Erik Kain's GG Salt - A Gaming Journalist made people salty recently over something related to a dead hashtag

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neural said:
This.

Also, keep in mind that if they come forward and admit they made up shit, their credibility among casual normies will crater, and maybe other shit comes to light that they don't want it to.
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You're implying they have any.

The response from most people is along the line of "what the fuck is a Gamergate?"

This is how it should be.
 
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Some more salt:

Erik Kain hurt people and gave cryptofascist a platform.
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Erik Kain is some cowardly centrist
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Munchingonfish said:
Neogaf really hated this guy and I never really understood why. I thought it was some weird jealousy over him writing for Forbes while they wrote on a forum. I guess this explains things.
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The fact he was apparently neutral towards it (though pro-GG leaning neutral according to @Jaimas) would explain the hateboner they'd have on the guy.
 
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Jaimas said:
Basically, he was one of the first "mainstream" journalists to not immediately fall for the GG=Super Kami Satan canard and for that they hate his guts.
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And because of that, the spergs on the other side are thinking he must be some full-on defender. It's like if some pro-GG spergs think the Kiwis here mocking GG must be full-on antis. All it does is show one how much of a raging idiot they are in thinking someone not on their side must be out to get women/gamers/whatever.

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In relation to this post from Hellfire, the hamster guy has made a tweet related to Ajit Pai:
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Hamster guy also spergs a bit on Nazis (or Trump supporters according to one tweet).
https://twitter.com/BusterBeam/status/941967823479459841
 
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Alan Pardew said:
Even if it's true that Eric Kain is a pro-Gamergater who harasses women and the second coming of Hitler, the people who are salty about it certainly aren't helping and ironically acting like the Gamergaters they hate: Attacking and harassing him.
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Jaimas said:
That's kind of the running theme, though, isn't it?

I'm reminded of something @Smutley said, and I'm pretty much paraphrasing here, but if GG was all about death threats and harassment (and terrorism, according to Dan Olson), then you'd think it would get less shit at it.

But the thing is, it's pretty much exactly like you said, Pardew: From Quinn on downwards, they've been exactly what they complain about since day one. It's why I lost count on the "Anti-GGer turns out to be a sexual predator" number around 23 or so (especially when two more got caught today). It's why anyone with five seconds and a search engine of their choice can find like fucking hundreds of cases of GGers being sent death threats and harassment, but the FBI and multiple investigations weren't able to find more than a handful of allegedly-GG accounts that were doing the same back to Anti-GGers (and the ones that the FBI did catch sending death threats were third-party trolls).

At this point it's clear that GG's alleged "harassment" it performed was a case of what I now refer to as Ghostbusters Fallacy - an infintessimally small minority being artificially inflated to ridiculous levels to fulfill a narrative. We already know from WAM's investigation that this was the case, as using GGAutoblocker as a control, Women Action Media found that less than 0.66% of all accounts using the hashtag actually constituted "harassing."

What weirds me out is that by now, they have to know that their entire side is based on fabricated bullshit. There's no denying it at this point. They've been caught in the act so many times conducting harassment that they can't not know it. Yet even to this day, long after continuing the charade ceased being profitable, they're still pushing this crap, and I can't, for the life of me, figure out why.
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GethN7 said:
Sunk cost fallacy taken to idiotic extremes.

These assholes blew so much credibility and time on this fallacious horseshit they don't dare recant now, otherwise they have to face it was all for nothing and the true monsters are in their own mirrors.
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c-no said:
In their case, they'd say their harassment is justified because Kain said shit they didn't like. The only shit they can gain are asspats and making their echo chambers reverberate with their own perspective.
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If I ever get enough throwaway cash I will start a company that produces projectors called SJWS and the tagline will be "The most consistent projectors in the world."
 
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Racist Trash said:
If I ever get enough throwaway cash I will start a company that produces projectors called SJWS and the tagline will be "The most consistent projectors in the world."
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Considering how many people can still sperg over this, you may as well get rich over it. And since the salt still goes on, you might.

In somewhat related/semi-related news: that "turn off adblock" Matt guy managed to do some video on the salt.

Doing a quick search on the salt, there's also this between Notch and some people.
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At this point if political sperging goes on, Erik Kain's shitstorm may as well transcend him if these people literally can't let the autism go.

Some guy whose autism raged on tries to get on some high ground, even by mentioning shit he studied.
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This guy can say how he studied shit all he wants but its ironic GG isn't really done for him if it was enough for him to get salty at Erik Kain in a few tweets.

Some how, Erik Kain isn't owning up to some GG mistake because he allegedly enabled it. As a bonus, Kain apparently tried rehab because of it.
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"Shame on Erik Kain".
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A leftist is obviously alt-right because video game screeching movement.
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Honestly, if this whole white wash was nothing more than rt'ing that one news article that had a Bannon quote, I wouldn't be surprised. These people are taking a stupid autistic hashtag/movement/whatever GG was too seriously.

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Why are they trying to restart gamergate?
It seems they need a nebulous enemy now that the alt-right spergs have been banned.
Oh, well. I guess Emmanuel Goldstein isn’t available right now.
 
Doug_Hitzel said:
Why are they trying to restart gamergate?
It seems they need a nebulous enemy now that the alt-right spergs have been banned.
Oh, well. I guess Emmanuel Goldstein isn’t available right now.
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They're restarting GamerGate (or rather their bitching about it) because some journalist brought it up somehow (my money was on tweeting an article on Bannon). For some reason that is enough to cause a shit storm in 2017 over something from 2014.
 
Doug_Hitzel said:
Nah, they need gamergate to feel relevant again. This is just an excuse.
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How else can they get asspats and try to get some moral high ground over the autistic screeching of video games and journalism.
 
c-no said:
How else can they get asspats and try to get some moral high ground over the autistic screeching of video games and journalism.
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Yeah, because getting one black-eye from that retarded kid who was perfectly content to sit by himself playing trucks because you decided to tell him his truck was the devil just wasn't enough of a lesson.
 
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People who ask, 'Why are opportunists, who receive "donations" from Patreon et al., beating a dead horse?' make me laugh and cringe at the same time.
It's about self-gratification. For most people, that means getting money.
They think they can wring a few more cents from a corpse, and so they will.
For people who want attention, they've got it.
You guys should know this by now - the answer is ALWAYS self-gratification through attention and/or money.
 
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SaltAndGoldMine said:
People who ask, 'Why are opportunists, who receive "donations" from Patreon et al., beating a dead horse?' make me laugh and cringe at the same time.
It's about self-gratification. For most people, that means getting money.
They think they can wring a few more cents from a corpse, and so they will.
For people who want attention, they've got it.
You guys should know this by now - the answer is ALWAYS self-gratification through attention and/or money.
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Either you'll get asspats from beating a dead horse or some cash. It's always that. Then there are white knights and such who'll think not having a certain position on it means being apologetic to neckbeards who are some how fascist over video game drama.
 
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