Drama and games journalism, soggy leg joint edition

[Fighter]

Someone posted this to pastebin back in September, it insinuates that the "social justice" aspect is just a smoke-screen.  Given the above screen grabs, I see no reason to doubt it.

 

This has got to be some kind of joke... If not that is just spectacular. If the gaming press were not a bunch of full of themselves hypocrites THIS would be front news.

[aluminiumtrioxid]

 

 

So now your problem is censorship, not "politicizing games". Make up your mind already.

 

 

See post #65.

 

 

Meh.

[pseudonymous]

What's GNAA?

 

A trolling group with an offensive name.  Read the wiki entry, second result on bing first on google.

[Blarghagh]

There are groups dedicated to trolling? D:

[BruceVC]

http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/15/6984715/anita-sarkeesian-utah-state-university-death-threats

 

Here is something interesting, we should all know by now about the death threats levelled at Anita that caused her to cancel her appearance at the Utah university but I didn't realize just how seriously the authorities were taking them

[Malcador]

Threatening to shoot up people at a University is serious, why is this a surprise that the police are looking into it?

[Keyrock]

There are groups dedicated to trolling? D:

Sadly, very much yes.  There are groups of scumbags out there that get off on the misery of others and they make no bones about it.

 

 

Someone posted this to pastebin back in September, it insinuates that the "social justice" aspect is just a smoke-screen.  Given the above screen grabs, I see no reason to doubt it.

 

This seems a little bit too conspiracy theory for me.  I'm not saying it's definitely not true, but it seems a bit too far fetched.  That said, I fully expect members from some of these schadenfreude circle jerk groups to be posing as both GamerGaters and Anti-GamerGaters, stirring the pot and doing their best to escalate things so that they can wank it to death threats and people losing their livelihood.

Edited October 17, 2014 by Keyrock

[BruceVC]

Threatening to shoot up people at a University is serious, why is this a surprise that the police are looking into it?

 

It is serious, but haven't  there been numerous death threats against people like Anita and other feminists?

Edited October 17, 2014 by BruceVC

[Fighter]

I remember some kid being jailed and put through hell because he wrote about shooting up a school and clearly labelled it as a joke. So no surprise they would try going after the Sarkeesian threat. Problem is it could be some kid tweeting from a cafe in Asia.

[JadedWolf]

I remember some kid being jailed and put through hell because he wrote about shooting up a school and clearly labelled it as a joke. So no surprise they would try going after the Sarkeesian threat. Problem is it could be some kid tweeting from a cafe in Asia.

 

This one?

 

http://www.ongamers.com/articles/league-of-legends-player-who-reportedly-made-terrorist-threat-faces-up-to-10-years-in-prison/1100-894/

[Starwars]

More articles, another one against GamerGate. http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844

[Fighter]

This one?

 

http://www.ongamers.com/articles/league-of-legends-player-who-reportedly-made-terrorist-threat-faces-up-to-10-years-in-prison/1100-894/

 

 

That's the one. Honestly sounds like something that would happen in my home country than in US.

[Elerond]

 

Maybe asking for more ethical journalism was a mistake. I'm starting to believe that these people are so unprincipled that they are incapable of adhering to any code of ethics or honor. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig after all.

 

 

Asking more ethical journalism, but not actually stating what one means with such abstract notion (ethical journalism) or saying that game journalism should be more like typical journalism have both high change to produce results that are unsatisfactory for those that ask such things.

 

When people can't get in consensus on ethical questions like is it right to kill another human being in some circumstances or is it ethical to waste food when hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger/starvation in world. It seem bit naive to just ask more ethical journalism without specifying what that statement actually entail, as it is absolute sure that without details people will have many different interpretation what that means. And I would also guess that most of the journalist think that they conduct their business in ethical manner, so it should not be very surprising that so general statement don't rise much of passion or self reflect in the most of the journalists or even majority (my guess no data to back up such statement) people. I would say that most of what one can except is to get reactions like yeah more ethics is good, but such concerns don't apply to me because I already am ethical (people rarely see themselves unethical if you can't convince that something they are doing is unethical, by showing that things they are doing hurts somebody/something). 

[pseudonymous]

http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/15/6984715/anita-sarkeesian-utah-state-university-death-threats

 

Here is something interesting, we should all know by now about the death threats levelled at Anita that caused her to cancel her appearance at the Utah university but I didn't realize just how seriously the authorities were taking them

 

Here is something even more interesting: http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=54179

 

Law enforcement deemed there was never an imminent threat.  Anita canceled her talk because of Utah's CCW law.  Spin it how you will, those are the facts.

 

 

More articles, another one against GamerGate. http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844

 

A gawker site against gamergate?!?! NO!

Edited October 17, 2014 by pseudonymous

[BruceVC]

 

http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/15/6984715/anita-sarkeesian-utah-state-university-death-threats

 

Here is something interesting, we should all know by now about the death threats levelled at Anita that caused her to cancel her appearance at the Utah university but I didn't realize just how seriously the authorities were taking them

 

Here is something even more interesting: http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=54179

 

Law enforcement deemed there was never an imminent threat.  Anita canceled her talk because of Utah's CCW law.  Spin it how you will, those are the facts.

 

 

More articles, another one against GamerGate. http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844

 

A gawker site against gamergate?!?! NO!

 

 

But thats what I thought, I didn't think this was deemed a legitimate threat

Edited October 17, 2014 by BruceVC

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

 

 

 

 

http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/15/6984715/anita-sarkeesian-utah-state-university-death-threats

 

Here is something interesting, we should all know by now about the death threats levelled at Anita that caused her to cancel her appearance at the Utah university but I didn't realize just how seriously the authorities were taking them

Here is something even more interesting: http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=54179

 

Law enforcement deemed there was never an imminent threat. Anita canceled her talk because of Utah's CCW law. Spin it how you will, those are the facts.

 

 

More articles, another one against GamerGate. http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844

A gawker site against gamergate?!?! NO!

But thats what I thought, I didn't think this was deemed a legitimate threat

Because it wasn't.

[Elerond]

 

http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/15/6984715/anita-sarkeesian-utah-state-university-death-threats

 

Here is something interesting, we should all know by now about the death threats levelled at Anita that caused her to cancel her appearance at the Utah university but I didn't realize just how seriously the authorities were taking them

 

Here is something even more interesting: http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=54179

 

Law enforcement deemed there was never an imminent threat.  Anita canceled her talk because of Utah's CCW law.  Spin it how you will, those are the facts.

 

Imminent threat is something that has ability to cause harm to people if they don't take immediate actions to prevent such harm.

 

But university and university's police have said that they had prepared extra secure measures at the presentation, but Sarkeesian felt that those extra measures were insufficient without checking that nobody brings guns at the presentation which is why she decided to cancel it.

[Gfted1]

If Im reading this map correctly, shes only going to be able to speak in the American Samoa, District of Columbia or N. Mariana Islands.

[Nonek]

Don't be sending her to England, we've allready been infested with Madonna!

[TrashMan]

Whens the last time an internet threat amounted to anything?

 

If I was killed every time someone threatened me with death on the internet, I'd be dead a thousand times by now.

Seasoned internet dwellers ignore trash talk like that as the hot gas it is.

Some other people use it for sensationalism and to garner sympathy.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Don't be sending her to England, we've allready been infested with Madonna!

It'll be fair cuz you sicked Jude Law on us.

[Blarghagh]

Whens the last time an internet threat amounted to anything?

 

If I was killed every time someone threatened me with death on the internet, I'd be dead a thousand times by now.

Seasoned internet dwellers ignore trash talk like that as the hot gas it is.

Some other people use it for sensationalism and to garner sympathy.

 

Somebody on the internet once doxxed me because I said Ewoks were worse than Jar Jar Binks.

 

Which just goes to show that if you get threatened, it doesn't give legitimacy to your argument.

[Elerond]

Whens the last time an internet threat amounted to anything?

 

If I was killed every time someone threatened me with death on the internet, I'd be dead a thousand times by now.

Seasoned internet dwellers ignore trash talk like that as the hot gas it is.

Some other people use it for sensationalism and to garner sympathy.

 

Elliot Rodger threated to shoot people in internet earlier this year before his killing spree, comes first to my mind. 

[BruceVC]

 

Whens the last time an internet threat amounted to anything?

 

If I was killed every time someone threatened me with death on the internet, I'd be dead a thousand times by now.

Seasoned internet dwellers ignore trash talk like that as the hot gas it is.

Some other people use it for sensationalism and to garner sympathy.

 

Elliot Rodger threated to shoot people in internet earlier this year before his killing spree, comes first to my mind. 

 

 

Oh Elerond, I love your ability to find a link or give a credible answer whenever says something like " when was the last time someone did xx or yy " or "I doubt anyone has ever done this before "

 

 

Keep up the good work

[Gorgon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrX7G-1xPLs&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRrX7G-1xPLs&has_verified=1

 

 

Going off on a tangent here.

 

Obvious bait to lure out the SWJs and get a LOT of free press. From a purely marketing standpoint it's kida clever. You deliberately cross the line and wait for the media storm. In the US in particular nerves are frayed about mass shootings. 

 

It's odd that this actually had a big distributor, however briefly. 

 

I guess the moral of the story is this. Without SJWs and a media storm a game like this would not exist.