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

[Vault Boy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hy...terfered-in-the-2016-american-election.94326/
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Delighted to see Russians and Gamergate get to live rent free inside their heads. They're so paranoid that I love it.

 

[AnOminous]

True. But we've seen in stuff from New Coke to Dead Space, there's some degree of "this might alienate X amount of fans, but we can gain demographic Y." or "This got X amount of impressions and Y amount of active engagement on social media!" while failing to mention that SJWs don't buy anything.

What's the demographic you're shooting for when your product that the ad is supposedly for is literally only bought by men to shave their beards?

 

[Zero0]

What's the demographic you're shooting for when your product that the ad is supposedly for is literally only bought by men to shave their beards?

Women who do the shopping for their boyfriends

 

[AnOminous]

male feminists, fags, troons, and other 'allies'

Male feminists don't shave. They either can't grow a beard anyway or they grow those fussy little cuck beards. Fags are men, too, and don't like being called rapists. Troons like to grow their beards out, as we see on this site.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

GamerGate/2016 thread is incredible:

I thought this was pretty well agreed upon? Gamer gate helped establish a lot of the trends that helped Trump win in 2016 and groomed a lot of his nascent support.

This is already known. Russia actively pushed Gamergate nonsense.

Yes, this isn’t largely disputed.

People still have Total Biscuit avatars over in the Gaming section.

I thought it was already well known that Gamergate was a test run for alt right fuckery and 2016.

Good luck trying to untangle this particular rat king.

It's been known for a while that GG was a beta test of sorts.

It was a very useful tool in recruiting the youth. It bolstered the sexism rampant in the hobby and for some no doubt was there first introduction to any political side.

I've been trying to explain this to people since early 2016 but most are just like "Videogames, huh?"

You should look into the work of Renee Diresta who has argued that Gamergate is not the first of its kind at all.. it was just the first to get sufficient scale to be noticed. Similar tactics had been employed before by anti-vaxxers groups etc.

It’s sickening as fuck watching millions of my peers get brainwashed. The internet is regressing peoples’ empathy.

There are no conspiracies in this world and everything is out in the open. There was not a shadowy hand behind Gamergate, Gamergate was just a reflection of the morals and beliefs of the people who flocked to it. Those happen to be similar to the Alt-right at large.

I sort of side-eye everyone who thinks this way because it smacks of growing up in a sheltered bubble.

Fuck everyone who enabled that shit and stood by and did nothing, especially the game companies that didn't come out with a hard line against it and still really haven't. The amount of harassment and vile shit that went on and still goes on is inexcusable.

They are both fascist movements, full stop, and one was very much a testing ground for the methods of the other.

One of the other things that still doesn't sit right was the FBI not bringing charges related to the threats coming from those associated with gamergate. Considering the severity of the threats and the obvious political presence it does create a sense there may have been pressure on the investigation to not bring forward charges.
As charges would interfere with gamergate as a means to funnel support for Trump.

You can trace the Trump presidency and the resurgence of neo-Nazism back to two people: Eron Gonji (AKA Zoë Quinn's shitty, petulant ex-) and Norwegian terrorist/WoW fanatic Anders Breivik.

It's gamers all the way down.

I thought this was common knowledge by now? Been sayin' this since GG transformed into the Alt-Right.

We can definitely say now that GG and the alt-right online presence was pushed along by Russian actors

It's cute that you think Gamergate ended.

We won't know the true fallout from Gamergate for decades.

User Banned (Permanent): Downplaying the impact of a hate movement. History of severe infractions.
This forum is so laughable in the myriad of ways it'll go to try and pin all of society's evils on what was largely an irrelevant and short-lived moment that was almost five years ago. Seriously, get over it. There are real problems out there that need to be addressed that have nothing to do with the GamerGate boogeyman.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

>You can trace the Trump presidency and the resurgence of neo-Nazism back to two people: Eron Gonji (AKA Zoë Quinn's shitty, petulant ex-)
Imagine blaming the rise of "neo-Nazism" on a man who was, by Quinn's own definition, a rape victim That's not very progressive, ResetEra.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

After that one, I think my favorite one is the one about the FBI covering up on behalf of GamerGate and Trump:

One of the other things that still doesn't sit right was the FBI not bringing charges related to the threats coming from those associated with gamergate. Considering the severity of the threats and the obvious political presence it does create a sense there may have been pressure on the investigation to not bring forward charges.
As charges would interfere with gamergate as a means to funnel support for Trump.

Uh oh, checking on the Buzzfeed report thread, now it's looking like Robert Mueller might be exposing himself as an agent of GamerGate next:

Frankly, even if the characterization had inaccuracies, I wish Mueller's team would have just shut the fuck up.

But Frank O'Connor suggests it could still be spiritually true:

I think Giuliani leaked the WSJ Cohen thing to distract from the buzzfeed thing and I suspect the impending buzzfeed thing is spiritually true. This comment from Mueller should be taken as a very bad portent for Trump rather than a rebuke of buzzfeed.

World ends, hardest hit, etc.

Well fuck. I was gonna binge clips of today's coverage tonight. Guess I'll just play FTL.

 

[Next Task]

"It’s sickening as fuck watching millions of my peers get brainwashed. The internet is regressing peoples’ empathy."

I think this one is my favourite. But blatant displays of a lack of self-awareness do tickle me.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

"It’s sickening as fuck watching millions of my peers get brainwashed."

Yeah, it really is.

"The Internet is regressing peoples’ empathy."

YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO SENTIENCE YOU FUCKING NEOFAGGOT.

Why are people less empathetic? It must be the internet's fault, not that the screaming mass of filth that is social justice having literally drained people of empathy by insisting that we are required to treat every unpleasant rëtard we run into, or some rando in some other county, or hell an entire race, like they're part of your intimate family.

It's like they don't understand there were studies about how there's likely a hard limit to the amount of people that one can care about or even acknowledge as beings of their own capacity and not bit players in your life. Either that or these People have managed to convince themselves they're more evolutionary advanced than everyone.

Nether would surprise me.

 

[Beardfish]

Russians are infiltrating and manipulating Era! Also everywhere and everyone else!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/we...cal-gain-but-do-they-also-use-the-left.94072/

I'm a bit late for this but the logic here is astounding. They have literally gone full "people who disagree with us are russian bots" and the fact that they can't quite grasp the possibility that someone wouldn't want to hang around such lovely people as they are is just too precious. You can't make that shit up.

 

[Dreamland]

GamerGate/2016 thread is incredible:

At least reset and us have something in common!

Technology discovered: Cookies

 

[AirdropShitposts]

I thought that one might be a secret dog whistle to their fellow Nazi's at kiwifarms.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Gamergate is both a pathetic group of powerless virgins, and a vast global conspiracy that enabled Trump while forcing minorities to remain in the shadows.

 

[Commander X]

Gamergate is both a pathetic group of powerless virgins, and a vast global conspiracy that enabled Trump while forcing minorities to remain in the shadows.

It's our generation's war.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

One of these things isn't like the other, and if you're comparing the Iraq War where many people died and a fuck ton of money was spent to a moderate internet movement about ethics in gaming journalism, you're probably a giant fucking retard.

 

[Oh Shit I'm Sorry]

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It's our generation's war.

That ain't even apples to oranges. That's apples to an excessively non-applelike flesh eating bacteria.

 

[Judge Dredd]

After that one, I think my favorite one is the one about the FBI covering up on behalf of GamerGate and Trump:

Call me naive, but the simple fact that there was nothing to charge them with might have had something to do with. Just because Era considers criticism of game journalists a crime doesn't mean the FBI does.

I notice they leave out the anti-GGer that were charged with sexual assault. Odd that.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

 

[Water-T]

"OMG gamergate was like the Iraq War....and comicsgate is totes our Vietnam! I'm getting 'nam flashbacks just thinking about it!"