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It’s hard to see how gamers in Australia can stand things like this. Between not getting M-rated video games for years, such as “Mortal Kombat” or “Grand Theft Auto” series, to the fact that when they finally DO get those games, they’re sometimes censored or just flat-out removed after the fact.

I don’t think I need to go over the controversy that a certain “culture critic” started in regards to some of these games. And, unlike a certain disbarred lawyer, the “critic” is taken seriously by academia and even the U.N., getting thousands of USD for speaking fees for things that she doesn’t know, understand or even try to understand. If it’s obvious by now, I can’t stand these moral crusaders who go “think of the babies!” constantly. Yeah, as if any laws that are drafted up under that pretext are never used against adults.

Sources:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130805/07040224066/as-russia-expands-its-think-children-laws-to-copyright-agency-charge-investigated-infringement.shtml

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060817/1659225.shtml

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060627/1459256.shtml

Nope, never used against adults, because all bad laws get looked at and repealed constantly. And if you believe that, I’ve got ocean-facing property in Montana to sell you. So, I took a look at an article by Ian Miles Cheong on HeatStreet.

As a disclaimer: I am against Heat Street’s decision to label Pepe the Frog as a symbol of anti-Semitism and the ADL’s choice to put Pepe the Frog as a symbol of hate. As I read it, I was immediately dismayed, not at the article itself, but at another article it was responding to. For those who don’t know, the “Forza” series on X-box is a long-running racing game series that takes place in various locations around the world. The latest”Forza”game happens to take place in Australia. Which is why this whole thing went to hell in a hand basket really fast.

It turns out that the online rag publication known as Vice was up to its typical Social Justice bullshite yet again. So instead of writing about “Forza Horizon 3″on its own merits. VICE Gaming writer James O’Connor spent most of the article complaining about the Australian government, both its former Prime Minister and some current politicians and their anti-immigration stance. I’ll give my views on that at the very end of the article.

Suffice to say, this seems to be the current state of games journalism these days. As journalists write about a product and then inject socio-political commentary where it isn’t needed. I would have thought that after Gawker went down that they would have gotten a clue, but guess not. If this was the end of the story, I’d end it here, but no, of course not. Why would this be the end of the story? If anyone’s paid attention the past couple of years, you know for a fact that this is just the tip of the Social Justice poopberg.

It seems that Ian Miles Cheong’s article on the whole mess caught the attention of various people in the gaming press community…So much so that they decided that they couldn’t handle it and lashed out at Ian for writing about it (as seen in the tweet chains down below).

If that was all, it wouldn’t be too big of a deal, but of course not. As IGN’s Entertainment editor Lucy O’Brien has to get involved as well:

And if you want a quick summary of everything, you can try Antisocial Justice’s take on this (Disclaimer: ASJ and I follow each other on Twitter and interact constantly):

This is the kind of things that drove people to #GamerGate in the first place. You would think that these people would learn to keep their damn politics out of game reviews and what-not. Game websites should be using their webspace to talk about gaming, gaming culture, censorship, how to improve things and less about Social Justice and outrage culture. And, yes, I know, Pot calling the Kettle black and whatever.

The only way to truly beat the invasion of these people is to go to other websites, deny them traffic and call them out on their bullcrap whenever we see it. And now I must talk about something that came up after I finished up this piece. We all know that the MSM is no friend of video games, what with ABC’s hit piece last year, along with the rest of the media giving a certain scam artist attention and never talking to gamers at all on their thoughts.

However, Ana Swanson´s “Why amazing video games could be causing a big problem for America” post is a whole new level of dumb (credit goes to Raging Golden Eagle on Youtube for linking this).

The article flat-out attacks video games by stating that video games are the reason, not the fact that good-paying jobs were shipped over-seas years ago thanks to trade deals like NAFTA, or the current college climate, why men aren’t going to college to get the expensive degrees to work certain jobs.

You know. It’s just so easy to blame all of the current problems on video games, anime, cartoons, D&D, furries (yes, they get blamed too), Rock and Roll and other easy targets. Then it is to go after the real issues, such as over-priced housing costs, rampant inflation, nearly 1/3rd of all Americans out of work, cheap foreign labor, a system of entitlements that encourage people not to get jobs because they’d be worse off than they are without government assistance and so much more.

Politicians and the media never go after the real issues, they just go after easy targets, because if they tried to fix a broken system, it could cost them their jobs and livelihoods. I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of politicians and journalists, whether they’re gaming or MSM, attacking games, gamers and gaming culture just because it’s an easy target.

Well, news flash journos! If you keep attacking gaming culture more #GamerGate movements will happen. As far as the Australian Socio-Political climate goes, I know almost nothing about Australian politics, society or their economy at all. However, every government has the right to stop immigration from anywhere in the world to anyone for any reason whatsoever. Unlike what some politicians and social justice activists think, immigration is a privilege, not a right.

And with that said, what´s your take on this matter? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below!

Credit:

Robin Ek – Editor

Chaz – Proofreader

Benjus Maximus – Proofreader

Lyle Yiannopoulos

Antisocial Justice

Sources:

Heatstreet

Vice

Ian Miles Cheong part 1

Ian Miles Cheong part 2

Lucy O’Brien part 1

Lucy O’Brien part 2

The Washington Post

***Disclaimer***

This is a personal opinion of the writer, and it doesn’t necessarily represent the other writers (nor The Gaming Ground´s) opinions.

***Disclosure***

I am not a fan of certain “culture critics”, the media or most politicians.



Phil Weigel

The Gaming Ground

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