#GamerGate in 35 Seconds

This is GamerGate:

Last night I was watching that Louis C.K. special while my laptop was open to some gamerbro saying, “Zoe didn’t even make the game she made, she had sex with two guys and got them to make it for her, EDUCATE YOURSELF,” and I went, fuck this, Pig Newtons are a more productive argument.

I started playing Depression Quest. It’s really good. I’m not crying, not at all.

I’m Australian…what the fuck is a Pig Newton???

Leisha, http://gawker.com/5714388/louis-ck-on-pig-newtons

But I think that misreading it as Fig Newton is just as valid as well, which is what I did…

An alternative view on GamerGate:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jk2rq/ama_im_a_female_game_developer_that_has_been_in/

Yeah Jaspers, for anybody who’s actually watched this crap unfold for two months a single AMA means very little in the face of:
– dozens (hundreds?) of women tweeting to #StopGamerGate2014 talking about how scared they are to be in the industry, consider entering the industry, or parents talking about how GG has made them worried about their daughters going into the industry
– the hundreds of women who’ve been harassed by troll brigades for saying “you know, the people who are saying the industry has sexism problems aren’t entirely wrong”
– Brianna Wu. Zoe Quinn. Anita Sarkeesian. I shouldn’t even need to explain.
– the way all the “journalistic ethics” ideas in GG are splintered six ways to Sunday but the anti-feminist sentiment is a uniting theme (and IDGAF if they manage to find one or two “feminists” who’ll turn a blind eye to the harassment to be held up as trophies by the movement, the 8chan/Reddit rallying points are dripping with contempt for feminism – I mean FFS you’re linking to KiA)

Nice try.

The AMA includes groundbreaking new anti-feminist arguments such as

I have never been mistreated for being a woman.

Also victim-blaming:

This is a girl straight out of high school, in college to do what she loves, and these people are literally scaring the crap out of her and making her second guess her career choice.

…where “these people” doesn’t mean the people doxxing, threatening and harassing, but the people complaining about being doxxed, threatened and harassed.

She goes on to state that she’s anti-feminist and a fan of Christina H Sommers. Wait, I thought Sommers was the one GamerGate-approved feminist?

@Jaspers

Why is it that so long as they confirm your world view, just one single person’s experiences are worth more than the experiences of hundreds of women?

I am a woman who has worked in games for seven years. I am absolutely opposed to #GamerGate and anyone who supports it. It is a hate group. It has chased numerous women out of the industry, and if you don’t know that already, you are embarrassingly ignorant of the things you support. Is there a reason you are doing everything humanly possible to ruin my craft? Because plenty of game devs I know, men and women, have lamented that #GamerGate is making them not want to be devs any more. Why make games for an audience that’s so awful? We want to speak out against you all. But unlike the chill girls who tow your party line, we would be risking having our families threatened and our employers harassed and so we are censored by your little harassment brigade. You should be fucking ashamed of yourself.

Charlie Brooker wrote a column about GamerGate here, which is mildly amusing:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/20/gamergate-internet-toughest-game-woman-enemies?CMP=fb_gu

But it got me thinking – with so many sock-puppets and false-flag chicanery, would it be likely for GamerGaters to get mixed up and start harassing, doxxing and abusing other GamerGaters who are, or pretending to be, women? Would it cause them all to have a sudden epiphany?

By this point, the whole thing is such an unintelligible tangle of duplicitous nonsense, how does anyone know which SIDE anyone is on??
– I’ve heard claims of SJWs provoking GGers to commit suicide; GGers harassing and then calling for emergency assistance for Chloe Sagal; True-believers who still think GG really is about journalistic ethics; GG trolls pointing out true-believers as the “real” majority of GGers to cover for the tide of shit; attempts to coerce Anil Dash into voicing support for GG; Claims that GGers are raising money for anti-bullying charities… All of which is probably at least partially lies, distortions and wilful misinterpretation.
There are those who are ignorant, and those relying on the ignorant to bandwagon onto whatever they tweet, and apparently some trying to manipulate the sheer force of GG towards their own ends, even against the stated aims of GamerGate…. Damned if I can keep up with any of it.

All hail the Empanada Truck! I LOVED it.

Although I’m living in my grandparents’ house, in the richer side of town, for the past few years I’ve been renting small places in less-than-luxurious neighborhoods, and I could still see those trucks.

They were actually vegetable-trucks, but they sounded just the same.

You could even spot the occasional “I-buy-anything-you-can-spare” truck.

I’m gonna watch that Empanada Truck once more, right now!

Damnit, ninja’d by AltoFronto.

What? How exactly did it change from “she cheated on a man” to “she had sex for a good review” to “she had sex to have a game made for her?” Just how much are they going to continue to making shit up without evidence?

That’s what happens when the conspiracy mindset festers in an environment insulated from facts.