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The Droid
Jun 11, 2012

Petition to have this thread's subject moved to discussing the personal politics of The Man Who Looks Like Kane From Command And Conquer who tried to make/made a documentary about gamergate

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Meme Emulator
Oct 4, 2000

Sinnlos posted:

You mind linking me to the op? I'm of the opinion that no matter your personal issues with another individual, you shouldn't put their names up on the internet like that. If he didn't actually name Zoe, that's good! Then the blame falls on those who dug her name up. I'm not saying you can't make e/n posts, heck, I've made one.

Its called "The Zoe Post", so that should answer your question re: names

Sinnlos
Sep 5, 2011

Ask me about believing in magical rainbow gold

Meme Emulator posted:

Its called "The Zoe Post", so that should answer your question re: names

Definitely shame on him then.

LostRook
Jun 7, 2013

Meme Emulator posted:

Its called "The Zoe Post", so that should answer your question re: names

Yeah, but her name isn't actually Zoe Quinn so...

InsanityIsCrazy
Jan 25, 2003

by Lowtax

Bonesnap posted:

Gamers are not her primary consumer demographic. I don't have any numbers to back this up, but I would guess that most gamers know you don't have to pay for porn.


This. Zoe for the most part hasn't had much to do or say in this since the months after the whole thing started and is best forgotten. She's the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to GG's World War 1. The reason this poo poo is going is because of opportunistic latchers-on like Anite Sarkeesian who came up with some glaringly fake threats and that became the narrative. So the media kept pushing that and gamers, in their 'tism, just couldn't let it go.

She did pay congress 3 large to talk about twitter harassment.

Not sure what she was hoping would come from that.

a bay
Oct 14, 2014

by Lowtax
Brain-damaged dick hole. Shitheel, homunculus.

Sinnlos
Sep 5, 2011

Ask me about believing in magical rainbow gold

LostRook posted:

Yeah, but her name isn't actually Zoe Quinn so...

And Cher's name isn't really Cher. I don't see how this is germane.

Bonesnap
Oct 9, 2007

INH5 posted:

Also, one thing about Eron: if you read the original Zoepost, you'll find that it begins with a Trigger Warning, and he mentions that he got interested in Zoe because her OKCupid profile mentioned that she was "interested in social justice." That's right, Eron Gjoni was a SJW, and he was engaging in Callout Culture, specifically the idea that abuse victims should call out their abusers to warn other people about them. I think the past 10 months have done a lot to show how toxic that idea is.

This is another thing, he apparently went to a "safe space" on E/N or some other board to ask what he should do about his abusive relationship. "Expose her!" was their advice.

Nonviolent J
Jul 20, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Soiled Meat
i hurt my butt

InsanityIsCrazy
Jan 25, 2003

by Lowtax

a bay posted:

Brain-damaged dick hole. Shitheel, homunculus.

This is like the Cheers of stupid threads.

Hi buddy!

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

Hadaka Apron posted:

It's a textbook case of the Streisand effect.

I mean I wouldn't have given a gently caress if it wasn't for most videogame-related sites I visit more or less at once starting to ban people for talking about it. But they did. Apparently it wasn't a permitted topic. hosed up.

a bay
Oct 14, 2014

by Lowtax

Hadaka Apron posted:

It's a textbook case of the Streisand effect.

Thread title

Dapper Dan
Dec 16, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!

Prav posted:

I mean I wouldn't have given a gently caress if it wasn't for most videogame-related sites I visit more or less at once starting to ban people for talking about it. But they did. Apparently it wasn't a permitted topic. hosed up.

Another part of the problem was that animosity between gaming journalists and their audience had been building for years. If it wasn't this, it would have been something else for sure.

a bay
Oct 14, 2014

by Lowtax
Pigfucker. Garbage eating subhuman. rear end clown.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

Dapper Dan posted:

Another part of the problem was that animosity between gaming journalists and their audience had been building for years. If it wasn't this, it would have been something else for sure.

Yeah it absolutely wasn't the first shot, more like the final straw.

Actually the final straw was the Gamers Are Dead debacle.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Dapper Dan posted:

Another part of the problem was that animosity between gaming journalists and their audience had been building for years. If it wasn't this, it would have been something else for sure.

pretty much.

a bay
Oct 14, 2014

by Lowtax
poo poo sucking rear end turd.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
lol if you care about what anyone on twitter says, ever

Twinty Zuleps
May 10, 2008

by R. Guyovich
Lipstick Apathy

a bay posted:

poo poo sucking rear end turd.

why do you sign your posts

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Prav posted:

Yeah it absolutely wasn't the first shot, more like the final straw.

Actually the final straw was the Gamers Are Dead debacle.

That was the worst mistake they made, They basically decided that they would rather side with a click of rich white hipsters and poo poo all over their core audience, the people who bough games in the first loving place.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

There is only one good post in the history of gamergate and it is this one

Bonesnap
Oct 9, 2007
So who is the worst person in all of this? Is it TheRalph? Anthony Burch? Or is it all of humanity, for existing in the first place? My money would be split between Leigh Alexander and Phil Fish

INH5
Dec 17, 2012
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Bonesnap posted:

This is another thing, he apparently went to a "safe space" on E/N or some other board to ask what he should do about his abusive relationship. "Expose her!" was their advice.

Please tell me that is in the archives and someone has a link.

The IronMonkey
Aug 5, 2005

Hadaka Apron posted:

This is the only real debate between GG and anti-GG that I'm aware of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOxDtBv9wHs


The visuals of things like this from the whole GG thing are very troubling. poo poo like this does real damage to leftist causes in general and is what is giving GG fuel. White Males telling minorities that they know best and calling anybody disagreeing with them some variation on white male nerd is (None of that in THIS thread) why we see so much backlash against something that should be imminently reasonable like social justice.

I mean just look at that insufferable shithead.

Bonesnap
Oct 9, 2007

INH5 posted:

Please tell me that is in the archives and someone has a link.

I don't know if it was actually here, I just know he was a frequent poster here and he said he talked to a board about it beforehand.

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

Luigi Thirty posted:

There is only one good post in the history of gamergate and it is this one
I am constantly amazed by gamergate's eldritch power to make people lose their minds.

spacedad come home

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Bonesnap posted:

So who is the worst person in all of this? Is it TheRalph? Anthony Burch? Or is it all of humanity, for existing in the first place? My money would be split between Leigh Alexander and Phil Fish



out of those two, fish is the best, he knew when to gently caress off and go into hiding. Leigh alexander kinda just devolved into an rear end in a top hat. ralph is pretty lovely and burch is just a sad waste living in the shadow of his more talented younger sister.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

The IronMonkey posted:

The visuals of things like this from the whole GG thing are very troubling. poo poo like this does real damage to leftist causes in general and is what is giving GG fuel. White Males telling minorities that they know best and calling anybody disagreeing with them some variation on white male nerd is (None of that in THIS thread) why we see so much backlash against something that should be imminently reasonable like social justice.

I mean just look at that insufferable shithead.

and thats what pisses me off the most, I am a giant lefty and i view alot of the anti's as everything wrong with the left.

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois

The IronMonkey posted:

The visuals of things like this from the whole GG thing are very troubling. poo poo like this does real damage to leftist causes in general and is what is giving GG fuel. White Males telling minorities that they know best and calling anybody disagreeing with them some variation on white male nerd is (None of that in THIS thread) why we see so much backlash against something that should be imminently reasonable like social justice.

I mean just look at that insufferable shithead.
This is what #NotYourShield is and was all about BTW. White people will coopt anything, even being black and hating whitey. Looking at you Rachel Dolezal, SedanChair.

INH5
Dec 17, 2012
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Bonesnap posted:

So who is the worst person in all of this? Is it TheRalph? Anthony Burch? Or is it all of humanity, for existing in the first place? My money would be split between Leigh Alexander and Phil Fish

I vote for David S. Gallant, the guy who accidentally thought about GamerGate while masturbating and felt that everyone following his Twitter account needed to know about that.

Meme Emulator
Oct 4, 2000

Dapper_Swindler posted:

out of those two, fish is the best, he knew when to gently caress off and go into hiding. Leigh alexander kinda just devolved into an rear end in a top hat. ralph is pretty lovely and burch is just a sad waste living in the shadow of his more talented younger sister.

Leigh Alexander just got put back into the spotlight after the failure of Sunset and the shuttering of Tales of Tales since she was supposed to be a marketing consultant who never did any marketing. Nobody heard about Sunset until the game crashed so bad it bankrupted the studio

Meme Emulator
Oct 4, 2000

INH5 posted:

I vote for David S. Gallant, the guy who accidentally thought about GamerGate while masturbating and felt that everyone following his Twitter account needed to know about that.



What about Alex Chiu who 'subjects' himself to gay pornography every time he sees an attractive woman in a videogame

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

INH5 posted:

I vote for David S. Gallant, the guy who accidentally thought about GamerGate while masturbating and felt that everyone following his Twitter account needed to know about that.

I don't know man, it's Burch-level pathetic but all he's really doing is giving everyone else a good laugh.

I want to nominate whoever it was that killed their sick dog by leaving it out in the winter. (please tell me i misunderstood this and it didn't happen)

Meme Emulator
Oct 4, 2000

Prav posted:

I don't know man, it's Burch-level pathetic but all he's really doing is giving everyone else a good laugh.

I want to nominate whoever it was that killed their sick dog by leaving it out in the winter. (please tell me i misunderstood this and it didn't happen)

Every time you hear about someone killing a dog, theyre referring to either: Brianna Wu tweeting while her dog died of old age, complaining she cant spend time with her dog because she has to fend off twitter trolls or someone (Randi Harper?) dying thier dog blue and then everyone goes "Thats dangerous, it could kill a dog. SHE KILLED HER DOG" the way everything gets amplified upon further retelling

Minarchist
Mar 5, 2009

by WE B Bourgeois

Meme Emulator posted:

Every time you hear about someone killing a dog, theyre referring to either: Brianna Wu tweeting while her dog died of old age, complaining she cant spend time with her dog because she has to fend off twitter trolls or someone (Randi Harper?) dying thier dog blue and then everyone goes "Thats dangerous, it could kill a dog. SHE KILLED HER DOG" the way everything gets amplified upon further retelling

Wu left her dog out in the snow during one of the worst winters in recent history and it staggered indoors before succumbing to hypothermia. She killed her dog through negligence and tried to play it off as "oh it was desperate for love as it crawled to us"

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
Murder anyone who says they are gamergate or anti-gamergate

No one will miss a bunch of middle class white Californians.

InsanityIsCrazy
Jan 25, 2003

by Lowtax

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Murder anyone who says they are gamergate or anti-gamergate

No one will miss a bunch of middle class white Californians.

Would anybody really care if California sank into the ocean?

Sinnlos
Sep 5, 2011

Ask me about believing in magical rainbow gold

InsanityIsCrazy posted:

Would anybody really care if California sank into the ocean?

They would finally have enough water. Really though it would kill the US economy.

Twinty Zuleps
May 10, 2008

by R. Guyovich
Lipstick Apathy

Sinnlos posted:

They would finally have enough water. Really though it would kill the US economy.

Texas can totally take over for California. Let's do this.

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InsanityIsCrazy
Jan 25, 2003

by Lowtax

Sinnlos posted:

They would finally have enough water. Really though it would kill the US economy.

I imagine anything Cali can do the south can do better.

Weed? Done. Alcohol? Done. And we could give them meth and flags as a bonus.

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