Zoe Quinn and the corruption in video games media/journalism....

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  • HypnodiscHypnodisc Posts: 22,728
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    Nefrati wrote: »

    Wishing a bunch of people 'slide into a volcano' doesn't really constitute a 'death threat' though.

    Kicking myself for replying to this thread again but every time I try to take this thing seriously it just looks like a playground argument, populated by people too wussy to ever actually look at a girl, let alone touch or kill one.

    But, yeah, ho-hum..
  • NefratiNefrati Posts: 558
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    The war on nerds. A good write up and identification of a problem which has festered in western society.
    http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/13/the-waronnerds-how-far-left-feminists-and-the-media-created-gamergate/

    Jimmy Wales of wikipedia has even noticed the problem,
    http://techraptor.net/content/wikipedia-article-concerning-gamergate-controversy-battles-controversy

    Hypnodisc wrote: »
    Wishing a bunch of people 'slide into a volcano' doesn't really constitute a 'death threat' though.

    Kicking myself for replying to this thread again but every time I try to take this thing seriously it just looks like a playground argument, populated by people too wussy to ever actually look at a girl, let alone touch or kill one.

    But, yeah, ho-hum..

    You clearly didn't look at the stream, the guy goes way way way further than that.
    He's a nobody sure, but just an example of the type that can be so brainwashed they end up as hateful as that, yet proclaim themselves to be the "progressive" side.
    He's cited in wikipedia on the article in women in games, so he's "feminist" enough for that apparently. But to him burning "evil people" in ovens is justified, jews were innocent so they didn't deserve it, but gamergate people? They are evil...so therefore all measures are justified. But again this is the perfect representation of their mentality. They just label people as evil, and then they feel justified in doing anything to them. Which accounts for the doxxing, the harassment, the false flagging the smears, the dishonesty. Now that a feminist group has input on twitters moderation, they immediately suspended a good number of the members of gamergate, basically they can rationalize anything when the fact is if their actions were turned against them, they would be outraged.

    Just imagine if a gamergate person has said the things he had said...the internet would be on fire at this point...

    http://gamergate.me/2014/11/data-study-on-harassment/
    http://theralphretort.com/industry-refuses-condemn-hate-cartoonist-elizabeth-simins/
  • ThatGuy11200ThatGuy11200 Posts: 1,459
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    Hypnodisc wrote: »
    Wishing a bunch of people 'slide into a volcano' doesn't really constitute a 'death threat' though.

    Kicking myself for replying to this thread again but every time I try to take this thing seriously it just looks like a playground argument, populated by people too wussy to ever actually look at a girl, let alone touch or kill one.

    But, yeah, ho-hum..

    Yet you're the one that uses a playground insult like "...people too wussy to ever actually look at a girl...".
  • tghe-retfordtghe-retford Posts: 26,449
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    Hypnodisc wrote: »
    Wishing a bunch of people 'slide into a volcano' doesn't really constitute a 'death threat' though.

    Kicking myself for replying to this thread again but every time I try to take this thing seriously it just looks like a playground argument, populated by people too wussy to ever actually look at a girl, let alone touch or kill one.

    But, yeah, ho-hum..
    He said worse on his Facebook account, suggesting a "final solution". If anything, he isn't the only one who has shown a macabre attraction to such a solution to GamerGate. Something my local MP being the chair of the All-Party Group Against Antisemitism, is likely to find in bad taste.

    His vitrol on Facebook doesn't make me angry as such. I pity him for sliding into a breakdown and suggest he seeks therapy and time away from social networks for his own sanity.
  • HypnodiscHypnodisc Posts: 22,728
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    Yet you're the one that uses a playground insult like "...people too wussy to ever actually look at a girl...".

    I don't have a problem with using playground insults on people who issue death threats. To be fair I don't think it's relevant or remotely matters.

    Do you?
    He said worse on his Facebook account, suggesting a "final solution". If anything, he isn't the only one who has shown a macabre attraction to such a solution to GamerGate. Something my local MP being the chair of the All-Party Group Against Antisemitism, is likely to find in bad taste.

    His vitrol on Facebook doesn't make me angry as such. I pity him for sliding into a breakdown and suggest he seeks therapy and time away from social networks for his own sanity.

    In which case that is illegal, right? If this is somebody in the UK why doesn't someone just report him to the police and let them sort it? Job done.
  • DinkyDoobieDinkyDoobie Posts: 17,786
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    Hypnodisc wrote: »
    In which case that is illegal, right? If this is somebody in the UK why doesn't someone just report him to the police and let them sort it? Job done.

    How about we stop feeding this monster which is creating the problem? although i find anita sarkesians efforts at redefining gaming ridiculous and these self important idiots who are her go to gals are complete morons parading themselves around the internet with quirky badges with slogans like cuties killing video games and holding mugs that apparently contain real men's tears, isn't it about time we just let it die?

    I mean the only people who are continuing this farce are the people responsible for it and those who are against it, noone else really gives a shit.
  • HypnodiscHypnodisc Posts: 22,728
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    How about we stop feeding this monster which is creating the problem? although i find anita sarkesians efforts at redefining gaming ridiculous and these self important idiots who are her go to gals are complete morons parading themselves around the internet with quirky badges with slogans like cuties killing video games and holding mugs that apparently contain real men's tears, isn't it about time we just let it die?

    I mean the only people who are continuing this farce are the people responsible for it and those who are against it, noone else really gives a shit.

    I literally don't understand any of this. :confused:
  • DinkyDoobieDinkyDoobie Posts: 17,786
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    Hypnodisc wrote: »
    I literally don't understand any of this. :confused:

    You made a reply to someone who claimed someone involved in this social justice warrior vs gamers debacle had made a comment that was akin to genocide and suggested it should/could be reported to the police.

    I said how about we ignore it and let the whole thing die, even if i do find the people who instigated it objectionable.

    I mean what is really going to come out of any of this? Anita Sarkesian gets her way and people are going to make a bunch of games with androgynous characters? It would probably be the best thing to happen to gaming since the 90's as indy developers would gather a cult following again.
  • HypnodiscHypnodisc Posts: 22,728
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    You made a reply to someone who claimed someone involved in this social justice warrior vs gamers debacle had made a comment that was akin to genocide and suggested it should/could be reported to the police.

    I said how about we ignore it and let the whole thing die, even if i do find the people who instigated it objectionable.

    Why should 'trolls' and those who threaten or frighten others not be reported to the police?

    It seems this whole Gamergate issue wont 'die' until someone actually, literally dies or is arrested, if this thread is anything to go by.
  • DinkyDoobieDinkyDoobie Posts: 17,786
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    Hypnodisc wrote: »
    Why should 'trolls' and those who threaten or frighten others not be reported to the police?

    It seems this whole Gamergate issue wont 'die' until someone actually, literally dies or is arrested, if this thread is anything to go by.

    Because they're idiots, nobody is going to go and shoot up Anita Sarkesians next attempt at collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce another set of ridiculously misrepresented gaming critique videos.

    Have you ever seen the crap people post on youtube videos? some of them look like the hitler youth movement just discovered the internet, the fact some random person sent a "death threat" means nothing. I joined twitter, i've made two or three posts and been followed and replied to by some beardy weardy telling me "you've become americanized" and his twitter feed is full of isis propaganda... am i in danger? or am i just on the internet?
  • ThatGuy11200ThatGuy11200 Posts: 1,459
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    Hypnodisc wrote: »
    I don't have a problem with using playground insults on people who issue death threats. To be fair I don't think it's relevant or remotely matters.

    Do you?

    You weren't just talking about the people sending death threats though. Were you?
    Kicking myself for replying to this thread again but every time I try to take this thing seriously it just looks like a playground argument, populated by people too wussy to ever actually look at a girl, let alone touch or kill one.

    You seemed to be talking about gamergate as a whole. Perhaps you could choose your words more carefully in future, to avoid misunderstanding.
  • lightdragonlightdragon Posts: 19,059
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    Because they're idiots, nobody is going to go and shoot up Anita Sarkesians next attempt at collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce another set of ridiculously misrepresented gaming critique videos.

    I used to think that, but then it occurred to me, firstly that she's not doing a critique as such on gaming, but a look at tropes within it, specifically the ones related to women. I do think she goes too far by implying the tropes are taken as reality by male gamers, the fact that they are tropes should indicate they aren't IMO.

    Other than that, if people want to give her money in return for a whatever "gifts" she was giving, it's up to them. She was just someone on youtube who would've been viewed by a handful of people if the internet justice brigade (and trolls) hadn't come along and given her the platform she now uses to promote herself.

    But most of all, i still don't see how she's even a part of Gamergate... except she's shoved in there by people with their knicks in a twist. ;-)
  • NefratiNefrati Posts: 558
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    GamerGate Sings - Shill Alive
    Adventure Ghost
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWn5noD53SI

    The War on nerds
    http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/13/the-waronnerds-how-far-left-feminists-and-the-media-created-gamergate/


    Adam Baldwin
    https://archive.today/zFqh1#selection-2637.1-2645.21
    http://imgur.com/AaEgIq3



    The Game Review Aristocracy: Who Critiques the Critics? | CCS After Hours Podcast
    Cheshire Cat Studios
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK5xEHRWBEk


    Anita Sarkeesian - Criticisms and Questions
    noelplum99
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgq_BO9JgH8

    Threedog's #Gamergate News Radio Ep. 8
    Oliver Campbell
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw1-a8DieGg


    Video Game Journalism (YTheAlien) A SJW Reaction When Shown Proof of #GamerGate Diversity
    videogamejournalism
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XfnavnPAZ4



    Video Game Journalism (YTheAlien) Geordie Tait, The Poster Boy For SJW #GamerGatePart Part 1
    videogamejournalism
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFU1gn6OeuY


    Video Game Journalism (YTheAlien) Geordie Tait, The Poster Boy For SJW #GamerGatePart Part 2
    videogamejournalism
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ0JAzbPQ84
  • NefratiNefrati Posts: 558
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    Girls of #Gamergate 5th hangout!
    Queeny
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOuObprVWok
    Yes even the porn stars in gamergate are articulate...


    #GamerGate Happenings Recap with Socks 16/11
    NEET LIFE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRXsR2QYwxk

    If you want some insight into these people from the previous round where they attacked atheism conferences.

    Creepy Clowns: Freethought Bullies and the Threat Narrative Clown Horn
    MykeruMedia
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7SRa_xQNQ

    The "threat narrative" is cover for them to attack people. Wolves in sheeps clothing.

    Of course mykeru got hit by the twitter feminist thought police wam and his twitter is suspended. Its pretty sickening that twitter which was supposed to have kept free speech open in the middle east and other areas now has groups silencing their ideological opponents in western countries. Mykeru like the rest, targeted for silence not because he threatened someone, but because they fear what he has to say.

    WAM-Bam: No Thank You Ma'am
    MykeruMedia
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Dfrm55x14


    This backlash hit a pretty funny point when time magazine accidentally revealed what people are thinking in their "ban a word of your choice" poll
    Ban Feminism?
    Thunderf00t
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFQOpAYpUPg

    People who hate #GamerGate harass / threaten others 400% MORE than supporters do
    https://twitter.com/thewtfmagazine/status/534534103727894529
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2sL70QIMAANMRR.jpg


    A Conversation with #GamerGate (13/11/2014)
    Sargon of Akkad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1EvOFkDU7w
  • NefratiNefrati Posts: 558
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    Threedog's #Gamergate News Radio Ep 9
    Oliver Campbell live now
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT6kTMyCkqQ
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 229
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    Do you really think anyone is watching all these videos?
  • tghe-retfordtghe-retford Posts: 26,449
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    Do you really think anyone is watching all these videos?

    Ban Feminism = 59K, 98% approval rating;
    A Conversation with GamerGate = 21.5K, 99% approval rating;
    GamerGate Happenings Recap with Socks 16/11 = 4.3K, ~100% approval rating.

    Yes they are.
  • stoatiestoatie Posts: 78,106
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    I rather suspect he means people from DS.
  • tghe-retfordtghe-retford Posts: 26,449
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    stoatie wrote: »
    I rather suspect he means people from DS.
    Without access to the analytics of any of the videos, no-one could ever answer that.

    But I suspect if a video of an opponent of GamerGate advocating a "final solution" (a.k.a. George Tait's disgraceful outburst on Facebook) was linked to, not a critical word would be uttered.
  • stoatiestoatie Posts: 78,106
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    Without access to the analytics of any of the videos, no-one could ever answer that.

    No, but they could probably hazard a guess.
  • TelevisionUserTelevisionUser Posts: 41,411
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    vvv This below about Gamergate pretty much sums up my view on this matter:
    I've got no axe to grind since I'm not a gamer (playing Numpty Physics on Ubuntu now and again just does not count!) but I have three general observations about this whole situation:

    1. It's wrong for anyone online to threaten death or rape for that can never be justified;
    2. It's wrong for anyone to sleep with reviewers just to get good product reviews;
    3. It's wrong to start squealing discrimination and misogyny in response to reasonable and legitimate comments and criticisms.

    That's my two penneth for what it's worth.

    Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
  • NefratiNefrati Posts: 558
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    It goes to the next level now...
    Its sick when these people have turned the world upside down.
    Its sick when I realize that every channel is bad as fox news now.
    Its sick when I'm almost glad the conservatives are about to retake the congress to put a check on these people.
    #GamerGate News Rant with Socks: Idiots want the US Government to police social media.
    NEET LIFE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zsmy-wjvwQ
    http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/11/gamergate-interest-groups-want-to-take-online-harassment-to-senate/

    Listen and Believe - Gaming's Culture War
    Sargon of Akkad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m59S9WHjE-0


    Feminist Frequency Goes to Washington
    jordanowen42
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b9_W_PcynI
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    International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
    https://twitter.com/JennOfHardwire/status/536007243154472961
    http://i.imgur.com/0loIIMJ.png
    http://youtu.be/4dcOniQQEgM

    As before with atheism plus, but more insidious because of the professional angle
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0dZIQZIfkg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WjSQ2kVyQc&list=UU2iZAkx68UTXqMnuDeww6JA



    http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2n060v/mass_censorship_by_the_tested_crew_on_their/
    http://i.imgur.com/8W0LUCR.jpg
    Mythbusters youtube offshoot falls to sjw mentality of censorship.

    Its not random or "misogyny" that has people upset at Rebecca Watson.
    https://www.youtube.com/user/MykeruMedia/videos
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJW3WMsx1q1OkWXNYx0Oozq6fpNCvvKZ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJGZM2jtMpg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnZleh_e3M
    She's part of the previous attack on a group, the atheists, and she led the way with her narrative of victimhood, culminating in the worst thing a man can be accused of.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-eNn6S9hXA&list=UU2iZAkx68UTXqMnuDeww6JA
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