GamerGate News & Discussion v6: #GamesSoWhite Edition

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Soda said he is not making another thread, so I will start another one. I haven't been following things very closely for awhile now, but I like to check on the GG thread once in awhile to see the latest GG happenings.

Here is a link to the last thread: http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/f8...5-inhaling-toxic-masculinity-edition-2926223/


To start things off I want to introduce you to Gamergate's Newest Nemesis, Natalie Zed. Is that your natural hair color, Natalie?


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Source: Gamergate’s Newest Nemesis Is A Canadian PhD Student


Last week, Zed attended the Canadian Game Studies Association’s 2015 conference as a panelist. In the opening comments, the organizers asked attendees to refrain from using the Gamergate hashtag, even though many of the panels were focused on the Gamergate phenomenon (depending on your perspective, either a debate about ethics in gaming, mostly focused on the sexism in games and gaming culture, or a vitriolic campaign of hatred directed at women who dare venture into the gaming industry).

According the Zed, trolls have now rendered her Twitter unusable because she’s getting hundreds of notifications a day—mostly abusive tweets, Japanese anime porn pics and invitations for debate. They have taken to criticizing the validity of her work and her appearance, all of which ramped up once they discovered Zed is working on a PhD on Gamergate. Trolls sent out hundreds of negative tweets with the hashtag #gamergatephd. They’re currently bombarding her employers with requests to to disqualify Zed from her program on the (invalid) grounds that openly criticizing the phenomenon is a conflict of interest. Some have suggested showing up en masse at her upcoming speaking engagements or buying up all the domains associated with her name to influence search engine results for Zed, so that any potential employer searching for her would find something offensive rather than her actual professional profile.

Zed is working on a PhD on Gamergate.
 
I haven't kept up with GamerGate in awhile. I still think it's two sides dug in, slinging shit at each other and I just want no part of that. I do think the banned NeoGAF poster is right - it's mostly two sides where the most vocal proponents on each side have very poor social skills, which precipitates even more bad things happening.

Yet despite all of that, despite the fact that I do have criticisms of GamerGate and its supporters, I have found they are a million times more grounded in reality than AGGros. I had plenty of disagreements with GGers back when I was active, yet we would usually agree to disagree and still go about supporting GG. In anti-GamerGate, any dissension is at best frowned upon, and will often get a person excommunicated from the good graces of whatever flavor-of-the-day social movement AGGros are supporting. The level of groupthink with AGGros is simply astounding. The bad side of GG might be polluted with social shut-ins who never leave their basements, but even then, they are still way more reasonable than the most vocal AGGro supporters who think they're the most moral, intellectual people on earth. There's nothing more pathetic than someone with a bit of education unwilling to be introspective enough or willing to admit that they, in fact, do not know everything and are viewing the world in a black-or-white manner that they often bash those lowly "rednecks" (or whatever opponents) of doing all the time.

Take shrbutts. I read most of what she posted. I must say, it was very well written, but that's merely the aesthetics of the piece and it is the ONLY compliment I will grant. Nowhere did I see her outright denying she wasn't a pedophile. She tiptoed around the subject and wrote it off as "doing bad shit 10 years ago." As someone who also did bad shit 10 years ago, I simply do not buy that excuse. At no time was I mentally deranged enough to even act like a fucking pedophile - even as a teenager. I want to say that I can't believe anyone would buy that pile of horseshit excrement blog she posted, but I know people on both sides (especially AGGros) will rationalize anything to "keep the movement afloat." I think they are playing with fire here, though. If they hitch their boats to someone who does end up being a pedo (and there is very strong proof of this), it could sink all of their ships. It's insane the levels of rationalization some of them will go to so they don't have to admit one of their most prominent members is a fucking piece of shit pedo. All she did was play the victim and say "I did bad stuff in the past." Well, then don't be a fucking hypocrite. Put down your moral righteousness on Twitter and stop calling out ANYONE on GG who does bad things as well, because after all, they are "probably just immature and blowing off shit, trying to be edgy."

The Nyberg thing makes me want to jump back in, but I'm too busy with other things at the moment. I hope they keep up that delusion. It's only going to sink them in the end.
 
An excellent new documentary featuring a lot of hair dye is coming out:




 
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Am I the only one who finds the whole "Vivian James" thing incredibly stupid? Some SJW blogger made a post calling GamerGate out on it and KiA is predictably not taking it well.

I for one never cared for that "character" and always thought it made the movement seem more juvenile.
 
Turns out the dude that wrote that Cracked article that did some defending of pedophilia (where he went beyond just saying it's a mental disorder), the very article I went off on in this thread, was the Cracked contributor that sent Nyberg the photo of his kid to cheer him/her up.
 
Turns out the dude that wrote that Cracked article that did some defending of pedophilia (where he went beyond just saying it's a mental disorder), the very article I went off on in this thread, was the Cracked contributor that sent Nyberg the photo of his kid to cheer him/her up.

Man I noticed Cracked going down the shitter before this whole GG thing even started
 
Not really involved in this whole Gamer Gate thing, but Full McIntosh just admitted that he doesn't think there's a difference between Fantasy and Reality

 
Am I the only one who finds the whole "Vivian James" thing incredibly stupid? Some SJW blogger made a post calling GamerGate out on it and KiA is predictably not taking it well.

I for one never cared for that "character" and always thought it made the movement seem more juvenile.

I don't even know where that character came from or why she's do angry all the time
 
Minor update, I was blocked by fullmcintosh for a joke about punching a centaur
 
I don't even know where that character came from or why she's do angry all the time

The $2000 backer reward for TFYC's Afterlife Empire's Indiegogo fund was that the backer would be able to have their character put in the game. Vivian James is the result of GG/4chan members hitting $2000.
 
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Am I the only one who finds the whole "Vivian James" thing incredibly stupid? Some SJW blogger made a post calling GamerGate out on it and KiA is predictably not taking it well.

I for one never cared for that "character" and always thought it made the movement seem more juvenile.

I always thought it was fairly juvenile but since it never hurt anyone, I just ignored it.
 
Not really involved in this whole Gamer Gate thing, but Full McIntosh just admitted that he doesn't think there's a difference between Fantasy and Reality

So every movie is a documentary then? Good God, I'm going to see Jurassic World today. WHAT HATH MAN WROUGHT?!
 
Not really involved in this whole Gamer Gate thing, but Full McIntosh just admitted that he doesn't think there's a difference between Fantasy and Reality



McIntosh has made it very clear time and again that he cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality.

 
Not really involved in this whole Gamer Gate thing, but Full McIntosh just admitted that he doesn't think there's a difference between Fantasy and Reality



I'm guessing that in some odd way he's associating the thought processes of those creating fantasy as the reality part, or maybe the thought processes of those watching/reading/listening to fantasy created by others as the reality aspect? Quite the stretch. in using that as ammo for his cause.
 
One thing that I find hilarious about this whole Sarah Nyberg thing is the SJWs insistence that "It doesn't mean anything, it was like 10 years ago", as if Bill Cosby and Jimmy Savile's indescretions were a couple of weeks ago.
 
Ever since Soda bowed out, things have been pretty slow in the gg threads. Now that I'm getting my news from KIA, and I'm always lurking Sherdog, I might as well post stuff I think you guys will find interesting.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/artic...awker-fight-its-life-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-suit

The Fappening is wrong, but a highlight vid of a sex tape is fine apparently lol

I'll try to post more when I'm off work and not on my phone
 
One thing that I find hilarious about this whole Sarah Nyberg thing is the SJWs insistence that "It doesn't mean anything, it was like 10 years ago", as if Bill Cosby and Jimmy Savile's indescretions were a couple of weeks ago.

Sure, Edmund Kemper killed a lot of people in very sadistic ways, but that was like 40 years ago. We shouldn't judge him for what he did so long ago during a very rough time in his life. He had a harsh childhood, we need to be supportive of him now. Free Kemper!

#ThinkLikeAnAGGro
 
I'm guessing that in some odd way he's associating the thought processes of those creating fantasy as the reality part, or maybe the thought processes of those watching/reading/listening to fantasy created by others as the reality aspect? Quite the stretch. in using that as ammo for his cause.

I'm not really au fait on all of this, but I think he's saying that all art pushes an agenda.

He went off on something a couple of days ago that the commercial for Arkham Knight using the tagline "Be The Batman" wasn't a slogan to say "You like Batman? Well, here's an opportunity to control him and take part in his latest adventure", it was a way of saying "Hey, go out in the real world and pick fights with muggers" and that they were encouraging people that being tough is good, and that is promoting "toxic masculinity"
 
Sure, Edmund Kemper killed a lot of people in very sadistic ways, but that was like 40 years ago. We shouldn't judge him for what he did so long ago during a very rough time in his life. He had a harsh childhood, we need to be supportive of him now. Free Kemper!

#ThinkLikeAnAGGro

Surely it'd be more like if Edmund Kemper wrote a bunch of shit about how he'd love to strangle women and have sex with their dead bodies in his diary or on some internet forum when he was a teen and then it came out later?

As far as I've understood it no one is actually accusing that crazy bitch of actually fucking any kids, are they?
 
Surely it'd be more like if Edmund Kemper wrote a bunch of shit about how he'd love to strangle women and have sex with their dead bodies in his diary or on some internet forum when he was a teen and then it came out later?

As far as I've understood it no one is actually accusing that crazy bitch of actually fucking any kids, are they?

Not as of yet, but (s)he did distribute sexual images of children, including the aforementioned 8 year old cousin.
 
Ever since Soda bowed out, things have been pretty slow in the gg threads. Now that I'm getting my news from KIA, and I'm always lurking Sherdog, I might as well post stuff I think you guys will find interesting.

Good stuff bro, looking forward
 
Last night's South Park episode was all about political correctness and SJWs. Absolutely spot on.
 
Holy Fucking Shit!!! People still talk and care about this shit?!!
 
Last night's South Park episode was all about political correctness and SJWs. Absolutely spot on.

I was wondering when they were gonna make fun of them, I'll have to check it out.
 
I'm not really au fait on all of this, but I think he's saying that all art pushes an agenda.

He went off on something a couple of days ago that the commercial for Arkham Knight using the tagline "Be The Batman" wasn't a slogan to say "You like Batman? Well, here's an opportunity to control him and take part in his latest adventure", it was a way of saying "Hey, go out in the real world and pick fights with muggers" and that they were encouraging people that being tough is good, and that is promoting "toxic masculinity"

I was actually about to say that the original posts posted here (feels redundant to say that) WEREN'T that bad, imo. Too many people discredit the idea that pop culture does have influence over "real life" and thereby say that ANY cultural criticism doesn't have it's place. And that's kind of what I get reading the original tweets. But this is just fucking stupid.
 
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