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"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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Future of gaming part 2:

http://thebestgamers.net/art.html

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"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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I've reread the article in question, and have failed to see any mention of him being blamed for tha harrassment of others. It mentions the fact that he was allowed to give an interview in said clothing as indicative of a larger problem in the industry, not him having any sort of malicious intent with it.

 

So, erm, yeah.

 

 

Why wouldn't he be?

On-the-spot reporting usually involves talking to people in the middle of their workplace or in the middle of work. As such, those people wear what they normally do.

It is perfectly fine.

There is nothing wrong with his shirt.

 

 

 

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Here, just to give Bruce and some others another 404 error, the female reporter is a feminist:

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"The Courier was the worst of all of them. The worst by far. When he died the first time, he must have met the devil, and then killed him."

 

 

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Oh and for added effect, this is the next video that comes up in the playlist lololololol:

 

"The Courier was the worst of all of them. The worst by far. When he died the first time, he must have met the devil, and then killed him."

 

 

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Future of gaming part 2:

http://thebestgamers.net/art.html

 

As with great satire, that's not actually far from the truth. Sadly.

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Two articles here ladies and gentlemen. One Anti and one Pro Gamergate, you can read them both and make up your minds yourself.

 

http://www.centredaily.com/2014/11/17/4461902_their-view-womens-voices-rightly.html?sp=/99/145/&rh=1 <--Anti

http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/13/the-waronnerds-how-far-left-feminists-and-the-media-created-gamergate/2/ <--Pro

 

The first article (AntiGG) has this little snippet:

 

 

And that, I think, is the key to all this. It isn’t simply that women and minorities are starting to speak up, it’s that they’re specifically and explicitly telling the dominant paradigm that it doesn’t have the right to be dominant. Since power is a zero-sum game, in order to grant equality to those who have been oppressed, they have to take power from those who have done the oppressing - there is no way for the dominant to remain as they are if the oppressed are to escape their oppression.

 

That is not a narrative that the dominant want to hear.

 

Gosh jolly, it's all about power? Not about creating the best games ever? That sounds eerily familiar.

 

Now from the pro-GG one:

 

 

...gamers, and nerds everywhere, smelled a rat. When the leaked emails emerged showing just how deep Quinn’s relationship with the press allegedly went, it was as if that rat had tap danced out onstage wearing a bowtie. The straw had broken the camel’s back, and after years of abuse from radical feminists for everything from their mating habits to their hobbies to even their philosophical subcultures, they were ready to send the SJWs crying back to their Tumblrs. When those same people responded to the accusations of corruption by sniffing that “gamers are over,” often in the accents of high school locker room harridans, the war was on.

 

People bullying nerds? Well, i never!

 

So what is more plausible? Identity politics focused on the paradigms of power....or nerds getting bullied until they are backed into a corner and fights back? I report, you decide!

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"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

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From the anti-GG article above.

 

GamerGate — named on Twitter by Adam Baldwin — began in shadowy parts of the Internet known as 4chan with the exposure of some nude photographs of a female developer by an ex-boyfriend seeking retribution for infidelity. Along with the photographs came accusations of sexual favors exchanged for favorable reviews on a popular gaming news site. Although the affair appears to have been very real, the site in question (and the journalist with whom the affair was conducted) never ran a review of the game, which is available online for free.

It's amazing how many facts can one get wrong in a single paragraph: It didn't start at 4chan. Eron didn't spread Zoe's nudes(they can be found at soft porn site where she has put them herself). It wasn't reviews, it was positive coverage.

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From the anti-GG article above.

GamerGate — named on Twitter by Adam Baldwin — began in shadowy parts of the Internet known as 4chan with the exposure of some nude photographs of a female developer by an ex-boyfriend seeking retribution for infidelity. Along with the photographs came accusations of sexual favors exchanged for favorable reviews on a popular gaming news site. Although the affair appears to have been very real, the site in question (and the journalist with whom the affair was conducted) never ran a review of the game, which is available online for free.

It's amazing how many facts can one get wrong in a single paragraph: It didn't start at 4chan. Eron didn't spread Zoe's nudes(they can be found at soft porn site where she has put them herself). It wasn't reviews, it was positive coverage.
If you repeat a lie enough...

 

Oh and http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2mjhxo/be_careful_people_margaret_gel_icze4r_just_got/

 

Apparently another pro-ethics person gets doxxed, this time a woman. "It's actually about gender equality".

 

Also:

 

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What is it with male feminists telling women how women really have it?

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"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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I really hope these reports of physical attacks and swatting are untrue.  If they are, however, they are sadly unsurprising.  I'm guessing those on the radical far left were caught off guard by this level of resistance and they were ill prepared for a lengthy drawn out conflict.  As this continues on into month 3 and beyond and it's become crystal clear that the regular tactics these people employ are simply ineffective and doing nothing to make GamerGaters back down, it's definitely not unexpected that they would start to resort to more and more extreme tactics.  People resorting to more extreme tactics is scary, because extremists may well be capable of horrible atrocities, but it also tends to suggest that they are close to crumbling, as it's a clear indicator of desperation.  Again, though, I'd much rather these claims of physical attacks and swatting were bogus.

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I forgot to add the following quotes from kirottu's linked article:

 

 

 

The ‘battle’ is won regardless. Publications like Kotaku are losing relevance with each day, while websites with reviewed policies and independent curators/reviewers are more popular than ever (tipping the proverbial top hat to a certain brit out there). The entire games media industry is slowly but steadily changing, and there is nothing they can do about it.

 

 

 

Yes, I believe that the stance devs have on GamerGate threaten their careers. And here I will make a very bold statement: people like RogueStar, Phil Fish, Brianna Wu, Zoe Quinn and other will most certainly never going to find work in the AAA game industry.

 

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"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

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I don't.  They need to eb crushed once and for all the best way for this to happen is for them to inflict self damage to show their evil, nazish ways.

 

Besdies, it's been proven that feminism in the real world isn't exactly super popular. I saw a poll where only 23% of women consider themsleves feminists (20% of the population overall) while the majority of people do consider themselves to be for equality. Feminism is rightly going the way of the KKK. An extremist extremely minor voice that the majority just laugh in giggles. Right where they deserve - to be in the trash.

 

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I really hope these reports of physical attacks and swatting are untrue.  If they are, however, they are sadly unsurprising.  I'm guessing those on the radical far left were caught off guard by this level of resistance and they were ill prepared for a lengthy drawn out conflict.  As this continues on into month 3 and beyond and it's become crystal clear that the regular tactics these people employ are simply ineffective and doing nothing to make GamerGaters back down, it's definitely not unexpected that they would start to resort to more and more extreme tactics.  People resorting to more extreme tactics is scary, because extremists may well be capable of horrible atrocities, but it also tends to suggest that they are close to crumbling, as it's a clear indicator of desperation.  Again, though, I'd much rather these claims of physical attacks and swatting were bogus.

Apparently there is a video of the attack, but the alleged victim isn't allowed to talk about it during an investigation. He was rescued by a porn star though, so silver lining.

 

Swatting hasn't been confirmed so who knows for certain. Wouldn't be the first time though.

"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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I really hope these reports of physical attacks and swatting are untrue.  If they are, however, they are sadly unsurprising.  I'm guessing those on the radical far left were caught off guard by this level of resistance and they were ill prepared for a lengthy drawn out conflict.  As this continues on into month 3 and beyond and it's become crystal clear that the regular tactics these people employ are simply ineffective and doing nothing to make GamerGaters back down, it's definitely not unexpected that they would start to resort to more and more extreme tactics.  People resorting to more extreme tactics is scary, because extremists may well be capable of horrible atrocities, but it also tends to suggest that they are close to crumbling, as it's a clear indicator of desperation.  Again, though, I'd much rather these claims of physical attacks and swatting were bogus.

 

If any of it is true it's very sad... but also kind of funny that it is not the demonized "dudebro sexist gamers" but the "noble and righteous" other side that has crossed that line.

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I really hope these reports of physical attacks and swatting are untrue.  If they are, however, they are sadly unsurprising.  I'm guessing those on the radical far left were caught off guard by this level of resistance and they were ill prepared for a lengthy drawn out conflict.  As this continues on into month 3 and beyond and it's become crystal clear that the regular tactics these people employ are simply ineffective and doing nothing to make GamerGaters back down, it's definitely not unexpected that they would start to resort to more and more extreme tactics.  People resorting to more extreme tactics is scary, because extremists may well be capable of horrible atrocities, but it also tends to suggest that they are close to crumbling, as it's a clear indicator of desperation.  Again, though, I'd much rather these claims of physical attacks and swatting were bogus.

Apparently there is a video of the attack, but the alleged victim isn't allowed to talk about it during an investigation. He was rescued by a porn star though, so silver lining.

 

Swatting hasn't been confirmed so who knows for certain. Wouldn't be the first time though.

 

 

 

What's annoying is there's multiple claims of various things going on, but we won't know for weeks or months if they're bold-faced lies or true, simply because they involve the police, FBI or the court system.

 

Gonna be honest though, I think divas aren't exclusive to one group. I question the validity of claims from both sides.

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I really hope these reports of physical attacks and swatting are untrue.  If they are, however, they are sadly unsurprising.  I'm guessing those on the radical far left were caught off guard by this level of resistance and they were ill prepared for a lengthy drawn out conflict.  As this continues on into month 3 and beyond and it's become crystal clear that the regular tactics these people employ are simply ineffective and doing nothing to make GamerGaters back down, it's definitely not unexpected that they would start to resort to more and more extreme tactics.  People resorting to more extreme tactics is scary, because extremists may well be capable of horrible atrocities, but it also tends to suggest that they are close to crumbling, as it's a clear indicator of desperation.  Again, though, I'd much rather these claims of physical attacks and swatting were bogus.

 

Apparently there is a video of the attack, but the alleged victim isn't allowed to talk about it during an investigation. He was rescued by a porn star though, so silver lining.

Swatting hasn't been confirmed so who knows for certain. Wouldn't be the first time though.

 

 

What's annoying is there's multiple claims of various things going on, but we won't know for weeks or months if they're bold-faced lies or true, simply because they involve the police, FBI or the court system.

 

Gonna be honest though, I think divas aren't exclusive to one group. I question the validity of claims from both sides.

I'm waiting for verification myself, but it does seem(from my biased POV) that one side seems to be crying wolf much more than the other.

"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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https://twitter.com/The_Goldbat/status/534437039773863939/photo/1

 

EA has pulled out from Gawker. Those people people thought that bullying will lead to submission, instead they got:

 

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- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
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That says a lot if true since EA tries its best to be as inclusive and PC as possible. Perhaps the vil (male) feminists and SJWs are fighting a losing battle. But, I already knew that.

 

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Great news.  I'm ready to extend the olive branch to some sites, provided they show ethical reforms, I already have in some cases, but not Gawker.  Gawker is a lost cause and need to be burnt to the ground (figuratively speaking, of course), as far as I'm concerned.

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