| sidmeiernintifan said: This is absolute common sense. Videogames are a hobby like cars, train modeling or fishing. A company dedicated to that will not give money to people who think car fans are despicable idiots, like Leigh Alexander thinks of gamers. |
She doesn't really think a lot of her fellow gaemz jurnalistz, either:
Here are some ways you can spot a game journalist: Out of fashion, out of shape. I don’t really mean physically — I mean you distinctly realize you are looking at people who definitely don’t fit into the world easy. There is often a hesitant, performative body language. You’ll be struck by the contrast between the apparent age of the person’s face, or their thinning hair, and the fact they’re wearing sloppy, brightly-colored sneakers. Someone always is wearing a tight plaid shirt. Someone is always wearing a fucking Zelda t-shirt. The longer I do this kind of thing the more unsettling I find it, the huge gulf between a game person’s apparent age and the child-like way in which they carry themselves.
It's pretty funny how much of her so-called commentary boils down to calling every adult male gamer a basement dwelling man-child... when she's a woman firmly entrenched in her 30s who still lives at home and sponges off her father because she blogs about video games in lieu of getting a real job. Leigh is incredibly condescending for someone who doesn't deserve to be, and I think it's precisely because she embodies everything she hates about gamers.
