I don't know. On one hand, being a guy - and knowing firsthand how powerful that drive to seek out a girl is - I'm incredibly sympathetic. I've been married for a while now, but I still remember what it was like, so - I get it. On the other hand, we guys are also blessed with greater faculties of reasoning, and (especially) logic, and - at some point - it's totally on you if you're not making use of it.
This d00d had obviously fallen in love with his idea of what this particular woman was, and not what/who she actually was. She had (painfully) demonstrated the difference(s) to him many - many - times. It's just so crazy that he had seen how big of a piece of shit she actually was (not just to him, but to everyone), how big of a liar and a hypocrite she was (again - not just to him, but to everyone), many, many times, but he still couldn't convince himself that she wasn't a genuinely bad person for that long? WTF? It's not like she was super attractive or anything, either. She's was a pudgy girl with somewhat big b00bs, and a disgusting amount of tats.. Looks aren't everything, but I mention this because sometimes a guy's stupidity can make "sense" when you take into account that the reason they're making so many stupid decisions with regards to a particular girl is because he's allowing himself to be manipulated by her looks. I don't see how that can be the case here. Anyway...
Guys really need to get this concept into their heads: you have this powerful drive to seek out romance with a girl. We all know it exists. We all spend giant amounts of time building up this concept of what a great partner would be like. We base this on everything we've experienced, all sort of media we've consumed, games we've played, etc. Then we run into this potential partner, convince ourselves that she's exactly that ideal, and then proceed to allow our "drive" to render all our logic/reason inert, and it renders us extremely vulnerable to being easily manipulated.
People need to work a lot harder to see the women they're dating as they actually are, and not as this ideal that they're imagining them to be. I know it's hard, but it's on us to do that, and to not allow yourself to be so easily manipulated - all over the ideal that we're imagining we're dealing with.
Edit: One more time, because it is still so incredible to me. How in the FUCK was this woman, wit these looks able to manipulate so many guys into bending to her will, by fucking them? Seriously???
Was that how she looked in 2014? Either way, she literally did it again, with Alec Holowka (probably butchered the name) committing suicide because of her false accusation
But before he emptied the contents of Quinn’s private life into the gaping maw of a bloodthirsty Internet, back before he instigated the most vicious online backlash against feminism in a generation, there was a first date.
It's easy to forget how insane the reaction was from so-called journalists. The whole article is full of over the top descriptions like that.
Sure some "Game developer" was working whatever mojo they had at their disposal to get recognition and finally be made relevant for existing - that happens all the time. The "Journalists" hold themselves to higher standards which are shown to exist through their actions and words.
Gamergate was never about LW, it was always only about the sheer hackery of industry shills lining their pockets and appetites to whoever was available to their appetites at any given moment and they were as defunct as any Atari 2600 game made from the mid-80's onwards.
That house of cards sure kept toppling all the way to the White House and across the globe as it has been shown that the entire Fourth Estate is full of shysters who have no clue as to what they are doing and that goes to even the most basic premise of self-protection.
Fake news as always been fake news but a slight retraction with a promise to be better in professional conduct in the future would have sated most people's complaints but - No - there's a ting brained ego in the way and this Internet thing can be contained. Just call them all the bad names and this will all pass.
Great job you frauds, you took both yellow journalism and Gonzo journalism and managed to make it into a methed up Muppet-urine trickle in a backslash of an imploding sewer across the entirety of the 'Social constructs' known as "Truth", "Accuracy", "Objectivity" and "Accountability" so you can get the slightly better ramen noodles and the odd holiday to South East Asia to pretend that you were ever important.
I don't know. On one hand, being a guy - and knowing firsthand how powerful that drive to seek out a girl is - I'm incredibly sympathetic. I've been married for a while now, but I still remember what it was like, so - I get it. On the other hand, we guys are also blessed with greater faculties of reasoning, and (especially) logic, and - at some point - it's totally on you if you're not making use of it.
This d00d had obviously fallen in love with his idea of what this particular woman was, and not what/who she actually was. She had (painfully) demonstrated the difference(s) to him many - many - times. It's just so crazy that he had seen how big of a piece of shit she actually was (not just to him, but to everyone), how big of a liar and a hypocrite she was (again - not just to him, but to everyone), many, many times, but he still couldn't convince himself that she wasn't a genuinely bad person for that long? WTF? It's not like she was super attractive or anything, either. She's was a pudgy girl with somewhat big b00bs, and a disgusting amount of tats.. Looks aren't everything, but I mention this because sometimes a guy's stupidity can make "sense" when you take into account that the reason they're making so many stupid decisions with regards to a particular girl is because he's allowing himself to be manipulated by her looks. I don't see how that can be the case here. Anyway...
Guys really need to get this concept into their heads: you have this powerful drive to seek out romance with a girl. We all know it exists. We all spend giant amounts of time building up this concept of what a great partner would be like. We base this on everything we've experienced, all sort of media we've consumed, games we've played, etc. Then we run into this potential partner, convince ourselves that she's exactly that ideal, and then proceed to allow our "drive" to render all our logic/reason inert, and it renders us extremely vulnerable to being easily manipulated.
People need to work a lot harder to see the women they're dating as they actually are, and not as this ideal that they're imagining them to be. I know it's hard, but it's on us to do that, and to not allow yourself to be so easily manipulated - all over the ideal that we're imagining we're dealing with.
Edit: One more time, because it is still so incredible to me. How in the FUCK was this woman, wit these looks able to manipulate so many guys into bending to her will, by fucking them? Seriously???
Was that how she looked in 2014? Either way, she literally did it again, with Alec Holowka (probably butchered the name) committing suicide because of her false accusation
The pic of her in red is from here, on The Observer, December 2014
The pic at the Bottom is from a Boston Magazine article dated April 2015.
It's easy to forget how insane the reaction was from so-called journalists. The whole article is full of over the top descriptions like that.
I think that was what goaded me.
Sure some "Game developer" was working whatever mojo they had at their disposal to get recognition and finally be made relevant for existing - that happens all the time. The "Journalists" hold themselves to higher standards which are shown to exist through their actions and words.
Gamergate was never about LW, it was always only about the sheer hackery of industry shills lining their pockets and appetites to whoever was available to their appetites at any given moment and they were as defunct as any Atari 2600 game made from the mid-80's onwards.
That house of cards sure kept toppling all the way to the White House and across the globe as it has been shown that the entire Fourth Estate is full of shysters who have no clue as to what they are doing and that goes to even the most basic premise of self-protection.
Fake news as always been fake news but a slight retraction with a promise to be better in professional conduct in the future would have sated most people's complaints but - No - there's a ting brained ego in the way and this Internet thing can be contained. Just call them all the bad names and this will all pass.
Great job you frauds, you took both yellow journalism and Gonzo journalism and managed to make it into a methed up Muppet-urine trickle in a backslash of an imploding sewer across the entirety of the 'Social constructs' known as "Truth", "Accuracy", "Objectivity" and "Accountability" so you can get the slightly better ramen noodles and the odd holiday to South East Asia to pretend that you were ever important.
My grandma said it best. There's a difference in believing, and wanting to believe. Some people take kindness for weakness.