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GamerGate And Why It Matters To Conservatives
The Other McCain ^ | September 10, 2014 | Robert Stacy McCain

Posted on 09/10/2014 1:53:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 09/10/2014 2:07:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Music/Entertainment; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: computers; gamergate; homosexualagenda; internet; videogames
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1 posted on 09/10/2014 1:53:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The same goes for videogames, which are mostly about killing bad guys and/or solving puzzles.

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!

2 posted on 09/10/2014 1:57:46 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; TADSLOS; Norm Lenhart; Lazamataz; GraceG
Fallout: New Vegas Ping

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.

3 posted on 09/10/2014 2:01:02 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

Because War. War Never Changes
indeed
;-)

The DLC is worth getting while were waiting for the next version


4 posted on 09/10/2014 2:05:18 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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”.


5 posted on 09/10/2014 2:05:41 PM PDT by JacksonCalhoun (Ignoring liberals is the best medicine.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Anoreth

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!”)


6 posted on 09/10/2014 2:08:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Still Thinking
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7 posted on 09/10/2014 2:08:58 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Credibility is the greatest online resource.

When you lose it, you lose everything.

Looks like someone lost everything.

/johnny

8 posted on 09/10/2014 2:09:19 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JacksonCalhoun
when he calls Bob Costas a “dipsh*t”.

That's a pretty easy ball to hit, I don't care who you are.

/johnny

9 posted on 09/10/2014 2:10:31 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Still Thinking

As did I.


10 posted on 09/10/2014 2:10:33 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


11 posted on 09/10/2014 2:12:17 PM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

About six months ago I started playing EVE Online. 95% male, completely cutthroat, Libertarian to the point of being anarchic....I love it.


12 posted on 09/10/2014 2:18:03 PM PDT by Thurifer the Censer (If you can see the altar, there's not enough smoke)
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To: Thurifer the Censer
So, about the same as when I left it in 2009.

/johnny

13 posted on 09/10/2014 2:21:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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)


14 posted on 09/10/2014 2:22:30 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: discostu
It’s a stupid pissing contest gotten into by people whose egos far outsized their accomplishments.

As I recall, Paul Revere was a silversmith who made hoity-toity tea sets.

How's that for accomplishments?

Of course, he was an engraver, and helped to change the attitude of the country then... but as far as real accomplishments? Tea sets? Really?

/johnny

15 posted on 09/10/2014 2:28:49 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
[Maybe . . as the] boss of TheMittani.com said in a recent column, people will blow this off since the idea of “objective” game journalism is nonsense anyway.
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.

16 posted on 09/10/2014 2:29:40 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: KC_Lion
Life Lessons from Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas:
  1. War. War never changes.
  2. Once the main quest is over... it's over. Do as many side quests as you can in the short time you've got.
  3. You make lots of caps from screwing people over, but you don't make friends.
  4. Watch your karma at all times.
  5. Deviled eggs are safe to eat after hundreds of years.
  6. It doesn't matter how old the records are, play them on the radio.... so long as you have an uplifting message and a cool name like "Three Dog", people WILL tune in.
  7. Cop Robots aren't so tough.

17 posted on 09/10/2014 2:36:33 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Chamber pots.


18 posted on 09/10/2014 2:38:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: KC_Lion

You should try exploring the area directly east of Primm at a low level (I think it’s called Primm Pass). It’s safe, I promise!


19 posted on 09/10/2014 2:42:20 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: discostu
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. I agree it is totally gross, and conservatives should stay far away. The root of this is one loser dude who got pissed his girlfriend cheated on him, and to get revenge dumped all her personal info on the internet. Anyone with a sense of decency should turn their back on this, and hope it dies. Getting involved is just fuel for the social justice warriors anyway.
20 posted on 09/10/2014 2:44:55 PM PDT by Wayne07
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