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

Warlobster ‏@Gossenphilosoph 2h2 hours ago
@Sargon_of_Akkad Don't forget they would also see this as sexism. "You can't buy a womans love"-type of shit. You can't win.

war.......lobster

FREE IMAGINARY SWORDS

everyone heard this like that cure song in their head right

women. can't threaten to kill them, can't purchase them like commodities. amirite fellas.

lol biscuits

#winfail

this argument is exactly backwards from "journalistic integrity"

https://twitter.com/johndurant/status/525145389687910400

otm

Flipped through my roommate's GameInformer and found a pleasant, to-the-point Sarkeesian interview. Wonder if this is raising hackles or if the GG types have already long since checked out on GameInformer.

otm was to s.clover above, but goole is also otm

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yeah that guy is a trip

why are all these dudes so certain they understand perfectly how the world and everyone in it works?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

so much facial hair, so many greasy locks

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why are all these dudes so certain they understand perfectly how the world and everyone in it works?

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iirc the guy studied evolutionary psychology at harvard. can you even imagine.

the bio-determinist end of the right wing is real abyssal stuff

its funny cause theyre just telling each other made up stories then being all LOGIC

of course he's evo-psych

don't think i have the stomach for this, but

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/525361729552007168

"enjoy"

one of the really interesting things to me about #gamergate as a sociological phenomenon is how persistent and totemic certain phrases become - like obv its not a new debate tactic to dismiss opposing viewpoints as incorrect but things are always 'fallacies' or not 'critical thinking'. i mean i think the idea that these horrible trashslobs are the only people who see things as they really are is an entrenched part of the trunet mindset (lol normalshits) is p fascinating but not unique but the codified way they have expressing things is super interesting

ive been p fascinated with trunet communities since before #gamergate and i keep seeing glimpses of that mindset in #gamergate like there was a tweet by the one fedora dude that makes tentacle rape games about 'lames on the internet' but there are a lot (well not that many) dudes out there that truly believe that the dod developed arpanet as a safeplace for them to trade nudes of the girl in a cowboy hat from digimon. and people talking about facebook.com being 'cultural appropriation' - that having ceded 'rl' to the normals they 'deserve' the internet to themselves. and that even more than ethics in game journalism or having sjw values forced on them the very existence of 'candy crush saga' is an existential threat

this is kind of stupid but i remember being a kid and reading tad williams 'otherland' and thinking man the internet is going to be so cool in 20 years and instead of being totally l33t its just a place for white guys named noah to play fantasy football and pix of cats. so i can understand people who conceive of their world as being this diminishing, threatened place. i mean every darkweb chan ive ever been on is just people asking for advice on how to kill themselves, the core of #gamergate just makes me think of these dudes who are so sad and lonely and toxic and just severed from rl, from the norms and frames of reference that make sense to the people who live there. idk this stuff makes me so sad

yes the totemic use of smart-boy terms in sub-140 chara snippets is legit enraging to me

gem

https://twitter.com/TehDoh/status/525375845289189376

lol i'm sure she knows him well enough from Whedonverse events

Xp I like one of the retweets in that thread where someone is complaining that the story of day getting doxx'd is spreading so quickly and wah wah they're blaming gg CAN YOU BELIEVE THE INDIGNITY. these people are living on a different planet from the rest of us carbon based life forms

SJW false flag doxxing op obv

love 2 doxx

I've learned so many new words in the last 24 hours

This is all fodder for the F-Plus podcast to read dramatically

One thing I am noticing is that a lot of these guys REALLY resent or feel threatened by attractive women.

go on...

sorry. that was dickish. but yeah, this is very much a thing.

Yeah, a lot of this stuff is straight ressentiment on the level of NRO-zealotry. I can't remember if Frank Schaeffer or whoever coined the term but we're looking at another case of people being "victimized by modernity." Shit has changed and they're just beginning to twig that everything ain't what it was.

Michel Houellebecq wrote that HP Lovecraft had to "fail at life" before he could start churning out weird horror of a cosmic scope, but these guys don't exhibit jackshit for creative ability to filter or sublimate all that internal discontent into anything other than increasingly graphic threats. I don't necessarily think that in 20 years they'll all be those militia types who move to N.Idaho and broadcast on shortwave radio, but I'm damnsure plenty will have shared ideological & narrative aspects.

Hey Idaho deserves better than to be assoc w/gamergate :(

o for the days when nerds gathered in sewers and killed each other in satanic role-playing games

Sorry Couer d'Alene, but you got all the neo-nazi/supremacist-types that were chased out of Portland in the early 90s

headline of the year

http://theweek.com/article/index/270115/gamergate-has-backfired-spectacularly-on-its-nincompoop-perpetrators

nincompoop perpetrators, to the internet!

<I>I can't remember if Frank Schaeffer or whoever coined the term but we're looking at another case of people being "victimized by modernity." Shit has changed and they're just beginning to twig that everything ain't what it was.</I>

There is also a fair amount of "No, obviously things should change, but organically, as the market demands, not with these SJW's coming in with their jackboots and dfgdkdmlkmnlgdfgds"

FFVII lol: http://i.imgur.com/KSpYGnN.jpg

Was thinking yestreday how similar to 'gaming' these targeted email and harassment campaigns are

Like w/r/t the advertisers, taking a form letter and spamming it to dozens of advertisers and being good at finding email contacts / copying and pasting and changing names efficiently

The positive feedback loop that happens when Intel bows out of Gamasutra or when Gawker's advertisers get shook and #gamergaters think yes, I helped make that happen

Not too different than doing a raid in WoW maybe and teaming up on a boss

ahh these editors notes are very classic

What Male Game Developers Think of #GamerGate
THE ESCAPIST STAFF | 10 OCTOBER 2014 12:30 PM

Editor's Note: We have deleted the timeline originally presented in this article to avoid editorial opinion as much as possible. The goal of this introduction was to present some context behind these interviews, not to comment on the issues presented. We have also updated the title (the art is being updated at the moment) to "What Male Game Developers Think of #Gamergate" and encourage you to read the companion piece "Female Game Developers Make Statements on GamerGate, which was presented separately and anonymously at the request of those developers. (Exception: Crowned Daemon Studios includes both genders but is grouped with this list.) The goal was to offer game developers of all kinds a chance to have their voices be heard. If you're interested in the official stance of The Escapist, you may read these editorials.

Editor's Note #2: We have removed the testimony of Slade Villena, known as RogueStar, after we've received evidence that he has harassed some contributors to The Escapist. Due to our strong policy against all harassment and abuse, Villena's opinions will no longer be presented alongside those of his colleagues.

Editor's Note #3: We have removed the testimony of James Desborough, after we've received evidence that he has harassed some contributors to The Escapist. Due to our strong policy against all harassment and abuse, Desborough's opinions will no longer be presented alongside those of his colleagues.

Editor's Note #4: The Escapist removed the interviews of Slade Villena and James Desborough due to complaints (accompanied by what appears to be actual evidence) that Messrs. Villena and Desborough have harassed members of the online community, including certain of our contributors. While we cannot speak to the legitimacy of such of complaints, due to our strong policy prohibiting harassment and abuse we thought it best to simply remove the interviews.

Editor's Note #5: We are total assclowns.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-advertisers-threatening-to-pull-money-now-t,37263

"Developers" represented:

-Stardock
-Manifesto Games
-Crowned Daemon Studios
-anonymous dev "Royale"
-James Covenant is a video editor and game developer. He is most famous for his viral YouTube videos "Star Wars Call Me Maybe" and "Captain Picard sings Let it Snow!" James is currently developing a puzzle game called Black-White. Black-White features a unique color-inverting mechanic.
-anonymous iOS developer "Scion"
-Warhorse Studios
- Some guy who worked at SOE and Verant (so I guess ex-EQ dev w/no job now)
- guy working on his first game "Project Assembly"
- "design consultant"/blogger
- "Industry veteran"
- anonymous developer "Oakheart"
- anonymous developer "Xbro"
- anoynmous dev "Glaive"
- anonymous dev "Roo"

WHAT A WHO'S WHO OF "GAME DEVELOPERS" VERY IMPRESSIVE TITO

Black-White features a unique color-inverting mechanic.

"Captain Picard sings Let it Snow!" <<< primo content

- anonymous developer "Xbro"

hahaha

This whole thing just makes me think that there are total losers in the world who are total losers for a good reason.