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You know TehDoh's spaghetti tantrums provide the perfect examples of why GamerGate is still going strong.

His obsession with Generaal shows that the people trying to "destroy GamerGate" have no clue how GamerGate is organized.

Remember back in Autumn 2014 when AntiGamer was declaring a new "Leader of GamerGate" every other day? That's calmed down a lot but they still never figured out that "no leaders" actually meant "no leaders".

When TehDoh targeted Generaal he thought he could stop GamerGate on KYM by taking out "the leader" but we didn't stop after Generaal decided his time would be more productive outside KYM.

It's the same with the other "Ima gonna BTFO those dumb Gators!" morons on this site who keep saying "but Generaal!" as if it's some magic incantation. So what? People can disagree with each other in GamerGate.

Based Gamer? The Sarkeesian Effect? Didn't work out?

So what? It's not like everything is going to be a great success or even work.

Afterlife Empire isn't going to be a runaway success but it's still a decently fun game for a good cause. Niche Gamer has carved out a spot for itself as a watchdog for censorship. LewdGamer is making their own streaming platform to get around the prudes running Twitch, YouTube & the rest.

And don't forget that 8chan was boosted into the big leagues, Reddit now has a blackout breaking sub (the big sub mod teams don't want something on the front page? KIA has your back), can still trend hashtags at will, there's a worldwide infonet that can spread anything across the globe in under 6 hours.

If someone isn't willing to accept the possibility of complete failure of their plan they're not going to make plans that can produce real change. And if their back-up plan is "spend over a year whining they didn't get their way" then they're never going to git gud.

He's trying to claim #TorrentialDownpour failed? Let us count the ways he's wrong…

1. That wasn't all GamerGate, oh sure we did a lot for that but it was nowhere near everything, and we picked up some new people with that, but it still wasn't all GamerGate.
2. Sales numbers for FE:F: 300,000 first day? 400,000 in three weeks? none of those numbers add up at all, probably because they don't distinguish between "units sold" & "units shipped" and aren't adjusted for the whole "one game in three parts" bit.
3. If #TorrentialDownpour was some kind of boycott then it would have been launched long before it did. But if it's some kind of awareness campaign for what "localization" has been doing then just look at how many people were suddenly interested in what company was localizing Pokémon Sun & Moon.

And he's actually whining about #1MillionGamersStrong? Guess which hashtag was just retweeted by a senior Japanese politician?

Something doesn't work instantly? Keep working at it until it does.

These are the same root issues with so many of the Bitter Burnout Brigade (like Internet Aristocrat).

They're weak. They have no patience, they aren't willing to accept loses, and they're far more interested in projecting the illusion of strength then actually having strength.

Edit: New page get, alright.

So it appears a self Identified SJW and google Exec was arrested for "Looking Suspicious" and "Being pointed at" at SxSW. Link

Archived pieces of the Exec's page show him with a "Spit bag" over his head and chaffed wrists from handcuffing during the 5 hour incident. Link

Further verification may be needed.

Hey guys! I was sent here for a image about ggers and aggros accomplisments of 2015. Can anyone help me?

Hey guys! I was sent here for a image about ggers and aggros accomplisments of 2015. Can anyone help me?

Images? Maybe but I'm uncertain of credibility. Links? Also maybe.

These are the images after typing in the Gamergate Achievements into the KYM search bar:

Anti Gamergate

A list of Gamergate achievements in the first month (Used a link as it gives more context and clickable URLs)

As for the links I mentioned?

Currently external documentation has become stale at the moment, anything regarding extensive current happenings since inception has halted at February 11th, 2016.

As for accomplishments? Well that goes from inception to mid 2015 at best

However Deepfreeze.it might have related information you're looking for. Also Try asking r/kotakuinaction and v/kotakuinaction. That's where current happenings are posted to the date and are constantly adding information, archiving that information and updating and amendment. Though due to lack of oversite things tend to be opinionated.

r/gamerghazi does have a list of anti-gg achievements but it's only for 2014 early 2015 at best.

Also, to our archivists, in 2 days GDC in San Francisco starts (March 16-18th) and SxSW's Gaming Expo (March 17-19) happens afterward [not the anti harassment summit that happened over the recent weekend]. Given that the 17th is an excuse to get drunk in America where these events are held, expect some really stupid mistakes to be made, so an influx of happenings related to gaming might occur.

Bump

Why is this needed? It hasn't been that long.

Opinion Probably due to radio silence in this thread and pick up in the comments section lately End opinion

Oh right, relevancy. We got named dropped in a random interview by Elijah Wood

scratches head

Okay, what the hell? This one actually has me baffled… he goes out to condemn unethical journalists, and then mentions GG as an example of harrassment… unless I'm interpreting it wrong, this doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Seriously though? Elijah, come on… you spent that entire interview giving a glowing endorsement of what gamergate is, and then you say it's bad…

All I can say is someone DID NOT DO THEIR RESEARCH. Holy hell, it's tiring correcting people.

Playing the concept of interpretation, what the article said was:

"*As someone who works on the Internet every day, I agree.*

I mean, look at something like Gamergate and how people can harass people in that regard. It’s a volatile place. And everyone has a voice, so in addition to great people being able to use that as a platform to push forward great ideas and positive things. It’s also an even playing field, so negativity can spread too."

It has to do with the way it's said. Gamergate is being presented as an event where harassment occured, he uses the term People harassing others on the internet. He doesn't say who is doing the harassing (GG or A-GG or trolls or whathaveyou) Its baffling to take the name drop of Gamergate as to why he would say it (speculation is that he may have gotten a taste during his voice acting for Doublefine's Broken Age.)

https://archive.is/SLSrQ

Well looks like game's journalism is still up to its bullshit tricks again. This time the casualty is Ubisoft's the division. Their reasoning? The game represents far right fantasies… in a game about helping the citizenry and cooperating to restore government. Score given: 50.

Man I can't wait to get a job as a game's journo. I hurt my fingers opening the game case, 0/10.

So another case of "This alternate reality doesn't meet with my concepts of how I think reality should be portrayed. LOW SCORE"

Also a summary on the Hulkining

Whoops that's the wrong link. The link in the quote just leads to the archive link of the subjective review.

This is the link to the Hulkining summary

Ubisoft Releases Fraudulent Division Revenue Generation Claim

In a statement Ubisoft released on Tuesday March 15th the company made the claim

“The Division launch smashed Ubisoft’s single-day records, and now it’s surpassed a few more. Ubisoft announced today that The Division is not only the company’s best-selling game, but also that it had the biggest first week ever for a new game franchise, generating $330 million* globally in its first five days.” Source: Ubiblog

Digital Homicide Studios Announces They Will Be Suing Jim Sterling For Slander

Digital Homicide are notorious for being really shitty developers… but at the same time, they might have a point here. Hear me out.

Jim Sterling has a sizeable fanbase who are very loyal to him, not unlike the loyalty shown to a YTer like TotalBiscuit. Many (not all) of Sterling's fans are the kind that would actively harass a developer he is feuding with. If Digital Homicide can prove that they have been harassed by anons, and can make a reasonable connection that it was at least in part caused by Sterling, they might be able to push this.

I'm not biased, because to be honest I intensely dislike both parties. Sterling needs to lose his fucking ego, and Digital Homicide need to just stop making games at all. But harassment of any kind is damaging to a person's mental health, especially when you are a public figure and you get hundreds of people harping at you for your actions. All I'm trying to say is that Digital Homicide is not entirely wrong in persuing this, and they might have a case.

I don't see them winning though… if it turns out like they might win, Sterling will likely try to settle out-of-court. It would be too big a blow to his ego to take them head on and lose.

The odds of digital homicide having a case are pretty much zero. Even if they prove that Jim Sterling's criticism of the game caused harassment, they would then have to prove that the criticism was unjustified (i.e there's no penalty for yelling fire in a crowded movie theatre when it literally is on fire). Then they would have to prove that the harassment was indeed enough to earn compensation (this requires proven libel and slander. Not just statements or accusations of character). And then after they've finally done all that, they would then have a free speech debacle which would require substantial overlooking by supreme court members to determine whether or not Jim Sterling's right to say what he wanted surpassed the legal limits posed by the law. The supreme court would probably rule in favor of jim sterling because critics are supposed to be well protected by the law.

In all honesty though, it would be funny to see Digital Homicide win because at very least it would get Jim to have some self-awareness. Both parties are jackasses but Jim Sterling seriously needs a lesson with cause and effect. Literally all Jim had to do was say "Please don't harass developers" and Digital Homicide wouldn't have a leg to stand on much less a knee. Jim Sterling has a serious problem taking responsibility for his actions much less thinking things through and now all Digital Homicide needs to do is find a single criticism that was unwarranted and they really could have a case. Some of things that Jim accused them was stealing assets (or "storebought" in Jim's words) I'm not a programmer so I have no idea if those assets could be store bought but if they aren't then Jim's in some deep shit there.

https://twitter.com/jimsterling/status/643184322053337089
I mean here Jim is claiming that Digital Homicide will steal directly from 'From Software'. A joke's a joke Jim but accusations are accusations too and a baseless accusation is slander.

@MrKillultra

Did anyone else here have a strange & disturbing sense of unreality over Ubisoft not being the worst people in the situation?

@MexPirateRed

OK, now we're back to normal.

@A Delicious Cut of Roast Beef

There's no possible way for Digital Homicide to win this case unless they've got a bunch of evidence they didn't mention, although it's going to be fun to watch Sterling do mental backflips trying to defend himself from this without contradicting all his white knighting of Anita.

@Bookie

Care to clarify the logic behind your question about Ubisoft? I don't think I quite understood what you were asking.

The feeling I got is that Ubisoft is in some state of Delusion that feels similar to a gaming projection with Sony (I think, that or it was Square Enix.) If I recall correctly in a previous instance a game sold well as far as sales numbers went, but the projection for the number of games was so high (bordering on absurdity, I think the projection was 20 million units at the time) that the company canceled further progress despite the overwhelming success.

The difference is that Ubisoft is instead putting out false numbers in spite of the truth, where as the other company (that I can't accurately remember) used the truthful numbers to justify ending a continuation.

Yelled at each other and became even more irrelevant.
Also, did anyone catch the "Internet Ruined My Life" episode about Brianna Wu? I started cracking up when they had the footage from Deagle Nation up there as a legitimate death threat. A year after it was revealed as a hoax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBQ7MFx9RA

I was talking about the "Ubisoft's newest game has some Black villains! That's racist!!11!1" bit.

In the old days Ubisoft & Activision & EA were the Big Bads of gaming, stamping out competitors & ruining games all to make a quick buck.

Now however there's a bigger threat to gaming, puritanical cultural critics & power hungry narcissists who hate vidya and want to destroy the medium itself out of ideological madness & megalomania.

I was asking a rhetorical question saying "wow, thing got bad".

Then I referenced the news of Ubisoft being lying little shits and I was pointing out that's like the old days.

Thank you very much sir. Sorry for not knowing what to do.

I understand that Wu needs about as much mentioning as someone stepping in her stories. However there is still the matter of such things as AirPlay which was a HUGE step in gamergate's goals and showed off nicely how AGG would do bomb threats….Or even the DC meet up which was also bomb threatened.

We could talk about the drama of SxSW like how a Google Exec was accused of being a GGer and aressted for silly things.

I understand that the momentum isn't as big as it was. That gamergate has leveled out however there are a few events that should be added on.

Bad journalism is like an olympic limbo team. If there's a bar of common sense and decency, it doesn't matter how low to the ground that bar is; the bad journalism will limbo under it.

What's particularly sad is that the game could have been reviewed properly. They could point out flaws like lame side missions, lack of civilian interaction (which is kinda critical in a game about helping the citizenry), lame dark zone, or how Ubisoft is claiming the game has sold so much while its obvious they haven't really sold that much (if a dev lies about a game, would you buy it?). I mean seriously, its not that hard for reviewers to critique AAA titles without resorting to immature nonsense.

I would love to say that Ubisoft is the victim here, but they're not. Ubisoft has repeatedly and continues to push the "diversity" angle with most likely all the problems that ensue (i.e gender discrimination in the hiring process, ethnicity over skills). But the problem isn't that they did the "diversity" hires, but that they claimed they did it because of all the political correctness backlash. So literally Ubisoft is enabling further abuse from political correctness groups, even if that abuse will be totally unjustified and insane. Some might call this victim blaming and to an extent it may very well be. But if an individual knows there is a gang of thugs in the neighbourhood and instead of locking their door and calling the cops, they go to the thugs and tell them they've unlocked their door as a friendly gesture; they cannot act surprised when the thugs take full advantage of that. The only reason Killscreen would write such a negative and insane review is because they think they can get away with it without being blacklisted.

(I'm starting to believe I'm an Elcor)
@MrKillultra
Jest So Ubisoft is going to be in charge of Ghostbusters (reboot) tie-in video game? End Jest (I think Atari might still have the rights because they did the "Ghostbusters: The Videogame" in 2009)

Edit: There's proof of GameJournoPros trying to handle Gamergate

The guardian is having layoffs

Mundane matt was swatted

Kind of off topic, but I thought you'd all get a kick out of this.

The Cultist figures in the Mansions of Madness board game all look like Hulk Hogan.

Warning the following topic may be #triggering. Sides may be sent into orbit. It was enough to cause me to not be objective for this piece of information:

Oh goody. It's like LaO:SVU meets Fem Freq all over again. And this episode aired without much fact checking. Even with previous existing harassment being out well before the episode's and gamergate's conception (article is July 22, 2014. Gamergate was in late August)

Luckily the reception wasn't exactly favorable

According to the speculation at r/Kotakuinaction it was done to create pressure on passing a bill

Then again it aired on the SyFy channel, so fiction appears to be the operative word for this presentation.

Say everyone what is your full opinion on jim sterling?

My personal opinion is that he's a corrupt SJW and one of AntiGamer's chief agents.

His list of actions actions range from smearing GamerGate for his friends Zoe Quinn & Leigh Alexander, to libeling Brad Wardell at the behest of Zoe, to working with Zoe & Alex Lifschitz to censor GamerGate devs from The Escapist, to threatening an immigrant genderqueer game dev for using the word "tranny" while being friends with people who use the word & using it himself, to endorsing censorship, he's been completely nasty.

And that's not counting things from before GamerGate started. With that we have backing up the SJWs going after JonTron, running play for pay schemes while at Destructoid, and endorsing doxing.

And the cherry on top is that regardless of his history of corruption, censorship, threats, bigotry, and harassment he's still parading around as a "consumer advocate" despite proving he'll stick a knife in gaming & gamers backs the instant he feels like it.

News from the ethics front, Victory!

Machinima is now prohibited from pretending that the people they paid are "Independent Reviewers", this will be useful precedent to handle others doing the same.

The original whistleblower for that is one of us and we jumped on the FTC's public comment form pretty quickly.

Time for a dance thread!

Regarding changes made to Bravely Second: End Layer for worldwide release

Based on feedback received after Bravely Second: End Layer’s release in Japan, the development team at Square Enix, in conjunction with Silicon Studio, decided to implement a number of revisions to the game for the purpose of improving its quality and creating a more enjoyable product.
One such change affects the game’s optional side quests, where players encounter a conflict between two opposing parties and choose which party to side with.
When the game was released in Japan, each side quest would end with the team lamenting the decision they made, regardless of the player’s decision. This was intended to help players empathise with the characters’ situation, but overwhelming feedback from players indicated that they felt an unsatisfying disconnect between their intentions and the characters’ reactions. In response, these side quest endings were amended to show the party readily coming to terms with their actions in a manner that does not cause the player undue regret for their decisions.
These changes do not affect the gameplay or the course of events in the game, and were made with the intention of improving the game experience for players.

Also localization because the japanese didnt like it… why i feel its bullshit?

BBC Journalist Dishonestly Defends BBC’s Unethical #GamerGate Coverage

If I may play Devil's Advocate on the Bravely Second changes, from what I've heard and the way it was described by the developers, the change was done to avoid a Mass Effect 3 scenario, since both endings had little to no difference between them.

I can see why you think making the change based on player feedback from Japan is bullshit, but if both outcomes are the same, would you not feel cheated that despite playing 2 different stories, you got the same ending

In addition to that, I remember years ago he gave Mario Kart 7 a 5/10 and it seemed the biggest reason for the score being that way was that he felt it didn't innovate and change enough. What's funny about this is that he regularly gave Call of Duty and Dynasty Warriors games high scores despite doing that same thing – not innovating and changing enough – to an even greater degree. I hear his review of Sonic Colors was pretty bad, but I've never played the game so I won't comment on that further.

IMO he can make good points when it comes to consumer advocacy and even be funny at times, but he does come across as insufferable, and self-righteous, and a lot of other mean words I could use to describe him, but I won't because I want to be nice. Jim Sterling is a hypocrite, and a very arrogant one at that. I suppose it's a good thing he isn't writing for Destructoid or The Escapist anymore, but I am sometimes amazed at how he has over 300k YouTube subscribers.

Let see other news:

Trust but Verify:

Brianna Wu is a thought crime according to Twitter, and she's encouraging it.

If this is true then it looks like Brianna Wu is trying to gather enough Harassment (Facts and Criticism) to make more victim bucks. Or maybe SyFy is gearing up for season 2, who knows.

Trust but verify pt 2 (Because half of it is on Twitter!)

There's a general reason why you shouldn't date someone in your line of work.
Daniel Z. Klien of Riot Games appears to hate Gamergate with a firey passion, and fellow employee verifies

Kinda glad I haven't played LoL since 2010.

Actual news:
The Gjoni Case Pt2 is going on and the clarification seems to be that it's to amend the law that was used to gag Gjoni in the first place.

>When you get called a monster for crimes you never even considered committing
>When this happens over and over and over and over and over for two years
>When being against corruption in journalism makes you a rapist
>tfw I don't even fucking care anymore because I know what I am and they don't

@MexPirateRed

At least Microsoft is keeping it classy at GDC

Wait did I say classy? I meant getting attacked for their portrayal of women during a party.

Yeah, I'm not doing that. Like, at all. Nor anything like it.

Hogan wins $115 million in lawsuit against Gawker!

This gif fits Gawker's situation perfectly now:

How much is Gawker's net worth/reserve compared to that number?

Gawker's annual profit in 2014 was $6.7 million, which was already far smaller than what they made years ago. I have no idea what their finances are like but this is definitely painful, if not enough to put them under.

Edit: Glad as I am that privacy won in the courts, Denton just said that he would appeal. I wouldn't be surprised if the appeal was accepted for examination.

Gamergate right now:

Gawker right now:

Someone on reddit says they are worth 300 million. So 1/3rd of their cash is out of the equation. Also apparently the Jury wants to award punitive damages as well.

https://twitter.com/annamphillips/status/710963378030833666

Video showing reaction to verdict:

Appeals in Florida mean they have to put up a bond of however much money they were ordered to pay.

Gawker can only do that by selling the whole company to some other company/some ethics-hating billionaire.

Given how much they just lost for the last guy who invested that's not likely to happen.

Not to mention the Mob Boss "Oligarch" who gave them money probably isn't going to like what they did with his cash.

Now let's celebrate!

The thing is though that in order to appeal they would have to pay about $50million plus two years interest due to Florida's shitty laws.

Even if they were to sell off all their assets I doubt many people would be willing to buy parts of Gawker at full price considering their ship is sinking. You'd have to be stupid to buy a portion of a dying company.

rickrollmeme said:

Denton just said that he would appeal. I wouldn’t be surprised if the appeal was accepted for examination.

Florida law requires them to post a $50 million bond before they can appeal, or more technically, before the judgement can be stayed pending an appeal. An appeals judge could stay the verdict without them having to pay the bond.

Basilius said:

How much is Gawker’s net worth/reserve compared to that number?

Apparently, they're worth around $250 million.

Sorry to be a downer, but while the verdict is pretty darned incredible, all the reptilians are coming out now

Oh I get it! Alli(ed)-Gaters.

More reptiles:
Like Polygon Senior Reporter
And Vox's Executive Editor

Point is, with Gawker (probably) gone and the stage set for more lawsuits against this kind of "newsworthy material" posting, expect websites that post this kind of content to come out swinging. GameJournoPros might become more active as a result.

Found this on Reddit: