@mint @eidolon Game magazines were purchased by gamers (and there wasn't Twitter to rally a pitchfork-and-torch mob) and subcultures were basically the last bastion. Because Hillary Clinton and Joe Liebermann and Janet Reno and Jack Thompson and the Christian Coalition were all trying to ban video games, it was already kind of an edgy hobby so there wasn't a lot of respectability to lose. John Romero pays money to write in magazines that he is gonna prisonn-rape gamers.

Apathy was our last defense against this shit and we lost our apathy because the caremad brigade never sleeps.