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Remember when they acquired Origin Systems? And then liquidated it into the name for their shitty download service?
NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus
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Remember when they acquired Origin Systems? And then liquidated it into the name for their shitty download service?
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It's going to be rough on him if he didn't have any other gaffots to rat out.
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Amir0x has nothing to do with NeoGAF's management or its hosting. He was de-modded years ago and it's always been Evilore who runs the site.
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Amir0x was just a former mod and a rabid attack dog for their deranged politics. Evilore is Neogaf's owner.
That was implied by the fact we knew he was getting sentenced in January. These dudes didn't even cover the piss story.
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The main thing that annoys me about Resetera is that they're trying to forcibly position themselves as the place where game developers and insiders can talk with one another and answer questions from fans. It feels not only inorganic, but also like a false front for what ultimately is just another echo chamber.
If you want actual discussion of video games, go to /v/ or something. At least they aren't disingenuous.
If you want actual discussion of video games, go to /v/ or something. At least they aren't disingenuous.
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Oh riiiiiight, Ami, not Evilore. I feel dumb. Got their handles confused for a bit.
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Don't be too surprised though if more of Evilore's history suddenly comes back up to bite him.
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Yeah he won alright -- a free trip to state prison.
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And some complimentary cultural enrichments for his ass by inmates with nothing left to lose.
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Don't forget complimentary golden showers for him and his mattress.
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He probably liked that he got a golden shower from a black man.
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I'll handle this one. Since the Autism Holy War, I've been struggling to figure out what the christ the endgame of all this Social Justice tomfoolery was. At this point I'm at best reasonably sure I can take a guess at it, and it ties nicely into what you gents mentioned, so here goes. Word of caution though: It's a long one.
Something that the perpetually offended brigade absolutely fucking hates is that gaming is not one market. They try to force it to be one on the grounds that it makes their bullshit easier to push, but even their vaunted 52% statistic (the one claiming 52% of all gamers are women) is a fundamentally corrupted statistic, reached by lumping every platform in with mobile gaming, having an incorrect sample size, no control group, and basically labelling every single person who plays video games a Gamer. See, you can reach any conclusion if you fuck up your data hard enough.
DiGRA, the group that was the think-tank behind this big push to shove identity politics in games and is the ideological source of the "Gamers Are Over" articles inadvertently gave the game away with their attempts to argue for diversity; after their first attempt fucked up and proved the exact opposite of what they were hoping, they used increasingly broad strokes to try to justify it.
What they gave away here was a fucking pathological hatred of a plurality of free markets, and the simple reason for it is that the fact that everyone can just vote with their wallet and buy what they want and play what they want immediately puts a bullet in the head of the need for diversity at any cost:
Basically, this entire diversity-at-gunpoint philosophy they began to implement was the first step towards forcing identity politics throughout video games the same way it is in other media. Since the consumers (read: Gamers) didn't give a single solitary fuck by their own examples, they argued that any change was going to have to come from outside the consumerbase - by pressuring the devs and publishers themselves into capitulation:
Which brings me to the underpinning ethos that caused all this shit in the first place. DiGRA, like many other previously-productive left-wing communities, got taken over by Social Justice, which as it always does, turned it into a fucking platform to push its agenda, original intended purposes and goals be damned. Once here, DiGRA saw the potential to expand influence into the greater consciousness of vidya as a whole, and since they had ample influence elsewhere, they started their initial attempts to push this identity politics horse-shit anywhere they could. The same people who infested DiGRA were the same ideology as team Anita and many other groups that would wind up getting exposed during the Autism Holy War (Anita, for example, is a major proponent of bell hooks and, as such, believes that capitalism is evil).
Where things sort of hit a hurdle as far as this ideology goes was that these clowns quickly learned that the market itself was against them, and that there was no mandate for identity politics from the people playing vidya. Basically, they couldn't push this shit directly into video games without blastback, and they viewed the game-playing public as the biggest reason that their initial attempts failed. They started to use the "All we want to do is open up discussion" tactic that Anita coined, and you started to see the usual identity politics nonsense crop up, backed by their buddies in the indie circuit and indie gaming press.
They were pushing in hard, but as is usually the case with people possessed of such ambitious, they got way too confident way too early, and in an effort to stifle GG before it could blossom into a full-blown pushback, they went all-in with the Gamers Are Over incident. This inevitably led to their exposure and the entire tapestry coming undone behind the scenes, because if it comes between the Diversity Cult and paying customers, the paying customers will win every fucking time.
DiGRA, the group that was the think-tank behind this big push to shove identity politics in games and is the ideological source of the "Gamers Are Over" articles inadvertently gave the game away with their attempts to argue for diversity; after their first attempt fucked up and proved the exact opposite of what they were hoping, they used increasingly broad strokes to try to justify it.
What they gave away here was a fucking pathological hatred of a plurality of free markets, and the simple reason for it is that the fact that everyone can just vote with their wallet and buy what they want and play what they want immediately puts a bullet in the head of the need for diversity at any cost:
Adrienne Shaw said:
Basically, this entire diversity-at-gunpoint philosophy they began to implement was the first step towards forcing identity politics throughout video games the same way it is in other media. Since the consumers (read: Gamers) didn't give a single solitary fuck by their own examples, they argued that any change was going to have to come from outside the consumerbase - by pressuring the devs and publishers themselves into capitulation:
Adrienne Shaw said:
Which brings me to the underpinning ethos that caused all this shit in the first place. DiGRA, like many other previously-productive left-wing communities, got taken over by Social Justice, which as it always does, turned it into a fucking platform to push its agenda, original intended purposes and goals be damned. Once here, DiGRA saw the potential to expand influence into the greater consciousness of vidya as a whole, and since they had ample influence elsewhere, they started their initial attempts to push this identity politics horse-shit anywhere they could. The same people who infested DiGRA were the same ideology as team Anita and many other groups that would wind up getting exposed during the Autism Holy War (Anita, for example, is a major proponent of bell hooks and, as such, believes that capitalism is evil).
Where things sort of hit a hurdle as far as this ideology goes was that these clowns quickly learned that the market itself was against them, and that there was no mandate for identity politics from the people playing vidya. Basically, they couldn't push this shit directly into video games without blastback, and they viewed the game-playing public as the biggest reason that their initial attempts failed. They started to use the "All we want to do is open up discussion" tactic that Anita coined, and you started to see the usual identity politics nonsense crop up, backed by their buddies in the indie circuit and indie gaming press.
They were pushing in hard, but as is usually the case with people possessed of such ambitious, they got way too confident way too early, and in an effort to stifle GG before it could blossom into a full-blown pushback, they went all-in with the Gamers Are Over incident. This inevitably led to their exposure and the entire tapestry coming undone behind the scenes, because if it comes between the Diversity Cult and paying customers, the paying customers will win every fucking time.
TL;DR: The usual cancer got into DiGRA, tried to use it to get a foothold in gaming, using the same old methods. They were initially successful, only to fuck it all up by going all-in against the very concept of customers buying the products they want.
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Pretty funny using a gif of a character that ultimately looses in the end.
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I remember back when Vice was relevant I watched a documentary they made about Colombians that lived in the sewers to escape death squads that roamed the streets gunning down dissidents. Despite the fact that they lived in the sewers the Colombian government would still send people down there to purge people that might be considered problematic.
At one point the reporter was actually in danger of being shot and killed by a Colombian death squad that existed for the sole purpose of marching through those tunnels and murdering every man, woman, and child that chose to hide in the sewers. It's a great video that I highly recommend watching.
As bad as all that sounds just try to imagine being a transwoman in Brooklyn that writes about video games. Colombian death squads are bad but today's Vice employees have to deal with gamers on the internet. Now you understand how it feels to live in Trump's America.
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It's not often outside the Nick Bate thread that getting the last laugh feels so good.
If you want to see the rest of the tail end of his insane tweets
https://twitter.com/nickbate?lang=en
https://archive.is/pPbsT
In both cases, the evil freak in question completely misread what was going on.
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Great write-up, I think that SJWs always go for positions of influence, not necessarily authority (Although they will not reject those positions if offered). They always want to be the power behind the throne, so to speak.
They are very hell-bent on spreading their post-marxist ideology (especially to youth) and will stop at no lengths to prevent their ideological opponents from even chiming in with their side of an argument, let alone winning it.
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It's important to note that those death squads are paramilitary militias, not government forces. They're basically what NeoGAF think people who post Nazi frog memes are, for real.
I had no idea 100 year old German war criminals used NeoGAF.
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Munchingonfish
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http://archive.is/Eny65#selection-5101.0-5101.6
I'm so disappointed that no one's managed to dox this Denmark native living in middle America, Los Angeles, or whatever's most convenient for the topic.