Decent, quick summary of #gamergate

from JoeUser Forums

Ironically, from the Cracked.com comments sections:

    1. A woman is suspected of sabotaging a charity event with feminism as her justification, even though the event supposedly aimed to support female developers.
    2. A more or less reasonable group of people get upset about this, and make the issue somewhat known.
    3. An ex decides to share information about this woman's sex life, which picks up popularity because of the aforementioned scandal.
    4. A crazy guy builds a conspiracy from this sex life, which may have started with a kernel of truth, but quickly gets out of hand.
    5. Misogynists pick up on this conspiracy and go nuts with it, attacking the woman in typical internet fashion.
    6. News sites, always eager to paint things in black and white, ignore the concerns raised by the reasonable people and make the issue about feminism versus misogyny, grouping all people who don't praise the woman in the latter category.
    7. The aforementioned reasonable people, having been lumped together with misogynists, become resentful of news websites who use the "feminism" debate to cover their refusal to address real issues.
    8. Misogynists start backing up the reasonable people. The reasonable people don't notice, being too focused on their new enemies.
    9. An unusually high number of comments, videos, and forums posts are deleted en masse for siding with "gamersgate", regardless of whether they fell into the reasonable or misogynist categories.
    10. A portion of the reasonable people begin thinking there's maybe something to this whole "conspiracy" angle, and start becoming indistinguishable from the crazies.
    11. Repeat steps 6, 7, 8, and 10 until the whole world's gone crazy and everybody is convinced that everybody else is a mis[ogyn/andr]ist and that there are absolutely no mis[andr/ogyn]ists on their "side".


Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-i-learned-as-internets-most-hated-person/#ixzz3DU3PU3aN

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

This does indeed sum up all the 'drama' you have been party to. 

 

Hope SJW will learn those kind of tactics will only fail and rebound on them in the long run. 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Brad's link is click bait

This is much better :d

 

stay tuned for part 2

 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Someone should make a sjw parody game. Could be fun and enlightning.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Hey Frogboy, you forget a step. Ad Nauseam. Argue in such a way to exhaust and sicken the target until they become too nauseous to argue back.

Quoting UmbralAngel, reply 3

Someone should make a sjw parody game. Could be fun and enlightning.
End of UmbralAngel's quote


Might also be a good way to get targeted. Still, it might work. If you do get targeted, people will likely hear about that SJW parody game that made you a target.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Add to that the stupid trend of adding 'gate' to the end of words to imply a 'scandal' even though it makes no sense.

Watergate was the name of a hotel. the 'gate' was part of the hotels name for crying out loud. It makes no sense to add 'gate' to then end of a word. >_<

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Same as when we say things such as "shop-a-holic" the "-holic" comes from alco-"holic".  That one always used to annoy me. =)

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting StevenAus, reply 7

Same as when we say things such as "shop-a-holic" the "-holic" comes from alco-"holic".  That one always used to annoy me. :)
End of StevenAus's quote

 

Yeah, so the proper convention would be shopic? I'll admit it's not as catchy....

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting myfist0, reply 2

Brad's link is click bait

This is much better :D
End of myfist0's quote

I feel dumber for having watched that.

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Surprising? No.

What's interesting is all the joking and mocking of the discussion of transparency, ethics, etc. today from "journalists.".  

 

 

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

GamerGates BASED Mom  :grin:

Reply #13 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

For some reason I want to write

Step 12: ...

Step 13: Profit!

Reply #14 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Zoe should be glad she dumped him. All this shows is that there are more deserving nominations for the Darwin awards :-"

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

This is an old film but it graphically shows the insanity that happens eventually whenever a left wing government take control. Despite the fact that most of them are now thankfully long gone, many of them like Neil Kinnock remain and have very cushy jobs at the European Union where they have continued working for their Marxist agenda practically unnoticed.

Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top

Nichegamer.net has released a collection of horror story testimonies from various GameDevelopers in the industry.  Some debunk the narrative, others are sad endings.  Almost all in some form support #Gamergate and after reading their experiences I can see why.