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
Unrelated facepalm marathon:
https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/597687270284468224
An action figure with squishable boobs. Actually, a marathon might not be enough facepalms for this.
I believe the “barking cat” is coughing. The switch to meowing sounds like “omg I got caught” but from the cat’s point of view the message was probably more like “please save me from this respiratory problem!”
@M –
Well this makes that whole “But men’s bodies are objectified in geekdom tooooooo” whine feel that much more hollow.
I didn’t make it into Army officer candidate school because I didn’t have any Call of Duty experience. Soon the armed services will get rid of all their leadership schools and just recruit people who like the guy in the OP. Organizing 40 people for an online raid is just like running a platoon during ground combat operations. Truefax.
(And yes, angry gamebros, I do know that the U.S. Army and Air Force are actively recruiting gamers to be drone pilots. That does not mean that everyone one who games is an Audie Murphy or a General Patton in waiting).
Okay, I’m suffering from some severe vitriol over several things right now. Some of them coming from jackholes like the op.
The idea that organizing a raid, something that takes a couple hours in the real world, and can be brought down to doing the same blasted thing over and over again once you find the pattern is not the same as managing an organization with conflicting personalities, a wide range of needs and activities including advocating for one’s cause on various media, and finding the funding to do all the above. Raids, generally speaking, are nice and pat. Life is not, and these guys unfortunately seem to play the clueless out of touch gamer to the hilt.
The urge to kick people off the Willis Tower is strong today….
Bit OT, but still in the realm of game-related awefulness, did anyone else catch this story? http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/failed-christian-shoe-promoter-makes-anti-gay-first-person-shooter/
Wonder if gamergate’s gonna rush to this guy’s defense.
I wonder whether these guys could even get Thanksgiving dinner ready alltogether and all hot? Or is that only for poor, feeble ladybrainz?
I can organize a 3rd grade picnic. I think I can handle sending ground troops to invade Russia. What could go wrong?
@David & Paradoxical Intention
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/f0/f0b7609cb1bb382f12d43e048562dd94544005d1ec47af6990e08661f1c15c19.jpg
@PoM
Discovery did a bit on this clip and they came to the same conclusion
Also, vote Shadow for PM in 2015. I’ve become Ruler of The World in Civilization over 50 times and I’ve been doing it since I was a teen
My kitty had a cold for about a month this winter and would have spells of coughing that sounded sort of like barking. Sort of unnerving.
When the aliens invade, remember everybody, I’ve almost nearly beaten every X-COM game!
Oh, and don’t forget that I’ve survived the wastelands of the post-apocalypse in Fallout, and I’ve been severely irradiated lots of times, so if you need a human Geiger counter, I’m your lady!
Well, ok, so long as you promise not to boss around Mad Max; you know how that upsets people.
I can understand experience in gaming being helpful to drone pilots.
Someone walking through meatspace wearing full battle armor, fifty pounds of gear, in 110 F heat – maaaybe not so much. You don’t get extra lives, even as DLC.
Uh…about that…I may have gotten into an “altercation” with him. And by “altercation”, I mean I saw him standing twenty yards ahead of me, so I took the precaution to snipe him from a distance so I could get that sweet, sweet jacket.
Don’t look at me like that! He had it coming! He was walking about in the wastes by himself wearing a jacket! That I wanted! He has no one but himself to blame for having cool looking gear!
#NotAllPeopleWithSniperRifles
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The cats aren’t being jerks, you know. They’re just helping their hoomans learn how to de clutter their homes. Cats favour minimalist interior design. It allows more space for cats to be wherever they damn well please.
It’s called Toxoplasma gondii and anyone who’s cared for cats and cleaned out their litter trays is likely to have it. (Along with people who eat meat that’s not cooked properly.)
Toxo rewires rat brains to make them attracted to rather than repelled by the scent of cats. There is some speculation it does the same to humans.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0023277
Anyway, “brain parasite” is my favourite excuse for my cat obsession, whether it’s true or not 😉
I can detect all nearby life, encase my enemies in ice, breathe fire, use Unrelenting Force to throw my enemies off cliffs and absorb the souls of dragons COZ I AM THE DRAGON BORN!! lol!
http://media.giphy.com/media/1PWAesPFDQzFm/giphy.gif
So I can totally organise a raid, just like this guy did. XD
http://i.imgur.com/9GPT4hb.gif
@misseb47
That’s even more impressive! Kids are pretty hard to organize just to go to the park. Killing a dragon? Pffft!
I had some lilacs in a vase and Darrow knocked it over because I didn’t feed him quickly enough.
LO! Isn’t just? What makes him even MORE impressive, is that he managed to organise the Army of Children to kill the dragon! XD Check out his video (warning, he swears a lot)
Sorry, I meant ‘isn’t it just’. I really got to proof read my comments before posting them. ^^;
They are about as organized as a locust swarm.