I have mixed circles of friends and associates as many of you have guessed. Left leaning gaming Historians are talking about all the archives they have of GamerGate and studying it to prove how evil it was. One bragged about having over 5TB of files.
They all talked about how it was destroyed and the leadership was in jail for rape and stuff. I get the feeling more papers from those types is incoming.
It's mostly arcade historians. The ones convinced that arcades only existed between 75 and 03. By coincidence that's when they were kids. Also, that seems to be the narrative by the console people. In their promotions Consoles beat Arcades and that was it. Also, PC Gaming started with Doom and there is no mention of the Commodore 64 or even Atari 800 XL. They'll walk through conventions that prove their narrative is wrong, but it will be ignored.
So, perfect for lefty material.
That’s why most “history” changes with each new generation, like most social sciences.
Yeah, most universities have two history departments. Usually the second one isn't called history, but that's all they cover. Political Science, Women's Studies, Ect make sure you know the 'History'. It's the reason why historians get cocky, because they think they're dealing with the people who work in the 'other' history department.
I remember discussing feminism with the head of an anthropology department. I showed how foot binding was actually being done by women for women. I had sources and knowledge on it deeper than the one book she read. She said I was a great historian but a terrible anthropologist. In actual Chinese history groups, it's a known thing, but the book she read was all she knew about.
Or people who bring up the 1983 North American Video Game Crash and act as though it was this catastrophic event that nearly ended gaming completely, especially on YouTube.
Yes, it was a catastrophic event in the history of gaming... in NORTH AMERICA.
The rest of the world continued on their merry way. Europe had the C64, Amiga, CPC and SG1000. Japan had the Epoch Cassette Vision, Famicom and Turbografx 16.