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Dominic White posted:So, we've gotten to the point where a woman who made a freeware text-adventure about dealing with depression is SO powerful now due to her womanly wiles that she has slept her way into billonaire political power and is able to pull the strings of the US government, after she found that her ability to get a SINGLE LINE written in a blog post wasn't enough? Hey, no. If you trash that narrative, it means that we can't dream big. Here's a woman that was a nobody. All she had to do was: 1) Manipulate her boyfriend into posting an incoherent rant about how terrible she was to SA, 4chan and reddit; 2) Use that publicity to manipulate innocent but desperate gamers into attacking her, as well as staging multiple false flags; 3) Leverage that into a "victim" campaign to appear in the media writ large; 4) Which gains her the attention of several rich suitors that she then; 5) Manipulates into an intimate relationship with her because she, through her now vast internet mob, has loads of blackmail on him. This eventually culminates into her arming her internet mob, storming the US Capitol, declaring martial law, circumcising all men and forcing them to play Depression Quest over and over. This is nicely in line with the fact that women hold literally all the power in the world, as demonstrated by the spaghetti story above. It's beautiful and one helluva success story. It's inspiring for any suave master-manipulator looking to go big. It's the American Dream. I mean sure, your story makes more sense and is more in line with reality, but do you really want to get in the way of a good rumor here?
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Probably a bad idea to do so. But I recommend watching it if you want to really understand what kind of person passes for an intellectual with GG. This is not a thing I've ever wondered or been curious about. I mean this is a "group" that latched onto Jack Thompson as an ally, so that says everything I need to know about their intellectual rigor.
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StandardVC10 posted:Wait, they did? The guy they all used to post screeds about? Yeah. It was probably a passing thing, but I remember a while back asking about this someone said that if even Thompson agreed with them about Sarkeesian/Quinn/whoeverthefuck they must be onto something True and Big. Other folks in this thread probably have a better idea on the timeline of GG using him/him using them, that was the last time I tried to get a handle on this.
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Wanderer posted:It was easier to find the tweet than I thought it'd be, and she said that using the trope at all is "embarrassing," then goes off on all the reasons why it should never be used at all. Weren't those suggestions in her Tropes vs Women video? Or one of them? Did she get all galvanized and polarized since then?
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Wanderer posted:Might've been. I should probably take the time to refresh my memory on her videos if I'm going to be talking about them. I just remember her making the case that the "damseling" thing happens super often and how that was weird. Yeah, that bothered me too. Overall her videos were underwhelming cause they were either pretty obvious 101 type stuff or really simplistic, as you said. That made sense cause she was aiming at newcomers, not people that had encountered feminist critiques. It would be interesting to see if she could make some serious critiques of a one or two games, though.
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