This is, of course, intolerable to the Social Justice Warriors who insist that everything has to have a “teachable moment”
I thought killing bad guys and solving puzzles WAS a teachable moment!
It taught me a lot of things, mostly to stay away from Cottonwood Cove without being proper level.<>But it does have some timeless lessons to it too.
Because War. War Never Changes.
I don’t know much about games or gamers, but McCain hits the nail on the head when he calls Bob Costas a “dipsh*t”.
Interesting. Some of my family members are more involved with computer games than I am. (I mostly say, “Turn that off and get some schoolwork done, already!”)
When you lose it, you lose everything.
Looks like someone lost everything.
/johnny
I’m not convinced gamergate should matter to anybody. It’s a stupid pissing contest gotten into by people whose egos far outsized their accomplishments. Everybody involved with it should feel shame, but they won’t.
About six months ago I started playing EVE Online. 95% male, completely cutthroat, Libertarian to the point of being anarchic....I love it.
I’m not a big gamer, but I cant stand Tumblr SJWs, so I’ve been following this as best as I can. One of my favorite YouTube commentators, Internet Aristocrat, did a 3-part series on this that really spelled out how bad this has become, and how wide the conspiracy.
http://youtu.be/C5-51PfwI3M
(some saucy language)
The idea of “objective” journalism - gamer or otherwise - is indeed absurd - but most people don’t understand that. And, accordingly, most people react as the author says below:I don’t agree; the rage of gamers at being called a bunch of racist sexist bigots for being upset with this is precisely why Ed Morrissey and Breitbart ran pieces on GamerGate.
[It] is unfortunately a matter of public record [that] . . . hypocritical “feminist” game developer Zoe Quinn literally slept her way into getting a crappy game nobody wanted to play featured on Steam, and further, got lots of positive reviews and supportive essays from game site reviewers who she also happened to be boning.
. . . Gamers may even start casting a jaundiced eye on the rest of the media; as culture critic Maddox remarked, game media are now suffering a high-speed version of the credibility collapse that the mainstream media took decades to suffer through.
Sooner or later everyone who is not a leftist learns that any serious effort in the direction of objectivity will eventually run you afoul of O’Sullivan’s First Law:All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.This is true because the left will put pressure on anyone to suppress their dissent, and the left will politicize anything. Thus, any organization not willing to be called “right wing” will become left wing just to get some peace.
bfl
It’s the same in the comic book press. They are furious that there are not enough movies starring female superheroes, and then even more furious when the movie people have the audacity to cast a woman (and a patriotic Israeli to boot!) as Wonder Woman instead of a tranny with his penis hanging below the skirt. They also scream at the injustice of having a white male as the central character in Guardians of the Galaxy. Thor is now a chick and Captain America is now a black dude, so it’s time to start the rage building for the next installments of their respective movies. They better not dare go back to the bigotry and misogyny of male, white devils in the title roles!
IYKWIMAITYD?
A family member who has been involved with game industry reporting mentioned this to me a while back. He has never trusted game reporters nor game media. But when he told me, I just thought the whole thing was silly gossip. Now it appears this woman has actually gone to the Jesse Jackson school of shakedown artists and is employing both the game media and game developers to aid her. It is an all court press to corral and control gamers and make them become politically correct compliant. Just like what is happening in football.
Next thing you know they will ban shooter games and the only thing available to buy will be games like that woman’s depression game.
Arma 3 with TrackIR and TS3 playing Domination or BECTI. Hours spent, no commercials, military tactics and strategic planning. TV can’t hold a candle to that sort of entertainment. My generation will be the last to have bought TVs.
I don’t know what a gamergate is but the author was wrong to think that Worldcon has gone PC, that is if this drama queen’s hissyfit against the older attendees (and the lack of gender options for badges) is any measure...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3201558/posts
How the growing generation gap is changing the face of fandom
The Daily Dot ^ | August 25, 2014 | Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Hands off my fantasyland (i.e., gaming), I don’t harm anybody with my gaming. I imagine it is most gamers’ attitude.
Those SJWs can create their own fantasyland. No wait, they did, but nobody cared.
Jealousy of others’ creative success and an innate desire to destroy describe the start of this hissy war.
As for the ‘no real objectivity with (any kind of) journalism’, well, Duh! But at least this incident forced them out in the open.