****Fair warning this post may be poorly written because i wrote in the heat of some serious anger/sadness****

I consider myself in a rare age group where I am old enough to have nostalgia for the old arcades in town right when the consoles were picking up so much steam that the writing was on the wall and arcades were quickly becoming a thing of the past. My parents would take me there and I would hound the old fighting game cabinets challenging anyone who came by to a game. I was a real hot head and I could honestly beat anyone (Kabal was my character of choice in Mortal Kombat 3). I could beat anyone and I would gloat really hard. But I never took my gloating too far. I would never hurt anyone's feelings because I had good parents who taught me that it is wrong to say bad things to people. I would also never exclude anyone from playing against me. I didn't care if they were black, white, female, or male. I would invite anyone to come and play against me and sure we would tease each other back and forth during a game but it was all in good fun. Video games were about fun.

The point I am trying to make is that I feel like we have quickly moved past a generation of video game players were they don't feel like being inclusive, where being a "gamer" is somehow an exclusive club and no one is allowed in unless he/she is deemed "acceptable". Even now in my now 20s I feel like an old man yelling about "back in my day". I go online seeing stories about harassment of game makers, games writers, and other people who play games. I see all this bullshit and I find myself asking "what happened"? What changed to make people who play video games act this way? Was it the internet? Why must video game players act this way?

In order for me to make some informed opinion on the whole "gamergate" thing i decided to watch some gamergate video on youtube and try to make sense of why people are so angry. And i found myself more confused if anything. The whole video was about how its some us vs them mentality and the "them" in this scenario being games writers. This video talks about how games writers are going after gamers in some grand conspiracy to eliminate them. I finished the video and said to myself "what the fuck did i just watch"? Why the fuck would games writers want to eliminate games journalists? Writers would be out of a job if that happened. I could not figure out this guy logic and i was left befuddled. So it lead me to making this blog post. (By the way if anyone is wondering about the video, the video was made by some guy by the name "investigamer").

I guess the whole point of this post is a plea to just have fun playing video games. Just have fun, its that simple. Don't be so angry. Play fun video games and calm the fuck down. If you are having fun playing a video game then you probably should not be so angry. I maybe be missing the point of this whole GamerGate thing and there might be a reason to be considered but I don't think the conversation needs to be filled with so much anger and hate.

So to end on a happy note here is something that Rorie will appreciate