http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nj6PFaDmp6c/hqdefault.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
i loled
― Beat Happening's Megatron (Will M.), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
PS do gamers actually do well in "academic settings"?
broadly ime the answer to this is "fuck no"
― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
feel like one would need to separate out the sub-classes of gamer to get a handle on that really?
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
yeah there are too many meaningless generalizations but most of the young people i know who wd identify themselves as gamers are not academic high-flyers, to draw any connection between video games and academic ability in 2014 is patently fucken ridiculous
― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
ya everyone plays bideo games is one of the hilarious aspects of this whole thing
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Kissing in the blue darkPlaying pool and wild dartsBideo games
― Mordy, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
I think 2/3 of my new coworkers are more into video games than me
one of my coworkers was wearing these long Portal 2 socks as stockings, smdh
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
loooool
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
https://www.jinx.com/p/portal_2_long_fall_socks.html
(not my coworker's leg)
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.jinx.com/p/portal_2_companion_cube_womens_briefs.htmlprobably not a good idea for many reasons
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
I do not want to know if my coworker owns those
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2Rqg5RCQAE-1Mx.png
feel like the shirt of the guy whos landing that thing on the weird moon or w/e is relevant to this convo
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
[gets off airport shuttle bus in las vegas]
vegas baby!
[claps hard twice]
― goole, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
*goes directly to space nerd convention*
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iW4k06C.png
Hahaha owned
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
lmao 1st time for everything
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
jesus last two times i have opened this thread i have burst into irl laughter, its a welcome change
― Beat Happening's Megatron (Will M.), Thursday, 13 November 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
lol jimmy wales told gamergate to write an example of a non-biased GG wikipedia article. i'm not interested in reading the actual article but the edit history page is a real delight.
― you little affront to god (reddening), Thursday, 13 November 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
https://vid.me/5DH5
― a total laugh package (s.clover), Thursday, 13 November 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
Xp
Fav quote from that log "Removed the entire John Galt speech, what the fuck."
― this things i believe (art), Thursday, 13 November 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
hahaha
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 November 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 November 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
sorry guys I will readd it now
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
(Changed "flee their homes" to "leave their homes." "Flee" is a highly emotive term implying a real and present threat to their safety.)
yeah just some women leaving their homes after being instructed to by the police, no biggie, prob had to go to the store or something.
― moz.gov (Clay), Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
lol i was just about to post that
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
changed "flee their homes" to "went to a couple open houses"
lol
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http://gamergate.wikia.com/wiki/Proposed_Wikipedia_Entry?diff=5101&oldid=5030
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
actually, it's about 16,000 words on gaming journalism
finally, the comprehensive dossier outlining everything that's wrong with vidya journalistic ethics, complete with 121 footnotes so it must be credible! i can't face reading it because lol fuck that but i can tell you the word 'quinn' is used 33 times, 'threat' appears 16 times, but 'death threat' and 'harassment' just once each.
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
Don't think bending over backwards to find examples of female journalists breaching "ethics" in "journalism" is the best way of demonstrating your inclusivity and good faith tbh. Especially not accompanied with screenshots of their personal twitter conversations.
― ledge, Thursday, 13 November 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
since I'm a self-loathing idiot, I read through the game review racket part
the logic is as follows: - Game studios/publishers/backers put a lot of weight on the aggregate score Metacritic assigns a game - Individual reviews shouldn't have scores that vary much according to a reviewer's opinions if it's an opinion on a topic they deem inessential to the gameplay (?!) - These outlier reviews skew the scores and developers will be laid off and starving because one reviewer had an opinion different than other reviewers
It obviously falls apart in the middle. They're basically demanding all reviewers to fall in line, and placing the blame on reviewers instead of Metacritic or studios.
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
seriously this is some weirdo HUAC shit, esp the way they try to get people fired for their connections to "SJW"s
― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
this kind of "silent majority" victimhood is reprehensible
― Nhex, Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
i love how the conclusion is three paragraphs of vague non-committal high-school-book-report shit after 15,000 words of insanely detailed examination of women's twitter conversations (and a picture of geoff keighley)
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
It reads to an extent as a document of a power struggle in GamerGate, the dudes who are actually interested at least talking about journalism are clearly getting the upper hand a little but still need to pander to the base with some red meat about Quinn.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
i saw #WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant was trending:
Woody @XLRWoody 11h11 hours ago#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant have a discussion about journalistic ethics without being accused of being rapists #GamerGate
Abdullah Qutbeddeen @AzapYourSaviour 22h22 hours ago#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant get Wil Wheaton to stop being such a censor happy bully and manchild. #GamerGate #NotYourShield
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
WIL WHEATON IS BEING SUCH A MANCHILD YOU GUYS
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
they don't realize ST:TNG is in re-runs
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
so metacritic basically just survives on its game section huh
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
remember when they tried book reviews
pretty sure the beat-metacritic-keep-your-job concept is over because a) fallout new vegas left a real bad taste in people's mouth and b) mc scores just aren't a good representation of commercial success as much as they were ~5y ago. so that's a stupid argument anyway.
― Beat Happening's Megatron (Will M.), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
this is basically about defending the purity of metacritic scores right?
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, October 13, 2014 6:30 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i didn't really know how realistic this was when i posted it
i guess it makes some sense, game review scores are about as uniform across publications as they can be
mostly because reviewers never consider content as being pliable like every other part of gaem
xp
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
i still see ppl putting tons of weight into mc scores. apparently there is a huge difference between a 75 and a 78 and an 81. like every single tick represents an entirely different tier.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
so i work at a large software company and, when i venture out for lunch, hear dudes having serious discussions about video games as if this is not the most embarrassing thing in the world to do. even when i'm talking with someone irl about a game that i enjoy, i hate how impenetrable and ridiculous it sounds.
anyway, i can't help but wonder if any of these co-workers are #gg dudes (i hope not, and would prefer not to know if that were the case).
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
my understanding is that metacritic scores affect the bonuses of the programmers and can determine funding for future sequelsor is that an outdated notion?
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
that is as terrible as customer service reps begging you to rate them as 5s across the board, otherwise they fail their evaluations
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Ehh, tbh talking abt games is not more impenetrable or silly than talking abt music or sports or stamp collecting or fiction, if someone else is into the same hobby it's a nice thing. Obv there are socially thoughtful and smooth ways of doing all these things, and there are rude and ill-motivated ones (one-upmanship, name-dropping, cliquishness, ego masquerading as conversation etc), but GG aside, i wd not shun game-talkers just for game-talking. I have, however, strenuously avoided eager-to-be-lik managers banging on abt the sweet assinations they got to do in Call of Duty or w/e, esp when foisted upon coworkers who obviously couldnt give a shit and were giving every signal that they wd prefer small talk to be about fishing, food, sports or the weather even.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
xp it does, but pinning the blame on individual reviewers to maintain a game's Metacritic score is so massively wrongheaded
watch yourself jordan #ggamerhaterz
― Nhex, Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
this is a two year old story so maybe outdated but i don't remember hearing anything further about it... probably those dastardly game journalists up to now goodhttp://kotaku.com/5893595/why-are-game-developer-bonuses-based-on-review-scoresm@tt? u know more?
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
if bob dylan gets less than a 93 on a new boxset or whatever he has to spend an hour in the bad boy corner and no treats
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link