TGWTG Dan Olson / Folding Ideas - Pseudo-Intellectual Hipster, Child Pornographer, and All-Around Exceptional Individual

[Emperor Julian]

Jesus he really thinks Gamergate is some sort of evil internet army holding out in their secret internet doom forts of 8chan, kiwi farms and ED? How could anyone this obsessed with it and be so utterly oblivious to it's nature and modus operendi?

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Jesus he really thinks Gamergate is some sort of evil internet army holding out in their secret internet doom forts of 8chan, kiwi farms and ED? How could anyone this obsessed with it and be so utterly oblivious to it's nature and modus operendi?

It's kind of strange because he really isn't an idiot. Out of his social media peer group, he stands out as the one who isn't completely oblivious. I think it is possible he's just a normie coming into the morass that is the internet's dark side too far along to actually get it.

I mean, uploading child porn to a chan? Fucking genius, dude. No one has thought to do that before.

You see the same thing when the people talk about the alt-right. They have no idea who the actual alt-right is - they just use the term to describe people they don't like.

 

[FatNero]

How hard is it to understand what we are? I don't think anyone has ever gotten it right, we seem to always be the mirror they look into and see Hitler. Whatever Hitler is to them, we are... Kwitler.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Speaking of 8chan, maybe he should try posting some cp he has on his hard drive and claimed he found it on our site

Nah, that won't work. We already have a huge collection of cp:

 

[Begemot]

What a dumbass. Does 8chan even like us?

No.

Some parts of 8chan utterly despise null. Go to /cow/ or /monster/ and see what I mean.

The thing is, the background to the technological failure that null has supposedly engaged in is very technical. I certainly don't pretend to understand it. Only actual proficient comp sci students understand it and they blame Josh for a multiplicity of failures that correspond with Jim's management. So Null has become 8chan's boogieman. It's an easy cop out

Guys like Dan will conflate 8chan and kiwifarms together because it suits their narrative, nothing more. These guys need a united enemy. The fact that we're here to laugh at sad cunts doesn't matter. They will always induce ideology where it doesn't work.

 

[Brandobaris]

It's kind of strange because he really isn't an idiot. Out of his social media peer group, he stands out as the one who isn't completely oblivious.

I'm not so sure their entire group aren't idiots. Examples.



Opposing views are instantly mocked and blocked. I've practically never seen one of these people want to engage in any debate. They post within their little bubble, if they are criticised they attempt to one up the person with posts about their profile or history of posts, failing that, its a block.

The Jon Stewart/Rachel Maddow interview really shines some light on the way people like this view the world.

 

[TheImportantFart]

I wonder if Dan knows that Margaret Pless (who he champions a fair bit) financially contributed to the trolling of Chris, who's still one of the main focuses of this site.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Lindsey interests me, she was surprisingly out of spotlight during GG aside from some twitter snark while pretty much every other pseudo intellectual was proving the pseudo part. Initially I thought it was because she was astute enough to realize that chimping ala moviebob is career suicide but then she stabbed angryvideo game nerd in the back because potential employee's love it when you badmouth former colleagues on public media. So I'm trying to figure out why she was so quiet during gamergate, the only things I can think off are she was saner at the time or that she was stupid enough to be scared of poisoned pen emails. I suppose channelawsome might have put their foot down but Todd wouldnt shut the fuck up about it.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Lindsey interests me, she was surprisingly out of spotlight during GG aside from some twitter snark while pretty much every other pseudo intellectual was proving the pseudo part. Initially I thought it was because she was astute enough to realize that chimping ala moviebob is career suicide but then she stabbed angryvideo game nerd in the back because potential employee's love it you badmouth former colleagues on public media. So I'm trying to figure out why she was so quiet during gamergate, the only things I can think off are she was saner at the time or that she was stupid enough to be scared of poisoned pen emails. I suppose channelawsome might have put their foot down but Todd wouldnt shut the fuck up about it.

Lindsay left Channel Awesome shortly after GamerGate started but I doubt they had anything to do with her silence. Plus, the forums pretty much banned GamerGaters on sight so it wasn't like it was an unsafe environment to air anti-GamerGate views.

My theory is she basically used Todd and Dan as her proxies to try and take the heat off her. Todd may not be with her anymore but they still live together, he's a member of Chez Apocalypse and I'm willing to bet he still panders to her every need.

 

[Brandobaris]

Lindsey interests me, she was surprisingly out of spotlight during GG aside from some twitter snark while pretty much every other pseudo intellectual was proving the pseudo part. Initially I thought it was because she was astute enough to realize that chimping ala moviebob is career suicide but then she stabbed angryvideo game nerd in the back because potential employee's love it you badmouth former colleagues on public media.

I'd say it's because Videogames aren't really Lindsays purview, while Dan and Todd probably were following it more closely as the lonely feminist male they are. When it comes to things like GhostBusters or any other "Misogynistic" Tv/Movie/Musical reviewers, she feels comfortable throwing the insults in her perceived specialization.

If you actually follow her during the "Sadpuppies" Hugo awards debacle, she goes full bitch mode. Because, surprise surprise, shes friends with most of the TOR Books clique, and worked for them at some point.

 

[NQ 952]

Lindsey interests me, she was surprisingly out of spotlight during GG aside from some twitter snark while pretty much every other pseudo intellectual was proving the pseudo part. Initially I thought it was because she was astute enough to realize that chimping ala moviebob is career suicide but then she stabbed angryvideo game nerd in the back because potential employee's love it you badmouth former colleagues on public media. So I'm trying to figure out why she was so quiet during gamergate, the only things I can think off are she was saner at the time or that she was stupid enough to be scared of poisoned pen emails. I suppose channelawsome might have put their foot down but Todd wouldnt shut the fuck up about it.

She's close friends with Todd, Dan, and Nyberg

 

[c-no]

How hard is it to understand what we are? I don't think anyone has ever gotten it right, we seem to always be the mirror they look into and see Hitler. Whatever Hitler is to them, we are... Kwitler.

Probably because they want to label us as what they don't like. Tumblrina's like to see us transphobic and racist cis-scum, and MRA's and love-shys like to see us as man-hating feminist. What a better way to show a complete dislike of something than to label and associate it with something you completely despise.

No.

Some parts of 8chan utterly despise null. Go to /cow/ or /monster/ and see what I mean.

The thing is, the background to the technological failure that null has supposedly engaged in is very technical. I certainly don't pretend to understand it. Only actual proficient comp sci students understand it and they blame Josh for a multiplicity of failures that correspond with Jim's management. So Null has become 8chan's boogieman. It's an easy cop out

Guys like Dan will conflate 8chan and kiwifarms together because it suits their narrative, nothing more. These guys need a united enemy. The fact that we're here to laugh at sad cunts doesn't matter. They will always induce ideology where it doesn't work.

8Chan's hate of null and the Farms laughing at people like Dan do help the latter in trying to conflate two different entities as one singular group. They just want to use it as something to confirm their biases so as to think we'd hold common ground despite the fact the Farms itself laughed at GamerGate.

 

[Brandobaris]

She's close friends with Todd, Dan, and Nyberg

They really give me that "Weird Group of people at the Anime Club that all likely had something like Autism/Aspergers/ADHD" vibe except, they aren't 16 anymore, they are 30ish and still doing the same stuff. And drinking more.

 

[Patrick Buttman]

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They really give me that "Weird Group of people at the Anime Club that all likely had something like Autism/Aspergers/ADHD" vibe except, they aren't 16 anymore, they are 30ish and still doing the same stuff. And drinking more.

I have no idea why Brad hangs with these people (aside from his work with CA as Cinema Snob). He's not a beta-gina or a forever assmad SJW, and he's publicly had it out with Kyle/Oancitizen for being a backstabbing bitch boy.

 

[Absolutego]

I have no idea why Brad hangs with these people (aside from his work with CA as Cinema Snob). He's not a beta-gina or a forever assmad SJW, and he's publicly had it out with Kyle/Oancitizen for being a backstabbing bitch boy.

#FreeBrad

Joking aside, I wonder if at this point it's just an easy paycheck for him. Is he still working on other Channel Awesome shows? I haven't really kept up ever since Pop Quiz Hotshot self-destructed.

 

[Henry Bemis]

#FreeBrad

Joking aside, I wonder if at this point it's just an easy paycheck for him. Is he still working on other Channel Awesome shows? I haven't really kept up ever since Pop Quiz Hotshot self-destructed.

Yeah, he's basically still on CA for the extra traffic.

Channel Awesome needs Brad Jones more than Brad Jones needs Channel Awesome, and both of them know this.

 

[Emperor Julian]

I have no idea why Brad hangs with these people (aside from his work with CA as Cinema Snob). He's not a beta-gina or a forever assmad SJW, and he's publicly had it out with Kyle/Oancitizen for being a backstabbing bitch boy.

I suspect they're a lot more affable irl. Considering they can't really do confrontation online I can't imagine them being confrontational when you can make eye contact with the person you're calling a basement dweller. Passive aggresive at worst.

 

[GabeRegan]

I have no idea why Brad hangs with these people (aside from his work with CA as Cinema Snob). He's not a beta-gina or a forever assmad SJW, and he's publicly had it out with Kyle/Oancitizen for being a backstabbing bitch boy.

They probably aren't that bad irl, and Brad isn't above telling people they're full of shit. He also doesn't like getting involved with petty drama over the internet and mostly keeps his personal problems to himself. When Angry Jake was fired, Brad was nice enough to try and not drag his name through the mud even though he would have been fully justified to do so. The only reason people know what happened is because he eventually told his Patreons and one of them leaked the post on the CA forums.

Also let's not forget that Brad is far more successful on his own than with CA, they would have been fucked if he decided to leave them alongside Phelous.

 

[Brandobaris]

I suspect they're a lot more affable irl. Considering they can't really do confrontation online I can't imagine them being confrontational when you can make eye contact with the person you're calling a basement dweller. Passive aggresive at worst.

Maybe @LordKaT could give us some insight.

 

[TheImportantFart]

I might be willing to say you have a point here Dan, but you apply this mindset equally to constructive criticism of anything/anyone you happen to like. And also, it's not just the sending of gore porn that's being curbed, it's anything people don't want to intrude into their personal echo chamber. So yeah, you're still full of shit.