In a series of brilliant, furious Tweets, Zoe Quinn tears apart the myth that #GamerGate has "moved beyond" harassment of women

“Julian Assange, wikileaks guy and probable rapist” ya “probable” rapist, the man is wanted on sexual assault charges in Sweden and GB was going to extradite so he is pissing his pants holed up in a fucking South American embassy in London and writing conspiracy theories about the CIA and NSA and whatever the fuck so you’ll confuse him with Angela fucking Davis or something if you’re still a confused lefty who thinks he’s a great guy because he said something critical about the USA MIC.

He said something positive about #gamergate because OF COURSE he did.

What Assange is accused of doing but refuses to face his accuser in a court of law even though he would probably do less time in a candy-ass Scandinavian prison than he’s already done trapped eating and shitting in a fucking office building for diplomats like a right prat is the very thing that George Will and other Serious Conservative Thinkers were anger-fapping out loud about California making illegal (even though actually they just excluded some defenses in state college academic disciplinary boards, ie the people who can expel you for conduct; it would have been nice if they had tackled the criminal code as well).

Hope my language isn’t too crude. These people really disgust me.

@Bernardo Soares, that open connection between FPS dev and war materiel manufacturers is astounding.

@Another Holocene Human

Assange’s concern is that he’d be promptly extradited to the United States and then spend the rest of his life in prison with a specific court order forbidding internet access.

@Holocene
Yes. it was of course always clear that especially games like CoD, Battlefield or Arma cater to a military fetish, but they have gone far beyond that. In trying to be as authentic as possible, they simulate the newest weapons and military technology. Of course, this can only work in collaboration with the armament manufacturers, as those have the copyright on the original designs.

Sometimes, you can find references to these collaborations in the credits. Some of the manufacturers deny such a collaboration (Heckler & Koch, for example), but the gun designs have been copied so meticulously that their claim beggars belief.

Some developers (Crytek) have sold their game engines to armies who use them to develop training software as well as software for use in posttraumatic care for soldiers (see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XngMr4uHAj0) Bohemia Interactive, as mentioned, is actually one part of a company. The other part develops military training software (and seems to earn more money doing that), uses the Arma engine and knowledge and code are exchanged between the two.

Of course, I’m sure many Gamergaters don’t have a problem with that, have probably exactly the military fetish these developers actively cater to and wouldn’t see it as corruption, as it doesn’t involve women who make games about empathy they don’t like.

You could argue that some people tried to dissuade the trolls from attacking her, but a lot of Gamer Gate supporters aren’t that keen on cleaning house, but more keen on defending the image of GamerGate as not really being misogynist.

That. Exactly that. And part of their defending GG as not misogynist is justifying and excusing the anti-feminist/misogynist things other GGers say.

I just looked at that Patreon for the proposed Sarkeesian Effect video. Apparently they’re up to almost $8600 monthly in pledges, which is over 50% of their initial goal for when they start filming. I guess it’s true what they say: a fool and his money are soon parted.

By all means, I want them to make their docummentary. It’s going to be a hoot, like the Expelled of whiny nerdery.

A sociological researcher was brigaded by GamerGate for daring to survey gamers about their attitudes to diversity. As she herself says, she would’ve gladly welcomed the data had the GGers answered honestly. Instead she got this onslaught of assholes fucking up her response collection just because they could.

When the only way you can think of to make a difference is to break stuff, it doesn’t matter how nicely you dress it up and convince yourself you’re a good guy – to impartial observers you look like an ass.

A post script to my rant from before, one of my relatives was sexually assaulted at work. The assaulter lied with a straight face how he didn’t do anything, and then proceeded to dig up as much dirt as he could about my relative to try to invalidate anything she says.

Sounds familiar?

I am unimpressed with either this blog or the blogger’s abilities as a writer

Despite all your sesquipedalian bafflegab and polysyllabic gibberish, I am unimpressed with either your comment or your abilities as a commenter.

How do you like THEM apples?

RE: Dipshit Knight

As grotesque and incomprehensible it may be to your personal sensibilities, every argument and debate had two sides and both sides deserve equally attention and fair coverage.

Teach the controversy! Evolution vs. Intelligent Design! Abolitionists vs. the KKK! Both sides deserve equal attention and fair coverage, which is to say, Intelligent Design and the KKK are both full of shit and need to bugger off.

That’s what you meant, right?

Did Sir Dipshit seriously just unironically pull the “two sides” thing that mainstream media is routinely lambasted for? Wow.

Also, good luck arguing about #gamergate’s actual goal, Mr. Dipshit. Like the MRM, it’s very simple to declare a noble goal that your pet movement claims to strive for. And, also like the MRM, it’s very simple to show that the actual actions of that movement do nothing but harass.

Congratulations. You’ve successfully made yourself into another person’s sounding board. Despite the amount of tweets you’ve reused and recycled in order to make what could dubiously be described as a ‘point’ you have failed to properly illustrate why the gamergate argument is not a two-sided one.

As grotesque and incomprehensible it may be to your personal sensibilities, every argument and debate had two sides and both sides deserve equally attention and fair coverage.

This was literally the first tweet posted to the gamergate hashtag.

https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/504801169638567936

As you can see, it links a slut-shaming video targeting Zoe Quinn. The supposed corruption involving her sleeping with a journalist to get a favorable review for her game has been de-bunked multiple times. The allegations have been shown to be total bullshit multiple times. Which means that the “other side” is literally mucking around in the sex life of someone of whom they had never heard two months ago.

*sips coffee* What was that you were saying? Something about how both “sides” of an issue deserve equal attention?