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If someone can link me anything to do with GamerGate exposing corruption that does not involve female indie devs I will genuinely read it and give it my full attention.

Sorry dude, but that is completely false and has never happened. You are free to openly give your opinion. I for one am interested in why you would cancel. Don't assume no one is going to listen to you.

I am going to stop you there in an attempt to re-direct the flow of conversation and ask you a quesiton. What defines a journalist in your eyes? I don't think Patrick even considers himself a "journalist" per se.

Yes, you are right. I am not really becoming upset, just trying to express how I feel about the futility of all this talk. Does it matter? What the hell are we even talking about? What does this pseudo-philisophical train of thought even offer us? No one is going to change their minds. No one. Everyone at the end of this topic will end up even more entrenched in what they believe.

I think the internet is probably the worst place to have this kind of conversation, but I come from a place where if you have a problem with someone you confront them head on and talk to them about it, in person. Until we have an internet equivalent of face to face conversation I don't believe anything will be solved by thousands of users arguing in circles over and over and over and over. No one really seems to listen and it is immensely frustrating.

Sometimes I browse the science sub-reddit on reddit and I just wish that every person on the internet could talk to each other in the respectful, logical and open minded way that they do. But it is never going to happen.

This might seem like sci-fi wankery but I really do think that when VR becomes a mainstream activity, and if online mmo chat rooms / second life style interaction becomes a real thing, there will be a massive retro-grade culture shock when people realise they are once again recognizable and accountable for what they say and do.

Jesus, I have had it with this topic completely, in all its forms. This is the problem with arguing on the internet. Arguments in text form can be picked apart endlessly, for ever and ever by both sides. You can ignore 95% of a statement, focus on the 5% and then offer 120% proof in return. The opposing side can take 5% of that, and offer another 50% proof in return, or whatever arbitrary amount they feel like copy pasting / regurgitating / come up with on the spot. So on and so on and so on until everyone ends up where they began but even angrier.

You know how these arguments are ACTUALLY solved, in reality? People meet face to face and speak to each other. They realize when looking into another person's eyes the truth of their convictions and how they really feel. They EMPATHIZE. Empathy is non-existent on the internet. Until they invent that machine from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep I am staying well the fuck out of this because holy shit I think I will actually split an intestine.

You don't equate "he-man woman haters" to "internet psychopaths?". These kind of pedantics offer nothing.

He said it is not an isolated individual, but a group. That's exactly what he said.

I dont know if this is what you are looking for, but as a child I played Breath of Fire III obsessively on the Playstation. There was a period of time post final fantasy 8 where there was NOTHING for a poor lad with no money in the middle of nowhere to play. A gift of a bunch of games from a cousin led me to this gem.

Honestly, it's the best JRPG I have ever played outside of the Final Fantasy series, and it still holds up. There is a serious amount of depth in the combat that I only appreciated when I got older.

In reference to the mod team, I think they are indeed quite amazing. I have caught a glimpse of topics that were deleted almost instantly (I spend a stupid amount of time on these forums) and yes, they do amazing work. I don't think we appreciate fully what it takes to keep a website where anyone can sign up clean and friendly.

OK I genuinely LoL'd, haha thank you sir!