hilarious the disparity betweem the degree to which the 4channers were actually and specifically and consciously and maliciously conspiring to defame zoe quinn et al and ruin their careers and break the law in doing so, and the piddling degree to which the games journalists were conspiring to do, well, anything really. i mean, i know this is obvious. there seems a much clearer comparison between the #gamergaters and that terrible breitbart spawn who took down Acorn and did all that crepey stuff with that girl, than games journalists and journolist. but there's little value in pointing that out when wingers see nothing wrong in what the bleepblorper got up to.
― A college wearing a sweater that says “John Belushi” (stevie), Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:18 (nine years ago) link
I am a member of the game writers google group. 70% of the emails are about sharing PR contact info, asking for help when stumped on pre-release review games or setting up online sessions for those review games. The other 30% are about cats or pro wrestling. It's incredibly boring, which is why I only subscribe to the digest now.
― GM, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
what aren't you telling us? hmm? hmm?
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
attn #gamergate weve got a live one!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
once on GameJournoPros I made a possum joke because somebody mentioned an editor named George Jones
― GM, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
I KNEW IT
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
u shd do an ama and be extremely boring plz
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
(counts on fingers) That's 10% unaccounted for!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
i think i got invited to this? can't remember never joined (thank god as it now turns out) cuz i basically hate talking shop
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
#GAMERGSATESECRETS
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
so, i have been ignoring this for the most part, is there something i should be mad about?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
UMS i saw someone retweet you yesterday and you seem mad about something
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
it's a lot of territorial pissing from basement dwellers
― bnw, Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
that's what it looks like at a glance but i didn't want to dismiss it out of hand
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
ya might as well, it's the same tripe repeated over and over again
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Actually today was interesting, which means I have been spending too much time paying attention to this. But GamerGate appears to have been.. chased off.. 4chan?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
oughtn't click to 4chan at work
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/death-to-the-gamer/
this been posted yet?
― Treeship, Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
yes and then we killed the gamer
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
death to jennifer garner
― polyphonic, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Does @Nero get paid for this? Is this someone's actual job?
― jmm, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
jacobin piece undercooked
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
it's just lag00n's in thread strong take (gaming = consumerism) + unpacked into verbosity
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
took a quick look at the tag on twitter, came away with this gem
https://twitter.com/Bendilin/status/512708381186854912
― goole, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
― Mordy, Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:19 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk i thought it was pretty good
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
idk i expect more from jacobin i guess
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
but tbf consumerism is pretty much ubiquitous on our culture so maybe its unfair to pick on teh poor gamers, in the preceding piece he does spell out how everyone is a geek now https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/08/on-geek-culture
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
this is good:
There are a few small issues with this analysis. One is the notion that the slights imagined by gamers are just that: imaginary. But they aren’t, and gamers must be taken at face value when they claim to feel threatened. Gamer culture is under threat, though the notion that it’s dead or dying is both overstated and premature.
When your identity has been manufactured by corporations urging you to consume certain things in prescribed ways, then any change, no matter how small, is an existential threat. When women challenge decades of almost exclusively male fantasies of sex and power, this alters the content the gamer consumes. And when that content is altered, gamer identity itself under threat. The vitriol isn’t contrived or artificially manufactured. It has a source.
― goole, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
Neoliberalism has made geeks of us all: jocks, nerds, and dweebs alike.
― Nhex, Friday, 19 September 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
how to write for Jacobin:
1. Identify a thing that's definitely bad.2. Blame neoliberalism for that thing.3. Something something Adorno?
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Friday, 19 September 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
i mean
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 September 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
um neoliberalism is bad hello
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 September 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
it's not that there aren't interesting things to still say about neoliberalism, but that well is pretty dry in 2014.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 September 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
naw i agree that those on the left tend to just call everything and everyone they dont like neoliberalism
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 September 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
but i mean its just one sentence
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 September 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
i think someone very bright could write a very interesting piece about the history of gaming as it intertwines w/ (as well as subverts) neoliberalism + consumerism. i envision something like Attali's Noise but for games instead of music.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 September 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
jesus
https://twitter.com/Nero/status/513082652518535168
― goole, Friday, 19 September 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate
― Mordy, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
whoa
― example (crüt), Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
The correct title of this article is #GamerGate. The substitution or omission of the # is because of technical restrictions.
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
53 footnotes, damn
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 September 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
omg lolololol
https://twitter.com/congressedits/status/514080679030566912
holy shit
― goole, Monday, 22 September 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
"Cultural Marxism" ?!?!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
you are in for a world of fun if you dig around for that phrase
― goole, Monday, 22 September 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
hahahahahahahahaha
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
facepalm of sadness
― Nhex, Monday, 22 September 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38832734/boobs.0.0_standard_800.0.jpg
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4s7cV4Us4and it has come to this
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 04:38 (nine years ago) link
is he a double agent
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 05:13 (nine years ago) link
I find it kind of humorous (tinged with sadness) that someone paid AEI to make that.
― alanbatman (abanana), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link