"Wow, sexist and racist. Two in one. You have a gift."
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
these gamergaters remind me of a cargo cult, like they think if they put on dad's suit and mouth the big serious words they think grownups use, they will all be magically deemed serious adults and their serious concerns about ethics in game journalism will assume gravitas, but like the islanders who built an airplane out of palm fronds or w/e they still have no insight at all how any of it actually works
I guess in that way it's just continuing the m.o. of the MRA/fedora sphere, with its obsession with divining the right shibboleths to utter and special garb to wear and mystic rites to enact to access social cachet rather than learning how to be a person in the world
― anonanon, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
tangentially related, but I'm interested in seeing Nightcrawler which seems to touch upon this sort of internet-educated recluse but applying it to the world tabloid journalism, or something
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
otm xp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
THEY HAVE NO SERIOUS CONCERNS
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
solid post anonanon
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
another good american cargo cult is these folks "I'm a sovereign human being, I stand under common law only" - Thread of Freemen
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
thing is that cargo cults have a rational and explicable basis for their beliefs
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
yeah youre right that this is an insult to cargo cults and i appologize
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
at least some good has come of all this
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
I think we've answered jjj's initial question pretty thoroughly by this point:
Because of ethics in gaming journalism!
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
Did A Message Board Regular Prophecize the Eruption of Gamergate More Than Two Years Before It Happened?
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
the answer may surprise you
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
in a thread frequented by primary #gamergate enemies
http://i.imgur.com/vAQZtsY.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
I love these pyramids.lol at ying yang symbol under "religion"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
ya illuminati pyramids are extremely my shit
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
Think Tanks more powerful than central banks!
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
ffs wake up sheeping
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
look folks keep this under yr respective fedoras but i am on the council of 13 and there is no fucking 'world monarch' that is just embarrassing
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/28/article-2093229-117F0F42000005DC-708_634x688.jpg
"Club of Rome, that's hot."
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
World's richest, most powerful sub-families
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pcgamer.com/researchers-find-that-female-pc-gamers-outnumber-males/
losing their minds on the chans over this. never seen goalposts move so quickly
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
p surprised by that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
women finally breaking through the glass basement
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
i haven't looked at the comments yet but i'm guessing they're all "farmville doesn't count"
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
lol xp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
Senior analyst Stephanie Llamas wrote in a follow-up blog post that the growing popularity of "casual platforms" has helped reinforce the false assumption that women are primarily casual gamers. But the reality, says Llamas, is that half of female PC gamers in the US consider themselves either "mid-core or hardcore gamers."
goes to the self-identifying as 'gamers' convo we had all the way upthread
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
The comments are a treat. On so-called "casual gamers" being called "gamers":
It does however devalue the term and there are people who identify with it. Would you like your neighbour identifying as your wife's second husband just because they shook hands? Would an archaeologist like it if people started calling them dogs because they both dig out bones?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
they're so good at not thinking through the subtexts of analogies
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
also at not understanding how analogies work at all
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
there's also the guy who says women outnumber men in social gaming spaces 1:1.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
it's like watching a slow motion collapse as these dudes continue to be confronted with evidence that challenges their narrative of primacy in a hobby they've been consistently out of touch with for years now. the gg crew represents, apparently, an ever smaller demo in an evolving and diversifying landscape. it is truly no wonder they've attracted attention from the social conservative wings, since ideologically they share nearly identical ideological anxieties
― this things i believe (art), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
second ideology mention superfluous; much shame on my house
― this things i believe (art), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
High hopes for this turning out a smart and civil discussion like the horror films why not thread, deep fears that it will descend into madness fyi― sfdgafhtehw (jjjusten), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:32 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sfdgafhtehw (jjjusten), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:32 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
it took us a while but we got there eventually
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
but ilx didn't even provide the madness
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
madness by proxy syndrome
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
― Mordy, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:49 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol mid-core shut it down folks
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
so is it softcore, midcore and hardcore?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
mid-core moderates
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm a normcore gamer
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
These guys don't like the term mid-core gamer. They want it referred to as half-mast.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
casual, casual-core, mobile, retro, mid-core, sonic fan art-core, adult man-baby-core, ethics in game journalism-core
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
I thought we were finally part of a post-core society.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1I0jDrCEAAQT1H.png
loooool
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
someone tell Patton Oswalt.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
omg
― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
how long til they recruit ian watkins apologists?
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
is tosh bro still on tv
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link