So right-wing garbage site Breitbart has apparently decided to pander to the angry gamer demo even more explicitly with the launch of Breitbart Tech, “a brand new vertical dedicated to coverage of tech, gaming, and web culture.” Naturally, they’ve tapped the unlovely and ungracious Milo Yiannopoulos, Gamergate panderer par excellence, for editor.
Yesterday Milo went to the KotakuInAction subreddit, one of Gamergate’s main hubs, to announce the good news.
One Puckish Redditor gave Milo a little pop quiz to test his knowledge of technology and gaming. Milo, well, failed it.
![HBlight 314 points 19 hours ago Can you, offhand, name your specs for your pc? What model phone do you use? What do you think makes it good? Same question for a tablet if you have one? Complete the following phrase: "It's not a big truck, " Who is Linus Torvalds? Why is 60fps better for gaming even if 24 is perfectly fine for movies? If you can't answer these questions, do you plan to hire those who can? Plenty of "tech" writers out there who just use technology a lot. I'm just wondering if you are willing to get more into the culture of tech beyond this culture war in tech. :P permalinkembedsavereportgive goldreply [–]yiannopoulos_mActual Yiannopoulos, and a pretty big deal ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)[S] 181 points 18 hours ago I can see I still have much to learn.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/milofakegamer.png?resize=526%2C364&ssl=1)
One might presume that such an obvious fake gamer would quickly be hounded from the business by an angry Gamergate mob.
But, nah, someone explained all the answers to Milo and the regulars went on celebrating Milo’s new gig.
Because it’s all about ethics in knowing absolutely nothing about video games.
H/T — r/ShitRedditSays
@maghaven
Good point. I guess I’ve always been uncomfortable with the hate-a-thon for dyed hair because, to me, brightly coloured hair is more a marker of youth than political affiliation – although I suppose it’s both, really.
I do think that the MRM has a lot of middle-aged and older men who spend a lot of time trying to tear down very young women, and I think that’s pretty gross.
“While the trend of macho posturing for “gamer cred” or “hardcore” status, and the policing of the “geek” identity is stupid and toxic,”
Over compensating because they know gamers are considered the least “masculine” of any guys out there.
On another note it just occurred to me that many in the Manosphere could be autogynophiliacs.
Fedora jokes are just fedora jokes. Even though I’m personally not a fan of hats in general, I wouldn’t actually turn down someone for a date or friendship solely on the basis of fedora wearing. I don’t see the rage directed towards men wearing fedorae that anti-feminists have for women who have died hair, are fat, tattooed etc. I think there’s a difference between making fun of an accessory and having a tantrum because a woman doesn’t please their boner.
You’ve said some pretty off stuff, VooT, and I’ve never commented on it, but that’s just some rank transmisogyny. Super not cool imho.
I agree with Viscaria that the last post of Virtually Out Of Touch is at best bizarre, and it’s hard to not see it as anti-trans and/or full of toxic masculinity.
Those are TRILBIES.
Virtually, you just can’t help yourself, can you.
No racism. No Islamophobia. No ableism. And for fuck’s sake, no transphobia. Stop it.
Ninja’d like a thousand times! Oh well, Virtually’s the sort of
trollperson who needs to be told a thousand times anyway.1) No, they’re just assholes.
2) Autogynephilia is bunk, and ignores all the trans people who aren’t trans women attracted to men.
3) If we don’t have a formal policy against internet diagnoses, we ought to.
4) Knock it off.
And we should probably consider dropping it now, lest we violate the no-dogpiles policy.
Be careful about what you say about fedoras, they has some serious fans.
…who know how to wear a hat.
http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/_photos/effedora.jpg
Thank you, Brooked.
Indiana Jones aside, a fedora is properly worn with a suit … at least in the 20th Century (it was named for an 1882 play). These young men who think they’re fashionably dressed with a trilby and a loud shirt are just … no.
Is that wrong to refuse the idea of a “proper” composition for fashion ? If they look bad with their fedora, it’s entirely due to them not being good enough at being dressed to make their idea work.
I see fashion like painting. There is no bad school or bad ideas, only bad artists. It could be said that fedora + not a suit isn’t easy to do I guess.
Milo fan here. Seeing as he failed to answer the pop quiz I will help out
Obviously I don’t know the specs of his pc
He uses a blackberry because he is a relic that doesn’t embrace the touchscreen future
“it’s a series of tubes” I only know that one because I used to listen to Octale and Hordak Vs The World
The Linus question is a bit of a dick move, but he was a driving force in linux
60 fps is better because the motion is more fluid and there is less input lag. But tbh the input lag is a minimal factor, it really just looks much better. Frankly I liked the high fps of the hobbit so frankly I think cinema could use the upgrade.
I think one reason misogynists get so ragey over short blue hair is that it interferes with their ability to inspect and evaluate women like horse breeders for fertility markers such as hair length and color. A lot of these idiots unconsciously believe blonde women are more fertile, youthful, and desirable, since blonde hair often darkens with age. Also blonde hair is recessive, and won’t overpower their super manly alpha DNA in the epic phsyical struggle for supremacy that is human conception.
But blue hair, on the other hand…..what is that? Cave brain no understand. ***UNHANDLED EXCEPTION BEEP BOOP BEEP***
There are exceptions and stylish people can make all sorts of risks payoff, but a fedora isn’t a casual hat and usually doesn’t work well with casual wear. The same way that you probably shouldn’t wear a ball cap with a suit unless you’re being drafted by American pro sports team.
I think a jaunty cap or even a pork pie hat works better with casual clothes than a fedora or even a trilby. YMMV.
@Falconer & Brooked
Meh, the suit + fedora combo just looks a bit outdated to me. It’s not that it didn’t look good back in the day, but it’s gone the way of bell-bottom jeans and zoot suits. I occasionally wear a trilby if I’m going for a hipster-style look, with old jeans, a checkered shirt and sneakers, but that’s the only way I’ve seen it work.
Oh, and +1 that fedoras and trilbies look terrible with loud shirts. Don’t know why some people insist on doing it, but it’s their loss.
@Terrabeau Hey now, bell bottoms are still in style! At least, they are to me, but they are incredibly hard to find now.
I don’t really wear hats, so I have no idea what a fedora or trilby goes with. But then, I match my clothes only because the vast majority are black.
Bell bottoms had a resurgence (as “flared jeans”) when I was in high school 10 years ago and I milked the heck out of that trend.
Testing. My last comment wouldn’t go through.
@Terrabeau, yeah, accounting for things going out of style. Men stopped wearing suits all the damn time sometime in the 60s. I was collecting the early Amazing Spider-Man black and white reprints in the early 00s and it was jarring to see high school students at a public school in New York wearing jackets and ties.
… It occurs to me that having dress codes like that would disadvantage poor students, who are still disproportionately people of color here in the US even today, let alone back in the mid-60s, ten or fifteen years after integration.
@Viscaria, plaid shirts were in when I was in high school 20 years ago. Probably because of Kurt Cobain and the grunge scene, even in semi-urban Kentucky. Plus everybody had jackets that looked like this:
@Falconer
“Hail the glorious Post-Terran Minerals Corporation. Huzzah.”
Oh my God @Falconer,those jackets! I may have been wee, but you can bet I had the kid version of those.
I’ve been watching the X Files for the first time, and I’ve been loving the early 90s time capsule aspect.