Well, I don't like cheating, but is not a crime, and certainly not the worst one can do within the boundaries of non criminal behavior.

Now, as I said, nobady realy cared too much about her having sex with anyone, we had an issue with the journalis she slept with. Maybe the mistake was that people began to focus on her, she is a horrible person, but she was not meant to be the target of criticism. The target of criticism was the man she slept with. He is the one at fault, he is the one who acted in a dishonest way at his job. Maybe that is why she is called a Literally Who.

I am not saying you did. But the thing is that MANY made her the target of the problem. And that was both an ABUSE, and a BIG MISTAKE to point the problem that GG was supposed to point.

But the big irony is that anti-GG criticism supported more GG than GG did by itself, by ranting towards the whole gaming community, in a very aggressive and illogical way. Such great ironies only appear in great sad stories, so it is even sadder that this one is really happening.

"GAMERS ARE DEAD" <----- Biggest GG supporter, ironically, EVER

That's assuming that the anti-GG gaming press was ever actually about gaming to begin with. At this point, even that perspective is being given a second glance.

Personally, I've never trusted really any press, mainstream, alternative, niche, or otherwise... so for me it's not quite a shocker to see the gaming press gurus stab their own community in the back. When someone assumes to speak for you in the pursuit of your own interests, it's better tell that person to go take a long walk off a short pier.

Crickets... :( so US went to sleep without replying.

If anyone is more a masochist then me they can go back and find me saying the broader journalism issues are the context for entertainment media issues AND that gaming media specifically is therefore practically irrelevant - it's just a tree in the forest. Ergo Gamergate is peanuts DESPITE having been a pretty big deal in increasing political awareness of large numbers of individuals - and in a way I like - towards what Milo calls cultural libertarianism. *

Anyway, wanted to post this reply to you so you'd see I noticed. I also read about that journalistic travesty and you are absolutely right it both could and should be a bigger issue. But then again consider the historically revisionism of stuff like Rathergate and you will realize - the fix is in, and no conspiracy required - just confirmation bias and groupthink. ** This travesty also is small peanuts, despite its relation to a VERY politically charged US event.

Let me be direct therefore, unpleasant as it may be. You're wrong.

Most of us (in GOG) could not care less about the broader media issues. Because despite the close to the skin issue being kind of obvious in where the authoritarian impulses are (in the postmodern Blue tribe) in a broader cultural sense most of the folks here still lean preferentially towards those Blue social-cultural positions (truly policies). So they will mostly ignore that the forces they are opposing through Gamergate are the same ones they are normally actively supporting at a broader societal context.

Sarc on
Because of course the real issues we should discuss are Trump is evil and Gun Control is the best ever, ah and Planned Parenthood funding, because their clinic is like around the corner and they're not making enough money selling human tissue.
And above all else, we've never been at war with radical *****. Because *****ophobia dude.
Sarc off

* I reference that firebrand because despite, or maybe because of, him being so amusing (humor requires intelligence?) he has a good understanding of the social trends underlying all the issues with media and culture nowadays. He is somewhat of a hypocrite, but in this cynical age, it's like everyone is.

** Cherry picking and safe spaces if you're inclined to be provocative.

That's fine. If I've learned anything over the past year, it's that with an emotional enough appeal backing up an argument, the very fabric of reality can be twisted so as to bend people's perceptions of wrongness and rightness. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to look for a devastatingly adorable orphan whose tragic back story and broken smile invalidates your points.

Blue? I'm assuming that's some kind of political shorthand, but if that's the case, it's difficult to be sure of what you mean seeing as how this is an international forum and it appears to denote completely different political parties and agendas depending on the country in question.

Though I suppose my uncertainty as to your meaning is immaterial seeing as how what MSNBC pulled should be of interest to just about everyone here. Those who truly care about ethics have a gimme example of shoddy journalism and its negative impacts. The petty have ammo to use against one of the many outlets responsible for a hit job against us. Those who consider GG part of a greater cultural war have a chance to expose the sensationalist tendencies that so often fuel the moral outrage machine. The people who are just tired of being blanket-labeled as reactionary monsters regardless of their actual beliefs have an opportunity to make their accusers eat crow by standing up for the innocent people (or person—I'm having trouble actually finding reliable information about the extent of what they did, which itself is conversation-worthy) doxxed because of MSNBC's unscrupulous behavior.

Absolutely. What ever happened (if it ever was) to meritocracy? Or at least some semblance of it?


That's what most organizations would do. That would mean they would have to stop stuffing every one around with "quota systems" etc and just hire the best person for the job. If a population is "diverse", then the choice of people fighting over available jobs are diverse and therefore who gets hired would reflect that.

More importantly, what needs to be understood is europeans are going to be (or already are in some places) a minority in most formerly european nations in a decade or so. We'll soon find out how "fair" and "diverse" things are.

This.

Have I ever actually said I quite appreciate your sense of humor? Well, I do.
In that vein, I'm adorable and broken myself. Does that count for winning something? A lousy T-Shirt?


On blue tribe / red tribe you can pretty much map the liberal conservative cultural divide of the US. Very very roughly though, as the traditional stereotypes are breaking down faster and faster. (see my 2nd link for historiographical example)

Let me hunt down a couple of links for your (hopefully) pleasure.

[url=http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ ]Here's my source for the tribes.[/url] * The author would probably point to my shorthand of political ideology as in error. I'd disagree, just that the US Dem / Rep divide is not the actual political ideology fulcrum, it just correlates as a gross heuristic.

And more on topic of journalistic culture, though the relation can be a bit hidden, consider this from a guy I don't particularly respect, but can be insightful. **

* I think this is the one where he defines them more or less. Maybe it's the one he just uses them and happened to be my first contact...

** The obvious relation here does kind of get to *****gate - or rather to the culture war over ideological narratives in mass media entertainment - via informational media and creators being keen (remember - no conspiracy needed, just lack of ideological diversity) to affirm certain messages regardless of the truth (in this case historical). But less obviously this still goes directly to your point on ethics in journalism, in that the particular ideologies are perfectly comfortable corrupting / transforming reality into convenient perceptions. IMO it takes a particular dedication to objectivity to avoid this pitfall, regardless of sociopolitical tribe, and our broad postmodern culture is very badly suited to such commitment for a number of reasons. Journalism merely followed that broader trend. It's the mission to comfort the afflicted, it's the appeal to "oh the humanity" rather than reason, it's choosing to persuade rather than inform. I mean, when anyone seriously considers the rejection of objectivity to be compatible with anything and everything journalism is supposed to be, you know the game is rigged, so to speak. Anything else is a distraction, despite the fact said distractions are vicious and causing harm.

I do not speak for anyone other than myself, but I think the lack of ethics in journalism is something worth to wory. There are many threats to free speech in modern journalism, and threats to safety too.

all you wanted was to compare lovecrafts creations with the eldrazi

Exactly. In stead I found a SJW shitstorm infecting academia. In the end I managed to find a couple of works which were useful to my plans, but most of my sources did not came from an academic database but from Wizards of The Coast. In fact I feel a big interest in publishing my work since there is nothing like it.

As I said, there are many grown up that did NOTHING RELEVANT with their lives, (and frankly speaking there is NOTHING wrong with this) but still want to suddenly become SAVIORS of the World.

Is ridiculous, and it came from not getting really in league with the children we all Gamers have inside us, is this NECESSITY of grow up and became relevant!!! , even if you are a simple and unnecessary, game journalist.

Suddenly gaming is SERIOUS, because as someone said recently in this thread, "gaming is getting mature" or something like that ... people changing the social rights of the MATRIX.

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Exactly, and that is the second part of the equation. Due to the stupidity of the people, doors are open to control.

But the idea that gaming is somehow an ethos is a fallacy. Gaming isn't a religion, a philosophy, or a political movement. Gaming is an activity, albeit a very profitable one. Take sports. For some people playing a sport is a way of life that offers them a career and millions of dollars, meanwhile to many others playing that same sport is a simple fun hobby they share with their friends on weekends. Same sport, same activity, but being played by many people for many different reasons.

Gaming is no different. It's when a 'thing' that has a plural meaning to many suddenly has to become a monolithic concept with rules and codes of conduct and an overarching agenda, that's when problems begin... chaos theory in effect. Everything that is created must be destroyed in order for it to be remade again.

Gaming can be sexist, it can be racist, it can also have sensitive feelings towards women and minorities; it can be politically aware and correct, and offer senseless violence all at the same time, and be enjoyed by millions of people for any and all of the above. The guys with the fedoras and college degrees with their overhyped careers with blogs and review columns, when those people believe that gaming is becoming a religion, they want to be the apostles who get to tell you why God tells us to live by certain rules. Because they want to write the rules. Fuck the false prophets, and fuck those overvalued egotistical fucks in the media press.