Oof. That last panel. Disturbing and chilling. One more humorous interpretation I have of that is that reddit is killing 8chan, but I digress.

All in all, I'm not really sure what to even say at this point. This comic encompasses how a lot of GGers feel. What has happened to a lot of GGers and so on. I think the 2016 election has done a great deal towards finding out where people's true intentions lie, and it has especially contributed towards people being entrenched and refusing to take on other people's ideologies. Its mainly the left right now, but I'm sure something similar will happen with the right in time (hopefully it won't, but you never know).

The biggest enemy Gamergate has established though, is the establishment. Regardless of ideology, and just like Gamergate, corruption and evil can exist regardless of ideology. There's plenty of republicans as slimy as democrats when it comes to politics, but that's more of an Amerocentric view of things.

I don't consider myself a centrist, I have some... pretty strong views on things, but I believe in freedom of speech and the ideals of what America was founded on. Not intending on turning this post into a patriotic "murica" post but that's just my perspective considering this is where I was born and raised, and its the country where most corrupt games journalists (and now mainstream and (to a lesser extent, alternative media journalists) reside. Its incredibly sad what's happened to this country, and really all across the world. Mister Metokur did a video a while ago about 2016 politics, calling it the "fight club edition" because people battled it out with baseball bats and flagpoles rather than words and discourse.



In my opinion, things are only going to get worse before they get better. I don't consider this a pessimistic or cynical view either, but some severe changes need to happen, everywhere. People need to get the bandages ripped off their skin; they need to purge the infections that plague our society. I just wish more people cared, but I'm glad *enough* did to make an impact. Gamergate accomplished more than anyone realized, and DID change the course of history, no matter what any shill or aGGro or corrupt journalist will spout otherwise.



I have yet to watch Jordan Peterson's videos; I've seen like one by Joe Rogan, but he seems like a very insightful man. He's not disrespectful towards any side, be it the religious, or the transgender community (2 radically different communities with practically opposite viewpoints) or really anyone. Yet HE is censored by the monopolies and corporations of the world. He literally did no one wrong and he's mocked and derided, airhorned out of his own seminars. The only consolation I have is that he gets a stronger and stronger following each time. I'm glad that the Streisand effect still rings true. Anyways, unto what he said in your quote. The big ticket.

"The price that you pay for wisdom is radical disillusionment and the confrontation with evil. And no one wants that."

God, this is so unbelievably true. What I've learned has changed me forever, and unfortunately in ways that honestly depress and alienate me. Not just wisdom of course, that naturally grows with experience with the world, but knowledge of what goes on in the world. Gamergate inspired a digger inside me to find the truth, and now I almost wish I never knew what I discovered. There's some fucked up things, some fucked up people out there, and it grows more saddening to see how people cannot grow to condemn even base acts as horrid as engaging in pedophilic acts because people on their own side or faction are guilty of it. That's ironically one thing true since the start of Gamergate.



Anyways I can wax on ad infinitum about this comic and my own personal viewpoints but I'm just a drop in the sea. I end with a simple thank you for creating this. Good job, and its truly heartening to see artists and *people* still support Gamergate even after the long ride. Its hard to believe its only been 3 years. Its felt like double or even triple that by now. My only worry is that, during this "historical revisionism" period of the world right now, that Gamergate's history, and what's happened since does not get destroyed along with all of these statues and works of art that are currently experiencing this treatment.