Community" features.

Occam's Razor: Valve lets racist games like Tyrone Vs. Cops and Alex Jones' videogame onto their platform. They let racists run rampant on the store and the forums and on the reviews and on the Curator system. This has been going on for years. They are a multibillion dollar corporation with resources to do more than the nothing that's happening right now. Ergo, Valve and Gabe are explicitly okay with the racist shitshow that is Steam.

Yes. The disingenuous fragile whiny pathetic bigoted censorious anti-games harassing pissbaby moron fucks and grifters need to constantly be made to feel like they're not welcome and no one wants them around, because they aren't and we don't. Everyone's sick of their obnoxious toxic bullshit and wants them to shut the fuck up and go away. It's way past time that everyone got loud about it.

What a badass! Most people in the industry need to kick these losers to the curb.

Fuck yeah! Always nice to see someone lay the smackdown.

Reminds of the speech that Frosk gave on G4. I'm still so heartbroken that she was chased out of the industry and ultimately the entire internet over it.

Talking about oppression is never out of nowhere if you're living with it every second of every day. Literally every facet of your life relates to it. That you think it's out of nowhere speaks to a certain way you might be rolling through your own life.

What... what are these people even talking about?

"Nothing's being forced" they say as they scream that people need to be pushed out of the industry, that "censorious" "babies" need to shut up, as the original rant is complete gibberish and ends with a demand that critics come to fight her in person, as everyone talks about how all gaming spaces need to become inhospitable to anyone not in the ingroup, as they seem to suggest there should be some kind of effort to attack Steam and other platforms, etc.

"Nobody's coming for you snowflakes, and when they do that will be a good thing. Get over it."

And what "oppression" is she or any of these people facing?

So, since she put out the invitation, if a guy offered to fight her and knocked her the fuck out, nobody would have a problem with it, right?