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If Gamers Want More Powerful Women Then Stop Being Afraid Of Them (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lae'zel and Shadowheart can be mean sometimes, and it's okay to embrace women in video games like them.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Of course, I'm not saying that it cannot be the case, but it's also not something I'd leave just standing.

Just from the examples you list, the same issues essentially show up:

First to show that the influencers (as a whole) and their gaming audience (in specific) aren't just a hyper-specific echo chamber that gets amplified in volume due to suddenly being actively reported on. Like the "Only 1% of players ever will let you know if they're unhappy", it's difficult to know whether for every angry idiot manchild basement dweller there's 99 or 999999 happy gamers that didn't even realize something big was happening because their life has bigger issues than something posted on Twitter or in a blog post.
And then second to also show that this is still relevant. Gamergate was in 2014. GamerGate was closed to Half-Life 2 than to today, and consider just how different gaming as a societal landscape was back in the HL2 days.

Again, totally not saying that it's not very much a relevant comment that is being linked to here, but to me what is weird is that it presents an idea as fact with absolutely no evidence that the basis that fact would need to be true even exists. "Gamers" is not a single group of people. And the implication that this in turn affects game design is also entirely unverified and not something a reader can verify or falsify for themselves.