Let's look at the chart.
1. Do I disagree with the poster? If yes, continue
2. Accuse them of being a "misogynist"
3. Expect to win argument
"misogynist" is just a way to call a man a bitch. It's not in any way a better word.
The whole gamergate thing was predicated on an effort to stop the production of 'male oriented' games.
Nope. It was started by a man (a misogynist man, at that). A man started making a huge stink because he was dumped by his girlfriend, and accused her of sleeping with everyone to get good reviews for her woman-aimed games. The MRA misogynists all hopped on the band wagon, siding with the lying ex, and woman came to rally for the game designer who was slandered.
Are you sure we are talking about the same gamergate?
That's funny, the Gamergate I remember is where a bunch of manipulative dominating feminists tried to tell gamers that game developers weren't supposed to be allowed to do anything in their games that feminists didn't approved of. They created a bunch of absurdly wrong videos, and started a whole group based on lying and manipulating.
Gamergate in response was a guy accusing his ex-girlfriend who had clearly cheated on him and lied to him of sleeping with game reviewers for good reviews. Which got a lot of support from people tired of the feminist controlling dominating b.s., some of whom also went on to create their own lying manipulating b.s. in response against feminists.
That's the Gamergate I remember, at best it was one lying manipulating group of feminists against a lying manipulating group of men - but those men only showed up in response to attacks by feminists, they didn't start it off.
Still - women don't seem to feel the need to go trash-talk shows that are designed to appeal to men. (See the figure entitled: "Men are more likely to give the crappiest rating").
Please, you can't go a month without some new article trash talking that woman weren't "depicted" in a way that please the person complaining, or that there weren't enough women, or that it's a "bad" show because it doesn't appeal to women's interests.
I seriously can't believe it's taken years to figure out either, though I'd be very happy to see the change happen and get rid of the backspace key going back.
It doesn't remove a shortcut - you just have to use a different shortcut to go back, one that you wouldn't press by accident.
Oh man, do you guys ever get tired of repeating the same b.s. over and over again?
You spend your time man-hating and manipulating, then get upset when someone calls you on it. I imagine GamerGate has both well meaning supporters and haters, but at absolute worst you are the pot complaining that the kettle is as black as you are.
Anti social justice warriors need to get perspective too. The SJWs were not the ones phoning in threats.
Actually, while it's hard to prove sometimes, there have been several times where it's been proven that the SJW is the source of the threats sent to themselves.
If your concept is "I'm being threatened", sending yourself threats is great marketing. You don't have increased danger because you're the source, but you get a lot of publicity and sympathy you can't get almost any other way.
I know of 1 case where a police investigation traced the source back to the girl herself, a few where someone send nasty threats to themselves not realizing they were still logged in on the own admin account, and a number where there was just an obvious correlation where the person said they received threats then immediately got way more publicity and financial donations as a result (put 2 and 2 together). Not all threats are that way, but SJWs have often been the source of threats they sent to themselves.
It's a tale as old as time, management tells you it's your job and you need to do it. When it becomes a problem, management denies everything and insists that you did it yourself on your own time and they had no knowledge of it.
Yeah, I worked for a large bank. I was told my task was to implement tax calculation code in javascript, so it would update on the page immediately. While I balked at the request, it was made pretty clear that either I do it or I would get fired.
I was not given a javascript library that knew how to handle financial values.
Javascript doesn't support integer-only values, so you're doing financial calculations with floating point roundoffs and errors.
I happened to know about them but was not given any instructions that they were a problem.
I wasn't given any instructions on how to make sure they didn't cause issues.
As far as I know no more than basic testing was done on the code.
I did get an email verifying that I had questioned it, but then I found out that all our emails are automatically deleted after 6 months or something like that.
You get fired now, or you implement something dubious - what do you choose?
Yeah, your post is 100% right on. Programming is basically dealing with a sociopath all day long. It doesn't care how you feel, or your social rules, and it's not a person.
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Let's look at the chart. 1. Do I disagree with the poster? If yes, continue 2. Accuse them of being a "misogynist" 3. Expect to win argument "misogynist" is just a way to call a man a bitch. It's not in any way a better word.
The whole gamergate thing was predicated on an effort to stop the production of 'male oriented' games.
Nope. It was started by a man (a misogynist man, at that). A man started making a huge stink because he was dumped by his girlfriend, and accused her of sleeping with everyone to get good reviews for her woman-aimed games. The MRA misogynists all hopped on the band wagon, siding with the lying ex, and woman came to rally for the game designer who was slandered. Are you sure we are talking about the same gamergate?
That's funny, the Gamergate I remember is where a bunch of manipulative dominating feminists tried to tell gamers that game developers weren't supposed to be allowed to do anything in their games that feminists didn't approved of. They created a bunch of absurdly wrong videos, and started a whole group based on lying and manipulating. Gamergate in response was a guy accusing his ex-girlfriend who had clearly cheated on him and lied to him of sleeping with game reviewers for good reviews. Which got a lot of support from people tired of the feminist controlling dominating b.s., some of whom also went on to create their own lying manipulating b.s. in response against feminists. That's the Gamergate I remember, at best it was one lying manipulating group of feminists against a lying manipulating group of men - but those men only showed up in response to attacks by feminists, they didn't start it off.
Still - women don't seem to feel the need to go trash-talk shows that are designed to appeal to men. (See the figure entitled: "Men are more likely to give the crappiest rating").
Please, you can't go a month without some new article trash talking that woman weren't "depicted" in a way that please the person complaining, or that there weren't enough women, or that it's a "bad" show because it doesn't appeal to women's interests.
I seriously can't believe it's taken years to figure out either, though I'd be very happy to see the change happen and get rid of the backspace key going back. It doesn't remove a shortcut - you just have to use a different shortcut to go back, one that you wouldn't press by accident.
Oh man, do you guys ever get tired of repeating the same b.s. over and over again? You spend your time man-hating and manipulating, then get upset when someone calls you on it. I imagine GamerGate has both well meaning supporters and haters, but at absolute worst you are the pot complaining that the kettle is as black as you are.
Anti social justice warriors need to get perspective too. The SJWs were not the ones phoning in threats.
Actually, while it's hard to prove sometimes, there have been several times where it's been proven that the SJW is the source of the threats sent to themselves. If your concept is "I'm being threatened", sending yourself threats is great marketing. You don't have increased danger because you're the source, but you get a lot of publicity and sympathy you can't get almost any other way. I know of 1 case where a police investigation traced the source back to the girl herself, a few where someone send nasty threats to themselves not realizing they were still logged in on the own admin account, and a number where there was just an obvious correlation where the person said they received threats then immediately got way more publicity and financial donations as a result (put 2 and 2 together). Not all threats are that way, but SJWs have often been the source of threats they sent to themselves.
It's a tale as old as time, management tells you it's your job and you need to do it. When it becomes a problem, management denies everything and insists that you did it yourself on your own time and they had no knowledge of it.
Yeah, I worked for a large bank. I was told my task was to implement tax calculation code in javascript, so it would update on the page immediately. While I balked at the request, it was made pretty clear that either I do it or I would get fired. I was not given a javascript library that knew how to handle financial values. Javascript doesn't support integer-only values, so you're doing financial calculations with floating point roundoffs and errors. I happened to know about them but was not given any instructions that they were a problem. I wasn't given any instructions on how to make sure they didn't cause issues. As far as I know no more than basic testing was done on the code. I did get an email verifying that I had questioned it, but then I found out that all our emails are automatically deleted after 6 months or something like that. You get fired now, or you implement something dubious - what do you choose?
Yeah, your post is 100% right on. Programming is basically dealing with a sociopath all day long. It doesn't care how you feel, or your social rules, and it's not a person.