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Comment Re:A highly relevant comment from the previous pos (Score 1) 262

Your sub $500 computer--if you build it yourself is more powerful than the consoles out on the market today and can use DX11 implementations without a problem. The DX9 market you're talking about are the bottom-basement machines that have a $40 videocard in them.

Comment Re:But let's remember (Score 1) 474

That "citation" is by Eron Gjoni. You can't say "according to her" when she didn't write a single word in what you're claiming for support. At best, you can say "according to this guy who really hates her, she believes [x horrible thing]" , but then everyone would be rightfully skeptical.

Correction: He wrote the blog, though her own posts via her facebook are there where she makes the claim of that definition. That means by her cheating against him, her own definition comes into play. So saying "she didn't write a single word" is factually incorrect, or are you saying that she didn't actually write on her own FB page and make those statements?

Comment Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo (Score 1) 474

Really? Can you point out the misogyny. I'll wait. Go on, find it. By the way, between let's say KiA and gamerghazi or one of the other 5 subs that are run, which one lets both sides speak? I'll give you a hint. It's KiA as long as you follow the rule of no doxxing, you can be as anti-as you want.

Comment Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo (Score 1) 474

So why should I bother reading this shit?

It's not like they have a monopoly on having a "gamer neighborhood watch" on twitter. If they are as horrible as you say (honestly, I never heard of them), dump them, ignore them, open up your own.

Since it's the opposition. And the opposition believes that anyone who doesn't toe their line is either: sexist, misogynist, racist, bigoted, have internalized muhsoggyknees, a dupe, uncle tom, house nigger, and three or four other thing I'm forgetting. But they've called anyone who wants journalism reform and clear ethics exactly that.

So, ask yourself--if being a minority and you get labeled a uncle tom with internalized misogyny, who is only following the pro-gg movement because you're too stupid. You wouldn't question the anti-gg side's actual involvement in all of this. If you're not actually following the movement at all, it's mainly left-libertarian(pro-gg) vs left-authoritarian(anti-gg). There are quite a few on the right who are also pro-gg, they're fall right-libertarian though. I've long come to the conclusion that the anti-gg side is made up of people from 1784, and have a strong desire to go back to more puritan ideals. Especially if you don't "fit their vision" of what's allowed.

Comment Re:The UK doesn't have freedom of speech (Score 1, Insightful) 316

So the IRS going after tea party groups according to their own internal emails wasn't an attempt to suppress free speech? Okay. I mean, I can see how you believe it wasn't, after all...all those "convenient losses of emails" from a very particular time period, of not only lois lerner, but a dozen or more other people directly related to it...well, what are the chances right?

Comment Re:Too Little, Too Late (Score 2) 30

Echo location isn't about removing the blind persons need for a cane, even with people who are good at it are still recommended to use a cane because things like grates, poles, or holes do not work well with echo location. As the sound passed threw it and back.
What it does mean is with the aid of a cane and the watch they will be able to move more quickly with more assurance that there isn't something big going to be in the way.

Comment Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo (Score 1) 474

So if I say A is stupid I have to be for B? False dichotomy much?

According to the anti-GG side, yes you have to be--which is the point I was making, though I should have expanded on it a bit more. Try going against their particular view, and you'll be thrown into the dirt for your troubles.

Comment Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo (Score 1) 474

Actually I'm pretty sure that SJW's are puritans in disguise at this point. Every time something comes along, the first thing they start screaming about is "sexism" or "muhsoggyknees." Strange that it just keeps happening over and over again, you know like with Matt Taylors shirt(who was made by a women). I'm sure though that you'll also find that the majority of people in gamergate are left-libertarians. And the majority of anti-gg are left-authoritarians.

Comment Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo (Score 1) 474

So you're saying you're pro-corruption then? I have to wonder if you read the gamejournopros emails or not, they're just about as good as the journolist stuff--fun fact, same guy who started journolist started gamejournopros and then shit hit the fan there too. What is it about people who think that "hiding in the shadows to make a narrative" is a good idea.

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Comment Re:But let's remember (Score 4, Informative) 474

Having consensual sex with someone is a crime? On what planet? Oh and [citation needed] for claim about what she claims is rape.

Yep, according to her. If you're in a relationship with that person. Here's your citation It's long though. Really though, gamergate as a whole moved beyond this after about 5 days, when people kept digging and found exactly how much cross-collusion was going on. Anyone who's either in the industry, or has watched the industry has known for 20 years that there was "favors for friends" and collusion. This just broke the proverbial camels back.

Comment Re:But let's remember (Score 5, Informative) 474

1) They weren't invented crimes. They did happen, she openly admitted to banging 5 guys while in a relationship. Using her own definition of rape, she raped her current partner that she was in a relationship with.
2) No, getting ads pulled because they lied about the movement in the first place. This then further followed by Nick Denton supporting one of his writers stating to "bring back bullying, that nerds should be bullied" and so on.
3) So, critique is harassment? By the way, how does one harass someone when they refuse to debate something.
4) No one in GG has "pushed or published" a gamers bill of rights. That was the anti-GG sides attempt. However, dozens of sites and youtubers have changed their ethics and disclosure policies since GG has started. Including Escapist+8 other affiliate sites, IGN is working on an updated ethics policy, and so on. Youtubers like Total biscuit have also been more open, you might remember him--he's the one who broke the story on the Shadows of Mordor stuff.
5) No one is defending #1 or #3. Though they correct people like you who are getting their information from very specific sources. But it sure makes for a tasty story doesn't it.

Comment Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo (Score 4, Informative) 474

Oh you mean the article where Jimmy Wales had to step in and openly state that the article in question had no neutrality. Where he called out several senior editors for engaging in a edit war, skewing it out of neutrality. Where he had to step in to the Gamejournopros article, openly stating that there "was collusion, and at best it could be called denied not debunked." That same article, where he's now called on the pro-GG side to write their own article, because groups like project feminism and editors with no desire for objectivity have tainted the entire thing.

Yep, we sure do like facts.

Comment Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo (Score 5, Informative) 474

You mean the gamergate guys who found the brazillian "journalist" who was attacking and doxxing anita? But she didn't want to do anything about it. Or people like geordie tait(who's anti-gg) attacking gamergate by calling for a new holocaust

Like the GG-harassment patrol which goes after anyone on both sides? Yep, nothing at all. Then again, I could ask where is the anti-side denouncing people like Briana Wu, Lee Alexander, or Mattie Brice.

Comment These idiots are going to ruin it for everyone (Score 1) 132

Expect to see them heavily regulated or banned soon.

Exactly how are they going to ban them? Short of banning them completely from stores -- a heavy-handed move that would likely meet significant legal obstacles -- they're going to be out there. You can't control where people fly these things, either. You could try jamming commonly-used RC frequencies to stop people from manually flying them here or there, but you can't stop someone who might pre-program a GPS-guided drone to deliberately go into controlled airspace without also jamming GPS -- and that would piss off too many people. And if that fails, really determined bad guy/idiot could put together an inertial guidance setup and *still* get into your airspace.

The only way to be sure is to shoot them down, but that's also impractical. These things are here to stay. I'm not saying I like it anymore than you because, I agree, some fool is going to fly their shiny quadcopter into the intake of a plane during takeoff and kill a bunch of people. I just don't see a way to stop them that's both legal (i.e. respects the safe, legal use of drones for legitimate purposes) and practical (you can't just shoot them all down).

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