GamerGate - Autistic MRA manchildren and the twitter feminists who love them

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Ass Manager 3000 said:
Who wants to see local asshole Steven Crowder interview 'notorious' gamergater Sargon of Akkad?

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If there's anything that sucks most about GG, it's all these assholes interviewing each other in these hours-long who the fuck gives a shit videos.

If brevity is the soul of wit, all these fat white guys have no soul.

cat said:
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This is the kind of shit only someone who hadn't spoken to another human being face to face in years could possibly have written.
 
It never ceases to astound me how people could have so much conviction over something so utterly meaningless and inconsequential. When I was a kid, the only purpose for IGN or Gamespot was their cheat codes & even then, their library was garbage. I couldn't fathom anyone being so retarded as to read their reviews, much less take them to heart. They always gave shitty reviews to games they weren't sponsored to write & the reasons as to why were always obvious; if you don't pay me to give your game a good review, I'm going to butcher it. The atmosphere was never more transparent.

We used exactly one method of judging a game's quality; playing it. The only time I ever gave a shit about a game review was AVGN and that's because he was funny. Then there was Spoony who made me laugh by shitting on a world renowned game & showed step by step why it was shit; it was then I began to trust the independent reviewing community and even that eventually turned out to be bullshit when Doug Walker up and admitted that he literally regurgitates what his fans want to hear, essentially letting fan requests write his scripts for him but I digress.

Ultimately, I think this is the reckoning of the 2000s generation of gamers becoming adults; their adolescence was spent in an atmosphere of teabagging and they lost touch with reality so hard that the console war became their life's purpose or some shit like that. That's how it looks to me, only instead of the 360 & PS3, you have GamerGate and Anti-GamerGate & the people outside looking in are the equivalent to Wii owners.

Reviews are really just opening posts to long flame wars & reviewers are actors that write their own scripts, sometimes literally such as the case with Lewis Lovhaug.

Maybe I'm thinking too deeply into this, maybe everyone in this is completely aware of the bullshit & mistakenly relying on each other's ignorance to coast toward e-fame & their rivalries are an act dependent on an unspoken agreement. If only.

By the way, GamerGate and Anti-GamerGate are retarded names. Nothing describes you as an asshole like describing yourself as a gatekeeper. Comparing yourself to the Watergate scandal doesn't help.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
We used exactly one method of judging a game's quality; playing it. The only time I ever gave a shit about a game review was AVGN and that's because he was funny. Then there was Spoony who made me laugh by shitting on a world renowned game & showed step by step why it was shit; it was then I began to trust the independent reviewing community and even that eventually turned out to be bullshit when Doug Walker up and admitted that he literally regurgitates what his fans want to hear, essentially letting fan requests write his scripts for him but I digress.
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There's a sensible reason why people don't do this for everything: money and time. New video games are still very much a luxury product, and even short ones still take hours to tear through. There weren't even the prevalent digital copies you could buy at a discount like there are now. Unless you had parents or other older relatives who were both interested and willing to invest the dough, you needed some way to know you weren't getting screwed.

In a better world, there'd be some sort of video game equivalent to F4W Online: independent, no bullshit, funded entirely by subscriptions to the point where the capital is endlessly sustainable, staffed by people with knowledge and integrity, and with actual connections and journalistic credentials rather than mopes like Richard Eisenbeis and Nathan Grayson and every single spooge cleaner who gave Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 a good review. But, as this Gamergate shitstorm has spent the past year demonstrating, René Descartes was full of shit.
 
*Asterisk* said:
There's a sensible reason why people don't do this for everything: money and time. New video games are still very much a luxury product, and even short ones still take hours to tear through. There weren't even the prevalent digital copies you could buy at a discount like there are now. Unless you had parents or other older relatives who were both interested and willing to invest the dough, you needed some way to know you weren't getting screwed.
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No, you had used games, sometimes for pennies depending on the console. There was also this thing called "rentals" back when Blockbuster was still a store you could walk inside. We also had friends and played each other's games. There were all kinds of ways of getting to play games without spending a fuck ton of money.

*Asterisk* said:
In a better world, there'd be some sort of video game equivalent to F4W Online: independent, no bullshit, funded entirely by subscriptions to the point where the capital is endlessly sustainable, staffed by people with knowledge and integrity, and with actual connections and journalistic credentials rather than mopes like Richard Eisenbeis and Nathan Grayson and every single spooge cleaner who gave Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 a good review. But, as this Gamergate shitstorm has spent the past year demonstrating, René Descartes was full of shit.
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Who fucking cares? You already stated that you can get discounted digital games, like on Steam and Humble Bundle.
 
Being lectured about video games by an unattractive woman triggers gamergaters, reminding them of the traumatic day mom threatened to take away the Nintendo.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
When I was a kid, the only purpose for IGN or Gamespot was their cheat codes & even then, their library was garbage. I couldn't fathom anyone being so retarded as to read their reviews, much less take them to heart.
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And even in the stone print media age, there actually were computer and video game publications that employed actual honest-to-goodness journalists. (A while ago, I was looking for programming articles from 1980s. Laughed out loud when one article poked fun at the as-a-rule-worthless British gaming magazines.) Generally, you could try to find magazines whose critics occasionally actually criticised games. And didn't ever use the word EXCLUSIVE in the cover.

Alan Pardew said:
CONTINUED ON.... THE GAMERGATE CANNIBALISM
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*sigh*
I've said it before: TB is a competent game reviewer-firstimpressionist-whateverthefuck, but getting him anywhere near social media only leads to weirdness. He says... things that tend to rile up the stupidest hatedom in the interwebs really quickly.
Also: How to spot a deeply dysfunctional community? Throwing people under bus on a moment's notice.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
No, you had used games, sometimes for pennies depending on the console. There was also this thing called "rentals" back when Blockbuster was still a store you could walk inside. We also had friends and played each other's games. There were all kinds of ways of getting to play games without spending a fuck ton of money.

Who fucking cares? You already stated that you can get discounted digital games, like on Steam and Humble Bundle.
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I'm referring specifically to the new games market. By the time most are willing to buy a used game, there's already been a pretty strong consensus built around it. Sometimes it'll mean a game which doesn't deserve the adulation has been lionized in the public's eye and you'll only find out by playing yourself, like with FFX. Sometimes it means a game that was savaged in the press actually has a lot more to offer than you'd initially expect, like Dark Corners of the Earth. But what would be nice is if those cocksuckers at Kotaku or IGN or Gametrailers had some integrity and would be willing to tell you what's what the first time. Besides, even if every game on Earth was free, people only ever have so much time so they're always gonna want someone to steer them in the right direction on what to and to not waste their time on.

Things have actually gotten much better nowadays since you can see the game played on the Web in person rather than relying on a glorified prostitution service like Game Informer, but a lot of LPers are still just mopes who don't really know all that much about video games.

That said, I'm well aware none of this is the reason why Gamergate came about. It was birthed almost entirely from years of growing resentment between Tumblrinas, COD Fans, Hipster Cunts, and the Trilby crowd. That doesn't mean there aren't serious problems in the video game world that I'd like to see address: it just means I'm not willing to act like like a total sperg while using my real name over an issue this silly.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
It never ceases to astound me how people could have so much conviction over something so utterly meaningless and inconsequential. When I was a kid, the only purpose for IGN or Gamespot was their cheat codes & even then, their library was garbage. I couldn't fathom anyone being so retarded as to read their reviews, much less take them to heart. They always gave shitty reviews to games they weren't sponsored to write & the reasons as to why were always obvious; if you don't pay me to give your game a good review, I'm going to butcher it. The atmosphere was never more transparent.

We used exactly one method of judging a game's quality; playing it. The only time I ever gave a shit about a game review was AVGN and that's because he was funny. Then there was Spoony who made me laugh by shitting on a world renowned game & showed step by step why it was shit; it was then I began to trust the independent reviewing community and even that eventually turned out to be bullshit when Doug Walker up and admitted that he literally regurgitates what his fans want to hear, essentially letting fan requests write his scripts for him but I digress.

Ultimately, I think this is the reckoning of the 2000s generation of gamers becoming adults; their adolescence was spent in an atmosphere of teabagging and they lost touch with reality so hard that the console war became their life's purpose or some shit like that. That's how it looks to me, only instead of the 360 & PS3, you have GamerGate and Anti-GamerGate & the people outside looking in are the equivalent to Wii owners.

Reviews are really just opening posts to long flame wars & reviewers are actors that write their own scripts, sometimes literally such as the case with Lewis Lovhaug.

Maybe I'm thinking too deeply into this, maybe everyone in this is completely aware of the bullshit & mistakenly relying on each other's ignorance to coast toward e-fame & their rivalries are an act dependent on an unspoken agreement. If only.

By the way, GamerGate and Anti-GamerGate are retarded names. Nothing describes you as an asshole like describing yourself as a gatekeeper. Comparing yourself to the Watergate scandal doesn't help.
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I don't think Gamergate is large enough to be representative of a generation. KotakuInAction currently has about 50k subscribers, so the total amount of pro-GG folk together with the channers would be about 56k. That's fairly miniscule. A lot of people on both sides and beyond think that the whole controversy is larger than it actually is.
 
*Asterisk* said:
I'm referring specifically to the new games market. By the time most are willing to buy a used game, there's already been a pretty strong consensus built around it. Sometimes it'll mean a game which doesn't deserve the adulation has been lionized in the public's eye and you'll only find out by playing yourself, like with FFX. Sometimes it means a game that was savaged in the press actually has a lot more to offer than you'd initially expect, like Dark Corners of the Earth. But what would be nice is if those cocksuckers at Kotaku or IGN or Gametrailers had some integrity and would be willing to tell you what's what the first time.
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The ultimate problem with any honest review is that it is innately somebody's opinion. Even if they were totally honest, & if they were they wouldn't make any money, they would still get a lot of people very angry because they're judging the game by their tastes. Even if the dishonesty ended, the accusations of dishonesty wouldn't. Many of them would ultimately just end up resorting to regurgitating fan reviews to please the masses.

*Asterisk* said:
Besides, even if every game on Earth was free, people only ever have so much time so they're always gonna want someone to steer them in the right direction on what to and to not waste their time on.
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We're expecting video game reviewers to have said amount of time? How many games get published every day? They wouldn't be able to keep up the pace for very long, especially if you're expecting in-depth reviews rather than first impressions.

*Asterisk* said:
Things have actually gotten much better nowadays since you can see the game played on the Web
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This has been the case since 2008, not exactly revolutionary. I also do not have the multiple hours of time to sink in a full LP to gauge a game's quality. You have any idea what the average length of an LP is? Let's look at an LP of Soma, which is three hours. I can't gauge the game's quality by the first 30 or so minutes either because most people spend that time acclimating to the game.

*Asterisk* said:
in person rather than relying on a glorified prostitution service like Game Informer, but a lot of LPers are still just mopes who don't really know all that much about video games.
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You don't need encyclopedic knowledge to play a fucking video game. Why would I need to know "much" about video games overall when all I need is to know the game I'm playing now? In fact, if an LP's purpose is to gauge a new game, they wouldn't know much about that game either since it's new.
 
cat said:
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Hashtag campaigns are about as influential as petition signing campaigns; a waste of time. Let them have their little time sink.
 
Never have so many people worried about something so damn small and irrelevant.

Say what you want about the SJWs, at least sexism and racial inequality are things that can exist in the real world. Gaymergayters care about something that will never matter in the grand scheme of things. It's like the Jimmy Kimmel letsplay controversy- It doesn't matter even slighty, but these people will insist that Kimmel will pay for insulting their 'lifestyle' :lol:
 
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