Allison in Applebee's Hell: The Lupa Thread

[wildmage]

Does GG take credit for taking Gawker down? I know they passed around pats in the back when Leight Alexander was canned but I think Thiel does not need an army of sperges.

[Le Redditeur]

Does GG take credit for taking Gawker down? I know they passed around pats in the back when Leight Alexander was canned but I think Thiel does not need an army of sperges.

Some take credit for weakening Gawker enough that they had to resort being more and more clickbaity - which in the end was their demise. This claim is as doubtful as it goes, of course.

It has to be said, though, that all that "press colluding with Hillary" shit that was revealed during the 2016 campaign was exactly like what sparked GamerGate, only involving much bigger stakes.

[AwesomePizza]

The ethics were always tied up with the SJW politics. The SJW used their influence to promote nonsense crap like Depression Quest and Gone Home all the while shaming gamers for playing COD or fighting games with skimpily dressed characters. The ethics thing was a shield people like Sarcuck used. Muh ethics, muh PR is the reason GG is not allowed at /pol/ anymore. It was a healthy lesson though to immediately expel people who worry about PR more than principals.

[da PAC Nigguh]

It has to be said, though, that all that "press colluding with Hillary" shit that was revealed during the 2016 campaign was exactly like what sparked GamerGate, only involving much bigger stakes.

Evidence of that shit is way older than GG. The first smoking gun I remember was back in 2009 when that little faggot Ezra Klein's "Journo-list" was leaked.

[Kugelfisch]

It has to be said, though, that all that "press colluding with Hillary" shit that was revealed during the 2016 campaign was exactly like what sparked GamerGate, only involving much bigger stakes.

Evidence of that shit is way older than GG. The first smoking gun I remember was back in 2009 when that little faggot Ezra Klein's "Journo-list" was leaked.

But people didn't pay attention. Just like how everyone always knew about vidya journos being paid shills. Nobody gave a fuck about EA taking journos to what were basically paid vacations to write a preview about their latest trash. People only really got mad when the promoted trash was "not even a video game" garbage by artsy faggots who looked down upon actual games.

[wildmage]

It has to be said, though, that all that "press colluding with Hillary" shit that was revealed during the 2016 campaign was exactly like what sparked GamerGate, only involving much bigger stakes.

Evidence of that shit is way older than GG. The first smoking gun I remember was back in 2009 when that little faggot Ezra Klein's "Journo-list" was leaked.

But people didn't pay attention. Just like how everyone always knew about vidya journos being paid shills. Nobody gave a fuck about EA taking journos to what were basically paid vacations to write a preview about their latest trash. People only really got mad when the promoted trash was "not even a video game" garbage by artsy faggots who looked down upon actual games.

You can only stretch the wire so much before it breaks. The problem is that, for some reason, the paradigm is now that games have to be considered art. Since they are art, the suits think that they can shape public's opinion with them, which is why the hard turn to the left was developed and journo lists were created.

The problem is...it's vidya, not art. It's cringy to talk about vidya in public, let alone scream that it is art. Therefore GG was just a shitshow for autists by autists without any real world consequences.

The suits messed up big by assuming vidya, and all its surrounding ecosystem was something it is not.

[Le Redditeur]

You can only stretch the wire so much before it breaks. The problem is that, for some reason, the paradigm is now that games have to be considered art. Since they are art, the suits think that they can shape public's opinion with them, which is why the hard turn to the left was developed and journo lists were created.

The problem is...it's vidya, not art. It's cringy to talk about vidya in public, let alone scream that it is art. Therefore GG was just a shitshow for autists by autists without any real world consequences.

The suits messed up big by assuming vidya, and all its surrounding ecosystem was something it is not.

B-but muh Undertale! Muh Gone Home!

Yeah, I agree. Vydia is not art, no matter how good and influential a game might be. But I also understand that games being considered art would benefit publishers in places like Germany, so they wouldn't need to spend money to replace the swastikas in all those WW II FPS clones.

[Keith Chegwin]

I always got confused. Were you pro-gamergate if you sided with Quinn or anti? I never cared much so I kept forgetting.

Anti. Quinn's a sociopathic whore protected by her clique of former SA goons.

[Kugelfisch]

Yeah, I agree. Vydia is not art, no matter how good and influential a game might be. But I also understand that games being considered art would benefit publishers in places like Germany, so they wouldn't need to spend money to replace the swastikas in all those WW II FPS clones.

That wouldn't help, actually. The USK would just refuse to give it a rating and with that all it takes is a single person petitioning the ban and illegal it is. Or they would claim Volksverhetzung regardless of merit and gone it is as well. They would never, ever allow it. Just because.

[Pope Corky III]

The "video games are art" problem is the fact that gamers don't want the government censoring their pornography. Rather than trying to make vidya something it isn't, people should just be taking the senators/govt officials out back that complain about it and shooting them.