An example would be Twitter who has banned people for claiming they posted doxs, or harassment like Leothepirate or Thunderf00t for example but allowed people like Quinn, Harper, Sarkeesian and Wu to run free, who've posted doxs, harassed people, or even sent their followers out to attack others. I think that's what they're talking about, the rules don't apply equally. If you're in the right kind of clique, you can do whatever you want.
Well let's go with the narrative then shall we. Sarkeesian, Quinn, Wu, and Harper have all posted in the hashtag numerous times, that means they're all vile harassers, who are worse than ISIS and want to keep women out of gaming right?
Sorry, you wanted something else? Even at $400 it's enough to bury both consoles into the ground. And most sales for both consoles start at $399, maybe with one game if you're lucky. Where as you could start up on a PC with an internet connection and find a few thousand abandonware titles to start off with, and then go onto the free MMO's.
Uh, wait a second here. You absolutely will find people who lean pro saying that harassment and doxing are justified, and furthermore, this whole fucking flap began because some of them doxed and harassed.
Really, let's go look at/r/KotakuinactionHmm...nope...doesn't look like it...and where people made mention of it, they were called out and shouted down. Well let's look at GG's current 8ch board. Hmm...nope, and when someone tries, they're shouted down and auto-saged off. Let's go look at the8chan archivesHmm...again it looks exactly like what happens in GGHQ. Well that's troubling...how about #gamergate? Well even WAM Didn't find that, and their own data said it was mainly the work of trolls.
Hmm...let's keep looking, how about this one? A journalist wants to know about GGers and harassment/doxing. Well this could be promising....oh wait...he only wants GGers that explicitly support it, so he's just looking for stuff to re-enforce the narrative that people in GG support it. Well that's a problem...
These things like "she said she doesn't play videogames" were mid-sentence quotes taken out of context and spun into a magical fairy tale, like the latest pregnancy or cheating rumour, except for some reason this type of fantasy is taken seriously.
Well since you can watch the whole thing on youtube, you'll quickly find out that it wasn't really out of context. If I remember right, her entire statement was something along the lines of "I don't play video games, but I really would like to play video games. Especially since all you do is kill and maim things." That in itself shows an extreme lack of understanding of the medium itself.
In ol'Jacks case, he came out saying in his own words more than once that games caused violence or made people into violent individuals. But he at least came out and debated people on it, Sarkessian doesn't. And when people make videos or post things that call her out on her bullshit, she gets all up in a huff and starts screaming that it's harassment.
Depends. Did she do the reviews of the games after playing them or not?
Or is gaming so super special that someone who's not a gamer isn't allowed to start playing, form an opinion and then write about it?
Well no one knows if she's played the games she's supposedly writing on. Though she has had people play them, in order to choreograph specific things in order to make up a talking point. The hitman section in the stripclub dressing room would be a good instance of that.
Perhaps it's just me, but if I was writing on a subject, I'd actually turn around and learn about it before writing about it. Especially if I want to have what I'm writing, be used as an academic source and for teaching materials. But who knows, maybe you have a much lower standard than most people, and are perfectly okay with that.
Yeah and? Did Roger Ebert ever engage his readers in debate? You have no right to expect someone to engage you in conversation. That's making a completely unreasonable demand on their time.
Roger Ebert never stated that his work should be used as an educational tool. She has. Of course people have offered her upwards of $10k to her, or the charity of her choice to have an open debate on what's she's written and she's never responded.
That's blatantly rewriting history there. It was over a review of depression quest that the whole thing started. You know the one that didn't exist.
Nope, the only person who's rewriting history is you. I've posted the articles for you before, and it was favorable coverage. You know, the ones that existed. Kind of like the stuff that was written by anna anthropy as well and another indie game developer, who anna was shacked up with and writing about. And there's the friends of hers she would write about and not disclose it.
Good point! That entirely justifies harassing Sarkeesian and Quinn.
So you keep saying, so why are you justifying the harassment of pro-GG people? Of course, you might also believe that disagreement and criticism of their work is harassment. Sure explains a lot, especially since most people once they reach highschool have to start defending their work in front of their peers.
I'm lost: who are you talking about now?
The stuff that's pertinent to the discussion. You did know that the polling information on the panels was posted and open. You do know that people voted in such low numbers on Harpers panel that it was declined. And she threw a hissyfit, and so did several other people calling on SXSW to cancel the Open Gaming Society panel.
Confirmed? Where are the police reports?
Well I'm guessing you're in the US, I'm not. So it won't cost you any money. But you can contact the Metro PD of Washington DC, and ask for the police reports on Local 16 bomb threats. They may or may not fill that one, because of the location and they've probably classified it as a possible terrorist event. And you can also give the PD in Miami Florida and ask specifically about the bomb threats at Koubek Center.
Another good point! That entirely justifies the harassment of Quinn and Sarkeesian.
So that explains why you're openly supporting the harassment of people in Gamergate huh? Sure explains a lot, they're "not the right kind of people" for you.
You realize that Breibart.com is the most notorious troll on the internet, right?
In other words, you don't like the source. But you can't dispute any of the information that it provides. Despite that the article has to go through legal in order to pass and be clear of libel or defamation.
Also, it's better to have a panel debate where you can challenge people you disagree with, than to try to ban them from speaking.
You should ask people like Quinn, Wu, Harper, and so on why they were so hell-bent that the panel by the Open Gaming Society should be shut down then. Nothing says a panel debate where you can challenge people, where the opposing side tries to shut you down.
That's okay, when a group of journalists are having a talk about the ethical problems of game journalists, and they get a threat and the building has to be evacuated it doesn't even make the news. But so far there are 20+ articles about this already. There possibly couldn't be an agenda here right? Or that they all came out mere hours within one another.
Enough GamerGaters are pro-harassment (with excuses as to why it's justified) to where you really can't argue that GamerGaters aren't a factor when harassment occurs.
Really? I'm sure you've got some non-citeogenesis articles to prove that. Especially since you won't find people who lean pro saying that harassment or doxing is justified. But then you'll get the "big name people" in the anti-GG side like Randi Harper or Zoe Quinn who have doxed people, have harassed, or have belonged to things like Helldump(which of course has caused people to commit suicide). Saying that doxing, harassing, and all that is perfectly fine. Or people like Bob Chipman saying "No bad tactics, only targets." Which explains a lot in terms of how far SJW's are willing to go.
Great, here's an idea. Go over to/r/Kotakuinaction, and ask this question: "How many of you would support an open investigation of GG by the FBI?" You want to know what the answer would be? Go right ahead. Funny that, isn't it? Every time there's been a threat, dox of a pro-GG individual, or whichever everyone hopes that there is an investigation because one can already figure out where the threats are coming from. Especially when the big voices in anti-GG are those who've harassed, doxed, or tried to get people fired from work.
The problem is that the threats they keep getting seem to be sent by GamerGate to itself.
Well your first link here let me help you out a bit. That bit from Oliver Campell, that was anti-GG individuals who sent themselves death threats. Not Gamergate individuals sending themselves threats. And of course, if you've ever done a FOIA or ATI, then you already know that vague requests are automatically ignored. But then again, you might not know this but there are several people back in the early days of Gamergate, who have T/S clearances and were doxed by anti-GG individuals. That's enough to refuse any requests on information, simply because the information was related to classified information.
The second link, good old ghazi making shit up to support their narrative. Of course the person in question wasn't a gamergate supporter, they used the gamergate hashtag 35 times. To put that in perspective, the #gamergate hashtag on twitter alone has over 3m+ tweets now, there's 50k+subs on Kotakuinaction, that sub alone gets 500k-4m unique visits a month, it's in the top 50 busiest subs on reddit for subscriber size. That of course isn't even counting boards on 8chan, and voat. Here's the good part, they were a prolific writer for left-leaning sites including DailyKos, Feministing, and the guardian as contributors among other sites. He of course also claimed to be a jew, an isis supporter, a neo-nazi, a feminist, wrote as a feminist, and so on as well.
They also advocated the restriction of speech, freedom of speech, radical support for freedom of speech, attacks against individuals who were not of their ideological orientation and so on. Among a whole pile of other things.
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?
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.
PCs are general purpose, but who buys an expensive desktop with a graphics card any besides a gamer? Gaming computers are essentially specialized devices that happen to be able to do Windows. They don't run Office or browse the web any better than a cheap laptop, and they're loud, expensive, and bulky.
Apparently you're about 10 or 15 years out of date. You can build a PC for $300 that has better performance than both the xbox one and PS4. There's no need to build a "specialized PC" for only gaming, oh and if by loud you mean about 38DB or less, and bulky as in it's smaller than an overnight bag. I suppose.
The kid growing up in "east tenn" probably needs a dentist.
Going by the CDC that would be California, which ranks in at 70-75% of 3rd graders having them. Tenn ranks in at 40-45% of 3rd graders, but considering out in California and the high levels of lead and mercury in the drinking water, it might just explain a lot.
Fukushima's reactors were a first-gen BWR design(believe it was reactors 1-4), and had been dealt with problems by the environmentalists and all that in terms of upgrading the plants themselves away from that design.
But CANDU reactors have had that built into them for years now, and are a ACR-1000 design, no power or power failure to either the SDS1 or SDS2 and the reactor automatically shuts down dumping 90% of the heat in under 2 seconds. I live within 60 miles of Bruce Nuclear(2nd largest nuclear plant in the world) and they've upgraded, retrofitted, refurbished those reactors once in my lifetime already, they're working on a staggering of a retrofit of them for the second time to make them safer.
Simple. Mozilla has started becoming a closed monoculture that refuses changes because they'd rather add things in that the average person doesn't need. If you need any proof of that, compare firefox to palemoon(branch). FF is roughly double the size of PM, but the latter can do everything the first one does. And has a better memory footprint.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least, and seems very probable. You used to be able to destroy CRT monitors by telling a program to run the refresh, or horizontal or vertical alignments out of spec or sync too, for the longest time you could do it with ansi codes. Kinda like how you could destroy the old HDD's that needed a parking utility by telling the heads to slam into the spindle while the drive was still running.
Being investigated and being found guilty of something are two completely different things. The Liberals booted everyone involved in Adscam and prosecuted them. They did not give hush money to senators, or prorogue parliament to avoid answering questions about it, or pass laws retroactively absolving people for it like the harper cons did.
The liberals didn't prosecute anyone that was the RCMP. They even gave diplomatic posts to individuals who were involved in Adscam in order to get them out of the country. The liberals stonewalled as hard as they could until popular opinion in the country was at such a pitch they couldn't stonewall anymore. Sadly, I'm old enough to remember that.
Oh and the liberals sure did give hush money to senators. One of them even spent the last 20 years of his time in the senate, sitting in mexico. And sadly, they also passed laws to retroactively absolve people. You think that the Cons set precedent on this? Pierre Trudeau did the retroactive pardoning first.
They were also investigated by the RCMP for Adscam which went all the way to the PMO's office and his assistants, and the funneling of federal tax dollars into Quebec, where the said people in Quebec then donated those federal tax dollars right back into the Liberal party coffers. Sorry man, they're corrupt as fuck and they're not any different than the Provincial Liberals in Ontario, who are involved in 4 different police investigations ranging from destruction of data to engineering an election result in Northern Ontario.
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
That means your speech, expression, and fundamental rights including unlawful searches, can be limited by the government or the courts. It's the reason why there are publication bans on court cases. That's why in Canada the RIDE program while an unlawful search, is legal. It's why S.13 of the Canadian Human Rights Code existed and was used in force, to stifle speech and allow aggressive abuse of other peoples rights. It's also why the CHRC had a 100% conviction rate. S.13 is now dead, and it made a lot of people who used the system to abuse others was really upset when it was revoked by parliament.
There were at least three points there. To which are you referring?
You were the one who made the statement that Sarkeesian was being accused of fraud at the start of GG. I'm sure you can prove that.
Ah jes, injecting herself into it by daring to critique video games. The harassment started in earnest with her kickstarter campaign. Every other art form is subject to critiquing, often very harsh. Just go and look at film reviews (or buy the book "hatchet job", which is dedicated to, well, hatchet jobs of film reviews), or read some book reviews. Or reviews of the theatre or art exhibitions!
Wait, so you're saying that she didn't inject herself into GG? Or are you now saying that GG harassed her before GG existed? Then again, criticism requires factual information to back it up right, so where are the facts? Go through hers, you'll quickly find out that those said facts don't exist.
The truly ironic thing of course is that the complains were allegedly all about ethics in game journalism with undeclared conflicts of interest and sex-for-reviews and so on. Sarkeesian was independently funded and had no conflicts of interest. That's absolutely what the gaters profess to want. Except of course they didn't like some of the things she said.
Except that's not the case in Sarkeesians bit, rather she injected herself into it by running with the "gamers are hyper masculine and the the cause of all of societies ills." That happened just after the 13+ "gamers are dead" articles were written with 30-65% of exactly the same content in each one of them.
Has a single backer complained? Yes/no?
Yes, quite a few actually. Some of them also want their money back.
We both know the scope expanded massively as a result of the increased funding. And you know it would be unethical to to really in depth critiques of games without playing them all the way though. This sort of thing takes a lot of time.
Well I guess that explains all of those speaking appearances she's been taking on then right? I mean it's not like other YT personalities who can pump out 5-8 factually accurate videos a week that are upwards of 20 minutes long.
Have you ever made a video out of interest (more than just a single shot of one thing)? As in one that has enough complexity to be planned and storyboarded etc? If not, I recommend it. They are astonishing amounts of work if you want them to not suck.
As it is, there's been a steady stream of high quality episodes. Nothing at all to complain again.
Actually yes. But then again, those were based on discussions of criminal law. Which contained information on existing cases, and how they've shaped current judicial opinions.
Now you're just taking the piss. I asked for you to post the alleged review. You posted two completely unrelated interviews and a 3 word comment. Passing that off as a "review" is at best a gross exaggeration.
No I'm stating a fact, the problem is you think GG made the statement about the CoI based on a review. It never did--anti-GG did. So did the media writing about it, it was about undisclosed CoI, with the author writing about a subject they were engaged in a relationship. I realize that's something difficult for you to grasp, but I just explained it again for you.
Not of depression quest it wasn't. The whole thing was over the sex-for-review. There was no review.
And now you finally get it, it was about positive coverage which I said the first time around. Unless of course you're saying that having a person you're shacking up with, and writing about isn't a conflict of interest.
Why are gaters so damned obsessed with her sex life? She was banging 5 guys? Um... yay? People are having fun! wheeeeee! I have no problem with that. And don't even think
I dunno, it's hard to beat the 'anti sjws' for being cryhards. If you're being stifled by women or people whining on the Internet the chances are you just suck at life.
Really? Cause the sjw's are the ones whining about diversity and how meritocracy is "sexist and racist." I don't know about you, but if I'm hiring someone to fill a position, I want the best candidate I can get. I don't want someone in that position because of what their skin colour is, or because of their genitals. But I'm sure you're all for it, that's why your doctor is a Inuit who used to be the janitor on the first floor right?
Article fails to mention that Germany is also importing massive amounts of power from France, and that the price of electricity in germany is between 0.20 and 0.45c/kWh now from all those renewable sources.
We never build safer replacements - don't delude yourself, we build them because we need more. Replacement suggests that the old one is decommissioned at some point but those reactors aren't cheap to build and have multi-decade payback horizons.
Here in Canada we decommission and replace reactors about every 30 years, unless there is a particular reason. Such as the medical breeder reactors that supply a large portion of the worlds medical isotopes. Those are safer replacements for aging technology, if that's not happening in your country then there's something else going on.
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An example would be Twitter who has banned people for claiming they posted doxs, or harassment like Leothepirate or Thunderf00t for example but allowed people like Quinn, Harper, Sarkeesian and Wu to run free, who've posted doxs, harassed people, or even sent their followers out to attack others. I think that's what they're talking about, the rules don't apply equally. If you're in the right kind of clique, you can do whatever you want.
Ah, the old "no true GamerGater" argument.
Well let's go with the narrative then shall we. Sarkeesian, Quinn, Wu, and Harper have all posted in the hashtag numerous times, that means they're all vile harassers, who are worse than ISIS and want to keep women out of gaming right?
Sure there ya go. Oh and you can get Windows for about $15, legally. I should have said $400, but it's close enough, since the price of PC hardware has been going up the last 5 months or so. Not much, but enough to make a difference.
Sorry, you wanted something else? Even at $400 it's enough to bury both consoles into the ground. And most sales for both consoles start at $399, maybe with one game if you're lucky. Where as you could start up on a PC with an internet connection and find a few thousand abandonware titles to start off with, and then go onto the free MMO's.
Uh, wait a second here. You absolutely will find people who lean pro saying that harassment and doxing are justified, and furthermore, this whole fucking flap began because some of them doxed and harassed.
Really, let's go look at /r/KotakuinactionHmm...nope...doesn't look like it...and where people made mention of it, they were called out and shouted down. Well let's look at GG's current 8ch board. Hmm...nope, and when someone tries, they're shouted down and auto-saged off. Let's go look at the8chan archivesHmm...again it looks exactly like what happens in GGHQ. Well that's troubling...how about #gamergate? Well even WAM Didn't find that, and their own data said it was mainly the work of trolls.
Hmm...let's keep looking, how about this one? A journalist wants to know about GGers and harassment/doxing. Well this could be promising....oh wait...he only wants GGers that explicitly support it, so he's just looking for stuff to re-enforce the narrative that people in GG support it. Well that's a problem...
These things like "she said she doesn't play videogames" were mid-sentence quotes taken out of context and spun into a magical fairy tale, like the latest pregnancy or cheating rumour, except for some reason this type of fantasy is taken seriously.
Well since you can watch the whole thing on youtube, you'll quickly find out that it wasn't really out of context. If I remember right, her entire statement was something along the lines of "I don't play video games, but I really would like to play video games. Especially since all you do is kill and maim things." That in itself shows an extreme lack of understanding of the medium itself.
In ol'Jacks case, he came out saying in his own words more than once that games caused violence or made people into violent individuals. But he at least came out and debated people on it, Sarkessian doesn't. And when people make videos or post things that call her out on her bullshit, she gets all up in a huff and starts screaming that it's harassment.
Depends. Did she do the reviews of the games after playing them or not?
Or is gaming so super special that someone who's not a gamer isn't allowed to start playing, form an opinion and then write about it?
Well no one knows if she's played the games she's supposedly writing on. Though she has had people play them, in order to choreograph specific things in order to make up a talking point. The hitman section in the stripclub dressing room would be a good instance of that.
Perhaps it's just me, but if I was writing on a subject, I'd actually turn around and learn about it before writing about it. Especially if I want to have what I'm writing, be used as an academic source and for teaching materials. But who knows, maybe you have a much lower standard than most people, and are perfectly okay with that.
Yeah and? Did Roger Ebert ever engage his readers in debate? You have no right to expect someone to engage you in conversation. That's making a completely unreasonable demand on their time.
Roger Ebert never stated that his work should be used as an educational tool. She has. Of course people have offered her upwards of $10k to her, or the charity of her choice to have an open debate on what's she's written and she's never responded.
That's blatantly rewriting history there. It was over a review of depression quest that the whole thing started. You know the one that didn't exist.
Nope, the only person who's rewriting history is you. I've posted the articles for you before, and it was favorable coverage. You know, the ones that existed. Kind of like the stuff that was written by anna anthropy as well and another indie game developer, who anna was shacked up with and writing about. And there's the friends of hers she would write about and not disclose it.
Good point! That entirely justifies harassing Sarkeesian and Quinn.
So you keep saying, so why are you justifying the harassment of pro-GG people? Of course, you might also believe that disagreement and criticism of their work is harassment. Sure explains a lot, especially since most people once they reach highschool have to start defending their work in front of their peers.
I'm lost: who are you talking about now?
The stuff that's pertinent to the discussion. You did know that the polling information on the panels was posted and open. You do know that people voted in such low numbers on Harpers panel that it was declined. And she threw a hissyfit, and so did several other people calling on SXSW to cancel the Open Gaming Society panel.
Confirmed? Where are the police reports?
Well I'm guessing you're in the US, I'm not. So it won't cost you any money. But you can contact the Metro PD of Washington DC, and ask for the police reports on Local 16 bomb threats. They may or may not fill that one, because of the location and they've probably classified it as a possible terrorist event. And you can also give the PD in Miami Florida and ask specifically about the bomb threats at Koubek Center.
Another good point! That entirely justifies the harassment of Quinn and Sarkeesian.
So that explains why you're openly supporting the harassment of people in Gamergate huh? Sure explains a lot, they're "not the right kind of people" for you.
You realize that Breibart.com is the most notorious troll on the internet, right?
In other words, you don't like the source. But you can't dispute any of the information that it provides. Despite that the article has to go through legal in order to pass and be clear of libel or defamation.
Also, it's better to have a panel debate where you can challenge people you disagree with, than to try to ban them from speaking.
You should ask people like Quinn, Wu, Harper, and so on why they were so hell-bent that the panel by the Open Gaming Society should be shut down then. Nothing says a panel debate where you can challenge people, where the opposing side tries to shut you down.
That's okay, when a group of journalists are having a talk about the ethical problems of game journalists, and they get a threat and the building has to be evacuated it doesn't even make the news. But so far there are 20+ articles about this already. There possibly couldn't be an agenda here right? Or that they all came out mere hours within one another.
Kinda...funny isn't it?
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Enough GamerGaters are pro-harassment (with excuses as to why it's justified) to where you really can't argue that GamerGaters aren't a factor when harassment occurs.
Really? I'm sure you've got some non-citeogenesis articles to prove that. Especially since you won't find people who lean pro saying that harassment or doxing is justified. But then you'll get the "big name people" in the anti-GG side like Randi Harper or Zoe Quinn who have doxed people, have harassed, or have belonged to things like Helldump(which of course has caused people to commit suicide). Saying that doxing, harassing, and all that is perfectly fine. Or people like Bob Chipman saying "No bad tactics, only targets." Which explains a lot in terms of how far SJW's are willing to go.
Great, here's an idea. Go over to /r/Kotakuinaction, and ask this question: "How many of you would support an open investigation of GG by the FBI?" You want to know what the answer would be? Go right ahead. Funny that, isn't it? Every time there's been a threat, dox of a pro-GG individual, or whichever everyone hopes that there is an investigation because one can already figure out where the threats are coming from. Especially when the big voices in anti-GG are those who've harassed, doxed, or tried to get people fired from work.
The problem is that the threats they keep getting seem to be sent by GamerGate to itself.
Well your first link here let me help you out a bit. That bit from Oliver Campell, that was anti-GG individuals who sent themselves death threats. Not Gamergate individuals sending themselves threats. And of course, if you've ever done a FOIA or ATI, then you already know that vague requests are automatically ignored. But then again, you might not know this but there are several people back in the early days of Gamergate, who have T/S clearances and were doxed by anti-GG individuals. That's enough to refuse any requests on information, simply because the information was related to classified information.
The second link, good old ghazi making shit up to support their narrative. Of course the person in question wasn't a gamergate supporter, they used the gamergate hashtag 35 times. To put that in perspective, the #gamergate hashtag on twitter alone has over 3m+ tweets now, there's 50k+subs on Kotakuinaction, that sub alone gets 500k-4m unique visits a month, it's in the top 50 busiest subs on reddit for subscriber size. That of course isn't even counting boards on 8chan, and voat. Here's the good part, they were a prolific writer for left-leaning sites including DailyKos, Feministing, and the guardian as contributors among other sites. He of course also claimed to be a jew, an isis supporter, a neo-nazi, a feminist, wrote as a feminist, and so on as well.
They also advocated the restriction of speech, freedom of speech, radical support for freedom of speech, attacks against individuals who were not of their ideological orientation and so on. Among a whole pile of other things.
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.
PCs are general purpose, but who buys an expensive desktop with a graphics card any besides a gamer? Gaming computers are essentially specialized devices that happen to be able to do Windows. They don't run Office or browse the web any better than a cheap laptop, and they're loud, expensive, and bulky.
Apparently you're about 10 or 15 years out of date. You can build a PC for $300 that has better performance than both the xbox one and PS4. There's no need to build a "specialized PC" for only gaming, oh and if by loud you mean about 38DB or less, and bulky as in it's smaller than an overnight bag. I suppose.
Don't worry AC. You've got Soros pumping in the same amounts of money all over the place.
The kid growing up in "east tenn" probably needs a dentist.
Going by the CDC that would be California, which ranks in at 70-75% of 3rd graders having them. Tenn ranks in at 40-45% of 3rd graders, but considering out in California and the high levels of lead and mercury in the drinking water, it might just explain a lot.
Fukushima's reactors were a first-gen BWR design(believe it was reactors 1-4), and had been dealt with problems by the environmentalists and all that in terms of upgrading the plants themselves away from that design.
But CANDU reactors have had that built into them for years now, and are a ACR-1000 design, no power or power failure to either the SDS1 or SDS2 and the reactor automatically shuts down dumping 90% of the heat in under 2 seconds. I live within 60 miles of Bruce Nuclear(2nd largest nuclear plant in the world) and they've upgraded, retrofitted, refurbished those reactors once in my lifetime already, they're working on a staggering of a retrofit of them for the second time to make them safer.
Simple. Mozilla has started becoming a closed monoculture that refuses changes because they'd rather add things in that the average person doesn't need. If you need any proof of that, compare firefox to palemoon(branch). FF is roughly double the size of PM, but the latter can do everything the first one does. And has a better memory footprint.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least, and seems very probable. You used to be able to destroy CRT monitors by telling a program to run the refresh, or horizontal or vertical alignments out of spec or sync too, for the longest time you could do it with ansi codes. Kinda like how you could destroy the old HDD's that needed a parking utility by telling the heads to slam into the spindle while the drive was still running.
Being investigated and being found guilty of something are two completely different things. The Liberals booted everyone involved in Adscam and prosecuted them. They did not give hush money to senators, or prorogue parliament to avoid answering questions about it, or pass laws retroactively absolving people for it like the harper cons did.
The liberals didn't prosecute anyone that was the RCMP. They even gave diplomatic posts to individuals who were involved in Adscam in order to get them out of the country. The liberals stonewalled as hard as they could until popular opinion in the country was at such a pitch they couldn't stonewall anymore. Sadly, I'm old enough to remember that.
Oh and the liberals sure did give hush money to senators. One of them even spent the last 20 years of his time in the senate, sitting in mexico. And sadly, they also passed laws to retroactively absolve people. You think that the Cons set precedent on this? Pierre Trudeau did the retroactive pardoning first.
They were also investigated by the RCMP for Adscam which went all the way to the PMO's office and his assistants, and the funneling of federal tax dollars into Quebec, where the said people in Quebec then donated those federal tax dollars right back into the Liberal party coffers. Sorry man, they're corrupt as fuck and they're not any different than the Provincial Liberals in Ontario, who are involved in 4 different police investigations ranging from destruction of data to engineering an election result in Northern Ontario.
Funny, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would disagree with you:
You missed S.1 of the Charter of rights and freedoms didn't you?
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
That means your speech, expression, and fundamental rights including unlawful searches, can be limited by the government or the courts. It's the reason why there are publication bans on court cases. That's why in Canada the RIDE program while an unlawful search, is legal. It's why S.13 of the Canadian Human Rights Code existed and was used in force, to stifle speech and allow aggressive abuse of other peoples rights. It's also why the CHRC had a 100% conviction rate. S.13 is now dead, and it made a lot of people who used the system to abuse others was really upset when it was revoked by parliament.
There were at least three points there. To which are you referring?
You were the one who made the statement that Sarkeesian was being accused of fraud at the start of GG. I'm sure you can prove that.
Ah jes, injecting herself into it by daring to critique video games. The harassment started in earnest with her kickstarter campaign. Every other art form is subject to critiquing, often very harsh. Just go and look at film reviews (or buy the book "hatchet job", which is dedicated to, well, hatchet jobs of film reviews), or read some book reviews. Or reviews of the theatre or art exhibitions!
Wait, so you're saying that she didn't inject herself into GG? Or are you now saying that GG harassed her before GG existed? Then again, criticism requires factual information to back it up right, so where are the facts? Go through hers, you'll quickly find out that those said facts don't exist.
The truly ironic thing of course is that the complains were allegedly all about ethics in game journalism with undeclared conflicts of interest and sex-for-reviews and so on. Sarkeesian was independently funded and had no conflicts of interest. That's absolutely what the gaters profess to want. Except of course they didn't like some of the things she said.
Except that's not the case in Sarkeesians bit, rather she injected herself into it by running with the "gamers are hyper masculine and the the cause of all of societies ills." That happened just after the 13+ "gamers are dead" articles were written with 30-65% of exactly the same content in each one of them.
Has a single backer complained? Yes/no?
Yes, quite a few actually. Some of them also want their money back.
We both know the scope expanded massively as a result of the increased funding. And you know it would be unethical to to really in depth critiques of games without playing them all the way though. This sort of thing takes a lot of time.
Well I guess that explains all of those speaking appearances she's been taking on then right? I mean it's not like other YT personalities who can pump out 5-8 factually accurate videos a week that are upwards of 20 minutes long.
Have you ever made a video out of interest (more than just a single shot of one thing)? As in one that has enough complexity to be planned and storyboarded etc? If not, I recommend it. They are astonishing amounts of work if you want them to not suck.
As it is, there's been a steady stream of high quality episodes. Nothing at all to complain again.
Actually yes. But then again, those were based on discussions of criminal law. Which contained information on existing cases, and how they've shaped current judicial opinions.
Now you're just taking the piss. I asked for you to post the alleged review. You posted two completely unrelated interviews and a 3 word comment. Passing that off as a "review" is at best a gross exaggeration.
No I'm stating a fact, the problem is you think GG made the statement about the CoI based on a review. It never did--anti-GG did. So did the media writing about it, it was about undisclosed CoI, with the author writing about a subject they were engaged in a relationship. I realize that's something difficult for you to grasp, but I just explained it again for you.
Not of depression quest it wasn't. The whole thing was over the sex-for-review. There was no review.
And now you finally get it, it was about positive coverage which I said the first time around. Unless of course you're saying that having a person you're shacking up with, and writing about isn't a conflict of interest.
Why are gaters so damned obsessed with her sex life? She was banging 5 guys? Um... yay? People are having fun! wheeeeee! I have no problem with that. And don't even think
I dunno, it's hard to beat the 'anti sjws' for being cryhards. If you're being stifled by women or people whining on the Internet the chances are you just suck at life.
Really? Cause the sjw's are the ones whining about diversity and how meritocracy is "sexist and racist." I don't know about you, but if I'm hiring someone to fill a position, I want the best candidate I can get. I don't want someone in that position because of what their skin colour is, or because of their genitals. But I'm sure you're all for it, that's why your doctor is a Inuit who used to be the janitor on the first floor right?
Article fails to mention that Germany is also importing massive amounts of power from France, and that the price of electricity in germany is between 0.20 and 0.45c/kWh now from all those renewable sources.
We never build safer replacements - don't delude yourself, we build them because we need more. Replacement suggests that the old one is decommissioned at some point but those reactors aren't cheap to build and have multi-decade payback horizons.
Here in Canada we decommission and replace reactors about every 30 years, unless there is a particular reason. Such as the medical breeder reactors that supply a large portion of the worlds medical isotopes. Those are safer replacements for aging technology, if that's not happening in your country then there's something else going on.