🐱 Norman Lear & Brent Miller To Executive Produce Mind Riot Entertainment’s Fictional Gamergate Series - Wu’s show keeps chugging along

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Norman Lear and Brent Miller have boarded Mind Riot Entertainment’s Gamergate as executive producers through their Act III Productions banner. The series is about journalist, game developer and computer programmer Brianna Wu’s experience as a critic and target of the notorious 2014 online harassment campaign. Gamergate is co-created and co-written by Wu and J. Brad Wilke.

The 2014 Gamergate online campaign ignited a firestorm for its targeting of women in the gaming industry which laid the foundation for current issues of disinformation and hate. Before QAnon, Covid-19 conspiracists and the January 6th insurrection, there was Gamergate. Wu was among the targeted women, which also included Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.

The series will explore the origins of the widespread intimidation campaign from the perspective of multiple, fictional people in the game industry – from executives to journalists and indie developers.

Lear and Miller will executive produce alongside Jonathan Keasey, Jeremy J. Dodd, and Wu for Mind Riot Entertainment. There is currently no showrunner or studio attached to the series.

“Given Mr. Lear’s legacy as a glass-ceiling breaker for marginalized communities in his historic career, we chose his Act III banner for their conscientious and empathetic approach to storytelling,” said Keasey.

Added Miller: ““We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Brianna Wu and Mind Riot Entertainment in telling these stories. The gaming industry has exploded over the past decade bringing in more revenue than sports and movies combined worldwide. However, the number of female engineers in the gaming industry is less than 5%. One doesn’t have to be a gamer to recognize something is off with this percentage.”
 
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I can't wait. I actually had to skip my morning run the day after the SVU Gamergate episode because I hurt my obliques laughing so hard that night.
No idea how they're going to top "Go Home, Gamer Girl!" and the Gamer ISIS video but if Wu is involved it's sure to be utterly deranged.

EDIT: Post what mannish woman willing to work for scale you think they're gonna cast as Brianna
 
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Who will play Sargon, mundanematt, zoe and her 5 journos, wu, anita, or even Jim?
What other people made famous because of gamergate am I missing?
 
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This is amazing. Zoe and Anita must be seething that Brianna fucking Wu, the Godzilla of women in gaming, will become the poster girl for Gamergate "victims" after all this time while they became "literally who"s nobody has thought about in years.

Please God, let this project happen. No matter what happens the results are guaranteed entertainment.
 
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Ashen One said:
This is amazing. Zoe and Anita must be seething that Brianna fucking Wu, the Godzilla of women in gaming, will become the poster girl for Gamergate "victims" after all this time while they became "literally who"s nobody has thought about in years.

Please God, let this project happen. No matter what happens the results are guaranteed entertainment.
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Nol already said he’ll do the episodes for movie night
 
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Oh yeah, this little project that still might very well never see the light of day. The funniest bit I find about it, even back when it was first announced, is that it's intended to "explore the origins of the widespread intimidation campaign" while immediately admitting that it's making shit up with "multiple, fictional people in the game industry." Gamergate in a nutshell, isn't it?

Also, reminder that everyone hates Brianna Wu, him even being a pariah to everyone else who whines about Gamergate.
 
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Norman Lear is 99 years old, so he's not going to be around for long. Hope they at least add an Archie Bunker-ish character, but I doubt it.
 
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No Showrunner or Studio meaning no money.
 
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"explore the origins of the widespread intimidation campaign" while immediately admitting that it's making shit up
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Well, if they stuck to what actuallly happened, how are they supposed to portray the whole "intimidation campaign" from Wu's perspective?

> insane faggot in a dress sits in front of computer screen.
> reverse shot, zoom to screen, show mean tweets.
> insane faggot cries for two hours, opens patreon-account
> insane faggot keeps failing as a game developer, cries some more
> fade to black, roll credits. The end.
 
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I can't wait. I actually had to skip my morning run the day after the SVU Gamergate episode because I hurt my obliques laughing so hard that night.
No idea how they're going to top "Go Home, Gamer Girl!" and the Gamer ISIS video but if Wu is involved it's sure to be utterly deranged.

EDIT: Post what mannish woman willing to work for scale you think they're gonna cast as Brianna
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The GG episode is the best they've ever done, next to the one when they said it's ok to anally rape a woman with a wooden stick if she's Anne Coulter.
 
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“We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Brianna Wu and Mind Riot Entertainment in telling these stories. The gaming industry has exploded over the past decade bringing in more revenue than sports and movies combined worldwide. However, the number of female engineers in the gaming industry is less than 5%. One doesn’t have to be a gamer to recognize something is off with this percentage
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One also doesn’t have to pander and virtue signal to people just to be interested. They just do it through action and not through being disingenuous.
 
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