Comments on: CONGRATULATIONS, YOU ARE NOW A KOTAKU COMMENTER (Emily Gera)

By: Will

Will — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:10:19 +0000

And theres no way to say this without looking like or being called a sexist, but i think a big problem women run into with things like this is caring more about what other people think about what theyre doing, rather than just doing what they want to do for its own sake and their own enjoyment? I mean i can understand being pissed off and frustrated when people within the industry are actively blocking your success and progress, but on the other end, no successful person has ever given one shit about what some 15 year old kid said about them on a video game website.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:04:22 +0000

I guess the best thing for female game developers to do would be to completely avoid and ignore the comments section of any internet article ever and just focus on making games that are better than the ones already out there? Right?

By: Will

Will — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:01:30 +0000

Briefish to Medium-lite

By: nobody

nobody — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:35:47 +0000

Yes, sir, both postmodernism and — especially! — fascism are predicated upon tarring those who disagree with you by literally quoting their words back at them.

It should also be noted that each of your quotations seems to be in fact a paraphrase or a sanitized excerpt.

The comment that includes “Deal with it,” for example, in full reads “Who cares? Deal with it hags.”

Is that what you’re defending?

By: Ian Keegan

Ian Keegan — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:17:07 +0000

This is the problem with expectations.

I came in hoping for a game that grapples with that age-old question: why are people such jerks on the internet? Where does our desire to tear down those different from ourselves come from? Are Kotaku commentators motivated by insecurity? Apathy? Actual hatred of people without Y chromosomes?

Instead, I got a clever take-down of people who absolutely deserve to be mocked, and a delicious-looking recipe.

This is the problem with expectations.

By: Hobber

Hobber — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:14:28 +0000

Some comments made me really scratch my head.

“Deal with it!” “If you want to change something, you should stop complaining and do something.” “Nobody cares.”

Fucking idiots! So much hate and sexism!

Is that postmodernism? Everybody who does not explicitly support a movement is against it? Everybody who does not share my viewpoint is an enemy?

Or was that fascism? Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

By: Charles de Goal

Charles de Goal — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:38:24 +0000

While sexist comments are loathable, I didn’t find much interest in this *as a game*. And being called an idiot just because I wanted to find out how long it would last is not very pleasant either.

Well, it probably doesn’t help that I don’t even know what kotaku is.

By: starlit

starlit — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:10:19 +0000

As damning as Kotaku and it’s patrons are, there’s never going to be an end to this back and forth. The only thing we can do is call each side out for their bullshit equally when it crops up.

By: Shuck

Shuck — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:49:40 +0000

Yeah, unfortunately all those comments are real (and not even the worst of them, really). I got into arguments with a couple of those guys until I stopped because I was about to have a rage stroke. (Yes, I am an idiot for even attempting to engage them/read Kotaku in the first place. That was the article that finally made me learn my lesson. Kotaku comments: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and misogyny.)

By: st33d

st33d — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:55:18 +0000

I think I kept commenting because it was curated vitriol.