i might've railed against this POV pre-gamergate, but when a splinter subculture considers threatening to kill game critics acceptable lulz for the sake of a morally unobstructed view of the new COD, it's a persuasive argument
TBH thats crossed my mind as well.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
but I cant fucking put "bomb threats" and "over women talking about video game" together without losing a large chunk of brain).
Like, someone actually thought it was a bright idea to become a terrorist in order to stop a game critic. This is not a hard cost-benefit computation!
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/522315820291350528https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/522315786288132096
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 09:21 (nine years ago) link
Gamergaters are arguing with an Eliza Twitter bot: https://twitter.com/ElizaRBarr/status/522159233547382784
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz-re_oIAAAOJwP.pnghttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz-uP0sIEAAGmqT.png
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 10:43 (nine years ago) link
okay that's a lol
― Terrific ribbon, Moe (stevie), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 11:09 (nine years ago) link
Hahahahahaha
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RVrPYjJ.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
Dead Cousin Squinky OTM
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
sad otm
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
the BBC's attempts to sum up the whole farrago using Auntie's balanced language and formal tone are pretty amusing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29626809
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
all-time: https://twitter.com/JamieBworth/status/522380269223809024
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
Gamergaters are arguing with an Eliza Twitter bot
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 6:43 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
looool
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
oh man i could read that all day
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
i always appreciate it when right wing randos loop in instapundit
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz_nCWMCQAA18Ok.png
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
looks like it (or something like it) worked
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/196697/
god that guy is such a cheapass
xp lol that's perfect
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
(incidentally it's always super bizarre to me when you see a RW rando on twitter and look them up and they have like 25k followers)
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
#tcot is in essence a vast followback conspiracy
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
I like playing video games sometimes but I'd be cool with totally abolishing them if it would make these dudes miserable.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
I like playing them quite a lot, and would cosign - although I do worry that this will end very very fucking poorly.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
:(
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GyQG3IT.png
lmao
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
loool
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
the idea that online interaction is like some game simulating real world socialization def has some legs
the escalation model, from really awkward conversation to threats to calling swat teams or w/e really shows a lack of understanding about how the world works, although it really does seem like an echo of the 'war on terror' in some ways.
there's no end goal, though. do you want these people to leave your sphere, commit suicide, or what? it's like an obsessive-compulsive need to make your little cultural area a 'safe space', with the understanding that this safety means only arguments that you approve of can exist, only viewpoints within a certain range of variation exist, and thoughts that you don't want to have are kept at bay. it's as if the existence of alternative viewpoints is a threat to their sense of self.
people who base their self-image and sense of self worth on exclusion are doomed unless they can live in a world where they're a hegemony, and then they're still going to be circling the drain because the absence of outside ideas and influences is a death spiral
― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
gamers need to learn to day whatever man
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
like do they even toke weed wldnt that highten the gaming experince
I don't know a thing about games these days, but I'm having trouble understanding what the gg beef is. Do they really think that if a game like Depression Quest gets a positive review on a website then every gaming company is going to stop producing the massively lucrative shit that gg folks like, and only put out games about navigating microaggressions and volunteering at crisis centers?
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
yes
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
they just think no one shd be able to say anything abt them especially girls
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
m/l same as everyone else
'ethics in video games journalism' really is a phrase that they're misusing, what they really mean is that journalists are acting against gamer ethics unless they work to further the current gaming culture and any deviation from that is unethical
don't know if they think depression quest style games will take over, they just literally don't like seeing them or reading about them on their websites/stores
― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
probably because people who aren't them might be using steam or reading and contributing to their websites and they aren't comfortable with people unlike them
deadspin article is gooood
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
another hour, another gem
https://twitter.com/AlrightAnon/status/522414800148914176
(guys seems like another level of creepy shitbag, be warned)
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
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