#goobergate

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remember when some dude was bad at cuphead and gaming snobs lost their fucking minds

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i'm watching this cute video of a chubby lady bouncing a giant rubber exercise ball around with a remix of chunky kong’s section of the dk rap playing in the background and the comment section is filled with noxious gamergate drivel for some reason

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Tommentary - Five Guys Shuffling

Alllllrighty, the time has come for the very first TOMMENTARY!! A short segment in which I round up everything I know about a news story and give my thoughts on it. The emphasis is on short or we’ll be here all damn day. 

(Also yes, my name is Tomas and this a commentary, jeez, just let me have that one.)

Recently during a stream of the new Paper Mario a couple of little mushroom fellas made a gag about Five Guys Shuffling and somehow the line ‘ShuffleGate: Exposed’ came up?

Now, most people claim that this was a reference to WaterGate, a political kerfuffle that took place in the US circa 1970, however more recently (And much more relevant to games and gaming!) there has been the GamerGate ‘scandal’.

From here on in, when referring to GG, ‘scandal’ will be in quotes because it’s quicker to type that than to type ‘misogynistic witch hunt perpetrated by impotent, weak little men that think scaring women will make their flaccid cocks grow.’ Which is what GG is, but I digress.

The main, but by no means only, target of GG, Zoe Quinn immediately called out the joke with a few screen caps on twitter, which was how this whole thing gained traction.

Nintendo hasn’t clarified who or what the joke was referencing but GG forums have also lit up with discussion about the gag.

And that’s about all I know. I hope Nintendo was just making a dated Watergate joke. I hope Zoe doesn’t cop anymore heat for this. I hope GG fucks off and leaves this industry a safer place for women.

But aside from all of that, whether it’s WaterGate or GamerGate, it’s a shit joke for anything, let alone a Paper Mario game. Jeez, Nintendo, step up your comedy game.

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"Tim Schafer poisoned our water supply, burned our crops, and delivered a plague unto our houses!”

“He DID?!”

“No, but are we just gonna sit around and wait until he does?”

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this is  GIRL anthropomorphic rabbit?! but how? where are the BOOBIES

Gamergaters when they see Vibri for the first time, probably

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remember when Zennistrad made it widely known that academic funding for video game preservation has stopped because Gamergate more or less soiled their reputation and GGers responded by opposing the concept of video game archival and saying it isn’t needed

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