I'm not even sure what your point is. Yeah I'd rather sleep with a dakimakura of my waifu Renge-chan than with some random 3D slut but that doesn't mean I'm desperate, it's the opposite, it implies that I have standards.
Can someone seriously explain to me why people still care and why multiple subreddits popped up about such a boring situation? I was interested in it for 5 minutes then went on with my life yet we still hear about it every day. It's just not that interesting.
GG changed the moderation of many big sites. /v/, /r/gaming, neogaf, something awful, etc. Millions of people visit these sites where thousands and thousands of people got banned from forums where they had spent significant amounts of time. Comment sections on stories also changed; removed entirely or a system got added where comments must be approved before being visible. When the forums/media around a hobby changes that much people don't let go easy.
AGG also still uses GG as a whipping boy anytime they are criticized. Weeks ago a male, 18-year industry veteran is exposed and mocked for being utter dogshit at a platformer to the point he get stuck at the incredibly simplistic tutorial for minutes; despite being so dogshit he still tries to critique the gameplay as if his opinion matters. Not a woman in sight but he and others still say that the people mocking and criticizing him are GG and evil. They also don't acknowledged this undercuts the idea of GG only being about hating women.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
What a fucking muppet. Why did you bring gameegate unironically in 2017, /u/rguin? Some gamer stole your gf from you and you are mad to this day? Why do you hate the right so much? If weren't for them in the world war 2, the nazties would be ruling the world
The sports culture habituates an "othering" effect (your team vs. others' team), which can be manipulated to push xenophobic agendas, which are especially useful for justifying war and typically right wing.
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1 SnapshillBot 2017-09-29
I'm not even sure what your point is. Yeah I'd rather sleep with a dakimakura of my waifu Renge-chan than with some random 3D slut but that doesn't mean I'm desperate, it's the opposite, it implies that I have standards.
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1 aonome 2017-09-29
/u/rguin I've noticed that SJWs use y'all a lot. Why is this?
1 AnnoysTheGoys 2017-09-29
Cultural appropriation tbqh
1 captainpriapism 2017-09-29
theyre trying to sound less like the boring middle upper class college kids that they are
they think it gives that urban touch to their speech so black people wont instinctively dismiss them
1 alphetasauce 2017-09-29
The urbans stole it from the southerners. We made it cool first.
1 Kebabchichi 2017-09-29
black people stealing? color me surprised.
1 LemonScore 2017-09-29
They mimic the mannerisms of real humans to sound less like the hivemind of retards that they are and y'all sounds folksy and real to them.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-09-29
Hot sauce.
1 MisterHundred 2017-09-29
tumblr
you'll also notice a lot of SJWs use solely lowcaps and no punctuation, generally in a very smug manner
1 Nechaev 2017-09-29
Saying "you guys" is way too problematic.
Same with "you people".
1 ProphetRith 2017-09-29
Makes them sound BLACKED
1 VonFreeman 2017-09-29
It's been dead for 4 fucking years and people are still asshurt about gamergate.
1 ATissu 2017-09-29
God tier lolcow
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-09-29
Beating a dead lolhorse
1 Fr33_Lax 2017-09-29
We're gonna turn that thing into oil at this rate.
1 Thot_Crusher 2017-09-29
There won't be spicy drama like that for a long, long time
1 Fletch71011 2017-09-29
Can someone seriously explain to me why people still care and why multiple subreddits popped up about such a boring situation? I was interested in it for 5 minutes then went on with my life yet we still hear about it every day. It's just not that interesting.
1 Pepperglue 2017-09-29
GGers care because apparently SJWs are still out there, despite being on the defensive now.
AGGers care because apparently this is what caused Trump to win.
1 Bonzalez 2017-09-29
Autism
1 cnac1 2017-09-29
GG changed the moderation of many big sites. /v/, /r/gaming, neogaf, something awful, etc. Millions of people visit these sites where thousands and thousands of people got banned from forums where they had spent significant amounts of time. Comment sections on stories also changed; removed entirely or a system got added where comments must be approved before being visible. When the forums/media around a hobby changes that much people don't let go easy.
AGG also still uses GG as a whipping boy anytime they are criticized. Weeks ago a male, 18-year industry veteran is exposed and mocked for being utter dogshit at a platformer to the point he get stuck at the incredibly simplistic tutorial for minutes; despite being so dogshit he still tries to critique the gameplay as if his opinion matters. Not a woman in sight but he and others still say that the people mocking and criticizing him are GG and evil. They also don't acknowledged this undercuts the idea of GG only being about hating women.
1 umar4812 2017-09-29
To clarify, they were called misogynistic GGers. Not just GGers.
1 nanonan 2017-09-29
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/6yeuhu/whos_smarter_a_professional_gaming_journalist_or/
It's more relevant than ever.
1 Fokusfaehre 2017-09-29
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
1 umar4812 2017-09-29
Oh boy.
1 mastoric 2017-09-29
Things haven't improved and gamer gate is a good place to pin point where shit escalated.
1 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2017-09-29
A spectre is haunting reddit — the spectre of Gamergate.
1 ltedt 2017-09-29
What a fucking muppet. Why did you bring gameegate unironically in 2017, /u/rguin? Some gamer stole your gf from you and you are mad to this day? Why do you hate the right so much? If weren't for them in the world war 2, the nazties would be ruling the world
1 Nechaev 2017-09-29
/u/rguin/submitted
r/circlebroke2 - check
r/negareddit - check
r/GGfreeforall - check
1 HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-09-29
😂 wtf?
1 RichEvansSextape 2017-09-29
All sports should ban teams so the losing side doesn't feel bad.
1 casualrocket 2017-09-29
careful dont give them ideas!