It's like a Stargate, except every world it sends you to is full of completely insufferable people.

And that bald guy with the weird thing on his forehead has been replaced by a surly redhead.

And MacGyver won't stop talking about the things that offend him.

And that nerdy guy from the actual movie is back and he won't shut up about independent games.

ACTUALLY IT'S ABOUT ETHICS IN GAMING JOURANLISM

I'M SO MAD ABOUT ETHICS IN JOURNALISM THAT I CAN'T EVEN TYPE

A gamergate (pronounced /ˈɡæmərˌɡeɪt/) is a reproductively viable female worker ant that is able to reproduce with mature males when the colony is lacking a queen. Most commonly occurring within the primitive species of the poneromorph subfamilies, gamergate females differ from their fellow workers by a combination of elevated fecundity and aggression-related mutilation of competitors' secondary sexual characteristics. Subsequent to their first mating event, however, aggression is no longer needed as females secrete chemical signals that lead the workers to accept their role as reproducers for the colony.

That's almost word-for-word how Kurt Russel described working on the set of Stargate.

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Well, that can't be true because someone told me that no one ever makes death threats against her ever, so that about wraps it up as far as I'm concerned.

Nope, he was the only guy who made death threats against her. It was all him. Problem solved!

You're confusing two different women but more or less.

I didn't really know about that aspect. But doesn't that happen all the time? Book gets a really good review because the writer and the journalist are sleeping together, etc. Whatever.

Actually, it more boils down to "We hate women. The end." There's not really much gray area surrounding that.

She didn't even get a good review, her game was briefly mentioned in an article before they even went out together.

Her ex-boyfriend tried to imply she was sleeping with him for good reviews and it worked, he successfully got 4/8chan to be his personal army.

The funniest part is that even after 4chan's /v/ board (where the whole ugly mess started) figured out the deception, they kept going ahead full steam with the harassment anyway, because women are just so much worse to them than a lying asshole with an agenda.

The sleeping together thing was not Anita Sarkeesian but rather another woman who made an indie game about suicide that nobody knows about or has ever played. Meanwhile, Ubisoft and EA regularly pump hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for good reviews for their shitty triple A titles, but no, that's not the problem, the problem is the unknown indie developer who once slept with a guy who writes for kotaku.

hahaha somebody who writes for kotaku had sex

now that's the real scandal