Boogie2988 And GamerGate 2 

as someone who is Boogie's age, he is too damn old to be presenting "baby's first red pilled gamer opinion" out where everybody can see it

Yeah he’s right as a white man last time I opened steam they asked if I was a white guy and then closed my account when I said yes :( then I got a letter from sweet baby inc in the mail telling me I’ll never be allowed to play games again and I should kms :( guess that’s just the reality of 2024; it’s soooooooo hard to be white and male :((((((

As a woman who only plays video games to impress men, I have to say Boogie caught me. The 500+ hours I’ve played across the new Zelda games was no fun at all. And the game is named after a girl?! Ugh. Woke mind virus strikes again.

Lukewarm take: video games don't have to be fun. Art doesn't always have to be a pleasant experience.

personally I think video games are supposed to be tormentous death marches through the steppe. if i've not developed psychosis or a new substance addiction by the end of it what's even the point.

Given that gamergate was a targeted harassment campaign disguised as a movement, I'd really love it if we didn't have another one.

PLUS disco elysium is literally a lecture and its one of the most fun game ive ever played

boogie2988..... i haven't heard that name in years..............

as I'm almost entirely out of the loop of gamergate 2 but my husband is kind of "in" gamer spaces this is a good primer on the situation lol

The frustrating shit about when this gift comes around is that the toxicity leaks into so many communities both mainstream and niche

videos games should be fun, not casinos or storefronts!

I never trusted Boogie even when he was being touted as “the Mr Rogers of the internet” or whatever. I always thought his whole “I just wish everyone could get along and be nice to each other uwu” shtick was a complete farce, and that what he likely actually meant was “nobody should be mean to me or people like me, but in the case of women and minorities everything is fair game, ~dark humour~ and they just need to be able to take a joke”. Especially when you consider his recorded behaviour outside of his curated videos, tweets etc, such as that classic time on a stream when he laughed at and mocked an ex-girlfriend when she died of cancer. Or the multiple SWers who have said he made them feel incredibly unsafe when he was one of their clients. Those kinds of thing certainly fill me with confidence that he does just care about the ~ethics in games journalism~, and not the whole Harassing Women And Minorities angle of the original gamergate /s

I’m always excited when you post

Harry, your commentary cracks me tf up and I appreciate your good takes. "People named Erin" had me dead.

Twink drew Gooden could you upload more often? Thanks.

Exactly. Video games are entertainment, not so different than music or movies. There are political movies, movies dealing with social topics, there are also comedies and slasher movies LOL…there’s room for political games and non political games. Just don’t play a game if you don’t like it jfc is he 12 years old?

Gamergrift 2 has begun.

Wow, he sucks now. Preaching about performative bs while naming "the good things" he does that automatically makes him unable to be a pos. Talk about performative

Hey guys, I think that pizza should be bread and cheese and sauce, NOT just a bunch of dirty shoes dumped onto a tabletop. Not saying I’ve ever seen someone put shoes on a table and call it pizza, but this is a thing we all need to talk about and be wary of

Celeste mentioned 😎

honestly the only way to solve any of these problems is for you to stream Sable, it's an amazing game

I do agree with your point about looking to past games with rose tinted glasses. I play a lot of old games and there is a lot of jank. But they were better though. And it’s not because of diversity. It’s because of capitalism. See, every game now is basically the same, safe, graphics first experience. And a lot are truly great. But when the games industry was new there was room for creativity that has been stifled recently. Most great games today are either Sony or Nintendo exclusives that act as loss leaders for the publisher, or remakes/sequels of older great games. Outside of indie games of course. Gamers are SO CLOSE to getting the problem. They hate live service, micro transaction games because a leftist indie journalist by the name of Jim Sterling told them it was bad. Look up the history on this it’s interesting. He really was the first to come out against this stuff. But they didn’t care for his reasons why when he told them. And now they parrot the same talking points he made over decades ago minus the socialism.

Oh there is a game that "lectures the white man" actually. The modern Wolfenstein series? The New Order and New Colossus are some of my favorite story driven shooters, unlike say Farcry 5 which was meant to be about a not too dissimilar xenophobic enemy (christian nationalists) until Ubisoft caved to "cancel culture" by right wingers who caught wind. That being said, it's hard to make a really good piece of art that not only says something but means every word... until youngblood ruined everything T_T

Yeah, sorry, dude, but, as you mentioned, you are not big enough for any of your voiced opinions to be controversial. I can say "I love the works of the Austrian painter" in my discord server and won't have a lot of backlash. They don't care about the take itself if it won't reach a lot of people.

Shout out to Bubsy 3D

I think one of the things that needs to be talked about more is that these "woke diverse games" can still be low quality for reasons outside of not having white men in it, two different Sweet Baby productions, Sable and Goodbye Volcano High are on two completley opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to writing quality, it really just depends on how much effort is being put in.

Gamergate 2 is the real-world depression quest. 💀☠️🗿🥶🔥

4:13 Black woman he dated 30 years ago: Now why am I in it?

God PLEASE will SOMEONE think about the poor white male gamers being forced out of hypothetical video games

thank you for talking about this I've been looking for video essays about it that aren't just sexist bullshit lmao

wasn't boogie on Caleb Hammer's financial audit show a few months ago to talk about how he lost all his youtube fortune bc of bad investing and is now deep in debt, or something like that? food for thought

Boogie is such a walking L he is failing at being a right wing grifter.

Isn't there a study that shows that men feel unproportionally fast like they are pushed out of a space when in fact they are still the great majority of a community? I think the study was made about jobs and how fast they feel as the minority as soon as women enter 'their' workforce when in reality they are not, but this is just the same thing. 'Not every character looks like me, they want people like me out of this space!'

Gamers really don't like that there's been a massive cultural shift in terms of representation and honestly just how stuff is handled. I'm a huge fan of the Psychonauts games but oh my god, is the first one extremely "this is from 2005." Does it still make me laugh? Absolutely. Has it aged poorly? Yeah! But double fine worked to make a more sensitive sequel while still being irreverent and funny. Some people don't like it because i don't know, Wokeness, but damn if that wedding vow scene didn't hit (and who doesn't want a fat gay old man played by jack black)

Reminder that boogie’s current girlfriend was in middle school during the time of Gamergate 1 :/

white men are being silenced because i was not notified of this upload by either youtube or discord

Literally the only game I can think of that aggressively pushed their views was Forspoken and it automatically tanked because it barely was a game (also the source of this drama is twitter and Asmongold)

He can’t make a claim and not have support lmao .. Bc I can think of a recent controversial video game convo, like how incels were upset Alloy from Horizon had hair on her face and didn’t wear makeup in an apocalyptic world. Idk sounds like some video game men are too sensitive 😇

The Celeste shoutout is based as hell. that's why Harry "Games James" Mimler is the GOAT

8:26 Absolutely unacceptable that I am being excluded, lets get more Aaron representation in animal-themed video games XD

gamergate 2 is just as pitiful and laughable as the first. its quite sad really. touch grass, look outside. there are real problems in the world to deal with.

Balatro hell yeah dude, been playing the hell out of it recently,

I get that Boogie think's he's an ally. But this isn't the first time he's treated representation as a zero-sum with gains in diversity being directly related to losses for white men. It's just the first time he's been honest about believing that.

it’s so funny for someone to put out a statement, a bunch of people being like “what the hell are you talking about? do you have an example for this happening?”, not elaborating, and then going “and i WONT be apologizing for saying it!”

Hi Harry!!

Remember when these guys whined how Video games aren't taken seriously as an art form?

there's a 2000s visual novel i read last year that had the out there concept of using cloning as a metaphor for racism i still can't believe that's real😵‍💫

i haven't written a line of code in a year but i'm gonna have to put on my old game dev hat and make a game that is unironically a lecture about why it's bad to be a cishet white man. not that i think cishet white men are inherently evil or anything, i just think it'd be funny. who wants to support the kickstarter?

Oh hey SABLE, that game rules. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for something meditative

loved that race/car joke you made

Ooooh new video about Internet drama I don't know !!

This is how Boogie's career ends; not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Dude seems like the kind of person to think bioshock is libertarian

"Do your own research." I hate that guy. I used to love hating him, but now he's just boring. Just stop.😂 Nobody cares.😂😂😂

He's gotta know that doing this wont stop drama youtuber from making a part 6 to their ongoing Boogie saga

Okay but I need to know where you got that pigeons poster 👀

Gamer gate is back boys, let's freakin' gooooo!

Sable was a great game. I loved it

he is so embarrassing oh my god

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also BALATRO MENTION 🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏

It's been awhile since I've heard about that lolcow. He must need money again

Bro I respect your opinion but you just selectively leaving out the part where sweet baby employe started a harresment campaign makes me question your motives and senseirty all you had 2 do was take 5 seconds and just state the facts and would have negated eny critics I have

I assume he meant he doesn't want videogames to turn into the movie industry.

A documentary came out last year that is literally called "The dark, sad life of Boogie2988" and it is...pretty pathetic ngl. He is desparate for money and its not surprising he's doing this grift. He's kind of always seemed pathetic to me.

I don't agree with Boogie. I don't think there are games that explicitly say what he said, but I think the industry as a whole has a lot of people racist towards white people.

Raro W da Boogie

Was scrolling through my subscribed channels and saw you and was like “Oh it’s the Pete Davidson episode guy”