🎭 Dramacow Gamergate / Depression Quest Shitstorm

[Trombonista]

An alternate view of the 4chan shit.

 

[StallChaser]

I can't find it right now, but Devi Ever made an incredibly good point in a livestream chat she did. It's highly unlikely the existing corrupt media is going to change. Gamers are going to have to go to sites like the Escapist who aren't corrupt, and make their own gamer friendly media outlets. Basically, build their own networks parallel to the existing corrupt media, except not openly contemptuous towards gamers. If you build it, they will come.

 

[Varis]

There was something mentioned pages ago (tried searching, no dice) about Reuters saying that the video game journalists had no journalistic integrity. I was wondering if it was a CMA type thing, since the mainstream news media have done, uh, questionable things (the big four, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX), or if the video games journalism industry was that scummy. It looks like it may be the latter after all.

This was a statement (supposedly) made by an employee of Reuters:
http://bonglorio.tumblr.com/post/96244295610/i-work-for-reuters-im-a-journalist-in-the-media

Follow-up on this by someone, and a link to Reuters' Handbook of Journalism:
http://moustwanted.tumblr.com/post/95286207788/kotaku-lacks-any-form-of-journalistic-integrity

At least I think this is what you're looking for.

 

[tehpope]

In "I don't know what's going on anymore" news:

coincidentally, Jason Miller, the founder of #NotYourShield, got doxed and has been fired from his job due to SJWs fucking with people at his work. So maybe this isn't fiction after all.

 

[Watcher]

In "I don't know what's going on anymore" news:

coincidentally, Jason Miller, the founder of #NotYourShield, got doxed and has been fired from his job due to SJWs fucking with people at his work. So maybe this isn't fiction after all.

Jesus fucking christ they're willing to dox people who just talk about this shit.

Mundane matt and IA don't have anything to do with this controversy. They just report on it. They're willing to shoot the messenger to strike fear into anyone who dares question their extremist positions. This is the price of so called "social justice" a complete dissolve of anything resembling morals and ethics in favor of extremist positions.

If Mundane Matt or IA do get doxxed they could press charges against Moot if these charges are correct.

http://theralphretort.com/neogaf-allegedly-sold-kotaku-user-content-without-permission/

Gamergate isn't going anywhere folks. If anything it's going to go nuclear within the next few months.

 

[QI 541]

One thing that worries me is the fringe right. If they hijack the Gamergate movement, they'll turn this into another liberal vs conservative issue, and no one wins.

 

[Judge Holden]

At some point in the last few hours (right now is 13:00 PM GMT) the Escapist website has been taken down

The forums being one of the ONLY havens of gamergate activity and archiving

Ya know i really fcking hope this is just a coincidence

Also I would like to recommend this thread be renamed to "The Gamergate Shitstorm" given how its spiraled far beyond DP quest at this point

 

[Ravenor]

While I am not a gamer I do hope it is just a coincidence as well.
The SJW's of the world are not above using underhand tactics to get there point across, and I would not put it past them to do a DDOS or go after the host with DMCA requests etc.

 

[Watcher]

At some point in the last few hours (right now is 13:00 PM GMT) the Escapist website has been taken down

The forums being one of the ONLY havens of gamergate activity and archiving

Ya know i really fcking hope this is just a coincidence

I don't believe in coincidences. Expect the Gamergate threads on there purged within a few hours. And removed from the archive.

While I am not a gamer I do hope it is just a coincidence as well.
The SJW's of the world are not above using underhand tactics to get there point across, and I would not put it past them to do a DDOS or go after the host with DMCA requests etc.

If they're willing to doxx that's significantly more sobering than DMCAs or DDOS attacks.

Also

You also get banned for advertising if you post about going to 8chan to talk about depression quest. (note it's actually pretty hard to get banned for advertising on /v/ unless you're a spam bot)

I believe hell has officially frozen over gentlemen.

 

[Randall Fragg]

Okay, I just have to ask, What the fuck is going on? I don't understand any of this. I know "Zoe made a shitty game" and that's it. What are people getting so pissed off about?

 

[Watcher]

Okay, I just have to ask, What the fuck is going on? I don't understand any of this. I know "Zoe made a shitty game" and that's it. What are people getting so pissed off about?

In recent days sites like 4chan which have previously championed freedom of speech have begun to censor discussion of this topic.

Censorship and now doxxing is running rampant over this. There's a great deal more details that aren't mentioned in this image but it's a good start with understanding it.

Also watch Internet Aristocrat's 3 videos.

I work for Reuters. I'm a journalist in the media business.

Back in 2008, I sat in a conference and reviewed some proposals to integrate news sources focused on electronic gaming into our RSS service as niche content providers.

We considered IGN, Gamespot, and a few other syndicated online info feeds.

Now, in order to white label a source as affiliated with Reuters, you need to run through a checklist of ~100 items that are necessary for journalistic integrity. The source and its organization has to score at least a 60 out of 100 for it to be considered fair and unbiased.

These tests are carried out by senior journalists, editors, and investigators.

NONE of the gaming publications scored higher than a 15. For reference, the National Enquirer scored a 38 and the MSNBC blogosphere scored 44.

Some failures included:
- Economic ties with publishers
- Acceptance of favors
- 0% of staff held journalism degree
- Very small percentage worked in other major publications
- No real editing process
- No accountability

tl;dr: Gaming "journalism" is a joke and the laughingstock of reporting media. Continue to read these publications if you want, but assume that everything you read is biased or an outright lie.

 

[Varis]

Go out and boycock to the extreme!

I will! Thank you father!

 

[Yog-Sothoth]

The Escapist has been hit with a DDOS attack.

 

[_blank_]

At some point in the last few hours (right now is 13:00 PM GMT) the Escapist website has been taken down

The forums being one of the ONLY havens of gamergate activity and archiving

Ya know i really fcking hope this is just a coincidence

The Escapist has been hit with a DDOS attack.

Holy shitsnacks, Batman! Hopefully they'll get this shit back up soon.

Although this is fucking hysterical since the Escapist, although being a bastion for the GG folks, is also home of such delightful folk like Moviebob and Jim Sterling. I wonder how they'll spin this on their respective Twitters.

Also, the Escapist is owned by Defy Media - same people that now own Gametrailers. Y'know what that means, right?

HACKERS HAVE DARED TO SULLY THE HOME OF THE DORITO POPE.

 

[Xarpho]

Because of how prolific the industry is at a low level (talking about indie devs here) I doupt there will be a crash in the same way there was during the Atari Age.

A dip due to lack of journalism? Sure. But games that spread via word of mouth (Five Frights at Dennys) dont *need* it.

Unless the maker was part of the whole conspiracy (it really needs a name thats not Quinspiracy because its not about her anymore, nor is she the center of it, just a prolific member) with Silver String Media and all that and nobody told me, that game did perfectly fine being spread around by word of mouth. And it deserves it, to tell you the truth...

Oh, no, there will still be video and computer games that will do very well, but the industry as a whole will be weaker as a whole, at least temporarily.

One thing that worries me is the fringe right. If they hijack the Gamergate movement, they'll turn this into another liberal vs conservative issue, and no one wins.

Well, the only thing "right-wing" I've seen about it is Brietbart, which took a mostly neutral and informative to it, and even that was (and I may be paraphrasing here) "it's the same thing that leftists have done for years, and hopefully this will open younger people's eyes to their tactics" or something.

I like the way it's going so far, as they, 4Chan, #NotYourShield, et. al. can form a diverse band fighting against a common cause. Everyone loves a "ragtag bunch of misfits" story (or at least needs a "Token Evil Teammate")

 

[OBAMATRON]

feminist hacking groups

...yeah

 

[GREEDY FIREMAN]

Jesus fucking christ they're willing to dox people who just talk about this shit.

Mundane matt and IA don't have anything to do with this controversy. They just report on it. They're willing to shoot the messenger to strike fear into anyone who dares question their extremist positions. This is the price of so called "social justice" a complete dissolve of anything resembling morals and ethics in favor of extremist positions.

If Mundane Matt or IA do get doxxed they could press charges against Moot if these charges are correct.

http://theralphretort.com/neogaf-allegedly-sold-kotaku-user-content-without-permission/

Gamergate isn't going anywhere folks. If anything it's going to go nuclear within the next few months.

The Escapist has been hit with a DDOS attack.

About the only place I trusted for game reviews was Zero Punctuation, and now down goes The Escapist. I'm seriously thinking of sending some hand-written letters to the addresses listed above.

 

[OBAMATRON]

Escapist is back up, really doubt they got DDOSed. Haven't they been trying to stifle #gamergate talk?

 

[_blank_]

The Escapist is back up. You may now prostrate yourself before your bag of Cooler Ranch and baptize thineself with Code Red.

Escapist is back up, really doubt they got DDOSed. Haven't they been trying to stifle #gamergate talk?

They've been pretty much a hub for the gamergate folk. I've been trolling their threads and they've had folks like Internet Aristocrat stopping by, which probably makes them a target. Plus, Ben Kuchera, according to the email leaks pretty much was telling Greg Tito, the Escapist EiC to shut down the forums threads.

I'm not gonna say the GG folks have been squeaky clean an completely innocent of being assholes. At the same time, they haven't been going around and hacking/ DDOSing websites either. I bet it was some SJW trying to prove a point or something before getting back on their white stallions and riding home to eat Trix and bitch about Cartoon Network. Y'know - important shit.

 

[Judge Holden]

https://twitter.com/archon/status/513365103329423360

ESCAPIST DDOS CONFIRMED.

Also confirmed it was due to their hosting the gamerfood stuff