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

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lol

mookieproof, Friday, 1 May 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link

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

, 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

two weeks pass...

itshappening.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAkWjT6Oops&feature=youtu.be

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link

Whining Manbabies: The Movie

Keith Moom (Neil S), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link

favourite thing about this is owen and aurini deftly demonstrating why interviewers in documentaries rarely appear in the same shot as their interviewees, as they sit there dumbly nodding at the edge of the frame

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link

I can't believe they actually filmed themselves stalking at her office.

jmm, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link

i can

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link

so now anyone who pans their documentary gets SWATed, is that what comes next?

demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link

I would watch a documentary exposing the clowns making this documentary.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link

omfg the stardock guy actually agreed to appear
jesus

fucking jim goad
unreal

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link

not surprised tbh

Nhex, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link

i'll say one thing for these guys: they've done a thorough job of canvassing the opinions of the biggest arseholes in gaming

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link

Lol Jim goad? Rly?

demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link

i mean stardock is like a real company

not surprised tbh

― Nhex, Tuesday, June 2, 2015 10:22 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not surprised he thinks that i'm just surprised he's that dumb to do it

jon - yeah goad is in it OF COURSe

how is jack thompson now on the side of games btw? i must have missed the memo

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link

i think it's an 'enemy of my enemy'-type situation

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link

lulz

Davis M.J. Aurini
@Aurini
FTR, neither Jordan nor I are in full agreement with Mr Thompson, but the reporting on him has been 1-sided. #GamerGate #TheSarkeesianEffect

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link

[anarchy symbol]

goole, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link

lmao u kno i think aaron clarey ("economist/author" = right wing blogger, now, i guess) lives up here

goole, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link

one guy is credited as 'wikipedia editor' uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

goole, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link

"sex worker/pHD candidate"

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link

is that the pro-gg porn performer? is there more than one?

goole, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link

'skull enthusiast / grant morrison cosplay performer'

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link

stardock more like starcock
* massive applause from the audience, I BASE jump off the eiffel tower into a sixty foot high pile of rose petals, emerging with long flowing hair whipping in the parisian wind, screaming FEMINISM FOREVA SUCKAZZZZZZ*

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGlOmr0W0AAgnt5.jpg

reloded

goole, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link

brb getting Ready For Ethics

There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link

Ethics, not just a county in the east of England

Keith Moom (Neil S), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link

Portland, OR
https://www.denverlibrary.org/files/spengler.jpg

Who M the best? (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link

eatht of England, thurely?

turly dark (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link

portland, oregon, the last bastion against the scourge of social justice warriorism

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link

xp yeth of courth

Keith Moom (Neil S), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link


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