Corruption in gaming journalism discussion and update thread.
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[QUOTE=Thlis;46888940]I don't know if this is my own hermit-esque living talking but these kind of pictures kind of give me an odd feeling.
You take time out of both of your days, meet up in a cafe or bar, take pictures of yourself essentially flicking people on the internet off, then tweet the pictures telling people on the internet to fuck off
all because you agree with someone on one bit of politics?
I don't know if it's just me but that seems either really weird or really pathetic.[/QUOTE]
How else are people supposed to know how right you are unless you rub their noses in it
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;46888288][IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11517902/1420772123744.png[/IMG]
I can't tell if he's sarcastic or not[/QUOTE]
this is such a shame, as well as ironic
I really enjoy Buffy, but any feminist would have a field day with it. she spends the entire show hopping from man to man because she can't bare to be single. and that time spike tried to rape her but she ended up with him anyway.
girl power, joss!
My parents did basically a buffy marathon and I'm not kidding when I say that every single time I came in to the room while they were watching, there was two characters making reference to being gay. Every single time.
[url]https://twitter.com/freebsdgirl/status/553457607172575232[/url]
[QUOTE]Who you are following doesn't make you a harasser; your actions do. Your social circle just makes prediction easier. #ggautoblocker[/QUOTE]
Literally Minority Report. :v:
[QUOTE=uber.;46889706][url]https://twitter.com/freebsdgirl/status/553457607172575232[/url]
Literally Minority Report. :v:[/QUOTE]
Not surprised to see fucking MaxOfS2D giving blacklisting tips in the comment.
Guilty by association, no matter how vague. Paragon of objectivity right there.
[QUOTE=_Axel;46889718]Not surprised to see fucking MaxOfS2D giving blacklisting tips in the comment.[/QUOTE]
I've been following the moronic frenchie's tumblr for a while. He seems to be publishing and answering most of the anons who have been sending him insults and just making fun of them for these past few days. (and when someone insults him non-anonymously, he goes and makes fun of the contents of their blog.)
I can also name a moment where he took TotalBiscuit's stuff out of context at one time (the part where he started following people who were associated with the GG blocklist), not mentioning that he wanted to get on the blocklist to begin with.
I could swear he's trying to create his own narrative on his own tumblr, because I've sent him a few messages, some of which calling out his bullcrap, and he never answered them. Because goodness forbids that anyone proves him wrong.
You'd think he'd have learned from the Mecha the Slag incident, but I guess those moments have been far long gone.
Imbecile.
8Chan is still getting DDOS'd :v:
[QUOTE=Ayane-152;46889779]8Chan is still getting DDOS'd :v:[/QUOTE]
It's up for me. They probably switched to a new secret IP (which should make them immune behind Cloudflare) and the DNS records are still propagating (assuming they had to change them, which is probably the case due to the network separation).
[QUOTE=Tamschi;46889820]It's up for me. They probably switched to a new secret IP (which should make them immune behind Cloudflare) and the DNS records are still propagating (assuming they had to change them, which is probably the case due to the network separation).[/QUOTE]
its going on and off every 10 minutes or so, lizardsquad may be staggering their attack between 8chan and 4chan.
There has been quite an interesting spike in coverage recently, it's up by a few 100% in the last few days.
A lot about it is about the Intel thing ([URL="http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/intel-folds-under-gamergate-pressure-but-thats-a-good-thing/"]here's e.g. a neutral-ish article on Lazygamer[/URL], but most of them are negative towards Gamergate).
[URL="https://archive.today/HtVRC"]GamePolitics continues their series of pro-Gamergate coverage (with some unrelated stuff showing up because it also indexes their shoutbox).[/URL]
[URL="http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/sarkeesian-princess-kora-sex-workers/"]Boobfreq seems to make a (small but still remarkable) positive impact regarding portrayal of sex workers by feminists.[/URL]
[URL="http://www.newsweek.com/pixelated-prostitution-feminist-sex-work-debate-bleeds-video-games-293311?piano_d=1"]Here's another article about sex workers criticising her for being sexist, among other things.[/URL] (It's from last month though.)
The EFF mentioned Gamergate neutrally in [URL="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/facing-challenge-online-harassment"]a (judging by a quick skim-over) pretty good post about dealing with online harassment[/URL]: [quote]When a magnet for harassment like Gamergate takes place on a social platform, will that platform's operators seek to uncover who the wrongdoers are—or will they simply prohibit all from speaking out and documenting their experience?[/quote] (It's a really tiny aside in comparison to the whole posts length.)
[editline]9th January 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mattk50;46889841]its going on and off every 10 minutes or so, lizardsquad may be staggering their attack between 8chan and 4chan.[/QUOTE]
Interesting, they probably have a tool that automatically staggers attacks if multiple ones are bought during a time frame.
([URL="http://••••••••••••••••••/2015/01/8chan-ddosed-lizard-squad.html"]Lizardsquad mentioned that someone had been buying "lots of [...] attacks" against 8chan on their Twitter account.[/URL])
[editline]9th January 2015[/editline]
[URL="http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23gamergate&q2=gamergate&via=Topsy"]This is going to be such a weird cat.[/URL]
[editline]9th January 2015[/editline]
(Image mirror since archiving Topsy doesn't work:)
[t]https://i.imgur.com/RQtLhly.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;46888115]Seriously, can you imagine if a year ago you said IGN would be the pinnacle of journalistic integrity at the start of the next year?[/QUOTE]
lol just 2 years ago this was made about them:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQkEg-Dpvk[/media]
Now look where we are: IGN is taking a stand. We seem to be on bizarro Earth now where IGN is top notch journalism, sex workers are a driving force in feminism, and people are actually being listened to. I must say if this is some sort of coma or something I'm enjoying the ride.
Also lol Max blocked me on twitter because I "unironically retweet Cernovich". Man I'm glad that retard got perma'd, he never had any intention of properly talking to us.
[QUOTE=FlakAttack;46890386]
Also lol Max blocked me on twitter because I "unironically retweet Cernovich". Man I'm glad that retard got perma'd, he never had any intention of properly talking to us.[/QUOTE]
Which is funny since he unironically retweets Ian Miles ''Asian Hitler'' Cheong.
I was watching the mercedes-pakman interview again and noticed she was talking in the comments with an "ex-GG" calling her a whore, and some of her comebacks are just priceless
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cc4biAi.png[/img]
Glad to see that these gaming journalists are standing up for Charlie Hebdo's right to criticise.
... Oh, wait. After looking at some of the big names, I can't find [I]one damn thing about it[/I].
[editline]9th January 2015[/editline]
Oh, no, wait. Never mind. I've seen Matt Lees retweet a tweet saying that we shouldn't be happy about Charlie Hebdo because they criticised something, which offended a lot of people.
[QUOTE=Ayane-152;46889779]8Chan is still getting DDOS'd :v:[/QUOTE]
Running a site like 8chan without DDoS protection is retarded, and I really hope "lets wait it out" isn't the plan because that sure as hell will not work.
Livechan is down as well now.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;46891807]Glad to see that these gaming journalists are standing up for Charlie Hebdo's right to criticise.
... Oh, wait. After looking at some of the big names, I can't find [I]one damn thing about it[/I].
[editline]9th January 2015[/editline]
Oh, no, wait. Never mind. I've seen Matt Lees retweet a tweet saying that we shouldn't be happy about Charlie Hebdo because they criticised something, which offended a lot of people.[/QUOTE]
Well, he isn't a journalist but Arthur "the jews didn't have it so bad in WW2" Chu is here to remind us that if free speech was outlawed people wouldn't get shot over it
[url]https://archive.today/MeijP[/url]
[QUOTE=Ryo Ohki;46892347]Well, he isn't a journalist but Arthur "the jews didn't have it so bad in WW2" Chu is here to remind us that if free speech was outlawed people wouldn't get shot over it
[URL]https://archive.today/MeijP[/URL][/QUOTE]
I fucking loath these people.
"I am not arguing for censorship and people should never be shot but these people were posting some pretty offensive things"
Thats the fucking point you morons. The fact that some of these fucks try to claim that this is some kind of fucking critique is absolutely abhorrent. I guarantee all of you that if George Carlin was alive and he was shot for something he said, these piles of primordial sludge would say "Well did you hear the things he would say?"
Consider censoring yourselves if you agree with it so much.
These posts have a very "Im not a racist but" feeling to them, it's pretty ironic.
[QUOTE=Thlis;46892633]I fucking loath these people.
"I am not arguing for censorship and people should never be shot but these people were posting some pretty offensive things"
Thats the fucking point you morons. The fact that some of these fucks try to claim that this is some kind of fucking critique is absolutely abhorrent. I guarantee all of you that if George Carlin was alive and he was shot for something he said, these piles of primordial sludge would say "Well did you hear the things he would say?"
Consider censoring yourselves if you agree with it so much.[/QUOTE]
seems to me like a good ol' fashioned case of victim blaming
[QUOTE=Ryo Ohki;46892347]Well, he isn't a journalist but Arthur "the jews didn't have it so bad in WW2" Chu is here to remind us that if free speech was outlawed people wouldn't get shot over it
[url]https://archive.today/MeijP[/url][/QUOTE]
Dat line though
[quote]To murder someone by violence is the greatest crime imaginable[/quote]
Yes, as opposed to murder someone by nonviolence or to do it gently.
chu is the living archetype of a pseudointellectual
[QUOTE=acds;46891957]Running a site like 8chan without DDoS protection is retarded, and I really hope "lets wait it out" isn't the plan because that sure as hell will not work.
Livechan is down as well now.[/QUOTE]
It has ddos protection, but that doesn't work if they know your server's IP anyways. It looks like it's back up and and its been up for a good bit so the intermittant ddosing might have stopped.
[QUOTE=Thlis;46892633]I fucking loath these people.
"I am not arguing for censorship and people should never be shot but these people were posting some pretty offensive things"
Thats the fucking point you morons. The fact that some of these fucks try to claim that this is some kind of fucking critique is absolutely abhorrent. I guarantee all of you that if George Carlin was alive and he was shot for something he said, these piles of primordial sludge would say "Well did you hear the things he would say?"
Consider censoring yourselves if you agree with it so much.[/QUOTE]
Another thing that really bothered me
'Charlie Hedbo isn't journalism' -Dude with a degree in History
Ian Miles Cheong goes #FullMcIntosh, nearly drowning in a sea of salty tears about Hatred still being on steam
[url]https://archive.today/vAIp9#selection-499.27-499.110[/url]
[quote]Regardless of what the game offers, putting the game on Steam enables this community of harassers to target women through the Steamworks tools provided with the game and raises the question as to whether Valve should be enabling harassers. [/quote]
I tried, god knows I tried, but I can't for the love of me find the connection between Hatred being on steam and it being used to harrass women. Does this retard even know how steam works?
He also goes on describing the SJW group as "namely comprised of women and minorities"
Seriously, what the fuck is going on in that guy's head
[QUOTE=Ryo Ohki;46894745]Ian Miles Cheong goes #FullMcIntosh, nearly drowning in a sea of salty tears about Hatred still being on steam
[url]https://archive.today/vAIp9#selection-499.27-499.110[/url]
I tried, god knows I tried, but I can't for the love of me find the connection between Hatred being on steam and it being used to harrass women. Does this retard even know how steam works?
He also goes on describing the SJW group as "namely comprised of women and minorities"
Seriously, what the fuck is going on in that guy's head[/QUOTE]
white dude from sanfran with scraggly beard = woman and minority
