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rainy day
Jul 20, 2009

by Ralp

dirty nub posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFSMi5G3R4

Here is a video about feminists and zoe quinn only watch this if you are a person that cares a lot and not if you are a person that does not care a lot

i am definitely going to listen to a thing called "Honey Badger Radio". Yup.

e: fuckin lmao i clicked on the title and its that mra idiot girlwriteswhat. definitely not gonna listen.

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dirty nub
Jan 19, 2009

rainy day posted:

i am definitely going to listen to a thing called "Honey Badger Radio". Yup.

e: fuckin lmao i clicked on the title and its that mra idiot girlwriteswhat. definitely not gonna listen.

the cuck talk starts at about 1:10:00 your welcome

Cycloneman
Feb 1, 2009
ASK ME ABOUT
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dirty nub posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFSMi5G3R4

Here is a video about feminists and zoe quinn only watch this if you are a person that cares a lot and not if you are a person that does not care a lot
All of the people talking are women, and I don't like listening to women talk so I won't.

reavor
Jul 24, 2013

quote:

it's kind of scary how much gamer rage can be traced back to not being good at anything in high school

like, you're an adult now, you can prolly find something cool to do and attract cool peoples with, nobodies' forcing you to play all the mass effects

it's kind of scary how much hate and cognitive dissonance there is from indie gaming journalists/developers to their target audience.

dot communist
Mar 28, 2005

I like how Zoe Quinn has taken on this whole "Quinnspiracy" persona, as if making light of her own douchebaggery somehow absolves her of it.

Man Whore
Jan 6, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT SPHERICAL CATS
=3



Biggie Shorty posted:

I actually can't stand indie games. But I do want these smug prick bloggers and tweeters to get fired.

And are all of the players in this shitstorm Canadian? What the gently caress? I thought Canadians were supposed to be chill.

I know a lot of canadians with some short fuses.

NadaTooma
Aug 24, 2004

The good thing is that everyone around you has more critical failures in combat, the bad thing is - so do you!
just burn down the entire internet and start over

Cyberball 2072
Feb 17, 2014

by Lowtax

reavor posted:

it's kind of scary how much hate and cognitive dissonance there is from indie gaming journalists/developers to their target audience.

It's very much the new "in" thing, these very forums are full of "kill all whites" "kill all nerds" "gamers need to die", I wonder who is making those posts? Likely white dudes who read sci fi and play video games.
We've cultivated a wonderful world of self loathing and hand rubbing over how terrible we are. It's why all of this keeps sticking in my craw, to protect it's friend (or not? At this point I don't care) a large chunk of the industry in a week went from "the home for gamers and gamer news and gamer culture, gamersgamersgamerz!" To "loving gamers, gross disgusting slobs, pig rear end in a top hat misogynist fuckfaces that pay all of our bills and made it possible to earn a living writing about toys, YOU ALL MAKE US SICK!" Pretty interesting how they all turn on a dime and are now rushing to raise the house they built.

Edit: a better wrap up, this behavior is exposing the widely held belief that these industry professionals were actually morally and creatively bankrupt all along, it's very weird seeing their damage control attempts reveal this and although no one ever took games journalism seriously nor should have, the abrupt 180 by many of these writers and sites are insuring that no one makes the mistake of taking them seriously again.

Edit 2: I skimmed around and caught about 20 minutes of that honey badger whatever. This is why these kind of discussions get shut down and nothing gets taken seriously, the craziest of the sides end up driving the discussion scaring away anyone with sense. Not a huge revelation I know but frustrating nonetheless.

Cyberball 2072 fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Sep 2, 2014

Forums Barber
Jan 5, 2011

Deadeye Dick posted:

I like how Zoe Quinn has taken on this whole "Quinnspiracy" persona, as if making light of her own douchebaggery somehow absolves her of it.

she actually did that way back when wizardchan was like "hey, we didn't raid anybody, why are we getting blamed for this" and everybody just assumed there was no way she'd fake harassment just to get publicity for her brand new (at the time) game

she's definitely the kind of crazy that doubles down rather than apologizing, that's for drat sure

EA Sports
Feb 10, 2007

by Azathoth

Neurolimal posted:

it's kind of scary how much gamer rage can be traced back to not being good at anything in high school

like, you're an adult now, you can prolly find something cool to do and attract cool peoples with, nobodies' forcing you to play all the mass effects

honestly i rarely hear of people having a bad highschool experience, its always middleschool before they funnel out the psychos to secondary school.

highschool is however a great place to see "cool" people out themselves as charlatans. like all the "cool" people in my sisters clique turned into drug addicts.

Lightanchor
Nov 2, 2012
Wait

what happened?

Lightanchor
Nov 2, 2012
Please update the Cuckwiki with any new developments.

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Cyberball 2072 posted:

Pretty interesting how they all turn on a dime and are now rushing to raise the house they built.





They are right for wanting to raise it to the ground.

Tokamak fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Sep 2, 2014

Spiky Ooze
Oct 27, 2005

Bernie Sanders is a friend to my planet (pictured)


click the shit outta^

reavor posted:

it's kind of scary how much hate and cognitive dissonance there is from indie gaming journalists/developers to their target audience.

To be fair (and that's pretty big of me considering they're all being jerks now) they probably grow to hate the audience because of game reviews. Like if a journalist reviews anything I'm sure they get tons of "you stupid loving little publisher cock sucking liar why in god's name did you give mario kart an 8.5 I've taken shits that could write better reviews than you if I wired my shits to a typewriter and fed them fish food. Enjoy your million dollar mansion, you sellout hack. P.S. I think your mom is gorgeous congratulations on a sexpot mom it's the only thing in your life remotely beautiful and it really has nothing to do with you. You're one of her castings. The littlest pebble of her stool that she raised out of sheer delusion. That's you Mr. Big Game Reviewer who gave mario kart an 8.5 I hope you choke on your cock."

But game journalists shouldn't direct their hate over nuts at the entire planet that's dysfunctional.

Similarly I don't understand feminists with one jerk ex or dad or whatever hating the planet.

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Lightanchor posted:

Please update the CWCki with any new developments.

Tobias Grant
May 16, 2009

Lucky for you, I'm a dog lover.

NadaTooma posted:

just burn down the entire internet and start over

This, but save the porn. It's the only thing worth salvaging.

Rubellavator
Aug 16, 2007

Spiky Ooze posted:

To be fair (and that's pretty big of me considering they're all being jerks now) they probably grow to hate the audience because of game reviews. Like if a journalist reviews anything I'm sure they get tons of "you stupid loving little publisher cock sucking liar why in god's name did you give mario kart an 8.5 I've taken shits that could write better reviews than you if I wired my shits to a typewriter and fed them fish food. Enjoy your million dollar mansion, you sellout hack. P.S. I think your mom is gorgeous congratulations on a sexpot mom it's the only thing in your life remotely beautiful and it really has nothing to do with you. You're one of her castings. The littlest pebble of her stool that she raised out of sheer delusion. That's you Mr. Big Game Reviewer who gave mario kart an 8.5 I hope you choke on your cock."

But game journalists shouldn't direct their hate over nuts at the entire planet that's dysfunctional.

Similarly I don't understand feminists with one jerk ex or dad or whatever hating the planet.

pretty legit criticism if you've ever read a game review

rainy day
Jul 20, 2009

by Ralp

cwcki people are massive SJWs, better watch out!

Rubellavator
Aug 16, 2007

those who can game, game. those who can't, write game reviews

Nebelwerfer
Jul 25, 2008

He carried our avenging steel over the Rhine,
He drank the emperor's toast from the Danube.

argondamn posted:

those who can game, game. those who can't, write game reviews

Pyronic
Oct 1, 2008

ROYAL RAINWHARRGARBL

NutritiousSnack posted:

Meltdown May continues to September

so I went and took a look at this list:
https://medium.com/@andreaszecher/open-letter-to-the-gaming-community-df4511032e8a

Guess which names aren't on it?

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
~*~* PLEASE HELP US SAVE GAMING AND PLEASE LIKE AND SHARE *~*~

Nebelwerfer
Jul 25, 2008

He carried our avenging steel over the Rhine,
He drank the emperor's toast from the Danube.


Somebody help this poor man

THE PENETRATOR
Jul 27, 2014

by Lowtax

Nebelwerfer posted:



Somebody help this poor man

rip sho

mom spagheetti

fisting by many
Dec 25, 2009



sorry guys my account got hacked by weird twitter but I got it back

rainy day
Jul 20, 2009

by Ralp

THE PENETRATOR posted:

rip sho

mom spagheetti

his profile no longer says hes a mod at polygon i noticed.

The Monkey Man
Jun 10, 2012

HERD U WERE TALKIN SHIT
Okay, that video about the IGF and Silverstring is bullshit. Papers, Please won several of their awards this year and Silverstring had no association with it.

blainestereo
Jan 16, 2013

soo when someone cucks you at a gunpoint, does it constitute a cuckoldup?

rainy day
Jul 20, 2009

by Ralp

The Monkey Man posted:

Okay, that video about the IGF and Silverstring is bullshit. Papers, Please won several of their awards this year and Silverstring had no association with it.

some of the connections are probably real since the north American indie game scene is small enough that people are gonna know each other but the stuff about loving twitter user @legobutts to get an award is almost definitely paranoid nonsense.

Nebelwerfer
Jul 25, 2008

He carried our avenging steel over the Rhine,
He drank the emperor's toast from the Danube.
So is threatening to swat somebody illegal or the actual act of swatting someone

I know that one kid got 25 to life for calling the cops on other kid but



heh :cool:

Nebelwerfer fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Sep 2, 2014

Lightanchor
Nov 2, 2012

Nebelwerfer posted:

So is threatening to swat somebody illegal

I can't imagine what you'd be convicted of. Hell, you could threaten to swat the president of the united states

Automata 10 Pack
Jun 21, 2007

Ten games published by Automata, on one cassette
the one thing that legit weirds me out is every journalist writing a "DEATH TO GAMERZ" article within the same day.

edit: also I doubt a polygon mods is really indicative of anything about polygon itself

Nebelwerfer
Jul 25, 2008

He carried our avenging steel over the Rhine,
He drank the emperor's toast from the Danube.

Lightanchor posted:

I can't imagine what you'd be convicted of. Hell, you could threaten to swat the president of the united states

idk threats like that get you in the court around here that is why I am asking

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

Nebelwerfer posted:

idk threats like that get you in the court around here that is why I am asking

It all depends on the police. If someone reports they've been threatened to their local cops, they pursue it to the platform and maybe ISP, find out who it is and where they live, then report it to the cops in the perpetrator's town. THat's a long line of cops having to give a poo poo about your petty internet drama and follow up on it.

rainy day
Jul 20, 2009

by Ralp

Nebelwerfer posted:

idk threats like that get you in the court around here that is why I am asking

I dont think "I'm gonna call the cops on you" constitutes an illegal threat.

Cyberball 2072
Feb 17, 2014

by Lowtax

Mutation posted:

the one thing that legit weirds me out is every journalist writing a "DEATH TO GAMERZ" article within the same day.

edit: also I doubt a polygon mods is really indicative of anything about polygon itself

The rational brain says conspiracies are dumb and for crazy people but when something like this happens do we all go "well, that sure was an odd coincidence, moving on"?

rainy day
Jul 20, 2009

by Ralp

Cyberball 2072 posted:

The rational brain says conspiracies are dumb and for crazy people but when something like this happens do we all go "well, that sure was an odd coincidence, moving on"?

One did it and the rest probably jumped on the bandwagon since the industry is currently super defensive and trying to discredit criticism any way they can.

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus
The thing that should terrify someone about SWATing isn't the inconvenience, or the discomfort and humiliation of being ordered to the ground and handcuffed in front of an audience. It's an act that causes an innocent person's 4th Amendment Rights to be suspended by a claim of exigent circumstances.

In the video posted earlier, the guy's cuffed, frisked, and detained with no legitimate probable cause, because even an anonymous emergency call claiming an imminent threat overrides his civil rights. They take and search his phone. When he tells them they're being recorded on video, they disable the camera.

Sure, it's all a big misunderstanding, and he may think it's just a funny story to tell his youtube audience, but it's somebody fraudulently causing the suspension of what we consider a basic human right to privacy. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but that scares the Hell out of me.

Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

Nebelwerfer posted:

I know that one kid got 25 to life for calling the cops on other kid but

That didn't actually happen. That was from the National Report, which is a fake news clickbait site.

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Anal Papist
Jun 2, 2011

rainy day posted:

I dont think "I'm gonna call the cops on you" constitutes an illegal threat.

They are filing false reports I don't know US law, but in the UK contacting the police and making a report strong enough to warrant a SWAT team knocking down a door would be enough to get you arrested especially if done maliciously or for entertainment.

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