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Old 10-31-2014, 10:09 PM   #1
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The sort of thing Rhiannon would have appreciated is my dick

Kalyx, Rhiannon is #NOTYOURSHIELD. oops.
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Old 10-31-2014, 10:41 PM   #2
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Old 10-31-2014, 10:46 PM   #3
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Old 11-01-2014, 02:25 PM   #4
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I think Kalyx is more concerned with the third part of his final sentence than the actual safety and well-being of the victims.
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Old 11-01-2014, 03:38 PM   #5
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I think Kalyx is more concerned with the third part of his final sentence than the actual safety and well-being of the victims.
I don't want anybody hurt, and people need to be able to say what I said without fear of somebody saying they don't care. I spent several pages of this thread condemning threats, harassment, and doxxing. Obviously I'm not fine with these things.
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Old 11-01-2014, 05:36 PM   #6
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Old 11-02-2014, 11:56 AM   #7
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I have a question. Does Gamergate hate women because having sex without rape is just a lost cause for all of you?
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Old 11-02-2014, 12:32 PM   #8
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I have a question. Does Gamergate hate women because having sex without rape is just a lost cause for all of you?
Follow up question: Do you feel like you'd have a better understanding of women if you took games less seriously?
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Old 11-02-2014, 07:45 PM   #9
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Old 11-02-2014, 07:59 PM   #10
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By Queensbury rules yes. He certainly embedded the most links, and he made many modest proposals rationally and without using dirty words. He gets the debating club gold star. By he I mean they, sorry.
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Old 11-03-2014, 12:31 AM   #11
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No, people asked questions, he calmly explained the answers. Then those people proceeded to promptly ignore everything he said in favor of making uninformed arguments.

Kalyx clearly is the victor here. He even made TheRogerer freak out and I thought that was something only I could do.
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Old 11-03-2014, 06:16 AM   #12
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No, people asked questions, he calmly explained the answers. Then those people proceeded to promptly ignore everything he said in favor of making uninformed arguments.

Kalyx clearly is the victor here. He even made TheRogerer freak out and I thought that was something only I could do.
No matter how calmly a person explains their insanity it doesnt make them sound any less crazy. and this is bennie baby hoarders level crazy.

and thats pretty much my entire take on Gamergate too. too many toys to have real problems.
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Old 11-03-2014, 11:27 PM   #13
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No matter how calmly a person explains their insanity it doesnt make them sound any less crazy. and this is bennie baby hoarders level crazy.

and thats pretty much my entire take on Gamergate too. too many toys to have real problems.
I kind of feel this way about game journalists trying to make the case that all gamers are secretly raping babies or whatever nonsense they came up with. A while back TOR.com published a screed about how scifi books shouldn't focus on characters with binary gender.

Aside from being asinine, it was also a case where the blog poster had no clue what she was talking about. The scifi genre has no shortage of weird sexuality.

That the social justice warriors would be so prominent in game media isn't surprising, nor is it surprising that they're just as out of the loop and dishonest as they are in every other part of the culture they inhabit.

What is so crazy about Kalyx's stances on game journalism exactly? Other than absolutely nothing I mean.
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Old 11-03-2014, 12:38 AM   #14
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I also love the part where people try to pass themselves off as the "authority" on Anonymous.

I leave you with this:
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Old 11-03-2014, 01:31 AM   #15
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#CatGate: The Search for Ethics in Cat Journalism

Thursday, Oct 30, 2014 by A True Cat Fan





It wasn't long ago that cat appreciation was reserved solely for True Cat Fans. Yet, in the past few years, Deformed Cat Advocates-or DFAs-have imposed their will on the cat enthusiast community, and their agenda is clear: Only images of cats with adorable birth defects will do. Superimpose "cute" sayings in Impact font if you must, but let's not ignore the able-bodied cats that got us to where we are today. Remember Socks? The mid-to-late nineties almost feel like they were decades ago.


Just yesterday, an irritating co-worker of mine-let's call her "Denise," though her name is actually "Sherri"-posted an image of this "Grumpy Cat" character to my Facebook wall, which included the text "I'm only in a bad mood on every day that ends in a Y." Well, I wasn't about to let this Fake Cat Lover off the hook. I immediately grabbed one of the many copies of my Morris scrapbook-of course you know him as the famous 9 Lives mascot-and headed over to Denise's desk to give her a piece of my mind. Really, what right did she have to even dabble in cat enthusiasm? Did she spend hours meticulously clipping images of Morris out of Redbooks stolen from the library? Did she meet Morris in person at the ribbon-cutting of a drive-thru oil change in 1987? Was she one of the five people permitted to make a death mask upon Morris' passing in 1993?


I shouldn't have to tell you the answers to these questions. Unfortunately, this little altercation ended with a mandatory visit to our HR rep, who just happened to be Denise, so I didn't have to go far. She said I should take my lunch break early to go "cool off," so I did exactly that, and grabbed the latest issue of Cat Fancy from my desk on the way out. Unfortunately, this did nothing to quell my sour mood. I immediately flipped to the reviews section, because I must be a glutton for punishment. Before me sat the least objective analyses of cat-focused products my poor eyes had ever seen. In his evaluation of Friskies Party Mix Crunch Original Cat Treats, this "Steve Anderson" person had the gall to say, and I quote, "My little guy didn't want any more after a few servings, but obviously, results may vary with your particular cat."





Um, excuse me? Steve, you may want to reach out to the Cracker Jack company about the state of your degree, because really-is this what passes for cat journalism these days? Let's keep these personal biases out of product evaluations. I'll have you know I've raised six generations of cats on Friskies, and, outside of the kidney disorders the Friskies hotline assured me were common for most kittens, they've never steered me wrong. I can't even imagine the damage you've done to the Friskies brand with your one-sided, agenda-driven hooey. Is Mr. Anderson just a puppet of the Fancy Feast company, whose nameless white cat mascot is just a shameless imitation of the timeless Morris? I haven't been given any convincing reasons to believe this wasn't a shameful breach of ethics that will forever taint Cat Fancy in my eyes. But what I saw next was simply beyond belief. I had to push aside half of my Carl's Jr. bacon ranch fries for the sheer stomach discomfort this issue's feature story inflicted upon me. On page 87, underneath that familiar malformed face sat the words "An Evening With Lil' Bub." I assure you, those fast-food employees must have cursed their minimum wage salaries for all of the vomit they had to clean up that day.


I couldn't believe it. The DFA had gotten to the once-credible institute known as Cat Fancy. I had no choice but to investigate. I turned to one of our IT guys, and after agreeing to take the fall if anyone found out about his underground pornography ring, he did a little e-mail hacking of a certain Beth A. Goodman, who you all surely know as the editor-in-chief of Cat Fancy magazine-and the results were damning. Turns out, months earlier, the owner of Lil' Bub reached out to the publication, stating, "Going to be in the Irvine area Wednesday for a photo shoot-would love to check out the Cat Fancy offices!" To which Ms. Goodman replied, "Sure, that'd be great!" Collusion! My weak stomach ejected the remaining contents of my lunch into my cubicle. Though this would be a half-day for me, it was a Pyrrhic victory at best.


True Cat Fans, I implore you. This injustice will not stand. We must fight fire with fire, and that means a coordinated e-mail campaign and boycott of all Cat Fancy advertisers. By all means, do not harass Beth A. Goodman at her home on 2234 Elkridge Court in Irvine, California-and especially not when she gets home from work at 6:34pm (give or take). Do not send threatening messages to her children, Zach and Ira Goodman, who are in 6th and 8th grade (respectively) at Ronald Reagan Middle School at 436 Birch Street. And certainly you should not poison her dog, who eats out of a red bowl located roughly 15 feet from the garage door, behind the gardenia bush. Our voices will be heard. #CatGate will be our cause. And if there are any lawyers out there, I need to know the difference between manslaughter and the various degrees of murder. For a friend.


– A True Cat Fan
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Old 11-03-2014, 06:28 AM   #16
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Well if DTTS has one thing in his favour then he's proving that there's no such thing as objectivity and everything depends on subjective interpretation. Which is a bit of a blow to #gamergate's post-hoc manifesto, but why let reality get in the way of a debate.

I am going to go and hysterically blub in the corner, and I will miss Kalyx winning the DTTS award for good posting.
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Old 11-03-2014, 12:18 PM   #17
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Yo DTTS; that article RoXer pasted - that's gaslighting.
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It can't be, TheRogerer didn't freak out about it and refuse to watch the video.
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Old 11-04-2014, 12:51 PM   #19
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The call of gamergate has been for objectivity in coverage and reviews which is absolutely backwards. A subjective review is much more helpful because it is honest about the inherent preferences, balances and impressions. I would like to see a game review that is properly objective while being readable and informative.

The call for objectivity is mostly based in the fact that these subjective reviews have opinions that the audience don't agree with. This is only sometimes 'S.J.W.' issues, just as often it's been that someone has given a review score that does not match the status quo.

Also, it's not actually really games journalism, but enthusiast press.
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I would like to see a game review that is properly objective while being readable and informative.
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Old 11-05-2014, 01:28 PM   #21
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That is not an objective review. This is not meant as a criticism, it's just me pointing out the difficulty of having a truly objective game review system. There are a couple of things here, such as you describing Ada Wong as "sexy and secretive" (I don't think this is problematic or offensive or sexist or anything like that, though I do find pretty much all attempts by games to be sexy or to introduce sexuality to be juvenile and embarrassing) rather than, say, describing Leon as "sexy". You also talk about the storyline working "for you" which is an overt acknowledgement that this is your own opinion, though you don't go into detail on this, presumably for reasons of plot spoiling. Thematically, the storyline may not work for others.

Now, straining to be objective isn't necessarily helpful because some people (myself included) like to hear about interesting or problematic themes in story-telling, be it in film, TV or games. As I've said, I listen to one particular film critic for this very reason as I know he'll point out narrative themes that bother him in the same way they bother me. If games are to "grow up" as a form of entertainment, then these criticisms of narrative in games have to be made. Arguing that it is a hindrance to artistic freedom is a red herring: no one has to change in response to criticism, but they have to decide whether the criticism is voluble or accurate enough to look at their own methods. More refined criticism leads to greater innovation in games and story-telling. As the consumer, it's also your prerogative to value the opinions of certain critics (journalists, reviewers).
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Rogerer was right that I posted that old review as something of a gag, but I did wanna point out that reviews absent of political slants are possible. It's the entirety of classic EGM's reviews, for instance.

When you say games are growing up and thus new kinds of criticism are required, I kinda call bullshit on that. Games have been criticized well enough for years and has they evolved toward realism or alternative goals, so to did commentary change with them.

Now I'm not saying you can't make a review that expresses your political rhetoric, but you have to remember these games aren't made to promote any political or social commentary. Judging them as such makes a monkey out of you.

If you wanted to review a Tom Clancy game through the lens of political rhetoric that makes perfect sense. Even the Metal Gear games for all their military fantasy. I can see that. But it's unfair viewing a game through political lens when the creators didn't venture out for that kind of thing. It's a major missing the point as well as painting a developer/publisher in a corner they never prepared for. And I don't think they should start preparing for them.

In my review I highlighted Ada as sexy and secretive, tropes of the Femme Fatale archetype. It is exactly the words you use to describe that kind of character. A women would write the same thing if she wanted to highlight her and the trope. The developers were very aware of the character type as well. It makes sense to mention that. I won't call Leon sexy not because I'm not gay - but because his character traits weren't made with that in mind. He was young and in over his head when he debuted in the series. That's not sexy at all. That's not any archetypes that include 'sexy'.

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Rogerer was right that I posted that old review as something of a gag, but I did wanna point out that reviews absent of political slants are possible. It's the entirety of classic EGM's reviews, for instance.

When you say games are growing up and thus new kinds of criticism are required, I kinda call bullshit on that. Games have been criticized well enough for years and has they evolved toward realism or alternative goals, so to did commentary change with them.

Now I'm not saying you can't make a review that expresses your political rhetoric, but you have to remember these games aren't made to promote any political or social commentary. Judging them as such makes a monkey out of you.

If you wanted to review a Tom Clancy game through the lens of political rhetoric that makes perfect sense. Even the Metal Gear games for all their military fantasy. I can see that. But it's unfair viewing a game through political lens when the creators didn't venture out for that kind of thing. It's a major missing the point as well as painting a developer/publisher in a corner they never prepared for. And I don't think they should start preparing for them.

In my review I highlighted Ada as sexy and secretive, tropes of the Femme Fatale archetype. It is exactly the words you use to describe that kind of character. A women would write the same thing if she wanted to highlight her and the trope. The developers were very aware of the character type as well. It makes sense to mention that. I won't call Leon sexy not because I'm not gay - but because his character traits weren't made with that in mind. He was young and in over his head when he debuted in the series. That's not sexy at all. That's not any archetypes that include 'sexy'.

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It doesn't matter if games are not made with the express purpose of making political or rhetorical statements if there are themes there-in that people still find problematic. I appreciate that Mark Kermode, the film reviewer I refer to, points out that Sex and the City has revolting capitalist/consumerist overtones with crudely-drawn, subservient, noble savage foreign characters and that Michael Bay films have vulgar, unnecessary objectification of women. I want to know these things because I know these things will annoy me, even if the only intention of the film maker was to rope in a certain demographic.

Similarly, if a reviewer or critic wants to highlight problematic issues in story-telling or imagery in games, that is fair game. That is what critique is about. The artist's intent is utterly irrelevant, to be honest, and, indeed, this is where games designers need to realise that part of having a wider audience is acknowledging that people will have problems with the things you do.

It's not really for you to say how a reviewer or critic interprets these things. You can either argue with them or ignore it. The point is that society informs art and art informs society. If games want to be seen as something enjoyed by people other than teenage boys in their dark bedrooms then with that comes different priorities in story-telling and imagery for different audiences. Furthermore, this encourages innovation in story-telling, which is important as games attempt to be more about an encompassing experience.

Games are also yet another media frontier in challenging sociological archetypes, because young and impressionable people play them. There is, again, nothing wrong with pointing this out. As an adult male who has played games all his life, I don't want to be embarrassed by the hobby.
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He thinks we were calling him CHT in our personal discussion. The fact that he was reading our discussion is beyond me though since he usually calls that sort of thing "stalking".
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Yeah I can't imagine what compelled him to 'dig' in either of our visitor messages. Boredom, I guess.
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Yeah I can't imagine what compelled him to 'dig' in either of our visitor messages. Boredom, I guess.
I stumbled into it while looking for something else. I'm sorry if I've created the impression that your conversation was in somehow worth reading or of interest to anyone. Why would a conversation about me attract my attention, indeed? Feel free to have it. The flow of the conversation meant that it appeared I was being referred to as CHT as your new conversation bleeds into the old one, and then my name appears out of nowhere. An innocent mistake, however you may understand the feeling that one is being referred to in code by a man who has a history of playing with you, arouses some curiosity.

Is your link to the Resident Evil 2 review a joke? I'm struggling to find significant objective thrusts in there, of course there are factual descriptions throughout. It's a decent review, it revels in your subjective experience, these things are connected.

I thought it would be best for Zimmerman if everyone stopped discussing him.
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Zimmerman will probably do something else to get put in jail. He just has a shitty personality and view on life. He is trash.

He will do something stupid like OJ did and he'll be back in jail.

I think justice was served in him being not-guilty but he has already proven that he is just waiting for the time to ruin his life again. Road Rage incident, visiting a gun manufacture and something about guns with his girlfriend involving police. He is living dangerously.
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If we must have this out, I went to DTTS's profile to view the 'View threads created by DTTS' link. Right below that I saw a verbose visitor message from you, which you can click to view the whole conversation in isolation. I'm not opposed to you having it, I imagine having a quasi-public discussion gives the same thrill as alleyway sex. And you're both quite entitled since I've had a go at both of you. I've even bent my own code of conduct a little in referring to you a couple of times in non related discussions, which was silly but not really disproprotionate in the whole scheme of things.
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If we must have this out, I went to DTTS's profile to view the 'View threads created by DTTS' link. Right below that I saw a verbose visitor message from you, which you can click to view the whole conversation in isolation. I'm not opposed to you having it, I imagine having a quasi-public discussion gives the same thrill as alleyway sex. And you're both quite entitled since I've had a go at both of you. I've even bent my own code of conduct a little in referring to you a couple of times in non related discussions, which was silly but not really disproprotionate in the whole scheme of things.
You had a go at me? When?
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There's only nothing political in your review because a)the game is blockbuster/b-movie cinema referential and b)it doesn't say anything to your personal beliefs. If it did have something to say, or cause a reaction in you I would expect you to talk about that and not deny it.

I don't know why a reviewer should attempt to write towards an approximation of the mainstream audience because that's dishonest, and that person doesn't exist. I think it's a sign of your biases that you think military storylines and games warrant discussion, but other things don't. Many people have many things to say, different values, and different things that matter to them. We all have biases. Your opinion is also understandable and not irregular, but not absolute by any means.

Why shouldn't a player, a reviewer, challenge the artist with something they didn't intend? Are artists supposed to be omniscent? What about the Death of the Author? What about all the unintended consequence of art? They are intrinsic to creative works. Why should the reviewer surpress themselves, and lie? We're supposed to be chasing honesty here. If someone forms an opinion of the art as is, others may feel the same way, they should not lie about their experience. If they try to surpress and ignore it, they will likely fail anyway.

We have your personal perspectives and biases, and I've tried to highlight yours in that post. Where I think you've gone wrong is the easy and classical mistake that you take so much of your perspective for granted and then assume that to be the objective. You are as subjective as anyone else. I can read your review with an assessment of you, the things you're into, the things you've played, and that all forms part of my impression. Do not forget the most important part, we are all humans here.
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