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

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Surprise, surprise: The Guardian caught red handed pushing an Anti-GG agenda.

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Also...

Eron, the ex-boyfriend of Literally Who/Franz Ferdinand/*Insert Other Nickname for Zoe Quinn here*, was recently interviewed over the past few months of controversy by Buzzfeed. Here's the interview.

Yeah, as it turns out, it looks like the interviewer heavily skewed his words. Here's the actual transcript, courtesy of Eron himself.

[10/14/14 2:29:03 PM] Eron Gjoni: Just a sec. I want to send an appraisal of why this personal thing became so cultural
[10/14/14 2:29:11 PM] Eron Gjoni: while the other personal things made only small blips
[10/14/14 2:29:11 PM] joseph_bernstein: okay
[10/14/14 2:29:22 PM] Eron Gjoni: I haven’t published it anywhere yet, so do with it as you wish
[10/14/14 2:29:32 PM] Eron Gjoni: Game Dev: ”Josh Mattingly was being a total fucking creeper on Facebook last night.”
Games Journalists: “HOLY SHIT LET’S PUBLISH THE CHATLOGS THIS IS TOTALLY INDUSTRY RELATED.”
Josh Mattingly: ”My bad, I was drunk. I’m gonna quit.”
———-
Someone Pseudonymously Known as Magz: “Max Temkin had not-entirely-consensual sex with me one time way back in college. Well, it was more like, a crime of opportunity, but yeah.”
Games Journalists: “HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK LET’S SIGNAL BOOST THIS IT IS TOTALLY INDUSTRY RELATED.”
Max Temkin: “I have no idea what’s going on but I’m sorry.”
———-
Former Employee of Stardock Entertainment: ”Brad Wardell sort of maybe sexually harassed me.”
Games Journalists: ”HOLY SHIT LET’S PUBLISH THE COURT DOCUMENTS AND EVERY ALLEGATION YOUR LAWYER MADE UP TO HOPE SOMETHING STICKS! THIS IS VERY INDUSTRY RELATED.”
Former Employee of Stardock Entertainment: “Oh oops, no I made it up, deleted a bunch of his files. Sorry for that.”
———
Me: “So uhhh, Zoe Quinn fired me to work for someone she was having an affair with. Also she doesn’t abide by like any of the virtues she has marketed herself as an activist for. Also, by her own definition, she violated my sexual consent. Also she claims to be a compulsive liar. Also (again quite contrary to her activist stances) she purposely stigmatizes mental illness whenever it suits her interests. Basically be careful around her?”
Games Journalists: “This isn’t industry related you’re such a shithead for airing dirty laundry these are all private matters grow up you angry jilted ex.”
Me: ” Wouldn’t ‘Jilted’ would require that she broke up with me? It was the other way around. Also, I don’t really get angry because I kind of depersonalize in stressful sit—”
Games Journalists: “Angry. Jilted. Ex.”
Wolf Wozniak: “Oh shit. Zoe? She sexually harassed me at a wedding.”
Games Journalists: “Sorry what? We couldn’t hear you over the sound of how private these matters are.”
Chloe Van Keenan: “Wait — she said infidelity is a violation of consent? Doesn’t that mean she was complicit in violating my consent when she was sleeping with my boyfriend?”
Games Journalists: “Are you guys seeing all of this harassment Zoe is getting? This is totally uncalled for. I can’t believe how misogynistic this community is.”
Abuse Survivors: “Uhh, guys? Has anyone read these chatlogs? She’s being like textbook psychologically abusive here. Like, this is pages and pages of triggering.”
Games Journalists: “RELATIONSHIP ABUSE IS A PRIVATE MATTER. THIS IS NOT INDUSTRY RELATED.”
“Games Enthusiasts”: “Uhh, but we want to know these things because we don’t want to support people who do these horrible sorts of things—”
Games Journalists: “JESUS CHRIST HOW MISOGYNISTIC CAN YOU GET??”
Zoe Quinn: “I’m still trying to come to terms with everything because I thought that false abuse / rape claims literally never happened up until now. Also, uhhh, 4chan is spreading nudes of me on the internet”
Games Journalists: “HOLY FUCK THEY’RE SPREADING NUDES OF YOU?? THIS IS OBSCENE WHY WOULD THEY BE SO MAD AS TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT AFTER WE’VE COMPLETELY IGNORED EVERY SINGLE THING YOU’VE DONE WRONG TO PROTECT YOU?? ARE YOU OKAY?? WE’RE COMING OVER TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE OKAY.”
Mallorie Nasrallah: “Uh, hi. Those nudes were from a porn pay site. They were back from when Zoe was doing porn. They’re not private or anything. I was her photographer at one point. Within an hour of meeting me she claimed she murdered someone who tried to rape her. These sorts of claims were not out of the ordinary for her… like I’ve met her and her ex is really right to have warned you. You guys should really be careful.”
Games Journalists: “EXCUSE ME WE’RE TRYING TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT MISOGYNY HERE.”

Here's the TL;DR:
 

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Polycock has published a letter from the editor about GamerGate. If you were expecting a fair and equal examination of Polygon's game's "journalism", you came to the wrong place.

http://pastebin.com/syQSgdAv

Full retard mode activated.


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[FURY INTENSIFIES BEYOND MEASUREMENT]

Well, let's go back to talking about that corruption that so clearly doesn't exist.

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoid-corruption-and-ruined-careers/

Gee, the GameJournoPros conspiring to have a man fired for daring to report honestly on an IndieGoGo racket? Nope, nothing fishy about that at all.

Also, Gawker's picked up on the story and, of course, slandering GamerGate with the usual accusations of sexism and "muh soggy knees." What's interesting, however, is what their writers have been posting.

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Which other writers came right out and supported.

What a progressive bunch, huh?

Luckily, there's a happy ending here. Mercedes, along with other sponsors, have pulled out from Gawker due to the statements, and GamerGate started a donation page to promote an anti-bullying charity. As of right now, it's raised almost $14,500.

But remember, we're the assholes.
 

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Also, Gawker's picked up on the story and, of course, slandering GamerGate with the usual accusations of sexism and "muh soggy knees." What's interesting, however, is what their writers have been posting.

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>not posting the rest of it

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>not posting the rest of it

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Mercedes Benz withdrew their ads from Gawker due to that idiot's remarks on bullying.

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jjb54/mercedes_benz_usa_is_removing_their/

Polycock has published a letter from the editor about GamerGate. If you were expecting a fair and equal examination of Polygon's game's "journalism", you came to the wrong place.

http://pastebin.com/syQSgdAv

Full retard mode activated.


I couldn't even finish that. At least it's coming back to bite them in the butt.

https://twitter.com/yesallgamers/status/523333479837470720/photo/1
 

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We've reached the critical mass of crazy... you can "weaponize charity."

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Now, Alex, by "donate to their victims," do you happen to mean "Fund their lifestyles on Patreon?" Because that seems less like charity and more life hipster welfare.

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Now, let's be fair to Alex Lifschitz here. After all, it's easy to be dismissive of charity when you're dad's a millionaire. Now, would you mind telling me some more about my privilege?
 
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Gentlemen I come to you with the greatest of ideas. You know how we are paid through sponsorship and advertising deals, both brought in through "gamers" reading our gaming-related content? Well what if we were to, in the public eye, demonise those readers! It's a genius plan that can't go wrong! - Oh well shit, what do you mean we need an audience in order to generate income? THIS IS DISCRIMINATION.
 

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I did try, however it seems like I can not move out of the old mindset of "give everybody the same baseline and then go on their merits from there".

Maybe I am just a dinosaur.
 

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A writer from Medium goes through 1500 tweets directed at Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu, looking for rape and death threats. She finds none. The mental gymnastics that follows, trying to claim any criticism or negative language counts as "harassment," is definitely impressive.

In those 20 hours neither Anita or Brianna received a serious rape or death threat (which doesn’t meant they never get them, just that they did not receive them in that time-frame). But what they did get was an endless stream of almost exclusive negativity.

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This is what oppression looks like, everybody.

EDIT:

TotalBiscuit's got his voice back, and he's putting it to use.

If asscancer couldn't keep him down, what hope does anyone else have?
 
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Can someone write about the anti-gg who was considering suicide because of the harassment she recieved. Turns out she/he was behind the indiegogo fraudraiser.
Im not sure if its connected with the dtoid journalist who was fired for writing about it.
 

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Can someone write about the anti-gg who was considering suicide because of the harassment she recieved. Turns out she/he was behind the indiegogo fraudraiser.
Im not sure if its connected with the dtoid journalist who was fired for writing about it.


I actually haven't heard much on that. I'd be interesting in knowing more if anyone is privy to that info.

On that topic, though, here's a good summary of the Destructoid blackmail scandal. The article was a bit long, so this makes it a bit easier to swallow.

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Look at this brave nobleman, valiantly leading the charge against... people with depression. Hmmm. Remember, it's the people calling for accountability and responsibility who are the bullies.

Also, you can pretty much ignore the GamerGate wikipedia article at this point. It's gone full recursive:

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Richard Nixon was not a crook^1.

^1 Nixon, Richard. "I am not a crook!"
 

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A lot of people have been calling GamerGate a "right wing" movement. They often claim that this is being led by fringe conservatives or Republicans or some other big bad boogeyman. This is a bit old, but some people decided to actually take a poll...

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You can go to http://www.politicalcompass.org/test if you'd like to try it for yourself. Feel free to post the results here. I'm a level 5 left-leaning social libertarian!

Also, I know this is way, way, way overdue, but I finally found some of those tweets where the other side wafers between calling themselves bloggers and journalists. Only one month later!

Also, also... Another article from Milo "Greek Husbando" Yiannopoulos.

There's the Intel vice president who told me via email that GamerGate was "doing great work" and that he was "sick of slander and self-loathing from the press". He was talking about male journalists who do misandrist feminists' work for them.

"I am pressing that team, it's not mine, but I am exerting influence when I can, to stop spending money with people who hate themselves and hate our clients," he added by phone later.

Then consider the product manager, who was happy to be identified as "senior management at a German car manufacturer", who told me that, "the violence against women is unacceptable and we cannot support it, but we will not financially support people who insult our customers either".

The manager told me: "We would prefer not to make headlines like Intel. But you should expect to see strategic changes in how we spend in coming years. It is very much an open question inside the company and we are watching closely."

*Insert stirring TTGL soundtrack here*

http://gameoverthinker.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/another-long-collection-of-thoughts_19.html#more

I see this guy's name come up in a lot of tangential discussions to all this and read that because I was bored. They may be the kernel of some interesting points in there but it did amuse me otherwise.

Ah, good old MovieBob. That guy's got some issues. Like, serious issues. A bit funny to hear him lambast anyone for a "campaign of hate and harassment" when he's the guy who tried to get a teenager arrested for not liking his videos.

Then again, this is the guy who not only thinks that Other M is a near-flawless masterpiece (which I vehemently disagree with, but whatever, different folks, different strokes), but also that anyone who doesn't like it is Japanophobic and sexist. The guy's the master of bad opinions.
 

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