Longknife

That's Oklahoma. That doesn't count.

I attempted to flirt with a German girl for the first time in forever because I figured since I live here/am German I should probably....yknow, give it a try? I've stuck safely to Russians, Turks and other foreigners since moving here because I don't quite see eye to eye with German culture and the deep German voices are a turn-off. So we're just talking and the subject comes to different cultures and which ones we get along with. I ask her which culture she likes, she says German. I ask her why. "Because we're such a productive people!" FML, why. How is this interesting? I don't get it. "YA WE WORK HARD AND HATE ACTUALLY TALKING TO EACH OTHER, WOOOO!!" Yeah good for you Germany, have fun with that.

...Presenten? He didn't know Geschenken so he just made presents sound German-y. I figured that much, it was more he got the rest (mostly) right so I thought a translator might've given him presenten.

...Presenten?

It's also Sunday.

When I was in High school, a female friend of mine once wore a top that didn't cover her shoulders. She and I and another friend were all chatting and then suddenly the Principle called her over to give her a talking to. We were wondering "wtf is going on" and then he made it clear her attire isn't appropriate because it doesn't cover the shoulders. He then was gonna take her to his office to give her something more appropriate to wear over the top. As they walked away me and my friend found it so outrageously ridiculous because wtf who gets turned on by shoulders, so we started going "Oh no, not the shoulders!! Please don't make her cover those sexy, SEXY shoulders! That's what helps a man make it through the day!" Then we got in trouble too for mocking the rules. Not really relevant, I just like blabbing about life stories. But yeah sometimes I hear about rules for attire and it's like "YA HEAVEN FORBID SOMEONE SEE A NAVAL AND JUST FALL INTO AN AROUSED FRENZY."

https://instagram.com/p/z7DTsFih6v/ About to get into bed but there's 1-2 posts in the last few pages I'll probably respond to later.

Honestly a lot of it all is just drama. Like I wish Sargon of Akkad and CameraLady got more attention simply for the fact that they do all their research themselves and make it clear how they did it, and they've yet to make promises they don't keep. A lot of the other big names from both sides are just celebrities more or less, and don't actually do a whole lot.

Are they doing it again or is this the same poorly researched piece that got criticized by people who were even neutral but believed GG to be about harassment? Dated three days ago: https://archive.today/mGGaN It's a prime example of lazy copy-pasted journalism. Also, I like these two. They always do good research into the politics of the game industry and back it up: Funny how Otaku will admit CameraLady does the bulk of the work and he's just the face cause she's got social anxiety or something iirc. I mean wtf it's a woman both working hard to thwart their corruption and none of us are harassing her (I'd praise her, for obvious reasons) yet that never gets mentioned. EDIT: Man I'm on a fukn ROLL with my attentive-ness today. Meshugger already linked it. xD My bad, didn't see the thumbnail for it til after I'd linked it and had only scrolled past his link before, so didn't realize they were one in the same.

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Now ESPN is slandering Gamergate. Imeanrly...

Today on the Isaac Rebirth Subreddit, someone wrote up an interpretation of the storyline based on statements and conclusions made by Arthur Chu. Today I learned Chu doesn't know how2art. :c Or that specific example was to facilitate the later example of "GamerGate could be die-hard Bayonetta fans who are mad their game got 8/10 instead of 10/10 for all I care, so long as they bring about meaningful and positive change." The point was that as long as GamerGate brings positive change, I see no reason to scoff at the people behind it and question their worth as human beings, accusing them of having too much time on their hands, valuing video games over everything else or what-have-you.

So apparently Tim Schafer mocked sock puppets by taking a lesson from Clint Eastwood and his Obama Chair. And meanwhile Ubisoft went to an Nvidia party that seemed to have go-go dancers and/or erotic dancers. Everyone get your popcorn ready.

Would sound a lot more inspiring and believable if it would be talked about not only by random internet people, but my actual-flesh-and-blood real-life friends and acquaintances, who largely haven't even heard about the whole thing, much less care about it in any way, shape or form. You might be overestimating the impact it has, mate. I'm not saying it's already large enough to accomplish what I've said I want accomplished. I'm saying it's showing a respectable resilience that leads me to believe it may someday reach that point. After all, the moment Polygon and Kotaku and the like are essentially sinking, there's gonna be a lot of people who spent months playing watchdog for games journalists and saw mainstream journalists exhibiting the same problems. I see no reason why those people would not attempt to play watchdog there next. Yes, laziness is a factor, but in my opinion laziness is usually what kills most movements, and it seems non-existent to gamergate in the face of how outraged a lot of it's supporters are. I believe if laziness were a threat to that, it would've already stopped Gamergate.

Now would be a good time to have another round of "why did the SJWs who claim to be the pinnacle of equality decide to make Vivian James 'better' by turning her into an Aryan." It's like something out of a comedy sketch ffs....

I’m sorry THIS is the biggest fault in news media at the moment? Someone had the audacity to give a review of a videogame, and you don’t agree with it? THAT’S what we’re going to snowball from!? Could you be any more painfully transparent I've never even played or owned Bayonetta, dude. It was a mere example. Furthermore, your post amounts to little more than your perception of the situation. AKA, you think it's pathetic that for ethics in journalism to arise, a video game needs to get a bad score. I would call your focus entirely misplaced and argue you're missing the point entirely. My stance is I do not care about the motivations or what you think about the people working towards better ethics. I do not care if 95% of the GamerGate community is nothing but fans with undying loyalty to the Bayonetta franchise who are vowing vengeance against all of the media because Polygon short-strawed their game. I do not care if you would refer to these people as "nerds with too much time on their hands who live in basements and desperately need to be a part of something to feel important." What I care about is that stuff gets done. (and before this gets taken out of context, OF COURSE I'm not saying "GamerGate can commit murder as long as change in the news comes about!!!" Of course not, let's be rational here and assume rational thought from me so I don't have to make stupid little clarifications every few sentences) And as I highlighted above, that's why I care about GamerGate. GamerGate has exhibited a resilience that isn't often seen. We've all seen a lot of movements in our lifetime, and a lot of them die quickly. But GamerGate? If you want my opinion, the way games journalists lied was so undeniably obvious, so undeniably bold and so undeniably crass that it simply got people's jimmies hella rustled. It's not that people care more about vidja games than Russia, it's just that the attitude exhibited by games journalists was arguably more disgusting in a way; don't get me wrong, the Ukraine crisis discounts the worth of human lives to a degree GamerGate doesn't even touch on, but the Ukraine Crisis exhibits a level of shame in it's actions that GamerGate's opponents (the journalists and outspoken SJWs like Anita) do not. It's an unspeakable level of bold to think you're entitled to call your readership - the reason you get paid at all - a bunch of self-centered misogynist losers, let alone doing it the moment they come asking if you've been dishonest with them. Even Putin's smart enough to put on a well-meaning or "innocent" visage when commenting on his actions; he doesn't attempt a "covert" invasion and then twist the knife midway through by saying the USA is a bunch of scum and they better shutup about Ukraine or he'll level NYC, all while filming himself pissing on a photo of Obama and the American flag. I promise you, had he done that, people would be disgusted with his absolutely shameless intent and the world would be up in arms about ensuring that guy lose his presidency in Russia while getting Russia out of Ukraine with nothing to show for it. GamerGate got people worked up because it's exactly as though that happened. It's the absolutely shameless intent behind the actions of games media that got people worked up, because it instills an attitude of "we can't let them get away with that!" in people which, as you can see, seems to be doing pretty damned amazing in the longevity category. Shameless intent disgusts people because it implies the person is soooooo out of touch with reality and so off in their own little world that change needs to happen ASAP or things are gonna get extremely ugly; it scares people aswell as launches people up in arms to right any blatant wrongs. It's a case where the wrongs are so obvious that no one hesitates to raise their sword or not because they're 100% sure the action is justified, and they're eager to show they know right from wrong. The games journalists get scrutinized 'round the clock whereas Putin is now quietly sitting alone and licking the wounds done to his economy because Putin at least has the sense and the capacity to act and be reasonable when he so chooses; he can be spoken to. Games journalists presented an attitude that suggested they could not even be spoken to, which is very alarming and suggests something needs to be done about them and their jobs if any change is to come about. That's the true difference here, NOT that video games are truly considered more important than war, global climate change and poverty combined. In that regard, it's not surprising that the spark came from an industry severely underqualified, as that industry is more likely to breed childish behavior and callous actions, no? But again that's just my theory, and again, it's largely irrelevant. The important thing is that for whatever reason, GamerGate does not back down. It keeps going and going, and it has the determination, the drive, and the dedication to bring about change. Whether this dedication comes from having nothing better to do and living an otherwise meaningless life, a rabid disgust of any perceived injustice, or a rabid fandom of Ms. Pacman, that does not matter to me, because the end result is that it's leading to GamerGate uncovering some real issues and going about ways to solve them. Point me to a long-lasting and highly active movement that's constantly trending on twitter (AKA constantly being discussed by people), that opposes dishonest journalism and has it's roots set in the Ukraine Crisis, Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, unfair baked bean prices, a disgust of ridiculous wigs - you name it. I do not care about the cause (so long as I don't find it unjust and fundamentally disagree with it's motivations) so long as it shows the capacity to bring about change in what's obviously a very corrupt media empire we've got going now. It just so happens GamerGate is that movement, because if you take Reddit or this very forum as a sample case, then GamerGate is the one with the six-month long series of topics. Not Occupy Wallstreet, not wikileaks. GamerGate. Strange, but true.

There are, apparently, a number of people who feel that the national news in the US has pretty much come to that. Between reading company press releases and talking about what is trending on twitter, I don't see much else going on in US news... And this is a problem, because information is a powerful thing. So if one random "trusted" news network can claim "Obama murdered a man!" and the others all follow suit in the interest of not being left behind, then they fact check only much much later (if at all; sorta feels like fact-checking sometimes only occurs when enough pressure to do so is applied, which is exactly what GamerGate has been doing and another reason I consider it important)....well, a lot can happen in the time it takes for them to get off their butts and get the story straight. I name Russia and Ukraine as an example because Russia's go-to card is that western media lies. Given my own personal experiences with russian people and my questions regarding their culture and politics, I would still bet money Russian media is horrendously dishonest, but all the same: if you know your media outlets can and will lie to you, then you're that much more receptive to a foreign entity claiming your media is lying to you. What are we gonna do the day another Ukraine Crisis breaks out and both the Western and Eastern news stories on the matter are considered untrustworthy? Who will help the Ukraine? Who would have the motivation to when they feel it's impossible to uncover the truth of the matter? It would all be at the detriment of the Ukraine, as every onlooker would want nothing to do with it, and lack reasonable evidence to prosecute their attacker. We already know what can happen when the news media is lazy or dishonest: the USA fought a friggin' war in the middle of nowhere in the Middle East because of it, because apparently "chilling out watching news in a nice house in Pakistan" and "hiding out in Iraq with Saddam" are "close enough" by journalist standards. All GamerGate has provided? GamerGate is a movement that back when it started, games journalists scoffed and said it wouldn't last more than two months. It's half a year now and Gawker is down six figures. GamerGate is important because it's actually ticked off enough to actually bother to look into these false narratives and hold the journalists accountable.

It was the easiest way to sum up the whole GG/anti-GG thing in as derisive a way as possible. I suppose "videogames are serious business" would have also sufficed. As I and others have stated on multiple occassion, for myself this is bigger than video games. I have never read games journalism websites beyond a once-per-three-month check in on some game I'm hyped for. I've always considered video games journalism untrustworthy since the Doritos Pope and since I learned at a young age that those IGN score reviews weren't coming anywhere close to my own personal reception of the games I bought. I find it ironic that looking back on it, those Nintendo Power magazines probably provided the most non-bias reviews of any game I purchased, and that's saying something... But you cannot tell me with a straight face that MSNBC, ABC, the BBC and various other mainstream media news outlets which are SUPPOSED to hire the best of the best in the industry can report and provide highly slanted accounts of GamerGate that are poorly researched, and that there's no problem there. This implies that either A.) Those big time journalists are actually incredibly lazy and slacking off, and made little to no effort to understand the issue beyond copy-pasting articles pre-written for them, or B.) They knew damned well what the full story looked like, but had no interest in publicizing the full story, instead preferring to provide coverage to the most emotionally-charged and hysteria-ridden narrative on the topic at hand. Either way, this is an issue. If those are supposed to be the experts in journalism and reporting, then we have a serious problem. Today it's Bayonetta getting a sub-par review score, tomorrow it's blatant lies about Russian actions within the Ukraine, or indirect encouragement to address issues of Muslim immigration in european countries in the most violent, sensationalist manner imagineable. All GamerGate is, to me, is a blemish on a Hydroelectic Dam that I said looked odd or misplaced, and then when I went to clean it, the whole freaking Dam started bursting. To me this is about ethics in journalism. Not games journalism, journalism universally. My interest won't cease once Kotaku and Polygon shut down due to loss of traffic, my interest will cease once I have answers as to why ABC, BBC and various other major news networks thought it ok to run the pieces they ran.

I like the white people avatars saying white people suck. Again with Grade F analytical skills in tact as they claim all of this happened because Wu is white, and not because Wu is a nutjob.

Pretty sure that's not how psychological projection works. Pretty sure I just honestly interpreted it another way.

I see it now but think it can go both ways, either as a sarcastic remark about how feminism does not demonize the list above, or as a statement that she does have some qualms with sex-negative feminism. That it's not hyphenated, I interpreted more to mean that statement is NOT a cornerstone of her presentation, but rather kind of a relevant statement based on the things that were truly discussed. I usually disagree when people say determining sarcasm on the internet is hard, but this is a case where I really don't find it so apparent.

....Seriously? I don't see it at all. What implies the sarcasm?

To be fair, I checked in with Ghazi cause yeah it looked like people on twitter lit her up over it, but Ghazi was more accepting. https://media.8ch.net/gamergate/src/1425434011029.png Seems like a realization that the overarching SJW mantra is more sex negative, which obviously doesn't line up with her game.

There is a high burnout rate in the game industry because of awful conditions that are only comparable with low skilled low pay jobs and with games development. Studios for a long time treated artists as being disposable since there was an over-saturation of job seekers wanting to enter the industry. Lately they have realize that they are driving talent away because of lack of stability and overworking and now are left to develop their own talents without the benefit of an experienced guide . This. Anyone who wants to get into the game industry, think twice. I think you can find a tour of Bethesda Game Studios in one of their Making of videos (Oblivion?) and it looks swag as hell. Video games, delicious snacks and fatty foods, comfy sofas to chill out on, the works. The twist? Those are all there because during crunch time, the developers might not even get to go home. It's not a cushy job with tons of sweet perks, it's a job where you might end up working 'round the clock to the point it's more productive if you don't even bother driving home. Those are loooong hours, and any classes prepping you to be a game developer are also going to prep you for "crunch time," which is something a lot of the AAA title companies do where devs are worked to the bone. For anyone wondering where I get this from, I frequent Bethesda's forums too and I remember a discussion about the quality of Skyrim (or lack thereof) resulted in a mod speaking up against someone who called the devs lazy and basically mentioning one of the devs that went a week without seeing his family or so. But yeah, that's what happens when a line of work is extremely popular: they can work you extra hard cause you're viewed as replaceable. You might be sensationalizing a bit much, not every studio is a deadly trap waiting to burn you and drive you out of the industry. In fact the article is about an older game and a lot of those attitudes have changed but there's damage done and a lot of good people have moved on. People who where very experienced and now their knowledge is gone. Of course not. It was more specifically the AAA studios I was referring to, and it's good to hear that may be changing. Still, the overall point is I think a lot of naive young kids think making video games will be as fun as playing them, and the result is the industry is overflowing with potential employees, which means the demands of that position increase. In recent years, I find it also very telling how many indie companies are popping up in regards to how many people are trying to work as game developers. On a more related note to Gamergate, am I still asleep? I just woke up (or so I think) and I see Wu making comments about how nice a chat with some GG supporters went and how feminism has gone too far.

There is a high burnout rate in the game industry because of awful conditions that are only comparable with low skilled low pay jobs and with games development. Studios for a long time treated artists as being disposable since there was an over-saturation of job seekers wanting to enter the industry. Lately they have realize that they are driving talent away because of lack of stability and overworking and now are left to develop their own talents without the benefit of an experienced guide . This. Anyone who wants to get into the game industry, think twice. I think you can find a tour of Bethesda Game Studios in one of their Making of videos (Oblivion?) and it looks swag as hell. Video games, delicious snacks and fatty foods, comfy sofas to chill out on, the works. The twist? Those are all there because during crunch time, the developers might not even get to go home. It's not a cushy job with tons of sweet perks, it's a job where you might end up working 'round the clock to the point it's more productive if you don't even bother driving home. Those are loooong hours, and any classes prepping you to be a game developer are also going to prep you for "crunch time," which is something a lot of the AAA title companies do where devs are worked to the bone. For anyone wondering where I get this from, I frequent Bethesda's forums too and I remember a discussion about the quality of Skyrim (or lack thereof) resulted in a mod speaking up against someone who called the devs lazy and basically mentioning one of the devs that went a week without seeing his family or so. But yeah, that's what happens when a line of work is extremely popular: they can work you extra hard cause you're viewed as replaceable.