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Post by Cali on Nov 21, 2014 6:39:15 GMT 1
Haven't really been keeping up with any of this since last month. Have the Gamers jerked themselves off to death yet?
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Post by jklinders on Nov 21, 2014 11:21:01 GMT 1
Pretty near settled down aside from the occasional butthurt article from the Vox media group. They get no points from me as they were one of the major players that were targeted by those who felt gamergate was legit and all of their articles were mostly full of shit. Then you have a few right wing articles (equally full of shit) talking opposite points. The whole thing is thoroughly calicified along political lines and is therefore useless. It's almost indistinguishable from discussing logjams in US Congress with nearly identical talking points on both sides. Thing is, there were folks who had legit concerns but there were others who were piggybacking on to it to voice their own agendas. All of the misogynistic fuckwads like Jordan Owens, Aurini and even Thunderf00t were latching on to this shit. But they were sharing space with folks like Totalbiscuit and a few other gaming youtubers who actually felt there was something to it and trying to stay on topic. Any asshole can use a hashtag which makes twitter less than useless. Speaking of twitter. If gamergate was useful for anything it was exposing just how useless twitter is for anything other than giving updates on bowel movements. So many otherwise reasonable people utterly lost their shit on twitter over this it's appalling. But is also showed me just how childish certain internet personalities are. Bob Chipman, a devout anti-gater will never have any support from me in anything again. He was mostly right in what he was saying but so wrong in how that I feel like attaching to him makes me a crappier person. then you have this, I'm throwing this in as a lark as it is a little tongue and cheek, but what if this thing lasted as long as this out of boredom and no game being thoroughly engrossing for a long time? Maybe DA:I will put a stake in the heart of this movement once and for all. I'd rather discuss games than gamers or journalists any day.
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Post by Cali on Jan 19, 2015 20:39:00 GMT 1
Word in the hood is that GooberGate has shed blood now. They've been prank calling the police and sending SWAT teams to people's houses (pretty much all of them feminists), and recently of the raids got a victim's dog shot and killed, and now a lot of them are allegedly bragging about it.
These godless, sexless people.
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Post by jklinders on Jan 19, 2015 20:55:52 GMT 1
Ouch. Up until now it was only those Lizard Squad punks that were doing that shit. And they were siding with nothing but shit disturbing. Anyway I was pretty certain there was no movement anymore aside from a few diehards, most of whom are probably pretty wretched people.
My latest hit of disgust over this shit was when Total Biscuit retweeted a alert that a charity was having a podcast just before New Years and they cancelled the podcast on the grounds that he was a supporter of Gamergate (an exaggeration as he was simply sympathetic to the issues around the journalism but really had not taken any sides until dragged kicking and screaming) and demanded an apology from him for possibly luring gaters to their podcast stream. He got pretty upset and pissed with them over it.
If the anti crowd really wants to make themselves look better than the gaters they need to fucking grow up every bit as much as the gaters themselves. I still wholeheartedly believe that both sides are filled with sniveling puss filled fucks.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Feb 26, 2015 10:40:12 GMT 1
I don't want add more fuel to this, especially since this event is just as pointless as that discussion about the Skyrim Civil War on TES fan threads, but just... wow.
Recently the Law and Order SVU series were exploring the Gamersgate debacle and let's just say it hits too close to home in a bad way from my personal perspective. That's all I can say really.
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Post by jklinders on Feb 26, 2015 10:43:35 GMT 1
I heard about that. One of the weirdest ways for gaming to hit mainstream I have ever seen.
Still not as weird as the furry episode of CSI though.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Feb 26, 2015 10:47:38 GMT 1
Yeah, so weird, that I have no words to say it, really.
Humanity can be so weird sometimes.
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Post by jklinders on Feb 26, 2015 11:30:58 GMT 1
I was never a fan of the L&O series. They have this schtick where they ramp up all the bs of a certain kind of case to the point where reality is warped away for the benefit of contrived drama. US jurys have actually been corrupted by these kinds of shows to the point where they have to be educated now that DNA samples are not needed for a conviction. Hell CSI makes it look like getting a DNA test done takes a matter of minutes rather than the weeks it takes in reality. People actually think that faking insanity pleas are a viable strategy in court even though the legal test for it is remarkably steep. Once I learned just how full of garbage these legal dramas were I completely lost interest in them.
So naturally when I heard a Gamergate episode was being aired my response was to sigh and shrug.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Feb 26, 2015 11:43:47 GMT 1
Neither do I. Besides, I hear L&O SVU has been in decline for quite sometime, especially with the ratings. This whole Gamergates thing, is just their attempt to get a boost in the ratings. From what I've heard, it did... but only slightly a little. Not much improvement there. I think I would wait for season 5 of GoT thank you very much.
Also that DNA thing kinda pisses me off too. Honestly, if DNA is like a massive problem solvers, a shit load of Jane and John Doe cases would be solved by now. In reality, it didn't. It just another tool to match up the identity and sometimes that match up would take years to solve it.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Feb 27, 2015 16:51:02 GMT 1
I only watch CSI Miami because of one reason. Make it two. I also saw a episode of NCIS where they tackeld a LARP AND Gaming at the same time. Three guesses how well they did it? That's right, everyone who plays a videogame or does roleplaying are homocidal sad people who cant disconnect RL from fiction >.> Shouldnt the actors of that show feel bad? I mean they are pretty much roleplaying for a living!
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Feb 28, 2015 15:37:06 GMT 1
Of course Curuso.
As for other shows are trying to cash in on the Gamersgate wave. Well, as that saying goes, "Haters will be haters."
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Post by Cali on Mar 31, 2015 8:19:38 GMT 1
In order to understand the GamerGate, one must astk: What is gamer (stares into the fireplace)
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Apr 1, 2015 7:52:30 GMT 1
A gamer means someone who plays games. Just like a reader who reads books and stuff, a pianist who plays the piano, etc, etc.
Going further than that, is just poor-mans intellectual attempt in making the term gamer more meaningful than what it really is.
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Post by Cali on Sept 13, 2015 4:48:29 GMT 1
Just when you think the charade had sunk into non-importance: A GamerGater named Josh Goldberg made pressure cooker bombs and threatened to commit a terror attack with it in Kansas City, Missouri. He has since been nabbed by the FBI. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/terrorist-troll-pretended-to-be-isis-white-supremacist-and-jewish-lawyer.htmlApparently infamous Breitbart journalist and prominent GG supporter Milo Yinanopolous (still can't spell his goddamn surname) had this same guy as an associate/source for a hitpiece on some dude from the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement. Of course, he immediately started purging his Twitter of every conversation he had with the guy. He then also suggested that the FBI had conspired against him to draw attention away from his hitpiece on Sarah Nyberg, a prominent anti-GGer. You couldn't make this shit up.
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Post by jklinders on Sept 13, 2015 11:59:44 GMT 1
Some garden variety trolls never leave their basements. Some are truly disturbed and dangerous individuals. Goldberg seems to be the latter.
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