Shit man, next year we're gonna be a decade old. Its also wild that you can trace the line of dominoes from us to the exposure of all the current day insanity, one event and regime-double-down at a time.
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Posted this on Reddit, thought I'd copy it here:
We just wanted to play video games.
I had to remove the announcement where the GG wikipedia article claims that GamerGate was a harassment campaign that caused the Capitol Hill riot. Just to remind you how fucking stupid this all is.
They can lie all they want, but fundamentally it was a consumer revolt against a media that was so corrupt and degenerate it was routinely not only engaging in bullshit "Access Journalism", had abandoned objectivity years ago, was (even at that time) unhealthy in it's obsession with Leftist "Social Justice" zealotry, engaged in blacklisting of dissidents and whistle-blowers, actively harassed people who were calling them out, and censoring any opposition to their unconscionable behavior ... all because Gaming Journalists had seen the writing on the wall years earlier as print media publications were falling apart, and YouTube video walkthroughs and essays were replacing the shocking incompetence, malfeasance, and shilling that Gaming Journalist reviews had been for years.
Yes, a pathological liar (who's real name isn't even Zoey Quinn) abused her boyfriend and traded sex for fluff pieces, but the incestuous and degenerate influence peddling that Silicon Valley journalists had rationalized to each other for years was far worse than the mediocre "Depression Quest" would indicate. Before they decided to turn against the behaviors of Harvey Weinstein, they were engaged in it, as you would expect from Male Feminists. And in response to being called out, they went to war against their own audience in a desperate attempt to polarize enough of their audience to hold onto the collapse profit margins that they had already had.
Since then, we have seen what failing media sites did in GamerGate, has been replicated a hundred fold by the corporate media, in every industry, in every field, in almost every western country. The most tragic thing about GamerGate is what was once considered unethical, taboo, reprehensible, and sometimes even criminal; has now been normalized among the managerial class. How else can you explain living through the moral panics, race riots, tyrannical edicts, and fear mongering you have lived through these past 9 years?
Our enemies see GamerGate everywhere, because they have made it everywhere. They took a losing tactic, and replicated it wherever they could, for no discernable reason. We have done nothing but demand a simple ethical standard which the media claimed to uphold in the first place. We were not engaged in an Alinsky-style tactic of radicalism, or a Gramscian war of position. We just believed them. We believed that journalists believed in their own standards, and that was our worst mistake. And for that mistake, we were directly attacked for not acquiescing to corruption, criminality, and condemnable behavior. We compounded that mistake by making an appeal to standards we never knew were never enforced. We were accused by the media, of things the media already did normally, and were angry that someone had told them to stop. Even the term GamerGate is not a reference to gamers, but a reference to a media blitz that gaming journalists had unleashed against their own audience, on this very day, 9 long years ago.
We once believed that journalists spoke truth to power, or at least should. We learned the hard way that only we can speak truth to power, and when you do, power takes it very personally.
None the less, we remember today as the begging of what has become a long war against people who are incapable of integrity, are remorseless to their victims, and sadistic to their perceived enemies. A war we didn't know was already being waged against us, and a war we never wanted. We just wanted to play video games.
But since we are in it, like "save my disaster campaign", or a dark souls boss, or that one time-trail you just can't quite master; we're in it to win it. I think it might be worth it to remember a biblical passage when fighting demons. I like Psalm 37:
Anyways, what games are you playing today? Any invites you'd like to send out?
If ''Beware : Borderline Personality Disorder'' had an illustration, it would be a Chelsea Van Valkenburg holding hands with Amber Heard.
Valkenburg also later pushed Alec Holowka to suicide by falsely accusing him of comically-atrocious sex crimes... Such as shoving his hand in her vagina to puppet her around the appartment.
An appartment he was allegedly forcing her to stay in. The usual journos Listened and Believed, Alec was kicked out of his own company, killed himself, his Feminist sister threw his corpse under the bus.
The problem was, Quinn, being terminally online and still a socialite of ''the scene'', was very-much active on Twitter during all the time of the alleged extreme abuse, leaving evidence that contradicted her new fiction piece all over the place.
Alot of Listeners and Believers then quietly dropped her because they didn't want to be the next Alec.
Pretty much.
Okay, but, that is really funny.
The sister really bothers me. I can only hope she and her brother didn’t get along. In fact hated each other, and there was no reason he should have expected her support. Otherwise she betrayed him for internet likes, and certainly prompted his suicide. There’d be no place in hell bad enough for her.
That's a fucking extreme generalization.
You could make the same argument toward men if you cherry pick too.
Mr. "Sure my daughter was murdered but at least we have tacos and food trucks" comes to mind.
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I actually think this was intended to be a joke, but it clearly didn't come across this way. In fact, it may be an old boomer anachronism.
Why exactly? Admins?
Well, it's ridiculous that Wikipedia is claiming this (if it is), but it's not ridiculous to point out that Wikipedia is doing that. So I wonder what the problem there was.
Because Reddit only supports 2 announcements at a time.
I just wanted to move stair muffins.
This is the part that blows my mind. Gamergate won. All of our agreed-on targets are now flaming dumpster fires, with many of them, like Gawker, VICE, and Buzzfeed News, having declared literal bankruptcy. Games journalism is widely acknowledged as totally dead, with YouTubers taking over as credible reviewers -- and mainstream journalism isn't far behind.
Yet they just keep doing it. For over nine years now, they've been running the same losing play. Why? In my view, I think part of it is that they bought their own bullshit. That is, they were so convinced that everybody rejected Gamergate because all they saw were articles rejecting Gamergate. Wikipedia even calls it a harassment campaign, so checkmate
atheists.The other part is that I don't think they have anything else. They have to keep ramming some tactic, any tactic, down everyone's throats or they will just lose. But they don't have any thought leaders left. Thinking gets you purged. So they're stuck with the same old safe orthodoxy, and have no other option but to double down over and over again -- no matter how much they lose.
Yes, our targets are flaming dumpster fires, but not necessarily from us.
And to be clear, our goal wasn't to destroy gaming journalism. It was to fix it. They chose death, rather than reform. All of them.
That's what worries me about the Leftist hysteria behind GamerGate expanding everywhere.
I would quibble with this slightly. They didn't think they were choosing death. They chose to blow us off and call us powerless incels who everyone should ignore because they were the future. They had no idea that it would lead to the end of their entire industry. Kind of like Bud Light or Target (while their industries aren't totally destroyed, they had the same attitude towards their customers as Gawker did). Now, not only is it mainstream to believe that all journalists are untrustworthy liars, it's mainstream to believe that a cabal of wealthy elites is forcing this stuff -- and we were all rewarded with a normal, non-gay June this year. Blackrock and Vanguard have both announced they are stepping away from ESG (they're almost certainly going to rebrand it, but that's another story). No, we didn't set out to destroy gaming journalism, but when your opponent refuses to surrender, the only option is to finish the fight. We did.
Hillary defeated, Gawker defeated, mask mandates and mandatory vax defeated (with the help of a massive Canadian trucker protest), Bud Light defeated, the teacher banning Gadsden flags defeated.
As I've said before, exposing another health bar does not mean you're losing.
I get all that. What I'm saying is that they could have chosen reform, but reform would have led to them making a voluntary loss of power. Instead they chose to grip tighter onto power as their industry burned around them, and continues to.
What country do you live in? I was rewarded with gay-juneteenth.