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+1 While i find it as wishful thinking, but the idea of roleplaying as a drunk, twofaced prankster bard that does not take the Inquisition that seriously and spends most of the time flying around on his dragon mount, killing both sides with great enjoyment, is quite tempting.

Colorado seems to have done a complete switch-a-roo. But yeah, Obama usage og JSOC has been nothing but appaling. No matter how you spin it as necessary evil, "hard decision" or no other option. This peaceful Nobel Laureate has personally approved murder for over 2000 guys.

So, any bets on the republicans trying to abolish Obamacare within 6 months?

Some poor woman dies in a horrible fashion this is how Wu parades it. She's really going to egg on until some loonie snaps. Just despicable, utterly and completely.

^I have no info about that, sorry. Thunderf00t compares how he treated Michelle Malkin and Sarah Palin compared to Anita Sarkeesian

I had no idea who she either before Wu mentioning her as friend driven from the industry by gamergate. The quotes are from a pulled article at Polygon, which means she was a columnist i guess. She hasn't made any games that i know of.

Interesting that he mentions her in a sympathetic manner. Some quotes: The second quote says it all. Apparently she had a twitter account, but it has been deleted. I wonder what kinds of threats someone attracts with that kind of language.

I call BS on that until i see an official statement from FBI. But on the other hand, considering what the owner of Gawker did, jesus.

I do not see little proof about anything, just a different opinion. And ending it with "...with what I think is a pretty good summation of why I think GamerGate is a morally and intellectually bankrupt movement, and has been from the start." ...does not help with examples, such as: "This is a misleading tale. Well-meaning GamerGate members [who people have widely acknowledged do exist] or members who knew it would make them look bad, did try to bury Brianna’s doxx while it sat unadressed by moderators for several hours. However, 8chan’s unlisted boards, which aren’t as tied to GamerGate as the explicitly labelled /gg/ board, are still well known and used by /gg/ members. Mods have stickied guidelines on how to properly collect and distribute doxx and the rules surrounding such. The slur used there is referring to one of their victims. The public areas of /gg/ may be sanitised of any direct incriminating actions, [though other very problematic behaviour and discussion is rampant] but the unlisted 8chan boards are far from clean" ...err, so what should be done? Everyone is enforced to say nice things? uuurgh.

It's alright now though. The Chinese have no white man's imperialist burden and are well underway to buy up the whole continent.

I have no idea what the guy is rambling about. //edit: nvm, thanks for the links

What Malcador said. And link please.

WHO?

Nothing surprises me anyone.

Except that didn't actually happen. From the very same link, the Gamasutra article: One out of 18! Boo hoo! (Actually, there are 2 or 3 more with a similar tone, so it's not just this one. Still, "a coordinated attack on gamers by 12 articles on the same day" it ain't.) Keep going

It's not harrasment if you're rightous about it. That's usually the rationalization that i hear.

Wow, did that really happen? I didn't even hear about this one. Yup. Where's his TV-spot?

Of course unprofessional conduct against their consumers should be punished and they should be fired. No other industry allows this childish behaviour.

Except that didn't actually happen. From the very same link, the Gamasutra article:

The justification for games journalists to speak out about the toxicity of games commentary towards women was really quite clear-- they and friends of theirs experienced it first-hand, they decided that it wasn't the kind of thing they couldn't continue to abide silently, and they made a statement against it. They did this with no clear financial incentive (other than the normal "I get paid to write a column" stuff), and in doing so risked alienating a portion of their audience and attracting the ire of those hateful **** at the core of the problem. Is that "dictating a narrative"? I dunno. Columnists are paid for their opinion, and they delivered it. It seems to bother you that their opinion didn't bubble up from the folks you consider "average gamers." I'm not sure where you're getting that most gamers are or should be up in arms about all this. In reality, most people who play games are ambivalent. Sure, if you press them, they'd say that folks who comment on gender politics in games don't deserve the abuse they have historically gotten for speaking their mind, and that reviewers shouldn't allow their work to be affected by the ads that games publishers buy on their employers' site. But if those beliefs influence them to change their behavior at all, it's only to avoid reading comments and twitter replies to certain articles and to develop their opinions of games from sources outside paid games media. Ultimately, the stakes on the GG'er side are so low that the people who appear to care intently about the cause all either look pretty weird, or are motivated by opportunism (drawing attention/clicks/follows by ratifying the views of supporters) or hateful tribalism (see Trashman's "I'm really in this because I hate SJWs" post above). This is why "actually, it's really about ethics in games journalism" has become a laugh line-- anybody who cites that as a basis for the kind of emotional intensity you see from much of the GG crowd either has humorously bizarre priorities or is lying to you (possibly deliberately, possibly because he lacks the self-awareness to understand his own motivations). 12 major sites declared that there is a gamer culture, that it is dead, that everyone disagreeing is a white, womanhating neckbeard, and there is no debate to be had. It is indefensible. They should all appologize, fire the ones writing the articles and everyone involved with patreons and other non-professional conducts to developers. This "oh, we are really about higher standards in gaming, removing toxic culture of name-calling and highlighting unnecassary titillation"-bruuuha is so irrelevant that not even dinner-party liberals bother to discuss that over a cup of Latte.

Gawker owner Nick Denton admits trying to sabotage #GamerGate and compares it to "smashing a giant" http://theralphretort.com/gawker-owner-nick-denton-admits-gamergate-sabotage/ Did you hear that guys? Gawker thinks that GamerGate is a giant now May this empire burn to the ground, utterly and completely.

Thanks for reminding me about that documentary I had all but forgotten (supressed everything) about it. Jesus christ, few things in my life has made me more enraged about the level of injustice portrayed in that one. The grandparents though had such strength of character that was nothing but admirable.

Eh. I've never really cared about Brianna Wu. The fact of the matter you should. When the most targeted female victim of gamergate is a man, it just means that patriarchy wins no matter what happens. What do mean? Brianna Wu was never a victim of gamergate, nor is she a journalist; thus she doesn't matter to me. I thougth that my joke was obvious

Eh. I've never really cared about Brianna Wu. The fact of the matter you should. When the most targeted female victim of gamergate is a man, it just means that patriarchy wins no matter what happens.

That is why i would say that the Post-modernism is playing a huge part in this. There is no need for empirical knowledge, reason or greater understanding. Only personal emotional experiences, reshape of language and deconstruction for deconstruction sake. It is the bane of the mind of any free society.