Total Biscuit's legacy: GamerGate, etc.

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by Bleachyleachy » Fri Apr 20, 2018 12:57 pm

I was going to quietly admit that Gamergate was something that flew over my head as well and to this day I don't know the details behind it. The onlt thing I do remember from the time it was happening was that people really need to think of more creative ways to name scandals rather than just sticking the suffix "gate" on the end

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by Lex-Man » Fri Apr 20, 2018 1:17 pm

I listened to some of his stuff years ago but before Gamergate was a think I also found him a bit boring TBH. Sad that he has cancer though.

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by Preezy » Fri Apr 20, 2018 1:47 pm

I am also oblivious to who/what gamergate is/was. Passed me by. I only really know about the "it's actually about [X] in journalism" meme thing.

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by Damian » Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:04 pm

Weirdly enough, for those who don't know what Gamergate was, it's not melodramatic to say that it was basically a dry run for just about everything that's gone wrong with the world. Basically, fascists weaponising the easily impressionable to achieve their ends. From Milo to Steve Bannon and onwards.

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by Green Gecko » Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:06 pm

TB really was an arrogant, GG supporting dickhead


All I see is lots of posts hating on me :cry:

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by Moggy » Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:12 pm

Damian wrote:Weirdly enough, for those who don't know what Gamergate was, it's not melodramatic to say that it was basically a dry run for just about everything that's gone wrong with the world. Basically, fascists weaponising the easily impressionable to achieve their ends. From Milo to Steve Bannon and onwards.


So old people were right when they said that video games would cause the downfall of society?

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by Damian » Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:18 pm

Moggy wrote:
Damian wrote:Weirdly enough, for those who don't know what Gamergate was, it's not melodramatic to say that it was basically a dry run for just about everything that's gone wrong with the world. Basically, fascists weaponising the easily impressionable to achieve their ends. From Milo to Steve Bannon and onwards.


So old people were right when they said that video games would cause the downfall of society?

The people responsible for Gamergate don't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as our hobby, but given what this thread was about I'll leave it there.

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by Lagamorph » Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:15 pm

I admittedly didn't follow the whole Gamergate thing and actively tried to avoid doing so. Everything I saw seemed to be that anybody who got involved in any way essentially became a target for someone.

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by Tafdolphin » Fri Apr 20, 2018 4:41 pm

Urge. To. Quote Tag. Cal. Into. The. Thread... rising.

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by Bleachyleachy » Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:03 pm

Was Anita Sarkisian anything to do with it per chance? These replies are ringing a faint bell

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by Tafdolphin » Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:46 pm

Bleachyleachy wrote:Was Anita Sarkisian anything to do with it per chance? These replies are ringing a faint bell


She was one of the main targets of GG yes, mainly due to her creating a video series concentrating on sexism in games. Nerdy white guys apparently hate that gooseberry fool.

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by Fade » Fri Apr 20, 2018 7:08 pm

Does anyone else smell burning?

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by Slayerx » Fri Apr 20, 2018 9:13 pm

Bleachyleachy wrote:Was Anita Sarkisian anything to do with it per chance? These replies are ringing a faint bell


Yeah tbh she is a leach at best all that money she raised to make videos.

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by Tafdolphin » Fri Apr 20, 2018 9:30 pm

Slayerx wrote:
Bleachyleachy wrote:Was Anita Sarkisian anything to do with it per chance? These replies are ringing a faint bell


Yeah tbh she is a leach at best all that money she raised to make videos.


Could you go into what you mean by this?

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by Dig Dug » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:08 pm

Always amazes me that her name can't come up without someone inserting something negative into sentences. Reminds me of when I went to a lecture at uni and her name came up in a presentation, the lecturer asked the class if they knew who she was. The guy who offered to explain who she was couldn't help himself when it came to putting negative adjectives in the explanation.

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by Knoyleo » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:16 pm

Tafdolphin wrote:
Slayerx wrote:
Bleachyleachy wrote:Was Anita Sarkisian anything to do with it per chance? These replies are ringing a faint bell


Yeah tbh she is a leach at best all that money she raised to make videos.


Could you go into what you mean by this?

lmao, oh god, here we go.

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by Buffalo » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:17 pm

Jesus H Christ

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by kerr9000 » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:20 pm

Maybe, just maybe its because shes basically a con artist? Therefore She enrages a lot of peoples sense of right and wrong.

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by Slayerx » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:37 pm

Tafdolphin wrote:
Slayerx wrote:
Bleachyleachy wrote:Was Anita Sarkisian anything to do with it per chance? These replies are ringing a faint bell


Yeah tbh she is a leach at best all that money she raised to make videos.


Could you go into what you mean by this?


Sourcing funds from people online to make videos and then not actually making all the videos she raised money to make.

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by OldSoulCyborg » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:46 pm

Slayerx wrote:Sourcing funds from people online to make videos and then not actually making all the videos she raised money to make.


Pretty sure she did though. Even produced more videos than originally planned.


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