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Before I get into this, let's talk about Crashpunk.

I like Crashpunk. I like him because I was kind of a dick to him in general (long time ago, I feel) and he made this respectable, grown up, possibly subconscious decision not to engage me or prod my hornets nest of a mind because (I assume) he just didn't want to be bothered with now mean I am. I wish I had that sensibility, not at his age but in general, because it's very easy for me to take someone else's willful ignorance personally. I like Crash because he's a reasonable, thoughtful, charming fella. He's unapologetic about being what I would consider a very nice person. And now, let us never speak of it again.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have me and Nepsotic, who regardless of our respective ideologies get so rooted into a topic we're ready to snap at every dumb little thing the other says in order to feel superior for the 12 hours or so it takes to get a reply. Now, I'm done after this post because I wasted a lot of time this week trying to convince Nepsotic not to fall into the trap of feeling needlessly divisive about crap that is irrelevant to the bigger picture of living a happy life, and I'm considering whether posting the 8 paragraph tirade I just assembled is useful or even warranted in this discussion based simply upon how Crash and Varrok make a very good point against nep just by insulting him for actually owning and liking a fedora, which is only an acceptable garment if you're a 32 year old woman (because I sexed one who owned a fedora.)

Let me just switch myself on.
Alright...poop check. Hamburger check. Regular exercise check. Flirtiness check. Lack of fedoras in a three mile radius check. History of hyperbolic anger check, ohh wow, working at 110% huh? Today is a good day.

Alright, let's proof this piece...
Nah. I'm not posting that. Let me try again:

Nepsotic, I want you to reframe this discussion: Let's say every statement I made about The Amazing Atheist was directed at you. Let's say you're this ignorant, lazy, unacademic character I'm railing against and my point in doing so is not to dissect why you like something, such as what that thing says, but trying to reason with you to take a less polarized approach to how you look at that thing. Once again, it's fine to like shit I don't like. I don't personally like the Amazing Atheist because I believe he represents the 'bad' way of forming and articulating an argument: Hauling himself on top of a soapbox that can disguise his backwards beliefs for the sake of a 'greater cause'. I think he's cowardly precisely because he uses his position as a 'speaker for atheists' to spout what is clearly his own personal bigotry and cultural bias.

'Ethics in gaming journalism'? Just remove the gaming journalism part. Are gamers, or the people who report on them unethical people simply because they all share an interest in Gaming? Of course not. So you can't presume to accuse 'gaming journalists' of being unethical or invest yourself so much in them when the real problem is your inability to just say 'that is fucking stupid and has literally nothing to do with me'. Once again, being critical is fine. Finding what's wrong with the world is fine, it's just that you've gotten hung up on something that isn't wrong. It's human nature to fuck, and all I've ever gotten from the 'I'm a REAL Gamer' side of Gamergate is a repressed hatred of women based on their own inability to do so. The idea that you politicize some bimbo giving some asshole a rimmy in order to get a good review is arrogant because that is a bottom-of-the-barrel imitation of the real corruption that poisons this world. You are not any better than these feminist caricatures you loathe so much because what you're spouting is Grade-A Hatred, and I know hatred when I see it.

It doesn't actually affect your ability to play and enjoy games unless you allow it to. I'm not deluding myself into thinking this will change your ways Nepsotic, but I feel better knowing I at least told you to clean up your act and stop accepting blind hatred as a reasonable way to look at things.

I think how you interpret and articulate feminism is, well, disgusting. It just sounds like you think some uppity cunts wanted to ruin your day for no reason when the basic idea that More women should be involved in the development of games isn't actually detrimental, and you pigeonholing Sarkesian as these evil, non-gaming witch is just hypocritical. Why should I ever spend the time picking apart each and every trusted word of TAA when yo A) Are clearly in love with him and B) Are doing the exact same shit when you discard 'feminism' as this thing that just wants to corrupt your hobby. That is idiotic and shortsighted.

Now, if you make another diarrhea of a post that reads like some tit from 4chan nitpicking every single statement while ignoring the point, I'm just fucking done talking to you at all. Use essay format or get the fuck out.