Blarghagh

Yeah, if all of you could settle down before the mods have to step in that would be great.

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." Spoken by that shining example of humanity, Pat Roberston. Reactionary hysteria is always hilarious, whatever form it takes. I'm personally waiting for the moment when someone claims that water fluoridation is some insidious SJW plot to sterilise straight white males. "I can no longer sit back and allow SJW infiltration, SJW indoctrination, SJW subversion and the international SJW conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!" So GG has been established for more or less 6 months, it seems like a good time to do a summary of where the movement is, what it has accomplished and what the future holds for GG i know many of you guys do spend time following this movement and updating us on developments so lets analyze the state of GG and of course this is subjective..no one is going to hold you to it What is current state of GG? What changes is GG directly or indirectly responsible for What are the future objectives of GG? I have to say I'm very surprised and disappointed by the lack of response to my 3 questions For last 6 months we have had certain active members on this thread spend hours giving us updates and making long posts about corruption in the gaming industry and posting twitter comments. But when asked to give valid feedback about the core state of GG there has been no feedback? The only person who did respond, Namutree, isn't even that active on this thread TN, Longknife, KP and others considering your post history in this discussion I was really expecting you to at least try to respond to my 3 questions? I haven't even been in this thread since before you posted those questions, I think. I've been cutting down my time in this thread simply because it often riles me up into making extremely long posts that take up time that I could be spending working on interesting things. - The current state of GG, size wise, is mostly the same as it was, it was looking like it was shrinking rapidly but after the holidays were over it ballooned right back up. - Personality wise, I can see a rift forming between those who care for specific personalities (such as those digging up dirt on srhbutts and attacking intel over being "partnered" with femfreq for their women in tech initiative) and a hard core ethics group, characterized by people such as Oliver Campbell, Brad Wardell and Jenn of Hardwire, who seem to be slowly forming themselves into a genuine ethics watchdog that will endure far after the hashtag goes out of use. However, I've seen a lot of arguments happen between different GGers in the last few days, more than usual, so GamerGate, if it was ever even somewhat united, might fracture over this difference. But I could be wrong. - As for changes, this question was answered to my satisfaction. Influencing some FCC regulations, getting websites to adopt ethics policies, funding several charities and a lot of women in games industry projects (most from TFYC organisation). Apparently GG does this out of spite or something, but at least that seems to be getting results while everyone else is just running around complaining about gamer culture when they could be doing their own charity drives and women's projects. - The future objectives of GG are the same as before. Ethics in game (and at this point it's really started to add media) journalism - either clean up your act or GG will try to take you down. The ones doing this intelligently seem to be that core forming into a media watchdog. Gawker is unlikely to be forgiven at this point because the whole controversy dragged up all the other **** they've done (such as hosting celebrity sex videos and spreading copyrighted material) and Gawker is already close to going down, so that seems to be an objective, and Vox media is getting a fair share of attention now because they are perceived to be responsible for a lot of biased coverage as well as the brunt of Reddit censorship. I haven't followed that particular outrage so I don't know if that's correct. I've had other things on my mind. Satisfied?

Cartoonists don't take it well.

That guy is just as bad as these guys. Pure filth.

Ouch. That must have been really painful for her (and yourself). Thankfully, my lady is doing a lot better already and it looks to have been a false alarm.

Disgusting.

Spent most morning taking my girlfriend to the hospital for severe abdominal pain. Looking like it was food poisoning of some type, but since she's had an ectopic pregnancy + miscarriage before and it coincided right with her ovulation (which has been causing discomfort since said pregnancy) I figured it was better safe than sorry since it could have been an infection, but that got ruled out thankfully. Ugh, family members die and I can't bring myself to show emotion but my girlfriend has stomach aches and I totally freak out. Guess I must really love her.

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." Spoken by that shining example of humanity, Pat Roberston. Reactionary hysteria is always hilarious, whatever form it takes. I'm personally waiting for the moment when someone claims that water fluoridation is some insidious SJW plot to sterilise straight white males. "I can no longer sit back and allow SJW infiltration, SJW indoctrination, SJW subversion and the international SJW conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!" You don't have a lot of posts, so I assume you don't know Volourn. Meet Volourn, a master of hyperbole, trolling and generally rubbing people the wrong way. He's not so bad once you get to know him.

Agent Carter premiering today, right?

Ruined my plans for pan-fried cod filet when they expelled so much fluid that they boiled rather than fried. I completely forgot to let them leak out for a considerable time after defrosting. Whoops, my bad!

I think it's Amber Heard, but I could be wrong.

Yep. Well, I'll be damned. I'm starting to vaguely believe those claims that this puritanical group is situated entirely in affluent San Francisco.

That's so weird. I thought Frank Oz was dead a couple of weeks ago and people were like "what you talkin' 'bout willis?"

Time for a movie version, I'd say.

Generally I use word of mouth and some YouTubers, though I do peruse The Escapist and GameFront.

It must be so boring to have friends so uniform in opinion.

Not entirely sure what to make of that. Is it ethics? Can it be?

Well you live in a particular country, you are citizen of that country. Don't you automatically just support them in international sports events? Sometimes I wonder how you can have incredibly generalized and oversimplified views like this. People are varied, not all of them care about sports and not all of them think the personal accomplishments of athletes reflect on a country. Some might dislike the personalities of players involved and root against them, others might simply not be proud of their country - do you assume all Ukrainians will root for their "home team"? Quite a lot of people I know get so annoyed with overblown soccer mania every time there is a championship that they actively support the opponents. Even without that, most people I know aren't overly patriotic - it's not like you had a choice in where you were born, after all. Even the ones that are won't just blindly support something. A person can be proud of some things a country has done while not being overly fond of how they are doing now, for example, and in some cases people can even actively hate their country.

I completely forgot about the entire game-breakingness of Use Any Item. And high level traps.

What's natural about patriotism?

Trying to skirt around the issue? Journalists may have been infiltrated by an ideology or somesuch (I wouldn't say the entire of feminism is an issue being such a huge, varied and amorphous blob of people just like #GamerGate, at most ridiculous post-modern third wave cultural marxist view that seems prevalent among the Tumblr crowd), but I very much fail to see how some dumb twitter troll who was never in it for the ideology but to rile up #GamerGaters is connected to that in any way, shape or form. This woman (or man, or whatever, I elected not to read the damn expose) is a distraction and I guess she did an absolutely wonderful job of that judging by how important you think it is that she gets discussed in depth. This is the last I'll say on it because I have more interesting and important things to think about.

That's a very "ends justify the means" mentality. Might be a rationalisation that SJWs would use. Witch hunting and ad hominem is wrong, especially since what we're supposed to be focusing on is bringing meaningful change to the media and instead some people seem to care more about some douche that tweets a lot of imgurs and who would be silenced by the simple act of ignoring.

Why do we care? It's just some dumb internet trolls that tweeted about #GamerGate incessently. Nothing that neccesitated this level of scrutiny, just blocked her and I was fine. Getting mighty irritated by the witch hunt mentality on both sides. EDIT: This was about that RalphRetort article, not the hookers thing.