GAMERGATE: Both Sides Have The Same Melt Value

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I read a great article I can't find now about a guy who collected wines who had fake expensive bottles that he would only bring out after everyone was super sloshed so they would be like "haha wow, 98 points, WOOO LAMPSHADE PARTY"

[Steve Contra]

The old joke was journalists go to Bordeaux and leave their trunks open and when they'd get done tasting there would mysteriously be wine in there and they'd go to their next stop.  And then I found out it was totally true, and most of the time there wasn't even subterfuge, it was just, oh have these cases of wine.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

meanwhile game writers fret about if it's okay for them to receive a $60 first-person shooter

BUT THEY'RE ETHICALLY CORRUPT, AMIRITE

[Steve Contra]

http://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/2011/12/jay-miller-quits-robert-parker-as-critic-for-the-wine-advocate/

This is a dude who's pretty uncorrupt by wine writer standards, and he once went to a dinner in Florida that ran some $27,000 for 4 people, 3 of them importers, and he definitely didn't pay.

[I'm a Puppy!]

If I ever start a band I'll call it "Totally Recreational Dicks"

[doctavius bonbon]

xpostin from gaf thread

[Positive Touch]

Jesus fuckin Christ

[Himu]

[TakingBackSunday]

perfect

[chronovore]

The thing about GamerGate that gets to me, once I thought about it, is it has me cheering for a professional football player for screaming at a bunch of nerds.

It’s like I’m living in Bizarro World.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

[pilonv1]

gamer's gate is no steam or even gog, that's for sure

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https://twitter.com/GamersGate/status/525179913897512960

I like GamersGate

They're usually the last to resort to higher pricing for Australians

[Rufus]

By the way if you want to see an industry with near 0 ethical standards you should see what goes on in mine.

Bitch please. I'm a consultant.

I have a friend who's a managing partner at a big consulting firm and she tells me about the fuckery that goes on with vendors trying to get recognized.  As far as low standards in journalism however, not much can beat the wine world.

How much of it is relabeling cheap swill as top product?

[Mr. Gundam]

The thing about GamerGate that gets to me, once I thought about it, is it has me cheering for a professional football player for screaming at a bunch of nerds.

It’s like I’m living in Bizarro World.

The professional football player is also a nerd. And he's a kicker, which are basically the nerds of the jock world.

[Steve Contra]

By the way if you want to see an industry with near 0 ethical standards you should see what goes on in mine.

Bitch please. I'm a consultant.

I have a friend who's a managing partner at a big consulting firm and she tells me about the fuckery that goes on with vendors trying to get recognized.  As far as low standards in journalism however, not much can beat the wine world.

How much of it is relabeling cheap swill as top product?

Lots.  There was just a huge case in Italy involving something like 200,000 bottles of relabeled wine.

[Rufus]

The perfect crime.
That number is so big, I wouldn't be surprised if the mafia were involved.

[Steve Contra]

In Italy?  Definitely.  They were casually linked to the anti-freeze scandal that nearly ruined Austria's entire wine industry back in the 80s.

[thisismyusername]

 

[Mr. Gundam]

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I made some Photoshops

the last one was uncomfortably close to real life so I deleted it from Twitter almost immediately

you guys have no morals tho

[Rufus]

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That interlacing, god damn.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I didn't know Double Dragon Neon came to the Xbox One.

[Shadow Mod]

stealin' our jerbs label

[Howard Alan Treesong]

as a friend said on Twitter this morning, the weirdest thing about this is some gamers want "gamers" to be ... a protected class? To be recognized as an ethnicity and culture worthy of protection?

[Steve Contra]

Remember when Etiolate compared Nintendo gamers to Holocaust victimes? 

Has anyone on the bore said anything even as close to as dumb?

[Human Snorenado]

Remember when Etiolate compared Nintendo gamers to Holocaust victimes? 

Has anyone on the bore said anything even as close to as dumb?

Are we talking non-FlameofCallandor division? Cause dios mio man, THAT GUY.

[Shadow Mod]

It really is spearheaded by people with no real adversity in life huh.

Remember when Etiolate compared Nintendo gamers to Holocaust victimes? 

Has anyone on the bore said anything even as close to as dumb?

What.

I kind of started ignoring him altogether when he would spout off MRA talking points with no sense of irony.

[Human Snorenado]

This (the holocaust thing) was years ago, before MRA was even a thing I think. Dude's always been a little fucking shitburger.

And yeah, the thing about GG is, even IF they weren't intrinsically linked to doxxing/threatening women, they're pitching a fit over... ethics in video game journalism? Seriously. Get a fucking life, you dipshits.

[Steve Contra]

It really is spearheaded by people with no real adversity in life huh.

Remember when Etiolate compared Nintendo gamers to Holocaust victimes? 

Has anyone on the bore said anything even as close to as dumb?

What.

I kind of started ignoring him altogether when he would spout off MRA talking points with no sense of irony.

If Mandark were here he'd give you the amazing lowdown.  I'm too lazy to go find it now.  Come back to us, Gentle Jew

[Mr. Gundam]

I've played games my entire life. I play weird ass games from Japan. I think GamerGate is horribly misguided. I guess I was never really "one of them."

 

[Shadow Mod]

Honestly I remember not really encountering any sexism until I started gaming.

Then it was just a stream of shit over the mic.

Oh wait, I didn't start gaming till a couple years ago when it became cool. Nevermind. Ignore my obviously false memories.

[Mr. Gundam]

Clearly you got into games to make money off fake sexism!

I could never figure out why people raged so much over Morgan Webb and Olivia Munn in the mid 00s and the whole "they're not real gamers" bullshit. What does that even mean?

[Shadow Mod]

I never got that either.

I also didn't get the insistence it was just clueless boys saying mean things since most of the awful shit I heard was from the mouth of an adult.

[Mr. Gundam]

I don't have any interest in online gaming or really multiplayer in general, but the few times I've played online were interesting. Japanese Gundam games with online components? Totally fine except for some xenophobes who are like "you're not Japanese? you can't play with us so sorry please understand." I played some Halo 2 online back in the day and it was ugly as shit.

[Human Snorenado]

Sadly, "age ain't nothin but a number" cuts both ways

[Shadow Mod]

FPSes were mostly "stupid dykey whore bag I bet you're ugly that's why you're good at this game."

MMOs were "omg you're a girl, here's some gold, wanna quest together?"

Both cringeworthy in their own special ways.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

me

[Shadow Mod]

A lot of my gal pals still game but gaming has never been close to how they'd identify themselves, plus they have/had a whole string of other hobbies. Mostly what happens is they either stop playing altogether because LIFE or stop talking on mic because buttholes. And it's not hard to drop a hobby with the welcoming parties we tend to get when we decide to be open and honest about our gender.

[Himu]

this page FINALLY the internet memes come!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

(not mine)

[Himu]

treesong your king metal dragon avatar isn't showing?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

treesong your king metal dragon avatar isn't showing?

I'll fix it later but tnx

[The Legend of Sunblade]

[Howard Alan Treesong]

[Joe Molotov]

[Hock]

stealin' our jerbs label

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I've seen this point being made all over the place and I just don't get it. Nobody messed with me for being into videogames in middle/high school, and I never saw it happening to any of my friends who were also really into games. I was super blatant about it too, I had gaming shirts, brought game magazines to school all the time, shit I even brought my PS2 once to play after school. I never got fucked with over that (I did for other, unrelated reasons), mainly because most of the school were playing games too. It was the 2000s. I'm 25 now, and I'm pretty sure a lot of these gamergate guys are younger than me, so I don't know where they are getting this "outcast" thing from. That's not to say that kids never get messed with for liking games, I just don't think it was as widespread as people like to say it was.

No comment on the cultural appropriation thing, because lol.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

[I'm a Puppy!]

OK ok, I take it back. Something good DID come from Gamergate.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Double penetration

[Human Snorenado]

OK ok, I take it back. Something good DID come from Gamergate.

Yeah, I've got Felicia Day's address and phone number!

(ok, bad joke, sorry. I'll go sit in the corner. I feel really bad for her.)

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/alqaeda/status/524985414973935616

[Shadow Mod]

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/526190314415849473

[TakingBackSunday]

"like alucard slayed the fucking nazis"

[I'm a Puppy!]

Alucard vs Nazis. I'd totally play that game

[benjipwns]

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First noted libertarian Chris Kluwe,  now this blatantly anarchist propaganda, what is going on in this thread?

[Tasty]

Isn't that an anime or something? Hellsing?

It's too close to Hellsing to be a coincidence imo. That's literally the plot of the manga.

[Great Rumbler]

I hope you're not trying to argue that our society isn't littered with some really terrible concepts of what constitutes "being a real man."

[Great Rumbler]

Case in point:

I am so sick and tired of everyone with their complaints about PTSD, depression. Everyone wants their hand held, and a check -- a government check. What are you, the only generation that had PTSD? The only generation that's depressed? I'm sick of it. I can't take the celebration of weakness and depression.

See, I was raised a little differently. I was raised to fight weakness. I was raised to fight pain. I was raised to fight depression. Not to give into it. Not to cave into it and cry like a little baby in bed. "Boo-hoo-hoo. Boo-hoo-hoo." Everyone has depression in their life. Everyone has sickness and sadness and disease. And loss of relatives. And loss of career. Everyone has depression in their life. But if the whole nation is told, "boo-hoo-hoo, come and get a medication, come and get treatment, talk about mental illness." You know what you wind up with? You wind up with Obama in the White House and liars in every phase of the government. That's what you wind up with. It's a weak, sick, nation. A weak, sick, broken nation. And you need men like me to save the country. You need men to stand up and say stop crying like a baby over everything. Stand up already. Stop telling me how sick you are and sad you are. Talk about the good things in your life.

When have you last heard that? Oh, everyone's holding their hand. "Oh, welcome to Good Morning America, sir. You almost committed suicide, how interesting. Please tell us your story." Maybe a young child who's on the edge can commit suicide. What a country. No wonder we're being laughed at around the world. No wonder ISIS can defeat our military. Take a look at that. Take a look at that, why people aren't even getting married anymore to have children. They don't even have the guts to raise a child. The men are so weak, and so narcissistic, all they want to do is have fun. Bunch of losers. Just go have a brewski and look at the 49ers, you idiot, you. They won't even get married, won't have a child, it takes too much of a man to do that. What a country. You're not a man, you're a dog. A dog raises babies better than most American men do.

[FoneBone]

breaking: JayDubs still so out of touch with reality as to believe Anita is anything resembling "radical" in her views

psychotic worldview  ... Nuttier than a fruitcake.

You would be the expert there.