Oh golly, another gamergate thread. How do we not discuss ethics in the gaming media today?
Yeshu: Not a week ago there was the whole drama of GOG removing a Postal 2 GIF that showed
the Postal Dude pissing on a grave saying "Gaming Journalism, suicide 2014" which was
a reference to the Gamer Gate hashtag movement.
The "Postal 2" dudes didn't just add hate mob references to their game. They also added voice acting by some nazi who was at the forefront of creating nonsensical conspiracy theories that riled up the gamergate crowd.
For the people who know jack shit about gamergate (which includes gamergate supporters): That's Milo Yiannopoulos, responsible for a "The Storm" level ludicrous conspiracy theory about game journalist "collusion", kind of like the Bilderberger theory, but by dirt poor people - mostly freelancers and non-journalists. And when you take away the money from his equation, the money game journalists simply don't have, well, the whole theory looks as fucking stupid as it is.
One leg of gamergate's attempts to justify itself has its foot firmly grounded in that imbecile alt-right conspiracy theory (the other founding leg is the purposeful misunderstanding and misinterpretation, specifically by the gamergate mob, of a number of articles that surfaced on and after August 28th, 2014 that mostly condemned the hate mob that had driven Anita Sarkeesian and her parents from their homes on August 27th).
The former Breitbart wanker, disgraced back in October when his nazism came to light via leaked internal Breitbart emails and the smartphone video of his dedicated singing performance in front of a dozen hitler saluting neo-nazis (I'm not shitting you, at all), thankfully is mostly irrelevant these days. He is busy selling nutrition supplements on infowars, living off the defrauded money from his "white privilege" fund, and explaining how when he asks for journalists to be shot and a day later journalists get shot, he is not to blame in any perceivable way.
The legacy of this chief ideologue of the "leaderless" movement lives on in a lot of horribly uninformed people with zero empathy and research skills who still believe gamergate was anything but a hate mob hell bent on achieving and justifying fascist control of the games press.
TL;DR: Postal 2 promotes, via DLC, a person who and a movement that performed and incited senseless and despicable harassment of journalists, game critics, developers and, yes of course, "us gamers" as well. For GOG to promote this picture was offensive in the nth degree to the entire industry, and I can only hope they're all somehow willing to forgive that huge misstep.
Giving in to a fucking hate mob by leaving bile boiling "containment threads" open is bad enough. We don't need another gamergate thread in here. That one was closed by the best community person GOG ever had, no offense to the present, after it's been open WAY TOO LONG.
Close this one now.
Breja: No they don't. They just want to repeat their ideas ad nauseam and insult people with different ideas to get a feeling of validation when other from the same "camp" do the same. It's never a discussion, it's two teams playing dodgeball in an echochamber. 
tinyE: I get my kicks above the waste sunshine! Excellent song: 
Yeshu: regardless of your stance on the subject mater, know that some people really just 
