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Anita Sarkeesian reviewed a bunch of games, or more accurately started a kickstarted to make "Tropes versus women in videogames" and got a shitstorm of harassment. Are you claiming she wasn't in fact a victim of harassment?

Would that be, before or after she said she doesn't play video games? Oh she got some harassment, of course in her world criticism = harassment. She even said as much in front of the UN. And of course one can't forget that she refuses to debate anyone, or anything she says. But wants her garbage to be put in place in schools, and used as teaching material. Well that seems great, how'd that work out for Jack Thompson and his "games cause people to become psychopaths" bit.

And Zoe Quinn got a shitstorm of harassment over a review allegedly paid for by sex, except the review doesn't exist. So she got a shitstorm of harassment for something that never happend. Still going to claim she wasn't a victim of harassment?

You still can't figure it out huh? It wasn't a review, it was favorable coverage. She got mentions over a pile of other indie games, not once but several times. Those articles were written by the same person, without disclosure. And if I remember right, I posted the links on that to you the last time. You simply got all upset and stuck to the "but it was a review" which of course is what anti-gg people have been saying for a year, which gg folks haven't said. Of course one can't forget the amount of harassment that she's engaged in, like doxing the owner of a credit collection company, or Of course you have to be pretty damn pathetic to dox a bunch of 30 year old loners and virgins who are already a mental wreck. Of course she also belonged to helldump(part of SA), which was a notorious group of doxers who drove at least one person to suicide. Yeah great face, for anti-harassment.

Of course, one can't forget that PC gamer deleted all of Tyler Wilde's articles either. You know why? Because he was shacked up with Anne Marie Lewis who was a Ubisoft comm. associate. PC gamer believed that the articles were biased, and deleted them all and went further to have all existing search results on those articles purged.

It seems what happened is a bunch of bullies picked on some people and are now deeply upset that other people sympathise with the victims of the harassment. Well crap, what did you think would happen?

Well it appears people didn't want to hear anything about her, or her little talk going by the polling that SXSW had up. So she went crying off to twitter when she discovered that the GG panel was approved, and they pulled it on both.

But I can't really blame SXSW. Considering the amount of crap that GG has put up with in the last year, it becomes more of a safety issue for pro-GG individuals. Since there have been at least a dozen confirmed bomb threats where GG has had their talks, panels and so on in the past. The most recent of course was the SPJ Airplay event, where the building was evacuated because of another credible threat that someone wanted to blow up pro-GG people.

Can't forget people like Geordie Tait either, who said he wanted to use sarin gas to kill pro-GG people at PAX.

You've totally lost me.

Deformed troll.

Commit sudoku.

Seriously, you pay for texting by the message? Is that even legal these days?

It is in Canada and the US. If you're not blowing $30+mo on your cell you're paying for incoming and outgoing text messages, unless the company you're with gives incoming texts for free.

And no, commit sudoku.

Maybe you accidentally your keyboard.

The whole keyboard?

Sorry for pulling a Senator Jon Kyl on you.

Back in 2005 I remember hearing about how the fancy new Perl 6 VM was going to be super awesome. So I waited and waited. And then I waited some more.
Meanwhile, I'm 5 years into a personal project that's nowhere near ready to ship, so I think I finally understand what took him so long.

Congratz, Larry. You da man.

p.s. Obligatory: What year is it?

I don't usually enjoy most memes but I do like the Lolrus. Here's a good start.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

Neckbeards are commonly associated with hipster stereotypes and Internet addicts who frequent websites like 4chan and Reddit.

But for the cost of a high end rebuild on a 356 engine, you can convert them to electric

Rather entirely missing the point of owning a 365 and completely ruining it, in my opinion.

Potato Jesus all over again. :)
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Also, I thought the 918 Spyder was electric?

As others have replied, its a hybrid.

Can anyone explain why they insisted on using 2,5" drives in both consoles?

Because of all the XBOX HUEG jokes after Microsoft used a 3.5" drive in the original Xbox. One of the advantages of a console over a living room gaming PC is that a case smaller than a big honkin' PC tower is more likely to fit in with the other hardware next to your TV.

SQL is similarly not obscure in its area, but worth learning and you rarely see it in a list of general programming languages (because it isn't). But the commercial vendors all ship their SQL with strong variants that extend the language and do more common language functions like looping. I speak of PL/SQL, TSQL, and their ilk, which all have a touch of obscurity in the same way R does.

SQL is not in any way obscure and is in fact the exact opposite of obscure. More programmers know SQL than any other language, Java is second.

You keep using that word....I do not think it means what you think it means....

Aside from the cost of gas and sales tax probably eating your savings on shipping

Gas perhaps, unless it's a trip you already made for another reason. Sales tax no, unless you're ordering from a dealer that has no nexus in your state and committing tax evasion in the use tax field of your tax return.

Besides which, if you planned your deployment thoroughly, instead of buying it piecemeal, you'd probably be over the $35 threshold anyway.

"Planning? In my home?" It's less likely than you think.

I think it's a play on this meme. Like, I heard you like power plants (e.g. a coal firing electricity factory) so I put some powerful plants (e.g. CO2 absorbing members of kingdom Plantae) in your power plant (e.g. coal firing electricity factory) so you can power (verb) your plant (noun) while you plant (verb) plants (noun).

Not sure if trolling or just PHB...

Personally I cant fathom why "Social Justice Warrior" is bad. Being Social is good, Justice is good and in cultural terms, warriors are associated with good things (I.E. code of honour, strength, defending the weak and the like) so combined I cant really see why it's an insult.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

It's mocking and derisive because these people are neither warriors nor enacting "justice".

Know Your Meme

If you look solely at the latin etymology you might think that there is no negative connotation. In common parlance, however, the term was coined specifically for use as a slur and part of a campaign of death threats against non-trans people:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

http://cdn.meme.am/instances2/...

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

And get off my lawn!

It's this meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

I don't think it really applies here though.

try to keep up too

"MY issue is more important than YOUR issue".

Also, you're claiming that Bahar Mustafa wasn't joking when she said "kill all white men"? When she responded to media by saying they were, and I quote:

  “in-jokes and ways that many people in the queer feminist community express ourselves” sent from her “personal account”.

It is *at worst* the same as what this guy is doing.

"Die cis scum" -- you can't *possibly* take that seriously. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/....

And End Father's Day? You know that was a 4chan hoax, right? Started from an account very subtly named "Straw Feminist"? http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

There's no way you can possibly believe that people aren't joking when they say "die cis scum". There's no way. The only thing there that is remotely believable as something that is actually supported in real life is "end father's day", since father's day is ultimately as meaningless as mother's day. But it was a hoax.

"MY issue is more important than YOUR issue".

Also, you're claiming that Bahar Mustafa wasn't joking when she said "kill all white men"? When she responded to media by saying they were, and I quote:

  “in-jokes and ways that many people in the queer feminist community express ourselves” sent from her “personal account”.

It is *at worst* the same as what this guy is doing.

"Die cis scum" -- you can't *possibly* take that seriously. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/....

And End Father's Day? You know that was a 4chan hoax, right? Started from an account very subtly named "Straw Feminist"? http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

There's no way you can possibly believe that people aren't joking when they say "die cis scum". There's no way. The only thing there that is remotely believable as something that is actually supported in real life is "end father's day", since father's day is ultimately as meaningless as mother's day. But it was a hoax.

Bear Grylls has been doing it for years!

Why not both?

_ . . . . . _
  \_(''/)_/

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At least it's not as bad as I feared from the title. When I hear "crossplay", I think of Sailor Bubba.

It depends - is it the sound of Beiber choking to death on a ham sandwich? (RIP Mama Cass, yes, I know the ham sandwich is an urban legend, but the media never let the facts get in the way of a good story :-)

If Mama Cass has just split that sandwich with Karen Carpenter, they both could be alive today.

Good heavens, I knew that Keanu was sad, but I didn't realize that the sandwich incident was a suicide attempt.

I can only see it as it appears in the image: as the pixel colours. http://knowyourmeme.com/photos...

How much credibility does this article lose once you put "Big Data" in there?

Would suggesting the use of Big Data gathered from cloud-based mobile social apps help its credibility?

Or am I just proactively leveraging my synergies here?

(Sounds like some detection technology is in play here....)

im sorry to break this to you pal, but half population of europe != half world population

He's referring to an event that happened in the Middle Ages where the world wasn't anywhere near connected as it is now.

If a fatal disease had an outbreak somewhere these days, chances are it would quickly spread to epidemic levels unless it is immediately quarantined.

And no, moving to Madagascar won't help.

they equate dairy as rape, so they will see they guy who wants a real cheese pizza as some sort of monster who must be stopped.

Go to 4chan.
Ask for cheese pizza.
The FBI will now be watching you.
Not even trolling.

Some people posting in "Cheese Pizza" threads really are monsters that must be stopped; Second only to those who desire Delicious Cake.

In other words: Even your honestly harmless words may not seem as such to the powers that be.

they equate dairy as rape, so they will see they guy who wants a real cheese pizza as some sort of monster who must be stopped.

Go to 4chan.
Ask for cheese pizza.
The FBI will now be watching you.
Not even trolling.

Some people posting in "Cheese Pizza" threads really are monsters that must be stopped; Second only to those who desire Delicious Cake.

In other words: Even your honestly harmless words may not seem as such to the powers that be.

Come on, they're claiming it was their petition to the FDA - "Fast track Drug and vaccine research for Ebola Hemorrhagic fever" - that did it?

I think what they're claiming is that the desired outcome was reached and the petition was pushing in that direction. The degree to which any one petition took a lead or decisive role might be unknown, however, any assertion that all those petitions were simply ineffective noise is ludicrous. Clearly, looking at the individual cases, there are some where the petition would have been a very significant form of pressure (to which electing one legislator does not favorably compare.)

Some of these petitions deliver nearly half a million signatures to the decision makers engaged with a specific problem. When the target is a corporation or some other entity that is actually concerned with public opinion, any thesis that the petition is inherently ineffective is about as dubious as anything gets. Particularly in light of the outcomes often going the way the petition was asking for, whereas prior to the petition, these same conditions were not extant (obviously that is why the petitions arise in the first place.)

They got 19,000 signatures. That's nothing. There was an international race to get control over Ebola. This petition had ZERO effect.

Slacktivism is for slackers - those who are too lazy to get their butts out of a chair.

Gratuitous, research-free, unjustified name-calling is for the ignorant, the disingenuous and the propagandist. I wonder which of those you represent.

Research-free? The term has been used repeatedly in news reports to deride the people who think that signing a petition or clicking on like will mean something - usually when comparing slacktivists to the people who are in the streets marching, protesting, resisting police, or actually doing something. Besides, how can you say it's research-free when I provided a link to slacktivism, or unjustified name-calling when it's a recognized phenomenon and wikipedia uses onchange.org petitions as an example of slacktivism?

Here are some more definitions of the term, which has been in general use for years, and is often defined as useless actions such as signing online petitions or buying a bracelet. Also implying that I'm either ignorant, disingenuous , or a propagandist is either ignorant, disingenuous, or the mark of a frustrated slacktivist. :-)

Putting someone's phone number on the internet to invite more rape threats and harassment is doxxing.

What happens if you put up your own number, and if it's actually the number of a shop in Hawaii, and you then claim someone is trying to rape you?

Answer: "Gamers are Dead"

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Oh hey! I accidentally ... my voicemails

I think that's the third time you've made that excuse. You really need to get that fixed. Perhaps after I finish explaining everything again, we can schedule a date to go into the cell phone shop.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? Iâ(TM)ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and Iâ(TM)ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills....

The linked copypasta is actually germane to the case. Your grandmother who never used the Internet would likely perceive it as a threat. Those of us who live on the Internet recognize it for what it is.

To further illustrate the point:

What in the blue blazes did you just say about my client, you prevaricating bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in Harvard, and I've been involved in numerous cases before the Supreme Court, and I have over 300 cases settled with extreme prejudice. I am trained in litigation and I'm the top lawyer in the entire bar. You are nothing to me but just another defendant. I will wipe you the fuck out with decisions the likes of which has bever been seen before in this Court, mark my fucking words. You think you can defame my client over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we type I am subpoenaing NSA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the deposition, maggot. The deposition that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're in fucking contempt, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can drag this case out in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with this pen. Not only am I extensively trained in litigation, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the docket, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will file suit all over you and you will drown in it. I refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram, kiddo!

It's the middle ground between threat and hyperbole (or in this post, the line between barratry and comedy) that things get hairy. And that is precisely what the Supreme Court is dealing with in this case.

I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords! http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

Its not about what its OK to be offended about: its that THREATS of EXTREME VIOLENCE are not okay.

No-one is saying that they are. But such threats are being conflated with trivial criticism under the nebulous umbrella term "harassment".

Don't even attempt to deny that such conflation is taking place. It forms the basis for the waves of censorship seen over th elast three months. Actual death threats -- not even actionable ones -- against the "damsels in distress" so beloved of journalists have numbered, to date, four. Anita Sarkeesian has threats from one twitter account, and an anonymous email threat which Utah University saw no need to enhance its security measure for. Brianna Wu recieved another set of twitter death threats under farcical circumstances. Zoe Quinn has also allegedly recived death threats, though whether this was from the dubious Hawaii phone number doxxing is unclear. If this sounds uncharitable, note that by this point, after all the slander and lies of the last few months, gamers are too jaded to simply "listen and believe" without firm evidence.

Meanwhile gamers have received extensive harassment from the often racist proponents of so called "social justice", which from gamers point of view amounts to little more than extremist bullying. It took almost two months before the media begrudgingly even hinted that such attacks on gamers might be taking place.

Meanwhile each angry tweet at an appropriate damsel in distress is readily spun into an internet wide crisis now requiring government and industry intervention and a new age of censorship infrastructure. But we can be assured that the harassment and bullying from corrupt journalists and their cronies will continue unabated, and it will be only the protests and resistance from geeks which will be stifled.

When the new proposals for censorship in the name of "combating harassment" appear over the next few weeks, don't say you didn't recieve fair warning.

Ooooh, an Internet Tough Guy. I bet he's quaking in his boots now.

It can just be a frame from a viral video, movie or political event that becomes the "meme". Recall the art created from the use of pepper spray in the US.
Try http://knowyourmeme.com/
Movies can kept or sent be sent out of an area in realtime with apps like Bambuser, Call Recorder, Fi-Vo Film, GotYa!, Open Watch, Secret Camera Recorder.
Frames extracted and comments or art work added. The classic "meme" is then ready for use.
Gov, mil and local law enforcement officials do like to track people with the ability to create and host the original content that can trend and create discussion or enters local or national media.

I'm not saying it was aliens

Completely untraceable transactions, physically divorced from the participants? Now where have I seen that before... oh.

GIFT.

What do you think criminals would do with completely untraceable transactions? What do you think organised crime would do? You might want to study the consequences of driving transactions underground during the Prohibition era.

I'd give it a year, tops, before our already-vaguely-representative government would be replaced by completely un-representative, un-traceable overlords.

especially with all that money the Nigerian Prince has been trying to send me... It's about time he put it to good use!

Thanks Obama

let he that has not ever typo'd cast the first Godwin.

I thought it was Goodwin?

Nope it's Godwin's Law. Admittedly my use of it was rather oblique as I was thinking of "grammar Nazis," the behavior of and label for are both ridiculous. Apologies if I'm missing a pun or something.

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Stop moving the goalposts. The accusations by here boyfriend are here:

http://thezoepost.wordpress.co...

Tell me, which one of these accusations is false?

Those aren't the false accusations referred to by the article. The false accusations are the ones that suggest that she slept with Nathan Grayson in order to persuade him to write a positive review of one of her games. These accusations were quite widespread (e.g. 1, 2, 3), and appear to be completely false because nobody has pointed out a review written by Grayson of any of Quinn's games which was published after the date she's accused of sleeping with him.

Honestly, I'm not sure why anyone who doesn't know her personally would care what men she chooses to sleep with. It's not like it's actually any of our business, really. The one important accusation, that she used sex to get positive reviews for her game, turns out to be false. So let's just forget about the rest, OK?

Well, here's the other side..

zoe's then-boyfriend's account
http://thezoepost.wordpress.co...

wizardchan's experience with zoe
http://imgur.com/a/4VOcx

the birth of 4chan's 'vivian james' and zoe's attack on the fine young capitalists
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

david jaffe vs kotaku
http://kotaku.com/5883107/does...
https://soundcloud.com/ben-kuc...

anita sarkeesian is not a gamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

anita sarkeesian misrepresents the subject material. 'thunderf00t's analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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This is an issue of journalistic integrity and quite possibly attempts at reculturing a community to conform to specific political values. The charge of 'misogyny' is just an attempt to muddy the waters and/or poison the well of any would-be critics.