Game journalism backlash - the microcosm theory

Alstein · 2015-03-25T20:20:47.000Z

To be fair, I think most people gave up well before page 120.

playingwithknives · 2015-03-25T23:27:22.000Z

Pod:

I have no idea what you’re saying, but I know that guys website is pure crap and he regularly spams it here. It’s no wonder he only has 5 followers. (I guess the implication is that he had more followers, and now that he’s written about blockbot he has 5? That’s surprising to me, as the contents of his blog is “pro-gg” and people who use blockbot are “anti-gg”, therefore the people that followed him were all against his bad articles, or something like that?)

That’s not his account. Thats a fake account doxing him and smearing him due to his articles about blockbot. This doesn’t have anything to do with GG and relates to atheism+

playingwithknives · 2015-03-26T00:44:13.000Z

People might be pleased (although unsurprised) to hear that the 8chan GG community has schismed and degenerated into a huge intra-troll and dox filled flame war.

CLWheeljack · 2015-03-26T08:25:54.000Z

playingwithknives:

People might be pleased (although unsurprised) to hear that the 8chan GG community has schismed and degenerated into a huge intra-troll and dox filled flame war.

While I love a good train wreck, I assume that there isn’t any way to get details on it in a form that’s at all digestible?

Starlight · 2015-03-26T09:44:27.000Z

playingwithknives:

People might be pleased (although unsurprised) to hear that the 8chan GG community has schismed and degenerated into a huge intra-troll and dox filled flame war.

Uhhhh. Question.

…When wasn’t it?

LMN8R · 2015-03-26T10:27:14.000Z

Starlight:

Uhhhh. Question.

…When wasn’t it?

I think he means they’re harassing and doxxing each other instead of harassing and doxxing independent game developers?

Meh.

Funny side-note: My friend simply linked to this article, and instantly got a bunch of sealions who he’s never met, never talked to, and doesn’t follow, responding to him with links to “official” GamerGate sites like this.

Really pathetic that there are still GamerGate supporters actively searching out the term “Zoe Quinn” just so that they can immediately attack her by linking uninvolved people to web sites which continue to libel her.

prolix · 2015-03-26T10:44:38.000Z

Desslock:

Pretty safe to say that anyone who thinks that 120 pages of lengthy, and repetitive, answers to a specific poster-didn’t include answers to that poster-is encumbered by a constitutional polemic that’s antithetical to reason and discernment.

Wow! You know me pretty well from just one post.

p.s. What was the answer, by the way? I’ll take a link if you are busy and don’t have time to craft a reply.

Starlight · 2015-03-26T11:05:18.000Z

LMN8R:

I think he means they’re harassing and doxxing each other instead of harassing and doxxing independent game developers?

I mean they’ve done that from the start too. Only now they’ve given up doing it to independent devs, so…change! :)

And LNM8R, they use bots to do that. Mm, double standards.

Teiman · 2015-03-26T11:24:22.000Z

LMN8R:

I think he means they’re harassing and doxxing each other instead of harassing and doxxing independent game developers?

Game developers need to apologize, until that, they will be attacked.

Game Rant – 15 Jan 13

Deep Silver Reveals, Apologizes for ‘Dead Island: Riptide Zombie Bait Edition’

Deep Silver has announced two separate limited edition bundles for 'Dead Island: Riptide,' one of which prompted a quick apology from the publisher.

Polygon – 11 Jun 14

Ubisoft responds to Assassin's Creed Unity women character furor

Ubisoft, under fire for comments suggesting that creating a varied selection of playable multiplayer characters in Assassin's Creed Unity would create too much extra work, has issued a statement on...

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/02/games-journalist-threatens-devs-not-to-support-gamergate-devs-respond/

Teiman · 2015-03-26T11:28:44.000Z

I don’t want to do whataboutism. But SJW routinelly attack game developers over things like “lack of a female character in your game” or “unappropiate marketing”. Generally is a journalist the one that fabricate the problem out of thin air, and the SJW and tumblerinas army follow

LMN8R · 2015-03-26T11:50:32.000Z

Erm, criticizing a company for being gross and/or original isn’t exactly the same thing as doxxing and harassing individual people on a particular development team.

Teiman · 2015-03-26T11:52:59.000Z

LMN8R:

Erm, criticizing a company for being gross and/or original isn’t exactly the same thing as doxxing and harassing individual people on a particular development team.

Well, you are right.

Desslock · 2015-03-26T12:32:27.000Z

prolix:

p.s. What was the answer, by the way? I’ll take a link if you are busy and don’t have time to craft a reply.

Since you’re willfully ignoring the hundreds of times it was provided, you’re probably destined to never find it. It’s your holy grail.

Wow! You know me pretty well from just one post.

Absofuckinglutely.

Quaro · 2015-03-26T12:35:10.000Z

Teiman:

I don’t want to do whataboutism. But SJW routinelly attack game developers over things like “lack of a female character in your game” or “unappropiate marketing”. Generally is a journalist the one that fabricate the problem out of thin air, and the SJW and tumblerinas army follow

Would you really characterize someone saying, “It’d be cool to have a female playable character” as an “attack”? Thinking in particular of the Might Number Nine situation.

playingwithknives · 2015-03-26T13:19:41.000Z

and the last ever post on blockbot.

The new team are more amenable to discussion and the problem is gone.

League4Gamers is Mark Kern (WoW lead dev) and others btw.

prolix · 2015-03-26T13:23:57.000Z

Desslock:

Since you’re willfully ignoring the hundreds of times it was provided, you’re probably destined to never find it. It’s your holy grail.

You would think such a softball question would be easy to answer!

LMN8R · 2015-03-26T13:56:19.000Z

Mark Kern?

You mean the guy who deceived and defrauded investors in Firefall, mismanaged the entire company, and is personally responsible for pretty much everything that went wrong with Firefall?

r/Games - This is why Mark Kern was removed as CEO by Red 5

1,735 votes and 682 comments so far on Reddit

lol “WoW lead dev”

Also the guy who went “wahhhh Law and Order used real life events to inspire a relatively realistic episode and journalists didn’t condemn them for it”

Busbecq · 2015-03-26T15:03:50.000Z

LMN8R:

Also the guy who went “wahhhh Law and Order used real life events to inspire a relatively realistic episode and journalists didn’t condemn them for it”

Wow. Btw I have a tweet for you.

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Get on this, laminator. Spread the word. Playing video games unironically is basically like supporting/perpetrating the Oklahoma City Bombing, except maybe worse because Feminist Frequency has been out a for a few years so no one has any excuse for being a shitlord anymore.

playingwithknives · 2015-03-26T15:04:06.000Z

More on the dangers of the extreme (NUS) side of identity politics.

Re - Kern

I’d like to see you stop a 4 year long blockbot flame war dead LMN8R. You’re not exactly doing a great job here vs 3 of us and Kern is influencing large portions of gamergate, thousands of people.

Meanwhile, the best The Guardian can do is blame Paleo diets on gamergate.

Starlight · 2015-03-26T15:19:00.000Z

pwk - Well that rather finishes off my desire to play Firefall, based on their misrepresentation of UK law there. Oh wait, they fired him a year ago. Hmm. Oh, I had no desire to go back anyway.

(That game so blew it’s potential)

Also, yes, the Guardian’s tagging sucks, water is wet :P