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Comment Re:8chan in the House! (Score 1) 335

I'm just using the vocabulary of GamerGate to talk to a Gamergator.

Don't believe me?

http://www.8ch.net/gamergate/ (Scroll past the stickies)

I just did a cursory count on that 8chan GamerGate page. It's their clubhouse.

The word "autist" or "aut" appears 17 times.

The word "nigger" appears 8 times

The word "faggot" appears 26 times

These are the words they use when addressing each other. But when it comes to referring to women, they lose all creativity.

"Cunt" appears 12 times. "Slut" appears 5 times. "Pig" appears 3 times (in reference to a woman). "Whale" appears 5 times (again, in reference to a woman's appearance). I can go on, but I've got to get up early tomorrow.

Just in case you think I was being hyperbolic when I said I was speaking to the Gamergator in his own language.

If you wonder how GamerGate got it's reputation a for misogyny..

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/G...

Comment Re:Seems like... (Score 2) 40

...a small formfactor regular Bluetooth keyboard strapped directly to your wrist would be more practical than the entire glove for this, especially since needlessly constraining the hand and fingers doesn't appear to add any functionality, just inhibit movement.

The artist in the video seems to be doing all right.

Anyway, who's to say what's best for an artist? I mean, Picasso painted the Sistine Chapel while lying on his back and that had to really suck, not to mention it cost him an ear.

Comment Re:Nerds gonna have perfect driving habits (Score 2) 199

Progressive in press release say 'we hypothesize it's because nerds don't party or stay out late'

Nonsense, I've been to board game parties where 6 of us went through almost a whole quart of 3.2 beer. We rocked the house until almost 10:30pm. I mean, it was a work night after all and I had to get home to watch the DOTA2 quarterfinals on Twitch.tv.

Comment Re:8chan in the House! (Score 1) 335

And yet, even with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of persuasion, not to mention all the coddling and discriminatory policies in favour of females, nothing has changed.

Actually a great deal has changed. It drew GamerGate out of the sewer and exposed the ugly side to men in tech.

Now it's on the front page. The neckbeards got the last thing they wanted, attention. And sunlight is a great disinfectant.

Comment Re:8chan in the House! (Score 1) 335

No the reason they are doing that, is the same reason they are doing that in every industry. Lowering costs is good for profits, its a simple as that.

And nothing is more expensive than a workforce that nobody wants to be around.

Seriously, anyone here who works in tech: What do you think of the quality of your co-workers? Do you think maybe there's room for some improvement? When you've got senior tech guys talking in a mixed room who are making frat-boy jokes about their dicks, I guarantee you're not going to get the best people for the job.

Comment Re:8chan in the House! (Score 1) 335

Except for the part where such a twenty-something girl doesn't actually exist. Sure, there are twenty-something girls with blue hair and piercings (you see plenty of neat people in the city) but they don't write code.

Actually, they do, and one of them has become one of GamerGate's prime targets. Her name is Randi Harper, and she goes by "FreeBSDgirl". She wrote the GamerGate autoblocker for twitter. All by herself without a big strapping gamerboy to help her. She's got blue hair, piercings, and writes better code than you.

I'm glad you're flat-out admitting that you're anti-gamer

I've been playing video games since before you were born.

d that this isn't really about "rights" or whatever social justice bullshit the SJWs like to pretend it is.

And you just admitted that it's not about "ethics in game journalism".

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