ICantBeStopped

Take your query to Google. The question has also been answered earlier in the thread.

I wanted to save other people the same trouble, but after a couple cryptic warnings in here, I guess I may have made a mistake.

You're not likely to be banned or anything. I was just warned, and have refrained from specifically talking about that incident since. I'm pretty sure this whole thread is going bye bye anyway. Just avoid talking about the woman from the incident, and any feelings you may have about specific staff's feelings about the incident.

Yep.

+1. I was modded lightning fast and warned not to bring it up. I tried to say people could be reasonable about discussing it if set up correctly, they did not agree. I am glad to see that since she's been brought up, there's been no call to brand her with a scarlet letter.

I have mixed feelings about this. I am glad there is some hefty pushback on the feminizing of video games and the surrounding industry (if I could sum up how I feel personally about this in one parenthetical body, it would be to say I just wish everyone could steer toward the middle and be cool about everything. I feel annoyed these days that there's people that would really post a person's information, placing them in danger, and calling them horrible slurs, but I also feel annoyed when modern games journalists have to rag on a game every time there's a "sexy" lady somewhere on the cover or in the picture. I wish games could be made to appeal to all sorts of differing perspectives, instead of trying to please everyone with the same things, and when it's one way or another, some people say "that's misogynistic!", or the other way with idiots saying "they're pussifying video games!! Rawwrrg!!"), but I really wish it wasn't done like this.

Instead of someone going out there and making their own website with a staff with differing views and a different voice, we have to have all game websites lean hardcore one way and get involved in drama and politics of these issues, and the other "side" doing stuff like this putting people in real life trouble simply for voicing the way they feel about something. And this just makes things worse, as gaming journalists take the worst possible specimens of humanity, hold them up, and tell everyone reading "This is you!".

Nope.

All in all, I think it's horrible the way things have gotten to this point from both sides. Lots of gaming journalism is caustic and insulting, even though many would say their hearts are in the right place, and lots of people who hide behind their keyboards giving real people real problems, using the most foul language possible, and really doing nothing to show their point of view can be perceived by outsiders as anything but bigoted.

Not really sad to see the one's going go. Glad to see the ones I care about (Kevin, Chris Watters, Danny, and Jess) are staying. As pointed out in several news articles, this business is changing, and is becoming personality-driven. Writing doesn't cut it any more, and while it's good Patrick gets to keep doing it here, it could never be the only thing he does here. Some of the personalities really bothered a lot of people, namely Carolyn (for obvious reasons) and Tom (for bad reviews, being awkward, and having zero camera and voice over ability). Some of the names I recognize, and they weren't complained about, they were just kind of there and boring. Some names I don't recognize at all.

It's a bummer for those involved to lose their livelihood. Perhaps they could get together and start something new and different from the direction they were taking at GameSpot.

Without the Jeff/Vinny combo in stuff, I'm not sure how I'll like the future....

Thanks, gentlemen. 53:51 forever.