Hah np.
I was on BBSes back in the day, but I don't have any recollection at all of the culture of it. Once the internet dropped w AOL et al I stayed away from chatrooms and only did AIM and IRC with friends and people I knew.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 13 April 2015 04:53 (eight years ago) link
are you all following @MomsAgainstGam ? some of the funniest shit ever
https://twitter.com/StevenJCBuckley/status/590512241520160768
https://twitter.com/GamersForGaming/status/589627287349305345
― goole, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
tho the funniest convo i've come across from this universe lately has been this:
https://twitter.com/Chriss_m/status/590556383843586049
― goole, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
It's truly the best test of finding the completely tone-deaf gamers
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
Have these gamers heard of app.net or w/e? Is that still a running concern, the for-pay twitter alternative that is all software developers and pretentious web developers who wanted their own network? Maybe they can all migrate to that.
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
oh christ louise mensch weighing in on the comments on @chriss_m's hot take
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
i know!
― goole, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Jules @AnaLoGMunKy 19h19 hours ago
@Chriss_m Cant see myself being on twitter much longer. Without dissent, debate is impossible.
without death threats and doxxing, debate is impossible
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
Corey Vaughn @Rekonocide 18h18 hours ago
@Chriss_m If this worked perfectly then maybe it would be fine, but we don't have AI with the ability to decide if something is hate it not.
guys can we teach computers to love?
Doing a PhD on US politics, journalism, YouTube and emotions. Media critic. I also teach and write a bit.
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
makes your blood run cold doesn't it
― goole, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
I heard a segment on the BBC World Service yesterday that was an American reporter doing this naive interview thing in an economically-depressed UK town. I think coming to the politics of another nation from a state of ignorance is a cool take B)
I mean, at least as far as entertainment goes, until it becomes some Canadians telling you how Ron Paul seems pretty reasonable. That was a really bad conversation I took part in.
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Fedora ze WEEDsmoker
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
― mh, Wednesday, April 22, 2015 7:11 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Revenue couldn't sustain their paid developers, still working I suppose but last blog post was a year ago when they basically announced their plan failed.
― brunch technician (silby), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
I'd never have guessed
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
lol at "mom will take your games"
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
boston magazine published this. it's good!
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2015/04/28/gamergate/
they are not happy
― goole, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
https://www.change.org/p/boston-magazine-correct-zachary-jason-s-gamergate-article-game-of-fear
― goole, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
we, #gamergate, hereby petition you, matthew reed baker, to correct factual inaccuracies in zachary jason's #gamergate article "game of fear", the details of which we decline to specify
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
just ask milo, he can set you right or whatever
We recommend Milo Yiannopoulos, an established journalist who can correct these misguided assertations, as the point of contact.
― Doktor Van Peebles (kingfish), Thursday, 30 April 2015 07:46 (eight years ago) link
"assertations"
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Thursday, 30 April 2015 08:25 (eight years ago) link
these feebs
It is a word, albeit one that signals that you're probably 100 characters from 'tis.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 April 2015 08:26 (eight years ago) link
ugh shame on his friends for encouraging his crazy stalker nonsense
After crafting the post for weeks, Gjoni shared his polished draft with about a dozen friends—mostly female game developers—as well as his mother, and asked them to weigh in on whether he should unleash it. He says about 10 of them gave him the green light. His mother, he claims, reluctantly approved, but was “very worried that I was going into it overly emotional.” One Gjoni friend I spoke with, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, said, “I felt it was healthy to get it out there…. What harm would it do to get his feelings out?”
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
some of the other friends he spoke to
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WFZIk3nnBPQ/VR9jN9mPsrI/AAAAAAAACY8/mq6NLcBMbt4/s1600/16403614524_f24b846b4a_o.jpg
― entry-level umami (mild bleu cheese vibes) (s.clover), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
i can't even tell if that change.org petition is a joke or not
― pilate is my cogod (Crabbits), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
https://archive.is/piayJ#selection-211.0-213.1
― polyphonic, Friday, 1 May 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
Kluwe concluded it’d be wise to start a war with a man who writes 5,000 words a day and practices Gorilla Mindset principles. This was a disastrous mistake on Kluwe’s part. The more Kluwe threw at me, the more I laughed.
https://archive.is/piayJ
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 May 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
lol
that horrible decline in looks when you're not on television with professional lighting, cameras, and makeup
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 1 May 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/ObjHlK2MTMa
― 龜, Saturday, 2 May 2015 13:02 (eight years ago) link
bomb threat against a GG meetup in a DC bar last night. fucking gross.
― goole, Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
False flag, surely?
― JimD, Sunday, 3 May 2015 09:54 (eight years ago) link
well no, but they did immediately blame the threat on arthur chu. cos he had apparently emailed the bar earlier in the day telling them it was bad to host a right wing group (lol at trying to tell a DC bar to take a partisan stand on their clientele)
i'd really like to forget about this 'movement' but they are still just everywhere. a favorite ("favorite") game of mine is a little degree-of-separation check. i only really run across them on twitter since i don't go to any game webspaces anymore.
basically, if you see some dumb right wing fuckery or lunkhead #actually backtalk on twitter, check the RT and responses -- you will find GG there. conversely, if some videogame microcontroversy finds its way into your timeline, see who else is on it, pushing it -- you will find the right wing.
― goole, Monday, 4 May 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Social Justice Warriors made Joss Whedon quit twitter :(
― polyphonic, Monday, 4 May 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
u got it twisted: http://pastebin.com/kHLbNuHx
― entry-level umami (mild bleu cheese vibes) (s.clover), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 07:15 (eight years ago) link
the main thing i got from that link is that captain america calls someone a cunt in the avengers movie? wtf?
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 07:19 (eight years ago) link
Uh, that isn't real, right?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
of course it's real, pastebin is Whedon's own site
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 11:53 (eight years ago) link
Haaaaaa
― emil.y, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 12:03 (eight years ago) link
Kluwe is really suffering in his nice house he has in California with all that horrible free time and money
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
http://laurajmixon.com/2014/11/a-report-on-damage-done-by-one-individual-under-several-names/
Not really about games (although they are involved), but definitely scary fandom stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
that's way beyond fandom; that's a sociopathic writer going after the competition!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
It wasn't just attacks on competition though, and fantasy writers tend to be immersed in fandom unless they're a huge bestseller.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
ffs
Hideo Kojima Shows off Metal Gear Figure With Soft Boobs
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 11 May 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
look man, the market demands it
― Nhex, Monday, 11 May 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
HarpoBloodr0se
But I like soft boobs...=C
If people appreciate it, there’s a reason for it to exist.
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 May 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
not video games but I saw this earlier and couldn't stop laughing, I think it's the capitalization that got me
http://i.imgur.com/ngcIeQo.jpg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 16 May 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
capitals are for emphasizing important things
― ultimate american sock (mh), Saturday, 16 May 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link