While the Media Slanders Gamers as ‘Terrorists,’ GamerGate Is Hunting Trolls and Abusers

"Supporters of the GamerGate movement have been working tirelessly to hunt down those who would use their banner to cause personal harm—all while the media continues to claim that GamerGate members are either participating in or indifferent to the harassment of women in the gaming industry."

Loopy wrote on Oct 25, 2014, 00:46:
I haven't been keeping up on the corporate side of this. I've heard Intel and some others have pulled advertising from some sites. How have those sites responded, and have the changes (if any) they've made to their journalism codes been effective yet?

Believe it or not, they actually insulted their ex-advertisers.

jdreyer wrote on Oct 23, 2014, 14:55:

ASeven wrote on Oct 23, 2014, 12:43:
From what I've been reading on forums, the game isn't that worth buying if you were expecting something much different from Civ 5. A shame, I'll wait for the inevitable GOTY edition.

Huh, on the gaming podcast I listen to they said, "If you're expecting this to be like Civ 5, you'll be disappointed."

Well, TotalBiscuit seems to have my opinion. Either way I'm not entirely convinced this is worth the asking price right now.

From what I've been reading on forums, the game isn't that worth buying if you were expecting something much different from Civ 5. A shame, I'll wait for the inevitable GOTY edition.

I hope they catch these fuckers and throw them in jail.

And now Olympus has dropped Gawker as well.

Also, the Grayson-Quinn relationship smoking gun appears to have finally have been found.

For those wanting a trip of nostalgia to the good old days, I recommend the Nectarine Radio, which livestreams game and demo tunes from the Amiga and C64 24/7.

Axis wrote on Oct 21, 2014, 10:08:
Amiga was well ahead of its time in many areas, especially from a graphics and usability standpoint. For me, it was the 2nd pinnacle of my gaming days following the c64...

Same opinion as me. I sure loved my C64 and ZX Spectrum but I loved my Amiga more. Those were the days.

Beamer wrote on Oct 19, 2014, 16:33:
Again, Thunderf00t has no history of giving a shit about video games,

Neither does Anita.

Beamer wrote on Oct 19, 2014, 16:33:

ASeven wrote on Oct 19, 2014, 16:32:

Beamer wrote on Oct 19, 2014, 16:25:

Dmitri_M wrote on Oct 19, 2014, 16:19:
Jack Thompson 2? Except without the conservative white male baggage much easier for the press to get on board.

Except she's not trying to censor anything or force anything or ban anything. She's not trying to pass legislation and not trying to outlaw anything.

She even points out in this very interview that games can be part of a pattern and still be wonderful and engaging and fun.

Except she personally shut down Thunderfoot's twitter account. That, Beamer, is real censorship, shutting a voice down, not removing ads. That's your idol right there, using censorship when she seems she can get away with it.

She reported Thunderf00t. She did not shut him down. She reported the things he said and Twitter deemed him a repulsive enough piece of shit with a long enough history of being a repulsive piece of shit that they no longer wanted him as part of their service. How is that different than someone hitting the "Report" button here and getting Space Captain banned? How is that different than sending advertisers an email demanding they pull the funding that keeps a site in business?

I dislike Thunderfoot as a person but please, do show me where he was a repulsive piece of shit, and I want direct quotes from him, not hearsay posted on other sites.

He dared to criticize Anita and debunk her for what she was so he's a piece of shit? Thunderfoot is many things but he was never, ever an harasser.

And yes, removing a twitter account counts as legitimate censorship, which is why he blames twitter for being spineless. But Anita's report on him to twitter was baseless, to the point his account was reinstated in less than 4 days, rending Anita's complaint invalid. In the end, she used a censorship tool to try and quiet one of her most fierce critics. And no, criticism is not harassment.

Sorry Beamer, you have no leg to stand here. You don't know Thuderfoot, as your post demonstrates, and so you decide to ad hominem him to hell in order to somehow validate Anita's attempt to silence a critic.

Beamer wrote on Oct 19, 2014, 16:25:

Dmitri_M wrote on Oct 19, 2014, 16:19:
Jack Thompson 2? Except without the conservative white male baggage much easier for the press to get on board.

Except she's not trying to censor anything or force anything or ban anything. She's not trying to pass legislation and not trying to outlaw anything.

She even points out in this very interview that games can be part of a pattern and still be wonderful and engaging and fun.

Except she personally shut down Thunderfoot's twitter account. That, Beamer, is real censorship, shutting a voice down, not removing ads. That's your idol right there, using censorship when she thinks she can get away with it.

OK, seems Gamergate has hit a big one.

#GamerGate: Destructoid, Corruption And Ruined Careers

William Usher leaks new evidence proving that GameJournosPro and Destructoid colluded to fire and blacklist Allistar Pinsof, an illegal act in Florida and many other states.

Gamergate: The abuse victims the media won’t tell you about.

"Another one is not giving enough of a spotlight to the abuse being sent the other way, towards the supporters and celebrities of Gamergate. This has been under particular scrutiny lately, as Gawker professional has been in the spotlight for openly advocating bullying and nerd shaming in order to shut the movement down."

Gamergate Raises $10,000 for Charity in Less Than a Day

"Gamergate is easily one of the most polarizing topics currently being discussed on the Internet. The movement began roughly two months ago, and has been pushing game journalists to begin disclosing their relationships with developers and each other, so that readers are aware of any possible bias that may be consciously or unconsciously influencing the writer’s work. A number of people have been less than receptive to this goal, and have treated Gamergate with hostility, as summarized here. Yesterday, Gamergate set a ball in motion that would end up picking up more than $10,000 in less than 24 hours."

Allegedly Mercedes Benz has just withdrawn their ads from Gawker, handy after Gawker employee wanting to "bring back bullying" and saying "nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission." and a number of writers and ""journalists"" retweeted and favorited this.

Karma's a bitch.

Prez wrote on Oct 17, 2014, 13:16:
So now you want ME to become ASeven?

Everyone is ASeven.

Host of Huffington Post threatened by anti-GG.

GG supporter threatened and advised to leave home by authorities.

8 Images That Show What #GamerGate Is Really About

CBC news may do a new take on GamerGate.

http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=54179

According to Utah State Today, the threats against Anita Sarkeesian were a hoax. She cancelled the talk because she "was concerned about the fact that state law prevented the university from keeping people with a legal concealed firearm permit from entering the event. University police were prepared and had a plan in place to provide extra security measures at the presentation."

Well well well, who would have guessed??

sdgundamx wrote on Oct 16, 2014, 12:49:

ASeven wrote on Oct 16, 2014, 12:03:
I'm here.

Well sdgundamx, I recommend you start with this simple FAQ. It is documented and has links to the sources.

You can use that depository as well to find more articles, both pro and anti, and to find more evidence. Anything else just ask and I'll try to find the best documented sources to answer your questions.

Hey, thanks for the reply. I was trying to figure out a way to talk to you. While the link you provided is interesting I was hoping for something more specifically concrete on the alleged Reddit censorship issue--some kind of summary of facts that shows it was a concerted effort by the mods to shut down any discussion of the topic.

See if this is what you're looking for. This one has some pictures of the event itself.

I'm here.

Well sdgundamx, I recommend you start with this simple FAQ. It is documented and has links to the sources.

You can use that depository as well to find more articles, both pro and anti, and to find more evidence. Anything else just ask and I'll try to find the best documented sources to answer your questions.

Quboid wrote on Oct 15, 2014, 17:36:
I did, hence the bit about "what the rest of GamerGate seems to think of that". You have repeatedly generalised, even in this very post and in posts on this thread since.

They're not my camp and the line "you lot, not you specifically mind" is very telling. Why did you exclude me? I think it was because you realised you were generalising and you caught on enough to not include me (on this particular occasion, you lump me in with them throughout the rest of this post). However, you still generalised and tarred all but one of this imaginary camp with this brush.

I haven't commented on TFYC because I don't know much about it and it's nothing to do with me. It's your own misunderstanding that people who disagree with you are in some camp and pointing out inconsistencies is not pointing out hypocrisy, it's disproving your own stupid assumption.

Let's start with the first wrong generalization in the first place, that #GamerGate was and is about harassing women in the industry. It is not and it never was. GamerGate started not with the ex of ZQ posting that blog, it started when ZQ DMCAd Mundanne Matt's video talking about it, from there on the flood gates were open for the consumer revolt it became.

Now that's out of the way let's talk about how I generalized SJWs. Am I at fault for generalizing? Yes, yes I am, now that I've re-read what I wrote. I apologize for that since I do preach against fallacies. Fact is, I'm tired of being lumped, of being generalized as something I am not and reading a narrative being spun that is simply not true. When you have so many sites preaching that gamers are dead, that gamers are harassing every women they find, it does get to your nerves and when you keep reading the tremendous amount of bullshit being said by everyone against Gamergate you get tired of it real quickly and start assuming everyone who doesn't understand Gamergate and speaks against it really fits into the same brush. Human nature, I guess.

I don't care that people disagree with me, criticism is healthy and I approve of it. It's when said criticism starts to become so much of a spin, so much bullshit that my patience runs thin, and Gamergate has demonstrated that some people really have no problem spewing bullshit again and again. When you get as involved as I've been in this mess, because I always rally to the causes that are pro-consumer and hence I'm in favor of GG, you get real tired real quickly of reading the same lines over and over again.

And that's what happened to me, I am tired of all the bullshit and it seems I've stepped into writing the same fallacies I keep reading. For that I apologize.