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

and 'traditional gamers' makes me think more of the middle-aged dudes with huge beards who play tabletop RPGs at the game store

ive trolled atheists and gamergate and tbh i just ended up feeling bad about it almost immediately, some real sad people out there, also its too easy to be satisfying

if u want to do it tho the secret is to reply to one of their leaders tweets eg richard dawkins

this whole thread top to bottom needs to be put in a museum

https://twitter.com/LVX156/status/522789420370784256

sincere thx to goole for all the twitter gems. i espouse all social media but enjoy observing assholes from a distance so this is p much win win for me

perfect punchline, goole

xp nah, that one was a waste of time tbqf

jfc at "hatred"
chu otm
i need to quit thinking about #GAMERGATE for awhile, this shit is depressing

wait he IS?

― goole, Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:45 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

max reed is ismalic state pass it on

someone talk me out of tweeting the dude who started this shitstorm to ask him if he wishes he'd listened to his mother

it stands for "maximum reed caliphate" if you think the msm is gonna tell you whats up youre a fuckin joke

someone talk me out of tweeting the dude who started this shitstorm to ask him if he wishes he'd listened to his mother

― 💪😈⚠ (DJP), Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:23 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is actually a good idea tho

xp forks you're finally down to my level, congrats!

maximum reed khalifate

games suck, let's all get real jobs

oh man he made the full transcript of the interview available

http://antinegationism.tumblr.com/post/100178126531/transcript-from-that-rather-uneven-buzzfeed-article

"The deontological problem of a false idol struck us as more grievous than the deontological problem of potential for a false idol to be harassed."

"I wouldn't call it acrimonious."

hahaha

... he actually thinks this bolsters his case, rather than making him sound like a total psycho:

I consulted with a bunch of people — over a dozen [which approaches statistical significance]. Most of them women, most of them in tech fields, a few in games. We thought through the risks, the potential fallout, I made flowcharts of probabilities and possibilities. We debated, we considered, and we came to consensus. From strictly utilitarian terms, the probabilistic risk she posed to those around her was greater than the probabilistic risk posed by the situation turning toxic. The deontological problem of a false idol struck us as more grievous than the deontological problem of potential for a false idol to be harassed.

I wouldn’t call it acrimonious. The tone of thezoepost is there primarily to keep things entertaining. There’s no point to writing something no one will read. But, for reasons I won’t get into, angry isn’t really a thing for me. I certainly felt betrayed and aghast for about a week. But there’s wasn’t really any emotional anchor to keep me feeling those things much later than that. It was too surreal — to have been dating this person with this relentless drive to present themselves as some paragon of virtue, committed to ethics and behaving with utmost empathy — only to find out that this was entirely an act. I felt betrayed at first, but, couldn’t really keep up feeling betrayed by someone I never really knew.

and yeah, that deontological problem sentence screamed right off the page didn't it

no rules no ref

welp https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/522848518059225089

[which approaches statistical significance]

he believes he conducted some sort of empirical study?

From strictly utilitarian terms, the probabilistic risk she posed to those around her was greater than the probabilistic risk posed by the situation turning toxic.

fact

welp https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/522848518059225089

― 💪😈⚠ (DJP), Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:39 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

[which approaches statistical significance]

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:41 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm lol

[15 is the statistical significance number]

ohhhh DJP you silly guy

[69 is the statistical sex number]

even better how it's in square brackets "here's something I wish I had said, this will make me look EVEN MORE CLEVER!!!"

30 is better but let's talk about census-balanced sampling

how is it possible that this dude has been walking around talking like this for 20 something years and hasn't realized what a windbag he is

https://twitter.com/jbasher/status/522851479800283136

uhh

"we chatted on Skype for 2.5 hours, same questions. here, similar syntax, less academic, answers significantly different"

just lol

this dude is amazing, by which I mean it's amazing he has friends

xxxpost

because their are ~cultures~ in which this particular brand of batshit in hyper-rational cosplay is celebrated.

https://twitter.com/PLingGamer

i spent a lot of time with guys who would write shit like this and came perilously close to being a guy who would write shit like this and i kinda hate shit like this.

Yep, same. I worry I still slip into it on occasion. He has to be a CS/philosophy double major or something.

the only thing wrong with that sam biddle twitter convo is that no one made use of the @untag_me bot when the original dude wanted out of the conversation.

and he claims SHE's the crazy one, but something something reliable narrator

at this point what we've got here is basically The Iliad is how I break it down to an extent

slate tech bod getting philosophical on us

https://twitter.com/AuerbachKeller/status/522840924460560384

"Sam Biddle is precisely the embodiment of journalistic evil."

hate to bring it down in here but one of these guys seems to be in a legit bad place

https://twitter.com/GRIMACHU

eh, fuck him

reactionary hate masquerading as radical openness is nothing new

like think about the id Software guys like Carmack and Romero, that was late 80s/early 90s but tell me those guys wouldn't have bought into this "Suck it feminists" stuff? Duke Nukem? Leisure Suit Larry?

id didn't do those #idgate