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

http://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstGamerGate/comments/2o0noq/yes_showing_up_at_someones_place_of_work_couldnt/

[–]Tafts_Bathtub [score hidden] 17 hours ago
Let me make this clear before I start: I do not condone this person's actions and think it is an extremely irresponsible thing to do.
Now, let me say this: we can't stop people from doing this. People will always have the capacity to do terrible things to people who have internet notoriety. For instance Scooby1961. Scooby was well known on 4chan as a nice guy who gave good bodybuilding advice...

dying irl lol

oh man someone just told me about that guy on here

https://twitter.com/freebsdgirl/status/539649590161453057

man what

(arthur chu's responses tho this [scroll down] are pretty good)

yeah that's awesome. some real ring of gyges shit.

I would argue that dude is an e-celeb now for being dumb enough to do that

we are all an an e celeb now

people show up to our workplaces to physically intact popular memes, our preferred brand of vapeware is public knowledge, and so forth

worth quoting with edits:

Arthur Chu ‏@arthur_affect
Man they are antithetical to the culture of Twitter - the whole "Justify why you said this"
"Why would you mention your sick dog except as some kind of rhetorical trick"
A channer wrote a defense of chan culture saying universal anonhood changes how you think
When you're used to ID-less spaces any ID-building activity seems "narcissistic"
A lot of it is intentionally being horrible but they legit don't get normal socialization.
He said this as though this were a plus of chan culture rather than a horrifying sickness
I say things on Twitter bc I want ppl to get a sense of who I am & how I think
4chan thinks that kind of thing is "attention whoring" & "preening" bc they are broken
Being likable so you will be liked - they think that's fundamentally dishonest
They ideologically believe in the absence of all accountability you are who you "really" are
This is nonsense. It's the opposite - 4chan ppl become interchangeable id monsters

"Why would you mention your sick dog except as some kind of rhetorical trick"

otm

Being likable so you will be liked - they think that's fundamentally dishonest

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

u were lost in chan culture

mostly lurking on the web and bickering with coworker friends in the worst devil's advocate manner and having unrealistic expectations of relationships

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