Found this video on a dive through Geller's archive, and it connecting Gamergate with "degenerate art" was somewhat inspired. My original time with Depression Quest, I articulated that it didn't...
Found this video on a dive through Geller's archive, and it connecting Gamergate with "degenerate art" was somewhat inspired. My original time with Depression Quest, I articulated that it didn't really reflect my experience with depression, and I was frustrated that it wasn't really connecting with me. I think about it more personified and antagonistic than a series of choices I couldn't make, and I probably wasn't doing my due diligence exploring the game on it's level. It's sort of like the old Totalbiscuit standby that a game has to have a fail state and a test of skill to avoid it, otherwise it's not a game and just a mere interactive experience. But a video game isn't a baseball game with winners and losers and periods to score, and if video games expand their definition to encompass more of a casual unstructured play, the only people hurt by this are the people who have invested identity into games having those rules. That makes a whole lot of sense.
This was an excellent video. I was actually just recapping my own experiences with this idea in ~books the other day (the second half of the comment is the relevant part). I don't have the same...
This was an excellent video.
I was actually just recapping my own experiences with this idea in ~books the other day (the second half of the comment is the relevant part). I don't have the same historical and artistic background as the video creator, so I greatly appreciate what he was able to bring to the table.
It's clear that Gamergate and the aggressions leading up to it were a form of cultural control, but I'd naively assumed that it was happening because gaming was a nascent and primarily youth-focused medium. This helped me see that there was significant historical precedent to their actions. Furthermore, while it's always been obvious that Gamergate was never explicitly about gaming itself (or journalism, or ethics), it wasn't until this video that I appreciated how it fit into art, culture, and political movements at large.
Found this video on a dive through Geller's archive, and it connecting Gamergate with "degenerate art" was somewhat inspired. My original time with Depression Quest, I articulated that it didn't really reflect my experience with depression, and I was frustrated that it wasn't really connecting with me. I think about it more personified and antagonistic than a series of choices I couldn't make, and I probably wasn't doing my due diligence exploring the game on it's level. It's sort of like the old Totalbiscuit standby that a game has to have a fail state and a test of skill to avoid it, otherwise it's not a game and just a mere interactive experience. But a video game isn't a baseball game with winners and losers and periods to score, and if video games expand their definition to encompass more of a casual unstructured play, the only people hurt by this are the people who have invested identity into games having those rules. That makes a whole lot of sense.
This was an excellent video.
I was actually just recapping my own experiences with this idea in ~books the other day (the second half of the comment is the relevant part). I don't have the same historical and artistic background as the video creator, so I greatly appreciate what he was able to bring to the table.
It's clear that Gamergate and the aggressions leading up to it were a form of cultural control, but I'd naively assumed that it was happening because gaming was a nascent and primarily youth-focused medium. This helped me see that there was significant historical precedent to their actions. Furthermore, while it's always been obvious that Gamergate was never explicitly about gaming itself (or journalism, or ethics), it wasn't until this video that I appreciated how it fit into art, culture, and political movements at large.