#GamerGate activist: Media coverage of death threats against Brianna Wu means "they're now taking us seriously."

I would to see the expressions on their faces when the SWAT teams come through their doors and windows at 5am

Oh that’s priceless, Shaenon. Yet more proof that “collusion” only matters when it’s someone GamerGaters already want to hate, and that they’ll almost always find the woman at fault regardless of the situation.

@tinyorc:

I keep trying to write post about GamerGate, but those damn goalposts just will not stay in one place long enough.

QFT. There seems to be a feeling that if they just SAY they’re nice loud enough, that all the bad stuff that’s happened as part of GG will just go away somehow. Problem with that is that as someone’s already said in a blog somewhere, by definition GamerGate is whatever someone does in the name of GamerGate, and that includes the harmful stuff.

The Underpants Gnomes had a more solid plan for achieving their purported aims than GamerGate.

Step 1: wreck shit
Step 2: ???
Step 3: JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY

Also, did we all see that #GamerGate* brigaded a survey on diversity in gaming? Social researcher Jennifer Allaway was trying to collect actual data on whether diversity in game content is important to players, containing such clearly biased questions such as “Describe your racial identity” and “How many years have you work in the game industry?”

Instead of making sure that GamerGate were represented in the study by, you know, encouraging each other to fill it out honestly, they flooded it with disingenuous, sexist, threatening answers in order to “contaminate the data”. Allaway herself said:

Had #Gamergate participated in my survey honestly, as a researcher, I would gladly have taken their data. After all, I recognize that they play games, and to exclude their data purely on the grounds of our moral disagreement would be unethical. They would have added a layer of diverse opinions to the data set.

But hey, why participate honestly in a legitimate academic study when you can sabotage it instead, right guys? INTEGRITY! TRANSPARENCY! NO AGENDAS! Ququasar, you can add this to your list of GamerGate achievements.

*Or, sorry, people who claim to be part of #GamerGate, posting on 8chan, which is currently acting as the primary GG base #NOTALLGAMERS etc.

Although Waters was, of course, joking. Worryingly, some people really do seem to think that this is a good idea.

@tinyorc, I’ve found the same thing in my discussions over Twitter with GamerGate people – some of it might be due to the intentionally stifled form of communication that it enforces, but nobody’s been able to give me an answer as to what GamerGate actually wants. Someone linked me to a video by Matt (the one with the skull) where he went on about Zoe Quinn’s personal life for seven minutes, and another talked about feminists pushing their agenda on games but didn’t answer when I asked for an example of what is allowed now that wouldn’t be allowed in the future.

The closest thing I got to a reason was that someone gave Bayonetta 2 a 7.5 because they thought women could be represented better in it – so “people having different opinions” is the only issue I’ve identified so far.

Wait, I hadn’t noticed that before. They think that PR emails (for which the companies doing the PR compile lists, or purchase them) are evidence of a conspiracy?

Yes. Here is Vox Day’s tweet on it (note that at least one person tried to call him out on his stupidity):

https://twitter.com/voxday/status/512507885931470849

And here is his post on the same issue (read the comments, his followers are as stupid as he is): http://www.donotlink.com/c1k2

Good god Vox hasn’t worked a day in his life as a journalist has he?

To be fair, that was written by someone named Milo Yiannopoulis. I don’t know who he is, but apparently he’s a new writer at Breitbart. I saw where someone else said he didn’t give a shit about video games or video game players, and he was actually disdainful of both before the gamergate hashtag became a thing, so I suspect what he’s doing is attempting to bolster his burgeoning career. (Baldwin, on the other hand, has done voice work in video games, and I think that gamergate has given him the most attention he’s had since Firefly fandom has waned. I’d be interested to see how his career goes once his current TV projects wrap.)

Here we are. Bask in the glory of TEH GAMERZ RIGHTZ ZOMG:

https://storify.com/CriticalKelly/dear-gaming-journalists

@ryeash, that’s… astonishingly ill-conceived 🙂 What a find!

I must give credit where credit is due. A Mr. @acesrhigh, in his own words:

https://twitter.com/acesrhigh/status/521493345533984768

It’s not 100% SPOT ON THO GUIZE.

He would also like us to know of #GamerGate: “We want to games free of limitation”, and his ragequitting buddy had a sentence I deciphered as best as I could “who’s one the hard left is not in the eyes of the beholder”. I think I confused my Gibberish dialects, because he was very offended by my interpretation.

There is room for Gone Home, just as there is room for God of War III (as their artists envision them, and as the fans enjoy them) We believe “increasing possibilities” is important to grow and enrich the tapestry that is our gaming culture; but it must be done with Care and Patience.

“Changes must come Gradually and Slowly, so as to not Upset our Fragile Egos. By which I mean, never, or at least until we’re dragged kicking and screaming into the light, then we’ll still complain and push back every step of the way like the good reactionaries we are.”

We are always open to rational debate on the validity of these points, however; intellectually dishonest engagement may be met with creative ridicule.

“And by creative ridicule we mean death threats and harassment. All in good fun, of course.”