#Gamergate, the war on nerds, and the corruption of the left and the free press

[QuantumPion]

And they keep complaining about how game journalists are in bed with these dumb women - but I simply ask... Who the HELL actually reads game reviews and buys games based on that? I haven't read a game review.... ever... even when I was a kid and had time during school to game.

Game producers and publishers decide what to fund and make based on media zeitgeist. Control of the news is control of the culture, even if 95% of people disagree with it.

 

[MagickMan]

You know whats scaring me? How much people are giving these 2 dumb bitches (Zoe Quinn & Annita) money via GoFundMe type websites.

I thank you for keeping this post up-to-date, but no matter how much I read or watch I can't really get my head around this situation and what is currently going on... or what the overall agenda is....

Does someone have a Gamer Gate for Dummies guide?

And they keep complaining about how game journalists are in bed with these dumb women - but I simply ask... Who the HELL actually reads game reviews and buys games based on that? I haven't read a game review.... ever... even when I was a kid and had time during school to game.

Here ya go: http://takimag.com/article/the_long_march_through_the_arcade_jim_goad#axzz3CsBSTDG5

Last quarter, >30% of PC game purchasers polled via Steam said their buying decisions were influenced by Totalbiscuit. That's higher than any other source noted, by quite a lot.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Game producers and publishers decide what to fund and make based on media zeitgeist. Control of the news is control of the culture, even if 95% of people disagree with it.

Fair enough, I understand that to a certain extent, but these all sound like...no-name websites. The most I did as a kid was read GameInformer occasionally... and I didn't give two shits about anything involving "Indie" games.

Not mass produced media such as Newspapers, Magazines, TV news, etc... If I read a review or Article, it's not from some random shit website. Oh well, let me go read this GamerGate for dummies link....

I honestly hope they raid the shit out these Feminazi's and run them into the ground. But that's kind of hard when they are backed by people that donate $3.5k per month to them for doing nothing but opening their mouths and spewing BS.

 

[Aikouka]

Does someone have a Gamer Gate for Dummies guide?

What is it that you want to know? If you list your questions out, I'm sure someone could help you.

And they keep complaining about how game journalists are in bed with these dumb women - but I simply ask... Who the HELL actually reads game reviews and buys games based on that?

I read game reviews all the time. In a sense, it's no different for me than a movie review. Games get trailers and hype pieces, which may end up misrepresenting the final product. Reviews and previews can be important to help reveal any tomfoolery, or also just point out issues that affect people. For example, TotalBiscuit usually points out where games may be locked in at certain framerates (30, 60, etc.) or lack what he considers proper FOV options. I think people like his content because he just points out what's there or not there and lets you decide whether or not that's acceptable.

An example of reviews affecting my decision was with Tales of Zestiria for the PC. I'm interested in a good JRPG and also supporting companies bringing long-standing console games to the PC. However, I don't necessarily want to pay a lot of money for a game that isn't very good. I read on IGN's review that the characters weren't really all that interesting, and given that I prefer the Final Fantasy battle system (menu based) over the Tales system (real time action oriented), I decided that I probably wouldn't like the game much.

EDIT:

Fair enough, I understand that to a certain extent, but these all sound like...no-name websites. The most I did as a kid was read GameInformer occasionally... and I didn't give two shits about anything involving "Indie" games.

No-name websites do matter to a degree. Publishers have been known to give out merit-based bonuses, which were based solely upon the resulting Metacritic score of the game. Metacritic doesn't care if you're a huge site like IGN or a smaller site, you still count. I believe this came to light when a company literally missed their bonus by 2% on their aggregate score or something like that.

 

[momeNt]

For the people that are all about gamergate, how many have even bothered to play depression quest? Maybe it's fun? Maybe she didn't sleep around for reviews.

Also $160k kickstarter to babble about fan service in video games won't really put much of a dent in sales. Fan service sells games, movies, both sides of the spectrum. Look at the shirtless scene in Guardians of the Galaxy, not a single vagina was dry in the theater.

I still don't see what the big deal is, but I guess I might be proven wrong if one day all we have left is text based video games, because that would really suck.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

For the people that are all about gamergate, how many have even bothered to play depression quest? Maybe it's fun? Maybe she didn't sleep around for reviews.

Also $160k kickstarter to babble about fan service in video games won't really put much of a dent in sales. Fan service sells games, movies, both sides of the spectrum. Look at the shirtless scene in Guardians of the Galaxy, not a single vagina was dry in the theater.

I still don't see what the big deal is, but I guess I might be proven wrong if one day all we have left is text based video games, because that would really suck.

Oh man that shit is so fun. I had tons of fun going through all the cool commands.

FEEL LIKE CUTTING SELF
SHOOT HEROIN
SHOOT HEROIN
SHOOT HEROIN
SLEEP


Kidding, I've never touched it. But this whole story REALLY makes me want to come up with a bullshit story to get dumb mother fuckers a reason to put money in my pocket while doing absolutely nothing.

 

[BoberFett]

Kidding, I've never touched it. But this whole story REALLY makes me want to come up with a bullshit story to get dumb mother fuckers a reason to put money in my pocket while doing absolutely nothing.

GamerGate aside, generating sympathy online has become a pretty lucrative line of work.

 

[Blue_Max]

For the people that are all about gamergate, how many have even bothered to play depression quest? Maybe it's fun? Maybe she didn't sleep around for reviews.

There are a few Youtoob playthroughs out there... most of them gave up from boredom and revulsion before reaching the end.

GamerGate aside, generating sympathy online has become a pretty lucrative line of work.

Not to mention a VERY popular and driving narrative. I was listening to CBC radio today and the whining feminist narrative just never ended. Gawd, every discussion and panelist, male and especially female, made EVERY issue discussed (advertising, recruiting college football kids, etc) revolved around sexist this, misogynist that, "women's bodies are seen only for male pleasure", and on and on and on...

Now that we're a Liberal government (our new prime minister won half-because of women's and immigrants' issues and the other half because heee's sthhooo haandthumm!) we can only expect more, as this is the official sanctioned narrative. Heck, Trudeau even promised unlimited no-question abortions - feminists adored that move!

I'm happy to say that the average person on the street is NOT that college-girl-gender-studies brainwashed, but it's all over the media, which is why Anita and Zoe are media darlings, regardless of how many times they've been proven to be wrong, hypocrites, liars, fraudsters or downright thieves.

The PC Police can get away with anything because the background narrative is that they're supposedly the "good guys" fighting against "bigotry/sexism/racism" etc. They're the worst offenders of the bunch, but they hold the cards and can pretty much silence/ban/fire/get arrested anyone they want.

 

[0roo0roo]

Censorship is getting real

Wake Up
MisterMetokur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4hFcjnOHnk

#ItsOver? Twitter Declared Dead Over Allegations About New Shadowbanning Protocols
http://theralphretort.com/itsover-twitter-declared-dead-over-new-shadowbanning-protocols-1022015/

CloudFlare Involved With UN-Affiliated Org’s Effort to Censor the Internet (UPDATE)
http://theralphretort.com/cloudflar...-orgs-efforts-to-censor-the-internet-1019015/

THEY’RE NOT STOPPING: Where are the UN-Backed Censors Gonna Go From Here?
http://theralphretort.com/theyre-no...un-backed-censors-gonna-go-from-here-1023015/

Dave Rubin on George Carlin, Free Speech, and Political Correctness
The Rubin Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsRW1FCmTYg

On the methods of infiltration and co-option of sjw's
Liberal Ideas #2 - Neo-Progressive Activists
Sargon of Akkad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30rReG5sdyM

How I Became a Social Justice Sophist
Max Derrat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm83Dzm0go8

Canadian Prime Minister Says Country Needs To Stand Against Movements Like GamerGate
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10...s-to-stand-against-movements-like-gamergate/#

Canada’s New Prime Minister Trudeau No Fan of “Misogyny” Infused GamerGate
http://theralphretort.com/canadas-n...no-fan-of-misogyny-infused-gamergate-1020015/

Harmful News - Canadian Priorities
Harmful Opinions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0WgYufetA

https://archive.is/apZmb

Harmful Opinion - Not All Pedos
Harmful Opinions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muuNArS92X0




no surprise why wired has comments disabled....Anita and Adria Richards?

wired 6 EXPERTS ON HOW SILICON VALLEY CAN SOLVE ONLINE HARASSMENT
https://archive.is/wHti4

A 'Conversation' With Wired
James Desborough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjyACoHwwSk

DoublePlusGood Episode 1 Adria Richards, Susan Wilson [mirror]
InternetAristocrat Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEo0344wF4o




Re: Family Business Brigaded on Yelp by MRA YouTube Stars
Jaistar2k22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJjetc0vw3I

Toronto Twitter trial UPDATE: Free speech on the internet still at risk
http://www.therebel.media/toronto_twitter_trial_update_free_speech_on_the_internet_still_at_risk
UPDATE: "Toronto Twitter trial" of Gregory Alan Elliot vs. SJW feminists
Rebel Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rxgy8dLXYM

A profile of Leigh Alexander
https://medium.com/@Jasperge107/a-profile-of-leigh-alexander-f4e3fcc0265c#.xhz9tqpdc

How Wikipedia Is Hostile to Women https://archive.is/6EZy2



Mirrored because IA likes to take things down for no reason
Co-Opted? Trans Community Stream
Internet Aristocrat Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1pom165RvE

Harmful Opinion - Gender Stereotyping Guidelines
Harmful Opinions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEM9QYV1Ibo

Dialogue Options - Liana K talks to Kite Tales @Kite_Tales
Liana K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5HECU6uJ5M

http://gonintendo.com/stories/245070-fatal-frame-maiden-of-black-water-censored-costume-comparison




The infection spreads

South Park continues to call out the SJW's

http://southpark.cc.com/full-episod...92d-b95b-9433e3f62f8d&position=1&sort=airdate

South Park - Safe Space - "In My Safe Space"
South Park Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQkXXBqj_U

[Internet] SOUTH PARK introduced its best Villain yet, Reality
by MundaneMatt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzWX7yK6k5A

 

[MongGrel]

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[MagickMan]

For the people that are all about gamergate, how many have even bothered to play depression quest? Maybe it's fun? Maybe she didn't sleep around for reviews.

Yes, I did. No, it isn't very good. Reminded me of what a 10 y/o would write for a school project, not what a grown person would expect to be taken seriously. Go download Twine and try for yourself, I'm sure you could come up with something more competent in a few hours.

http://twinery.org/

 

[MagickMan]

GamerGate aside, generating sympathy online has become a pretty lucrative line of work.

Damned right it is, if you're a not-completely-hideous white female. Not long ago June Lapine (aka. Shoe0nHead) admitted that if she'd simply dyed her hair purple and joined the Feministas (sacrificing her pride and ethics) she'd be comfortably wealthy by now.

Think about it, how much more could Randi Harper rake in if she looked like this:

instead of this:

I was wrong earlier, you can be a hideous white female and make a living as a victim... D:

 

[MagickMan]

You could not be more wrong actually.

Actually was censored here for posting one picture, seems someone sicced the mods here on me for that one.

Seemed highly hypocritical, considering the nature of the thread to begin with.

Yes , it is.

Poor kid, you're so confused. That image didn't conform with the community guidelines. Which you agreed to when joining, which has fuck-all to do with what he's talking about.

 

[0roo0roo]

I thank you for keeping this post up-to-date, but no matter how much I read or watch I can't really get my head around this situation and what is currently going on... or what the overall agenda is....

Does someone have a Gamer Gate for Dummies guide?

And they keep complaining about how game journalists are in bed with these dumb women - but I simply ask... Who the HELL actually reads game reviews and buys games based on that? I haven't read a game review.... ever... even when I was a kid and had time during school to game.

Well, I guess you can let Kojima explain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtfIjI1da3k

To add to your questions, you should ask, who isn't using ad block?
There are many forces at play in this perfect storm, there is the online media business environment facing ever lower ad revenue, with even big name newspapers limping along in a diminished state, add the rise of the regressive left to this and it becomes a serious mess which boiled over last year. Sjw's were the perfect people to exploit these conditions, as they have no ethical qualms on relying on dishonesty in the name of their "social justice" agendas.
It had been festering for some time, but people didn't take note or understand what was happening, and as IA pointed out in that last video, they have become the useful idiots who will sell you out to both the government and corporate interests.

Also worth a watch
reublica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
reublica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKOk4Y4inVY

Why the video is now blocked in the US, I don't know.
but here are mirrors
https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-thought-requires-free-media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_UB-Q3jqPY

from last year, but its spread to the US now
http://blog.en.uptodown.com/twitter-blockages-around-world-glance/
https://twitter.com/OppressedFart/status/657168202963750917


and just in time to prove how useful this is for the government...

VICE Is Twitter Censoring a Blockbuster Report on US Drone Assassinations?
https://archive.is/rDFCX



LeoPirate's video reaches 100k views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCjDYa1_EL4&

Anita Sarkeesian (C. Delores Tucker version 2.0)
Mecha Vivian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE5qA4B3wbk

Mirror for Mecha Vivian's excellent earlier video since the soundtrack got muted by youtube
Anita ‘The Puppet’ Sarkeesian - #fullmcintosh
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35h0cp

Based comment on SJWs, the last South Park episode & the UN/Google Ideas by American McGee #GamerGate
https://twitter.com/nuckable/status/658070478758813696
http://i.imgur.com/Dpz1u0Y.jpg

SHADOW BANNED from REDDIT!
Margaret MacLennan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAw4XHScsYs


Sjw's escalation with Thunderf00t has reached comical levels
Thunderf00t unplugged: Feminists celebrate getting me 'fired'
Thunderf00t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH1Mhp_ANvI

Karma, ONLY A BITCH, if you are one! SJW self inflicted wounds!
Thunderf00t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o81ig9xOKvs

Jenny Mcdermott needs a good lawyer
johntheother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYAmqlmGBts



Progressive Liberal Insanity 2015 & Beyond
Computing Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9W6jZqS4rw

You're an Extremist, Not a Gamer [Part 1 of 2]
Louis Le Vau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hkqvrrfVQ&feature=youtu.be

Prof. Le Vau Assists Girl Gamer
Louis Le Vau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtpllTcpTFI

A sjw Nintendo employee trolls for attention...
Harmful Opinion - Insult Me
Harmful Opinions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJQTUp_sejg
https://twitter.com/nuckable/status/658346537869844480

 

[momeNt]

Are we able to effectively gauge how effective SJW campaigns are?

An example that comes to mind is the dentist who killed the lion.

Initial outcry - twitter campaign, facebook, etc. - about 250 protesters outside his office on July 29th, just after it happened.

September 8th, returns to work finally - 6 protesters.

So it may stand to reason, how people REALLY feel about things prevails in the end?

 

[MagickMan]

Depends on how much traction the SJWs can get with politicians and law enforcement (re. the "Patriarchy"). The Cedric the lion thing pretty much died when it was concluded that the dentist wasn't going to be prosecuted, or even arrested. Why not? Because, no matter how much outrage was generated, the guy hadn't broken the law.

Is his practice damaged? Yep. Reputation? Most assuredly. What can he do about it? Nothing. Vigilante justice won, no matter the law, and until people start being prosecuted for trying to enact online vigilante justice campaigns, it will continue.

 

[Exophase]

For the people that are all about gamergate, how many have even bothered to play depression quest? Maybe it's fun? Maybe she didn't sleep around for reviews.

I played it in September 2014 before even reading about any of this GamerGate stuff. Nobody would call it "fun." Even the people who have praised it admit this much. It's supposed to be more informative than it is entertaining.

I made it partway through before I was bored to tears and quit. It sort of does a reasonable job approximating what a moderately (not severely) depressed person would feel like, but I'm surprised to learn that this is something very many people aren't familiar with, and I suspect that a lot of people praising it along these lines merely assumed that others aren't.

The writing was really generic and boring. For example, your job, your girlfriend, some personal project you're working on, they're all described exactly like that without any real detail. The whole thing is about how much you lack motivation or any ability to function properly instead of just droning on, which really sucks away the player's motivation to play the damn game.

It's sad because I've read some short other things Zoe Quinn has written that's actually not nearly as bad as this was. But I don't know if she could really carry an enjoyable game by herself (and in fact, she didn't even write DQ alone) Needless to say, it's been a long time since she's shown any meaningful activity in game dev, despite that being her Patreon's original purpose and despite going to talk at game conferences and stuff (about things like gameplay design no less!) Which is kind of sad when you consider how much of a fuss she's made about being hated only because she's a woman who wants to make games.

And she hardly slept around for reviews, but I doubt she would have gotten even the minor coverage she did if not for her personal friendship with the writers who even tested the game for her.

 

[Exophase]

Are we able to effectively gauge how effective SJW campaigns are?

An example that comes to mind is the dentist who killed the lion.

Initial outcry - twitter campaign, facebook, etc. - about 250 protesters outside his office on July 29th, just after it happened.

September 8th, returns to work finally - 6 protesters.

So it may stand to reason, how people REALLY feel about things prevails in the end?

It wasn't an SJW campaign in the first place. Animal rights aren't an SJW thing. Nobody really cared about Cecil the Lion.

Social justice is about egalitarianism among humans in society. Actual stuff you hear about almost always boils down to issues of gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and very occasionally psychological/physical disabilities, body type, and age (oddly, economic status is almost never brought up unless it's another thing to throw at someone else who already fits in a bunch of their other groups)

Being a social justice warrior means being a collectivist asshole who shames, ridicules, and wants to exact revenge upon people for having too much "privilege." They're the people who oppose sexism and racism because it's happened too long to the wrong group and that group needs to collectively pay for it, not because they're against stereotyping and discrimination in principle.

Although even actual SJW campaigns do generate way more noise and bluster online than on the streets.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

It wasn't an SJW campaign in the first place. Animal rights aren't an SJW thing. Nobody really cared about Cecil the Lion.

Social justice is about egalitarianism among humans in society. Actual stuff you hear about almost always boils down to issues of gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and very occasionally psychological/physical disabilities, body type, and age (oddly, economic status is almost never brought up unless it's another thing to throw at someone else who already fits in a bunch of their other groups)

Being a social justice warrior means being a collectivist asshole who shames, ridicules, and wants to exact revenge upon people for having too much "privilege." They're the people who oppose sexism and racism because it's happened too long to the wrong group and that group needs to collectively pay for it, not because they're against stereotyping and discrimination in principle.

Although even actual SJW campaigns do generate way more noise and bluster online than on the streets.

Mmmm, not quite sure I agree with your definition of a SJW.

In Cecil the Lion case, the Dentist didn't really do anything wrong. He paid some other people to shoot for him. Was he the ultimate cause? Yes, perhaps... But he didn't shoot a lion. Furthermore, it was in an entirely different country.

Because people didn't approve of HIS choice of social activity, he is branded as a piece of shit, and we should try to make him lose as much money as possible.

How is that not SJW?

 

[Exophase]

Mmmm, not quite sure I agree with your definition of a SJW.

In Cecil the Lion case, the Dentist didn't really do anything wrong. He paid some other people to shoot for him. Was he the ultimate cause? Yes, perhaps... But he didn't shoot a lion. Furthermore, it was in an entirely different country.

Because people didn't approve of HIS choice of social activity, he is branded as a piece of shit, and we should try to make him lose as much money as possible.

How is that not SJW?

Because social justice is an actual defined thing and not something you just get to choose arbitrarily. Check pretty much any dictionary on this, you're going to be hard pressed to find anything that relates with the stuff you said about Cecil. If you consider this being critical of "social activity" then pretty much anything can boil down to that.

 

[norseamd]

Why the video is now blocked in the US, I don't know.

Honestly I would say that is more than interesting.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Mmmm, not quite sure I agree with your definition of a SJW.

In Cecil the Lion case, the Dentist didn't really do anything wrong. He paid some other people to shoot for him. Was he the ultimate cause? Yes, perhaps... But he didn't shoot a lion. Furthermore, it was in an entirely different country.

Because people didn't approve of HIS choice of social activity, he is branded as a piece of shit, and we should try to make him lose as much money as possible.

How is that not SJW?

Just an fyi, the American dentist *did* shoot the lion himself, with a bow and arrow. The lion was wounded and they had to track the wounded lion for almost 2 days before finding it and finishing it of with a gun.

If you're gonna complain about something at least take the time to know what you're complaining about.

 

[momeNt]

It wasn't an SJW campaign in the first place. Animal rights aren't an SJW thing. Nobody really cared about Cecil the Lion.

Social justice is about egalitarianism among humans in society. Actual stuff you hear about almost always boils down to issues of gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and very occasionally psychological/physical disabilities, body type, and age (oddly, economic status is almost never brought up unless it's another thing to throw at someone else who already fits in a bunch of their other groups)

Being a social justice warrior means being a collectivist asshole who shames, ridicules, and wants to exact revenge upon people for having too much "privilege." They're the people who oppose sexism and racism because it's happened too long to the wrong group and that group needs to collectively pay for it, not because they're against stereotyping and discrimination in principle.

Although even actual SJW campaigns do generate way more noise and bluster online than on the streets.

Okay, I guess I used an incorrect example, but the same point holds true. It all ends up being mostly online, and die down without any real impact.

In the end nobody has the stamina to care enough about things that happen in a different part of the country. Part of human nature is to form teams, sometimes for brief moments the team will be team women, or team black people, and there is a quick national movement that's really loud, but it dies down and nothing changes. The internet has lowered the threshold of what events gain notoriety.

In the cases of rampant injustice, I suppose things do change though - civil rights act, women's suffrage. Those are things that did not need the viral effect of the internet to be talked about.

 

[Exophase]

Okay, I guess I used an incorrect example, but the same point holds true. It all ends up being mostly online, and die down without any real impact.

In the end nobody has the stamina to care enough about things that happen in a different part of the country. Part of human nature is to form teams, sometimes for brief moments the team will be team women, or team black people, and there is a quick national movement that's really loud, but it dies down and nothing changes. The internet has lowered the threshold of what events gain notoriety.

In the cases of rampant injustice, I suppose things do change though - civil rights act, women's suffrage. Those are things that did not need the viral effect of the internet to be talked about.

I guess it depends on how much you consider the media to lack any real impact. But even when it mostly stays online it doesn't always die down quickly.

The reaction to GamerGate itself is the best example I can think of of an SJW frenzy that won't die. Even today, 14 months after the hashtag started, you can find articles all over the place referencing it. And it's talked about like this spectre that endangers women, proving how bad games are and how much they need to be changed and the ultimate case for Why We Need Feminism. Even the recently elected prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau says he "stands against GamerGate", saying he "must oppose video games misogyny in popular culture." I'm skeptical that he really has any idea what's even going on, but it shows how politicized this is. People will probably talk about GG for years as this great tragedy and use it as a call to arms to protect women everywhere at all costs.

Maybe it all doesn't matter an awful lot for something that's ultimately kind of idiot bait to begin with like GG is, but this definitely shows how much the media can create a narrative that is taken in wholesale by many people. And it's hard to see how this has no potential for chilling effect and hurting innocent people.

 

[Blue_Max]

The reaction to GamerGate itself is the best example I can think of of an SJW frenzy that won't die. Even today, 14 months after the hashtag started, you can find articles all over the place referencing it. And it's talked about like this spectre that endangers women, proving how bad games are and how much they need to be changed and the ultimate case for Why We Need Feminism. Even the recently elected prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau says he "stands against GamerGate", saying he "must oppose video games misogyny in popular culture." I'm skeptical that he really has any idea what's even going on, but it shows how politicized this is. People will probably talk about GG for years as this great tragedy and use it as a call to arms to protect women everywhere at all costs.

Maybe it all doesn't matter an awful lot for something that's ultimately kind of idiot bait to begin with like GG is, but this definitely shows how much the media can create a narrative that is taken in wholesale by many people. And it's hard to see how this has no potential for chilling effect and hurting innocent people.

Great post and spot-on. We'll come through the other side of this okay SO LONG AS the screaming SJW's don't get what they're demanding - total control over the narrative and the right to, not just censor, but PUNISH anyone who disagrees with them. We're already too close to that precipice as it is.