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

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c-no said:
Just going to leave this here in relation to GamerGate:
A journalist who was said to have some beef on Palmer Luckey because GamerGate and/or Trump voter makes himself an idiot.
"Elon Musk is making a rich people GamerGate"
http://archive.is/96iPT
https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/1000589162213511170

Of course it got some hot takes dunking it.
http://archive.is/cc4wl
https://twitter.com/pcgamersquid/status/1000843460742656000
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I bet that there'll be conspiracy theories claiming GG was set up by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to descredit jornalism and feminism.
 
SiccDicc said:
Yeah, but 5e's designer already agrees with her by the sounds of it - unintentionally saying women are too stupid to understand complex rules - and the person that runs Paizo thinks everything about tabletop/gaming is sexist.
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Because while Wizards of the Coast and Paizo might be successful business-wise they can't design a good system for shit, they're very conservative with mechanics so dumbing down shit and trying to appeal to new, actually quite apathetic audiences is all they can do.
 
Snowflake Buster said:
Guess who's going after board games now? /tg/ is pissed about it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=owq6u1bSZb4
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She’s the very definition of a one trick pony. Everything she’s done has fallen flat since her tropes garbage. Really, I think the issue is McIntosh was the brains behind the operation and when they broke up she didn’t know what to do and still doesn’t. You can see in that interview she did with Colbert she has no idea what she’s talking about and has a surface level understanding of feminism.
 
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Sissy Galvez said:
She’s is the very definition of a one trick pony. Everything she’s done has fallen flat since her trips garbage. Really, I think the issue is McIntosh was the brains behind the operation and when they broke up she didn’t know what to do and still doesn’t. You can see in that interview she did with Colbert she has no idea what she’s talking about and has a surface level understanding of feminism.
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She's shallow and generic. But I think that's exactly why she managed to become relatively successful. Her statements and suggestions are dumb but plain enough for suits to eat up, with promises of new untapped audiences and simple to follow guidelines.
 
Sissy Galvez said:
She’s is the very definition of a one trick pony. Everything she’s done has fallen flat since her tropes garbage. Really, I think the issue is McIntosh was the brains behind the operation and when they broke up she didn’t know what to do and still doesn’t. You can see in that interview she did with Colbert she has no idea what she’s talking about and has a surface level understanding of feminism.
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From what I understand, popular culture was more of his thing. I heard that before McIntosh showed up, Sarkessian was more into women in history. If McIntosh wasn't the brains, he certainly pointed her in that direction. In her thesis, Anita thanked McIntosh for "spending countless hours watching and criticizing television shows with" her.
 
Sissy Galvez said:
She’s is the very definition of a one trick pony. Everything she’s done has fallen flat since her tropes garbage. Really, I think the issue is McIntosh was the brains behind the operation and when they broke up she didn’t know what to do and still doesn’t. You can see in that interview she did with Colbert she has no idea what she’s talking about and has a surface level understanding of feminism.
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My theory is that McIntosh was the true believer, and Anita was in it for the money, and Josh recruited her because he needed a woman to play the helpless maiden. No one cares if a straight white dude gets called names on Twitter, but people will throw money at a (mildly) attractive woman claiming to get 100 rape threats a second.
 
Snowflake Buster said:
Guess who's going after board games now? /tg/ is pissed about it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=owq6u1bSZb4
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So she went from picking on Video Gamers to picking on Magic the Gathering and D&D dweebs at GenCon? That’s like going from being an A-list movie actor to working for The Asylum making SyFy movie of the week shit. Stick a fork in her. She’s done. Fully and completely irrelevant.
 
RodgerDodger said:
So she went from picking on Video Gamers to picking on Magic the Gathering and D&D dweebs at GenCon? That’s like going from being an A-list movie actor to working for The Asylum making SyFy movie of the week shit. Stick a fork in her. She’s done. Fully and completely irrelevant.
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I hope someone rapes and murders her. <-- desperate ploy to get a screenshot in some bullshit TV episode
 
'I'm Choosing to Live Again': Anita Sarkeesian on Surviving Online Abuse
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'I'm Choosing to Live Again': Anita Sarkeesian on Surviving Online Abuse

Anita Sarkeesian, who has been the target of vicious and coordinated online attacks since Gamergate, sits down with host Amanda Knox to discuss how she handles harassment today for The Scarlet Letter Reports.
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    Photo of Anita Sarkeesian via The Scarlet Letter Reports.

    In the first episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports, I sit down with feminist media critic and founder of Feminist Frequency, Anita Sarkeesian.

    In 2012, Anita launched a Kickstarter to fund a web series examining sexist portrayals of women in video games, called Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. This trigged a massive, coordinated harassment campaign against Anita, led by an anonymous, online community of gamers. The barrage of harassment coincided with the Gamergate campaign against Zoe Quinn, which only intensified the amount of doxing, threats, and online abuse.


    Anita faced horrific levels of harassment—from bomb and death threats at events to having her face and the faces of family members photoshopped onto pornographic images. While most women have not experienced the intensity of harassment that Anita endured, she is also the first to say that none of this is unique to her—it’s an extreme version of what most women and girls deal with just by existing on the internet. The difference is in degree, not kind. Men claim a majority stake in the internet and gaming community, and women—especially young women—encounter sexist and sexualized online abuse at much higher rates than men.

    But despite years of harassment, Anita decided not to let anyone else take away her voice. She still runs Feminist Frequency and continues to speak out on issues around sexism, video games, and online harassment. “I’m still going through it, and I’m choosing to be a human again. I’m choosing to live again,” she said.

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    Amanda Knox meets with Feminist Frequency founder Anita Sarkeesian.
    As someone who has also received numerous death threats, and is subjected to daily harassment by anonymous trolls who shower abuse on me as vigilante punishment for a crime I didn’t commit, I know what it’s like to face a grueling uphill battle just to have a presence, like everyone else, on the internet.

    Games and the internet can be a liberating, creative outlet for many. The question is: how can we make sure it can be that way for everyone? How can we be free to express ourselves and be free from harassment? And, what is the cost of having a voice?


    You can watch the full episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports now on Facebook Watch.

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The Facebook Video - Probably need an account
 
Rather sad that tabletopgate is likely to be a thing with how determined anti ggers are to try and stay relevant. Tabletop games have always had a soft spot in my heart
 
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