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

IF ONLY WE HAD KICKSTARTER IN JUNIOR HIGH, GUYS *pushes up glasses, accidentally pops four zits in the process* ow

They tried to get the creator of Bayonetta to join their crusade (Bayonetta being an example of a 'women-positive' game I guess) and

http://i.imgur.com/QtYrXHQ.png

http://i.imgur.com/xKm17KV.png

almost like they think this whole thing is... a game

Kamiya is the best

http://i.imgur.com/fKZrOpb.png

Hahaha

the anil dash thing max posted has me rubbing my temples in despair

though it did remind me weirdly of this, which made me smile

Gabriel Knight must disguise himself as a man called Mosley in order to fool a French moped rental clerk into renting him the shop's only motorcycle. In order to construct the costume, Gabriel Knight must manufacture a fake moustache. Utilizing the style of logic adventure game creators share with morons, Knight must do this even though Moseley does not have a moustache.

very nice

http://i.imgur.com/oLwSsQf.png

binder does gods work i swear

Oh, that is TOO rich. Wow.

lol

Matt Binder ‏@MattBinder 3m3 minutes ago
btw i recently came across a twitter thread warning gamergaters to stay away from me because they'll lose https://archive.today/CkyVn

starting to think this guy's charity might not be totally authentic

she herself retweeted this one

https://twitter.com/SteinersCooking/status/523974280338759680

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0V09kWIgAADzmC.png

Jesus fucking Christ

I can't stop laughing.

http://i.imgur.com/GHnO7Jc.png

I was talking to a friend's brother, a huge gamer who hadn't heard of gamergate, and was trying to express what it was in like one sentence and it became so clear to me how none of it, on any level, makes any sense

https://storify.com/stillgray/matt-binder-nails-gamergate-based-lawyer-mike-cern

oh hey that old man murray gabriel knight quote reminded me that the remake of the original gabriel knight came out last week. i read that they replaced all the old voice actors tho, no more tim curry saying "what can you tell me about...voodoo?"

really unchill gamer gate is plagiarizing based god btw

I was talking to a friend's brother, a huge gamer who hadn't heard of gamergate, and was trying to express what it was in like one sentence and it became so clear to me how none of it, on any level, makes any sense

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:50 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he was just like "why fafsa"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0WVUpcCEAAhrga.png:large

KNOWN SJW

Dr Paris @parisba · 32m 32 minutes ago
To the #GamerGate people trying to get me fire: I forwarded your emails to HR, and upon receiving them decided not to fire myself.

Hahaha

you have been warn

https://storify.com/stillgray/matt-binder-nails-gamergate-based-lawyer-mike-cern

lol I love Matt Binder. Majority Report!

My much younger brother is a total gamer nerd guy and I was terrified that he might be buying into any of this shit, was pleasantly surprised to find that he had no idea what the fuck I was talking about.

Well I encountered a wholly deranged dude as blowback from the Anil Dash situation and I've now blocked someone on Twitter for the first time ever

congratulations!

He kept asking people to search for articles of people who had been killed for being women and I I'll-advisedly engaged him over black people getting killed and asked him if he really wanted to play Oppresion Olympics... and he did

Sorry forgot to mention he was posting links to news stories about gay people being attacked for being gay

Like his entire raison d'être was to prove that gay white men are the most oppressed people in America ergo go GamerGate (?)

better logic than most of those folks.

At this point the whole thing is a dizzying wormhole of $personIveNeverHeardof called out $personIveNeverHeardof on Twitter in regards to his comments over $personIveNeverHeardof on $blogiveneverheardof

My brain hurts.

I engaged with some guy on twitter, why, kill me please

*adds you all on twitter immediately for lulz of spectatorship*

https://twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/524035688409600000

I really want to call a couple people drydicks and go to bed but my better instincts

http://np.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2h36ue/another_poorlyresearched_hitpiece_from_the_boston/cldrqeu

hate linking to reddit but this is a good read. basically a boston globe writer wrote a piece on gg, a thread was started calling it a poorly researched hit-piece, author stopped by the thread and annihilated them.

i read that they replaced all the old voice actors tho, no more tim curry saying "what can you tell me about...voodoo?"

uhhhhhhh what, this is the real gamergate

cameron . . . dare

adversity . . . fuel

Cameron Dare looks weirdly like a young Michael Gove.

Maybe it's just the glasses and his overly pleased with himself expression.

http://np.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2h36ue/another_poorlyresearched_hitpiece_from_the_boston/cldrqeu

hate linking to reddit but this is a good read. basically a boston globe writer wrote a piece on gg, a thread was started calling it a poorly researched hit-piece, author stopped by the thread and annihilated them.

― Clay, Sunday, October 19, 2014 11:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great read. as always - stunning how ANYthing posted about this generates seemingly hundreds of responses working over the same talking points (or tortured deformations of them to fit the present situation). It must seriously be all these guys do all day.

I feel like this thread is written in another language. like these tweets are just baffling, out of whatever context twitter can give.

but I gather this whole thing is really just misogyny? i.e. keep representing women in games as they have been represented heretofore? is there some extra dimension "worth" mulling over besides that?

Not really, just a many-layered, kaleidoscopic window into the thread question. Maybe an interesting microphenomenon of the lengths people who think of themselves as the good guys will go to tr and argue/explain away everything bad about what they're engaged in.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0WVUpcCEAAhrga.png:large
"your company is being boycotted because of thisssssssss" http://statici.behindthevoiceactors.com/behindthevoiceactors/_img/chars/char_2244.jpg

I am sorry for humanity that I conversed with a #gg person on twitter, sorry everyone

You guys refuse to appoint a leader or write up a platform or really do any of the things real-life, adult “movements” do.

I feel like this is a big problem with communications between the two sides here. On the anti-GamerGate side, there have been a bunch of good published pieces that represent, and hence standardize, the basic anti-GG arguments. Sarkeesian's videos have this quality too, that they authoritatively represent the set of arguments that need to be rebutted in order to shift the burden of argument back onto the feminist critique. That takes effort and organization. Can anyone point to any kind of article or published piece which represents pro-GamerGate arguments at their best? It's hard to demand engagement if there isn't an authoritative thing to be engaged with.

also do these people think really think EA is going to stop making War Game 169 : Drones R Us or whatever because Kotaku praises Depression Quest?

I realize this is all probably all obvious inside the rabbit hole but

maybe! I seriously believe that half the people who were up in arms about Depression Quest really just can't stand the idea of such a thing being in their public sphere.