🎭 Dramacow Gamergate / Depression Quest Shitstorm

[Pikimon]

How is the fact that a minority created the #NotYourShield hashtag ironic? Isn't that kinda the point, that they are minorities?

Supposed defenders of minorities lashing out at someone and calling them an Uncle Tom for not agreeing with their views (with the mindset that all minorities must agree with them) and then proceeding to get them fired.

At least this time they didn't try to get them deported.

 

[A Random]

Didn't that happen to a guy thanks to anti-BAWNIES?

 

[Pikimon]

The deportation thing?

 

[A Random]

Yeah. Tried to get a man deported because he was supposedly an illegal immigrant [he wasn't] out of revenge because his wife happened to describe the health procedures in her state and why a girl would not be allowed to leave a hospital so soon after a supposed suicide attempt.

 

[StallChaser]

On top of that several people who supported Gamergate have been fired because of the actions of SJW's (The guy who made the #NotYourShield twitter hashtag was fired, who ironically is a minority). One of the biggest reasons why I haven't come out on Twitter to publicly support Gamergate is for that very same reason. SJW's know that people who are gay, trans, or are a minority already have it tough finding employment and they use this to their advantage to ruin the lives of the very same people they claim to defend.

They're not progressive they're fucking hypocrites and charlatans.

It's times like this I wish I could give more than one agree, and press 1 into oblivion till the end of time. This is exactly the problem with SJWs, and it comes down to them caring more about the so-called movement than the actual people involved.

 

[Ouija Board]

Well this has reached the international news. A French publication has picked up the story. I put it through Google Translate and this is what it came up as:

Spoiler: English Translation

Behind the #GamerGate an antifeminist nebula
A disparate movement of video game players gathered under the label "gamergate", was created after a series of cases of harassment of women activists.
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The Monde.fr | 15.09.2014 at 1:16 p.m. • Updated 15/9/2014 at 18:00 | By William Audureau
"Heterosexual, white, male, misogynist, frustrated, old boy, virgin, terrorist, hairy neck, hating women, death. "That, in a nutshell, how some of the geek community considers seen since the outbreak in mid-August, the Zoe Quinn and many business suites.
A surfer takes pictures for #GamerGate and #NotYourShield campaigns. A surfer takes pictures for #GamerGate and #NotYourShield campaigns. | Twitter

Zoe Quinn is a video game designer, author particularly independent game Depression Quest. In mid-August, her ex-boyfriend released a series of private messages and a long text accusing him of having deceived him with a newspaper reporter specializing in video games. The publication was the starting point of a massive campaign of online harassment against the woman and journalists, accused of collusion, unethical or even prostitution. Other feminist activists of the middle of the video game have also been the subject of threats and insults.

Read: A creative video game victim of a campaign of online harassment
"Gamers are dead"

History has seen a significant rebound and evolved in late August, "gamergate." The origin of this community push, publishing an article on the specialized site Gamasutra entitled "Gamers do not have to be your audience. Gamers are finished. "The journalist Leigh Alexander y pin "a generation of kids in their garage that marketing people have to believe they represented the largest commercial weight of all time", whose only words are to "have money, have women, have guns, and pistols bigger "and are" now obsolete. "

In the aftermath, several media follow suit to expose the immaturity of the "gamer" community - this mass with undefined within which borders person knows exactly who ranger - suspected of having condoned or actively participated in campaigns online harassment against prominent feminists like Zoe Quinn, the vidéocritique Anita Sarkeesian or Guardian reporter Jenn Frank.

Stung, the community puts in battle. The keywords and #GamerGate #NotYourShield are emerging in late August on social networks and spread so as massive as durable. They have become a massive rallying point for many players offended by outbidding amalgam.

This informal community movement clings to various demands: more transparency in the gaming industry, more rigorous ethics in the press, a more respectful treatment and less policeman players, and better consumer ethic. But the speech is heterogeneous, and under the banner "gamergate" ethics is called in all its forms.

"I'm not your shield (#notyourshield) because I will not let you pass my male friends for gamers misogynist to distract from your lack of integrity" and wrote a user who claims gamergate. "Do not buy Destiny before tests are published. Activision expects you just buy on the hype, "urges another more prosaic.

See: "Destiny": the video game testing event

However, if a topic seems weld the movement, is the reporting of stigmatizing stereotypes "gamers". "We are different and we are tired of people talking to us. Yes, we are "says the designer Sara Mayhew, while noting the strong criticism by feminist mobilization Twittosphere.

For no sooner appeared, this nebula was immediately chased by many sites, most of feminist inspiration, and denouncing this "identity" movement a deeper desire to wash misogynistic attacks précécentes weeks.
A motion made on 4Chan

It must be said that what now looks like a huge online movement was not born quite spontaneously. Several voices even denounce a communication operation mounted from scratch by the same people who have been behind campaigns online harassment against several feminist, channel members / v / from 4chan forum.

This is not the first time 4chan is accused of staging. In late August, Vice already noted that "historically anti-feminist gamers" the famous English forum had massively participated in the campaign crowdfunding The Fine Young Capitalists, a collective of creative play feminist beginners in order to give good press and short circuit the accusations of misogyny.

Zoe Quinn herself, captures conversations on chat networks to support, are accused of having manipulated the gamergate movement with the intention of reversing public opinion against the major feminist figures of the Internet, through channel cat directed by his vengeful ex-boyfriend friend.

"No, of course #GamerGate anti-harassment and not just a bunch of lures into the speech for later use," she quips.
"The tea party video games"

It is not the only one. On a screen broadcast by a developer of Microsoft Studios capture a dropped anonymously in the forum message exhorts to "use [the word-pound #notyourshield] to talk about the hypocrisy of Social Justice Warriors [derogatory term for activists feminist and LGBT] be clearly in favor of #GameGate, insist on corruption, and how [the voice of players] is silenced because [she] does not match the stereotype. "

And give an example of "successful tweet": "Being Latino is not enough. Now Social Justice Warriors claim to "fight for my rights" by reducing me to silence #NotyourShield #GamerGate. "
Screenshot of 4chan. Screenshot of 4chan. | MATT KERR

On a dedicated, Death of Gamer Gate blog, the movement is described as "an attempt to incorporate, rehabilitate, and retroactively justify an earlier campaign of harassment sexist evidence", and immediately renamed "the Tea Party video games" .

The gamergate would basically presentable face of a movement viscerally anti-feminist or misogynist.
new dimension

The sincerity of the movement is in doubt. However, it is difficult to reduce in their twenties, thirties and hundreds of online behind its launch on 4chan. "The majority of voice is calm and open to civilized debate," said one user.

Since its debut in late August, the mobilization has become popular, and for the day of September 10, more than ten days after birth, the word-pound "gamergate" accounted for some 4,000 tweets per hour, depending on hashtags.org site.

The current dispute is already belongs more to those who created it, but a vast nebula that is appropriate. Despite the many criticisms of the functioning of the press, the issue of sexism persists in the background, sometimes to fight, sometimes to defend themselves, sometimes to pick on those who wield it as a weapon in a reflex anti-feminist.

"We do not need the Social Justice Warrior to police our thoughts, our opinions censor, stifle creativity, choke us with their intentions. "

The movement is also supported by Christina Sommers, American thinker well-known in the United States for his stance against what it called "radical feminism", it presents as protest, Misandra and contrary to the egalitarian ideals of the 90s and which would define the current feminists.

"Most of the players seem to favor egalitarian feminism. What they reject is the current carried by a female chauvinism antihommes propaganda. "

Difficult to summarize motion

As noted in the critical analysis of video games Merlanfrit site, the #GamerGate also attracts many conservative figures, reactionary or supremacist, it is not possible to reduce the mobilization personalities who lay claim, sometimes without interest turned out for the game or for the geek culture.

Ten days after its creation, the movement is difficult to fathom. Antifeminist deception for some, "spring" video players for other games, it continues to be traversed by its contradictions, wiping the heavy fire of criticisms, whilst reinventing itself with the supposed fairness of users take it by force sometimes almost marginally.

"The #GamerGate remember the scene compressor junk in" Star Wars. "There are few heroes, but they are surrounded and covered with garbage. "

Basically, the movement said something deeply rooted: the sense of dispossession of its object by a community of players historically welded external attacks against the supposed violent games or lack of artistic recognition thereof in their infancy. But it also betrays his inability to absorb the feminist discourse on video games, the heterogeneity of people who claim the movement as much as the great diversity of his supporters.

As summarized by one visitor, "if people on the Internet used a quarter of the energy they put into #GamerGate to save net neutrality, I would be much more reassured[/SPOILER}

Edit: Fixing grammar errors and to add English translation.

 

[A Random]

You know, I got a question in mind.

Let's assume this ends with the SJWs losing for once, when it's proven this whole bullshit is unfair and all those guys are fired from their organizations. Considering they've gone as far as get people fired and all... do you think they could go on a dox rampage?

 

[c-no]

You know, I got a question in mind.

Let's assume this ends with the SJWs losing for once, when it's proven this whole bullshit is unfair and all those guys are fired from their organizations. Considering they've gone as far as get people fired and all... do you think they could go on a dox rampage?

Possibly, if they find any dirt they can post on those they despise. If they posted information that got them in jail, they could be stopped from their doxxing rampage but I could be wrong.

 

[Jaimas]

You know, I got a question in mind.

Let's assume this ends with the SJWs losing for once, when it's proven this whole bullshit is unfair and all those guys are fired from their organizations. Considering they've gone as far as get people fired and all... do you think they could go on a dox rampage?

Wouldn't be the first time.

Thing is, if it keeps happening, and someone figures out who the source was - not as difficult as it sounds, if you have friends say, in an HR department - and it's flagged down the source, someone's ass is getting dragged into court and having the shit sued out of it for libel, to say nothing of the possible criminal and civil suits to follow. And if it happens again, I hope that those involved are smart enough to find out the source, and make them pay for it via the court system. And mark my words, it'll fucking happen, because these people aren't that smart as evidenced by what we've been able to dig up thus far from their public comments.

But the part of me that finds this fucking tragic? All of this? The doxxing, the intentionally trying to harm people who disagree with them? All of it's centered around what? The fact that Quinn fucking got her shit exposed. I really have to wonder if these people are so insufferably fucking broken that this, legitimately, is their only outlet - to jump to the defense of someone who isn't worth shit.

 

[wheat pasta]

"Heterosexual, white, male, misogynist, frustrated, old boy, virgin, terrorist, hairy neck, hating women, death. "

Love it.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Yeahhhh I'd go to the police with that shit.

As far as connections Moot has to the anti-Gamergate thing, Moot's girlfriend works for Gawker media (which owns Kotaku and the other blacklisted gaming sites) and he also made an appearance with Anita Sarkesean at a creepy seminar thingy called "XOXO". Here's some pics of the seminar that draws parellels to the "Third Wave" experiment.

What is ithis and why is it making me feel sad?

 

[Smutley]

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-...ritics-in-series-of-new-GameJournoPros-emails

A second tranche of leaked emails from the secret GameJournoPros mailing list, dated September 2014 and published today by Breitbart London, reveals video game journalists insulting popular YouTubers and laughing off the prospect of readers challenging them about ethical violations.

Edit: Also, here's a list of all the people contributing to the GameJournoPros discussions (to date).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3206545/posts

Spoiler: List of Names

Adam Rosenberg - Digital Trends
Alex Navarro - Giant Bomb
Alex Rubens - IGN, G4TV, PCWorld, Official Xbox Magazine, Polygon, @Gamer Magazine, Games Radar, Joystiq, Kotaku, Destructoid, Tech Hive, Game Informer
Andrew Fitch - the Geekbox podcast
Andrew Groen - Penny Arcade (ex?), Wired
Andrew Hayward - StuffTV, TechHive, IGN, Macworld,Maclife, Jostiq
Andrew a Cunningham - ArsTechnica
Andy Chalk - PC Gamer
Andy Eddy - author, “Game Over Press Start To Continue”
AnnetteCardwell - Yahoo! Shine, Wikia
Anthony John Agnello - Joystiq, The AV Club, Edge, Fast Company
Ben Kuchera - Editor at Polygon
Ben Gilbert - Senior Editor for Engadget
Billy Shibley - Social/Community for @DestinytheGame (Activision), former Editorial Manager at Machinima
Brad Gallaway - Managing Editor of GameCritics.com
Bradley Shoemaker - Giant Bomb
Brandon Cackowski-Schnell - The Escapist
Brandon Justice - Ex Gamefan, IGN, SEGA, EA & EGM
Brandon Boyer - Chairman, Indie Games Festival
Brian Leahy - Previously Shacknews & G4tv
Britton Peele - Entertainment Editor Dallas Morning News
Casey Johnston - Culture Editor at Ars Technica
Charles Husemann - Development Manager at Recource Gaming Nexus EIC
Chris Dahlen - Game dev and writer
Chris Plante - Senior Editor at The Verge
Christopher Grant - Editor-in-Chief at Polygon
Conrad Zimmerman - Podcaster, freelance writer/critic
Cory Banks - Former Managing Editor at PC Gamer
Dale (Laura Dale) - Indiehaven.com, Kotaku UK, Telegraph, Guardian, MYM, MCM
Dalibor Dimovski - Gamedev
Dan (Dan Stapleton) - IGN, PC Gamer
Dan Crabtree - GamerNode
Dana Wollman - Engadget managing editor
Daniel Starkey (Twitter deleted, cached) - Eurogamer, GameSpot, Joystiq, Kotaku
Daniel Feit - Wired
Danielle - Senior Reviewer at Polygon
Davetach - Polygon
David Thomas - Youtuber “Game Dave” (I believe.)
Dead Yet Living - Unsure
Dean Takahashi - Lead Writer for Games Beat at Venture Beat
Dennis Scimeca - The Daily Dot (Formerly ArsTechnica, NPR, GamesBeat, Polygon, Kotaku, The Escapist, Gamasutra
Devin Connors - The Escapist (past Tom’s Guide, GameFrontCom)
Devin Kofsky - Social Media Celebrity Cruise? Freelance I think in the past.
Dtroid Niero - Destructoid
Erick Eckstein - Esquire Network, G4TV,
Erick Frederikesn / piratesyar - Technobuffalo
Garnett Lee - Shout Engine
Garrett Martin - Paste games editor, Boston Herald game critic
George Wiedman - Super Bunnyhop (youtube)
Greg Tito - The Escapist
Gregory Gay - The Escapist
Harold Goldberg - New York Times, NPR, books
Heidi Kemps - Freelance, Joystiq
Issac Ferderspiel - IndieHaven, former Game Informer Intern
Jake Gaskill - G4TV
James Fudge - Editor GamePolitics.com
Jarred Newman
Jason Fanelli - Arcade Sushi, GamesRadar, PocketGamer, Gamernode
Jason Leyanna (no twitter I found) - Realm of Gaming
Jason Schreier - Kotaku Australia, Wired
Jason Venter - Honest Gamers Editor in Chief, IGN, Gamespot, GamesRadar, Joystiq
Jason Wilson
Jaz Rignall
Jeffery Matulef - US News Editor at Eurogamer (Former AV Club, G4TV, Paste, Joystiq,OXM)
Jeremy Zoss - Zoss Media, Giant Bomb
Joe Osborne - Reviews Editor TechRadar
John Funk - The Escapist
Jonathan Deesing - Joystiq
Jorge Jimenez - Blogger?, Staff Writer Dualshockers
Joseph Leray - TouchArcade, Destructioid
Josh Tolentino - Destructioid, Japanator
Julian Murdoch - Comic Vine?
Justin McElroy - Polygon
Kate Cox - Consumerist, GameCritics.com
Kevin Kelly - Wired
Kyle Orland - Senior Gaming Editor for Ars Technica
Kyle Horner - Developer at WB Games/Turbine, Writer, Editor
Leah B. Jackson - Riot Games eSports web content coordinator (formely IGN/G4)
Logan Westbrook - The Escapist
Lou Kesten - Associated Press
Ludwig Kietzmann - Joystiq Editor-in-chief
Maddy Myers - PasteGames Assitant Editor
Mark Burnham - Online Media Manager QuinStreet (Formerly EIC at Game Front)
Matthew Kumar - Freelance, CEO of MKULTRAgames, publisher of exp.?
Matt Matthews - Gamasutra
Matthew Sakey - Freelance, NYU game center
Meghan - IGN
Michael McWhertor - Deputy News Editor at Polygon
Mike Futter - News Editor at Game Informer
Michael Rougeau - Kotaku, Gamespot, TechRadar, more
Mike Wehner - Daily Dot, USA Today, Yahoo
Mitch Dyer - Editor, IGN
Chris Morris - CNBC, Variety, Coast to Coast Radio
N'Gai Croal - Newsweek (previous)
N. Evan Van Zelfden (no twitter) - Venture Beat, The Escapist, Slate
Nathan Grayson - Kotaku
Nathan Meunier - Freelance, Podcaster
Nick Chester - Harmonix
Phillip Kollar - Polygon, Game Informer
Pikoeri Egm - EGM, ex GameFan, ex Play
Richard Mitchell - Joystiq
Rob Zacny - PCGamesN, The Escapist, Polygon, IGN
Rod “Slasher” Breslau - Past (OnGamers)
Rollin Bishop - Contributing Editor at LaughingSquid, formerly Geeokosystem, The Mary Sue
Ron Whitaker - Managing Editor GameFront
RPad.TV - Rpad.tv
Ryan Kuo - Kill Screen
Ryan Scott - Editorial Director at Geekbox Media
Ryanflemingpdx - Gamig and Cinema Editor Digital Trends (former)
Sam Machovech - Tech Reporter Ars Technica
Samit Sarkar - Polygon , formerly at Destructoid
Sarah LeBoeuf - The Escapist
Savethekitsune (Cassandra Khaw, I believe.) - Verge
Scott Nichols - Freelance Critic, Digital Spy
Scott Steinberg - Speaker & Futurist, Writes for Inc, Mashable (Past?), Huffpo
Sebastian Haley - Venture Beat
Shoe (Wild Guess - Dan “Shoe” Hsu) - VentureBeat
Simon Ferrari - Adjunct NYU GameCenter, INDIECADE, Different Games, Indie-Fund Dev outreach team
Sinan Kubba - Joystiq
Sincerelysophie (Sophie/Sam Prell) - Joystiq, G4, Destructoid
Steven Kent (Didn’t find Twitter) - Book Writer, freelance lots of places from the past
Steve Haske - Wired, Medium (not a real site, anyone can do that), Complex Mag?
Susan Arendt - Managing Editor at Joystiq
Taylor Cocke - Web content coordinator at Riot Games/Lolesports, but widely written at IGN, Edge, and others.
The Gamegoat - Youtuber
Tim Stevens - Editor at Large, C'net
Timothy J. Seppala - Engadget contributing editor.
Tina Amini - Deputy Editor at Kotaku
Tom Curtis - “Digital Marketing Guy” at Ubisoft, formerly at Gamasutra
Tom Chick - quartertothree.com
Will Tuttle - Sr. Communications Manager for Xbox and Editorial Overseer of Xbox Wire, IGN (past)
William Usher - Assistant Editor Gaming Blend
Max Parker - Columnist for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Xav De Matos - Joystiq
Yannick LeJacq - Motherboard (VICE), Kotaku UK
Zack Stern - PCWorld, Macworld, others

 

[KingofManga420]

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-...ritics-in-series-of-new-GameJournoPros-emails



Edit: Also, here's a list of all the people contributing to the GameJournoPros discussions (to date).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3206545/posts

For gods sake. This is the nastiest circlejerk I've ever seen.

 

[DeagleDad420]

Forgive me in advance for sperging up this thread with my own stance on this issue, but I can't help but fucking laugh each time another layer of the onion is peeled back and even more desperate backpedaling occurs. These people must be fucking panicking. It reminds me of the whole MadThad debacle, how hilariously self-incriminating he was and how fucking deep he dug his own grave. By God these people just keep making it worse, don't they?

At first I thought the title of #GamerGate was hilarious hyperbole but the extent of the backpedaling makes me think it's hilariously accurate.

 

[Super Collie]

Looks like Ryan Scott from The Comedy Button (weekly podcast) made the list. Thankfully, Brian Altano didn't; he's the only funny person on the show. Ryan Scott is the one with the whiny voice -- not surprised in the least bit to see him show up on a list of SJW's.

 

[KingofManga420]

This was a nice fuck you.

I'm in love with how horribly stereotypically frumpy the SJW looked.

 

[Artard]

Forgive me in advance for sperging up this thread with my own stance on this issue, but I can't help but fucking laugh each time another layer of the onion is peeled back and even more desperate backpedaling occurs. These people must be fucking panicking. It reminds me of the whole MadThad debacle, how hilariously self-incriminating he was and how fucking deep he dug his own grave. By God these people just keep making it worse, don't they?

At first I thought the title of #GamerGate was hilarious hyperbole but the extent of the backpedaling makes me think it's hilariously accurate.

At the beginning of this, if you would have told anyone that there's a secret mailing list of paid gaming writers who discussed how to manage this story and browbeat those who weren't preemptively shutting down discussion of it, 10,000 guys in ironic t-shirts and peach fuzzy beards would have pointed at you and made woo woo sounds.

Predicted Response: "Right-Wing Shitlord Makes Death Pool of Female Positive Gaming Journalists"

 

[kcbbq]

Predicted Response: "Right-Wing Shitlord Makes Death Pool of Female Positive Gaming Journalists"

These are the same people that mailed Milo a syringe filled with an unknown liquid, don't put anything past them.

 

[Xarpho]

This was a nice fuck you.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vzmbW4ueGdg
I'm in love with how horribly stereotypically frumpy the SJW looked.

To be fair, at least her hair wasn't a half-shaved pink mop.

 

[A Random]

Anyone's checked BreitBart yet? The list of people involved in this mailing list has been revealed.