I should have said "people who actually played..."

This sounds about right to me. The only takeaway question I have from it though; is how does anyone give a shit about Zoe Quinn?

Nobody does, really. The anger, I think, really comes from the fact that these people got caught with their pants down, and instead of offering a mea culpa and moving on they decided to attack their customers... and it worked, to a certain extent. I mean, look at the slashdot headline! They've been successful at creating the GG = misogyny meme by visiting 4chan and chumming for some crazy.

I'm not sure how to read the larger picture except as another indication facts don't matter to SJWs, as if we needed more evidence.

Do all the reviewers in "the best presses in the United States" bang the same girl and give her pathetic game good reviews? This isn't about people "knowing each other", unless you're talking in the biblical sense.

Let's recap here. Zoe Quinn slept with all the major game reviewers and/or their editors. She gets rave reviews for a game people who actually bought have panned mercilessly. Literally caught with their pants down, they point to their customers and scream "sexist!". That's the point of the scandal. You can dress it up however you like, but at the root it's about corruption in the gaming press.

It's probably the most polite way to describe people who are, at their core, fucking fascists.

Yeah, this place is like a SJW commune sometimes. The GG stuff is laughable given the actual facts.

That's a whole 'nother issue, one on which I agree with you. Sadly, the supreme court came down on the wrong side in Wickard, so things are the way they are.

Meh. At this time illegal drugs are, well, illegal. The executive branch is not and should not be in the business of deciding which laws are stupid and which aren't. That's for Congress to decide. As long as what the Silk Road people were doing was illegal, the feds have a responsibility to arrest and prosecute them.

Yeah, and if you don't want your papers gone though, the last thing you want to do is sue someone. There's this legal thing called "discovery"...

You realize to half the country "swiftboating" means "pointing out facts you'd rather nobody knew"?

And yeah, Mann is worried about having his papers under subpoena. Why is that, do you think?

This is very unlikely. The idea you could reduce poker to a look-up table regardless of your opponent is laugable.

I know a guy who sold a script to a studio. Basically they took a clean script and in a series of six rewrites jammed in everything a movie "needs" to make money. Certain types of characters, a certain type of pacing, and merchandising. They stripped out any cultural references non-American moviegoers might not understand. In the end if it were soup it would be lukewarm and tasteless. He didn't care because he knows the business and he new better than to get attached (and they pay well), but they might have made a good movie out of the original. Nobody would bother with the rewrite (not that they actually made the movie).

So falling domestic numbers really aren't much of a surprise. The studios have a formula for making money on a world audience, so it's no surprise so many movies come out to be mostly the same.

I don't know if it's still true, but years ago when a friend of mine ran a theater he said the ticket basically pays the cost of the movie itself. All the overhead and profit came from concessions.

It's not like he made a ton of money, either.

I don't know why, but women never seem to get charged for this kind of stuff. Remember Crystal Mangam, who made up a gang rape by Duke Lacrosse players out of whole cloth? Never charged. Well, until she started knifing her boyfriends. They charged her for that.

Someday the legal system will treat women as harshly as men, but that ain't today.

Bullshit. I wish people would stop trying to sell that nonsense. Gamergate is about 1) corruption in the gaming media, where a chick can sleep her way into good reviews for a horrid game and 2) a gaming press that insults the people who pay the bills and then pretends it's all about sexism when they get called on it (you fell for that part. What a sap.) and 3) journolist-style story coordination by people who are supposed to be independent.

Attention whores like Sarkeesian only showed up later when there were enough people interested they could provoke a response on 4chan.

I really wish these people would be punished somehow. The FBI doesn't have unlimited resources, and chasing around fake death threats isn't something the agency needs to be doing.