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skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Neurolimal posted:

This is a victory for free speech, not a loss

so you think a person should have no right to say controversial things, even in their own home with an expectation of privacy, without being held accountable by the law

basically you believe thoughtcrime should be a punishable offence

fascism sure comes naturally to self-described liberals

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skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Kylra posted:

Maybe people who have significant power over others should be held up to higher standards than the janitor for a gas station.

different laws depending on your job title eh

that does not sound like a total recipe for disaster

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Neurolimal posted:

The person recording should be reprimanded, but the public should not be forced to just pretend that they didn't hear about this.

"the public" didn't take sterling's business away from him

it was taken away via an extension of the legal system

I would say you're trolling but I legit think you don't understand anything in that episode except some tweet you favourited about how a white guy you never heard of was a racist

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Neurolimal posted:

There's no such thing as objective journalism.

this is nonsense

a reporter can say "this game went on sale today and is expected to sell a million copies"

a reporter can also say "this game went on sale today and everyone should buy it because it's great" while concealing a personal relationship with the developer

the former is what objective journalists do, the latter is what lovely game "journalists" have been caught doing

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Neurolimal posted:

Who expects the game to sell a million copies? what is the journalists sources for saying that? does the journalist have a reason for telling the public that it's going to sell a million copies? Is that the most important thing for the reader to know about the game?

if you'll just put those goalposts back down I'm merely pointing out objectivity is possible, even easy, for a journalist if they so desire

your claim that "objectivity is impossible" smells like it was ripped from some Polygon blog post and mindlessly parroted without the briefest pause for thought

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Daynab posted:

Do a game review in an objective way now. Because that's what a lot of Gamergaters have been requesting.

sorry I prefer jobs that pay money

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

EasternBronze posted:

I thought Depression Quest (I actually played through it, believe it or not!) was made on Vine or some editor for interactive fiction. I don't really know what programming language thats supposed to be.

I remember writing a choose your own adventure game with a friend on an old c64 when we were literally 8 years old, which is several orders of magnitude harder than copy pasting some sadbrains blog posts into Twine

if I put it on Steam, I could call myself an indie developer, the same way I'm an activist because I clicked Like on a post about equal rights on Facebook that one time

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Daynab posted:

What is the point of putting gates on who get to call themselves game devs? If you made a CYOA game and are working on more games and want to call yourself a gamedev, be my guest.

Like at that point, are pixel artists who draw art for games gamedevs? Are people who compose songs for games gamedevs? Are writers?

More importantly, who cares?

because normals, meaning people who don't have doctorates in Internet debating, believe bona fides carry a lot of weight

this encourages people who want to be seen as more impressive than they are to pad their stats

this is why every worthless gaming journo's bio invariably includes some massively overinflated "industry experience" section that in reality consisted of a 2 month unpaid internship, dishonestly represented in their bio for the purpose of lending more weight to their words than is warranted

so yes imo it matters as the greater the disconnect between someone's bio and their actual achievements, the less likely they are to be a reliable source of anything except self aggrandizement

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

EasternBronze posted:

The struggle to legitimize 200K spent at a four-year private liberal arts school.

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Feminition posted:

lmao a nobody basically

the guy you're responding to, count his posts in this thread alone

then maybe rethink what you're doing

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Mister Fister posted:

Oh yeah, NOW you're going to sleep :ironicat:



And not because you look like a huge loving hypocrite right now

nice work fister

now cross reference this list with the goons who admitted to being unemployed and living on social assistance in that d&d honeypot thread

I suspect your findings will be completely predictable

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

rainy day posted:

Here's a recent example of rampant corruption in videogames: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/9782-Shadow-of-Mordors-Promotion-Deals-with-Plaid-Social

You'd think this would be bigger news in gamergate but despite being the most consistently anti-industry bullshit person in the mainstream games press, sterling seems to be mostly dismissed as an "SJW" by the GG crowd. Why? Because He's also made a number of pro-feminism videos and GamerGate is and always has been about feminism, not ethics.

eh I heard about this yesterday and I'm hardly plugged into current game releases or anything




twitter is where you go when 4chan and reddit won't put up with your poo poo

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
a bunch of butt fugly troon kids and anime hairs lecturing people with jobs about what to think will win as many friends for the liberal left as a pride float featuring a donkey show

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

yeah like say what you will about gamers but just look at that

also did anyone catch serewit melting down on IRC this morning when someone dared to impugn his SJW motivations

also has anyone pointed out to these genderblobs that rainbow hair is the SJW fedora

skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Oct 10, 2014

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Senjuro posted:

That much is clear. But I'm still wondering how it went from corruption in video game media to anti-SJWs.

because those sites are all run by sjws and were shown to be colluding to push the same rightthink agenda, ideology also explains why they adopted the curious practice of insulting their own customers

most gamers are nerds who never knew or cared about any of this stuff and are now having their eyes opened to how pervasive sjws actually are in arts, academia, industry etc

it's a good thing and it's too bad it didn't happen in time to save years of sjw echo chamber here at SA that drove all the funny away

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

cams posted:

anyone who has ever used the term "sjw" in any context that implies that it is a real thing is dumb as poo poo and shouldn't be allowed to vote

in fact, we should let children vote but not those people. from the ages of zero to one billion, you can vote as long as you don't use the term "sjw" in a serious argument

it doesn't get more serious than Jezebel.com I'm afraid

http://jezebel.com/gamergate-trolls-arent-ethics-crusaders-theyre-a-hate-1644984010/+laceydonohue

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

cams posted:

i feel this thread is getting away from the point of retarded babies getting scared that people are gonna take away their toys

like gamergate itself it's now about sjw influence in society at large

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

I thought that was the jeopardy but no this is some other real cool dude https://mobile.twitter.com/thenobby1/status/512706542840197120

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
this particular SJW is one of Anita sarkeesian's backers



literally asking why games shouldn't just play themselves

kids this kind of thinking awaits you if you're a C student in high school but insist on going to university anyway

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
reads past few pages

:stare:

name and shame the mopes ITT who wondered wide-eyed how gamergate could ever connected with dopey SJW critical theory fart sniffers

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

DrPlump posted:

I like that Zoe and Co refuse any interview that does not allow them to speak their side of the story unchallenged. It always ends with the host asking why those people on the other side are such monsters. We can never ask them directly why they are monsters we are going to need some white dude with pink hair to speculate why for us.

the result of years living in pristine echo chambers

that milo guy booked the latest professional victim but was dumb enough to think she would actually show up

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx


tldr the global shortage of SJW attention whores has been greatly overestimated

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
yeah exactly like adam baldwin is some has been actor dope but he mentions this woman in a tweet and she goes immediately for the opportunist SJW angle of "all women are helpless victims and now I guess I'm going to be raped and murdered this is my lot SIGH" angle and has her agent immediately shopping interviews on MSM

well played toots

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
she was on MSNBC within 24 hours of fleeing for her life from tweets

so brave *sniff*

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
I mean lol if you make big :effort:posts ITT but don't understand gamergate is the same old conflict of modernist grand narrative types railing against the inevitability of postmodernity, but this time bideo jims smdh

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
wow look at this lil crippled dude

a person with real problems, not phantom persecution and patreon

also braina wu is clearly a troon who adopted an anime name lol

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/gamergate-and-sexism-and-misogyny-in-video-game-culture-/

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

The Snark posted:

Click the question mark, folks.

in case your mobile app things doesn't support that



24 pages of posts at 40 posts per page and counting :captainpop:

skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Oct 14, 2014

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
great art and science has been produced by some of the worst shut in hate filled nerds in history

I remember some lil white SJWs protested our university orchestra who was putting on a wagner concert because wagner who died 100 years earlier was a terrible shitlord of some stripe

like every other university orchestra conservatively 1/2 the members were jews (other 1/2 asian)

like mansplaining except from OWS types

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Zzulu posted:

waths ith the image spam

frustrated white knight types having meltdowns while biting on

skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Oct 14, 2014

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

are you suggesting that the ppl melting down ITT are pedos?

the evidence certainly supports that theory

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
see that's great, consumers voting with their wallets to effect the change they want to see, the system working as intended

let the market sort if out - if everyone really wants to play games featuring rainbow haired catladies overthrowing phantom oppressors, surely those games will be made and sell millions of copies

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Tezzor posted:

Final Fantasy is one of the most popular games in the world

that's exactly right

I think it's dumb as hell myself so I just don't buy it, but I certainly don't go to sleep fuming that shitlords are enjoying an entertainment product full of tropes that I find problematic any more than I would lose sleep over people who enjoy exploitive reality TV or poverty porn films masquerading as high art

the system works if you let it

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
I mean idk about you guys but if I had <opinion> and I discovered gawker, huffington post and vice all shared <opinion>

:stare:

that's never happened to me ofc but I dunno what I'd do

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
seriously there seem to be a lot of sadbrains cutting they junk off who also have harsh words for gamergate

it's like kryptonite to people who hate themselves

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
gamergate has been escalated to terror threat orangeplusplus

http://www.standard.net/Police/2014/10/14/Utah-State-University-student-threatens-act-of-terror-if-feminist.html

if I ever decide I want to kill somebody, I'll tell LE exactly when and where I'm going to shoot them so the cops can show up in force, stop me from doing anything, and generate a lot of goodwill for my target

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
srs post with all these high profile death threats how come we never hear anything about LE making arrests or closing the case or whatever? in this the year of our lord 2014 is it so easy to make anonymous death threats that federal law enforcement can't just trace the internet tube it came from in like 6 seconds?

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

lovely Wizard posted:

Lets say they live in france, use a proxy from ukraine to access a proxy from nigeria, and then make a fresh account on twitter to make death threats against someone in the US

Cops ain't going to bother most of the time unless it's an actual threat or against like the president

SybilVimes posted:

https://twitter.com/GitGudGG/status/522139528010924032

The threats are coming from the anti-GG side themselves.

lovely Wizard posted:

don't you understand, she tweeted, got hacked and someone else made an offensive tweet, then she got back control within minutes rather than locked out like hacked poo poo

I gotta say in light of all this and the fact that these people are profiting from all this exposure, I suspect these gals aren't in quite so much mortal peril as the media would have us believe for clicks

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

ClancyEverafter posted:

"these people" my god could you be more transparently racist

SJW have taught me you can't be racist towards white people, so :smug:

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

this is also a credible threat by gamergate standards

reported

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skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
"if I keep posting obsessively about rape it will prove how normal I am"

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