Can someone accurately explain GameGate in a sentence?

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You're both thinking way too rationally about this.

That has been a problem for me for most of my life. I was hoping no one would notice.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"professional victim" (whatever that even means).

This made me lol until I realized that many in this thread probably don't know that Anita, Zoe, Brianna and many others are payed thousands of dollars a month via patreon simply to exist, that they promote themselves (in Anita's case extremely ironically) as damsels in distress that need help to keep 'fighting the good fight'.

[LulzSect]

infuriating

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[loramin]

Originally Posted by LulzSect [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

infuriating

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Awesome.


Not to detail this lovely thread, but any Bill Waterson fans out there should know that he recently came out of retirement (briefly) to do a few guest comics in Perals Before Swine. It's not Calvin and Hobbes, but it's still fun.

The plot starts here:
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/02

but Bill's part doesn't start until here:
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/04

... and now back to your regularly scheduled RnF.

[loramin]

er derail, not detail

[JayN]

so wait wemon are being whores on the innernets now too? say it aint so

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRAyG-BuFE
Before GG, before h8chan.

[Dior]

It started off because of the Quinnspiracy shit. Basically a game dev (I'm not using the gender because it doesn't matter what it is) slept with with journalists and got positive reviews from a game that got mediocre reviews from other reviewers who didn't sleep with the game dev. When it came to light what the dev had done by an ex the shitsunami hit the shitcoast with the force of a thousand shitsuns (but not really.)

Nerds got mad, made vids but didn't actually do anything like boycott the reviewers site or the game. They just amped up the sales and traffic to both.

However, in the last month or so, the gamergate shit got hijacked by Anita Sarkeesian and somehow the harassment she received was thrown in to derail the previous event. Right now, Sarkeesian has gotten loads of press for her series and traffic to her blogs and the aforementioned journo/dev fuckfest has been forgotten.

To me, some pr folks got a hold of the situation and combined the two series of events so as to take the spotlight off the relationships between developers and reviewers.

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by Dior [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It started off because of the Quinnspiracy shit. Basically a game dev (I'm not using the gender because it doesn't matter what it is) slept with with journalists and got positive reviews from a game that got mediocre reviews from other reviewers who didn't sleep with the game dev.

This is the nonsense that is gamergate.. This is the lie that they believe.

The journalist that she slept with gave no such mention of her game. Nor did any other article on the same publication for which he works for, ever say anything about her game let alone whether it was good or bad.

It's such a stupid cause.

[Dior]

Originally Posted by iruinedyourday [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is the nonsense that is gamergate.. This is the lie that they believe.

The journalist that she slept with gave no such mention of her game. Nor did any other article on the same publication for which he works for, ever say anything about her game let alone whether it was good or bad.

It's such a stupid cause.

The whole thing is pretty retarded.

Men crying about women is pathetic enough, but the fact that these babies fail to understand that simply ignoring these people, who clearly want the attention, would do a lot more than making a hastag and talking shit in a forum.