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@kincyr
You said you waited 4 years to reblog the 40th of April post. Why? What's the criteria for it?
if you look at the image with the calendar, you’ll notice that “April 40th” was a monday. that detail is normally ignored for the sake of being able to reblog it every year but I decided to go the extra distance, the earliest year that it would fall under a monday IRL was four years away at the time I put the reblog in my queue.
UC or ER?
HONESTLY THOUGH
THIS IS BOTH ACCURATE AND EFFECTIVE
Urgent Care is for your "Oh no!" accidents.
Emergency Care is for your "Oh fuck!" accidents.
Debating silently showing this to one of the flight attendants while boarding
I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT
Non-black, woke minority actors who supported the black push for "accurate representation": Wait, why am I only getting roles for my specific ethnicity now?
Me:
Reminds me of that one youtuber who bitches about exactly the same thing. He bitched about asian roles being voice by non-asian, then bitched about how he was "typecast" to voice only asian roles.
He suddenly doesn't mind voicing black or white characters on top of asian ones.
(he still bitches though)
I just realized that the kanji for bone, 「骨」, looks like a little skeleton fella, and I can't get over it...
found this three year old draft buried in my files. is it funny? I don't remember
Item: Ice Sword DIY kit
raocow's doing another community project and you know what that means
i have the primal need to redraw cute sprites
demo the safety demo
> only alt right do [thing people from all backgrounds have done before]
You're trying to manipulate people. It's obvious to anyone with a brain. Sad part is that a lot of people lack a brain, so it will probably work.
thanks I hate it
You Got a Friend In Horse
YOU DO NOT HAVE A FRIEND IN HORSE
this is so on the nose
So what you're saying is,
The purpose of gun control laws is to increase the rate of violent crime.
The purpose of every change in the american educational system in the last twenty years is to reduce the literacy and mathematical ability of the population.
The purpose of communism is genocide.
MY NAME'S LINK AND THIS IS JACKASS
As someone who's extensively looked into both sides of GamerGate, you are incredibly wrong about it lmao.
GamerGate is what I said it was.
Corruption in gaming journalism and competitions, lead to a demand for disclosure and ethics reform, what sparked the fire?
A game developer slept with a journalist who then gave her game very favorable reviews. She also got a gaming fundraiser shut down just before starting her own gaming fundraiser.
Then, a PR agent slept with the head judge of a game festival and her clients' games won.
Outrage spread among online forums.
The two women above, as well as others related to the industry jumped into the heated discussion online. A few receive death threats. All sides condemn harassment and threats.
Gaming journalists published articles declaring "gamers are dead" and painted them as "cis white male misogynists who hate women in their previously-male-dominated industry." The allegations of corruption were not addressed.
Gamers were outraged at the "anti-gamer" sites who ran the articles stereotyping and shaming their own fan bases.
10+ sites all ran similar talking-points on the same day, revealing an industry-wide issue. People dug deeper into the web of industry relationships and uncovered more conflicts of interest, but also a suspicion that radical, anti-male feminists were driving the narrative in the press.
Gamers were upset that leftists were deflecting the issue of corruption and turning it into one of misogyny and harassment of females in the industry. Articles that emerged in the BBC and Guardian do not mention the original issue of corruption, but focused on the few death threats.
The female author of the Guardian article was shown to be financially supportive of the women she defended in her article. She was called out on it publicly.
Gamers were convinced this was proof of the corruption.
Leftists are still convinced this is proof of the misogyny.
In response to Leftists accusing the #GamerGate movement as being driven by mostly "cis white males," minority gamers who supported the movement tweeted with #NotYourShield to tell the Leftists they don't need anyone speaking for them.
It surfaced recently that Zoe Quinn, had been generally an unethical person. According to her exboyfriend, she slept with five different guys in the indie game and games journalism areas while they were still in a relationship.
Quinn also, allegedly, wanted one of the people in charge of GAME_JAM's "head on a stick" after the failure of the event. Following this event, Quinn set up her own game jam called Rebel Jam with a donation link that goes straight to her own PayPal account. She also did not have any information on the page relating to when the event will be held and what it will contain.
In the midst of this, a group called The Fine Young Capitalists started up a rival game jam to Quinn's for which they received a lot of backlash for from Quinn and her supporters.
It is important to note that Quinn's supporters did this under the flag of "they're an oppressive group" despite the fact that TFYCs are predominantly a female-oriented group.
4chan's /v/ message board, up in arms over the corruption in games journalism that had surfaced already as a result of this scandal, decided to flood TFYC's indiegogo campaign with donations that would go to colon cancer research.
4chan eventually raised enough money to get the highest perk available from TFYC's indiegogo, the option to create a character. So 4chan took this opportunity to rub it in the world's face, and created a character called Vivian James.
Concurrently to all of this, there was essentially a media blackout concerning the Zoe Quinn scandals. Quinn, through this, became a face of feminism in the indie games world, much like Anita Sarkeesian, who has also had a lot of questions surrounding her kickstarter to fund Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, a webseries that breaks down tropes that are harmful to women in video games. Despite having finished her kickstarter in June of 2012, she's only released 6 videos.
There's a fear imposed on indie games developers who disagree with these faces of feminism because then they are seen as misogynistic or bad people.
Along this timeline, people started looking more closely at games "journalists" and found that the very people who were reporting on these games had a vested interest in the games as they had put money into the dev's pockets through donations. Not only was there this, but the tight-knit world that is indie game development led to this web stretching far and wide.
Oh, and a lot of these games "journalists" came out and said that gamers, the very people they are supposed to have an interest in, are "the worst" and "a dying indentity" and other harsh words, considering their demographic.
We’re closer to 10 years since GamerGate became a thing than not, and the funniest thing about it is that plenty of people have openly admitted they knew that the journos, the various star “victims”, and many on the professional anti-GG side were a bunch of psychopath grifters, but at the time they didn’t want to “give the other side ammo” or whatever. Journos were more the clear that they were absolutely pushing an agenda, colluding, and outright abusing their position in the industry to prop up their specific ideology.
But, y’know, gamergate was about harassing women to get them to stop playing video games, or whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I recently saw someone claim “gamergate” was clearly “alt-right”.
Even though it consistently polled diverse and left wing, IIRC.
That's actually a really funny thing. 4chan's largest demographic are Democrat voters, and are highly socialist. The entire ideology of Anonymous is that all success and all failure is shared amongst the collective. Being an individual and trying to gain personal power through using a name or other identifying mark is shunned.
>4chan's largest demographic are Democrat voters, and are highly socialist.
TIL
It's funny how much the antiGG folks tried to create figureheads to act as scapegoats for the Narrative. Hence the "Leader of Gamergate" joke.
It's also hilarious how this gigantic threat to all "women in gaming", and games journalism, and gamers, allegedly harassed a whopping three women.
Like a lot of demonized things, the hysteria and sensationalism did more damage than the thing supposedly did.
Gamergate was a textbook example of the kind of damage that can be inflicted by a tiny handful of narcissistic/histrionic people in the right (wrong?) places.
Backed up by media and major institutions.
You know, there's something that was very important and very much left out of the timeline here.
The Kane and Lynch 2 (and i think one of the Driver games) controversy.
I'd need to go back into notes to find the details but the very short form was that there had been (in prior years) multiple incidents where online game journalism had already proven it was bribable by major video game producers. Negative reviews still ending up with high positive scores, people being fired for bad-mouthing a game that was also heavily advertised on the website, things like that.
There was ALREADY, well before gamergate started, a massive and known undercurrent that, to be very blunt, games journalism was corrupt.
And as such, to those who are unhappy about that corruption that already exists, the inflation of scores and the ridiculous and undue power those scores have in games production itself (no bonuses for not getting a specific metacritic score comes to mind) the reality hitting in that even the indie side of the market was absolutely rife with the same sort of corruption and back-alley dealings?
The backlash was inevitable.
And all THAT is before we add in to the discussion that somehow the very idea that journalists should behave in an ethical manner or have a code of conduct became what was most loudly mocked?
The KL2 thing is specifically when Jeff Gerstmann got fired from Gamespot, which lead to the creation of Giantbomb. There was even a Penny Arcade comic about it.
I agree. The idea that GG created and own the idea that corruption in games journalism is a thing was ridiculous. It requires ignorance - willful or not - of GJ history.
>no bonuses for not getting a specific metacritic score comes to mind)no bonuses for not getting a specific metacritic score comes to mind)
Most famously with New Vegas, which missed it’s goal by a single MC point.
Don’t forget the “Gamesjournos pro” mailing list - which was discovered to feature games journos from several supposedly competing gaming media outlets, where they straight up coordinated what stories to push and which to silence - like how they simply chose what kind of narrative spin to put on GG and Quinn.
Hilarious
I saw it alluded to above, but you guys had forgotten that part of the media blackout regarding Quinn and The Zoe Post was how widespread the censorship was, even on the internet. I believe @brazenautomaton had a really good post about this event, which was specifically what sparked Gamergate - how bans were being meted out on damn near any place people would try to talk about it, including on 4chan itself (this, incidentally, is how 8chan came about as well).
THAT was where Gamergate came from - not the well-known corruption of game journalism or the incestuous nature of the industry, but the sudden clear demonstration of how much they were willing to abuse their power and how many people were in bed with them.
overhearing the conversations of brown students is so funny it was literally like npc dialogue
of what students ?
BROWN UNIVERSITY !!!!!
