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Mercury_Storm posted:I don't think Rush is dumb enough not to understand that Colbert does satire, but believes that his listeners are that dumb. It's not like someone calling in to correct him is going to get on the air either. It's Colbert so he's staying kayfabe.
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Breibart.com published an article about how the AG nominee Loretta Lynch was part of the team that defended Clinton during the Whitewater investigation. Turns out it was an entirely different Loretta Lynch. Let's see how they correct this misinformation!
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Yeah quite a few right wing news outlets have been getting this wrong. Not that surprising that they're incapable of doong research beyond googling a name.
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quote:CALLER: Well, it may be, but it's significant. How do you explain it? GOP.txt
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Having my monthly exposure to O'Reilly. Did you know that people didn't vote last week because the machines have taken over and everyone is now lost in cyberspace? E: sweet! Erick, son of Erick, is on. Phone fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Thump! posted:Yeah I'm actually legitimately interested in purchasing some of that coffee. Maybe if we all buy so loving much, he’ll retire to a coffee farm in Hawaii and take up surfing. Can the Bill gates foundation agree to buy 50 million dollars of whatever coffee Alex Jones personally farms, from outside the contiguous United States? I think we need to outbid wingnut welfare and get these guys better jobs.
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agarjogger posted:Maybe if we all buy so loving much, he’ll retire to a coffee farm in Hawaii and take up surfing. Can the Bill gates foundation agree to buy 50 million dollars of whatever coffee Alex Jones personally farms, from outside the contiguous United States? I'm with you, but I prefer we move them to a farm upstate. You know, the one where they can be free to roam all day, but we can't visit there, because it will ruin the tranquility.
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agarjogger posted:Maybe if we all buy so loving much, he’ll retire to a coffee farm in Hawaii and take up surfing. Can the Bill gates foundation agree to buy 50 million dollars of whatever coffee Alex Jones personally farms, from outside the contiguous United States? I don't know if you can outbid schizophrenia
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Shlomo Palestein posted:I'm with you, but I prefer we move them to a farm upstate. You know, the one where they can be free to roam all day, but we can't visit there, because it will ruin the tranquility. Bad news, the big happy farm burned down in 2011. http://www.theonion.com/articles/fire-consumes-big-happy-farm-where-families-send-s,20641/
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What's everyones take on the chances Republicans send themselves into another Gingrich/Shutdown tizzy over the immigration executive orders? And if not that, do you think they'll be able to make it to 2016 without a big flashy tantrum/overreach over something else? I predict we'll see one more shutdown before Obama is gone, but not on this. If I had to take a guess I would say they send a major shot at Obamacare (probably something killing the individual mandate) to be signed and then force a shut down when they run into the veto on it. I figure the message they got out of the last shutdown is that they mostly got away with it when they couldn't even figure out what their demands were, why wouldn't it turn out better if they had a real reason? I don't think we'll see an actual impeachment, but I didn't think they'd shut that whole thing down over "uhhh, obamacare I guess" either.
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The luminaries at Breibart weigh in on GamerGate http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/11/12/The-authoritarian-Left-was-on-course-to-win-the-culture-wars-then-along-came-GamerGate
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Does anyone outside of idiotic video game culture or people tangentially related to that (such as Internet boards with videogame subforums) even aware of Gamergate? It feels like Libertarian news blogs are the only media that cares.
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Radish posted:Does anyone outside of idiotic video game culture or people tangentially related to that (such as Internet boards with videogame subforums) even aware of Gamergate? It feels like Libertarian news blogs are the only media that cares. There was a clickhole article about it, which really surprised me, but even though I hear about it all the time on this website, I really don't know what it is.
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Gross Dude posted:There was a clickhole article about it, which really surprised me, but even though I hear about it all the time on this website, I really don't know what it is. Basically goony internet nerds found out that this female game developer had been dating a game reviewing journalist, jumped to conclusions that this journalist gave her favorable reviews because they were dating (he didn't review any of her stuff after they dated. and they didn't even really date, apparently) and went on a social media witch hunt to expose all of the "slut" female developers (and by extension "slut" female gamers) with harassment while claiming they were actually against corruption in games journalism. Why they expend their efforts harassing female developers instead of the supposedly corrupt games journalists is beyond me. The harassment (both the content of it and the events which caused the dumbasses to start it) made it a feminist issue. Radish posted:Does anyone outside of idiotic video game culture or people tangentially related to that (such as Internet boards with videogame subforums) even aware of Gamergate? It feels like Libertarian news blogs are the only media that cares. I saw a thing about it on Colbert.
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edit: I don't need a big paragraph explaining what gamergate is. It's dumb culture war bullshit through and through. Its basically a new Conservative pet project because they think they can "win" and appeal to the gaming youth, so they're biting down hard and not letting go. D1Sergo fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Radish posted:Does anyone outside of idiotic video game culture or people tangentially related to that (such as Internet boards with videogame subforums) even aware of Gamergate? It feels like Libertarian news blogs are the only media that cares. i heard a thing on NPR today framed as "what the hell is gamergate anyway" which basically said that it's kind of about ethics in games journalism, but really honestly it's about threatening to rape and murder women who have ideas about video games D1Sergo posted:Its basically a new Conservative pet project because they think they can "win" and appeal to the gaming youth, so they're biting down hard and not letting go. yeah a lot of unabashedly right wing outlets have been latching on to make inroads in otherwise apolitical loser nerds by telling them that they're crusaders fighting the good fight in the leftist culture war ten years from now when there's a faction of idiot authoritarian angry middle aged gamers we can point to a credible origin GutBomb posted:Why they expend their efforts harassing female developers instead of the supposedly corrupt games journalists is beyond me. this is why it clearly isn't about ethics. games journalism has always been payola-ridden marketing swill, as long as it's existed. that gamergate fanatics go after obscure small fish and unpopular websites rather than the huge industry-linked magazines and review sites points out that they don't really care about making games journalism better, that's just an excuse to validate online harrassment of people they don't like boner confessor fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Radish posted:Does anyone outside of idiotic video game culture or people tangentially related to that (such as Internet boards with videogame subforums) even aware of Gamergate? It feels like Libertarian news blogs are the only media that cares. Ehhhhh, I think it's pretty much on the margins. Some bigger news outlets have run "what the gently caress is this gamergate thing?" articles, some 2nd tier places have run more in depth breakdowns and covered things like Sarkeesian cancelling over threats. It's basically the tea party for pouty 15 year olds (both literal and mental) who think women get all the breaks in society. Gross Dude posted:There was a clickhole article about it, which really surprised me, but even though I hear about it all the time on this website, I really don't know what it is. In a nutshell it touched off over an admission that some shady lady game developer slept with some game journalists, she wasn't in the right by any means but then her and people defending her got blasted with a bunch of the worst kind of 4chan style internet revenge...which was of course steeped in a crazy amount of misogyny, and waaaaaaay overblown for whatever their perceived sins were. That inspired a feminist critique of gaming culture being a particular hotbed of immature, sad pieces of human garbage. Most people didn't find that all that controversial but a bunch of immature, sad pieces of human garbage felt offended. And of course everytime that happens some portion of the Right Wing will ride to their defense.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:In a nutshell it touched off over an admission that some shady lady game developer slept with some game journalists, she wasn't in the right by any means she didn't do anything wrong. she may or may not have cheated on her boyfriend, big deal. it demonstrably was not for any favors or positive reviews. this whole thing got touched off because some bitter nerd aired his dirty relationship laundry and angry virgins latched on because she was a female game developer with a non-traditional game and unorthodox opinions who also happened to be a sexhaver. it was waving a red flag for people who have nothing in their lives other than group identity as a video game player
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Yeah I should've framed that more as "she's kind of a lovely person but not remarkably so" what has she done that's lovely? not digging into you or anything, as far as i know she may or may not have cheated on her boyfriend and she made a game called Depression Quest about having depression. both of which are stupid, but there's a huge gap between zoe quinn the person and zoe quinn the avatar of satan come down to forbid Pure Gamers their last little bastion of nerd entitlement even for gamers, who love to comb through a person's life history to retroactively justify awful behavior towards that person, they've turned up practically nothing
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I've been tempted to  gamergate people becoming the new Republican base in the next five to ten years. It's one of their better chances of attracting youth voters without compromising too many of their beliefs.
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Could be the source I read wasn't the best, but I thought she had a bigger hand in turning the cheatee's blog thing from a personal issue into a full blown industry issue. Like beyond just picking the nearest joystiq editor or whatever for the bone zoning. Edit: But the point stands absolutely ZERO of what she's ever been accused of justifies any 3rd party wrecking her poo poo.
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Gozinbulx posted:Still can't believe "ethics in video game journalism" is a thing anyone on earth would seriously care about. As Colbert said, imagine how horrific a world we would have if we didn't have ethics in Hollywood journalism.
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Gozinbulx posted:Still can't believe "ethics in video game journalism" is a thing anyone on earth would seriously care about. it's fun to imagine the kind of people who are involved in gamergate and really care about ethical games journalism. they have to exist, and they probably buy timeshares and dr. who collectibles
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MizPiz posted:I've been tempted to Being pissed off that an underdog in society is getting uppity has always been a conservative pillar. This is basically the tea-partying of the MRA flavor of that phenomenon. It's not new, it just found a moment to coalesce around and found a catchy name. Edit: Also like the tea party, they mistake being paid attention to for being correct.
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Gamergate is a misogynistic reactionary freakout to feminism in video games. That is all. If you listen to the rhetoric that the gamergate people actually spout they spend more time worrying about 'social justice warriors' destroying/removing their games tham anything else. This kind of thinking has been around for a while: http://zennistrad.tumblr.com/post/102462951398/those-who-do-not-learn-from-history-are-condemned
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BiggerBoat posted:Who the gently caress even has time to play video games anymore? Unemployed people 
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Well there's "cord-cutters" for one. And it's not like every game ever is a timesink. I don't get a lot of time these days but it's easy enough to sneak in a couple of Street Fighter matches online and that's some of the most fun I've had gaming in years. Despite all the pathos it's soaking in it's still just a hobby. People always find times for their hobbies.
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There have been multiple good outcomes from the whole Gamergate bullshit. In no particular order: - Has made "Actually, it's about ethics in games journalism" a punchline filler joke - Has made it readily apparent who is a sociopath who doesn't have the capacity for empathy - Furthered the dilution of the term "SJW" so it becomes trite nothingness - Inspired a Cloud-to-Buttesque plugin, but instead of replacing "the cloud" with "my butt", it replaces "SJW" with "a skeleton" - Has done some damage to "the truth is in the middle" South Park bullshit because most people are somewhat wary of sending 4chan at a former girlfriend as an acceptable response to getting dumped Phone fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Phone posted:There have been multiple good outcomes from the whole Gamergate bullshit. In no particular order:
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FMguru posted:It's also pushed a bunch of things closer to the mainstream - discussion about gender roles in games and online treatment of women - in ways that are the exact opposite of what GG wanted. Anita Sarkeesian would never have appeared on Colbert Report or fielded interview requests from hundreds of media outlets if GG hadn't decided to make an example of her with their threats and stalking and harassment. Lots of companies and designers are now on the record as wanting to work towards less cliched sexism and more inclusive diversity in their games. All their nerd culture-heroes have run away from them screaming. Really nice set of own goals there, GG. Gentile reminder they were incredibly happy when some Baldwin supported them.
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Phone posted:- Inspired a Cloud-to-Buttesque plugin, but instead of replacing "the cloud" with "my butt", it replaces "SJW" with "a skeleton" Thank you for telling me about this, it is a thing I will greatly enjoy.
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