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afeelgoodpoop
Oct 14, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
http://thestonedgamer.com/opinions/item/326-everything-you-need-to-know-about-gamergate-and-how-it-could-all-be-solved-with-marijuana

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Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012
Did you guys actually send in the school shooting threat what the gently caress

afeelgoodpoop
Oct 14, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
yea sorry about that

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
School shooting threat? What the gently caress?

Bholder
Feb 26, 2013

Yes.

We also started 8 chan.

And Zoe is a goon already.

Yes, it's true, gamergate as a whole is a goon conspiracy.

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Shadoer
Aug 31, 2011


Zoe Quinn is one of many women targeted by the Gamergate harassment campaign.

Support a feminist today!


Bholder posted:

Yes.

We also started 8 chan.

And Zoe is a goon already.

Yes, it's true, gamergate as a whole is a goon conspiracy.

It's all part of our convoluted plan to start extorting women for precious bitcoins.

InsanityIsCrazy
Jan 25, 2003

by Lowtax
"look at what I did to this town with a few twitter accounts and a couple of death threats."

-heath ledger

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

Funky See Funky Do posted:

School shooting threat? What the gently caress?

There's a link to the gassed thread circulating on the tag, and a post claims that the threat email sent to Sarkeesian recently about shooting up a school if she speaks there was "goon-started drama" and this is supposedly proof that SA was behind it?

I don't believe that myself, was probably just poor wording or something taken out of context but there it is

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Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

most gamers I've seen say it can't possibly be SA behind it because SA is a notorious SJW haven lol

yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012

afeelgoodpoop
Oct 14, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
see you in gitmo cardboard box a

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

Segmentation Fault posted:

There's a link to the gassed thread circulating on the tag, and a post claims that the threat email sent to Sarkeesian recently about shooting up a school if she speaks there was "goon-started drama" and this is supposedly proof that SA was behind it?

I don't believe that myself, was probably just poor wording or something taken out of context but there it is


lol I saw that go by this morning, it's a screen of one of cardboards posts from that thread saying "we did it goons!", all green and lovely from the gas chamber

some guy wrote some pretty good :words: about the culture warrior aspect of gg which is kinda the whole thing imo

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/gamergate-an-un-pc-rebellion/16029#.VD-Lod33aK3

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John Denver Hoxha
May 31, 2014

What a persistent nightmare!
....but enough about my posts
Its pretty neat how you can go into any angryposting megathread and see a bunch of posters that never show up anywhere else, and without fail theyre stupid faggots with rage issues

afeelgoodpoop
Oct 14, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
seriously cardboard box a if you have any pets put them over at a neighbors cause you're getting raided

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH4gwlzhnxw

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The Snark
May 19, 2008

by Cowcaster
^^^^
AHAHAHAA!

My post was quoted in that! I'm E-famous now!

I hope Cardboard Box A is doing well and will resume importing foreign horrible. Our own is really low-quality.

The Snark fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Oct 16, 2014

TOILETLORD
Nov 13, 2012

by XyloJW
all of you are losers, like the worst possible mentally retarded losers.

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx

afeelgoodpoop posted:

seriously cardboard box a if you have any pets put them over at a neighbors cause you're getting raided

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH4gwlzhnxw

ayyy lmao

poo poo I blew my chance to get e stalked by angry nerds

The Snark
May 19, 2008

by Cowcaster
The skeletons will never catch ME!

I'm leaving the country just to be safe though.

Phoon
Apr 23, 2010

lol these people can't read

DrPlump
Oct 5, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
There is now an Anti-GamerGate subreddit. Not sure if it is sadder to post on there or KiA. Perhaps Something Awful needs a Pro and Anti thread or perhaps even an entire subforum. Zoe can mod this is her mess.

http://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/

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OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
Someone mntioned this thing the othet day. What isit and who is this sarkeenian lady

Also who are the shittiest madposters and are they entertaining or just spammy and annoying?

Thnaks

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Alas Boobylon
Sep 30, 2014

Wezlar posted:

what the gently caress is gamergate in 30 words or less

Ladies and gentlemen:

Mr. Thompson will not speak to you tonight. His time is up. I have taken it over. You were to hear a report on the world crisis. That is what you are going to hear.

For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing—you who dread knowledge—I am the man who will now tell you.

You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man's sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster.

In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils, which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins; it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection.

You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I—I am the man who has granted you your wish.

Your ideal had an implacable enemy, which your code of morality was designed to destroy. I have withdrawn that enemy. I have taken it out of your way and out of your reach. I have removed the source of all those evils you were sacrificing one by one. I have ended your battle. I have stopped your motor. I have deprived your world of man's mind.

Men do not live by the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those who do. The mind is impotent, you say? I have withdrawn those whose mind isn't. There are values higher than the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those for whom there aren't.

While you were dragging to your sacrificial altars the men of justice, of independence, of reason, of wealth, of self-esteem—I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp. I showed them the way to live by another morality-mine. It is mine that they chose to follow.

All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.

We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

There is a difference between our strike and all those you've practiced for centuries: our strike consists, not of making demands, but of granting them. We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality—the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind.

We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms of bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. We do not need you.

Are you now crying: No, this was not what you wanted? A mindless world of ruins was not your goal? You did not want us to leave you? You moral cannibals, I know that you've always known what it was that you wanted. But your game is up, because now we know it, too.

Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code of morality, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned man, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code.

Your victims took the blame and struggled on, with your curses as reward for their martyrdom-while you went on crying that your code was noble, but human nature was not good enough to practice it. And no one rose to ask the question: Good? —by what standard?

You wanted to know John Galt's identity. I am the man who has asked that question.

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that's through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it.

You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social. You have been taught that morality is a code of behavior imposed on you by whim, the whim of a supernatural power or the whim of society, to serve God's purpose or your neighbor's welfare, to please an authority beyond the grave or else next door—but not to serve your life or pleasure.

Your pleasure, you have been taught, is to be found in immorality, your interests would best be served by evil, and any moral code must be designed not for you, but against you, not to further your life, but to drain it.

For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors—between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

Both sides agreed that morality demands the surrender of your self-interest and of your mind, that the moral and the practical are opposites, that morality is not the province of reason, but the province of faith and force. Both sides agreed that no rational morality is possible, that there is no right or wrong in reason—that in reason there's no reason to be moral.

Whatever else they fought about, it was against man's mind that all your moralists have stood united. It was man's mind that all their schemes and systems were intended to despoil and destroy. Now choose to perish or to learn that the anti-mind is the anti-life.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch—or build a cyclotron—without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think.

But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call "human nature," the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival—so that for you, who are a human being, the question "to be or not to be" is the question "to think or not to think."

[...]

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.

But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.

You will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle—and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world:

" I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
im not gonna watch a gamergate video, can someone tell me if one of my many high quality posts were brought up tia

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
What would gamergate be called if it didn't involve games??

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Neurolimal posted:

im not gonna watch a gamergate video, can someone tell me if one of my many high quality posts were brought up tia

Never mind on the second part

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

nerds

Noyemi K
Dec 9, 2012

youll always be so sleepy when youre this tiny *plompf*

gannyGrabber posted:

What would gamergate be called if it didn't involve games??

Cum Bomb

CaptainFish
Mar 31, 2011

It's Psy-Crow my mortal Enemy! I swear my soily vengeance upon him and his fowl ilk!

Neurolimal posted:

im not gonna watch a gamergate video, can someone tell me if one of my many high quality posts were brought up tia

all of your good posts are featured

DrPlump
Oct 5, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
So starting off I am using a new account because I don't want to be tracked through my other account, so lets get started.

I have been a long time lurker of girlgamers and when the whole GG event started I immediately took the side that every pro-GG was a misogynistic neckbeard because of the attacks on ZQ and her sex life.

Everything posted there was followed up with "Oh they are hiding behind gaming ethics? they are just misogynistic" and I never thought much of it until every other post was a screencap of a tweet, or 4chan/8chan post and thought how it was only 1 person and they are painting this over everyone in pro-GG, so I started getting curious and lurked in this subreddit for a week or so now. I noticed that the this subreddit didn't cherry pick its evidence and allowed anti-gg to post here for discussion thus I became very wary of girlgamers and gamerghazi on how strict they were and how anyone trying to bring a neutral discussion either got downvoted to oblivion or banned on the spot.

I think that was a turning point for me since I was questioning who I was fighting against, a bunch of misogynistic neckbeards who wanted to make women leave the industry? then why would they allow free speech on their subreddit and give the whole story on screencaps ?

Then the Wu thing happened and it felt like she was trying to force her way in the middle of things for publicity, then ZQ not wanting to do a interview cause someone from pro-gg would be there and then Wu and 8chan's founder went on huffpo and it felt very onesided with almost no debate.It clicked for me, I realized my side didn't want debate and that we only wanted a echo chamber.

Then the huffpo stream today of Georgina, Jennie and Jemma made me think that "hey, the other side isn't full of sexists, its the opposite" So now here I am. Sorry if i insulted any of you here before and thanks for reading my story, I really wanted to get this off my chest and feel free to ask questions.

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Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012

CaptainFish posted:

all of your good posts are featured

sweet

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

the average gamergate can play ten times its weight in videogames

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
insects are cool but i dont think we need two ant threads imo

treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

Salad Prong

TOILETLORD
Nov 13, 2012

by XyloJW
hmm, i'll make a real post how much of this gamers gate has talked about how zoe used her being a editor to control and or ruin games journalist who didn't agree with her views? I thought that was the real issue, before she made videos who's sole purpose was to taunt people she didn't like to get press. This forced all the "feminists" to take her side and got retarded men to get mad at her.

Pretty much everyone should just ignore her and games journalist.

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Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012

TOILETLORD posted:

hmm, i'll make a real post how much of this gamers gate has talked about how zoe used her being a editor to control and or ruin games journalist who didn't agree with her views? I thought that was the real issue, before she made videos who's sole purpose was to taunt people she didn't like to get press. This forced all the "feminists" to take her side and got retarded men to get mad at her.

Pretty much everyone should just ignore her and games journalist.

woah, ant society is more complicated than i thought

its like game of thrones for the animal kingdom, what wild beasts

Phoon
Apr 23, 2010

i like the ants tag

Ralp
Aug 19, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
:anttony:

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/worlds-deadliest-ngs/deadliest-army-ants

Link to a video on National Geographic that shows army ants who could easily kill and eat a human being

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a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

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