GamerGate thread

[Priran]

A year ago, a friend of the dev (DapperSwine) of the game recently targeted by an anti-GG boycott (Seedscape) decided to try to get Kotaku to print an obviously made-up, ridiculous, clickbaity article to prove a point that Kotaku is a joke.

Steven Totilo ran the story and didn't realize it was fake until yesterday.

“Thanks to Grand Theft Auto IV,” she wrote, with a fan’s enthusiasm, “I am now a strong, independent black woman.”

Indeed.

[Brill Weave]

http://40.media.tumblr.com/438811351...hc69o1_500.png

[Charismatic]

Ironic that that youtube comment is better than most things in this section.

[Koul]

A year ago, a friend of the dev (DapperSwine) of the game recently targeted by an anti-GG boycott (Seedscape) decided to try to get Kotaku to print an obviously made-up, ridiculous, clickbaity article to prove a point that Kotaku is a joke.

Steven Totilo ran the story and didn't realize it was fake until yesterday.


Indeed.

This is amazing.

[Priran]

Prominent GG-er TotalBiscuit wins the fan-voted award "Trending Gamer of the Year" over Jeff Gerstmann and PewDiePie.

[tyven]

Are the other two anti gg? Even a casual like me knows total biscuit. Whenever I want to learn about a game I watch his WTF vids. The guy is awesome

[Priran]

Are the other two anti gg? Even a casual like me knows total biscuit. Whenever I want to learn about a game I watch his WTF vids. The guy is awesome

Gerstmann is (which is ironic if you know anything about his career), Pewds is a tool but it's just impressive TB beat him because Pewds has like 30x more subscribers than he does.

[Kibble]

TotalBiscuit has always been a tool. Even before GG.

Let's get this out here right now. I'm a 23 year old law graduate with an IQ of 155.

First time I heard of him was when he tattled on a dev.

[Priran]

TotalBiscuit has always been a tool. Even before GG.

First time I heard of him was when he tattled on a dev.

[Priran]

#GG fundraiser for Dr. Matt Taylor concludes, having raised 8 times its original goal. At Dr. Taylor's request, instead of buying a gift for him, $23,000 went to UNAWE (a European Union program which educates young children in underprivileged areas about astronomy) and $1,000 is being spent on a commemorative gift for the whole Rosetta team.

[Priran]

#GG-sympathetic porn star plans a charity event, with the beneficiary to be a charity that helps gamers with disabilities.

Anti-GG does an end run, contacting them to associate the event with #GG and criticize and shame the charity for taking "dirty money".

The charity withdraws, preventing likely thousands of dollars from going to gamers with disabilities.



Anti-GG cackles about it.








tl;dr

[Teryu]

What have Anti-GG people donated money to if anything? Anita? Zoe? Brian? The people who don't actually need money?

[Priran]

What have Anti-GG people donated money to if anything? Anita? Zoe? Brian? The people who don't actually need money?

Themselves, basically. Anita got $160,000, Zoe gets $46,000/yr, Jim Sterling gets $120,000/yr.

Brianna Wu got $200,000 from her parents, and they successfully funded a $350 indiegogo project to help their pet wikipedia editor move some boxes he had to leave overseas when he moved.

[Karbuncle]

Has Jim Sterling done some anti-GG stuff or are we slapping labels of "Anti-GG" like Anti-GG is slapping the "GG supporter" label on anyone who thinks anti-gg are insane fuckwits?

[Priran]

Has Jim Sterling done some anti-GG stuff or are we slapping labels of "Anti-GG" like Anti-GG is slapping the "GG supporter" label on anyone who thinks anti-gg are insane fuckwits?

The entire reason Jim left The Escapist is because they wouldn't condemn GG.



He's still actively anti-GG, he recently helped ZQ try to round up a lynch mob for Brad Wardell.

[Karbuncle]

The entire reason Jim left The Escapist is because they wouldn't condemn GG.



He's still actively anti-GG, he recently helped ZQ try to round up a lynch mob for Brad Wardell.

Hm, I always figured him for neutral at the very least. Surprised to hear about the ZQ thing. Care to link me to evidence of this? I'm not doubting you, I just happen to like Jim and his show, and I'm surprised to find this out

[Priran]

Hm, I always figured him for neutral at the very least. Surprised to hear about the ZQ thing. Care to link me to evidence of this? I'm not doubting you, I just happen to like Jim and his show, and I'm surprised to find this out

https://twitter.com/JimSterling/stat...19026466471936

The comic was put up months ago and almost immediately taken down, Brad claimed to have never seen it before ZQ's white knights started tweeting at him, and it wasn't a "job offer", it was him telling an artist that he's accepting resumes from artists.


On an unrelated note, the lead singer of the band Disturbed made comments about GTA V being taken off the shelves in Australia, which got him attacked by SJWs, which lead to him openly supporting Gamergate.

[Teryu]

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInActi...ter_in_tekken/

SJWs and NeoGaf bitch about some new catgirl character in Tekken, so the creator is gonna take her out and replace her with a burly skinhead male.

[Koul]

Harada @ SJWs: "No, They want just Muscle & Skinhead (with Gun or MMA style) character (Of course I knew it "

rofl. so amazing. That's what I would do if people bitched. "oh, you don't like my female character? I guess I'll just add another muscled dude then"

[Teryu]

Not just a muscled dude, a skinhead. lol