Something I should finally get off my chest, in longform.

In late November, GamerGate was going full blast and my artist, Jennifer Dawe, had been deeply involved.



Up until that point I had been exclusively posting to the Dapper Swine account and had never once uttered the phrase GamerGate, nor had I used the hashtag even once (and may still never have as far as I recall). Out of the clear blue, a Twitter user called Untimely Gamer decided to call for a boycott of my game. Why? Because Jennifer is pro-GamerGate (which for the uninitiated, means she's against corruption in journalism; truly a horrid offense punishable by death!).



I had a good laugh at a recent tweet made by this individual where he was asking "what ever could you mean?" to TotalBiscuit pointing him out as a harasser. It was funny to me because this person called for an entire boycott of SeedScape. He screenshotted my laughter and said something to the effect of "Uh, this is a guy who works on SeedScape." I presume he meant "Look how rude/unprofessional this guy is." Fair enough, but let's talk about rude. And unprofessional, and let's throw some other adjectives in like inhumane and maybe even evil.



First off, I'm not just some guy who works on SeedScape. I own Dapper Swine, created the entire concept of SeedScape, do the entirety of its programming, and on top of that I'm 70% of the project from an economic/ownership perspective.



Untimely Gamer was so anxious to burn a house down that he didn't bother to check who was in it. Or even who owned it. Didn't even take a peek in the window.



The boycott was a flop, but the principle of the thing that someone would call people to arms in order to take food off of my table--I who have grown up poor my whole life--because of who I chose to employ for no reason but their artistic skills is reprehensible. I'd call it harassment but that would be letting it off easy. It's what might happen if a highly unintelligent person got hold of nuclear codes. They'll stare glassy-eyed and grinning as they hit the launch button with no care of where the bomb was keyed in to detonate, and without one iota of empathy or one single thought for who might be caught in the blast.



Untimely Gamer's inhumane actions forced me away from the side he affiliates with. He is largely responsible and has himself to thank for my support of GamerGate. I certainly wasn't going to run with open arms to the side that thinks like he does; who believe that burning the entire forest down is a viable strategy to find a wolf that isn't actually a wolf.



If that's unprofessional of me, then I can happily live with that. At least I don't go around wishing poverty on people because of who their friends are.

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