Blarghagh

Yeah I saw this video on the news and it was hilarious. One guy literally said "really, this is so much better than McDonalds".

Hell yes Mockingbird. You went full badass.

Mine can unless his back problem acts up.

Chuck Norris was never cool, the meme was created to make fun of his lame tough guy persona.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't actually worship Chuck Norris the person and is having fun with Chuck Norris the invincible internet phenomenon.

Yeah, as Orogun pointed out her personal information has been out there for quite a while. Doesn't excuse anything, though.

And then you'd need to feel guilty about that, too. I also feel guilty that I wrote "read about on TV" instead of "see on TV". This feeling of guilt is directly tied to the occurance of earthquakes.

Also, every time someone says something that is true, the word "FACT" will be superimposed on the vision of everyone in the conversation.

Yeah, if I didn't block out empathy for most of the victims of attacks, war, crimes, war crimes or accidents that I read about on TV my anguish would destroy the world.

Yes, I read this and honestly I'm inclined to take them up on their offer.

Slightly off-topic, but I didn't see this before and it gave me a great laugh. JadedWolf, you're the best.

I'm going to pull a Bruce here because this article deserves some signal boosting. It's a fantastic article as all of Kazerad's articles have been. It very clearly demonstrates some of the points I've been trying to make but failed to do so in a coherent manner about why it's ridiculous to smear people as groups over the actions of some of its members and why signal boosting the wrong people is to make their signal stronger. It shows perfectly that the desired outcome here should not be to "win" but to make things better by working together and acknowledging each other. All this alienation and polarisation is helping no one.

Gave me goosebumps. I know I shouldn't buy into hype, but I am so hyped.

That's what I thought last week, but then Sam Biddle posted his nonsense about how GamerGate is proof that nerds should be bullied back into submission and it opened up a whole new can of fury so at this point I'm thinking we haven't even seen GG do a limit break.

I guess that's it. The human race had a good run up until this point, but now it's time to slaughter them all.

I normally wouldn't say anything to dispute this type of post but because I think my comment is constructive I'm sure you won't mind, you not suggesting that real journalism is dead? You mean gaming journalism ? Well, I am talking about a broadcast of an "investigative" news program (EenVandaag) on a public (paid for with tax money) channel. When they regurgitate news from other sources without any research of their own and they only show one side of the story, they aren't fit to call themselves journalists. And no, interviewing a couple of Dutch people from the gaming industry who then rehash the same things you could find in just any gaming news article about GamerGate doesn't count as research. Audi alteram partem seems to mean nothing to these people. The fact that for many people using the GamerGate hashtag the real issue is a perceived lack of ethics among gaming journalists isn't even mentioned, and they don't even try to find anyone who'd want to represent the GamerGate side of the story, it's all about the faceless group of angry men who dislike women having any influence on gaming. And this of course interspersed with scenes from games in which women are brutally killed. Some of which I would agree are rather tasteless, but others in which quite honestly the program misses the point. People are killed in some video games, and among those people are women. This is also true in literature, and on television. But I don't see that being reported on in such a way. It's just plain old sensationalism. It's not the outcome that irks me, by the way, it's the method of getting there. If they had concluded that a toxic portion of a loosely defined group of people calling themselves GamerGate is harassing women on the internet and that we should all condemn that after they had given a full rundown on the story including the various reasons people have for supporting GamerGate and had done interviews with people supporting both sides involved with this story, I'd be fine with it. But anyway, in general, I don't think journalism is completely dead, there are still some bastions of journalism like Der Spiegel, but a lot of news sources have seriously deteriorated in quality. Here's the piece by the way: http://www.eenvandaag.nl/binnenland/54762/vrouwen_bedreigd_in_de_gamewereld?autoplay=1 I'm not used to anything different. Dutch journalism has always just copied over whatever articles they could find when it comes to anything that doesn't take place on Dutch soil. The irony of these journalists is that they don't seem to realize that they're their own worst enemy. They are by far the biggest, most valuable supporters of the part of GamerGate that they hate: The trolls. They're ignoring the people concerned about a lack of journalistic ethics and acknowledging attention seeking trolls instead, giving them aaaaaalll the attention and publicity they could ever need. It's not their intended message but it's their practical message. "Want to be internet famous? All you have to do is harass a woman that is in or vaguely related to the game industry. Go ahead, she's already been doxxed as we reported ad nauseum, I'm sure you can find the information for yourself." In the meanwhile, the genuine journalistic ethics people are getting angrier and angrier and are steamrolling them. Who would have guessed that acknowledging those people (whether their cause of distrust is valid or not) could have been a more beneficial approach? I mean, even if, no wait, especially if you wholeheartedly believe that this is a front for misogyny, maybe it would be a good idea to figure out exactly why so many people distrust and/or hate you enough to buy into it so easily and prefer to throw in their lot with the supposed misogynists than side with you.

I tried, in the other thread. Feeling too mellow for it today. You got me with it too. I am very ashamed.

We need more trolls to keep this from becoming an echo chamber.

I'm much more concerned about the fact that this is news than the fact that his game got pulled. He's an idiot, but I'm pretty sure the message that other idiots will receive here is "threaten somebody and Kotaku will make you famous". It may even be the intended message, seeing as how all of Gawker's nonsense is about this nowadays. Putting "Death threat" in your title makes for great click bait, which makes for great ad money.

If I say "I'm going to kill Gabe Newell too", will Kotaku make me famous? I wish for it so much.

If it was sexist that doesn't explain why people have been saying the same about Phil Fish. I saw a hilarious picture with a quote from Adam Baldwin... and a picture from Stephen Baldwin.

Based is based in reality. It's analogous to down to earth, practical.

26, started my gaming career with my dad's Atari version of Pacman somewhere in my third year. EDIT: It was Atari, not Commodore 64.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverboards-worlds-first-real-hoverboard Is this a scam like the recent videos? Are they messing with me? I can't dare to hope again.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disneys-frozen-whitewashing-controversy It's knowyourmeme, but it's sourced.