Well, I'm u dumb-ass, who really employed "diagonal reading" to get through tons of craps that goes on. Fair enough, I'm an asshat for not reading properly!Zeconte said:So, firebobm asked for evidence of Bob attacking boogie, and you provide a tweet of Bob lashing out against the people who lead a harassment campaign against Zoe Quinn? So, what you're saying is that boogie was part of the group of people harassing, slut shaming and otherwise victimizing Zoe Quinn and that's why he was attacked? Or did you just somehow not understand a perfectly clear and simple request?
*checks that link*EpicMike7 said:Here's Leigh Alexander threatening an aspiring game developer by using her status in journalism to crush his career: https://twitter.com/Jackson4Action/status/508094969811193856/photo/1
Woah, that's seriously scary. It doesn't sound much different from what you'd hear a gangster say while (s)he's shaking victims down.be careful with me. I am a megaphone, I am much less kind than Rami and won't mind making an example out of you
Like a gangster? Seriously? She's threatening to use social media against him, not break his knees. We have no idea what this guy has said and all she's doing is saying she'll give him bad press. The things she'll do to make an example out of him is just give press to things he'd already put up on social media. Honestly what she was saying isn't nearly as bad as a lot of what's come from your side. Oh and BTW, being a small developer does not automatically make you the good guy. Also, being an aspiring game dev doesn't automatically make you the good guy. Seriously, if somebody on your side said that you'd be cheering him on. Whenever you go after somebody it's "exposing corruption", but whenever we criticize somebody on your side it's bullying. It's completely hypocritical. I mean you guys are siding with fucking Breitbart for fuck's sake.Uriel_Hayabusa said:*checks that link*EpicMike7 said:Here's Leigh Alexander threatening an aspiring game developer by using her status in journalism to crush his career: https://twitter.com/Jackson4Action/status/508094969811193856/photo/1
Woah, that's seriously scary. It doesn't sound much different from what you'd hear a gangster say while (s)he's shaking victims down.be careful with me. I am a megaphone, I am much less kind than Rami and won't mind making an example out of you
I bet some people will tell me that it's ''taken out of context'', but I don't see how the above can be construed as anything other than a threat in any context.
1) So what's she right about then? That it's okay to threaten a man's livelihood because he disagrees that sexism is an issue in gaming? Is that what you're saying? Cuz it sounds awfully like it.firebobm173 said:Like a gangster? Seriously? She's threatening to use social media against him, not break his knees. We have no idea what this guy has said and all she's doing is saying she'll give him bad press. The things she'll do to make an example out of him is just give press to things he'd already put up on social media. Honestly what she was saying isn't nearly as bad as a lot of what's come from your side. Oh and BTW, being a small developer does not automatically make you the good guy. Also, being an aspiring game dev doesn't automatically make you the good guy. Seriously, if somebody on your side said that you'd be cheering him on. Whenever you go after somebody it's "exposing corruption", but whenever we criticize somebody on your side it's bullying. It's completely hypocritical. I mean you guys are siding with fucking Breitbart for fuck's sake.
Oh and I also love how you're attacking her instead of her criticisms of you. Even if she was as bad as you say she is that wouldn't mean she's wrong.
Can you imagine the rolls reversed?Agayek said:1) So what's she right about then? That it's okay to threaten a man's livelihood because he disagrees that sexism is an issue in gaming? Is that what you're saying? Cuz it sounds awfully like it.
2) Nobody said anything about the guy she threatened. Only that she threatened his job over a disagreement. When did him being a "good" or "bad" person ever enter the equation?
Is it okay to threaten "bad" people now?
My own personal experience with the #GamerGate issues out in the wild, so do with it what you will.Velventian said:But i feel like for jim its almost the bigger failing since he always acts like "the voice for the consumer" and in that regard he clearly abandoned the field. in terms of sides this can discussed but one the things this will come down to that its consumer vs journalists. So while he may not have taken up their side he defiantly abandoned ours.
That's what I figured. These people think they're the "silent majority", and I doubt there has been a single group of people who thought that that really were a majority. These people think they're the victims of a vast conspiracy by the feminist illuminati. I wish I was kidding but take a look at this [https://twitter.com/Escapist_TXT] and you'll see just how bad it is. Every single tweet there is taken from the escapist forums and you can find the original source by copying the text and adding escapistmagazine.com to your search. It's downright disturbing that these people have convinced themselves of all this. Oh and it's worth mentioning that the escapist forums community is ridiculously small [https://twitter.com/GreyTheTick/status/508748945372098561](that account belongs to the guy who writes Critical Miss btw), especially considering the amount of noise it generates. The "silent majority" here is just 400 people!Netrigan said:My own personal experience with the #GamerGate issues out in the wild, so do with it what you will.Velventian said:But i feel like for jim its almost the bigger failing since he always acts like "the voice for the consumer" and in that regard he clearly abandoned the field. in terms of sides this can discussed but one the things this will come down to that its consumer vs journalists. So while he may not have taken up their side he defiantly abandoned ours.
Pretty much everyone I know younger than me is a gamer. Every time I've broached the subject with one of them, almost none of them had a clue this was going on. One guy kind of sort of knew about it, but only because a friend of his had tried to explain it. He still doesn't have a clue. I've yet to encounter one of them which knows anything about Depression Quest and all of its spin-off controversies. Most of them know about Sarkeesian, but few could be bothered to watch a video, much less have an opinion about it. A couple are of the opinion that this is pretty mild feminist stuff and are sickened by the reaction they heard about (for purposes of this discussion, I don't care if these accusations are true or not, this is their reaction presented without judgment).
So basically, almost no one gives a fuck. They've never heard the term Social Justice Warrior before (I had to explain it to everyone), #GamerGate is pretty much a mystery to them, even the ones who have heard of it. Sarkeesian is largely just a name they've heard about, but they honestly don't know what the big deal is supposed to be.
Anyway, point being, the people who put hands to keyboard to post on message boards are a tiny minority of the consumer. We are the 1%, the other 99% don't care.... no, not even after you explain it to them, because they just want to play games and they almost never notice the "politics" of it.
So even if Jim Sterling is 100% wrong about this issue, it really means fuck-all to the great bulk of consumers.
Yes, this is an assumption. Everything I wrote here in anecdotal and full of supposition. Call bullshit on it if you like.
But if that assumption is true, then whatever side he positions himself on really means nothing to his reputation as a protector of the consumer. Just to the two tiny armies locked in mortal combat with each other, while issues of Day One DLC, Review Embargoes, and so on do affect the average consumer much more. To them, this is just a weird little flame-war they want no part of.
I have to agree with you on many points. I think they have it backwards. I´mean the next sentence as little degrading as possible. But their declared mortal enemy the hordes of 12-20 year old CoD, battelfield, fifa fans, they don´t give a flying fuck about this whole thing, they don´t even know about it. But they also don´t check gaming sites for news or policies. I know how i was that age, i really only care about the games. Its only when you grow up with a medium and see it age with you that you get deeper interest in it an actually see the pattern an cracks emerge.Netrigan said:/snip
Funny number seem to count when it fits the narrative but at all other times they may be Egyptian hieroglyphs. Guess what the number of people who send those horrible harassmets all around the world probably doesn´t even reach quadruple digits. A few hundred people around the world are being used to slander the name of millions of gamers around the world. But when we are several hundred in only one thread in one forum of one of dozens sites suddenly we are so few how dare we act like we speak for the masses...firebobm173 said:That's what I figured. These people think they're the "silent majority", and I doubt there has been a single group of people who thought that that really were a majority. These people think they're the victims of a vast conspiracy by the feminist illuminati. I wish I was kidding but take a look at this [https://twitter.com/Escapist_TXT] and you'll see just how bad it is. Every single tweet there is taken from the escapist forums and you can find the original source by copying the text and adding escapistmagazine.com to your search. It's downright disturbing that these people have convinced themselves of all this. Oh and it's worth mentioning that the escapist forums community is ridiculously small [https://twitter.com/GreyTheTick/status/508748945372098561](that account belongs to the guy who writes Critical Miss btw), especially considering the amount of noise it generates. The "silent majority" here is just 400 people!
I'm not gonna admit either of those things. The vast majority of the gaming press and developers are on our side and at least as many gamers are on our side as yours. And btw every single time this has been covered in non gaming press (seriously though, how fucked up is it that you guys harassed people to the point where the friggin Washington Post and the New Yorker talk about it?!) you've come across as the bad guys, while all you've got are lunatic youtube channels, obscure blogs and David Aurini. As for saying you're harassers, while not all of you are, there is enough going on that the main output of your movement has been harassment against women in gaming. And then you ***** about it when we that your movement get accused of anything, if you don't just go straight for blaming the victim. You don't get to say your hands are clean when the guy next to you is spamming nudes of Zoe Quinn.Velventian said:Funny number seem to count when it fits the narrative but at all other times they may be Egyptian hieroglyphs. Guess what the number of people who send those horrible harassmets all around the world probably doesn´t even reach quadruple digits. A few hundred people around the world are being used to slander the name of millions of gamers around the world. But when we are several hundred in only one thread in one forum of one of dozens sites suddenly we are so few how dare we act like we speak for the masses...firebobm173 said:That's what I figured. These people think they're the "silent majority", and I doubt there has been a single group of people who thought that that really were a majority. These people think they're the victims of a vast conspiracy by the feminist illuminati. I wish I was kidding but take a look at this [https://twitter.com/Escapist_TXT] and you'll see just how bad it is. Every single tweet there is taken from the escapist forums and you can find the original source by copying the text and adding escapistmagazine.com to your search. It's downright disturbing that these people have convinced themselves of all this. Oh and it's worth mentioning that the escapist forums community is ridiculously small [https://twitter.com/GreyTheTick/status/508748945372098561](that account belongs to the guy who writes Critical Miss btw), especially considering the amount of noise it generates. The "silent majority" here is just 400 people!
Gamegate is not the majority, sure but those 80% sure as hell aren´t on the other side either, they are the true neutral and they will never choose a side since they don´t even know the conflict exists.
So either you admit that those very very few who harass other represent nothing within the gaming community or you stop stating that gamergate is too small to speak for anyone.