most of GG only gained a sudden interest in protecting the sanctity of gaming when they learned that there were women critiquing it from a feminist perspective.
I'd be totally willing to give these mythical reasonable people who are only into the GamerGate movement out of ignorance a chance if I ever met any of them, but I haven't.
Anyway, the actual dumbest news in gaming right now is that one of the pro DOTA 2 teams is getting a YouPorn sponsorship.
someone could support gamergate solely out of good intentions and misinformation, and then get sunk into it further via the usual ideological feedback loops that happen with these things
Oh, this happens, i'm not for a moment disputing it.
But then that person should be called out, i think. Not ostracized, not condemned forever for being a horribly problematic person, but definitely informed that what they're saying is not OK.
And it's also perfectly reasonable to inform other people of what they think on the matter, so that they can have this in mind when considering this person's other opinions.
most of GG only gained a sudden interest in protecting the sanctity of gaming when they learned that there were women critiquing it from a feminist perspective.
add in the harrassment (which has disproportionately and overwhelmingly been directed at women) and there really is no reason to consider it anything more than a misogynist movement
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
There are actual women in Gamergate. I've seen them. Say what you want, but it started as an actual cause. I stopped caring before long but still, I hate seeing people get whitewashed like that.
no we are trapped within the (gamer)gates of hell where even the tiniest mention of something that might involve ganergate provokes a precise reiteration of things we all know by now like some damned infernal clockwork torture device that scoops out your eyeballs in a promethian manner at 12 hour intervals
i don't like when people think things that are very very bad
i don't like talking to people knowing they think those things, i don't like hanging out around people who think those things can be tolerated, i don't like having to accept that sometimes people i like say things that (pointless disclaimer: i think) are repulsive and that only bad people should think
There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men's hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands. -- He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but he can most easily do it. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty to subdue a rebel, who has found means to fortify himself, and has made himself strong by the numbers of his followers. But it is not so with God. There is no fortress that is any defence from the power of God. Though hand join in hand, and vast multitudes of God's enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces. They are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames. We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by: thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?
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Oh, this happens, i'm not for a moment disputing it.
But then that person should be called out, i think. Not ostracized, not condemned forever for being a horribly problematic person, but definitely informed that what they're saying is not OK.
And it's also perfectly reasonable to inform other people of what they think on the matter, so that they can have this in mind when considering this person's other opinions.
Yeah, this. Precisely this.
not an actual cause
some people were misguided enough to think it was an actual cause, but that's not the same thing
but whatever
i'll stay shut up about this if everyone else does
i don't like when people think things that are very very bad
i don't like talking to people knowing they think those things, i don't like hanging out around people who think those things can be tolerated, i don't like having to accept that sometimes people i like say things that (pointless disclaimer: i think) are repulsive and that only bad people should think
i get angry and i can't think of anything else
maybe this is just my problem
regardless i should go elsewhere for now
Damn it, trying to cut down on junk food. But they taste so delicious!