Take a deep breath man. It’s “hucksters”. ;)
Heh, 4:30 a.m. :)
One of the current theories is that a group called unsavoryagents, which is located in LA and does troll posters in this style, is responsible. Their prior stuff is pretty similar, at least:
Naturally unrelated to GG.
Also made me laugh. So true. The GG crew ain’t exactly the type to use such an ancient gaming meme.
Is all your base not a thing anymore?
…it never stopped being funny to me. :(
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Seems to be common thread in those posters.
Well Milo is boasting that he now knows who did the posters. Since he isn’t revealing, he either doesn’t like the answer (i.e. it was by GG folks, which I now think is much more likely because of this development), or he intends to publicize it in some article at some point in the near future. https://twitter.com/Nero/status/612215850226065408
(or he’s lying or wrong, I suppose - with Milo it’s a mistake to assume anything).
Do you guys really think they’re that similar?
I look at them and the Fem Freq one looks fairly complementary/attractive to Sarkeesian as opposed to all the others. The eyes aren’t done up in red, or slitted, or zombified. The quote is an anomaly and… I dunno… it sounds kind of hipster-badass to me. The light gray text is just “#GAMERGATE” repeated in column, so… nope, that tells me nothing.
Basically, if this is intended to be an anti-FemFreq poster, then I reckon they missed the mark.
Misdirection is a very powerful tool considering all the cough uneducated remarks publicized at E3 this year. Far too many to maintain a healthy public image.
John Oliver did a segment for Last Week Tonight about online harassment. Most of the segment was actually about revenge porn. GG/Anita got a quick mention.
Guess what most of the YouTube comments are about?
Actually, if I recall, he didn’t mention the word “GamerGate” once. Now I’ll just have to watch it again to be sure.
He didn’t - he used Sarkeesian and Wu as examples, and breifly detailed their plight as part of the overall picture.
Sorry, I meant the “GG/Anita” mention was just the package deal. Whenever Anita comes up, GG is inexorably linked.
Fair enough, I just kind of adore how GG is responding to it even never being mentioned.
While I thought the message of the piece was very thoughtful, I liked the Rick-rolling bits a lot. The final AOL ad was also hilarious.
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I happened to be scanning Raph Koster’s posts on reddit for some reason, and he was somehow engaged on this very topic in the GamerGate reddit, actually nailed what I was thinking when I said it feels like you are using a different definition of meritocracy:
My point is that poor social mobility means that whoever is at the top of the socioeconomic ladder will tend to receive the better education, and will therefore tend to win on (skill) merit grounds. This then actually makes social mobility worse by not providing well-paying jobs to those with less merit, which reduces the chance of their children–even the smart, talented, hard-working ones–having social mobility. Which actually makes society less meritocratic.
A meritocratic system depends on an even start. A poor Gini coefficient means that not only is the start not even, but the social structure is set up to prevent it.
[edit: to put it another way, we don’t currently have a meritocracy. Pretending we do actually reinforces a non-meritocratic system.
It wasnt too far back in this thread that people were still denying “SJWs” even existed, and now Eli Roth is releasing a film about them being devoured by cannibals.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-eli-roth-green-inferno-sjw-20150709-story.html
That movie is from 2013, it just had distribution problems.
Time study: boys think women are over-sexualised in games:
Not that I see anything wrong with the conclusion, but I would love to see the questions asked.
It is very easy to get the answer you want if you ask the right questions, particularly with respondents aged 10-18.
Is the study actually published somewhere or are they just talking about results with a lay audience.
