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

i like the turn of phrase from ID-less (i.e. identity-less) to id monsters (i.e.http://image.bayimg.com/dabmoaacf.jpg)

oh god I think I could understand this a little at some point in my life? I think it was when I was fundamentally self-conscious and depressed and young

Even when I was a suicidal goth in high school who literally hated people on general principle, I didn't understand this train of thought.

seems like a not uncommon line of misanthropic teen angst thinking, that behavior in any way motivated by seeking to be liked by others is being fake or a phony

its not w/o insight just a lil extreme

I definitely had a bit of that kind of thinking in school, but I think it might have to do with being in a class where some of the people on top of the social ladder were kinda unlikable bullies. When I started in highschool I met some extremely handsome, smart and popular people, and they were the nicest people I'd ever met. Made me reconsider. And most of those bullies got smarter and nicer later on as well, I should probably say.

I think it helps to be really white-people normative. Then when you realize you think you're shit and know society still hands you all these privileges, and that some people work hard to get what you've been handed, you want to lash out at them for making you feel bad about wasting your privilege.

Also, a thing with bullying is those kinds of people who would be more than happy to play with the bullied, and would show no sign of disliking them, but then if bullies come around would turn their backs on them. Social pressure and all that. I can see how victims of bullying would be pretty angry at that drive to be liked.

are any ilxors on the block list?

http://i.imgur.com/XgnLS2l.png

oh. fuck. of course.

xp yes

New Fem Freq: http://youtu.be/E47-FMmMLy0?list=UU7Edgk9RxP7Fm7vjQ1d-cDA

It seems like they're going for a 'man-to-man' thing this time.

I've been put on the anti-GG blocking list (ie the list that blocks out anti-gg's on twitter) Got a notice from 'SJW List Alert'. So proud.

congrats dawg!

I wonder which lists I'm on, I definitely trolled their hashtag a bit

the list is just made up of followers of like 30 key SJW twitter accounts fwiw people

^ this

yeah it's not an achievement

frankly i've been too cowardly to even get into it on twitter so iwas p disappointed to find myself on there. i just don't wanna be publicly involved ffs. and im pretty high up the lsit too bc i think it's in order of signing up to fucknig twitter, yay

need a more sophisticated algorithm theyre gonna end up blocking a bunch of each other cause of h8 follows

that is the best case scenario imo

ya rly

wow not cool

none of them are going to use this thing. it's just to make the list.

I realise she is shaking not in fear, but in anger. She has carried this for months. “I was hoping no one would buy into that ethics reinvention because it’s so very transparent,” she says. “It’s like a cardboard prop of a city – it looks like a city, but if you touch it, it all falls over. And now people who do care about ethics in journalism are part of my ex’s revenge on me! Goddamn celebrities and corporations have weighed in on attempts to destroy my life. I don’t think there’s a handbook on how to deal with a hate group coming out of a blog post by your ex. It would be like the Tea party starting over a shitty relationship.”

new interview with zoe quinn in the guardian. she says she's collected 16gb of gamergate bullshit directed against her :(

http://occamsnightmare.com/2014/10/30/gamergate-the-game/

I enjoyed the class titles.

https://occamsnightmare.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/darkhorse_card.jpg

haha, those are great

https://occamsnightmare.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/basedmom_card.jpg

more on the "block list" and man who made it

http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/when-wellmeaning-people-harm-those-they-supposedly-protect

Make assumptions about collusion between indie game developers and journalists, then make assumptions based on those assumptions. When the initial assumptions are proven false, do not return to the drawing board, you’re on too much of a roll here.

Get 2 free turns.

haha

I am thinking the assumption behind this thread is incorrect, all things considered.

yeah

been a rough day and i will admit to dicking around in this twitter space to keep from looking at things far worse

but in the end it looks like the same bullshit

i mean

https://twitter.com/weeaboo/status/540289249753718784

the pictured tweeter may be the absolute most perfect object of ilx contempt

bio: Based Odinist Christian Jewddhist. Into code, pro-Western values/culture/heritage, NRx, finance, zen, paleo, yoga. Disclaimer: SIA if you get offended.

and his location is a west bank settlement. what a world.

have no idea how to even synthesize all that identity

based odinist is kind of amazing

on the one hand this Australian Target GTA ban seems like it might be partially based on misconceptions about how prescriptive the game is about violence towards women characters but on the other hand ahahahahahahaha it's all over for you they're comin to take yr games

have you not heard the pitchfork acclaimed run the jewels? probably the most misogynist album of the year, far mroe than anything in games

please pay with dome

nutanuki unsure how to best leverage his brand, it's sad.

maybe I should throw in more misogyny and a cool avatar

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3161/3013274309_96db4b706a_m.jpg

i haven't read this, but tell me this bio card isn't from some "ring wing think tank intern" autogenerator

http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/04/what-gamergates-critics-get-right-and-why-it-doesnt-matter-ethics/

ok i read the first sentence. where's my red pen

lmao otm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4C_8GSIAAA17ny.png

https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10801903_10152534984792671_1491174011690439032_n.jpg?oh=c43eabe3234b318b47978f62bf7f523b&oe=550A5BF5

that is some next-level smug motherfucker-ness

wanna see the name on his birth certificate

that guy sucks

lol at gustave flaubert

makes me wonder whether gamergate has gotten any traction outside the english-speaking crazysphere

"Mytheos" should have just gone the whole hog and called himself Horatio Hufnagel

i was unfamiliar with this massacre but boy does it sound frighteningly pertinent today
http://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-17-twenty-five-years-later
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre

the guy that threatened Sarkeesian's speech specifically called out that incident, claiming he was going to repeat it

https://storify.com/SJWIlluminati/juicebro-is-fucking-nuts

This was going around on Twitter tonight and it is insane

wouldn't have pegged that guy for an Ezra Klein fan (?????)