GamerGate

[I am lizard]

Do you think it's possible that a lot of the grosser anti-gamergate tweets you post are just from the same few people sockpuppeting?

Yeah, again if someone says they are being harassed/stalked/abused I prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt.

If evidence arises that they are crying wolf then I'll judge it on it's merits. So it's possible, but a lot of things are possible-however possible =/= true.

I meant the same few Anti-gamergate people.

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

Ah, thanks for clarification. Misunderstood.

[Sigmaleph]

If you were any more transparent you'd be made of oxygen!

Might as well extend the analogy there and say that trying to reason with GamerGate is like talking to dead air.

As opposed to all of that live air we have floating around.

"Dead air" is an archaic term for nitrogen gas, to distinguish it from "live air" (oxygen), the other major component of air in general. It was called such because N₂ is mostly inert, whereas O₂ is both highly reactive and necessary for life. So yes, in fact. We have a lot of dead and live air floating around.

Also, I just made all of that up. Dead air is actually a concept in radio broadcasting. Inventing fake scientific terminology is more interesting that anything going on this thread.

[WatermelonRat]

Forbes did a decent article on gamergate:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/10/09/gamergate-is-not-a-hate-group-its-a-consumer-movement/

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

I always thought "dead air" referred to pregnant pauses where nothing was said, or at the very least a bunch of "ums" and "ahs" that weren't communicating anything coherent that were a bad thing in radio because you were wasting airtime.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Some anti-GamerGate hypocrisy:



And that's not even the worst of it:



Insulting a woman who just lost her husband?  How low can you go?

[Cloud3514]

Paragon, why do you keep posting this kind of shit. It's not exactly news. No one os saying that there isn't any anti-GamerGate idiocy. The only people trying to deny any wrongdoing is GamerGate.

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

Yep. I totally get "harrassment is bad" but when it comes with a side of "... but the harrassment of Quinn/Sarkeesian is bogus" because they are on the other team. Not so much!

[Cloud3514]

And beyond that, it just further shows GamerGate's us vs. them mentality. Posting these kinds of things is basically them going "you should be on our side because THEY are assholes.

[ironbite]

Defend this.  I dare you to.

Ironbite-this is what your movement condones and does nothing to stop.

[Lt. Fred]

I always thought "dead air" referred to pregnant pauses where nothing was said, or at the very least a bunch of "ums" and "ahs" that weren't communicating anything coherent that were a bad thing in radio because you were wasting airtime.

Yes, that is a common metaphor used in radio - and yes, it's very, very, very bad.

[Cloud3514]

I'm mostly counting the minutes until GamerGate declares Wu being driven out of her home a false flag, just like they did with Sarkeesian and Quinn.

[ironbite]

Already did man.  Already did.

Apparently there's no proof that all this harassment is being done by anyone other then these girls.  Because being driven from your own home, your own safe space, is totally what these bitches do!

Ironbite-now let's doxx them because reasons!

[ironbite]

I'd say I'm sorry for the double post but if UP can get away with quadruple posts, so can I.

This is the face of your movement Gaters.  These outer fringe idiots who nobody has done any effort to curtail.  You're a faceless, leaderless, headless mob of proto-slime who seems really cool with women being run out of their homes because what, a dudebro got his feelings hurt because his ex decided to sleep around on him?  And for what?  A competition?  A little glowing praise of an otherwise mediocre game?  You're not about game journalism, you're not about double standards.  What you are about is terrorism.

Ironbite-and you should be treated as such.

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

I'd say I'm sorry for the double post but if UP can get away with quadruple posts, so can I.

This is the face of your movement Gaters.  These outer fringe idiots who nobody has done any effort to curtail.  You're a faceless, leaderless, headless mob of proto-slime who seems really cool with women being run out of their homes because what, a dudebro got his feelings hurt because his ex decided to sleep around on him?  And for what?  A competition?  A little glowing praise of an otherwise mediocre game?  You're not about game journalism, you're not about double standards.  What you are about is terrorism.

Ironbite-and you should be treated as such.

And if you don't want to be associated with this petulant, thuggish, mysoginist dickery ditch the fucking GamerGate label!