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▶ TenNapel 03/07/15 Sat 20:48:46 ID b782fa No.2569899-2'A 929ー2589920 >>2gess32 >>25es 35-25e9944-2559949 )-25ess 52-5 9959 222 e 961-25ess2 2589973 My Christianity will not only clash with liberals, but will likely clash with everyone who reads this at some point. If you and I spend enough time together, and I dont care if you went to my church, you and I are going to clash at some point. So my bigger question with anyone about anything isn't "are we going to clash?" but "How are we going to treat each other when we do? If I disagree with a Mormon, and I do, then do I try to kill his career as a game dev? If I disagree with a Satanist, do I try to undermine his whole life as if he doesn't deserve to make a living off his craft? This is where the liberals in my life have acted really crummy... like bad liberals. And I'm far more liberal in how I treat them. That said, look at this group. Look at my audience. I have many, many LGBTs who read and love my work. Of course, the left says they're sock puppets but that's the left's job. I know my people and they treat me very well. So the damage the press or the industry has done to me is NOTHING compared to the benefit and love I've experienced from my audience. I'll swallow the left's hatred any day so long as I get to serve my audience. Really, it's insulting to me but it's not that hard once you get a thick skin. Many of you are learning that now.

▶ TenNapel 03/07/15 Sat 20:48:46 ID b782fa No.2569899-2'A 929ー2589920 >>2gess32 >>25es 35-25e9944-2559949 )-25ess 52-5 9959 222 e 961-25ess2 2589973 My Christianity will not only clash with liberals, but will likely clash with everyone who reads this at some point. If you and I spend enough time together, and I dont care if you went to my church, you and I are going to clash at some point. So my bigger question with anyone about anything isn't "are we going to clash?" but "How are we going to treat each other when we do? If I disagree with a Mormon, and I do, then do I try to kill his career as a game dev? If I disagree with a Satanist, do I try to undermine his whole life as if he doesn't deserve to make a living off his craft? This is where the liberals in my life have acted really crummy... like bad liberals. And I'm far more liberal in how I treat them. That said, look at this group. Look at my audience. I have many, many LGBTs who read and love my work. Of course, the left says they're sock puppets but that's the left's job. I know my people and they treat me very well. So the damage the press or the industry has done to me is NOTHING compared to the benefit and love I've experienced from my audience. I'll swallow the left's hatred any day so long as I get to serve my audience. Really, it's insulting to me but it's not that hard once you get a thick skin. Many of you are learning that now.

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Statement made by a gamedev on 8Chan

Ive a game dev over the past couple of years working for a company on a pretty big game with a substantial community you all have probably heard of. We have a presence at PAX East Though I'm not a woman myself, I sympathize with the women who made those quotes because I find myself in a similar situation of being afraid to speak up about something I care about, Gamergate and the fight against s----- games journalism. The difference is that they fear getting harassed online while I fear being ostracized by friends at work or, at worst, losing my job, especially since Im not that experienced outside of school and don't hold any clout at all. If you think about it, though, all of our fears stem from the same thing, games journalism perpetuating the idea that Gamergate (and gamers in general according to some people like Leigh Alexander) is the worst thing to have ever sprung from the internet Now I'm not sure whether or not the dangers to my employment are real, but it's just not something I want to risk. It's why I never comment on Gamergate outside of chans. Even before GG I barely use my reddit account pretty much only having it to express my critical views of OWS back when it was a thing, and I haven't even commented on r/KiA at all because I don't want that history following me, especially if I was to post on our game's subreddit as a known dev. And Id never consider ever participating on Twitter since the only point of it seems to be mobs arguing in 140-character bites and the fastest way to get actual harassers calling my employer Funny enough, even though Ive never seen anyone at work ever mention Gamergate since the early days of the Quinnspiracy when the TotalBiscuit thread on reddit got nuked (which was simply viewed as a peculiarity at the time), someone this week posted to our internal general chatroom the Yahoo! article on this very panel I was really worried for a moment. I thought that it was going to start up a conversation about how terrible Gamergate is. Id be forced to decide between staying silent and watch the misconception circulate within my own company of speak up and put myself at risk. Fortunately, nobody made a reply about the article with the chatroom moving along with other topics All in all, s--- sucks

Ive a game dev over the past couple of years working for a company on a pretty big game with a substantial community you all have probably heard of. We have a presence at PAX East Though I'm not a woman myself, I sympathize with the women who made those quotes because I find myself in a similar situation of being afraid to speak up about something I care about, Gamergate and the fight against s----- games journalism. The difference is that they fear getting harassed online while I fear being ostracized by friends at work or, at worst, losing my job, especially since Im not that experienced outside of school and don't hold any clout at all. If you think about it, though, all of our fears stem from the same thing, games journalism perpetuating the idea that Gamergate (and gamers in general according to some people like Leigh Alexander) is the worst thing to have ever sprung from the internet Now I'm not sure whether or not the dangers to my employment are real, but it's just not something I want to risk. It's why I never comment on Gamergate outside of chans. Even before GG I barely use my reddit account pretty much only having it to express my critical views of OWS back when it was a thing, and I haven't even commented on r/KiA at all because I don't want that history following me, especially if I was to post on our game's subreddit as a known dev. And Id never consider ever participating on Twitter since the only point of it seems to be mobs arguing in 140-character bites and the fastest way to get actual harassers calling my employer Funny enough, even though Ive never seen anyone at work ever mention Gamergate since the early days of the Quinnspiracy when the TotalBiscuit thread on reddit got nuked (which was simply viewed as a peculiarity at the time), someone this week posted to our internal general chatroom the Yahoo! article on this very panel I was really worried for a moment. I thought that it was going to start up a conversation about how terrible Gamergate is. Id be forced to decide between staying silent and watch the misconception circulate within my own company of speak up and put myself at risk. Fortunately, nobody made a reply about the article with the chatroom moving along with other topics All in all, s--- sucks

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About the speech Brianna Wu gave...

"I've had 48 death threats now in six months," Wu said in an interview Friday. "To stand up to GamerGate, that's my choice. I can't make that choice for the women I work with." But Wu made two public appearances at the convention, including a Friday night live edition of the gaming podcast Isometric. Even though the GamerGate controversy has made national headlines, Wu's appearance did not attract a large crowd. The podcast took place in a room designed to hold hundreds, but about 70 turned out. These included two plainclothes security workers, gruff and denim-clad, who cast suspicious eyes toward anybody who got near the stage.

"I've had 48 death threats now in six months," Wu said in an interview Friday. "To stand up to GamerGate, that's my choice. I can't make that choice for the women I work with." But Wu made two public appearances at the convention, including a Friday night live edition of the gaming podcast Isometric. Even though the GamerGate controversy has made national headlines, Wu's appearance did not attract a large crowd. The podcast took place in a room designed to hold hundreds, but about 70 turned out. These included two plainclothes security workers, gruff and denim-clad, who cast suspicious eyes toward anybody who got near the stage.

Conversation between a neutral Journalist and Anti-GG

Andrew Griffinandrew griffin 4h I wrote this piece, which has since been tweeted by @Glinner, carefully so that it didn't side with anything: twitter.com/Glinner/status.. Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 4h Not out of naive commitment to objectivity but from a sense that people can make up their own minds Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin -4h The joke, in my opinion, was clearly not worth getting outraged about. But the outrage was notable, not least because it trended here Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 4h Now @glinner and more tweeted as if I'm a GamerGater, or sympathetic. Would genuinely appreciate anyone's thoughts on if it looked that way Graham Linehan @Glinner 3h @_andrew_griffin you called them 'activists' and a 'community. Activists don't send SWAT teams to women's houses to terrorise them. Andrew Griffinandrew griffin 3h @Glinner I don't see activists as a morally-charged word. They're activists, for bad causes. Graham Linehan Glinner 3h @.andrew_griffin then present the facts and detail how #notyourshield started on 4chan as a smokescreen for abuse tinyurl.com/n7nt99z わロ★ Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin-3h @Glinner i said pretty much that. The went on to talk about sock puppets Maybe not enough but it's there Graham Linehan @Glinner Follow @_andrew_griffin rather than their doxxing, their SWAT-ing, their sending pics of dead babies to Quinm, Wu etc, then you ARE editorialising FAVORITE 9:47 AM-6 Mar 2015 Andrew Griffin_andrew griffin 2h @Glinner but that's not what this piece was about. We write about all of those things i100.independent.co.uk/article/meanwh.. Graham Linehan Glinner 2h @_andrew_griffin whatever, man. You added to the confusion with that particular piece and that's all I have to say about it Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin -2h @Glinner that's not all you had to say: you also insulted me to your 500k followers. But yes 'whatever get feeling you've made your mind up Graham Linehan @Glinner 2h @_andrew_griffin I didn't include your username and you should be thankful I didn't Andrew Griffin@_andrew griffin 2h @Glinner that sounds fairly menacing Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h _andrew griffin ha. Try being Zoe Quinn. My point is I could have tweeted yr username and I didn't because you would have had many more わ ★ Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h @_andrew_griffin than me telling you what a disaster that piece was. Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 1h @Glinner I'm not even going to bother with how crass your first sentence is. Re the rest: yes, I understood what you meant Andrew Griffin_andrew griffin 1h @Glinner and that's why it was threatening: "you should be thankful I went easy on you because I could have done more" is a threat Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h @_andrew_griffin again, try being Zoe Quinn if that's your threshold. You wouldn't last an hour under her circumstances. Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin 1h @Glinner this is so, so crass. I'm not engaging with it, sorry

Andrew Griffinandrew griffin 4h I wrote this piece, which has since been tweeted by @Glinner, carefully so that it didn't side with anything: twitter.com/Glinner/status.. Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 4h Not out of naive commitment to objectivity but from a sense that people can make up their own minds Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin -4h The joke, in my opinion, was clearly not worth getting outraged about. But the outrage was notable, not least because it trended here Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 4h Now @glinner and more tweeted as if I'm a GamerGater, or sympathetic. Would genuinely appreciate anyone's thoughts on if it looked that way Graham Linehan @Glinner 3h @_andrew_griffin you called them 'activists' and a 'community. Activists don't send SWAT teams to women's houses to terrorise them. Andrew Griffinandrew griffin 3h @Glinner I don't see activists as a morally-charged word. They're activists, for bad causes. Graham Linehan Glinner 3h @.andrew_griffin then present the facts and detail how #notyourshield started on 4chan as a smokescreen for abuse tinyurl.com/n7nt99z わロ★ Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin-3h @Glinner i said pretty much that. The went on to talk about sock puppets Maybe not enough but it's there Graham Linehan @Glinner Follow @_andrew_griffin rather than their doxxing, their SWAT-ing, their sending pics of dead babies to Quinm, Wu etc, then you ARE editorialising FAVORITE 9:47 AM-6 Mar 2015 Andrew Griffin_andrew griffin 2h @Glinner but that's not what this piece was about. We write about all of those things i100.independent.co.uk/article/meanwh.. Graham Linehan Glinner 2h @_andrew_griffin whatever, man. You added to the confusion with that particular piece and that's all I have to say about it Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin -2h @Glinner that's not all you had to say: you also insulted me to your 500k followers. But yes 'whatever get feeling you've made your mind up Graham Linehan @Glinner 2h @_andrew_griffin I didn't include your username and you should be thankful I didn't Andrew Griffin@_andrew griffin 2h @Glinner that sounds fairly menacing Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h _andrew griffin ha. Try being Zoe Quinn. My point is I could have tweeted yr username and I didn't because you would have had many more わ ★ Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h @_andrew_griffin than me telling you what a disaster that piece was. Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 1h @Glinner I'm not even going to bother with how crass your first sentence is. Re the rest: yes, I understood what you meant Andrew Griffin_andrew griffin 1h @Glinner and that's why it was threatening: "you should be thankful I went easy on you because I could have done more" is a threat Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h @_andrew_griffin again, try being Zoe Quinn if that's your threshold. You wouldn't last an hour under her circumstances. Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin 1h @Glinner this is so, so crass. I'm not engaging with it, sorry

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We don't have to support our claims, you white boy sockpuppet!

fartlebee @fartlebee 1h love videogames, but to identify as a Gamer at this point is about the same as saying you support attacking industry women #gamergate Traverse Town Zolom @tratowzolom @fartlebee How exactly are gamers attacking women? Honest question. Reply * Favorite More 10:33 AM-23 Sep 2014 Reply to @fartlebee fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom 13 tweet account asking for evidence of harassment in the industry yet again. It's been done. I don't need to prove it to you fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom look at this obvious sock account. Claiming a very specific identity just to derail critics lol fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom check out this account held by a white boy lol Traverse Town Zolom @tratowzolom 55m @fartlebee Really dude? pic.twitter.com。HIqripOi8。 Reply * Favorite More SQUARE CNIX

fartlebee @fartlebee 1h love videogames, but to identify as a Gamer at this point is about the same as saying you support attacking industry women #gamergate Traverse Town Zolom @tratowzolom @fartlebee How exactly are gamers attacking women? Honest question. Reply * Favorite More 10:33 AM-23 Sep 2014 Reply to @fartlebee fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom 13 tweet account asking for evidence of harassment in the industry yet again. It's been done. I don't need to prove it to you fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom look at this obvious sock account. Claiming a very specific identity just to derail critics lol fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom check out this account held by a white boy lol Traverse Town Zolom @tratowzolom 55m @fartlebee Really dude? pic.twitter.com。HIqripOi8。 Reply * Favorite More SQUARE CNIX

Marcus L. Crassus talked to people from EA

Marcus L. Crassus @BinaryBerserker Follow Met up with a couple game dev friends from EA Discussed #Gamergate Many support but don't speak due to SJW's causing people their jobs... RETWEETS FAVORITES 43 43 圃器盘個 8:11 AM-7 Mar 2015

Marcus L. Crassus @BinaryBerserker Follow Met up with a couple game dev friends from EA Discussed #Gamergate Many support but don't speak due to SJW's causing people their jobs... RETWEETS FAVORITES 43 43 圃器盘個 8:11 AM-7 Mar 2015

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/r/KotakuInAction wins "Subreddit of the Day" award

my odd my skill for writin writing a feature than the rest not going to make people happy. What it's understanding of what I feel and why I feel it. It's going to talk about the subreddit in question, r/kotakulnAction and why I feel it It's roughly written (outside of this introduction it was d subreddit foousing around senious discussion was one of the best. What made me better than my colleagues? My priority was on the people using the subreddit. My helped. If someone had a question, I answered it. I afforded everyone as much decency and respect as I would afford e other moderators there, this was a t was never about people, it was about the industry, Conventions, interviews, access, whatever. They relished what minor power being a moderator some internet forum had given them and did not think highly to being equal to those they moderated. They justified t with insults to these people, saying even that the users were idiots for not knowing every detail of every piece reddit. It made me sick. I had become the PR manager of the subreddit out of necessity, Nobody else could do the job n the first place. I'm happy the other mods didnt get put i that position, as these industry folks were the very people those mods insulted. Those people didn't deserve t When this #GamerGate stuff started there was a a rock and a hard place, but some of ideas of getting out of that position. Mine was that we treat it like any other news story: allow discussion and links but ban direct harassment and doxing. That was always the policy. Others wanted complete censorship. Obviously that's what they went with. I've always been a proponent for free speech and an opponent of censorship, If the reason that the articles and discussion were banned was out of legitimate concern for the community I would've been okay with that. I wasn't okay with censoring information out of personal bias, vendetta, and outright fabrications. I will never be okay with that. However, I wasnt in a position to fight it. GamerGate was a very small thing back then, and I thought it would blow over thread dedicated to a quite neutral opinion on the topic, and further banning users involved in pro-GamerGate with this. A moderat information about censorship, administrator involvement, stuff like that. It was several pages. Immediately after it posting I was accused of being the leak. During and after reading through it I posted various inaccuracies that shot some holes in that theory; I a noticeable lack of information from private sources being chief among them. It didn't sway the person who first accused me. He was adamant, Insistent even, that I was the only one it could be. His evidence? I was strongly anti- o indeed swear quite a bit I am indeed anti-censorship, but even to the others this was shaky reasoning. I started investigating and came believe it was someone who could access one but not the other. My original guess was an IRC global operator who could spy on channels without us knowing, but that went nowhere because they promised it wasn't any of them after the accuser asked their friend on the staff. My second guess was a former moderator who had access to our IRC room (and idled often in there) but not to our modmail. This moderator left the mod team after very vocal opinions on the subjects of social justice, equality, and related topics became too much for him. He could not argue for these ideas with our users and remain a moderator, so he resigned. I respect him for that. I respected him for a lot of things. I suspected this moderator of doing so because outside of the snoonet operators and outside of the accuser himself nobody else came close to possibly doing it. I shared these thoughts with another moderator, and he thought the same. Still, it was only some hours later before the accuser successfully banned me from the subreddit, IRC, and back At first I was distraught. I made a statement expressing disbelief, and it took me a whole day before it really sunk in. Even the other moderators couldn't believe it. Still, there it was. I was even more shocked to see the characte assassination and direct attacks against me. Reddit employees were calling me out publicly. This is to be expected, of course. The correct thing to do is to lie down and take it. To think that your position as a moderator on reddit would mean enough that you wouldn't dare go up against those accusations. If you do nothing you can be a mod somewhere else, get back to the table, and everything is fine. If you stand up for yourself, though? They will come at you with everything they've got. They thought they knew me when I was a moderator there. I didn't like to make waves if I could avold it and I didn't like causing anyone trouble. I was nice to everyone, including them, and they thought I was man defends himselt from those that do wrong, and a brave man is exactly what Mr. and Mrs. Mendel raised. When I happened. I hugged a friend (in a completely innocent way, being asexual and all), and she seemed a bit scared. I was physically much, much bigger than her and it intimidated her. I wasn't at all aware of it because I take it for granted, but it made me rethink how I handle myself. The same thing happened when I defended myself. I did it too well, and it came off as a major attack against them. My strategy was simple: tell the truth. You'd be surprised how much a liar to And they did do anything and everything, for a while at least. Harassment, lies, threats, Isolation, they did all and more and it didn't work. I made it clear: every time they attacked me I would delend myself from it. They tell a lie, I tell the truth. It's amazing what sort of a shield that is. Eventually they come to fear you and the things you might say. I got tired of the back and forth and threatened once for myself: Attack again and I'll release everything know You see, I'm meticulous and slightly forgetful. I take notes, record things, and track information in order to keep it all in my head. I do it for everything: TV shows, movie series, the works, of course I did this with reddit as well. I never intended for it to be used for anything more than reminding myself of what mod sald what or what account belongs to fears a drop of truth cowers under the fear of a flood. It kept me safe for a while. of course, that only bothered the Last year I worked in education teaching programming to college students as an adjunct. The pay was bad but I loved much for and was a lang. However, someone changed that. A former friend found out about the things I was doing online: y that I care ption, and fighting for tr shut me up they should take my job. They contacted my employer and wove a tale that was sure to get my fired. him I was a keep my job, but with such a record there was no way I could've stayed. Even if I stayed I was already gone. I haven't spoken to that friend much since, only through the occasional email he sends me asking me to reconsider my positions year ago I was a person who loved video games. I was a gamer who loved talking about games so much that I happy. I can't say for certain. It's hard to remember what the light felt like when you live your life huddled in the harassment and sexism. 1 support women and minorities in STEM (and taught and worked beside many), and 1 hate the idea of old bays clubs". Do I support LGBT rights? People tend to forget that asexuals are a part of that "LGBT the chance anyone can be incredible. The idea that because I support GamerGate I must not support these things i transparency and honesty when their make the decision to support GamerGate. Its opposition pushed me into them and I accepted their kindness. I would've supported the other side if GamerGate had been the bad one, but that wasn't the case. It still isn't the what is GamerGate to me? What is KotakuInAction, GamerGate's reddit hub? I wasn't as evil and worthless as others were calling me. It's the idea that I am not a monster simply for pissing off a angry forum moderat a waste, and that care. Most GamerGate is the confirmation that my dreams of ethical behavior are right. That amid a crowd of hundreds who call m wrong, there are thousands more who support me, we forget sometimes about the silent majority, and for a long time I forget they existed. They're here now, and they helped me a great deal. They saw the people wishing I would stop talking and said "Nol Speak your mind! They saw the people wishing me dead and said "No! They're wrong about youl They saw the people hating me, and lying about me, and scheming to take me down, and they said "No. Come with us and we'll see that justice is served. I needed to hear those words, and they said them. For a Subreddit of the Day post this is a bit unorthodox. I could have done an artidle filled with citations to different artidles and links to different fact sheets but I didn't. That isn't what I'm about.I wanted to tell you why I believe that tell you why I am willing to take the increased harassment for talking about this. I am willing to do it because I upbringing. From a rotting vacant in Pittsburgh to a cheap house in Tampa, my beliefs have been impacted wouldn't wish on anyone, and I've experienced joy I hope all people get to experience. I've been a stock boy, a bunger Through all my thirty years of life I have kept one thing in mind: I am a product of Earth and nothing more. I am n A person's belilefs are not determined by whoever yells at them the loudest. My beliefs represent my courage, and I anyone tell me I'm worthless. Someone told me recently that I'm unlikable as a human being. They were wrong. Deep down I believe we're all great, wonderful people. Some lose their way now and again, and that's fine so long as they can find it. I take a lot of flak for saying this, more so than I could ever understand given the subject, but I'l say it again: You're awesome, all of you, and I'm glad to help you in any way I can. this. Not only was finally writing this all down helpful for informing those who were ( also my head and onto a page. ago I was hovering over the submit button for suicidewatch, thinking to myself, "oh Xavier, how far must you sink t Thank you again for reading. Now, finally, it's time to hear from the mods of /r/KotakutnAction. In particular I'm going e talking to one mod who has been nothing but kind to me, so let's give him a warm welcome. the I play video games and talk about t ota e, but it's also for talking about general issues the video game, etc sum practices in games journalism. It deals with issues of nepotism, collusion between competing publications spinning the news for certain people/topics, among others. It's the culmination of years of gamers distrusting the rters and detractors believe what they We're invested in video games, to see them abuse their status to benefit or damage people or games. As for GamerGate's detractors, I think it's a combination of seeing the worst of the Internet that's been associated with GamerGate, and a belief that we're t and sexism that has been attributed GamerGate supporters, most notably by major media outlets. I think a o really communicate with one another. Both sides are looking for ways to discredit major figures on either end the spectrum, and being able to have a productive conversation about these issues has become impossible. Attempts have been made before, but were seen as "fraternizing with the enemy," which further keeps a e anything else you would like to s u/TheHat2 The people on KIA truly beleve that GamerGate is a cause worth fighting for. we feel we've been There you have it. Hat has been a helpful person to me for the past year. He's kept me in the loop, given me a place to talk about what's been going on, and he's introduced me to an audience that is dying to hear about it. Imagine that, people actually wanting to hear me talk. Hilarious. Be sure to check out /r/KotakuInAction if you're interested in This has been your fortune, Xavier Mendel, signing As an aside, today is also my 31st birthday. Feel free to send milkshakes. Party at my house, and you're all invited

my odd my skill for writin writing a feature than the rest not going to make people happy. What it's understanding of what I feel and why I feel it. It's going to talk about the subreddit in question, r/kotakulnAction and why I feel it It's roughly written (outside of this introduction it was d subreddit foousing around senious discussion was one of the best. What made me better than my colleagues? My priority was on the people using the subreddit. My helped. If someone had a question, I answered it. I afforded everyone as much decency and respect as I would afford e other moderators there, this was a t was never about people, it was about the industry, Conventions, interviews, access, whatever. They relished what minor power being a moderator some internet forum had given them and did not think highly to being equal to those they moderated. They justified t with insults to these people, saying even that the users were idiots for not knowing every detail of every piece reddit. It made me sick. I had become the PR manager of the subreddit out of necessity, Nobody else could do the job n the first place. I'm happy the other mods didnt get put i that position, as these industry folks were the very people those mods insulted. Those people didn't deserve t When this #GamerGate stuff started there was a a rock and a hard place, but some of ideas of getting out of that position. Mine was that we treat it like any other news story: allow discussion and links but ban direct harassment and doxing. That was always the policy. Others wanted complete censorship. Obviously that's what they went with. I've always been a proponent for free speech and an opponent of censorship, If the reason that the articles and discussion were banned was out of legitimate concern for the community I would've been okay with that. I wasn't okay with censoring information out of personal bias, vendetta, and outright fabrications. I will never be okay with that. However, I wasnt in a position to fight it. GamerGate was a very small thing back then, and I thought it would blow over thread dedicated to a quite neutral opinion on the topic, and further banning users involved in pro-GamerGate with this. A moderat information about censorship, administrator involvement, stuff like that. It was several pages. Immediately after it posting I was accused of being the leak. During and after reading through it I posted various inaccuracies that shot some holes in that theory; I a noticeable lack of information from private sources being chief among them. It didn't sway the person who first accused me. He was adamant, Insistent even, that I was the only one it could be. His evidence? I was strongly anti- o indeed swear quite a bit I am indeed anti-censorship, but even to the others this was shaky reasoning. I started investigating and came believe it was someone who could access one but not the other. My original guess was an IRC global operator who could spy on channels without us knowing, but that went nowhere because they promised it wasn't any of them after the accuser asked their friend on the staff. My second guess was a former moderator who had access to our IRC room (and idled often in there) but not to our modmail. This moderator left the mod team after very vocal opinions on the subjects of social justice, equality, and related topics became too much for him. He could not argue for these ideas with our users and remain a moderator, so he resigned. I respect him for that. I respected him for a lot of things. I suspected this moderator of doing so because outside of the snoonet operators and outside of the accuser himself nobody else came close to possibly doing it. I shared these thoughts with another moderator, and he thought the same. Still, it was only some hours later before the accuser successfully banned me from the subreddit, IRC, and back At first I was distraught. I made a statement expressing disbelief, and it took me a whole day before it really sunk in. Even the other moderators couldn't believe it. Still, there it was. I was even more shocked to see the characte assassination and direct attacks against me. Reddit employees were calling me out publicly. This is to be expected, of course. The correct thing to do is to lie down and take it. To think that your position as a moderator on reddit would mean enough that you wouldn't dare go up against those accusations. If you do nothing you can be a mod somewhere else, get back to the table, and everything is fine. If you stand up for yourself, though? They will come at you with everything they've got. They thought they knew me when I was a moderator there. I didn't like to make waves if I could avold it and I didn't like causing anyone trouble. I was nice to everyone, including them, and they thought I was man defends himselt from those that do wrong, and a brave man is exactly what Mr. and Mrs. Mendel raised. When I happened. I hugged a friend (in a completely innocent way, being asexual and all), and she seemed a bit scared. I was physically much, much bigger than her and it intimidated her. I wasn't at all aware of it because I take it for granted, but it made me rethink how I handle myself. The same thing happened when I defended myself. I did it too well, and it came off as a major attack against them. My strategy was simple: tell the truth. You'd be surprised how much a liar to And they did do anything and everything, for a while at least. Harassment, lies, threats, Isolation, they did all and more and it didn't work. I made it clear: every time they attacked me I would delend myself from it. They tell a lie, I tell the truth. It's amazing what sort of a shield that is. Eventually they come to fear you and the things you might say. I got tired of the back and forth and threatened once for myself: Attack again and I'll release everything know You see, I'm meticulous and slightly forgetful. I take notes, record things, and track information in order to keep it all in my head. I do it for everything: TV shows, movie series, the works, of course I did this with reddit as well. I never intended for it to be used for anything more than reminding myself of what mod sald what or what account belongs to fears a drop of truth cowers under the fear of a flood. It kept me safe for a while. of course, that only bothered the Last year I worked in education teaching programming to college students as an adjunct. The pay was bad but I loved much for and was a lang. However, someone changed that. A former friend found out about the things I was doing online: y that I care ption, and fighting for tr shut me up they should take my job. They contacted my employer and wove a tale that was sure to get my fired. him I was a keep my job, but with such a record there was no way I could've stayed. Even if I stayed I was already gone. I haven't spoken to that friend much since, only through the occasional email he sends me asking me to reconsider my positions year ago I was a person who loved video games. I was a gamer who loved talking about games so much that I happy. I can't say for certain. It's hard to remember what the light felt like when you live your life huddled in the harassment and sexism. 1 support women and minorities in STEM (and taught and worked beside many), and 1 hate the idea of old bays clubs". Do I support LGBT rights? People tend to forget that asexuals are a part of that "LGBT the chance anyone can be incredible. The idea that because I support GamerGate I must not support these things i transparency and honesty when their make the decision to support GamerGate. Its opposition pushed me into them and I accepted their kindness. I would've supported the other side if GamerGate had been the bad one, but that wasn't the case. It still isn't the what is GamerGate to me? What is KotakuInAction, GamerGate's reddit hub? I wasn't as evil and worthless as others were calling me. It's the idea that I am not a monster simply for pissing off a angry forum moderat a waste, and that care. Most GamerGate is the confirmation that my dreams of ethical behavior are right. That amid a crowd of hundreds who call m wrong, there are thousands more who support me, we forget sometimes about the silent majority, and for a long time I forget they existed. They're here now, and they helped me a great deal. They saw the people wishing I would stop talking and said "Nol Speak your mind! They saw the people wishing me dead and said "No! They're wrong about youl They saw the people hating me, and lying about me, and scheming to take me down, and they said "No. Come with us and we'll see that justice is served. I needed to hear those words, and they said them. For a Subreddit of the Day post this is a bit unorthodox. I could have done an artidle filled with citations to different artidles and links to different fact sheets but I didn't. That isn't what I'm about.I wanted to tell you why I believe that tell you why I am willing to take the increased harassment for talking about this. I am willing to do it because I upbringing. From a rotting vacant in Pittsburgh to a cheap house in Tampa, my beliefs have been impacted wouldn't wish on anyone, and I've experienced joy I hope all people get to experience. I've been a stock boy, a bunger Through all my thirty years of life I have kept one thing in mind: I am a product of Earth and nothing more. I am n A person's belilefs are not determined by whoever yells at them the loudest. My beliefs represent my courage, and I anyone tell me I'm worthless. Someone told me recently that I'm unlikable as a human being. They were wrong. Deep down I believe we're all great, wonderful people. Some lose their way now and again, and that's fine so long as they can find it. I take a lot of flak for saying this, more so than I could ever understand given the subject, but I'l say it again: You're awesome, all of you, and I'm glad to help you in any way I can. this. Not only was finally writing this all down helpful for informing those who were ( also my head and onto a page. ago I was hovering over the submit button for suicidewatch, thinking to myself, "oh Xavier, how far must you sink t Thank you again for reading. Now, finally, it's time to hear from the mods of /r/KotakutnAction. In particular I'm going e talking to one mod who has been nothing but kind to me, so let's give him a warm welcome. the I play video games and talk about t ota e, but it's also for talking about general issues the video game, etc sum practices in games journalism. It deals with issues of nepotism, collusion between competing publications spinning the news for certain people/topics, among others. It's the culmination of years of gamers distrusting the rters and detractors believe what they We're invested in video games, to see them abuse their status to benefit or damage people or games. As for GamerGate's detractors, I think it's a combination of seeing the worst of the Internet that's been associated with GamerGate, and a belief that we're t and sexism that has been attributed GamerGate supporters, most notably by major media outlets. I think a o really communicate with one another. Both sides are looking for ways to discredit major figures on either end the spectrum, and being able to have a productive conversation about these issues has become impossible. Attempts have been made before, but were seen as "fraternizing with the enemy," which further keeps a e anything else you would like to s u/TheHat2 The people on KIA truly beleve that GamerGate is a cause worth fighting for. we feel we've been There you have it. Hat has been a helpful person to me for the past year. He's kept me in the loop, given me a place to talk about what's been going on, and he's introduced me to an audience that is dying to hear about it. Imagine that, people actually wanting to hear me talk. Hilarious. Be sure to check out /r/KotakuInAction if you're interested in This has been your fortune, Xavier Mendel, signing As an aside, today is also my 31st birthday. Feel free to send milkshakes. Party at my house, and you're all invited

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The GG Hunger Games.

IKE A BOSS The GG Hunger Games SHILL WARNING a and Shill tell stories about themselves to each other. Christina Sommers goes on a rampage, illing Faith and Fillet of Fish. 60's Spiderman strangles Kotaku with a rope. Vivian James and SJW huddle for warmth Troll discovers Mainstream Media and Shill tell stories about themselves to each other LW2 screams for help SJW dies of dysentery Polygon begs for sJw to kill him. He refuses, keeping Polygon alive Mainstream Media shoots a poisonous blow dart into TotalBiscuit's neck, slowly killing him Faith overpowers Joshi sh, killing him. ON北 LW screams for help White Knight, LW2, and Radical Feminism work together to get as many supplies as possible. Mainstream Media is awoken by nightmares Christina Sommers dies trying to escape the arena LW2 diverts Joshintosh's attention and runs away. LW2 and SJW run into each other and decide to truce for the night. Joshintosh shoots an arrow at Faith, but misses and kills Vivian James instead Radical Feminism injures herself IKE A BOSS NEVER ENGR White Knight, Kotaku, and Fillet of Fish turn on LW, killing her. White Knight begs for Fillet of Fish to kill him. He reluctantly obliges, killing White Knight. Fillet of Fish is stung to death Mr Bones sets an explosive off, killing 60's Spiderman. TR sJW decapitates Radical Feminism with a sword LW2 and LWu tell stories about themselves to each other Techraptor and Mr Bones fight for a bag. Techraptor gives up and retreats Radical Feminism begs for Kotaku to kill her. He refuses, keeping Radical Feminism alive WARNING CW Kota and LWu huddle for warmt h forces Fillet of Fish to kill Elizabth He decides to kill Adam Baldwin spears SJW in his abdomen Shill, Ma am Media, and Radical Feminism search the arena togethe r tributes ON北 Adam Baldwin attempts to climb a tree, but falls to his death not dle the circumstances and commits suicide Vi ames is awoken by nightmares Ma Media defeats Ice-T in a fight, but spares his life. Pi CNN北 Mr Bo njures himself Radical Feminism shoots a poisonous b am Media's neck, slowly killing him Radical Feminism kills LWu Fillet of Fish begs for Mainstream Media to kill him. He reluctantly obliges, killing Fillet of F ish. Mil opo attempts to climb a tree, but falls to his h falls into a frozen lake and drowns ries herse ce-T begs for Radical Feminism to kill him. She refuses, keeping Ice-Talive Escapist dies trying to escape the aren Radical Feminism bleeds out d to untreated injuries Radical Feminism LW2 work together to drown Vi GG Hunger Games sh ats Vivi ame s in a fight, but spares her life. The Winner lls int frozen lake r is Mr Bones from District 12

IKE A BOSS The GG Hunger Games SHILL WARNING a and Shill tell stories about themselves to each other. Christina Sommers goes on a rampage, illing Faith and Fillet of Fish. 60's Spiderman strangles Kotaku with a rope. Vivian James and SJW huddle for warmth Troll discovers Mainstream Media and Shill tell stories about themselves to each other LW2 screams for help SJW dies of dysentery Polygon begs for sJw to kill him. He refuses, keeping Polygon alive Mainstream Media shoots a poisonous blow dart into TotalBiscuit's neck, slowly killing him Faith overpowers Joshi sh, killing him. ON北 LW screams for help White Knight, LW2, and Radical Feminism work together to get as many supplies as possible. Mainstream Media is awoken by nightmares Christina Sommers dies trying to escape the arena LW2 diverts Joshintosh's attention and runs away. LW2 and SJW run into each other and decide to truce for the night. Joshintosh shoots an arrow at Faith, but misses and kills Vivian James instead Radical Feminism injures herself IKE A BOSS NEVER ENGR White Knight, Kotaku, and Fillet of Fish turn on LW, killing her. White Knight begs for Fillet of Fish to kill him. He reluctantly obliges, killing White Knight. Fillet of Fish is stung to death Mr Bones sets an explosive off, killing 60's Spiderman. TR sJW decapitates Radical Feminism with a sword LW2 and LWu tell stories about themselves to each other Techraptor and Mr Bones fight for a bag. Techraptor gives up and retreats Radical Feminism begs for Kotaku to kill her. He refuses, keeping Radical Feminism alive WARNING CW Kota and LWu huddle for warmt h forces Fillet of Fish to kill Elizabth He decides to kill Adam Baldwin spears SJW in his abdomen Shill, Ma am Media, and Radical Feminism search the arena togethe r tributes ON北 Adam Baldwin attempts to climb a tree, but falls to his death not dle the circumstances and commits suicide Vi ames is awoken by nightmares Ma Media defeats Ice-T in a fight, but spares his life. Pi CNN北 Mr Bo njures himself Radical Feminism shoots a poisonous b am Media's neck, slowly killing him Radical Feminism kills LWu Fillet of Fish begs for Mainstream Media to kill him. He reluctantly obliges, killing Fillet of F ish. Mil opo attempts to climb a tree, but falls to his h falls into a frozen lake and drowns ries herse ce-T begs for Radical Feminism to kill him. She refuses, keeping Ice-Talive Escapist dies trying to escape the aren Radical Feminism bleeds out d to untreated injuries Radical Feminism LW2 work together to drown Vi GG Hunger Games sh ats Vivi ame s in a fight, but spares her life. The Winner lls int frozen lake r is Mr Bones from District 12

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Out of the game

Out of the game Anti-Consumer media personalities losing their position in the last six months “Gamers are dead" Non-journalists technica GAMASUTRA 囡gearbox ars 4chan Casey Johnston The death of "Gamers and the women who "killed" themm Leigh Alexander Gamers are over That's why theyre so mad Theyre not my audience. Moot Anthony Burch Even if youre interested egarding a perceived in "corruption", GamerGate is censorship- many seem to misinterpret [me] based on harassment Reformed/ Improving sites ◇ IGN the scapist Colin Moriarty [Gamers' disliking DLC] culminates in a huge problem, that is: entitlement Bob Chipman There is (almost) no such thing as bad tactics, only bad torgets Greg Tito We published the story on little more than her word Jim Sterling Oh and f--- that Escapist article giving a platfornm to madmen

Out of the game Anti-Consumer media personalities losing their position in the last six months “Gamers are dead" Non-journalists technica GAMASUTRA 囡gearbox ars 4chan Casey Johnston The death of "Gamers and the women who "killed" themm Leigh Alexander Gamers are over That's why theyre so mad Theyre not my audience. Moot Anthony Burch Even if youre interested egarding a perceived in "corruption", GamerGate is censorship- many seem to misinterpret [me] based on harassment Reformed/ Improving sites ◇ IGN the scapist Colin Moriarty [Gamers' disliking DLC] culminates in a huge problem, that is: entitlement Bob Chipman There is (almost) no such thing as bad tactics, only bad torgets Greg Tito We published the story on little more than her word Jim Sterling Oh and f--- that Escapist article giving a platfornm to madmen

Doug Tennapel is neutral. This is aGG's response.

anyprophet @anyprophet Mar 6 I always forget that doug tennapel is a p------------ and it makes me sad when I'm reminded of it. わt31 ★ Celtic Kazenzakis @CelticSteelNY-Mar 6 Doug TenNapel is a shitlord. new Spacedad @SuperSpacedad Mar6 @Themiscyra a_man_in_black I backed Amikrog Doug didn't waste any time making me regret that: mostly- retro.com/2013/06/02/on-. わ ★ View conversation I_This_Every Day@davidsgallant Mar 6 BTW, Doug TenNapel still has yet to purchase the ten copies of IGTCED he claimed he would do out of spite. Good job showing me how it's done 398989898989898989 @prahanormal -Mar hahaha of course Doug TenNapel supports notyourshield. Boy gamergate sure an ilutrious pool of supporters わ t31 ★2

anyprophet @anyprophet Mar 6 I always forget that doug tennapel is a p------------ and it makes me sad when I'm reminded of it. わt31 ★ Celtic Kazenzakis @CelticSteelNY-Mar 6 Doug TenNapel is a shitlord. new Spacedad @SuperSpacedad Mar6 @Themiscyra a_man_in_black I backed Amikrog Doug didn't waste any time making me regret that: mostly- retro.com/2013/06/02/on-. わ ★ View conversation I_This_Every Day@davidsgallant Mar 6 BTW, Doug TenNapel still has yet to purchase the ten copies of IGTCED he claimed he would do out of spite. Good job showing me how it's done 398989898989898989 @prahanormal -Mar hahaha of course Doug TenNapel supports notyourshield. Boy gamergate sure an ilutrious pool of supporters わ t31 ★2

Are you smarter than Tim Schafer?

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He's going all out!

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So someone made this.

Narrative transport is optimally achieved by triggering extreme cognitive dissonance in the target audience prior to the introduction of the catalyst which brings about the desired outcome. For months, I pretended to be an opponent of #GamerGate A in order to present its supporters with a strawman caricature of its opposing ideology, thus stimulating their growth as they joined in solidarity against the absurd narratives employed by their actual opponents. #GAMERGATE IS GREAT! Jonathan Mclntosh

Narrative transport is optimally achieved by triggering extreme cognitive dissonance in the target audience prior to the introduction of the catalyst which brings about the desired outcome. For months, I pretended to be an opponent of #GamerGate A in order to present its supporters with a strawman caricature of its opposing ideology, thus stimulating their growth as they joined in solidarity against the absurd narratives employed by their actual opponents. #GAMERGATE IS GREAT! Jonathan Mclntosh

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Matt Lees On Him And His Big Mouth

After Matt Lees @Jam sponge Follow Boycott Matt Lees @Jam sponge Boycott Following #gamergate If the banner you sit beneath is defined by hating games journalists, there's f you don't like someone's opinions, don't nothing to be won. Just boycott those sites. Done read them. But going out of your way to try stop them from being published is censorship Reply t3 Retweet ★ Reply t규 Retweet * Favorite More RETWEETS FAVORITES 23 28 RETWEETS FAVORITES 12 28 7:02 AM-31 Aug 2014 4:20 PM-1 Oct 2014

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Worst Person in the World

WORLD'S Worst Worse Worser Worst #GamerGate

WORLD'S Worst Worse Worser Worst #GamerGate

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The lie anti-GG tells themselves about why they fight

曰 Leader 03/06/15 (Fri) 21:20:45 ID: 23b8b1 No.447024 Match Thread > "Ooooh, I get it now. I'm not persecuted. I'm just an a------!" If you ever find yourself wondering "will these terrible people ever admit they were wrong?", or will they ever admit you persuaded them... don't bother This isn't about what Anti-GG believes anymore. This is about how they think HISTORY will remember them. This is about committing any act they deem necessary to help THE CAUSE, because they believe The Cause is more important than anything they do or have done These bad people doing bad things will say to themselves "Yes, I did bad things to innocent people. but I can't stop now. If I do, that would be admitting I was wrong, and THE CAUSE is more important than me. can't let my actions unfairly harm THE CAUSE. This is my burden now. My sacrifice for a greater good. Every war has innocent victims/collateral damage...bu if we win, it will all be worth it! No one will remember the names of the people who got hurt or the bad things I did, but EVERYONE will be living in a better world!" And even their friends and supporters will think this way. They will continue to defend their Anti-GG figureheads and friends and smear the whistleblowers and critics, because "Yes this person did a horrible thing and acted a horrible way and are doing horrible things right now and are causing great harm to the industry. but THE CAUSE is more important than any one person. We can't permit The Cause's reputation to be tarnished. We have to keep up appearances. Behind closed doors, perhaps we can deal with this quietly, but to the outside world we must defend this person to the death, because The Cause must be withstand any storm!" Chosing party loyalty over doing what's right isn't new. You yourself are guilty of this. In the past, did you ever chose sides in the Nintendo/Sega war? Playstation/Dreamcast? Playstation/Xbox? PC/consoles? How many times did you think "Damn, that game actually looks fun... but I can't play it It belongs to the enemy, and I must be strong! It's s---, I know it is!" Or "That game is overhyped and everyone loves it. but I can't play it, because I'm too hip and cool to play pleb trash. But... gee, it looks like fun... NO! I must be strong! I'm better than everyone else! I AM!" SJW figureheads will NEVER admit they were wrong. The Cause is now more important than them, and True Believers MUST protect The Cause for THE GREATER GOOD. When people started saying publically they were molested/r---- by catholic priests, they were attacked viciously and without mercy (remember America's reaction to Sinead o'Connor?) NOT because the average church-goer approved of p--- priests, but because The Church had to remain strong, and the good it does can and must stand, even over the broken bones of children. And besides, in their hearts, they knew. THEY KNEW... that the accusers were just hateful and malicious and trying to bring down a good thing. And even when the evidence is insurmountable and cannot be ignored, True Believers MUST conceal any wrongs and are "forced" to keep doing terrible things and attack innocent people, because The Cause is more important than them AND us

曰 Leader 03/06/15 (Fri) 21:20:45 ID: 23b8b1 No.447024 Match Thread > "Ooooh, I get it now. I'm not persecuted. I'm just an a------!" If you ever find yourself wondering "will these terrible people ever admit they were wrong?", or will they ever admit you persuaded them... don't bother This isn't about what Anti-GG believes anymore. This is about how they think HISTORY will remember them. This is about committing any act they deem necessary to help THE CAUSE, because they believe The Cause is more important than anything they do or have done These bad people doing bad things will say to themselves "Yes, I did bad things to innocent people. but I can't stop now. If I do, that would be admitting I was wrong, and THE CAUSE is more important than me. can't let my actions unfairly harm THE CAUSE. This is my burden now. My sacrifice for a greater good. Every war has innocent victims/collateral damage...bu if we win, it will all be worth it! No one will remember the names of the people who got hurt or the bad things I did, but EVERYONE will be living in a better world!" And even their friends and supporters will think this way. They will continue to defend their Anti-GG figureheads and friends and smear the whistleblowers and critics, because "Yes this person did a horrible thing and acted a horrible way and are doing horrible things right now and are causing great harm to the industry. but THE CAUSE is more important than any one person. We can't permit The Cause's reputation to be tarnished. We have to keep up appearances. Behind closed doors, perhaps we can deal with this quietly, but to the outside world we must defend this person to the death, because The Cause must be withstand any storm!" Chosing party loyalty over doing what's right isn't new. You yourself are guilty of this. In the past, did you ever chose sides in the Nintendo/Sega war? Playstation/Dreamcast? Playstation/Xbox? PC/consoles? How many times did you think "Damn, that game actually looks fun... but I can't play it It belongs to the enemy, and I must be strong! It's s---, I know it is!" Or "That game is overhyped and everyone loves it. but I can't play it, because I'm too hip and cool to play pleb trash. But... gee, it looks like fun... NO! I must be strong! I'm better than everyone else! I AM!" SJW figureheads will NEVER admit they were wrong. The Cause is now more important than them, and True Believers MUST protect The Cause for THE GREATER GOOD. When people started saying publically they were molested/r---- by catholic priests, they were attacked viciously and without mercy (remember America's reaction to Sinead o'Connor?) NOT because the average church-goer approved of p--- priests, but because The Church had to remain strong, and the good it does can and must stand, even over the broken bones of children. And besides, in their hearts, they knew. THEY KNEW... that the accusers were just hateful and malicious and trying to bring down a good thing. And even when the evidence is insurmountable and cannot be ignored, True Believers MUST conceal any wrongs and are "forced" to keep doing terrible things and attack innocent people, because The Cause is more important than them AND us

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WOC In Tech Harassed Into Silence By AntiGamer

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Wil Wheaton gets VA role in Codename STEAM, NintendoLife commentor's reactions to Gamergate

Quorthon said: #79 @TheWPC Traveler Come on, man, that movement was complete and utter crap from the get-go. It claimed it was about journalistic integrity, then did absolutely nothing about journalistic integrity (aside from aligning with journalists with the least amount of integrity) and spent all of it's time attacking women. Again, white supremacists and InfoWars. Honestly, if you don't trust reality and rationality, but would choose to align with something like InfoWars-a place that has never uttered a sane thought-l feel sad for you. One should never choose to believe nonsense instead of facts. The very notion that Nazis, InfoWars, and child p--- have become a part of gamergate should turn off any self-respecting human being. I can barely imagine a worse grouping of zealots. That's sad. We should be better than this. Outside of this post, I'm not going to talk anymore about the trash heap that became gamergate. It is petty, pathetic misogyny defined and coupled by the worst of humanity. That anyone could defend that movement is as surprising to me that anyone would defend the actions of Jim Jones or John Wayne Gacy or Osama bin Laden. Or that guy that was r----- kids for the LDS church. The most vile, contemptible sort of human "creature" imaginable. Gamergate was a movement that had literally nothing good in it. 7 hours ago

Quorthon said: #79 @TheWPC Traveler Come on, man, that movement was complete and utter crap from the get-go. It claimed it was about journalistic integrity, then did absolutely nothing about journalistic integrity (aside from aligning with journalists with the least amount of integrity) and spent all of it's time attacking women. Again, white supremacists and InfoWars. Honestly, if you don't trust reality and rationality, but would choose to align with something like InfoWars-a place that has never uttered a sane thought-l feel sad for you. One should never choose to believe nonsense instead of facts. The very notion that Nazis, InfoWars, and child p--- have become a part of gamergate should turn off any self-respecting human being. I can barely imagine a worse grouping of zealots. That's sad. We should be better than this. Outside of this post, I'm not going to talk anymore about the trash heap that became gamergate. It is petty, pathetic misogyny defined and coupled by the worst of humanity. That anyone could defend that movement is as surprising to me that anyone would defend the actions of Jim Jones or John Wayne Gacy or Osama bin Laden. Or that guy that was r----- kids for the LDS church. The most vile, contemptible sort of human "creature" imaginable. Gamergate was a movement that had literally nothing good in it. 7 hours ago

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