For those who came in late, Gamergate was a bunch of misogynists who objected to women game designers and the glacial pace removal of sexism from games. They carried out online attacks on women gamers and designers and occasionally doxing them.

Ferretti liked his games like he liked his morality – he was a champion retro gamer in all senses of the world. According to blogger David Futrelle he was a raging misogynist who ferociously harassed women. He once made a homebrew game in which the goal was to kill women.

Apparently the crime that his ex Amy Molter committed was dumping him. Apparently, women are not supposed to do that sort of thing. Apparently it never occurred to him that women probably shouldn’t be dating people like him in the first place and ending it was a logical choice. The pair were found inside Ferretti’s unit in an apartment complex at 577 Central Ave. Police first went to the address Monday night to look for Molter, who was reported missing that day, the release said.

Longtime members of the retro and arcade gaming scene say they warned community leaders and even police about Ferretti's threatening behaviour for years. For close to a decade, they say, Ferretti had harassed, stalked, and threatened gamers, particularly women, pushing some out of the niche gaming scene entirely.

Arcade game collector and researcher Catherine DeSpira and video game historian and storage auction buyer Patrick Scott Patterson — two of Ferretti's most public targets — say they collectively contacted police in different states a half-dozen times to report Ferretti's threats against themselves and others. They say those attempts had no effect presumably because he was a right-wing white male and they are never terrorists.

But apparently Gamergate empowered Ferritti. There were shedloads of people who egged him on to attack women who they didn’t want in the scene.

GamerGate in 2014 gave Ferretti new fodder to fuel his idea that women — specifically "radical feminists," as he wrote in multiple blog posts and said in YouTube videos — were out to destroy the purity of the arcade gaming scene.

Ferretti believed that his gaming acumen justified his stewardship of the community. "I can be an asshole. You know why? Because I'm a world champion. I'm a gamer", he once said in a video. As recently as April 2020, Ferretti described himself in a YouTube video as "the saviour of the community." While there are a lot of comments about what a shit Ferritti was and how the standards of the world will be raised following his exit, there is a surprising number of posters who find nice things to say about him.  Clearly these are the same people who don't care about his victim -- after all she was just a woman just like his many other victims.