Meaning that I have to lie and say that sexism in gaming doesn't exist or try downplay it? Sorry, that isn't happening. But what I am going to do is present overwhelming evidence that will be hard to argue against.

Yeah, it is all just a coincidence. People just happen to randomly target everyone who is considered an enemy of GaterGate. They just happen to post on the GamerGate YouTube channels. They just happen to post pro-GG tweets. They just happen to bash people for saying negative things about GG. But its all a coincidence and none of it is evidence that they are really part of GamerGate.

And I don't think a single person on this forum really believes that, including you. ;O)

I have finished every game I played. The most difficult was Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, which frustrated me a bit but I did finally kick its ass after almost a week. LOL The only way I wouldn't finish a game is if it was broken or just so awful that I didn't want to finish it. So far it hasn't happened.

Thanks for the support! Yeah, this will be the most ambitious project I have ever been involved in and I'm pretty excited about it. I'll be keeping you guys updated on the project in the weeks to come. Right now we are contacting people to see who is interested in being involved.

I don't care for how this game is based around DLC but the gameplay itself is pretty solid. Its different, I'll give it credit for that.

EDIT: I am not here to argue about GamerGate in this particular post and I have no intentions of debating the issue here so don't waste your time. This post is just to let everyone know about the awesome project I am working on with several other gamers and see if any female gamers on the forum want to add their own experiences to the project.

Move over Anita Sarkeesian, I am about to show you how it's done. ;O)

Rather than link to my blogpost about my documentary, I will just repost what I said here. Oh and this is the more "friendly" edited version of my post. LOL

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I’m about to give the #GamerGate hornet’s nest a swift kick.

I really should have done this back when GamerGate first started but I actually decided to stay out of most of the controversy. But GamerGate just kept poking the hibernating bear with a stick by continuing the attacks on female gamers and promoting this idea that we are somehow trying to ruin gaming even though we are gamers ourselves. Then I reached the limit of my patience when they started attacking one of my friends recently.

Anyway, I was talking to my team and a few other people on Vent last night while we were trying to login in on H1Z1 and I told them about my latest idea. I knew that directly attacking #GamerGate would probably create a backlash and I was concerned that some of it may affect my teammates and friends so I decided to let them know my plan and get their opinions. The support was unanimous so sit back and watch the chaos ensue in the coming months.

I am going to do something that will surely enrage a certain misogynistic segment of the gaming community to a level never seen before…. Which is saying a lot considering my history of making them angry. My “Sexism in Gaming” blog/forum posts have stirred up that hornet’s nest several times in the past and I received plenty of support and hatred each time. Now I have decided to build on those posts with my own little YouTube documentary about the topic. Yes, I know Anita Sarkeesian already did something similar but my video will be a bit more complete than what she created. I respect what she was trying to do but I feel this is something that needs to be done by someone with an extensive history in gaming.

Anyway, I will have several advantages over Anita in this endeavor. One such advantage is that people won’t be able to say my opinion doesn’t matter because I am not a gamer. ;O) I have now played over 200 games, including 33 multiplayer FPS games, 147 single-player games, 7 MMOs, etc… I am also not going to be doing any type of crowd-funding campaign so no one can falsely accuse me of just trying to get money. Everyone who is involved in the production of this documentary will be volunteers and all expenses will be paid for by myself and Estrogen Elite. I don’t want or need a singly penny for this video. I am doing it because it needs to be done.

Last but certainly not least, I can’t be intimidated. I have been dealing with every kind of threat imaginable over the years and I will NOT back down. I have received more than my share of harassment and threats over the years but I can’t be scared into leaving my house or being silent. Actually, the threats and harassment have the opposite effect on me. ;O) I have already been threatened with death, rape and physical violence. I was also “doxxed” long before it was even called that. I have had people harass me for years, even when I was a kid. In fact, if you can think of some horrible way to harass or attack someone online, it most likely happened to me multiple times already. Nothing new here for me to see. LOL

This will be a full length documentary, around 2 hours, with a 40-45 minute bonus video specifically about #GamerGate and will address all of their nonsense. Sarah and EOTL will be helping with the script and editing.

Here is what you can expect from my documentary:

#1. I will discuss the sexism in the gaming community. I will include almost endless examples from my own experiences and those of many female players from various games. Brootal, Envee, wooks, Jillybean and Vesta are already on board and there will be MANY more. We will have both casual and competitive gamers involved in the project. This will be the largest part of the video.

#2. I will discuss the sexism we see in many of the games. This section will be far more comprehensive than Sarkeesian’s video and it will be quite damning.

#3. Finally, I will discuss the sexism in the industry itself. Meaning the problems pointed out by many women in various parts of the gaming industry, from developers to publishers and even journalists. I will include many stories and quotes but I also plan to interview some of the women involved in the industry.

#4. It will be released for free on several YouTube channels.

The second part of my attack on #GamerGate will be a website/community I plan to create to help fight against the sexism in gaming problem and GamerGate. You are all welcome to become involved in it if you choose but I will understand if some people don’t want to because of all the crap you will most likely have to deal with as a result.

This is going to be interesting watching them try to figure out how to deal with someone like me, who just doesn't care what they say or do.

They are not dealing with Anita Sarkeesian.

They are not dealing with Brianna Wu.

They are not dealing with Zoe Quinn.

They are now dealing with someone who has heard all the threats, name-calling and every other tactic a million times before GamerGate came along. They can’t scare me into leaving my house. They can’t intimidate me in any way. There is nothing they can do that will have even the slightest effect on me. The hornet’s nest idiom is appropriate because I view these people as a bunch of insects buzzing around me. Except these little bees have no stingers so they can’t actually do any damage to me. All they can do is make noise and be a minor annoyance… at least until I squash them.

That’s right, the hibernating bear is awake now and she is hungry. ;O)

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TLDR Summary: I am now involved in a project that will examine the issue of sexism in gaming in a far more comprehensive way than most of the videos about the subject. And most of the arguments used against people like Anita Sarkeesian will be completely invalid against me.

* Paying for the entire project myself - Check.

* Extensive history in gaming - Check.

Anyway, if any other female gamers on here want to be in the documentary and share their own experiences, feel free to let me know.

I have to laugh every time I see what I have dubbed as "The Rage Machine" (straight, white, male, 18-25 gamers) screaming incoherently about how people are trying to ruin gaming. What really makes me laugh is how they are always talking about free speech while telling everyone to shut up. Talk about hypocrisy.

There are two problems with your post. The first is that we often don't know a person has serious mental issues until its too late. Now granted, if its not a video game that sets a person off, something else probably will but I'd rather it be something else. That way we don't have congress going after all video games with any amount of violence. And keep in mind who has control of congress right now. A group that has gone after video games many times in the past. The same group that blames video games every time there is a mass shooting. ;O)

Actually, you have no "right" to play violent video games. Some of you seem to be really confused about what is and is not a right in this country. What you have is a privilege and it can be taken away from you if they choose to do so.

@MirkoS77 said:

#1. The rules clearly state that your game must not contain offensive material.

#2. That doesn't change the fact that the game encourages you to kill innocent people. Other games do it. To make matters worse, the game portrays you as a the "good guy" in the story.

#3. We have also never had anything quite like this and I believe this will lead to even worse games being released. When a society constantly has incidents of violence on a large scale, people will find a scapegoat for it. We have come dangerously close to seeing games targeted by congress in the past but there was always that "the games don't encourage you to kill innocent people" defense for most games. As I pointed out, you can't use that defense for Hatred. It absolutely encourages you to brutally murder civilians and if this game becomes popular, it would be the perfect target for Congress. It would be so easy to get most of the country behind them by just pointing to this game.

"Besides, from the amount of uproar and outrage this title has caused within the gaming community, this game's release could turn out to become one of the strongest tools in favor of demonstrating that gamers are not basement dwelling sociopaths ready to snap but in fact are healthy-minded, sane individuals."

Unfortunately it goes both ways... There is actually a lot of support for the game too, which just justifies that stereotype about gamers in the minds of regular people.

"Not liking something and consequently choosing not to support it is one thing, but demanding its censorship so as to preclude others from playing it is on a whole different level that needs to be fought against with all we can muster. It's imperative that this game sees the light of day, no matter how distasteful you and others find it."

So basically, you have an "anything goes" policy for games? So you think its okay for games about rape to be made next? Killing children? Raping children? Where do we draw the line?

Do whatever you want but just remember that when Congress goes after violent video games as a whole, I tried to warn you.

#1. Yes it is okay for the first two games to be on there and I explained the difference between them and Hatred. As for Manhunt, it has not been sold on Steam or by most retailers. It was also completely banned in several countries.

#2. You mean other than basic psychology? Many things can trigger an

#3. Its not a fact that congress has been blaming violent video games for acts of violence in real life and already talked about passing laws several times in the past? Are you serious? LOL Where have you been pretty much since I the day I was born? This has been going on forever with one of the most infamous cases being the Columbine shooting, where politicians were blaming Doom.

#4. Actually, there is no such thing as free speech on the internet. It looks like its time to educate another person who clearly knows nothing about the actual law. The 1st amendment only protects you from the government creating laws that prevent you from speaking on public property. It does not cover the private sector in any way. Meaning businesses can decide what you can and cannot say. That includes websites like twitter, youtube, steam, etc.... There are very few sites online that have unrestricted free speech. That is a fact. Secondly, my point had nothing to do with free speech. I was talking about their marketing being questionable because it is.... The primary audience they are clearly trying to target here with their marketing scheme is a very volatile group in the first place. They aren't targeting gamers as a whole here, they are going for the perpetually enraged conservative male gamer. The "Political Correctness" comment is a big clue there. ;O)

#5. Ah he denied it so it must be false right? People always admit to everything. ;O)

To be fair, a lot of atheists can be pretty freaking hateful and arrogant as well.