#Gamergaters applaud hiring of fake gamer as Breitbart Tech editor

Just before leaving for work this morning, my wife mentioned the word ‘yodel’, and for the last four hours I’ve had the yodelling music from the Alpine stage of Tekken 6 stuck in my head, an obvious result of having heard it literally hundreds of times. This is the terrible, beautiful curse of being a fan of video games, and I pray for Milo’s sake he never has to experience it, especially as he already seems to have a lot on his plate with the whole ‘being a laughable fucking asshole’ thing.

Eccch. I’m sure Big Hollywood’s editor – deeply embittered failed moviemaker John Nolte – at least feels like less of a fraud compared to Milo. Nolte made one movie, whereas by comparison, Milo ain’t done squat in the field he is pretending to be an expert in. Then again, Breitbart also has mad-dog racist Pamela Geller as their expert on Middle East affairs, so there’s that.

“Pak Protector”?

Orion: My eyes bugged out when I saw that.

The Pak are an alien race from Larry Niven’s Ringworld series that humans are supposedly descended from. It was an attempt to explain how the adverse effects of aging in humans are evolutionary castoffs from the Paks: essentially, we lost the ability to metamorphose into Protectors late in life, after menopause and andropause.

Hence his comments about “rising above their biology”; Pak Protectors can no longer produce children and are supposedly more detached and enlightened as a result. You could imagine that he said “Vulcan” and have it mean essentially the same thing—he’s using fictional intellectually-superior alien races as rationalization for being incel/MGTOW.

(Disclaimer: it’s been a long time since I read Ringworld so I had to turn to Wikipedia to fill in the blanks. Milo should try that, sometime.)

The whole 60fps being best is a myth perpetuated by the GPU industry, The fact of the matter is that 60fps is actually damaging to your eyes and brain because your brain wasn’t mean to process fps’es at that speed. It’s a well known fact that real life only moves at at max 47fps (sometimes dropping as low as 28fps depending on the amount of people and nature that must be rendered.

My Evo psych major buddy says this is most likely due to the fact that living on the plains of Africa in small tribes, there weren’t many trees, and we lived in smaller tribes, so our brains were made to settle at the max 47fps of reality. If we had evolved in cities or big forests, or big forested cities, our minds woulda probably only worked best with 30 fps…

“Big forested cities…” I lol’d. You are awesome.

When I took a class in old-school animation (like, taking your piece of paper with something drawn on it, clicking the camera twice, then taking the next piece of hand-drawn paper, clicking the camera twice…), I think I remember frame rates were either 16 or 32 fps. I could be mixing that up with camera size, though.

As for the above quiz, all I knew was that Linus Torvalds made Linux,

But quizzes like that are kind of bullshit anyway, given how people’s experiences with a field of study or of entertainment can be vastly different. E.g., I’ve never read Hamlet. I’ve never even seen a production of Hamlet. Someone should take my M.A. in English literature away 🙂

Maybe Milo isn’t a good gamer, but he’s a good journalist. He knows when to laugh at things, and he knows when to take things seriously, and that’s all we’ve asked for for the entirety of this exchange.

We don’t hate women, we just want good journalism in our field, and to protect your narrative I expect you’ll delete this comment with gale force, proving my point further.

But but but don’t those exemplars of ethics hate shameless pandering and people who disparage gamers!?

THE ETHICS!

On a side note, did anyone else look at the KIA question about Milos pc and see it as a take on “Does your pc even lift bro?”

Personal computer.

Man, those guys really hate dyed hair. What the heck is up with that?

Umm … the same thing that is going one with people in “our” circle hating Fedoras? A fedora is just a stupid hat and probably shouldn’t cause a person to think positively or negatively about someone … but would you be willing to bet $$$ that any denizen of WHTM is going to give the time of day to anyone who tries to chat her up while wearing one?

Didn’t think so.

It’s called signaling. Blue hair is just blue hair … and Fedoras are just Fedoras …. but both have also become signals for membership in certain cultural subgroups. Not surprisingly, people who don’t like the members of those subgroup have a learned aversion to those signals as well.

I guess, but let me know when someone from “”our” circle” writes a screed about how asshole men are biologically programmed to wear fedoras.

Which is a shame because Fedoras are lovely hats and, as a bald man, I’m very much in favour of hats coming back into fashion. And it’s hard to wear a cowboy hat without looking a bit of an arse on this side of the atlantic.

At least there’s still the flat cap. Please tell me that doesn’t signal anything awful?

Also, David, please don’t compare Milo to The Cure, who I’m sure wouldn’t piss down Milo’s throat if his heart was on fire.

Milo’s look is more Made In Chelsea Neo-Nazi Patrick Bateman Fan Club.