Fired Nintendo Employee Claims Harassment

re-up?

intender created to make? 5:22 usually you guys catch that

I really like that you guys sat on this story until it reached the point where all the information we needed was in place. So many other outlets reported before Nintendo responded (or just ignored it outright). The Know's integrity as journalist is why I trust it so much. <3

this story honestly shook me - what an awful way for the internet to react. i hope to god it had nothing to do with why she was fired. don't know why i'm surprised.

Eh, the fringe psychos that get all butthurt over 10 year old tits being taken out of their localized versions will always react like this (And then, hilariously, will trot out "evidence" of pedophilic support to smear their imagined detractors). I think the real damage this does to the gaming community stems from the fact that the majority of gamers these days aren't "hardcore" enough to get that involved or engaged with game development.

As such, our public face is typically the internet butthurt machine doing idiotic, cowardly shit like sending anonymous death threats or trying to get someone fired for disagreeing with them or holding a view the trolls are sensitive about. At that point, logic plays no part in their actions and they're entirely emotionally motivated. That's how you get morons angry about localization issues going after a marketing person.

That idiot, unthinking, psychotic fringe will always exist as a loud minority until socially well adjusted nerds stop turning their back on "cringeworthy autists" as the kids are calling them these days.

We used to just call them socially awkward or Sonic fans...

But anyways. I've theorized for a while now that the negative aspects of nerdiness have coalesced into their own subculture primarily defined by anger. Anger at "fake" (Read: Happy) nerds for not identifying with obtuse stubbornness, anger at women for imagined slights and daring to be more than the pure damsel our narrative culture promises each little boy (And they are by and large males who reject the notion that women can authentically enjoy video games), anger at game developers for running their businesses like businesses that need to make money and, in the end, anger at themselves for feeling so impotent out of the realm of gaming and nerd culture.

Combine all that anger with a base of not understanding how to interact on a basic, human level and you get GamerGate, the need for Cosplay is Not Consent as a slogan, and, of course, this shit. All thanks to an incredibly vocal, active, irrational minority claiming to represent what is largely known as, "Just some fuckin' people who enjoy video games, Japan, science and tech."

But as I said, it's kind of our fault as a whole for taking the normalization of gaming and nerd culture and ruining it by essentially recreating and reinforcing the negative aspects on a small subsection of our own who, honestly, just need help identifying with others OUTSIDE of their nerdly obsessions.

I don't know, are you Lawrence Sonntag?

Big props to you guys for you guys for pointing out that she was fired for her moonlighting job and NOT because of "the mysterious harassment of Gamergate" like some journalists (kotaku) crapped out before waiting on a response from Nintendo. Sloppy journalism is what keeps Gamergate around, and it's going to keep being around as long as those journalists continue not just trying to smear gamers as "rapid misogynists that want women out of gaming", but continue making fools of themselves time and time again.