And of course this kind of discourse then folds back into the outrage sphere and the right-wing machine, and the whole industry becomes more toxic. A sheer refusal to see the humanity of the staff there over the crime of shipping a bad facial animation. "Gamers" as a whole feel like a lost cause.

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Forums that prided themselves on being "anti-Gamergate" took "Bioware developers should be laughed at and mocked and insulted" as pretty much accepted norms. Never for being women, of course! We're not like that. But they made a middling game? Maybe said they don't like gamers? That can't stand.

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Last thought on Bioware for now: the way people talked about that studio was really eye-opening for me re: the level of toxicity in the wider gaming audience. The right-wing hate is well-documented, but even ostensibly progressive spaces would run the same rhetoric, just minus the worst slurs.

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And to be more serious, not only were these games things that inspired me when I was just starting as a writer like I said yesterday, reading the comments from the staff working on them has been genuinely heartbreaking. People put years of their lives into these things! And some suit pulls the plug.

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Also also. The thing about bread and circuses is it doesn't work when you can't afford the bread and the circuses all get cancelled so the guy raising bread prices can make 50 cents more

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