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

We would not be forgotten in the endless sea of ones and zeroes that many other events have been dissolved by

can someone go in there and start a 10,000 post thread about how this should actually say "by which many other events have been dissolved"

you are the ones and zeros youve been waiting for

http://randi.io/wp/archives/86

good read

rorschach is also an undersized, unattractive, reclusive nerd right

and a ginger to boot

rorschach is so obviously the patron saint of these dudes, i am mad at myself for not thinking of it

if we go further down the rorschach rabbit hole, we can draw a line from rorschach to his original inspiration, steve ditko's the question. when ditko created his own fedora-wearing creator-owned version of the question, he called him

http://cloudfront-assets.juliansanchez.com/wp-content/uploads/mt/mra.jpg

MRA, y'all.

*drops mic*

http://www.eastontowncenter.com/Portals/0/graphics/tenants/photo_tenant_fiveguys.jpg

Actually it's about ethics in false-flag cross-dimensional alien materialisations.

the "she slept with FIVE GUYS... wait, it was three... wait, only one of them matters.. actually, nothing came of that" is one of the more laughably pathetic tentpoles of the quinnspiracy

lol nice MR.A conspiratorial shoutout BG

implicitly making it about criticizing a woman having sex is about as intellectually honest as they've been

gamergaters have done so much for charity! this 100% ethical chart proves it!

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/867/200/977.jpg

(notice that they've proven that anti-gg activists have raised nothing for charity by, er, googling 'zero dollars and zero cents')

The Fine Young Capitalists

hahaha

and the reason they donated so much to the fine young capitalists? tfyc had a well-publicised spat with zoe quinn.

I donate to charity all the time regardless of what 'gates are in style

Similarly the FTC communication that they're getting excited about now is something that they're excited about because it's a way to piss off Gawker - but the FTC is looking at it in particular because Gamasutra was enquiring about YouTube advertorials six months ago.

Also of course lol at the polite tone of "You haven't done the thing we wanted, do you have another email address we could use?"

lol @ the gamerghazi graphic, featuring a blonde cartoon girl and no actual women

"NAMBLA has already rescued 167 puppies from animal shelters this year. But so-called "child-advocates" have rescued ZERO PUPPIES. Who are the real bad guys here?"

lol

the gamergate book is evolving:

We never got along perfectly well with the wider world, but we always worked to improve it. We worked to make it lulzier, to bend reality to our own purposes, to end that that was our foe in this great war. This great war across not only the Internet, but across the outer world. Our armies waged war against Scientology and their proto-SJW brainwashing. Hacker artillery shelled the sites of oppressive (real oppression, not SJ “oppression”) middle eastern governments in support of the ordinary men protesting the governments. When a corporate security firm came to crush us, we besieged them and revealed their darkest secrets to the world. When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.

When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.
When we heard those running Habbo Hotel were oppressing their users (the truly oppressed), we invaded the hotel and seized the pool.

heroes

hahaha

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pools-closed (fyi)

but also lmao

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbdkspfgLr1qzuqe9.jpg

I was just reading that link

still lolling

Whhaaat

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/123/667/IRLswastigetfinland.jpg

I honestly can't imagine what it's like to be this stupid.

what is that?

looks like a swastika

I mean who are the people

Read the link

The internet is so fucking stupid

In early 2008, a Texan named Mary Alice Altorfer came across a “Pool’s Closed” sign in her neighborhood and called the local news station with a claim that it was promoting racial discrimination. Altorfer’s encounter with an internet meme in real life was soon turned into a news story and after the broadcast, a video clip of the report was uploaded onto YouTube. In the following days, members of Anonymous allegedly launched a harassment campaign against the woman.

It's a "real life 'swastiget'", apparently? I have no idea.

The Habbo Hotel raids by 4chan’s /b/ became so popular that they eventulally gained some offline recognition as well. In Finland, people rallied together outside Sulake’s headquarters (the parent company of Habbo Hotel) in afro wigs and suits, forming a real life “swastiget.” In the center was someone cosplaying the character Suiseiseki from the anime Rozen Maiden.

Read the link

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:34 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Didn't mean for this to sound harsh, just that the link sums up what would be a very unwieldy explanation

one minute youre lightly trolling some online anime hangout the next youre forming a human swastika while cosplaying blackness, life comes at you fast

That it started from rumours of racial profiling and ended in that... I don't know, the psychology here is too deep for me.

As time went on, people would go on to cosplay the “Pool’s Closed” avatars at anime and internet culture conventions

that "charity" jpg manages to finish by quoting/picturing one of the biggest creeps i've seen pop up in this thing

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3YFqy1CUAANjWM.jpg

tried to explain Gamergate to some work colleagues today, it gave me a new appreciation of how ridiculous the whole thing has been

is that fucking businessweek cover real holy shit lol

goddamnit why can't gamergate go after a deserving target like whoever's been doing their terrible covers

FP'd

Pretty sure whoever it is their strategy for getting fired has backfired.

businessweek's covers are amazing fuiud

looking forward to businessweek's public apology for depicting sarkeesian vanquishing samus