GamerGate thread

[Priran]

IGN's Daylight review which for whatever reason I can't link on this site discloses that IGN employees worked on the game, so they chose a reviewer who wasn't employed at the company while those people were. Score: 5.8/10. Disclosure and ethics: Not hard.

[archibaldcrane]

If only all gaming companies had employed that disclosure and ethics policy we could've avoided this whole Zoe Quinn/#gamergate mess

Wait

[Priran]

Speaking of what an amazing person ZQ is, Anti-GamerGate sent harassing and threatening phone calls to Eron Gjoni's workplace (a robotics research lab) and got him fired (from writing AI for medical instruments for free).

Here's his response.

Highlights: "Do you know why harassment of this very particular asshole of a public figure suddenly became BIG NEWS? I do. I know exactly fucking why. And I’d love to fucking tell you. BUT I’M NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO."

"0 is also roughly the number of people who have died or been physically harmed as a result of doxxing for as far back as doxxing has ever even been a thing. 0 is therefore also roughly the statistically appropriate number of shits anyone ought to give about getting doxxed.

It’s precisely the number of shits I gave after the strong stand you oh-so-empathetic netizens took against harassment by doxxing my parents. And you know why? Because 0 is precisely how many of my parents suffered physical injury or death as a result of that doxx

...

70 is the percent of surgery related deaths or injuries carried out by novice surgeons that would have been prevented en masse as a result of the R&D you just dropped into limbo.

You wanted to get to me by firing me from a job I was doing for free? Well congratulations. You’ve succeeded in getting to me. And you’ve done that by potentially killing a bunch of people because you couldn’t get your head out of your asshole for ten seconds to realize there are bigger fucking issues in the world than your opinion of my motivations for outing a shithead, you god damned fucking sociopath."

[archibaldcrane]

He sounds pretty important.

[BaneTheBrawler]

IGN's Daylight review which for whatever reason I can't link on this site

because they sent BG a cease and desist letter. BG does not take kindly to legal threats. so fuck 'em.

[Priran]

because they sent BG a cease and desist letter. BG does not take kindly to legal threats. so fuck 'em.

Well they ceased and desisted so it sounds like BG took incredibly kindly to that legal threat.

[quannum]

Look at what women have been through for a HUNDRED CENTURIES.

Modern feminism summed up.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Well they ceased and desisted so it sounds like BG took incredibly kindly to that legal threat.

not really. they asked us to stop quoting their articles. we stopped linking them entirely.

[Priran]

[tyven]

Watched this in 10 second bursts over shitty hotel WiFi and loved every second

[Priran]

The Gamergate manifesto

[tyven]

It appears Kotaku is taking some steps in the right direction. Can you pls leave my beloved Gawker alone now

[Priran]

It appears Kotaku is taking some steps in the right direction. Can you pls leave my beloved Gawker alone now

Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo...made it clear that he feels Kotaku has no need for a formal ethics policy

no

[tyven]

O

[NynJa]

Kotaku has been blacklisted by ubisoft

Reviewed Watch Dogs and AC:Unity. Gave both a resounding "AVOID THIS SHIT LIKE THE PLAGUE". Both games made by Ubisoft.


Ethics

[Priran]

AC:Unity is shit though.

And afaik, what Kotaku actually did was say they're not taking review copies of any game if (as Unity did) the press embargo extends past launch day, which is a totally reasonable thing to do.

Regardless, Tortillo doesn't think his site needs an ethics policy so fuck him

Also shit like this:

[Priran]

Ever wanted to watch a man liveblog his slow descent into insanity? Geordie's having a bad day.

Highlight: "Forget the Holocaust, forget the WTC, forget the betrayal and crucifixion of Christ. The historical plight of women MUST be the NEW moral exemplar about which everyone is made aware, and upon which everyone's efforts are immediately focused."


edit: (almost) too extreme for anti-GG



edit 2: (almost)

[Priran]

[BaneTheBrawler]

from the username "GGisCancer" lol

[Teryu]

http://thebestgamers.net/art.html

Move with arrow keys.

You're welcome.