NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

[Randy Lahey]

Besada is next on that chopping block. I can feel it.

He jumped ship pretty quick, so i’m hoping he did to avoid getting vanned or something

 

[Jaimas]

Wait what now?

Not to get off topic, but that's the first I've heard of that. Got links to that one?

Happened earlier today in a cow slapfight:

Dozens of women have recently come out with allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. During the middle of the controversy, which has spurred a social movement encouraging woman to speak out, BuzzFeed wrote that there’s been a spreadsheet circulating around the internet that “named and shamed dozens of men in media for bad behavior toward women.”

The list hasn’t been made public, but BuzzFeed claimed that allegations “range from ‘flirting’ and ‘weird lunch dates’ to accusations of rape, assault, stalking, harassment and physical violence.”

On October 21, Cernovich claimed that he obtained the “full Shitty Men in Media list” and would subsequently be publishing it on his website. There has been no confirmation that the names listed on Cernovich’s website are indeed on the list of “Shitty Men in Media” that BuzzFeed claims has been circulated, or if the allegations against the men are true.

According to Cernovich’s list, at least one woman has accused Biddle of misconduct. In Biddle’s entry on the alleged list, it says women accused him of "inappropriate communication, harassment, inappropriate digital contact, sexual assault, followed someone into a bathroom and tried to masturbate in front of them."

 

[Water-T]

I expect it to be 10 minutes of Jim getting on his high horse, wagging his finger, and distancing himself from NeoGaf and Evillore as hard as possible.

It's still one hell of a thing to leave out of the original post condemning him.

Women get unwanted sexual attention from friends and strangers alike, but her failure to mention that they became fuck buddies some time after the incident and to use it as an example of "me too" two years down the track suggests a personal agenda.

If this really just a case of a woman making up rape claims for revenge and/or attention, then that would just make NeoGAF's demise even more ironic, considering they followed "Listen and Believe" like it was the fucking 11th Commandment.

"UGH. Why does everybody expect me, a journalist, to actually investigate claims instead of just sticking my fingers in my ears and screaming, 'LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! IT'S ALL JUST GOOPERGRAPE LIES! LALALA!'. Now shut up and Listen to me when I tell you to Believe that I knew nothing about about this despite being close friends with the accused and a long time member of his site!"

 

[Doug_Hitzel]

Whatever made Gamergate this important? It wasn't even like Nazis who murdered millions of people when they existed. It was a bunch of nerds bitching about shit literally nobody in their right mind on either side should have even ever given a shit about. It is literally the dumbest, most autistic Internet slapfight about absolutely nothing that ever happened. Plus it hasn't even existed for years.

What the fuck man.

It was an Internet Kulturkampf where the media was the ancien régime.
Also, I talk like a fag and my shit’s all rętarded.

 

[AnOminous]

so this guy drunkenly came on to some lady, who shot him down but kept him around and banged him later? that's like...freshman year of college shit. that's got people committing seppuku?

Pretty much. In terms of normal human behavior, what Tyler did was. . .pretty much normal.

But on NeoGAF it's rape. Total rape. Super-rape.

Or at least it was before they burned down their own forum in a pants-shitting tard rage.

Lol.

 

[repentance]

If this really just a case of a woman making up rape claims for revenge and/or attention, then that would just make NeoGAF's demise even more ironic, considering they followed "Listen and Believe" like it was the fucking 11th Commandment.

She honest to god does not say that he raped her - or even attempted to rape her - in the FB post which started this. The characterisation of the incident as "sexual assault" has come from GAF itself and taken on a life of its own. GAF has imploded because it believed its own bullshit.

Tyler very probably is a scumbag of epic proportions, but what's delicious is that he's being hung, drawn and quartered for something his accuser never said he did.

 

[Jaimas]

So this entire thing turned out to be nothing and I fucking called it like 40 pages ago.

But NeoGAF burned down regardless.

 

[AnOminous]

So this entire thing turned out to be nothing and I fucking called it like 40 pages ago.

But NeoGAF burned down regardless.

Dynastia called it really, really early in the thread.

 

[Robotron]

So this entire thing turned out to be nothing and I fucking called it like 40 pages ago.

But NeoGAF burned down regardless.

I hope Neogaf doesn't come back from this though, it would be a massive boon in my eyes to see Malka shut it down permanently.

 

[repentance]

So this entire thing turned out to be nothing and I fucking called it like 40 pages ago.

But NeoGAF burned down regardless.

It should be quite a show when the regret over destroying their forum for nothing kicks in and they start blaming each other for spreading "fake news".

 

[AF 802]

It should be quite a show when the regret over destroying their forum for nothing kicks in and they start blaming each other for spreading "fake news".

Will they cry CNN tears over it? Probably. But it'll still be fun to watch.

 

[AnOminous]

It should be quite a show when the regret over destroying their forum for nothing kicks in and they start blaming each other for spreading "fake news".

They'd have to admit they were wrong about something.

The tenterhooks from which they dangle, the bleeding shreds of their flesh dangling from their mangled bodies, it's just all so beautiful.

 

[Null]

NeoGAF won't ever return. The accusation is all it takes.

 

[Graffiti canvas]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer forum.

 

[AnOminous]

NeoGAF won't ever return. The accusation is all it takes.

There may be a site called neogaf but its soul has died and gone to hell. Its moderation team has scattered to the four winds. Its name is cancer.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer forum.

It literally couldn't have.

They did it to themselves.

 

[Keystone]

Not to mention GAF burned itself down over this one single accusation. They haven't even really talked about the groping thing he did in Spain. If this is the way they responded over a bathroom faux-pas, imagine how they'd react to that little incident.

And let's be honest, he's probably guilty of knowing his pedophile mods were swapping CP but did nothing to stop it. No way him or his little 1984 forum are coming back from this. Not after its users have spoken their true feelings, and literally everyone else on the internet including game developers have expressed their pure hatred for the site.

 

[AF 802]

There may be a site called neogaf but its soul has died and gone to hell. Its moderation team has scattered to the four winds. Its name is cancer.

Soon, the worst types of cancer will be renamed to just simply, "NeoGAF" as a final blow to the name. I sure don't want to be diagnosed with NeoGAF.

I now give it 24 hours until Malka pulls the plug on the hosting and is never seen from again.

 

[Robotron]

Soon, the worst types of cancer will be renamed to just simply, "NeoGAF" as a final blow to the name. I sure don't want to be diagnosed with NeoGAF.

I now give it 24 hours until Malka pulls the plug on the hosting and is never seen from again.

I hope when the site finally does shut down, they edit the wikipedia article to say it "WAS an internet forum"

 

[AnOminous]

Soon, the worst types of cancer will be renamed to just simply, "NeoGAF" as a final blow to the name. I sure don't want to be diagnosed with NeoGAF.

I now give it 24 hours until Malka pulls the plug on the hosting and is never seen from again.

Some day, years from now, you may go to a doctor. You've had a worrying pain in your side for months.

You tried to ignore it, but you can't any more.

You ask your doctor "Is it cancer?"

He puts his hand on your shoulder and says "I hate to break this to you. It's worse."

"You have NeoGAF. You have pancreatic NeoGAF. Inoperable."

You burst into tears as your mortality stares you in the face.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I disagree. Its the internet, shit will linger on and might even recover. It is, after all, still the biggest gaming focused forum around and I am willing to bet that most of the members were always either neutral to or secretly hated the SJW shit. Mods are easily replaceable, admins perhaps less so but it shouldn't take long to filter down to a few competent ones.