I love it when they hoist themselves by the groin.
I was school target for 10 years because I was a computer nerd. That was a terrible sin apparently in the early 80s lol. By high school it was habit, don't think most of them, especially the violent ones even knew why. Just someone they could beat up and no one would come running to defend. If you talk to any of the gamergaters of my generation you'll hear the same thing, the only reason we are still here when others are gone is that we were too afraid of suicide. That's kind of pegging the pathetic meter.
Don't really care about pretend internet bullying - real is real, internet or not. That's all the sjws have - namecalling, harassment, and threats, everything they project onto #gg. Being called names is pretty ineffective against me. I am extremely sympathetic towards the younger nerdy people. I have their back because no one had mine.
Kluwe's article is just start to finish namecalling. Glad he's proud of it.
I brought this up in the DailyKos thread, but we gamers have been demonized by the mainstream press since video gaming existed. We were a convenient target, and one that could easily be marginalized without consequence and couldn't fight back. As such, it was always easy for them to throw rote sensationalism at us and treat us like social pariahs. That we were ultimately harmless never was the issue. That
the FBI proved on multiple occasions that there was no link between video games and violent behavior was always curiously ignored.
For those of us who've been gamers since the proverbial dark ages, these attacks calling us misogynists are nothing new - we've been called worse, and subjected to worse. We're the ones who
got blamed for Columbine. We
got blamed for the Virginia Tech massacre. We're the ones that
got blamed for Sandy Hook. In each of these, I got to see Very Serious People
(tm) protect us little people by screaming about the need to ban violent video games and ostracize those who play them. During Columbine alone, I had many friends across multiple school districts who got expelled. Most of them later sued their districts and
won. Even with all this, the targeting of us never stopped - we wouldn't fight back, so surely, there was nothing we could do about it, right?
Well, actually, it turned out there was.
We reached voting and purchasing age. Now we're the fucking demographic, and we can vote with our wallets and advocate for ourselves. And, as evidenced by the fact that we delivered a $25 Million (and counting) fist in Gawker's groin, we're sick of their shit.
After decades of treating gamers as a whole like shit, these people don't understand that we're immune to their attacks. 2+ decades of societal shaming and the like has left us with nothing to fear. In short:
we are the fucking reckoning. We are going to, in the immortal words of one of Hulk Hogan's most-beloved archnenemies,
going to break their back, and make them humble, and FUCK THEIR ASS.
Keep up the fight, gentlemen. Contact their sponsors. Hold the bullies to account with their own words. Bring the truth to light. And keep doing it until we leave their assholes in ruins.
ADDENDUM: Adobe (as in, the Photoshop/Flash people) just quit Gawker. I wonder how much that added to the mounting financial fist in the ballsack?
