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

well it seems pretty easy to let them all act as one basket full of hateful crabs if you never have occasion to interact with them

well I guess that doesn't hold; the big problem is them targeting women who disagree with them in any way

sure, i'm gonna trust crab advice from someone called crabbits
no, actually i agree - as horrible as this behavior is, just plain shunning and berating them isn't enough of a solution

on some level i feel like its just another symptom of the endemic cultural alienation and loneliness sweeping the post industrialized world, like they seem to just not have that much exposure to society at large

take away their game genies, that's what I say

in their subculture histrionic displays of aggression are normal

sending ppl baroque death threats for beating you at street fighter is one of the best things abt video games

lol

If ppl were actually saying "I will club you to death with a sackbut" I would wholeheartedly approve

in their subculture histrionic displays of aggression are normal

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 19, 2014 6:17 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark

are we talking about ILX?

get fucked shit senator

https://storify.com/x_glitch/when-the-gamergate-mob-targeted-anil-dash-for-no-r

theyre like mean ants crawling all over you biting you

they have their own special words

http://i.imgur.com/beA7iSO.png

this whole sudden turn into the anti-bullying crusade is the funniest shit

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