Blarghagh

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.

Yeah, I saw that happen in my feed. Why she felt the need to actually acknowledge people who are essentially high level trolls I don't understand. You know, the more I think about it, the more I realize I've seen these things before. I recall that Disney's movie "Frozen" got some serious criticism from Gawker media because it was based on scandinavian Sami elements but featured no Sami people as everyone in it was white This is what the majority of the Sami people look like:

See, another case of this draconian attitude destroying artistic freedom AND inclusiveness. I've made the point before that with these people around, some game devs just don't think it's worth the risk to include inclusivity options - if somebody doesn't like a male character, it's just badly written. If somebody doesn't like an inclusivity option, you get to deal with all kinds of baseless sexism, racism and homophobia charges. If you don't have inclusivity options, all you'll get is the occassional "man what a sausage fest" jab, but by god if Lara Croft has a male mentor figure you'll get slammed for it. This game could have been terrible or it could have been gaming's Schindler's List, but we'll never know because self-righteous gatekeepers kept them from even trying. Gaming will never be inclusive with Gawker and Silverstring around.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/18/am-i-being-catfished-an-author-confronts-her-number-one-online-critic I thought this was a fascinating article about an author who gets consistently "trolled".

That sounds neat, but I'm still somewhat disappointed that it wasn't actually the wine that was haunted. Groupon is actually quite neat, got quite a few cool things from there already.

Yeah I didn't literally mean they were represented by those people, it was a jab at the morons who think trolls represent #GamerGate.

Yeah, see, this is the kind of person that represents anti-#GamerGate, I think I'd rather be represented by misogynists. Other than the one where he literally says "let them suffer", all of them are verifiable. I literally just looked them up on his Twitter.

Oh come on, this can't be a real thing. This has to be a joke. Mr. Biscuit is just pulling our collective legs here, right? Even the SJWs couldn't possibly be delusional enough to make claims about weaponized charity, could they? Actually, they already made this claim when GG funded TFYC woman game jam campaign. EDIT: I didn't get around to listening to TB before, but I totally agree with him. If you find a charity effort to be a personal attack on you, you are the worst kind of person. You are a bigger problem than any misogynist.

Haunted Wine?

That's probably the most accurate video regarding tumblr I have ever seen.

See, if it's being phrased as a call for accuracy, I can get it. "they cast the wrong person because she doesn't look like the character" is not even close to being the same as "they cast the whitest black girl ever so it's racist". Maybe it's what they mean, but if they immediately jump to political correctness in a way that is ironically racist then they're being, ironically, racist.

Huh, Volo spoke something that is actually a FACT. I totally agree, telling a mixed race woman that she's "not black enough" is horribly racist.

I think they broke Volo. They're definitely overplaying their hand here. The whole controversy made people give their rhetoric the benefit of the doubt, but pretty soon life is going to come along and go "oh that's bunk and you're dumb".

TotalBiscuit (sounding a bit weird due to coming out of surgery) does a lot of talking about GamerGate here. EDIT: https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/causes Need to actually give the link here...... time for bed, I'm becoming careless.

Sorry if I missed it. At one point the thread grew two pages while I was typing a reply.

She also threatened Hotwheels with legal action where none is really possible. http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/article/458579/Biowares_Damion_Schubert_owes_me_an_apology Brad Wardell is angry at someone slandering him again, too bad he kicks butt and takes names. EDIT: Mercedes Benz dropped Gawker media as a place to advertise over the comments of Sam Biddle (the "nerds need to be bullied into submission" thing). EDIT EDIT: TotalBiscuit dropping bombs over the Hatred controversy. "Tell me more about your moral highground as you call a team of developers "living garbage". And even gamers are concerned about "How this game will make us look". Are we not past this? Am I back in the 90s? Shall we fire up our copy of Nighttrap for another senate hearing? I am not concerned that The Human Centipede makes film look bad so I am not concerned that Hatred makes games look bad." HATRICK EDIT: https://www.crowdrise.com/GamerGateStompsOutBullying/fundraiser/loping

An echo chamber filled with different kind of echoes? I'm not sure if that really qualifies as an echo chamber. EDIT: I may have been unclear, the intention of this post was: I'm not sure what you mean with that.

Who said this wtf? 10 years ago was 2004. We still had Samus Aran, we still had Perfect Dark, we still had Tomb Raider. If you want to dial it back to a time of extreme racism or sexism, you'd need to dial time back to...a time before games existed...Best ("best") you can realistically hope for is a time when a homosexual protagonist would get run out of town. I love how most gamers were super supportive of Ellie in the DLC for The Last Of Us. It really surprised me. Overall, gamers have been showing they're capable of great things in the last couple of years. The amount of charity drives is through the roof. It's one of the reasons I totally flipped my lid when the whole "gamers suck" shebang hit the media.

Not really, just a jab at the term equalists, as a reference to a cartoon that has a group of self-proclaimed "equalists" (equality in a completely different context) as villains. Completely harmless and no attack meant.

Thanks for that! In all seriousness, this thread has given me something to think about regarding the nature of trolls and dealing with them so I'm going to drop that topic as a process it and come back to it if I come up with anything genuinely interesting to say. (Did I make this jab before? I think I made it before. Sorry if I repeated myself.)

I'll believe it when I see it. I've been a message board junkie since I was eleven and the trolls were the only thing that never changed (other than getting worse). EDIT: Well yeah, those who have diagnosed psychiatic disorders are getting treated. Or do you mean recognized?

And I still believe that pushing the same amount of responsibility to the "moral outrage machine" instead of the trolls doing the harrassing is a skeevy attitude. (Also, let it be noted that I've pointed out in my first post on the matter that I don't believe you intended to do any victim-blaming. I'm not a big fan of arguing in bad faith.) Here's how I see it: I don't think that douche that doxxed and threatened Brianna Wu is a normal person. I think that person must have some kind of sociopathic disorder where they are addicted to negative attention or causing pain or whatever. It's like an alcoholic, except in the place of alcohol there's douchebaggery. And what Gawker media and even mainstream media has been doing, quite effectively, even if they don't intend to do so, is enabling this addiction. He saw another dev espousing a feminist message and put two and two together "if I attack this woman, the media will give me what I want". Obviously I condemn the guy, but I also condemn the media for giving him what he wants. At best, they have this "I don't negotiate with terrorists!" outlook and they don't realize they embody a figurative spawning pool for them. At worst, such as is the case with Leigh Alexander, they willingly and maliciously throw these victims under the bus and let the trolls descent upon them to prove their point. A "megaphone" indeed. Listen, I condemn harassment but focusing on how one condemns harassment in the age of internet anonymity is just not useful. Therefore, I have to focus my ire on the next part that is to blame. Trust me, I've tried. I've been in the "trenches", I've reported about a thousand twitter trolls in just the last two weeks because I want GamerGate to be better. It does nothing. All the people I know who support the goal of journalistic ethics and are trying to make GamerGate a good thing? They have their heads in their hands because they keep being told "you can't talk about it while there are trolls" but it's impossible to remove them. It's not a viable or valid thing to ask. At this point, they're a force of nature.