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

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I accidentally clicked into this thread and have no idea wtf is going on, I think it's best for my sanity to keep it that way.

off-topic kinda, but this story is pretty great and tangentially relates to abuse of RICO charges

did any post the video where the #gamergate dude lost his shit at weird twitter ppl?

(lol, also kinda related for a reason i didn't notice until this second - weigel wrote it) xp

I hope GamerGate lasts forever. I hope there's some unrecognizable descendant of it still trending a year from now.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if this is going to end up with this bullshit crossing over into the other bullshit that is politics - I can kind of imagine Rick Perry going for this (I can definitely imagine Herman Cain going for it).

I recently discovered that music journalists have been colluding on a message board

yeah i wonder if the real effect of this won't be conservative media outlets setting up game zones

oh shiiiiiiit xp

daer god i think i'm gonna tweet that lil insight of mine. wish me luck!

as always it's interesting to see how these things branch out into other lines of discourse

looks like one of my "fave" weirdo RWers picked it up

https://twitter.com/johndurant/status/512356851363491840

http://i.imgur.com/b8qIsrQ.png

so exciting to see the boy nero back in the game. his own journalistic ethics didn't extend to paying people who wrote for his shitty online mag last year http://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulous-and-the-kernel/

hilarious the disparity betweem the degree to which the 4channers were actually and specifically and consciously and maliciously conspiring to defame zoe quinn et al and ruin their careers and break the law in doing so, and the piddling degree to which the games journalists were conspiring to do, well, anything really. i mean, i know this is obvious. there seems a much clearer comparison between the #gamergaters and that terrible breitbart spawn who took down Acorn and did all that crepey stuff with that girl, than games journalists and journolist. but there's little value in pointing that out when wingers see nothing wrong in what the bleepblorper got up to.

I am a member of the game writers google group. 70% of the emails are about sharing PR contact info, asking for help when stumped on pre-release review games or setting up online sessions for those review games. The other 30% are about cats or pro wrestling. It's incredibly boring, which is why I only subscribe to the digest now.

what aren't you telling us? hmm? hmm?

attn #gamergate weve got a live one!

once on GameJournoPros I made a possum joke because somebody mentioned an editor named George Jones

I KNEW IT

u shd do an ama and be extremely boring plz

(counts on fingers) That's 10% unaccounted for!

i think i got invited to this? can't remember never joined (thank god as it now turns out) cuz i basically hate talking shop

#GAMERGSATESECRETS

so, i have been ignoring this for the most part, is there something i should be mad about?

UMS i saw someone retweet you yesterday and you seem mad about something

it's a lot of territorial pissing from basement dwellers

that's what it looks like at a glance but i didn't want to dismiss it out of hand

ya might as well, it's the same tripe repeated over and over again

Actually today was interesting, which means I have been spending too much time paying attention to this. But GamerGate appears to have been.. chased off.. 4chan?

oughtn't click to 4chan at work

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/death-to-the-gamer/

this been posted yet?

yes and then we killed the gamer

death to jennifer garner

Does @Nero get paid for this? Is this someone's actual job?

jacobin piece undercooked

it's just lag00n's in thread strong take (gaming = consumerism) + unpacked into verbosity

took a quick look at the tag on twitter, came away with this gem

https://twitter.com/Bendilin/status/512708381186854912

it's just lag00n's in thread strong take (gaming = consumerism) + unpacked into verbosity

― Mordy, Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:19 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk i thought it was pretty good

idk i expect more from jacobin i guess

but tbf consumerism is pretty much ubiquitous on our culture so maybe its unfair to pick on teh poor gamers, in the preceding piece he does spell out how everyone is a geek now https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/08/on-geek-culture

this is good:

There are a few small issues with this analysis. One is the notion that the slights imagined by gamers are just that: imaginary. But they aren’t, and gamers must be taken at face value when they claim to feel threatened. Gamer culture is under threat, though the notion that it’s dead or dying is both overstated and premature.

When your identity has been manufactured by corporations urging you to consume certain things in prescribed ways, then any change, no matter how small, is an existential threat. When women challenge decades of almost exclusively male fantasies of sex and power, this alters the content the gamer consumes. And when that content is altered, gamer identity itself under threat. The vitriol isn’t contrived or artificially manufactured. It has a source.

Neoliberalism has made geeks of us all: jocks, nerds, and dweebs alike.

how to write for Jacobin:

1. Identify a thing that's definitely bad.
2. Blame neoliberalism for that thing.
3. Something something Adorno?

i mean

um neoliberalism is bad hello

it's not that there aren't interesting things to still say about neoliberalism, but that well is pretty dry in 2014.

naw i agree that those on the left tend to just call everything and everyone they dont like neoliberalism

but i mean its just one sentence

i think someone very bright could write a very interesting piece about the history of gaming as it intertwines w/ (as well as subverts) neoliberalism + consumerism. i envision something like Attali's Noise but for games instead of music.