And yes, it's entirely possible for a woman to abuse a man, but the thing is, random Tumblr person, you don't have any sources for that beyond her extremely sketchy ex, and the MRAs that have come out of the woodwork to defend him.
From what I've heard, Depression Quest is actually quite good, but also not very traditional and more of a "this is what it's like to be depressed" educational tool.
Folding Ideas recently did an analysis of it (without mention the situation surrounding it once) and it looked genuinely fascinating.
#notyourshield has got to be the saddest thing i've ever seen
maybe because i apparently know like a dozen transwomen mainly who are pissed about all this (and, uh, aren't channers)
maybe because i don't think it'd be that hard to find a black guy using the tag honestly and then everybody doing it uses photos from the onion or some shit
#notyourshield has got to be the saddest thing i've ever seen
maybe because i apparently know like a dozen transwomen mainly who are pissed about all this (and, uh, aren't channers)
maybe because i don't think it'd be that hard to find a black guy using the tag honestly and then everybody doing it uses photos from the onion or some shit
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The thing that frustrates me is generally Nostalgebraist is a really decent guy and clearly not stupid. He's just being really myopic about this because it seems that the emotional abuse accusations are giving him tunnel vision, and while I guess I get it... it doesn't not piss me off.
The thing that frustrates me is generally Nostalgebraist is a really decent guy and clearly not stupid. He's just being really myopic about this because it seems that the emotional abuse accusations are giving him tunnel vision, and while I guess I get it... it doesn't not piss me off.
Jennifer Hale, the voice of Samus in Metroid Prime and other videogame characters, talked about this controversy this morning in a little segment on NPR's Marketplace. I happened to be up too late so I heard it on my drive home.
TL;DR: it could have been just a story about journalistic integrity, but then some people had to inject harassment and all sorts of shit into it.
Unfortunately I can't find a page for it yet. Probably need to wait a few more hours for it to show up on the Marketplace website.
BTW, does anyone else feel a similarity between the people who do these "toxic, hateful" things, and climate change deniers?
Between demanding police report numbers from Anita Sarkeesian and nitpicking through a batch of stolen e-mails (in the "climategate" event), both groups are basically reactionaries against what other people are saying about them and the things they believe are true, and are basically doing whatever they can to overwhelm, harass, discredit, and intimidate those people who voice a different view of how things are. And they defend their actions as fair journalism or muck-raking, without regard to standards of ethics or decency or how one-sided they are.
I really don't understand their position at all. What's being destroyed by women playing games? This is like people who argue that gay marriages destroy straight marriages just by existing anywhere on the planet.
(my emphasis)
I guess I'm not the only one who thinks they sound like reactionaries.
What's really stupid is that there IS a lot to say about journalistic integrity and ethics in the gaming press -- but it has absolutely nothing to do with Zoe Quinn, who whether you like her or not has essentially zero power here.
I am acquaintances with a couple people in the industry*, and it's impossible to deny there's corruption, but that corruption comes almost exclusively from extremely large companies like Activision and EA. Even then, it's less widespread than one might think.
This entire controversy is nothing more than a smokescreen for organized harassment, and has never been anything else.
*Mostly Northernlion, who has spoken several times about how he doesn't really like being paid to cover games on his channel. But there are other people too.
Yeah, that's the corruption I mean. Which is essentially the age-old journalism problem that the advertisers keep you in wages and biting them means you don't eat.
And I agree that it's about harassment, though I think some people have been suckered into thinking it's about other things.
For what it's worth, Polygon is fairly good about it. I haven't seen any video game ads on there, which is reassuring (though I'm not a big fan of the site).
What's really stupid is that there IS a lot to say about journalistic integrity and ethics in the gaming press -- but it has absolutely nothing to do with Zoe Quinn, who whether you like her or not has essentially zero power here.
That's exactly what most #gamergate proponents say. Still doesn't change the fact that Quinn is the reason GG exists.
I have definitely seen video game ads on other sites owned by Vox Media (owner of Polygon), but then the fact that Vox Media is a large, diversified company means that the separation between advertising and journalism should be easy to protect.
criminalscum: The instigators, yes; however, dissatisfaction with the gaming press is a hook they are using to get people dragged into it on their side.
"It's apparently a big deal in some circles, so we followed the links and read the piles of data presented, and had to stop and take a deep breath just to grasp it all. 'Gentlemen,' we said amid the stunned silence, 'do you realize that if what they're saying is true, then this is still the most pointless fucking bullshit anyone has ever forced us to read?'"
Reading Zoe's account of it...it reminds me of the harassment dissidents suffered in the USSR and South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly the story of Donald Woods and Stephen Biko.
Except no agents of a government were involved, no beatings were delivered, and there was no authority to arrest or imprison. Same campaigns to discredit, though.
TL;DR: while #GamerGate has some good intentions (and some good participants), the movement as a whole is severely drowned out by uncivil behavior, harassment, strident anti-feminist activism, and presuming guilt on people they don't like (which is ironic since it's supposed to be about good journalism).
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^ Just play it. It's meant to be free and you're not pirating it.
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and take their weapons leaving them dead
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maybe because i apparently know like a dozen transwomen mainly who are pissed about all this (and, uh, aren't channers)
maybe because i don't think it'd be that hard to find a black guy using the tag honestly and then everybody doing it uses photos from the onion or some shit
blargh
What is #notyourshield?
Of course, the problem with this is that it conveniently erases minorities who don't agree with the #gamergate folk.
TL;DR: it could have been just a story about journalistic integrity, but then some people had to inject harassment and all sorts of shit into it.
Unfortunately I can't find a page for it yet. Probably need to wait a few more hours for it to show up on the Marketplace website.
On the other hand, some people came already prepared to react to it: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2fz41z/ms_jennifer_hale_aka_femshep_will_be_weighing_in/
BTW, does anyone else feel a similarity between the people who do these "toxic, hateful" things, and climate change deniers?
Between demanding police report numbers from Anita Sarkeesian and nitpicking through a batch of stolen e-mails (in the "climategate" event), both groups are basically reactionaries against what other people are saying about them and the things they believe are true, and are basically doing whatever they can to overwhelm, harass, discredit, and intimidate those people who voice a different view of how things are. And they defend their actions as fair journalism or muck-raking, without regard to standards of ethics or decency or how one-sided they are.
I guess I'm not the only one who thinks they sound like reactionaries.
This entire controversy is nothing more than a smokescreen for organized harassment, and has never been anything else.
*Mostly Northernlion, who has spoken several times about how he doesn't really like being paid to cover games on his channel. But there are other people too.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
TL;DR: while #GamerGate has some good intentions (and some good participants), the movement as a whole is severely drowned out by uncivil behavior, harassment, strident anti-feminist activism, and presuming guilt on people they don't like (which is ironic since it's supposed to be about good journalism).