Here's the thing.
I can understand the complaints that aGG have when it comes to us not standing up for Kotaku. I can understand that the AAA gaming industry has a lot of pressure they can exert on gaming journalists. I can understand that there are times that a journalist will have to choose between being true to themselves and paying off their mortgage.
But one thing the people defending Kotaku can't ignore is the fact that they took part in the "Gamers Are Dead" articles. When they were confronted with the corruption and wrongdoing they were involved in, they chose to throw the very subject they were committed to write about under the bus.
Had those journalists chosen to stand up for the very thing they made their careers writing about, gaming journalism might be worth defending. But when I see sponsored content and political agendas handing out 9/10 ratings to games that don't deserve five minutes of a paying customer's time, that's when I become convinced that gaming journalism is dead. And the sad part about this is that Gaming Journalism nor the AAA gaming industry is the cause of this malignancy. The truth is, this is only a symptom of it.
Journalism in itself is corrupt. I had high hopes that GamerGate would take journalism itself to task. That's why "the liberal media" went out of its way to smear us while "the conservative media" ignored us. They were afraid that our revolt against corrupt journalism would evolve into a grass roots movement that would demand ethical journalism. But notice today that nobody gives a shit about us. Notice that the latest media happening we have is Zoe Quinn making money off a book deal and not the fact that the media is trying to paint us as a terrorist organization worse than ISIS. Notice that the SJWs are powering ahead with their agenda with little concern for us.
We are in the midst of a Cultural Revolution. We sit with our thumbs up our collective asses while the very people that corrupted Occupy Wall Street, the Atheists, and Comics are spreading their ideas while we argue among ourselves over which is the better board. People have quit GamerGate because of this and we ignore them because we're convinced that we're winning. Make no mistake that if we don't step up our game, WE WILL LOSE. We will see AAA game developers like Ubisoft paint people like Karl Marx as heroes while we bitterly cling to games like Fallout New Vegas as if they were the high water mark of good gaming. I have family that survived shit like the Cultural Revolution. I have family who sacrificed safe living conditions so they wouldn't have conditions so they wouldn't have to raise children under those conditions and I will be FUCKING DAMNED if I have to raise children under those conditions.
We need to fight god damn it. We need the unity that made us a force to be reckoned with. We need to stand up and say that we will not stand for this shit. We need to create our own medium that stands for our own principles. We need to make it known that is our money that makes these game developers profitable and not political ideas that are "safe". We are gamers. We will carry this industry into the future. And most inporantly, we will make sure that gaming is enjoyed for future generations to come.