it's almost as though people with massive victim complexes are the real victims
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
this is going around
https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/525697776194437120
― goole, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
http://www.rllmukforum.com/uploads/monthly_10_2014/post-17274-0-36787300-1414174756.png
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
lol those are so good
― goole, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
OH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE ANDREW SULLIVAN JUST POSTED ON THIS
― goole, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
YES THERE IS A SOUTH PARK SCREENSHOT
"I LIKE CARL MARX. HE WAS A FUCKING RAD DUDE."
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/zpxlng/status/525643616304107521
― goole, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
lol - that's pretty great.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
'now I can go back to being a gentleman on the internet' *adjusts fedora*
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
The gaming ethics have been kidnapped by SJW's. Are you a rad enough dude to rescue the ethics?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
lol
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
So Andrew Sullivan says some things:
There’s an atmosphere in which it has somehow become problematic to have a classic white, straight male identity, and a lot that goes with it. I’m not really a part of that general culture – indifferent to boobage, as I am, and bored by violence. But I don’t see why it cannot have a place in the world. I believe in the flourishing of all sorts of cultures and subcultures and have long been repulsed by the nannies and busybodies who want to police them – whether from the social right or the feminist left.
But – and here’s where the logic escapes me – if the core gamers really do dominate the market for these games, why do they think the market will stop catering to them? The great (and not-so-great) thing about markets is that they are indifferent to content as such. If “hardcore gamers” skew 7 -1 male, and if corporations want to make lots of money, then this strain of the culture is hardly under threat. It may be supplemented by lots of other, newer varieties, but it won’t die. Will it be diluted? Almost certainly. Does that feel like an assault for a group of people whose identity is deeply bound up in this culture? Absolutely. Is it something anyone should really do anything about? Nah. Let a thousand variety of nerds and post-nerds bloom. And leave Kenny McCormick alone. This doesn’t have to be zero-sum.
The analogy a reader made this morning between the end of gamer culture and the end of gay culture was really helpful to me. I’ve written and blogged a lot about the end of gay culture; and I’ve always tried to present both sides of the argument. Yes, I wouldn’t trade our freedom for the closeted, marginalized past; at the same time, it’s impossible not to feel some regret at the close-knit, marginalized, very distinctive solidarity gays have lost as a group, and some affection for a world, built defiantly to defend itself against outsiders, that is dissipating before our eyes and on our apps. I’m for integration and against identity politics. But do I miss what, say, leather bars once were – and feel very conflicted now that bachelorette parties come and go as they please in some of them? Do I harbor some traces of resentment at those who treat gay culture as some kind of straight playground, or at the mob of straight folks who will swamp any gay presence at next week’s once-very gay high heel race in Dupont Circle? Guilty as charged.
And look, many gamers were the bullied in high school; this was their safe space; it was a place they could call home. They now feel it slipping away, and it has unhinged some and disconcerted many, as a lot of mainstream culture has heaped scorn and ridicule on them at the same time. And I’m sorry, but I feel some sympathy here. That sympathy has, alas, been swamped by revulsion at the rhetoric and tactics that have come to define this amorphous movement....
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
somebody set him up the bomb
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
full link behind paywall: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/10/24/the-end-of-gamer-culture-2/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
"I LIKE RICHARD MARX. HE WAS A FUCKING RAD DUDE."
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
cultural richard marxism is something i could get behind
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Gawker's coverage, he goes on to say:
...pure vitriol, resting on an unspoken, hard left view of culture that is more disturbing because it presents itself as snark and analysis, rather than tired, easy agit-prop. It’s a classic piece that asks all the cool kids today to smear and dismiss all the bullied of yesterday – and give them one last shove into the locker. Gawker’s Joel Johnson actually cites the piece thus:
Gawker Media has been covering the often-confounding phenomenon of Gamergate in detail, and will keep on covering it.
That piece was not so much “covering the phenomenon” as viciously skewing it. And yes, its tone smacked of bullying and dismissal. When you’re telling people they don’t even deserve to be in a debate, and associate them with segregationists and every other entity good liberals have been taught to despise, “dismissive” is the least of it.
Look: whatever case the gamergate peeps have, they have botched it with their tactics. Those tactics have been repellent in every sense of the word. But bullying has occurred on both sides, and only one side was bullied before.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
http://33.media.tumblr.com/441968a1a8eab5561889cb6e414cd6b0/tumblr_ndxajzwDsF1qz8u8ho1_500.jpg
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
re: https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/525697776194437120
isn't this person just a sock?
― example (crüt), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
would post the "actually" thread but it's 77
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
Your grandma plays video games.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
? which person, the chan poster or that twitter acct?
xps
― goole, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
last dozen posts itt <3 <3
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
i mean the chan poster "The Leader of Gamergate"
― example (crüt), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
i think that site puts that "title" on every post in the gg board. joeks.
― goole, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
i mean, there's no way of knowing really.
― goole, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
Everyone's grandma.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Ugarles/status/498886333516251137
Adam Baldwin, meet clickhole.
― raccoon shipoopi (how's life), Friday, 24 October 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
loooooooooooooool
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Friday, 24 October 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
Whatta maroon
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 24 October 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/y9BT8J3.png
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 24 October 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
good god that Marx WAS A FUCKING RAD DUDE quote is the best
― Nhex, Friday, 24 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zBTOlkueeqo/Tvp3aRjln3I/AAAAAAAADt8/7GwXIIoTVyE/s1600/25hkavt.gifearly 1st gen marxist
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 October 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0Ao1AOCYAAWc1z.png
deepest sock imo
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 October 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
man i think i finally reached my limit on these smug shits and their absurd theories. i can't find this nonsense funny anymore, now i just want to punch everyone right in their stupid face.
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Saturday, 25 October 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0xd-DYCIAAmPFm.png
the greatest trick max r3ad ever played was . . .
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 October 2014 07:06 (nine years ago) link
it is incredible how much mileage they're getting out of completely misunderstanding everything about journalism
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 25 October 2014 09:12 (nine years ago) link
well i guess it's just the right amount of mileage
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 25 October 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link
nick denton's private troll army exposed:
http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1300000/Troll-Dolls-troll-dolls-1353645-500-296.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 25 October 2014 09:24 (nine years ago) link
:(
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 25 October 2014 09:25 (nine years ago) link
censored by the SJWs!
oh shit a_girl_irl is back! gawker must've put him back on the payroll
― you little affront to god (reddening), Saturday, 25 October 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zZMslm2.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 October 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
the comment along that thread that refers to professor pretentious user name as a "false equivalency machine" is on point.
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Saturday, 25 October 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
tbh i do worship mario as a god tho
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 October 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0tkUNTIgAIb5Pe.jpg
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 October 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
ugh sjws always be biting themselves in half
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Saturday, 25 October 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
love to bite self in half
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 October 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link