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

I feel like I've noticed a way disproportionate number of let's play YouTube video game talker types have British accents, idk what's up with British gaming culture as this dominant thing tho

I should really stop reading this shit but I read a post on their subreddit that literally argued that rape jokes aren't as bad as Mattie Brice's joke, because rape jokes aren't intended to cause harm, unlike Brice's joke.

jesus

It really is the most astonishing rushing towards the image of gamers as people who have ~issues with a sense of humour~. Which is kind of the essence of conspiracy theory, that nothing The Accused ever says can have a light or joking meaning, it is all Evidence.

I feel like I've noticed a way disproportionate number of let's play YouTube video game talker types have British accents, idk what's up with British gaming culture as this dominant thing tho

totalbiscuit, who has been pretty visible on the gg thing i suppose, is the archetype of the essentially-conservative brit gamer youtube celeb who is basically attempting to be a bad xerox of jeremy clarkson. i can't stand him, and he sounds like he must be an awful person to be in a room with.

as someone who seldom watches the big gamer youtubes I'd been cheerily imagining GG was mostly not British because uh tea-party crossover I guess. when I do watch gaming youtubes they're mainly randomly selected retro-ish Let's Plays and I never have any idea whether the player is a ~noted figure~ in the gaming youtube world or just some guy

so I was surprised to hear S4rg0n's unedited interview he did w/the BBC: he had an accent and arguing technique* I can only describe as "public school debating society", which combined with reading the GG manifesto thing upthread ("we are just some poor maligned gamers being even-handedly inclusive of oppressed minorities such as men and big-budget 3D shooty games and defending our basic human right never to be reminded of the existence of any other sort of gamer or game") to make me very angry until this thread restored the lols

* harping on abt one question-avoiding point for 15 minutes, in this case GG's charming new tactic of "GG is about ethics in games journalism, therefore any attacks on people who aren't games journalists are by definition nothing to do with GG". the Beeb interviewer came across pretty badly too: mumbly and unprepared. the whole thing is really painful and I do not recommend anyone seek it out, unless maybe you have dangerously low blood pressure, in which case drinking a gallon of salty coffee might be a better option

Tom Scocca ‏@tomscocca 6m
Bald Man Discovers Fedora http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/10/the-sjws-now-get-to-police-speech-on-twitter

ha sick burn

"I can find no reason to oppose a stronger effort by Twitter to prevent individual users from stalking or harassing others"

this guy is almost as pompous as Auerbach

the empire never ended

WomanAgainstFeminism ‏@NoToFeminism 2h2 hours ago
I don’t need fimsns i’m SICK of them taking away free speech! release the thousands of white men jailed for speaking their minds about games

lulz

release the thousands of white men

release the hounds!

Simpsons, cool

dunno if you guys got to the buried lede but the rape joke is a gif of piccolo from dbz fucking vegeta

watched the gif and now im a nu fag thanks alot

Are the Milwaukee Bucks the official basketball team of #Gamergate?

a gif of piccolo from dbz fucking vegeta

truly have no idea what this means. dragonball z?

enjoy man http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piccolo-dick

thanks doc

The color thing makes me feel a little like a lot of these dudes are trolling us

gamergate

Sargon's a Chess King that I think you oughta listen to.

― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Sunday, November 9, 2014 7:05 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

massive post

this made me think of jaden the super saiyan kid. i hope he turned out okay, i always liked him.

idk who you're talking about but are you sure you aren't talking about jaden smith

sorry, not "jaden": jalen.
kid posted a video of himself going through a "super saiyan transformation" a'la dragonball z that was just him tensing up and yelling and then taking off his shirt and yelling more
it reminded me of dumb stuff i did at his age
but this being the 201Xs, somebody got hold of it and remixed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mr8bkN_Nk

which reminds me about a thread i wanted to build for youtube videos of people fighting/stage fighting with amateur adobe after effects production added in

what the

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2MKiDHCMAAx_X0.jpg

not just dumb, but also illegible

didnt know gamers were their own gender explains some stuff tbh

do they know the lambda symbol's meaning genderwise

prob got it from revenge of nerds

oh, that's rich.

lmaooooooo

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/532357470963118080

Matt Binder ‏@MattBinder 41m41 minutes ago

gamergaters finally have the gaming site they deserve...courtesy of Roosh of Return of Kings http://www.reaxxion.com

no i haven't gone there. fuckin called this months ago!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2Nqx3GCIAA2iVx.jpg

as ever, it's about ethics

Reaxxion’s goal
Our goal is simple: create a safe space for heterosexual males who play video games. We won’t exclude homosexuals or attractive women from commenting on our articles, and we sincerely hope they find value in what we have to say, but understand that this site will be written by male gamers for male gamers.

the sinkhole is full of quicksand

ummmmmmm this is maybe the point where i need to clock out for a good long while, but digging around thru twitter i see that GG has a very committed porn performer supporter

https://twitter.com/TheMercedesXXX

tho if the thumbnails under 'photo and video' don't make you laugh, idk

Am willing to bet someone chose the lower-case lambda as it was the symbol of the Resistance from Half Life 2.

Yes I know how dumb this sounds.

^100% what I thought too :/

Idk what the other significance is? Anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_symbols#Lambda

Still thinking about the "Just" clip from earlier, A+ work there

in that above six social institutions thing:

"Women are not specifically burdened or privileged by the institution of marriage/family"

hmm really

it's almost as if these people have no fucking clue about how power relations operate under capitalism

Reaxxion’s goal
Our goal is simple: create a safe space for heterosexual males who play video games. We won’t exclude homosexuals or attractive women from commenting on our articles, and we sincerely hope they find value in what we have to say, but understand that this site will be written by male gamers for male gamers.

so... gay men aren't male gamers?

it's almost as if these people have no fucking clue about how power relations operate under capitalism

it's almost as if these people have no fucking clue about how power relations operate under capitalism

ty

And as an ugly woman, not only am I not a gamer but my opinions are of no interest to gamers at all! Surprise.

"Duh women can't understand the oppression of gamers because they don't know what it's like to be spat at for being geeky and weird and having 0 dates and going home and playing video games instead of partying and never being listened to because women are always listened to and it's so unfair"
"oh hi, I am a woman and a nerd and I play(ed) video games and dreamed of writing my own, that is my teenage life you just described"
"please, you are too ugly to talk to and even though you are totally nerdy right down to that indefinable weirdo bully-magnet vibe as soon as you enter the room, you are clearly just pretending to be a nerd for attention, which you do not deserve, because you are ugly. not listening to you"

PS do gamers actually do well in "academic settings"? I mean staying up all night to play Civ 2 and IRC throughout my time at university may not be the only reason I don't have a degree but it's certainly a factor

Real conflation of "gamers" and "nerds" on that one I think. Also as GamerGate has demonstrated, when people with academic backgrounds (or at least in the humanities) show up and want to talk about games, this is seen as a crisis of gaming, I feel it was unethical for the chart to have omitted this

https://twitter.com/AdrianChen/status/532008472402231297

seriously, the joke not-getting

Great art asks questions. It is provocative, and it empowers. That's what immersive games such as Call of Duty provide for players. Feminised, infantilised, social justice-oriented art sets aside creativity in favour of politics, wallowing in faux victimhood, robbing players of agency and individualism in favour of identity politics and meditations on 'oppression.'

Milo taking next-level trolling to the next level.