At least 6 sites have updated their disclosure policies since GamerGate started, and we got the FCC involved with non- and under-disclosed affiliate links at sites like ArsTechnica. Even the owner of Gamernax (extremely anti-GG site) started including disclosures in his articles. As for the latest one, there are now 2 disclosures on the Playboy article about women in the games industry now. Ignorance of an issue does not mean that it is not happening.
That about sums it up. Majority of the people were of the "this bitch is crazy, we should stay away" mentality on KiA. Some people took the bait, and then she used it for publicity. Smart move on her part. Nobody would have ever known or cared about her or her flash game she made on the unreal engine before GamerGate happened.
Even on Facebook, I use non-English characters for my name so its impossible to search for me unless I want to be found. Growing up online, I never used my real information or even discussed my gender, age, etc. I believed that it did more to bring us together than to divide us. If you have to talk about your Gender or your skin color online, then you are only letting yourself be defined by those attributes, or you are so shallow that that is all you have to identify by.
Is the recent online harassment a sign that they are failing, or proof that they are winning and dealing with it effectively?
I would have to say that when the modern feminist has to resort to online harassment (which they often do by dog piling on people, blacklisting them by unfounded claims of misogyny, and contacting employers of people to get them fired), that it is proof that they are losing the fight. The death throws of radical third wave feminism.
Why do people keep bringing up the rapist? Nobody has given a shit about her since September. The funny thing is that if the genders were flipped in the situation, everyone would be saying how she was empowering herself and coming out against her harasser. The Professional Victim part comes from the fact that these people that do literally nothing all day besides run anti-harassment support twitters (ironically everyone working on these are some of the worst harassers on the internet - how low do you have to go to antagonize a fucking message board filled with depressed middle aged virgins?) and get all their money through whoring out their Patreon accounts.
No, most assholes would own up to it. I'm an asshole, but I don't go out of my way to harass people. I do go out of my way to call people on their bullshit, and apparently that counts as "Harassment" now.
Great post leader. Unfortunately, anytime you post information that goes against what the Ghazians here think, you will not get a reply. They prefer to preach at Slashdot that engage in conversation.
Haha, linking to Ghazi. I love the fact she got removed as a mod from there and had a ton of her posts deleted for not towing the line. Im getting too fat from eating all this popcorn when SJWs start the infighting.
She is Trans. Go look up any available public records for John Flynt. He stopped existing when Brianna Wu came around, and they share the same addresses. Also, Mr. Flynt was born a rich white male. I take his perspective on anything besides being a trans woman with a grain of salt. Even then....
I don't know if you've seen some of her posts on a trans support group forum, but she was pretty mean to other people going through some rough times. Some of the posts even made it seem that she hated other trans women. I would like to preface this next comment by saying I've stuck around through a good friends MTF transition, and I've been apart of the GSA and other LGBT support groups back in my HS and early college days - Honestly I think Wu got the transition done for attention. She has aspects from various Cluster-B personality disorders. In the group that she hangs out with, everyone competes to be the most special little snowflake ever, and she (well her parents) had the money to pay for everything, so she went ahead with it.
How is the criminal investigation into harassment going?
Last I heard, that Mass. prosecutors office isn't too happy with Wu lying about filing court documents about the people harassing her. I always find it funny that people lie about things that are public records.
Do you find law enforcement generally believes you, or do they accept the other side's claims that you ran an elaborate false flag operation against yourself? What kind of evidence is most effective, most likely to be understood and accepted? Can you recommend the best way to report criminal harassment?
Oh, this stuff. The best way to report harassment? Actually go down to a court house and file paperwork. The only problem is that you can't file harassment reports when you are harassing yourself or when people disagree with you on the internet.
a single story soliciting questions (you know, what they used to call a "dialog") is hardly the worst thing that Slashdot has ever done
Yes, it wouldn't be a problem. I think the main issue here is this is a nobody who made a crappy cellphone game (that took 3 years and $400k to make, yet the models and lighting look like they're from some projects using 3DS Max I did in High School) who plays the professional victim to no end. She recently was de-modded by Ghazi for not towing the line, and she is probably afraid her VictimBux(tm) are going to be expiring soon, so she has to whore her Patreon out anywhere she can.
Honestly, if this post never had the Patreon link, I probably wouldn't have cared. Now it just seems like another cry for money disguised as a way to ask Wu questions. Any time she has asked to have a dialogue with people, she ignores any serious questions, and only answers the ones that are along the lines of "How do you stay such a strong womyn in the face of adversity", to which the answer is almost always "Because people help me out and contribute to my Patreon, it lets me turn VictimBux(tm) into crappy games that will sink my company so bad, I have to seek VC funding to make R62"
Man, you must suck with google. I'm on a work machine and I opened up a new incognito tab and did a search for "Did Brianna Wu ever leave her house". 3 of the 4 top links have the picture analysis of her doing interviews from her home with known photos of the inside of her house. Either that, or you've slanted your personal searches so bad with google that none of the sites that would carry such information would be available. With some of the other posts I've seen you do around these parts, I wouldn't be surprised if it were the latter.
I got to this point into the course outline before I had to stop before I required assistance from mainstream medicine for toxic levels of stupidity.
We will delve into a quantum physics’ understanding of disease and alternative medicine to provide a scientific hypothesis of how these modalities may work. Quantum physics is a branch of physics that understands the interrelationship between matter and energy. This science offers clear explanations as to why homeopathic remedies with seemingly no chemical trace of the original substance are able to resolve chronic diseases, why acupuncture can offer patients enough pain relief to undergo surgery without anesthesia, why meditation alone can, in some instances, reduce the size of cancerous tumors.
Good job siting a Wikipedia entry that has been hijacked and co-opted by one side of the discussion. People are banned for even trying to make the article slightly less bias. Any place that defends us is automatically tagged as not a reliable source. Basically GamerGate is about Ethics, and part of the problem is that the SJW cliques have invaded games media. So the war on SJWs that people see is actually directly tied to ethics. Due to the large amount of people that lean to SJ side of things, they never intended to make it fair for any other discussion to happen. Tons of sites have implemented Disclosure and Ethics policies after GG started. We got the FCC to look into Ars Technica's failure to disclose affiliate links. We are the watch dogs of the industry. You refuse to see that. Why? It's easier to paint us as one type of people and ignore the bigger issues at hand. Its easier for you guys to have a boogie man that you can make the reasons for all your pain and strife. When you throw everything back on us, it makes it easier to hide the side you agree with's transgressions and harassment.
Do you even bother to go to where people that discus topics related to gamergate hang out? Mostly us talking about how shit games media is and laughing at McIntosh's last tweet. As for what is posted publicly on twitter, its been shown that less than 1% of all things posted under GamerGate are considered harassment. To assume anything better than shitposting happens on chans is the greatest folly. While some of the work is done on the chans, most of the organizations happened on Reddit prior to the "No Emailing Campaigns" rune.
tl;dr - Wiki article is shit. The only reason why you agree with it as a source is confirmation bias. It cant be wrong if its what you think is really going on.
I completely agree. The point was that the mentality of "Lets make the punishment so bad, he will never want to do it again" without actually looking at the underlying problems will not fix the problems. On the flip side, only talking about problems and why they are bad will only show the kid that there are no repercussions for their actions. Its a fine art of balancing both of those. While I am not a parent myself, I live with a roommate that has a son. I'm the unofficial uncle, and since he has full time custody (mother is a drug addict, cant see her son), I'm often the one watching him when his dad is at work. I've had to deal with giving out punishments, and when I take the middle ground on these issues, things usually work out for the best for everyone.
You do know that It's not just guys like you, playing LoL or CoD.
Hah, LoL and CoD players are the most casuals of casuals.
No one is trying to change gaming culture, they're just trying to make the definition more broad, because gamers are a diverse group.
Have you even stopped to see how many people in games media calling for more PoCs in games where they wont work? How games need to gender bend known characters so that people would have more female options? How many more sites are now saying that excessive violence is bad?
There are calls for changes to be made to the industry. Does it mean we want less diverse games? No. But we would like everyone to stop saying that everything is problematic, racist, sexist, etc.
And one final thing - The spectacular failure that was Sunset shows that the games that people calling for hyper diversity are NOT the ones buying games. Go figure.
And tens of millions of games don't agree with the anti-gamergate idiots who support slut shaming, swatting, doxing and so on.
FTFY. Keep up with the times. If you would even bother engaging with someone from GamerGate, you'd realize that most of them are just normal people that want to enjoy their hobby and not have it tainted by Neo-Puritan ideals being pushed by SJWs. The same SJWs that give zero fucks about ethics, such as Leigh "Fuck ethics, get money" Alexander.
You have to punish them enough that they don't do it again because of the potential punishment.
You obviously aren't a parent. If the only thing they worry about is the potential punishment, they get better at hiding their actions. You need to correct behaviors and find out the underlying reasons WHY they are doing the things. The only thing punishment for punishment's sake teaches is that they need to be more careful about getting caught.
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At least 6 sites have updated their disclosure policies since GamerGate started, and we got the FCC involved with non- and under-disclosed affiliate links at sites like ArsTechnica. Even the owner of Gamernax (extremely anti-GG site) started including disclosures in his articles. As for the latest one, there are now 2 disclosures on the Playboy article about women in the games industry now. Ignorance of an issue does not mean that it is not happening.
That about sums it up. Majority of the people were of the "this bitch is crazy, we should stay away" mentality on KiA. Some people took the bait, and then she used it for publicity. Smart move on her part. Nobody would have ever known or cared about her or her flash game she made on the unreal engine before GamerGate happened.
Even on Facebook, I use non-English characters for my name so its impossible to search for me unless I want to be found. Growing up online, I never used my real information or even discussed my gender, age, etc. I believed that it did more to bring us together than to divide us. If you have to talk about your Gender or your skin color online, then you are only letting yourself be defined by those attributes, or you are so shallow that that is all you have to identify by.
Is the recent online harassment a sign that they are failing, or proof that they are winning and dealing with it effectively?
I would have to say that when the modern feminist has to resort to online harassment (which they often do by dog piling on people, blacklisting them by unfounded claims of misogyny, and contacting employers of people to get them fired), that it is proof that they are losing the fight. The death throws of radical third wave feminism.
Why do people keep bringing up the rapist? Nobody has given a shit about her since September. The funny thing is that if the genders were flipped in the situation, everyone would be saying how she was empowering herself and coming out against her harasser. The Professional Victim part comes from the fact that these people that do literally nothing all day besides run anti-harassment support twitters (ironically everyone working on these are some of the worst harassers on the internet - how low do you have to go to antagonize a fucking message board filled with depressed middle aged virgins?) and get all their money through whoring out their Patreon accounts.
No, most assholes would own up to it. I'm an asshole, but I don't go out of my way to harass people. I do go out of my way to call people on their bullshit, and apparently that counts as "Harassment" now.
Great post leader. Unfortunately, anytime you post information that goes against what the Ghazians here think, you will not get a reply. They prefer to preach at Slashdot that engage in conversation.
Haha, linking to Ghazi. I love the fact she got removed as a mod from there and had a ton of her posts deleted for not towing the line. Im getting too fat from eating all this popcorn when SJWs start the infighting.
She is Trans. Go look up any available public records for John Flynt. He stopped existing when Brianna Wu came around, and they share the same addresses. Also, Mr. Flynt was born a rich white male. I take his perspective on anything besides being a trans woman with a grain of salt. Even then....
What, No Wendy Carlos? Switched On Bach was a groundbreaking album for the time. I guess its not as nerdy as an ARM chip designer though.
I don't know if you've seen some of her posts on a trans support group forum, but she was pretty mean to other people going through some rough times. Some of the posts even made it seem that she hated other trans women. I would like to preface this next comment by saying I've stuck around through a good friends MTF transition, and I've been apart of the GSA and other LGBT support groups back in my HS and early college days - Honestly I think Wu got the transition done for attention. She has aspects from various Cluster-B personality disorders. In the group that she hangs out with, everyone competes to be the most special little snowflake ever, and she (well her parents) had the money to pay for everything, so she went ahead with it.
You.... I like you.
How is the criminal investigation into harassment going?
Last I heard, that Mass. prosecutors office isn't too happy with Wu lying about filing court documents about the people harassing her. I always find it funny that people lie about things that are public records.
Do you find law enforcement generally believes you, or do they accept the other side's claims that you ran an elaborate false flag operation against yourself? What kind of evidence is most effective, most likely to be understood and accepted? Can you recommend the best way to report criminal harassment?
Oh, this stuff. The best way to report harassment? Actually go down to a court house and file paperwork. The only problem is that you can't file harassment reports when you are harassing yourself or when people disagree with you on the internet.
a single story soliciting questions (you know, what they used to call a "dialog") is hardly the worst thing that Slashdot has ever done
Yes, it wouldn't be a problem. I think the main issue here is this is a nobody who made a crappy cellphone game (that took 3 years and $400k to make, yet the models and lighting look like they're from some projects using 3DS Max I did in High School) who plays the professional victim to no end. She recently was de-modded by Ghazi for not towing the line, and she is probably afraid her VictimBux(tm) are going to be expiring soon, so she has to whore her Patreon out anywhere she can.
Honestly, if this post never had the Patreon link, I probably wouldn't have cared. Now it just seems like another cry for money disguised as a way to ask Wu questions. Any time she has asked to have a dialogue with people, she ignores any serious questions, and only answers the ones that are along the lines of "How do you stay such a strong womyn in the face of adversity", to which the answer is almost always "Because people help me out and contribute to my Patreon, it lets me turn VictimBux(tm) into crappy games that will sink my company so bad, I have to seek VC funding to make R62"
Man, you must suck with google. I'm on a work machine and I opened up a new incognito tab and did a search for "Did Brianna Wu ever leave her house". 3 of the 4 top links have the picture analysis of her doing interviews from her home with known photos of the inside of her house. Either that, or you've slanted your personal searches so bad with google that none of the sites that would carry such information would be available. With some of the other posts I've seen you do around these parts, I wouldn't be surprised if it were the latter.
We will delve into a quantum physics’ understanding of disease and alternative medicine to provide a scientific hypothesis of how these modalities may work. Quantum physics is a branch of physics that understands the interrelationship between matter and energy. This science offers clear explanations as to why homeopathic remedies with seemingly no chemical trace of the original substance are able to resolve chronic diseases, why acupuncture can offer patients enough pain relief to undergo surgery without anesthesia, why meditation alone can, in some instances, reduce the size of cancerous tumors.
My fucking brain will never be the same.
Without knowing more about him, age does not equate to a set emotional and mental maturity level.
Good job siting a Wikipedia entry that has been hijacked and co-opted by one side of the discussion. People are banned for even trying to make the article slightly less bias. Any place that defends us is automatically tagged as not a reliable source. Basically GamerGate is about Ethics, and part of the problem is that the SJW cliques have invaded games media. So the war on SJWs that people see is actually directly tied to ethics. Due to the large amount of people that lean to SJ side of things, they never intended to make it fair for any other discussion to happen. Tons of sites have implemented Disclosure and Ethics policies after GG started. We got the FCC to look into Ars Technica's failure to disclose affiliate links. We are the watch dogs of the industry. You refuse to see that. Why? It's easier to paint us as one type of people and ignore the bigger issues at hand. Its easier for you guys to have a boogie man that you can make the reasons for all your pain and strife. When you throw everything back on us, it makes it easier to hide the side you agree with's transgressions and harassment.
Do you even bother to go to where people that discus topics related to gamergate hang out? Mostly us talking about how shit games media is and laughing at McIntosh's last tweet. As for what is posted publicly on twitter, its been shown that less than 1% of all things posted under GamerGate are considered harassment. To assume anything better than shitposting happens on chans is the greatest folly. While some of the work is done on the chans, most of the organizations happened on Reddit prior to the "No Emailing Campaigns" rune.
tl;dr - Wiki article is shit. The only reason why you agree with it as a source is confirmation bias. It cant be wrong if its what you think is really going on.
Well, with how everyone deals with their problems now, they will probably blame someone else anyways.
I completely agree. The point was that the mentality of "Lets make the punishment so bad, he will never want to do it again" without actually looking at the underlying problems will not fix the problems. On the flip side, only talking about problems and why they are bad will only show the kid that there are no repercussions for their actions. Its a fine art of balancing both of those. While I am not a parent myself, I live with a roommate that has a son. I'm the unofficial uncle, and since he has full time custody (mother is a drug addict, cant see her son), I'm often the one watching him when his dad is at work. I've had to deal with giving out punishments, and when I take the middle ground on these issues, things usually work out for the best for everyone.
Randi Harper and Zoe Quinn /thread
You do know that It's not just guys like you, playing LoL or CoD.
Hah, LoL and CoD players are the most casuals of casuals.
No one is trying to change gaming culture, they're just trying to make the definition more broad, because gamers are a diverse group.
Have you even stopped to see how many people in games media calling for more PoCs in games where they wont work? How games need to gender bend known characters so that people would have more female options? How many more sites are now saying that excessive violence is bad?
There are calls for changes to be made to the industry. Does it mean we want less diverse games? No. But we would like everyone to stop saying that everything is problematic, racist, sexist, etc.
And one final thing - The spectacular failure that was Sunset shows that the games that people calling for hyper diversity are NOT the ones buying games. Go figure.
I love how people keep saying #GG is irrelevant, yet the games media and blogs cant stop talking about us
And tens of millions of games don't agree with the anti-gamergate idiots who support slut shaming, swatting, doxing and so on.
FTFY. Keep up with the times. If you would even bother engaging with someone from GamerGate, you'd realize that most of them are just normal people that want to enjoy their hobby and not have it tainted by Neo-Puritan ideals being pushed by SJWs. The same SJWs that give zero fucks about ethics, such as Leigh "Fuck ethics, get money" Alexander.
You have to punish them enough that they don't do it again because of the potential punishment.
You obviously aren't a parent. If the only thing they worry about is the potential punishment, they get better at hiding their actions. You need to correct behaviors and find out the underlying reasons WHY they are doing the things. The only thing punishment for punishment's sake teaches is that they need to be more careful about getting caught.