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EviLor Expansive Ellipses (09-10-2014, 12:19 PM) Quote #3155 After this #gamergate mob has continued its crusade, against NeoGAF in particular-for attempting to be socially progressive and for banning some of the hateful #gamergate proponents-l threw out some (crass, of course, I love it) tweets toward the movement in response, and have since been met with harassment, hate speech, and doxing attempts To be clear, this is a movement with no real discernible agenda other than hate and harassment, stemming from disdain toward the idea of social equality And its main weapon seems to be, hilariously, throwing back all of those terms at its "oppressors." Socially progressive website like RPS that has tried to expose and tackle difficult social issues in the gaming scene? Label it sexist, misogynist, hypocritical, *and* "SJW." Same thing for NeoGAF, Kotaku Polygon, and whatever other sites have tried to talk about gaming's social problems. No matter what the stated agenda is, the commentary always comes back to this bizarre "SJW vs MRA" debate, and that colors the whole argument Bizarrely, now, it has taken on real and supposed women (I say supposed because many of the accounts I saw on twitter had 0 following/followed and 1 tweet, yet fully filled out profiles about being a "girl gamer") with the #notyourshield hashtag, which again attempts to obfuscate the real agenda here by using women to label the socially progressive people taking sides against the hate mob as misogynists It's all a farce. I've rolled my eyes at lots of the articles and debates trying too hard to label the gaming scene or video games in general as scummy and sexist over the last few years, and I've spoken about that many times. But this movement is not the rallying cry you want to answer. It really is the embodiment of everything wrong with video game culture Hey, Publicist F-- Here Again I wish I knew how to trip so you guys would recognize me. I don't get much chance to visit 4chan as I am always at work. Here is my latest report. There is some stuff you might find very important If you don't know what a a publicist does please learn as they are one of the biggest and most dangerous enemies you face in this battle. It's the publicist and their cronies that fill up message boards like NeoGAF with astro turfing and sock puppet accounts. It's the publicist who ensures that "AAA" games get high scores, even when they don't deserve them. Publicists now also employ firms who create gaming "websites" that are entirely fake and deliver a steady stream of agenda driven content that is nothing more than advertising and propaganda. The content is written by kids overseas who are getting paid literally, pennies per word. You will find many of these sites on a website called N4G. It is a FAKE news aggregator which is being manipulated by BOT TRAFFIC and also by certain mods on the site. Publicists don't know how to handle what you are doing here. Their contempt for your intelligence has always run deep. Very few if any have ever played a video game. They see you all as ignorant sheep to be programmed. With this effort you are threatening their very way of life. Keep it up. They are your hidden enemy NeoGAF One last thing You need to know that Tyler Malka HATES 4chan and despises. I can't stress this enough. For those of you who don't know Tyler owns NeoGAF. For many years he made a steady stream of income based mostly and payouts from the big gaming companies in exchange for free publicity on his site. These payouts were arranged by, you guessed it, publicists. Then something happened. /vl eclipsed NeoGAF in traffic, and when the site added vg/ and rl 4chan suddenly became a very big threat. (Continued) (Continued) HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Tyler and his few remaining partners want this place DESTROYED. Laughably he even recently asked one of my associates about the proposed legislation that was going to ban anonymous internet posting. (Long dead BTW) He is in daily bitter fits of rage. You have cost him money, power, prestige and the image of his site. He didn't even get invited to E3. You have no idea how significant that is. Simply put, it's going to come down to a battle of survival, it's going to be either him or you. You have to understand something. The one thing publishers and publicists hate the most is FREE UNREGULATED SPEECH. This is why NeoGAF is such a censorship filled f------ hell hole. He has to make sure that every user and shill account is towing the party line. This is all I can say for now. I'll see you next time with some more important info.

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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(3/3) Gamergate has had discussions on how to best deal with this situation. Gamers are trying to recover from baseless attacks proven false and reeling in ad-hominem attacks on people who don’t deserve it. Gamers are giving real support to harassment victims of all sexes and race by granting them a supportive and respectful community. Gamers are looking out for each other to make sure no one has to suffer from abuse from around the world for a choice that hurts literally no one, and in fact supports a thriving community. You say Gamergate is the embodiment of everything wrong with video game culture. I say it’s everything right about it.

Now it’s your turn. If you can’t practice what you preach, you might want to keep that shit to yourself. If you hate the harassment and hate speech so much, then you might want to fucking deal with it.

And I have the best remedy for stopping those big mean harassers and internet bad guys from hurting your feelings so much.

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(1/3) I'm sorry, I need to call bullshit on the top bit because it's just so rank.

You think you're "socially progressive"? Well I can see how you came to that deluded conclusion with all your shitposting about insufficient and unsatisfactory minority representation which is on full blast weekly by every moron under the sun. But you're wrong.

I don't even have to try to find article after topic after clickbait about the failings of video game representation, but you know what I can't find very easily?

Gratitude. Promotion. Celebration. Models. Goals. Recommendations. Discussions.

For all your grand standing about being "socially progressive" how much progress have you made, hmm? Have any writers thanked you for opening their eyes in their credits? Do you have any metrics showing an increase in fair minority representation? Can you show me what you've actually fucking done in video games that have moved us from point A to point B? Have you interviewed any oppressed groups recently to see how much they are grateful for your services?

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