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Davis Aurini admits he never actually watched any of Anita Sarkeesian’s videos

Davis Aurini: Who's got at least one thumb and no discernable value as a human being?
Davis Aurini: Who’s got at least one thumb and no discernible value as a human being?

Apparently Davis Aurini is capable of sometimes telling the truth.

As you may recall, the bald, semi-Nazi stain on humanity released his version of The Sarkeesian Effect (that was officially not his version of The Sarkeesian Effect) last week to something less than universal acclaim, with one critic describing the “film” as “worse than a dead squirrel in your wall.”

Ok, that was me.

Weirdly, it turns out that Aurini actually agrees with some of my criticisms. While still maintaining that his not-version of The Sarkeesian Effect is a “damn good film,” he admitted on a livestream last night that the section of his film critiquing Anita Sarkeesian’s alleged lies was “crap.”

He then suggested it would have been much better … if he’d actually watched Sarkeesian’s videos.

Yep. He spent a year — and tens of thousands of dollars of other people’s money — ostensibly making a film about Sarkeesian. But somehow he never got around to watching any of her videos.

ETHICS!

You can hear the whole segment on “Bechtloff’s Saturday Night Livestream: Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour” on Youtube here. (The link should take you to the relevant portion of the livestrean, which starts just short of an hour and twenty minutes in.)

Here are the highlights.

In this first clip, Aurini responds to someone with a question about his attacks on Sarkeesian’s alleged dishonesty.

This clip ends a bit abruptly because Aurini was cut off by Bechtloff before finishing his sentence. Luckily, he went on to elaborate on his point. And threw in in a racial slur while he was at it, because why not?

And here he admits he didn’t bother to watch Sarkeesian’s videos.

It’s about ethics in making an entire film about someone without actually knowing anything about them.

EDITED TO ADD:

We Hunted the Mammoth has obtained this footage of Davis Aurini as a child.

H/T — Thanks to the alert reader who pointed me to the relevant section of the livestream.

 

 

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mockingbird
mockingbird
8 years ago

@wwth – Don’t take a drink whenever you see the tedious rantings of an over privileged naïve Ayn Rand fanboy on the internet.
You’ll die.

[tbc]

A. Noyd
A. Noyd
8 years ago

Axecalibur says:

It seems I have a rosier view of capitalism (or at least its potential) than you.

Might I suggest the unauthorized tour of the sausage factory, then?

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Anarchonist says:

But in reality, innovation largely suffers because of the focus on making a profit

Like the whole hairy mess that is proprietary research.

Makroth
Makroth
8 years ago

Puppy!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCo5w6qukJY&w=854&h=480%5D

He apparently grew up to become a rooster:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8jGR8WYj0&w=854&h=480%5D

EDIT: Don’t know how to embed.

EJ (The Other One)
EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

@Paradoxy:
I didn’t mean any offence. I really like reading your posts, and you put so much effort into your writing that it’s just a total joy to read. My favourite Paradoxy posts are the long, passionate ones where your love of your topic (or contempt for the manospherian in question) shines through very charismatically, so I think those have swayed my opinion.

However, you have never been anything like as verbose as Galt here, so I shall gladly retract the accusations of longwindedness and apologise for them.

WeirwoodTreeHugger
WeirwoodTreeHugger
8 years ago

I’m not sure what’s to stop a very wealthy and powerful from levying taxes in might makes right utopia. Except, unlike the systems we currently have, we would get no say at all in who distributes the tax revenue and where and how big or small the taxes are.

As John Rogers said “there are two books that can change a bookish fourteen year old’s life. The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

Brony, Social Justice Cenobite

Ah Galt, sadly I was right. There is no personal strength to you.

Insults are fine and dandy IF they can be unpacked into actual demonstrable characteristics that are relevant to a person or situation. I mean this,
Fuck you. You are not cute. You are not interesting. You are not funny. You are not smart you are not wise you’re not even a human fucking being. You’re little more than some catty little pube, that’s what you are. You’re a snot, you Walter Mitty heathen, cantankerous shark, Andrew Jackson helping piece of chicken beak pie, you make more noise than an octopus with a drum set. You don’t even know that brevity is the soul of wit, that’s why you can’t even figure out that when you fucking parody something you should stick to keeping it short, well do it do just to spite me? No? Well, it fucking walked. Slip in a shit pie, fall out of a tree and get wedgied on the way down for what I care. FUCK. YOU.

That’s just white noise right there. The closest you get to an actual characteristic that matters is length of text, but you don’t actually say why Paradoxical Intention was too wordy. Where they repetitive? Did they include something irrelevant? Here is what I mean. You could have shortened this into,

I don’t like you and your text is too long.

Much simpler, the rest of it had nothing to do with anything but satisfying your base emotional needs.
And this,

You’re all a bunch of communists. Keep your dirty, filthy, unwashed, hairy, dumpster-sifting, dirty, possum butt-wiping leftist hands off of my stuff. I fucking work harder than ANYONE around here for my things, and you think you’re entitled to a part of my profit? well, sorry, nope, it doesn’t work that way. The problem with communism is that eventally you run out of other peoples money.

Should’ve thought about that.
…could be,

You remind me of people I fear and can’t articulately discuss so I’m going to assume things about you that I can’t possibly know.

And this,

The wealthy create the wealth, the CREAT THE JIBS. They create things so that know-nothing quack-addicts like yourselves can get jobs and then wine about how you should be given moe. Well, boo hoo cry me a river.

…could be,

The job fairy will give you a job.

This was pretty concise though,

You all suck. You shits.

I can’t say that it means much from someone as fundamentally dishonest as yourself though. I want to meet more people you don’t like.

Brony, Social Justice Cenobite

I accidentally left part of my text in with the first quote. It should have looked like this.

Insults are fine and dandy IF they can be unpacked into actual demonstrable characteristics that are relevant to a person or situation. I mean this,

Fuck you. You are not cute. You are not interesting. You are not funny. You are not smart you are not wise you’re not even a human fucking being. You’re little more than some catty little pube, that’s what you are. You’re a snot, you Walter Mitty heathen, cantankerous shark, Andrew Jackson helping piece of chicken beak pie, you make more noise than an octopus with a drum set. You don’t even know that brevity is the soul of wit, that’s why you can’t even figure out that when you fucking parody something you should stick to keeping it short, well do it do just to spite me? No? Well, it fucking walked. Slip in a shit pie, fall out of a tree and get wedgied on the way down for what I care. FUCK. YOU.

LindsayIrene
LindsayIrene
8 years ago

Atlas Flounced, and was crushed by the sofa overburdened with the enemies of reason.

Yeah, nothing says ‘reasonable person’ more throwing an internet tantrum because people tried to make you think about the end results of the ‘philosophy’ you claim is the bestest thing ever. I’m so convinced now. I’m going to go Galt, whenever I can find the time between working full time and being the primary caregiver for a severely disabled person (I’m really bad at living up to the ‘lazy commie’ stereotype, I guess).

Brony, Social Justice Cenobite

Also “Should’ve thought about that.” should have been a quote.

Sorry, I would use the edit box more often but it normally takes a full three minutes for the edit option to show up and then I click on it and I think it times out after that.

Lagoon
Lagoon
8 years ago

I’m still confused! Who is John Galt? Apparently he’s a metaphor for an Internet baby who gets angry when people don’t agree.

For real tho this was hilarious. More on topic of the article, I never understood people’s hatred for Anita. I understand critiques of feminism. I’ve heard very civil arguments from people who claim the media has no influence. But this level of violent rage towards Anita, and feminism in general, I just don’t understand. In what way does it threaten them? How is asking for women in games to be taken more seriously going to damage these people?

isidore13
isidore13
8 years ago

Game recognise game, and you look unfamiliar.

EJtOO, I laughed so hard at that <3

kupo
kupo
8 years ago

But this level of violent rage towards Anita, and feminism in general, I just don’t understand. In what way does it threaten them? How is asking for women in games to be taken more seriously going to damage these people?

It’s criticism of something they consider part of their identity. If you say video games are sexist, then you’re saying they’re sexist.

ETA: They also believe that feminists want to ban and/or restrict video game content, and they’re very much afraid of what that will do to their hobby. They don’t understand the difference between Anita, who is a critic, and Jack Thompson, who tried to pass laws banning games.

guy
guy
8 years ago

I think the best part of the rant is that he made it on the internet. For two reasons.

First, it was in fact originally a government research project. Though the rumor that it was designed to help maintain communications in the event of a nuclear attack is actually false; it was to let research institutions collaborate and be resistant to routine hardware failure.

Second, in the US it’s actually demonstrating the road failure mode already. Laying cable is expensive, so it’s concentrated in the hands of a few big players and would be even more concentrated if it weren’t for antitrust laws. And they tend to avoid laying their high-speed cables in the same neighborhoods, and they’ve been discussing charging for speed and favoring media they make over competition.

FrickleFrackle
FrickleFrackle
8 years ago

Hey Galt, who asked you to come in here talking about objectivism? I’m not saying you should stop, because I find it amusing, but what gave you the impression that your input was needed here?

Scildfreja
Scildfreja
8 years ago

@Mr Galt,

comment image

I’ll try to be brief!

I bought the book. Now I’m going back to ignoring you.

Good! I hope that you can read it with an open mind. (and I hope that you can give up ignoring me long enough to read this paragraph!) I don’t mean that as an insult – it challenges some ideas that you currently hold, and brains are terrible for turning on the confirmation bias filter in those situations. So, try to read it when you’re in a good mood, maybe a little sleepy! That will help to limit that particular cognitive quirk. You don’t really want the brain to be running at 100% when you’re reading material that confronts your beliefs, it gets too defensive about things.

Atlas Flounced, and was crushed by the sofa overburdened with the enemies of reason.

I – I’m really not an enemy of reason, sir. I make reason my profession, actually! This doesn’t make me right about things, of course; being devoted to rationality actually makes it easier to be wrong about something, and more stubbornly wrong at that! See my first paragraph for a mechanism that facilitates wrongness in the rational mind. I’d be happy to explain more deeply if you’d like!

You have a strong interest in being right about things. We all do to some extent, and men are brought up to be even more so – they are taught that being smart and correct is manly, and being corrected or wrong is unmanly. This is a part of that “toxic masculinity” that feminists are on about!

This desire for rightness is a double-edged sword, sir! It’s good to pursue the truth, but it’s too easy to get complacent when we think we have it. And we never do! The fact that the confrontations you’re receiving here are making you angry instead of engaged is a strong sign that you’ve become complacent in your pursuit for the truth of the matter.

I hope that you can see this some day, and that you can discard your literary and philosophical heroes to look at the facts plainly. Good luck.

(P.S. I work a full time job in a STEM field as a researcher, take night courses, and have recently alternated from watching my sisters’ children to taking care of my father during recovery from a surgery. In case you are weighing my opinion on whether I am a dirty, filthy, unwashed, hairy, dumpster-sifting, dirty, possum butt-wiping leftist. I am only 12.5% of those things, preserving quantities.)

((though possums are adorable and sometimes need to be cleaned up after. is that bad?))

EJ (The Other One)
EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

I move that Scildfreja is the most reasonable person in the known universe. Do I have a second?

Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
8 years ago

They don’t understand the difference between Anita, who is a critic, and Jack Thompson, who tried to pass laws banning games.

Sure they do. Just not in the way you’re talking about.

(For anyone who wasn’t aware, Jack Thompson’s a popular #Gater. Yes, really. I COULDN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP IF I TRIED.)

Scildfreja
Scildfreja
8 years ago

Aw, thank you, mockingbird and EJ. I always enjoy your posts 🙂 Though I am not really all that reasonable! Usually I am unreasonable, just in the wrong direction. I didn’t at all like the insults he was hurling at people, I just know that there are others far, far better at replying in kind to that sort of thing.

And besides! He wasn’t wrong about everything. Just … you know. Most things. And so am I, just, well, again, in a very different direction of wrong.

And thank you David! He was getting rather stressful!

Axecalibur
Axecalibur
8 years ago

@Anarconist
http://45.media.tumblr.com/2897aa1cb873786bac0e33e8c92b9283/tumblr_mvp5xf0BZ51sa2c1ao1_500.gif
Well, dayum. You got it, Engels 🙂

To your arguments:

Capitalism, at least the laissez-faire variant, is based on the idea of poorly distributed wealth forcing the many to sell their labor to benefit the few

Who said anything about laissez-faire?

Modern capitalism, at its very core, is based on the idea of property and the power of those with said property. It was never meant to elevate anyone who wasn’t already well-off; it is a natural progression from imperialist politics

So… no property, then?

For example, innovation is often hailed as one of the benefits of capitalism, that innovation and technological progress benefit all. But in reality, innovation largely suffers because of the focus on making a profit, and the innovations that would indeed make different lines of work easier tend to benefit only those who can afford them, while innovations in the workplace may paradoxically lead to drawbacks to the innovator

I’d consider the lightbulb an overall benefit to society, and I don’t think its invention hurt employment too badly. Not really making a point here, just a counterexample

And what about those who are not competitive-minded or interested in making a profit for themselves

Sorry the system undervalues your talents. I’m pretty fond of competition, myself, but I see why you wouldn’t

…free market…

The “free market” is indeed bullshit

Capitalism is also not stable in the least

Perhaps “stable” was the wrong word. How’s about resilient?

socialist politics

I don’t know what that means

If humanity ceases to believe in them, well, what’s the point in having a capitalist system in the first place?

And therein lies the paradox, things are only objectively real, if we subjectively believe them *googly eyes emoticon*

Throughout recent history, all the economic booms have been largely due to outside factors

No such thing as outside the system. It’s kinda like saying food is outside of me, therefore the fact that I can’t live without eating means I’m not alive

But maybe that’s just me

It isn’t 🙂

dlouwe
dlouwe
8 years ago

Honestly, I give Galt points for having some very inventive insults. I find the sentence “You’re a snot, you Walter Mitty heathen, cantankerous shark, Andrew Jackson helping piece of chicken beak pie, you make more noise than an octopus with a drum set.” to be legitimately amusing.

Still in favour of the ban, though; he’s essentially jumped the shark. Even if he failed to stick the flounce, we’d be looking at diminishing returns on entertainment value.

Paradoxical Intention - Resident Cheeseburger Slut

dlouwe | April 6, 2016 at 11:53 am
Honestly, I give Galt points for having some very inventive insults. I find the sentence “You’re a snot, you Walter Mitty heathen, cantankerous shark, Andrew Jackson helping piece of chicken beak pie, you make more noise than an octopus with a drum set.” to be legitimately amusing.

As the person those “insults” were directed towards, I found it hard to be insulted by something that made no sense in such an amusing way.

Like, I know what a “snot” is, but the rest of it…

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Osbo
8 years ago

I missed the Galt thing, but would it be possible to just do as Galt did and go on strike? Because then we will see how much better / worse our lives would be without them 🙂

katz
8 years ago

Axecalibur, I’m not totally sure what you’re going for, but it feels very disingenuous. Other people have been making a lot of detailed, incisive criticisms and your responses just feel like sniping. For instance, just saying “The lightbulb!” is not a counterargument to the point that profit-driven motivations actually create disincentives to research anything that isn’t likely to be profitable.