So one Reddit GamerGater recently took offense when a commenter in the Kotaku in Action subreddit said something that maybe, possibly, just a teensy bit suggested that Gaters weren’t a fighting force as tightly disciplined as the Marines.
Ha!
You want organized? I’ll show you organized. Here is actual video footage of a worldwide conspiracy against humankind. I don’t know how they do it, but I’m telling you, THESE CATS ARE COORDINATING THEIR ATTACKS.
H/T — r/BestOfOutrageCulture and the thoughtful reader who linked me to them
“We can organize gaming parties, why can’t we organize GamerGate?!”
That’s like saying “I can organize a small get-together with my friends at a convenient location, I should be able to organize a political party!”
It’s not the same thing, broskis.
And you’re severely overestimating yourselves.
I know persons who have organized 40 man raids in WoW (although those aren’t a thing anymore if they didn’t change it since I stopped playing). Those are definitely feats I can respect. It is, however, not “activism” even in the vile form that GGers understand it.
This makes me think of the people who are sure that restaurant-quality cooking can’t be that hard, because they make grilled cheese sandwiches like a BOSS.
Maybe that’s why the White Rose group failed – not enough WoW rehearsal.
Speaking of Gamergate, they are currently trying furiously to bring down Kiva Bay’s Kickstarter.
Spoiler: they’re not doing very well.
here’s the Mary Sue article about it: http://www.themarysue.com/feminist-deck-kiva-bay-kickstarter/
Except raid bosses aren’t people. Seriously — either admit they’re different things, or that you’re dogpiling with no regard to people’s actual humanity, you glorified litterbox leavings.
Also, you should not be playing WoW for 1.13 days. That is both absurdly specific and way too long.
Besides, you’ll let your raid down if you conk out in the middle.
These guys seriously need to step outside their homes, the games fried their brains.
So I read this, and then I went out to lunch, and the restaurant had a photo of the local Little League team they sponsor. There were sixteen people in the photo – nine starting players, plus five replacements, plus the coach and assistant coach. If you figure that a Little League match needs two teams, plus an umpire and a scorekeeper, plus some parents to help out with transportation, that’s on the order of 40 people total.
I do agree that anyone with the skills to organize a World of Warcraft 40-man raid would probably also be able to organize a Little League game. Organizing a whole Little League tournament is a lot harder, because then there would be two management levels, and doing top-level management requires a whole other set of skills. I’m not sure if there’s anyone in Gamergate that’s able to work at that level.
“I was organizing 40-man WoW Raids”? Really? Yeah try again. This is me as a recalcitrant Gamer and Raider talking but this person is full of it. 40-Man WoW raids comprised of about 15-20 people who actually knew what they were doing and were on point and about 20-25 more people who just needed to have a pulse. The hardest part was finding enough people to sub when those last 8 people didn’t turn up on time. If you’re hyping up your organizational strength based on doing Molten Core you’re making an even bigger fool of yourself to any person who actually knows what you’re talking about.
Actually now that think of it GamerGate is a lot like Vanilla WoW raiding. It’s a disorganized mess with a few loud core voices, it spends all of its time tilting at imaginary opponents, it’s talked up to being way more than it actually ever is or was, it frequently implodes laughably due to drama, and it sucks. WoW’s raiding got a hell of a lot better when they dumped 40-mans and Gaming in general will be a lot better once #Gamergate is finally dumped into the dustbin of history.
andiexist,
In case your comment is not intended as a joke, by “raiding in wow 1.13 days” he means playing raids in the days when WoW was in version 1.13. If it was a joke, then ignore me and carry on. 🙂
@andiexist
Someone’s gonna quote mine you. And it’s gonna be so stupid of them.
What these clowns meant is that they’ve been playing the MMO since patch #1.13, which… you know, is 13 patches after release. Not exactly the old-school cred they’re hoping for.
1.13 is a version number, so he’s saying he’s been playing since the days when WoW was on patch 1.13.
I think this is trolling, actually. There was no patch 1.13 of WoW – it got to 1.12, and then it rolled over to 2.0, so I think citing patch 1.13 is a wink to the camera. Combined with comparing the experience of putting together a 40-man raid – which required strong leadership & scheduling to wrangle 40 cats – to the formless Gamergaters just yelling about shit on Twitter is just too absurd to be serious.
The number of cats being a-holes for the sake of being a-holes in this video seemed to be disproportionately Maine Coons.
This matches everyday random data collected in my own home perfectly.
Tod,
This adds to my anecdotal evidence that my cat is part Maine coon then.
All the breed behaviors fit. He’s big and he doesn’t like hot weather.
“WE HUNTED THE (PIXEL) MAMMOTH TO FEED YOU! WE DIED IN THE (PIXEL) WARS AND…”
Yeah, m’kay. Those guys’re are a lot more disorganized than my clothes drawers.
Once I neatly organized some Tetris blocks into a smooth, flat row and made it disappear. Still waiting for my call from the U.N.
I once trained a badly-behaved dog to stop jumping fences. Next up: Full-time crocodile wrestler!
@andiexist
He’s defending their organizational skills, not their humanity. Say what you want about Mussolini, at least he made the trains run on time.*
FWIW, I have led online tribes before and organized attacks by upwards of a dozen people where I gave everyone instructions timed to the second about when to launch how much against whom so it arrived at the proper time half a day later. They worked well even with only 3 or 4 of us doing what we were supposed to, because that level of coordination is so rare and devastating for others to see used against them. In my experience, he’s vastly misremembering how many of the little sociopaths actually follow their instructions.
*Note, Mussolini was also a complete failure at organizing the trains to run on time.
I think this is today’s theme song, considering:
(And, no, I totally haven’t been waiting to post this? What are you saying? *shifty eyes*)
Hi, long time lurker, first time commenter. Just wanted to chime in and point out that Gamergate finally got the Society of Professional Journalists to acknowledge them by flooding their Ethics Week hashtag with harassment (http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/ethics/2015/05/03/transparency-civility-and-respect-in-ethical-debates/) (SPOILERS! The SPJ was not a fan of them). That hashtag trolling took some planning on their part, so that’s something they’ve ‘accomplished’ (in a loose sense of the term).
I wasn’t paying attention, but I think one of those cats disposed of a scented fucking candle.
“I’ve organized things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire in “b-r5rb”. I watched Orcs glitter in the dark near Pandaria. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.”
Sorry. I’ll let myself out.
I once organized an online tournament with about 50 participants and it went off without a hitch.
I reckon this means I’m ready to take command of the Pacific theater.
Favorite cat in the vid is the one at 44 seconds. Just sitting there, chillaxing, and then it’s like FUCK YOU, DIET COKE.
@Shalimar:
Sometimes I think they confuse yelling commands with actual leadership. Also, how can you have an organized group when many of the people who would be in it seem to think they are the leader?
I love that video games give me the illusion of lots of things. I’m a rock star! I’m a urban planner! I’m a fighter pilot! I’m a brilliant resource manager and military strategist!
I don’t think I can do these things in real life.