Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

ohhhh DJP you silly guy

[69 is the statistical sex number]

even better how it's in square brackets "here's something I wish I had said, this will make me look EVEN MORE CLEVER!!!"

30 is better but let's talk about census-balanced sampling

how is it possible that this dude has been walking around talking like this for 20 something years and hasn't realized what a windbag he is

https://twitter.com/jbasher/status/522851479800283136

uhh

"we chatted on Skype for 2.5 hours, same questions. here, similar syntax, less academic, answers significantly different"

just lol

this dude is amazing, by which I mean it's amazing he has friends

xxxpost

because their are ~cultures~ in which this particular brand of batshit in hyper-rational cosplay is celebrated.

https://twitter.com/PLingGamer

i spent a lot of time with guys who would write shit like this and came perilously close to being a guy who would write shit like this and i kinda hate shit like this.

Yep, same. I worry I still slip into it on occasion. He has to be a CS/philosophy double major or something.

the only thing wrong with that sam biddle twitter convo is that no one made use of the @untag_me bot when the original dude wanted out of the conversation.

and he claims SHE's the crazy one, but something something reliable narrator

at this point what we've got here is basically The Iliad is how I break it down to an extent

slate tech bod getting philosophical on us

https://twitter.com/AuerbachKeller/status/522840924460560384

"Sam Biddle is precisely the embodiment of journalistic evil."

hate to bring it down in here but one of these guys seems to be in a legit bad place

https://twitter.com/GRIMACHU

eh, fuck him

reactionary hate masquerading as radical openness is nothing new

like think about the id Software guys like Carmack and Romero, that was late 80s/early 90s but tell me those guys wouldn't have bought into this "Suck it feminists" stuff? Duke Nukem? Leisure Suit Larry?

id didn't do those #idgate

Those were other examples not examples of Id games. Read Masters of Doom by David Kushner id was a total a hole macho nerd shithole

yeah were the massive boobs on those hell monsters really necessary

jk i don't doubt it

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0GixtpCIAAoZS3.jpg

say what

Exactly.

those are definitely words

That's one of the guys interviewed by he Escapist (though they have since pulled it due to evidence of harassment, so...). He knows what he's talking about.

Also the guy in the legit bad place, above.

Permanent Revolution @GRIMACHU · 3h 3 hours ago
You're like the people who killed Soho. One cafe at a time.

there's some kind of rule that you can't go more than 1/2way thru any tweet thread before running into some element of the far far right

https://twitter.com/MSamenfink/status/522833776724819968

[15 is the statistical significance number]

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 16, 2014 3:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hearing this to the tune of "One" by Three Dog Night

I went to quakecon, basically id software central, twice back in my fps-loving nerdo days (1995-2003ish rip). There was def a booth babe style thing going on and not a lot of outright misogyny I encountered because there were just so few women there. There was a prominent clan (that being the beginning days of gaming "clans") that was all-woman and playing on their gaming server was super fun but I think all the original members ditched out eventually.

also, the suburbs of Dallas are not good

lol i wanted to look into hatred and

http://s8.postimg.org/wovjw8wrp/grisly.png

that's the whole section

grimachu designed a card game wherein the players are hentai tentacle monsters and compete to rape people, unless im missing something

rakish fop, gentleman bastard

why hello ladies welcome to my twitter pg *soft candlelight and the faint sounds of tentacle porn in the distance*

https://archive.today/Q0ct5

I was sad when Awkward Zombie said that shit against GG. She's an actual rocket scientist, I thought those people were all about research and facts.

've actually blocked the domains of places that have come out as blatantly anti-GG on my router, including media. It's a great conversation piece at the LAN parties I have here.

are you on the enemies list UMS?

I guess the scan of my interview w anita a is circulating but it's print so it doesn't move as fast friend said they were pissed abt it on gg 4chan, lucky for me ppl tend to view us as monolithic entity not indiviudual personalities so my EiC is getting most of it, lots of I'm canceling my sub etc

I wondered if you'd get caught up in all this.

lol @ that mystery jack sparrow dbag

here's his magnum opus (tw: rape, arch-eyebrow cheeky smug horseshit)

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/cthentacle-deluxe

(not to trivialize a genuine tw)

tw trivialized tw

This is correct. Ultimately it comes down to ideology. Human nature. These guys have pick a "side", in this case "the left", and will back that side no matter what, because they've picked it and identify with it. Gamergate's points don't matter, what matters is that it's (to them) "conservative", and therefore evil.

This is a story that has been repeated all throughout the centuries. The vast majority of humanity is tribal by nature and has no time for critical thought.

This is how extremists succeed, by the way. All extremists are cut from the same cloak of lacking personal talent, authoritarianism, and fear of dissent.
The only thing that changes are the colors they wear - extremists attach themselves to the popular politics of the moment.

We live in a time where the right discredited itself after 8 years of the Bush admin, so the current extremists brand themselves as leftist. But I can guarantee you that if this were 1939, with most democracies in shambles, they'd be fascists, and if this were 1955 they'd be communists.

has there ever been a case of someone on the internet accusing someone else of lacking 'critical thought/critical thinking' that wasnt just code for 'this person disagrees with me'?

glad you're mostly missing direct hate ums