What's made it effective, though, is that it's exploited the same basic loophole in the system that generations of social reactionaries have: the press's genuine and deep-seated belief that you gotta hear both sides. Even when not presupposing that all truth lies at a fixed point exactly equidistant between two competing positions, the American press works under the assumption that anyone more respectable than, say, an avowed neo-Nazi is operating in something like good faith.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Beäşt of Disçörd @TheQuinnspiracy
it's the little things. Like seth rogan making fun of the actor who named the hate group that came out of yr shitty breakup #justgirlythings
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
needs translation
― am0n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
"I am happ with Seth Rogan because he clowned Adam Baldwin for supporting the dickbags who have been harassing me."
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
i too am happ
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
new Pharre joint
― Chimp Arsons, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Baldwin coined gamergate?
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
of the benign details involved in GamerGate, that is the one I find most hilarious
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Can anyone explain the The Fine Young Capitalists/Zoe Quinn aspect of the imbroglio? Most of GG has been rehashed many times, but any time I come across any references to TFYC, it seems like it was beamed in from a completely different dimension.
Like this morning, Quinn tweeted:
Beäşt of Disçörd @TheQuinnspiracyAlso if anyone wants a storify of the truth about TFYC FINALLY coming out, here's a storify of that! https://storify.com/TheQuinnspiracy/tfyc-truth-finally-comes-out
Also if anyone wants a storify of the truth about TFYC FINALLY coming out, here's a storify of that! https://storify.com/TheQuinnspiracy/tfyc-truth-finally-comes-out
And I'm like "oh good, I've been waiting for someone to make sense of this for me", but nope. I still got no clue.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
I guess the USU story has propelled this thing up another level. It's on the main page of the New York Times now. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/technology/gamergate-women-video-game-threats-anita-sarkeesian.html
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
ya, causing the cancellation of a public event by threatening the largest school shooting in US history will do that
― anonanon, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
This is all so tragically pathetic. Half these idiots are probably counting this as a win.
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
i have seen a lot of gamers say
1) omg big deal, trolls will be trolls, lighten up already
2) feminist false flag operation
― the late great, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
I'm seeing it in a few new places with the gun control angle being the thing emphasized. It's also embarrassing to the police, so kind of a perfect story.
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
#SWATed
― am0n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
still riding the tiger
https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/522490480157024256
i tried watching some of the video out of fairness and found the people interviewed to be unwatchably incoherent and stupid and the host a dimwit
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/CCG2004/status/522490574574997506
lol
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
they call her mom. it is so warped.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
what is the fn deal w calling her mom
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
― the late great, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 2:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fasle troll op
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
"based mom" #actually
come to think of it i wonder if lil b has or will weigh in on this
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/CCG2004/status/522494966980149248
I really can't stop laughing at this shit
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
I keep imagining Christina Somers taking chicken soup to sick GamerGaters, wiping their fevered brows, helping them with their math homework, tucking them in at night with a kiss on the forehead and a whispered "sleep well, my special little prince" in their ears
I fully recognize the regressive nature of many of these images and feel a little bad about it but OTOH lol
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCExXie1XB4
the whole tone of nerds pretend jokey hauteur drives me insane they shd be executed
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah man the whole overenunciated manic vlogger steez is just mad bizarre to me, like i don't get how anyone can consider e.g. anthony fantano or who/e to have a natural or normal or... salubrious self-presentation
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
every nerd writes that way too like they arching their eyebrows at u cause their condescending routine is so cute and smart or something
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
on some level its an obvs cover for social anxiety but damn man i dont wanna
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
greeeetings ladies and gentlemen im the investigamer *smirk*
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
I am not sure which is scarier, the idea that none of these people have social confidence or they do and this is how they convey it
― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
he repeatedly says impartialty when he says impartiality through that whole video
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
when he means lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 5:29 PM (24 minutes ago)
irl fps
― am0n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
he also pronounces brandeis "bran-day"
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 2:29 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark
my best friend from high school grew up to become one of these people and has his xbox user name tattooed on his arm and i run into him at like weddings once every few years and he is completely intolerable to be around. his whole personality is such a lame imitation of what a human being is like and yet that's like somehow the cool way to be amongst these guys?
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
(while listing mom's credentials as a scholar for "the completely non-partisan american enterprise institute" xp)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
it's like can-day
http://media.ticketmaster.com/tm/en-us/dbimages/97660a.jpg
xp
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 6:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha that is perfect
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
LMFAO
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 6:25 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha yes i love how hes all "i did some digging" like hes an investigative journalist for googling the extremely obscure american enterprise institute
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
investigameive iirc
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
btw the very first line of their wikipedia
http://i.imgur.com/LQlKqcq.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Lazarus long, jfc gtfo
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Lynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, now an AEI senior fellow; former member of the Dutch parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an AEI visiting fellow; and former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, now an AEI visiting scholar. Other prominent individuals affiliated with AEI include Kevin Hassett, Frederick W. Kagan, Leon Kass, Charles Murray, Michael Novak, Norman J. Ornstein, Richard Perle, Radosław Sikorski, Christina Hoff Sommers, Peter J. Wallison, and Mark J. Perry.[9]
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I mean it's this bullshit
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/9357/legion-doom.jpg
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
for all their hyper connected techlologism these people seem to not know anything about the world outside of video games
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
look at Lana Del Rey
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
lana was right
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
i watched one of anita sarkeesian's videos a few weeks ago and . . . it's awfully restrained?
'here are 100 well-documented examples of really fucked up portrayals of women in video games and women shouldn't be treated that way, in fiction or real life.'
it's not like she called gamers assholes or misogynists or acne-ridden child-men who lack empathy or social skills of any sort. what kind of threat is she? ppl complain about sexism in movies, but there's no shortage of comic book films because studios, game or film, follow the demand.
tbh this is the first time i've found myself thinking wtf is wrong with the kids today, so thanks for making me feel old, gamergate
also it's pretty fucked up that the correct ppl are petitioning a global corporation to resume advertising somewhere
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
these people are paper-thin enough they just fucking can't tolerate someone having a different opinion. not even that -- sarkeesian & co like video games, they just wish they were mildly different!
― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 16 October 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
it's gross to see actual young persons involved on the conservative side of a culture war
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 October 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link