Feb 21st (Saturday) Lewd Gamer's Raze interviews the developers of HuniePop: Q: What kind of backlash have you experienced? A: Mainly just social justice crybaby bullshit; the people that can’t handle the fact that other people, who aren’t them, get to play a game that they don’t like. But obviously anybody could have seen that coming ten thousand miles away. I remember writing some of the dialog and laughing, thinking “holy shit, they aren’t gonna like this one”. (An Interview with the Developers of HuniePop [Lewd Gamer] [AT]) Nicole Seraphita addresses the different types of gamer entitlement in For Better or Worse: Entitlement in Gaming; [APG Nation] [AT] In light of Brianna Wu's fearmongering, an imaginary Sarin gas attack at PAX East, Allum Bokhari writes Who Should Really Feel Unsafe at #PAXEast? [Storify] [AT] New video by Lo-Ping: Address to #GamerGate: Don’t Fear Insurrection; [YouTube] A few days after MovieBob's departure, Defy Media's Senior Vice President Alexander Macris announces that Brandon Morse and Liz F will be new content creators at The Escapist. Feb 20th (Friday) codeGrit posts an An Open Letter To All (#GamerGate, #NotYourShield, #SJW); [Medium] [AT] New article by Georgina Young: Lawyer Uses Social Media to Gather Plaintiffs in Gawker Intern Lawsuit; [TechRaptor] [AT] Compiled data from surveys on KotakuinAction and GamerGhazi shows racial diversity, among other factors, in both subreddits; [8chan Bread on /v/] In a “very polite and constructive e-mail exchange” with Mark Kern, Patrick Garratt states: I wasn’t threatening anyone with that sentence, and I wasn’t talking about the literal process of signing your petition (although I can see how it seems I was). I used the words “sign” and “ink” as talking about the petition was the core of my article. I meant that the internet is indelible, and that those with open sympathies toward Gamergate (which, unarguably, does contain bigoted, dangerous, sexist elements), or any periphery cause, will have them forever. Of course I didn’t mean that developers signing your petition are doing so “on pain of excommunication by the press,” because by doing so I’d probably be unhinged. […] I’ve previously said publicly that anyone with genuine concerns about videogames journalism should, in my view, avoid publicly siding with anything related to Gamergate in any way, as it’s sexist and demonstrably repugnant. That line is simply a reiteration of that sentiment. So, yeah, I apologise if that was misconstrued. I wasn’t threatening anyone with anything. […] Gamergate is full of ill-informed bigots, and we don’t need another Gamergate. I have no idea if you and Ken Levine are ill-informed bigots, as I don’t know either of you. To be perfectly honest, Mark, I’d never heard of you before you posted that petition. I’ve interviewed Ken once, I think. I do believe your petition is ill-informed, and I hope I explained why in my article, but as to whether or not you, personally, are a bigot, I have no idea. I sincerely hope you aren’t! ([Mark Kern’s Change.org Petition] [AT]) Feb 19th (Thursday) 8chan's /v/ and /gamergate/ boards and Twitter users vote 192-6 to add VG247 to Operation Disrespectful Nod; [8chan Bread on /v/] [8chan Bread on /gamergate/] When 8chan's /gamergate/ board learns that Gawker Media, LLC is seeking $15 million in funding and having Young America Capital manage the funding process, users move to notify Young America Capital’s management team of Gawker's controversial pieces on Coca-Cola's #MakeItHappy campaign, which they ruined with quotes from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf; [8chan Bread on /gamergate/] New video by EventStatus: Law & Order GG Episode, DOA: LR Season Pass, Evolve Cheating, RE: Revelations 2 Not Horror? + More! [YouTube] After a rant by Oliver Campbell, Adrian Chmielarz states he is not angry, but afraid, and wonders whether the threat of a blacklist is real: I don’t know what the future holds. We live in a world in which its brightest minds can be humiliated and turned into a teary mess for wearing the wrong t-shirt. But we also live in a world in which thousands of people protested that, and I’m sure Matt Taylor heard them. I’m not good enough to polish the man’s shoes, so this is obviously not a direct comparison – but I heard you too, and while I can’t speak for other developers, I do want to publicly thank you and everyone else who helped – you know who you are – for your voices of support. ([TwitLonger] [AT]) Feb 18th (Wednesday) 8chan's /gamergate/ board and KotakuInAction start Operation #FairPay, an effort to spread the word about Gawker, Nick Denton, and the ongoing unpaid-intern lawsuit, Mark v. Gawker Media LLC (13-cv-04347); [8chan Bread on /gamergate/] [KotakuInAction] SdoctmdPlays brings an anonymous developer, a friend of his, to KotakuInAction for an AMA and then proceeds to give some insight into UBM and GDC in a Twitch stream; [Sound Bites - 1] [Sound Bites - 2] [AT] New article by Patrick Bissett: Jeopardy Man Arthur Chu Takes a Stand Against Helping Abused Porn Star And Family; [The Daily Caller] [AT - 1] [AT - 2] KotakuInAction hits a new milestone: 28,000 subscribers; [AT] New article by Allum Bokhari: Let Baldwin Speak: #GamerGate Chalks Up Another Victory; [Spiked] [AT] Adrian Chmielarz responds to Rami Ismail's claim that “the press reported on facts about GamerGate
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