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Al! posted:It seems a little weird to me that nobody has mentioned that Thumbs Network Three Moves Ahead cohost Tom Chick is battling cancer and has a crowdfunding campaign here so there you go. Uh, how do we know this fundraiser is actually associated with Tom Chick?
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EC posted:I remember setting up Quake so it would work over the LAN at my Dad's office. Three of us would play constantly, which was probably not good for his business at the time. Then I discovered mouselook, and all of a sudden they couldn't keep up. Then I found the grappling hook mod, and they stopped playing me completely. Quakehaters dot tumblr dot com
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Sober posted:Pretty sure somewhere, someone on the internet is celebrating that because Tom Chick gave a game he didn't like an actual bad score. This was instantly my first thought too. There was someone out there who read the news and cried out "the ritual worked!"
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Sep 24, 2014 14:47
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This week's Thumbs chats about Steam Curators quite a bit, and how the system is ranked, so I decided to check it out. Well, the good news is that the Thumbs' list is above Giant Bomb's! The unfathomably worse news, is, well, just, ugh: 
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Sep 25, 2014 12:44
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Pasco posted:Well, the good news is that the Thumbs' list is above Giant Bomb's!
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Sep 25, 2014 12:50
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Pasco posted:This week's Thumbs chats about Steam Curators quite a bit, and how the system is ranked, so I decided to check it out. quote:Mafia II Nice list!
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Sep 25, 2014 12:57
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Thanks gamergate a list of games I can safely ignore. BRB following Double Fine so they can outrank these shitheels
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Sep 25, 2014 13:19
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fatherboxx posted:Nice list!
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fatherboxx posted:"Matt Roszak supports GamerGate. According to him, he just wants to make videogames without the risk of backlash just because of politics." "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" - Ayn "Rush" Rand, 2112
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Sep 25, 2014 14:06
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Oh my god, I had to check to see if they picked any Stardock games. Sure enough: quote:Galactic Civilizations® III Wowie zowie, these guys.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:15
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al-azad posted:Thanks gamergate a list of games I can safely ignore. You realize you do exactly the same thing as they do - picking the games not on their own merit, but on political agendas of their creators? 
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Sep 25, 2014 14:16
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Pyromancer posted:You realize you do exactly the same thing as they do - picking the games not on their own merit, but on political agendas of their creators? Well, one agenda is equality, and the other agenda is sexual harassment, thanks for showing me their moral equivalence.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:24
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That poo poo is still going on? Wait is the gbs gamergate thread sincere or ironic. I couldn't tell taking a glance at it? That steam music thing came out after the thumbs recorded this episode, right? Really want to hear them, Chris on particular talk about that for a bit.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:37
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Pyromancer posted:You realize you do exactly the same thing as they do - picking the games not on their own merit, but on political agendas of their creators? Their political agendas are horrible and should be mocked.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:53
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Pyromancer posted:You realize you do exactly the same thing as they do - picking the games not on their own merit, but on political agendas of their creators? Perhaps the truth... is somewhere in the middle?! It's not. gently caress GamerGate.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:56
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Stan Taylor posted:That poo poo is still going on? Wait is the gbs gamergate thread sincere or ironic. I couldn't tell taking a glance at it? EVERYONE on both sides is poo poo. Just watch the poo poo show and don't jump in.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:03
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BexGu posted:EVERYONE on both sides is poo poo. Just watch the poo poo show and don't jump in. Ok I'll bite, how are people who are anti the GamerGate shitheads "poo poo"?
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Sep 25, 2014 15:16
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EC posted:Ok I'll bite, how are people who are anti the GamerGate shitheads "poo poo"? They put politics (of the kind that i dont like) in my precious videogames. 
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Sep 25, 2014 15:25
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EC posted:Ok I'll bite, how are people who are anti the GamerGate shitheads "poo poo"? Re: Zoe Quinn: BexGu posted:Its easier to image her as the Honey Boo Boo of the internet. Rolling around in the filth gets her off AND paid.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:47
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There's plenty of reasons not to like Zoe Quinn and various other people targeted by the horseshit brigade but their failings aren't anywhere close to comparable and pulling some "everyone is terrible" South Park garbage is indistinguishable from siding with the people making the rape and death threats. EDIT: (please disregard the "plenty of reasons not to like Zoe Quinn" part, it was misguided cushioning of the point) HMS Boromir fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 15:51
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Wikipedia Brown posted:Oh my god, I had to check to see if they picked any Stardock games. Sure enough: I'm still excited about Gal Civ 3 though.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:55
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augustus gluten posted:I'm still excited about Gal Civ 3 though. I'm fine with liking things lovely people also like. If I weren't, I'd have to stop playing video games althogether. And listening to music. And watching movies.
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I think the stardock issue is that it was made by a lovely person. The rule still stands though, essentially.
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Pyromancer posted:You realize you do exactly the same thing as they do - picking the games not on their own merit, but on political agendas of their creators? I find nothing wrong with that! It helps that the games are also not very good, except for GalCiv2!
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Sep 25, 2014 16:02
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augustus gluten posted:I'm still excited about Gal Civ 3 though. I'm conflicted. The Gal Civ games are probably the least worst of all the modern interpretations of Master of Orion. I wish someone else would come out with a better or equally good version!
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HMS Boromir posted:There's plenty of reasons not to like Zoe Quinn and various other people targeted 
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Sep 25, 2014 16:06
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EC posted:Ok I'll bite, how are people who are anti the GamerGate shitheads "poo poo"? Leigh Alexander is....not really pleasant person: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=435145064 And Zoe has gone full Brad Wardell and suing the Ex which will make for some great reading once the course docs get released. If you feel you got a side in this fight take it to the gamegate thread. I'm sure Kewpuh doesn't want to deal with this thread becoming Game's hidden GamerGate hideout. BexGu fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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BexGu posted:Leigh Alexander is....not really pleasant person: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=435145064 What in the gently caress. I'm glad nobody has a reason to cherry-pick through my tweets to make me look like an rear end in a top hat. edit: hahaha, I'm actually in that post
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Piss off, Invictus, I don't have anything to prove to you. There's as many reasons to dislike them as anyone else on this planet that puts words on the internet. The fact that I don't like a few games journalists doesn't make me a gamersgatelord. EDIT: (this post was a bad idea and misrepresented what I was actually trying to say) HMS Boromir fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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Wikipedia Brown posted:What in the gently caress. Also in that post is @oliviataters, a bot that is programmed to tweet like a teen.
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augustus gluten posted:I'm still excited about Gal Civ 3 though. I'm going to pirate it, then delete it, then pirate it again Every torrent finished is a lost sale 
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HMS Boromir posted:Piss off, Invictus, I don't have anything to prove to you. There's as many reasons to dislike them as anyone else on this planet that puts words on the internet. The fact that I don't like a few games journalists doesn't make me a gamersgatelord. Why is this the response literally every time someone blunders in, says "well, the people being targeted are bad too" and someone asks for specifics.
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I have to assume you're just misunderstanding my point, because "the people being targeted are bad too" is precisely what I was arguing against. They're not "bad, too" and that's not what I said, that was BexGu. What I said is that I dislike some of them, or I guess their writing, if that makes it sound like less of a personal attack. My point is that there's no conceivable reason for disliking them that puts them on the same level of "poo poo" as the literal criminals currently attempting to ruin their lives. In retrospect I kind of stepped on my own caltrops by cushioning the point in "it's okay to dislike people" because it shouldn't have needed saying and doing so made me sound like I was giving legitimacy to the exact sort of South Park bullshit I had intended to call out. My bad. HMS Boromir fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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BexGu posted:Leigh Alexander is....not really pleasant person: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=435145064 I'm really sad (but not surprised) that there's threads like this on SA.
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The gamers.txt thread really confused me when all of this stuff first started happening. I'd dropped in there a few times and it always seem to make fun of bad opinions like the kind we see with this gamergate nonsense, but as soon as the whole Zoe Quinn "story" broke, it turned into horrible poo poo immediately. Maybe I'm naive and only hang out in bubbles here, but while SA has some bad opinions I was actually surprised by that.
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BexGu posted:If you feel you got a side in this fight take it to the gamegate thread. I'm sure Kewpuh doesn't want to deal with this thread becoming Game's hidden GamerGate hideout.
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Leigh Alexander just seems like a very unpleasant person. Did she deserve all the backlash for being a disruptive drunk on the Giantbomb E3 video a few years ago? No (because worse haves since appeared on those videos and have received half as much backlash). When I read her articles a lot of the time I feel like she's talking down to those she is writing for and she seems to think that writing opinion pieces makes her a Journalist with a capital J, which always makes me laugh. I think the most civil I have ever seen her (while still fishing for a confrontational argument) was when she had an exchange with Shawn Elliot a year or so ago. Just another shouting voice in a hoopla of shouting voices. Oh and to keep things on topic, more horror stories from Dan in the latest Giantbombcast. I'm honestly surprised his liver hasn't gone to the authorities seeking protection from Dan yet. The stuff that man put in his body during the "college years".
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Chris/Jake/Danielle (if she reads this) How did you miss the archetypal "older wiser man teaches dumb poor woman" in Pigmalion / My Fair Lady. I could be a big dumb theater / movie dork. Thats pretty likely in fact.
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Ulta posted:Chris/Jake/Danielle (if she reads this) Listening to that segment in the Thumbs episode the first thought that came to mind was "We've side-stepped from the magical negro to the magical female." Growing up as a fan of Stephen King taught me that all black characters were wizened god-like figures who exist to guide the white lead through their lovely lives.
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al-azad posted:Listening to that segment in the Thumbs episode the first thought that came to mind was "We've side-stepped from the magical negro to the magical female." Growing up as a fan of Stephen King taught me that all black characters were wizened god-like figures who exist to guide the white lead through their lovely lives. Growing up as a fan of Stephen King made me read his books during the early 2000s, where every mentally challenged kid can fix the magic/alien/mystical thing that's Wrong With Everything.
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