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Comment Re:Three Cheers for Zoe Quinn (Score 1) 693

You've failed at stats and logic.

You are trying to argue how you are reasonable people setting an appropriate tone and during that argument after I gave you a clear response that's how you come back. I think I've proven my point about tone. As for the math. Think about what I said.

t, but you're assuming she has a high degree of knowledge of gaming.

No she's demonstrated a high degree of knowledge about gaming by being able to pull in multiple examples.

What does matter is she is abusive, manipulative and a liar.

Why does her being abusive to her boyfriend, matter in a discussion of ethics in journalism? Also why the tone? That's the problem. That's why people don't believe you that you have nothing to do with anti-woman terrorism.

being used to prevent discussion of a series of events around a horrible human.

There was no serious event. She got an article that mentioned her game a few extra times. That was the event.

You're conflating what she's received in the past and her getting harassment anyway to her getting harassed and saying it's coming from a group without proving that group is doing anything of the kind to her.

No I'm not. Again the correlation. Which BTW Nightline agreed with.

Why is she getting attention for her involvement in GamerGate from the media?

Because her argument is that GamerGate is a social movement that attacks women and not about ethics in journalism. An argument that others accept because the people who are arguing about ethics in journalism don't seem interested in say ethics in political journalism or computer journalism while they do have interests in anti-feminism with regard to gaming.

Have you watched ABC Nightline that was just last week?

Just did. And well there is another highly credible news organization asserting that she is under serious threat.

Have you read ANY article in the last 5 months on GamerGate?

Yes.

Because just about everything is saying GamerGate is harassment campaign and has her face slapped on it, but nothing's actually providing proof there's ANY harassment coming from GamerGate.

I just did. You dismissed it while being insulting.

Um... We're not harassing anyone... We just write e-mails to advertisers for shitty click bait gaming websites and chat with other gamers on twitter about shitty click bait journalist and gaming related stuff... person unrelated to the controversy is entitled to their opinion, but they're not an expert on gaming, they're full of shit and I don't personally like them."

Stop using the word "shitty". People unrelated to this controversy don't need to be experts on gaming they may very well be knowledgeable about how trade presses work in other industries and if this is about ethics in journalism gaming knowledge isn't that important.

Comment Re:Better Late Than Never (Score 1) 693

Not so much argue as discuss. Obviously if you are totally opposed to the entire program, and impossible to persuade, there isn't much to discuss. But in real politics there are often people who somewhat support parts of a goal, but object to some of the risks and costs. Those people are where the point of discussion happens. Once it stops being about agitating the base and instead becomes a discussion of persuading moderates you often get a lot of practical agreement emerging because moderates frequently side with the side that seems to be more reasonable and less heated (as the mainstream media's endorsement of anti-GamerGate I think shows).

So for example I that the video games she's pointing to most have misogynistic themes that sexual exploitation of women is used to make games gritty. I'm not sure however that's avoidable in gritty games and I don't think she's fully taking into account how important sex is for setting a mood. Characters in a distopia can't be having healthy happy sexual relationships without it breaking the mood. I also think playful sexuality is fine while she often doesn't. OTOH where I think she makes far more sense is when it is counter productive. For example the Lego advertising she talks about. That's an area where I see no reason that either sexism or violence needs to be part of the product and I'd fully support what's doing.

That's the kind of discussion I think SJWs would welcome. And I think that's the kind of discussion the anti-SJW side should be more open to. People who think sexism is a problem and think game worlds need to use sex to build the mood.

Comment Re:Better Late Than Never (Score 1) 693

I just don't believe that. Lots of people believe their cause is moral and righteous. They also frequently once they start focusing on pragmatic accomplishments can see how they have to take other views into account. Politics is about building coalitions and that means coalitions with people who don't share all your views.

Feminism in particular has lost enough battles over the years that it has matured.

Comment Re:Bye_bye, Blackberry (Score 5, Insightful) 307

It is even worse than that in terms of this post. Their messaging service for many years was far and away the leader. It was so good in fact that the carriers were offering to give them institutional support by making BBM into SMS 2.0 providing they would go cross platform (i.e. a percentage of all SMS fees for many years). RIM/ BlackBerry turned them down.

Comment Re:Better Late Than Never (Score 1) 693

I've tried following Phil Fish... and the story was too complex. Mostly though Phil Fish seems to be someone who uses negative media attention to promote his work. A Larry Flint of your generation.

. Where things are going now is more just a pissing contest then anything else between SJW and a bunch of guys that want things to be back the way they were.

Exactly. And a slightly less heated version of that contest is what I believe Anita was originally aiming for. A discussion about sexism in games.

What you are describing above is what you would see in any trade press. I don't have a huge problem with the gaming press customers driving the gaming press to be a model of ethics that's terrific if it is accomplished. But I think the people in the gaming press to have a legitimate complaint that you are demanding more of them than what's normally needed for a trade press and aren't really thinking through the implications of the how. How are gaming magazines going to get exclusives without cultivating relationships of trust with sources.

Comment Re:Better Late Than Never (Score 1) 693

Obviously I don't follow 4chan and so forth. I'm not involved in these social networks. Taking over small groups that are tightly affiliated is very different than taking over large diverse groups in terms of skill.

Obviously if there was a campaign against GamerGate proponents for ethics in journalism using the very sort of tactics Anita and Zoe were talking about that is wrong, and likely criminal. If there are really two gangs involved that's different than there being one gang. I'd want to hear specific names and sources of harassment verified by good quality authorities like police departments or mainstream media. If someone on the pro-GamerGate side gets hurt or killed by the anti-GamerGate side that would prompt such an investigation.

So right now having 0 evidence for game warfare what I do have evidence for is the rhetoric. Anita's rhetoric strikes me as mainstream feminism. The anti-Antia rhetoric strikes me as juvenile and overblown. I've seen the pro-GamerGate videos and they seem like sort of broad based rants.

But I will agree that believing that one side is less emotional doesn't mean anything about the gang warfare aspect. The only evidence I have is lack of mainstream coverage or even gaming press coverage. I fundamentally believe our media while imperfect has become so diverse it works.

Comment Re:Three Cheers for Zoe Quinn (Score 1) 693

Hand in your nerd badge and GTFO, you've failed all logic and lose the internet -_-

Correlation is a probabilistic assertion of equality, "with X probability we can act as if A = B". So no.

If the genders had been reversed concerning the Zoe post, we'd be praising Zoe for being a strong independent women that called out an abusive ex.

I'm not going to get into grading their relationship but I don't see abuse. If the boyfriend wanted an exclusive claim on her sexuality then put a ring on her finger. Otherwise she decided to trade in her fuck buddy for a better model. They weren't married, so let's not raise cheating a boyfriend to "abusive". But even if they were married he should have been secure enough in his own relationship to have dealt with her flirting for advantage if it was working.

Now let's look at the sort of unhinged rhetoric that I was talking about from this post above:

but inserted herself and claimed, without proof, people looking for ethics in journalism were attacking her.

As mentioned the attacks on her started before the discussion of ethics in journalism. And we've discussed the proof above.

Go read the comments on ABC Nightline's Youtube video with her, or their Facebook page, the VAST majority of commenters, including women, see right through it,

She's gotten pretty favorable coverage from the mainstream press once the story went mainstream. To the extent people know about her she's held in high regard.

but she's STILL held up by people like you as an example of how bad "gamers" are because they don't like being talked down to and told they're misogynistic shitlords

No they don't like the medium getting the same kind of feminist cultural critique that other media gets. The fact that you identify with the media so personally as to see an attack on a game as an attack on your person is part of what you people like me don't like.

for playing Mario because Peach is a "damsel in distress",

I actually saw that episode and she said nothing of the kind.

and HATES GAMES.

First of all who cares if she hates games? I don't game. BFD. But more importantly she seems to show a fairly high degree of knowledge of gaming. Where did she get that? What drew her to critiquing gaming? The whole "hates games" thing is another example of the sort of overblown rhetoric I was talking about.

Her behavior is fully consistent with an avid gamer who is conflicted because she believes the medium is inconsistent with her developing politics. I find her story quite credible.

Then when anyone so much as scratches their head in her direction, MISOGYNY!!!!

Nonsense overblown hysterical defensiveness like the above is also a perfectly reasonable explanation. Over identification is another perfectly reasonable explanation. What isn't a perfectly reasonable explanation is a well reasoned disagreement with fairly mainstream views.

Other than the fact that BOTH these women are using GamerGate as a spring board for attention they are completely unrelated.

Again impossible. Anita's attention comes before GamerGate.

I don't hate them all for the same reason,

If they correlate strongly then it almost invariable is the same underlying reason. You may not be aware of what that reason is, but beliefs that correlate are driven by the same factors though the rationalizations can differ. I don't think misogyny is that reason, because misogyny would likely imply hatred for more prominent women: Nancy Pelosi, Condoleezza Rice or Opera are more likely targets for misogyny than say Anita Sarkisian. But the underlying cause being the same... yes.

Comment Re:Three Cheers for Zoe Quinn (Score 1) 693

No I'm not saying that.

1) People who dislike person X dislike person Y
2) This correlation grows stronger as the amount of dislike grows stronger
3) Person X and person Y are both being attacked more strongly (death threats..) by anonymous attackers

C) By (2) is is unlikely (though not impossible) that there is a point of disconnection. Hence it is reasonable to conclude that X and Y are being attacked by the same people in the absence of other information.

I'm not certain but it seems reasonable.

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