i've been looking at the sam b bullying tweet uproar (along with the gamer-death articles uproar and that whole anil dash saga) as mostly a willful misunderstanding, same way fox news likes to dig for anything that could be perceived as a gaffe and then spend weeks (or years #BENGHAZIIIIII) screaming about it w/tears in their eyes on camera
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
totally, this is exactly it. and there's something i find so defeating about this wingnut disingenuity. it's like the height of 'if you can have your own opinions i can have my own facts' bullshit, and its impossible to engage and debate and communicate with people who will just choose which facts to ignore and believe (cf that awful bullying douchenozzle's previous awful fat shaming and suicide-baiting posts, ignored by the idiots who rail at sam biddle for 'bullying', or that guy on twitter ignoring milo's anti-gaming posts now he's pro #GG, and saying 'that was in the past but now he's doing his job which is journalism'). maybe that's how they get to maintain these entirely indefensible and self-serving and nonsensical 'moral' positions.
― Terrific ribbon, Moe (stevie), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
and then a whole bunch of other angry neckbeards on the Internet went full Denis Dyack
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
i like chris but i dunno don't know how helpful that is
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
ha i have no idea who Chris Kluwe is but i enjoyed that blast(probably not helpful at all honestly)
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes you gotta call weaseldicks weaseldicks when they are.
― how's life, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
def does not read helpful and won't end well but he's at his best when he's got a head of steam
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
I think it mostly helps to deflect the hate, honestly. The amount of energy they will spend on hating on an NFL player is energy not spent harassing LW's 1, 2 & 3.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
why-gamergaters-piss-me-the-f-off-a7e4c7f6d8a6
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
xp lol, that asinine terminology i don't even want to use ironically (LW)
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I kinda like it. Much faster than writing all their names. In other news, Adobe has asked Gawker to remove their logo from their site, because Adobe 'Stands Against Bullying'. If you're on twitter there are worse uses of time than to tweet them and let them know what you think of that.
My tweet: "@Adobe If you were against bullying, you would speak out against the movement of harrasment that #GamerGate devolved into. Shameful."
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
also creative cloud wtf
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
im all for that kluwe thing because idk man fuck helpful. plus by nature, that rant is going to hit the overall media a lot more than gamefaq counterarguments can thx to who he is
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
fuck helpful in the context of this thing, i mean. im down for total abject shaming of the entirety of these gamergate dicks all day every day.
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
they won't be shamed
also there are some pretty clear advantage for the people who are *actually* being threatened by this stuff to not having this stuff stirred up
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
like in this case it feels like chris being like "hey pay attention to me guys!!!"
Cluwe being a visible professional athlete - ostensibly these super macho guys who normally might be assumed to tow the line with reactionary conservatism - taking a stance is a good thing
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
visible ex-professional athlete i guess
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
yup yupyou're next, Chris Bosh!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
OTOH his profile is such that no one who knows who he is is going to be surprised by his stance here so I understand how this reads as empty posturing
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Kluwe really wasn't even known nationally (he's an NFL kicker which is about as un-macho a position as you can possibly have and still be considered a "professional athlete") until he crusaded for gay rights for about a year so he's p much widely seen as more of an internet SJW than a macho football player
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
and like i said i like chris a lot and he did a ton of good and raised a ton of money here in minnesota to help successfully overturn the ban on gay marriage
ah, fair enough. i really have no idea who he was
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
always these conversations devolve into optics, strategizing *j/o motion*
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
tbf punter (which is what he was) is slightly more macho than kicker
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
sounds to me like he's an NFL analogue to Mick Foley
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
doh punter lol and actually it might be less
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
I find him really obnoxious and unhelpful, overall. Also he is delusional about how good a punter he was.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
punter is the ultimate nfl nobody
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Adobe is falling for this now?I have friends there and they will be hearing from me harrumph
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
i want to know what chris kluwe did to poly to get him so mad
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
filled up my twitter feed with his inane thoughts
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah that'll do it
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
cmon poly let us have one likeable viking/exviking, its been rough up here recently
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
he's a nice guy!
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah i met him a couple times via music shit and hes a super nice dude
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Alan Page is one of the coolest players ever
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
i like kluwe and i am glad someone is being that guy but i wish he were better at it
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
should we be talking about Sportsball in the Gamer place
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
i keep waiting for advanced analytics types to start rallying around punters as incredibly important and worthy of left-tackle type money but i havent seen it yet.
― ryan, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
on a per play basis you could make a case but too few plays overall
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
i've often wondered how self-styled alpha males get past the apparent paradox that whining about feminism is sorta *deeply un-masculine*
for "gamers" it almost seems as if they see themselves under assault on both sides of that continuum--in a way that strikes me as (and this is obvious) adolescent "mom and dad can't tell me what to do" stuff in the extreme. growing up is hard, etc.
― ryan, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
4chan video games board banned all gg chat a while back but people keep bringing it up and getting legitimate (word used v lightly) threads locked down so now there appear to be a/multiple bot/bots (or just really bored humans) that spam threads with pro/anti gg stuff which often results in locks and the meta shitposting has started to spiral and every couple threads you'll see a desperate comment like "i just want to talk about video games pls all of you just go away" and it is all very lol
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
(honestly I started paying attention to Kluwe when it came out that he played WoW and was in a competitive raiding guild)
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
maybe we need to http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG things up whenever GamerGate gets mentioned here
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
chris kluwe WoW guild application!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
loooooooool
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0fOAzwIQAAQ5b9.jpg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
whaaaaaaaaaaaaat
― Clay, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
prob fake but w/e
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
i don't see that in his timeline
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
he did reiterate his claim that rape helped kobe bryant's brand tho
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link