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

well there's a little something to it. from the memo:

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/12/8558256/nick-denton-steps-down-gawker-president-names-seven-person-managing-bo

Executive Editor: Tommy Craggs

Tommy inadvertently sparked this whole reshuffle, but not out of any personal ambition. If anything, I feared he wouldn't take a position that a friend had so recently occupied. It’s only because of his sense of obligation to colleagues that he’s accepting the appointment.

What Tommy did was simply to set me thinking, through something he said during a conversation just as Gamergate was subsiding. “I just want to break a fucking story.” Or maybe it was “I just want to fucking break a story.” One of the two.

Anyway, it got me thinking. Yes, that’s exactly it. That editorial freedom we’re so proud of: just do something with it. Something meaningful, more meaningful than a toxic flame war that showed only the internet’s capacity to divide, and none of its capacity to reconcile.

Then I went off the rails, as I do, and asked myself: damn, is Gamergate really our story of the year? You are only as good as your last story, that’s what they would say on Fleet Street. Yes, we do need to break a fucking story, or fucking break a story, whichever it was. And we need to grab hold of our own company narrative, change the conversation in the only way we know how, through sensational scoops and unfettered opinion.

https://38.media.tumblr.com/73894728ac00df1b0bc0b716be874202/tumblr_ngelghkU3e1qlt757o1_1280.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3732604558/9fe9a3dfc6004073618f49babc355382.jpeg

Game designer, writer, self publisher, freelancer, rakish fop, gentleman bastard, ten times more charming than that Arnold on Green Acres
#atheist #RPG #Writer

oh god i'm pretty sure that's already been posted here, shut it down

kind of feel like it's a slippery slope between "gamergaters are scum" and "gamers are funny"

which they kind of are, but I know a few people who definitely fit that gamer aesthetic but are really great people? I don't know, it's definitely not my thing

the line between "I am doing this for fun" and "I literally have no idea how I appear to others" is crossed by these dudes way too much, though

a ctrl + f reveals we've done grimachu already

the thread is eating itself, sorry everyone

hoo boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d6nRUBKdB4

made it through like half of that.

that might be the most pitiable thing I've ever seen

looks to be like 3 reasons

yeah i made it through the first three reasons

"because of feminism, people believe me when i speak" cool but probably not true
"boys treat me well online" i thought you weren't into white knighting or w/e
"because i'm a girl people won't think i'm a loser shut-in" also probably not true

for the girls in that video, actually #gg is about taking aim at who they think were the popular kids, or at least more popular than them. the resentment is palpable, as is an absolute absence of empathy for anyone but themselves.

...nerds...

these are children. children

https://twitter.com/Kingofpol/status/540203204777353216

yup literal children

TheKentuckian ‏@Warwick7th Dec 3

@jeh704 @Kingofpol trouble with Fox is, if it isn't political and easily framed, they will run over you. GG isn't easily framed anymore.

lol

if only there was some one line summary of what GG was actually about

THE GULL

https://twitter.com/danthat/status/544471298379096064

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B45Zk3OCYAAL-LZ.jpg

lol

the cover's pretty good too:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B45VHUOCUAA-Mwv.jpg:large

https://medium.com/@turnoffthenews/the-brief-and-silly-history-of-metalgate-30e2a9b8c9c8 lol

Have seen a couple of Total Biscuit's videos, he comes across as one of those people who has un/consciously developed a Jeremy Clarkson-esque conversational spiel/patter that suggests banter of some kind is occuring, but in fact cloaks only dull commentary on games of Starcraft 2, and sounds like the sort of person you would least want to be cornered into conversation with at the office christmas party.

He won Pope Dewrito's Gamer of the Year Award.

he probably also makes 6 figures being a bloviating video game vlogger on youtube

why is the pope giving gamers awards

it's the mass effect

^ ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooffffffffffffffffff nice

https://twitter.com/MuckRock/status/544928755991330816

duhhhh

https://twitter.com/Chriss_m/status/544539950730190852

dude

actually it's about me

https://twitter.com/Nero/status/544451050712080384

watch out best seller lists

xps what's the fbi thing about?

one of them made a FOIA request about something, not sure what

when being told you're dense is chalked up as a victory:

https://twitter.com/TinyPixelBlock/status/544977157013770242

these guys just can't stop with the civil rights comparisons

http://www.rllmukforum.com/uploads/monthly_12_2014/post-9022-0-54102900-1418811139.png

hardly the main point of criticism, but that guy doesn't know what "shibboleth" means

he seems confused over 'clash' too

free speech, truth, sacrifice, etc

Actually, it's about a lack of standards in publicly funded education.

i'll just put this here, because the list of RTs/favs is half conservative creeps, half GG creeps (if the venn diagram isn't just a circle atp). i wasn't even looking for GG shit, but there those same names are, always...

massive trigger warning

https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/545063470388219904

i look at a lot of trash daily but i haven't wanted to see a man injured in a looong time...

at least it made me aware of this terrible Heisenberg bot that just goes into random conversations and tweets "I AM THE DANGER" or alternatively, "YO SOY EL PELIGRO"

what a garbage excuse for a human being

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/12/17/hatred-lands-back-on-stream-greenlight-fans-request-sjw-victim-npcs/

the levels of political confusion in this tweet

https://twitter.com/bio_nils/status/511819995677224960

https://medium.com/@turnoffthenews/the-brief-and-silly-history-of-metalgate-30e2a9b8c9c8

Seems to have crept over into the world of heavy metal now.

we're this much closer to ILM as the new journolist let's start pushing #Raggettgate

don't even

i guess jimmy wales just told these guys to eat a dick