xxp my experience is that MMOs (and strategy games even moreso) are a somewhat separate sphere where these people exist in fewer numbers and/or milder forms. i've definitely created a mental connection between gamergaters and AAA studio games (especially shooters), maybe falsely, but the behavior on display throughout this whole ordeal is much more extreme than anything i ever encounter as a gamer
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
derek mad smart if u ask me
https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/522829362597752834
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
xp: Whereas in my experience, the GamerGate chatter is very much like what you'd see in every WoW zone on the general chat channel, to the point where it was SOP in our guild to unsubscribe to general whenever you entered a new zone (and ESPECIALLY in hub cities).
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
can we go bump some other threads with cool new games and articles by women developers and critics about actual games, spending too much breath on this shit is bad for the humours
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
okay goole you have got to stop linking this shit, I'm going to have an aneurism from stifling alternating lols and screams
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Wait...that was serious?
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
im dying
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
xp it's more of the same mindset that guy who started all this nonsense has "I’ve had to…keep it from splitting the earth in two"
give me a fucking break. what's the word for being insufferably self important and totally misguided at the same time?
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
cnn manages to make a more incoherent graphic than these goobers usually do
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/522831910343413761
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
lool
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art),
a Republican.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
so much mspaint
https://twitter.com/BurntheBolo/status/522833234472620033
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/522828080097009664
Derek Smart is the most ironically-named person
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
some traditional gamers
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0FxelrCQAIozpJ.jpg
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
to bring our lil illuminati circle all the way around:
https://twitter.com/Reyeko_/status/522833063986749440
"psych"
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
he has also mocked atheism and obesity
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
sorry, couldn't resist posting that image. Can imagine people who actually don't know anything about this just being even more confused. "Hold on a minute, what do the arrows mean? what are online"trolls"?" etc. etc.
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
wow boycott gawker boycott max reed
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
ah wait scratch my last post, Smart is anti-GamerGate
circles within circles, man
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
wait he IS?
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
or IS he...
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
so while I might be mocking from an uninformed position, I really only have one counter-argument: lol
no problem. as long as we agree I'm more well-read than you.
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
lol i'm getting no twitter shine from this
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
i mean, thank god really
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
i for one want to hear what the nontraditional gamers have to say about all this
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
i cracked an Apple joke a while ago and some dingus clapped back, best not poke two cults in one day
xp
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah i really ought to take advantage of these cultural shitstorms to raise my twitter profile
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
I've poked at GamerGate for a couple of weeks and only gotten a couple of nibbles off of it
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
and 'traditional gamers' makes me think more of the middle-aged dudes with huge beards who play tabletop RPGs at the game store
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
ive trolled atheists and gamergate and tbh i just ended up feeling bad about it almost immediately, some real sad people out there, also its too easy to be satisfying
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
if u want to do it tho the secret is to reply to one of their leaders tweets eg richard dawkins
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
this whole thread top to bottom needs to be put in a museum
https://twitter.com/LVX156/status/522789420370784256
― goole, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
sincere thx to goole for all the twitter gems. i espouse all social media but enjoy observing assholes from a distance so this is p much win win for me
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
perfect punchline, goole
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
xp nah, that one was a waste of time tbqf
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
jfc at "hatred"chu otmi need to quit thinking about #GAMERGATE for awhile, this shit is depressing
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
― goole, Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:45 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
max reed is ismalic state pass it on
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
someone talk me out of tweeting the dude who started this shitstorm to ask him if he wishes he'd listened to his mother
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
it stands for "maximum reed caliphate" if you think the msm is gonna tell you whats up youre a fuckin joke
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
― 💪😈⚠ (DJP), Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:23 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is actually a good idea tho
xp forks you're finally down to my level, congrats!
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
maximum reed khalifate
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
games suck, let's all get real jobs
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
oh man he made the full transcript of the interview available
http://antinegationism.tumblr.com/post/100178126531/transcript-from-that-rather-uneven-buzzfeed-article
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
"The deontological problem of a false idol struck us as more grievous than the deontological problem of potential for a false idol to be harassed."
― jmm, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
"I wouldn't call it acrimonious."
hahaha
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
... he actually thinks this bolsters his case, rather than making him sound like a total psycho:
I consulted with a bunch of people — over a dozen [which approaches statistical significance]. Most of them women, most of them in tech fields, a few in games. We thought through the risks, the potential fallout, I made flowcharts of probabilities and possibilities. We debated, we considered, and we came to consensus. From strictly utilitarian terms, the probabilistic risk she posed to those around her was greater than the probabilistic risk posed by the situation turning toxic. The deontological problem of a false idol struck us as more grievous than the deontological problem of potential for a false idol to be harassed.
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn’t call it acrimonious. The tone of thezoepost is there primarily to keep things entertaining. There’s no point to writing something no one will read. But, for reasons I won’t get into, angry isn’t really a thing for me. I certainly felt betrayed and aghast for about a week. But there’s wasn’t really any emotional anchor to keep me feeling those things much later than that. It was too surreal — to have been dating this person with this relentless drive to present themselves as some paragon of virtue, committed to ethics and behaving with utmost empathy — only to find out that this was entirely an act. I felt betrayed at first, but, couldn’t really keep up feeling betrayed by someone I never really knew.
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
and yeah, that deontological problem sentence screamed right off the page didn't it
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link