Yeah, let's do a recap since the last post.
There was a thing where GG folks brought attention to an interview that implied corruption on the indie scene. Kotaku made a news posts where it talked to the people involved and claimed there was no truth to the allegations. While it acted like this was GG making a baseless claim, it showed two things 1) GG had enough support to make a trending hashtag to draw attention to a issue and 2) a mainstream gaming website basically confirmed that GG were interested in pursuing anti-corruption issues.
Onto the Law and Order: I haven't seen it, I've seen clips, it just seems like the same sort of utterly uninformed views of gaming stuff with forced plotlines that we've had since the 90s (with exceptions like Parker Lewis Can't Lose and stuff). Reaction has been weird. Some pro-GG say the show is an unintentional parody of the "other sides" view on what is really going on. Some anti-GG have said that the episode, while obviously referencing various events, completely fails to address the serious issues instead opting for cartoonish villainy. One anti-GGer seem to say that the episode is pretty much what's happening anyway.
Yeah, I dunno, to be honest, one of the reasons I haven't been posting here is I realise that it's better to cut my GG exposure. I mean, I've learned most of what I needed to (crowd behaviour, how opposing sides often mirror other people's behaviour, formation of hiveminds and groupthink on the internet, lack of discourse and real interaction with opposing viewpoint on the internet, errors in current media, and so forth). It is kinda exciting at times, but regardless of which side, there are some horrible people in this debate, and other people become more horrible by trying to ensure these horrible people get what's coming to them. It can lower your regard for humanity and get you trapped in a world of only seeing internet opinion and endless streams of text mostly from people you never met yet or know anything about yet for some reason consider important. Point is, a break is always good. And interacting with people in real life is a healthy part of any balanced life.