Corruption In Games Journalism, or "Five Guys Burgers and Fries"

FAST6191 · Sep 14, 2014

Gahars said:
Except if they want press passes to industry events, conduct interviews, etc., of course. They call themselves journalists until they receive criticism/backlash/questions, and then they suddenly become bloggers.

There's a smattering of examples of these people waffling back and forth between calling themselves "journalists" and "bloggers." I don't have any on hand, but I'll be happy to post them as soon as I find them.

But if the link Hyro-sama made to http://www.usgamer.net/articles/lets-talk-about-gamergate-and-journalism is anything to go by then game journalism is at least partway comparable to what those doing reporting for Vice are enduring to report on the Isis stuff. I think we can give them some leeway in their definitions if that is the case.

Veho · Sep 14, 2014

Tim Schafer is really bad with money.

raulpica · Sep 15, 2014

If you say that Anita Sarkesiaan is faking the police calls just to get more notoriety UR FROM 4CHAN AND A MISOGINIST AZZH0L3 AND U SHUD DIE IN HEL

FACT

Hyro-Sama · Sep 15, 2014

OMG

Someone read my shit. FAST no less. Hell yeah!

bkifft · Sep 15, 2014

raulpica said:
If you say that Anita Sarkesiaan is faking the police calls just to get more notoriety UR FROM 4CHAN AND A MISOGINIST AZZH0L3 AND U SHUD DIE IN HEL

FACT

Checking if she really reported it: journalism.
Demand for her to prove it herself: witchhunt.

Little known bonus fact: 100% of those I told about this story didn't know the word misogyny. You anglosaxons are crazy.

raulpica · Sep 15, 2014

bkifft said:
You ~~anglosaxons~~ latins are crazy.

Fix'd

bkifft · Sep 15, 2014

raulpica said:
Fix'd

Hold on just a second: so you want to tell me that in bella "bung-bunga" Italia third wave feminism is a vocal movement, too?

Holy shit, they are encircling me! I need to stock my "Man bunker" with canned food and porn right now!

raulpica · Sep 15, 2014

bkifft said:
Hold on just a second: so you want to tell me that in bella "bung-bunga" Italia third wave feminism is a vocal movement, too?

Holy shit, they are encircling me! I need to stock my "Man bunker" with canned food and porn right now!

Yes it is, even if you hear it pretty rarely. Pretty much only from young females who are disgusted at the situation in Italy. But you never read about it on the newspapers or see it in TV - the only things you can see on there are the asses and tits of the latest hot new local celebrities.

By the way I was sure that it came from Latin, instead it comes from Greek - my previous post is now invalid

Gahars · Sep 15, 2014

bkifft said:
Little known bonus fact: 100% of those I told about this story didn't know the word misogyny. You anglosaxons are crazy.

To be fair, I'm sure there's quite a lot of non-German words the average German wouldn't know.

Veho · Sep 15, 2014

Gahars said:

TIL video games are rape.

FAST6191 · Sep 15, 2014

Veho said:
TIL video games are rape.

Were I a funnier person I might look up incidences of rape/rape references in computer games and compare those to film and TV, to give it a fighting chance I might have to exclude police procedurals.

Of course if, as I suspect, games come out lower in the percentages I suppose I will have to accept that by not talking about it that they are covering it up and making it harder to do things.

Only way to win is not to play?

DCG · Sep 16, 2014

Hell, I even didn't know that word before this happened :s

I really do hope the gamers can successfully launch their own sites and keep them up

Btw.
Looking at the alexa rating of kotaku they are a bit stable now.
However, quite a chunk of their visitors come from facebook and google search, which might indicate they can lose another 27% of visitors when the SJW's and anti-gamers have found another target XD

bkifft · Sep 16, 2014

IMHO quite fair rant in regards to AZ's "Listen an believe":

Gahars · Sep 17, 2014

Christina Sommers' new video is up:

Also, happening of note: Yesterday, Julian Assange participated in an AMA on Reddit. Somehow or another, a user that had been shadowbanned by mods for voting on GamerGate content managed to get a question through. Then he tweeted this to his 2.3 million followers.

The fire rises, indeed.

4chan, on the other hand, has been through the wringer. Any threads or posts on the subject on any board are swiftly deleted despite previous approval. People who asked questions on the IRC were banned. It seems that one or two of the mods has gone overzealous. Be careful, friends, for not even the Cathedral of Misogyny is safe.

Vengenceonu · Sep 17, 2014

My GOD your even censoring your own comments. IS THERE NO END TO THIS MADNESS!

DCG · Sep 17, 2014

My god... is this shit going to end some day?

I seriously wonder why 4Chan mods would start banning people at this point, the initial shitstorm has already passed and the discussions (that I've seen) were normal.... Are they being paid off somehow?

Veho · Sep 17, 2014

4chan is full mainstream nowadays. After its infamy turned to fame it stopped being the secret little club for nerds it started off as, and between that and the public scrutiny that made Moot ban everything for fear of lawsuits the site is now completely vanilla.

Foxi4 · Sep 17, 2014

Veho said:
4chan is full mainstream nowadays. After its infamy turned to fame it stopped being the secret little club for nerds it started off as, and between that and the public scrutiny that made Moot ban everything for fear of lawsuits the site is now completely vanilla.

Are you talking about the famous hacker "4 chan"?

FAST6191 · Sep 17, 2014

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-i-learned-as-internets-most-hated-person/

Somewhat amusing, I will leave it for others to read first.

Gahars · Sep 17, 2014

So apparently second-wave feminist democrats are conservatives now. Huh.

Veho said:
4chan is full mainstream nowadays. After its infamy turned to fame it stopped being the secret little club for nerds it started off as, and between that and the public scrutiny that made Moot ban everything for fear of lawsuits the site is now completely vanilla.

As the prophets predicted, so it shall be.

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