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

[Foxi4]

Sand usually resides on the interior, it's true.

Let's agree on "sandy undisclosed, unidentified area" then.

 

[bkifft]

Let's agree on "sandy undisclosed, unidentified area" then.

Yeah, whilst this seems to be neither ableistic nor sexist it looses quite a bunch of its meaning, as having sand on the outside of ones body isn't as itchy as having it on the inside.

oh and back to topic: someone stirred a shitstorm on the own side: ZQ tweeted a link to a blog post which doxxed a minor transgender woman. Oh snap! Screencap of the now deleted tweet http://t.co/xn6V7bPQeQ and a google search result as anti counterfeit measure https://archive.today/hX1Vn

 

[zeello]

There is an article saying that gamergate is just a 4chan plot. I don't know whether it's true or not but I've been puzzled as to why this hasn't been brought up here at all.

examiner.com/article/gamergate-revealed-as-misogynist-and-racist-movement-from-4chan

mensrightsactivism.com/post/96890478238/this-is-too-simultaneously-pathetic-and-funny

gbatemp please tell me what to think
p.s. maybe I should read the gamergate Wikipedia page if it hasn't been deleted already

 

[Vengenceonu]

There is an article saying that gamergate is just a 4chan plot. I don't know whether it's true or not but I've been puzzled as to why this hasn't been brought up here at all.

examiner.com/article/gamergate-revealed-as-misogynist-and-racist-movement-from-4chan

mensrightsactivism.com/post/96890478238/this-is-too-simultaneously-pathetic-and-funny

gbatemp please tell me what to think
p.s. maybe I should read the gamergate Wikipedia page if it hasn't been deleted already

The official definition of gamergate before this controversy was this:

A gamergate is a reproductively viable female worker ant that is able to reproduce with mature males when the colony is lacking a queen.

This is the true Gamergate that no one ever talks about.

As for those articles, I really hate it when websites or media that have no insight or foreknowledge of a topic but they have some breakthrough revelation (Ex. A cooking website writing about sports).

 

[Gahars]

There is an article saying that gamergate is just a 4chan plot. I don't know whether it's true or not but I've been puzzled as to why this hasn't been brought up here at all.

examiner.com/article/gamergate-revealed-as-misogynist-and-racist-movement-from-4chan

mensrightsactivism.com/post/96890478238/this-is-too-simultaneously-pathetic-and-funny

gbatemp please tell me what to think
p.s. maybe I should read the gamergate Wikipedia page if it hasn't been deleted already

I mean, it's a 4chan plot in the sense that people who post on 4chan are involved. It'd be just as accurate to say this is a Twitter plot.

 

[bkifft]

Get all the popcorn you can get, we are entering 1984/Illuminati territory: http://pastebin.com/LAmZNVKn . Read it all, it's worth it (disclaimer: haven't fact checked it so take it with a whole shaker of salt).

 

[FailName]

The official definition of gamergate before this controversy was this:

This is the true Gamergate that will no one ever talks about.

Where did the term "GamerGate" even come from? When I first read it, I thought it had something to do with GamersGate.

 

[zeello]

Get all the popcorn you can get, we are entering 1984/Illuminati territory: http://pastebin.com/LAmZNVKn . Read it all, it's worth it (disclaimer: haven't fact checked it so take it with a whole shaker of salt).

im not sure I understand any of it but it sounds really boring. Were acting like we're probing high levels of government, but its just indie game bloggers writing papers.

 

[Gahars]

SO. For anyone who wants to get involved and contribute but isn't quite sure of how, here's a helpful infographic. Just by messaging these sites' sponsors and letting them know that you don't approve of their conduct, you're applying pressure.

Spoiler: Gawker Hypocrisy

On Twitter, The Fine Young Capitalists stated that women are better at getting pregnant than men. Seems like a benign statement, right?

Spoiler

 

[bkifft]

Where did the term "GamerGate" even come from? When I first read it, I thought it had something to do with GamersGate.

Adam Baldwin (Platoon, Firefly, Chuck, The last ship) used it and tweeted the two first burgers and fries vids by internet aristocrate.

im not sure I understand any of it but it sounds really boring. Were acting like we're probing high levels of government, but its just indie game bloggers writing papers.

Well, it is quite boring, it's mostly academics stuff. The really really really compressed tl;dr: a few people crossreference each other to gain academic credibility and (warning, conspiracy theory ahead) seem to have their fingers up the butts of a few media outlets pushing their idea of social justice.

In regards to your prior question (what to think): well, sorry. but you'll have to reach your own conclusions, as all sides in this clusterfuck have multiple agendas. The current baseline of pro #gamergate is: gamingpress disclose every possible conflict of interest when you report and everyone be excellent to each other. Warning: the far right political wing wants to get the pros and instrumentalise this whole situation.
anti-GG seems to have no common agenda besides "go eat a bowel of knives and die".

I will not tell which side I'm on. Just that I've been called a "misogynistic" "basement dwelling" "white cis-male" a few times now. And I wasn't even trolling.


p.s.: Want to get away from all this SJW bullshit? Come to Germany. As I've told my coworkers, friends and family about this only one knew the broader concepts of equalism (edit: , the meaning of "Check your privieges") and social justice. And he just came back from a year in America.

edit: just in case an extra fair warning: I might be a Nazi (genetics n stuff).

 

[FAST6191]

On Twitter, The Fine Young Capitalists stated that women are better at getting pregnant than men. Seems like a benign statement, right?

Spoiler

Would this be the wrong moment to bring up statistics?

That said if women are oppressed and they are the majority that might not be such a sound argument... hmm.

 

[Flame]

I mean, it's a 4chan plot in the sense that people who post on 4chan are involved. It'd be just as accurate to say this is a Twitter plot.

if only we had nudes of Brooke Baldwin.


WHAT?!! IM SAYING WHAT EVERYONE IS WANKING!

 

[Deleted_171835]

Get all the popcorn you can get, we are entering 1984/Illuminati territory: http://pastebin.com/LAmZNVKn . Read it all, it's worth it (disclaimer: haven't fact checked it so take it with a whole shaker of salt).

Yeah I got bored by the first sentence. Maybe you guys take this a little too seriously.

 

[Vengenceonu]

if only we had nudes of Brooke Baldwin.


WHAT?!! IM SAYING WHAT EVERYONE IS WANKING!

not gonna lie I was thinkin that 3 hours ago...

 

[bkifft]

Yeah I got bored by the first sentence. Maybe you guys take this a little too seriously.

TBH I don't care that much:
a) does this extreme SJW stuff only seem to happen in the USA. Now and then someone tries to bring up ableism and sexism free language including tons of underscores and asterixes over here, but those get ridiculed and shamed by everyone for it.
and
b) is it common in academics to cross reference each others works if there aren't hat many specialists around.

I'm mostly in for the ride and enjoyment of drama (hence my call for popcorn). Getting an excuse for being titled pissbabie etc and more transparency would be a nice side bonus, but i can count the times I was on sites like kotaku, rock paper shotgun or destructoid this year on one hand each, every time just landing on the article I was interested in from google.
Oh: And I'll open a bottle of bubbley if Phillipe Poisson really gets fucked (first figuratively then literally).

And somehow this thing feels like the usual 4chan hoax, just that this time it seems to have gained way more momentum than expected. Maybe its Zeitgeist, maybe it just struck a nerve for enough people. But twitter explodes and every day more and more people convert from anti to pro because the antis just are the louder assholes. I really hope someone does a documentary about this clusterfuck one day, narrated by David Attenborough, Morgan Freeman or Brian Blessed.

tl;dr: have two not racist at all vids by jad3fox moking the anti-#gamergaters:

 

[Gahars]

Spoiler: Devin Faraci and co. picked up a new past time: Picking on the wizards

Spoiler: FLAWLESS VICTORY

TBH I don't care that much:
a) does this extreme SJW stuff only seem to happen in the USA.

Sweden and some of the other Nordic countries have gone full cray cray in some respects. Canada has it really bad, too (some of the craziest activists in the US are actually Canucks, so blame Canada for that, too). The remixes are nice, though.

 

[Veho]

Sweden and some of the other Nordic countries have gone full cray cray in some respects.

Regarding the first link: Debbie Does Dallas passes the Bechdel test. Just something to mull over.
Regarding the second...

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women.

Even if the law passed, the activities of the tumblr brigade and the like (having nothing whatsoever to do with equality) would still be a free target for criticism. And mockery.

 

[bkifft]

Sweden and some of the other Nordic countries have gone full cray cray in some respects. Canada has it really bad, too (some of the craziest activists in the US are actually Canucks, so blame Canada for that, too). The remixes are nice, though.

Might be related to the mind boggling taxes on alcohol or the prolonged nights those high up in the north have to suffer. I still believe this type of "We are holier than thou!" type of social reformers will not catch on in Germany, as we now know a thing or two about fascism. (Oh snap! I didn't just compare SJ extremists to the NSDAP, did I?)

Didn't know about the "Big Red" yet, thanks for the link. Always nice to see intellectuals discus such topics.

Even if the law passed, the activities of the tumblr brigade and the like (having nothing whatsoever to do with equality) would still be a free target for criticism. And mockery.

HOW DARE YOU USE AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION YOU ABLEIST PIG!

Anyway, have another vid everyone. Today we learn that ZQ calls IRC mibbit and a friend of her message in an IRC chan tweets. Typical Apple hipsters.

 

[Foxi4]

I've learned several things today:

• Some people actually treat the Internet seriously
• Some people actually care about the current events and think that supporting either side will change the status quo
• Twitter, Tumblr and other "social websites" are still cancer

'Aight.

 

[Gahars]

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-fine-young-capitalists--2#home

Celebrate, gentlemen, for today is the day that the Patriarchy well and truly won.