The great GamerGate discussion. (Stuff and things)

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The question should be asked; why dose Anita need donations when she is given sponsors by companies like Dice and google as she hosts shows in Chicago hosted by Cards against Humanity with oh look! Nathan Grason.
 
I’m sure I don’t have to remind people why him being there should be a giant red flag.
 
Also, still love the irony of her talking about “teh womens!” when no only did Crash Override foster people harassing women, but she had as a moderator Valis77.
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Parents don’t seem to look at age ratings, and then they blame video game studios and gamers for making “violent games” and “letting children have access to them”.
 
Bitch, you people let access to them. The ratings are there for you to decide. We put so much faith in you and you keep fucking it up and blaming us for it.
 
In all honesty, despite the age rating I don’t really have much of a problem with kids playing video games above their ratings. I played GTA San Andreas when I was 7 yo. My mom thought it was horrible, but she didn’t really stop me from playing it since unlike some people, she knows I’m smart enough to distinguish reality and fiction.
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Believe me. I worked at a gamestop. I know.
 
The screaming brats come in 10 minutes for the parents screeching up and down the very tiny store running into people, slam the game on the counter demanding it yesterday and of course, it’s GTA, CoD. So you go through the whole speel guns, violence, blood, blah, blah, blah and they’re not even paying attention. They just want to get the game, just to shut their kids up.
 
I remember when I was a kid, I got a video game when I accomplished all of my chores, got good grade and didn’t flail around the neighborhood like a howler monkey.
 
An article on ne Angry Gamer about the white house summit for violence in games  
Has a great opinion piece by the author, that I’m going to share as it relates to the subject.  
Let’s be absolutely real about the situation…
A lot of this is actually the fault of video game journalists who betrayed gamers by attacking the industry incessantly, gaining widespread and mainstream attention with their unfettered demonization of the industry nonstop for the last four years, starting with mislabeling and attacking the consumer revolt known as #GamerGate.
Polygon, Kotaku, Ars Technica, and game journalist associated with, or part of, the GameJournoPros who advocated and signaled the voice of anti-gaming pundits like Anita Sarkeesian are responsible for the negative image the gaming industry has picked up over the last four years. They’ve also opened up the door for Republicans to come in and continue the castigation against games that was started by video game press.
Some of these sites have attempted to become two-faced advocates, arguing against President Donald Trump’s assertions that video game violence negatively impacts America’s youth while simultaneously agreeing with Anita Sarkeesian that video game sexism negatively impacts America’s youth.
Gamers have called out sites like Polygon and culture critics like Anita Sarkeesian for their double standards, but at this point it’s a little too late to make amends. Republicans are now looking to regulate an industry that Democrats, Leftists and those who identify as “Progressive” journalists attacked, belittled, censured and demonized for the last half decade.
 
I can do nothing, but completely agree.  
They opened the doors after at least half a decade of shitting on gamers for them to move back into the spotlight. Celebrating people with arguments no different then Jack Thompson.
 
Double standards and hypocrisy from them.
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I more or less agree with this, but want to reply to this part specifically:
 
Some of these sites have attempted to become two-faced advocates, arguing against President Donald Trump’s assertions that video game violence negatively impacts America’s youth while simultaneously agreeing with Anita Sarkeesian that video game sexism negatively impacts America’s youth.
 
I wouldn’t call this two-faced. The claim against video game violence is that it is a part of what causes mass shootings, and the claim against video game sexism is that it influences people to have sexist attitudes. I think these claims are different enough that you could be opposed to one but not the other.
 
Don’t get me wrong though. I don’t think either are true, and I’m convinced the only reason why game journalism is opposed to the video game violence thing right now is because it’s an alternative to blaming guns.
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Probably, but they still fostered the resentment towards games and gamers with their clap-back against corruption in journalism making gamers in a whole vile people.
 
They opened the door, now they’re mad who walked in to claim games as their Satan isn’t who they want it to be.
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Is probably based on the fact that one of hitler’s ultimate goals was to transform Germany into a pre-industrial wilderness paradise. Never mind that environmentalism crosses all political boundaries, hitler liked it, so it must be bad.
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It’s possible the idea of restoring natural harmony is related to the idea of conservation, which is then loosely connected to the philosophy of conservatism. Part of the general problem with political philosophy is that there is a constant disagreement between definitions that keeps shifting as exclusionary either right-or left wing. As a result, you can falsely define any general principle as somehow exlusionary to a single political wing, rather than a differentation of application or priorities.
 
You could as easily redefine expulsion of “aliens” as resistance towards colonial oppression, princess recovery as women’s liberation from oppression and natural harmony as anti-industrial communal primitivism. It all depends on how you frame the game mechanics, really. To be honest, the list seems to relate the idea of supporting civilization and nation-states as inhererently right-wing, so the author’s definitions are definitely on the farther edges of the political spectrum.
 
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I don’t know what it is about romanticism that is so closely related to authoritarian ideologies. I can’t exactly pin-point if the romantic relation is simply a dissatisfaction with the status-quo that later on inspires revolutionary action or if it’s the utopian idealism inherent in romanticism.
 
Either way, I don’t believe the pattern is entirely coincidental.
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So, are any of you following the emergence of Internet Blood Sports?
 
I know a certain someone here likes the BEAST Metokur (who has been destroying people left and right with this stuff) and the Honey Badgers, who are in a feud with Metokur.
 
Oh and all the GamerGate celebs are mad Jim is anonymous after being assblasted.
 
full
 
 
I DO HAVE A POINT TO THIS!
 
Dont you see that these parasites who made GG all about earning Respectability (from people who hated them) just wanted to do it to propel themselves? To make themselves respectabile?
 
Relentless Cyber Warfare was the answer the whole time. Jim has radicalized me.
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so, are any of you following the emergence of Internet Blood Sports
 
No. I have better ways to waste my life then watch the Jerry Springer shows of the internet.
 
But, since you brought it up.
 
JF of one of them has quit the history  
The spicy stuff happens around 12:00  
A perfect subject for Metokur’s Internet insanity, yet nothing. Isn’t that something.  
It’s almost like he doesn’t want to upset certain aspects. I wonder what that’s all about Jim? Not afraid are ye? :oc
 
Dont you see that these parasites who made GG all about earning Respectability (from people who hated them) just wanted to do it to propel themselves? To make themselves respectabile?
 
Actually, since we never engaged in direct flame wars with them, they had little to no ammunition, and with their countless crusading against the hashtag and anyone that uses it, showed their bigotry, hatred and intolerance.
 
Jim got prettying salty, because he wasn’t considered the defacto leader and left, only ton came back under a different name. He’s kind of like Johnny Fox in that regards; A bit bitter of not being more popular and having a vendetta. He Constantly brings up “dirt” he has on Saron, but never shows it, just uses vague “Better come clean before I expose you!” Jargon. I think he changes channels frequently, due to embarrassing himself like when he tried to expose JF with a Resume of all things.
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@Cyborg_pony  
oh I am aware of JF, just noting the contra-Jim crowd is saying all the same shit as Zoe and Anita
 
And really that crowd is more like Johnny Fox. There was some agreement on tactics between Fox and Jim but they are the ones obsessing over Jim and IBS writ large, like you say Fox did with Sargon. Behavior matters more than opinions in these comparisons
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