Parallax Scroll posted:

Idgi

Big Beef City posted:

Wait this is about a video game blog sex feud between ugly nerds?

And you're aware of who they are, the backstory, etc. And it's happening on Reddit.
And you care about this.

Holy moly.

Lowtax posted:

So I can now keep up with all this from the comfort of my Xbox One?!?!

Verisimilidude posted:

Quite frankly the only video game scandal that matters is that recent one where that total dork and his total dork girlfriend (who started up a 24/7 pokemon channel on Twitch where for their honeymoon (after getting married in their late teens) they played the new pokemon nonstop) got into a fight at a video game convention and the total dork girlfriend hosed another dude and maybe kissed a bunch of others while her total dork husband drove home, and the guy she hosed wrote up a big blog post about it because he and the total dork husband were besties and it was wrong and basically the guy was a total puss.

Shadoer posted:

What do you have in mind?

Nonsense posted:

Phil fish is a loving moron who thinks American games are superior to Japanese games in his exact words lmao that he's dead

SunAndSpring posted:

what is that thing

jalopybrown posted:

Revelation is actually about vidya, zoe is the whore of babylon & PC gaming the beast, the 7 kings are consoles from NES onwards with XBone or PS4 being the 6th current one, jesus is console gaming as a whole and the 144000 are 4chan and reddit.

rainy day posted:

4chan cannot deal with real women so they have to invent their own lol

quote:

Honestly the proper way to protest this poo poo, since everyone wants to make us out to be misogynistic, I propose we simply promote feminism the right way. Brandish and slap on the /v/ and 4chan logo and wear the green and purple stripes and stand out like that, but we must fully support feminism while simultaneously expose the corruption and hypocrisy of the SJW, how it greatly contradicts what feminism is really all about.

What is feminism? The belief that women are human beings are deserve equal human rights. The right to express freely, the right to vote, the right to be equal.

What are some things you can greatly focus on? The wage is a good example. Women get paid less.

Being "misrepresented" in video games is one of the most ridiculous things any SJW could possibly cry out. Video games are graphical creations of the imagination. Any representation in a video game is fictional unless stated other wise. There is not injustice for women in the video game industry, it has all been a plot to make free money.

What else can you focus on? The women that have been in charge of video games. Amy Hennig is a good example, she is currently the head of the writing team for Uncharted.

Focus on women that have been in video games, that have done something truly amazing. By doing so you are promoting feminism and showing the SJW that there is no injustic, that any woman can rightfully be the head of a department if they work hard enough, any any character concept is purely concept and not meant to reflect reality, nor should it.

If anything /v/, when you protest at PAX, I want you to cry. I want you all to cry out your deepest and truest feelings about video games, about art, and integrity. Let your heart be spoken and let the words be heard. Express those feelings, do what you do best and loving rage.

Shadoer posted:

Oh there it is! I missed that, so it's gassed. Oh well

QUEEN CAUCUS posted:

big duck equals goose posted:

Spanish Manlove posted:

it's all dumb as gently caress and it's really stupid how people are taking this poo poo way too far and are harassing people IRL about it like say posting their real name and employer on the internet and trying to get them fired from their real jobs for it

Mazzletoff posted:

I don't even know what JonTron did last night, but if it pissed off Anthony "Game Figuratively Written By Reddit" Burch I think it must have been pretty good.

toggle posted:

video games are for children

gently caress the ROW posted:

the concept of video games living in the real world

Maxwell Adams posted:

Getting ready to take this post on the road. Reddit uses the same bbcode as this place, right?

A charity event to promote women in gaming is the victim of a complete media blackout from gaming press

The Fine Young Capitalists (I'll call them TFYC) are running a game jam with the goals of encouraging women to join the gaming industry, producing a game, and donating to charity. They have taken ideas from women about cool games they'd like to make, produced five pitches, produced concept art, and are now asking for votes to determine which of these games will be made.

The woman who has their idea selected will be placed it the role of Producer, and recieve an 8% cut of the proceeds. TFYC's own production staff will produce the game over 6 months. Most of the money goes to charity.

Over the past week, TFYC has recieved thousands of dollars in donations from 4chan. I'll repeat that. A charity event to promote women in the gaming industry has recieved thousands of dollars in donations from 4CHAN. Does this sound interesting yet? Newsworthy, even?

On February 28th, TFYC was attacked. The were doxxed, banned from twitter, and their server was hit with a DDOS attack. They have recovered from this and are still pushing the event forward, despite losing $10,000 cash out of pocket when their sponsors backed out.

No gaming website will report on any of this. They will not even acknowledge the existence of this charity game jam. People who are aware of this situation have been trying to reach gaming journalists through comments sections, twitter, or anything else. I can only imagine what their inboxes look like as requests to run the TFYC story come in.

The media blackout continues on every gaming site. There are a few non-gaming sites that have run the story, though. They all have something in common: when they report on the February 28th attack, there is a conspicuous absense fact checking or investigation of any kind.

Let's look at all 4 of these articles.

Cinemablend ran this story on the FYC Game Jam. Here's their explanation for the attack directed at TFYC on Feburary 28th:


"I can openly say...". Writers don't include a phrase like that unless a gag order is involved.

When Vice Media ran a story on the charity event, they wrote this:


The reddit user in question was SillySladar, one of the main organizers of the event.

The comments section on that article is being heavily moderated. It used to look like this.

When Techcrunch ran their article, they were deliberately vague.


You can find an identical strategy in the piece on Slate.com


Again, a simple link to knowyourmeme.com and no research or fact checking of any kind.

Nobody will discuss or investigate the attack on TFYC from February 28th. No gaming website will report the existence of the FYC Game Jam at all.

Well, here. You can do your own research on the February 28th attack on The Fine Young Capitalists. I was able to dig up this information after deploying my marginal Twitter skills.

Scroll down to about 7 pm EST and work your way up to watch everything unfold. You will see the tweets from Zoe Quinn (@zoequinnzel) and Maya Kramer (@legobutts) as they discover and discuss the FYC game jam.

6:59: @legobutts discovers TFYC
7:09: @zoequinnzel demonstrates a massive failure in reading comprehension
7:18: @zoequinnzel decides she is 'skeeved out'
7:19: @legobutts notices her followers are all talking about this
7:28: @zoequinnzel decides to contact TFYC
7:30: @zoequinnzel contacts TFYC
7:32: @TFYCapitalists offers to schedule an interview
7:32: @legobutts retweets a post by @aerox47 showing a screencap of the facebook page of an FYC organizer, doxxing them
7:33: @zoequinnzel notices that the FYC website has crashed
7:34: @zoequinnzel begins asking questions
You can see that, at 7:38 and 7:39, @TFYCapitalists posted a couple answers. They were unable to participate in the conversation after this point because their twitter account was banned. Everyone else carried on making fun of TFYC.
7:48: @zoequinnzel wishes should could talk to TFYC a bit more

11:26: TFYC sarcastically thanks @legobutt for pointing out the flaws in his facebook privacy settings.
The facebook screencap (which has since been deleted) showed a post from december asking for an actress who could 'sound smart' to come in. These videos were produced when they hired that actress.

It didn't stop there.

May: TFYC was unable to get any journalists to cover them.
Even as work proceeded and concept art was being produced, they still couldn't get ay attention.
July: They resorted to paying for press releases.
August: Quinngate explodes. TFYC finally gets some attention. The original post has been replaced by a soundcloud link where you can hear the whole story.

This morning The Fine Young Capitalists posted their truce with Zoe Quinn.


Zoe Quinn has posted her own response to everything that's happening.


Still, no gaming websites are mentioning, or even acknowledging the existence of the FYC game jam. Nobody anywhere is to mention that a small indie dev community attacked a charity game jam. Not a single gaming site is willing to touch this. As the media blackout goes on, a charity organization that needs donations is being denied the attention they need in order to be successful.

Let it be clear that this is not a gender issue. The MRAs and the SJWs can have the biggest, most pointless twitter war they feel like having. It really doesn't matter. TFYC is working to promote women in the gaming industry, working to provide money to cancer research, and working to keep their own operation running while everyone who should be supporting them works against them in the most harmful way possible.

The Brown Menace posted:

so here is what the guy who wrote this article



had to say on twitter



oh no, not white men having opinions! here's him btw



as you can see, tim is 1/1024th aboriginal and absolutely isn't loving painful to look at unless you turn your contrast down. he also identifies as trans, before any sexist shitlords get any ideas

argondamn posted:

women can have male pattern baldness, a beard, and the name Tim, too.

CrazyLittle posted:

Wait, do you actually think it's a conspiracy of some kind?