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This just keeps getting BETTER!

EDIT: Hey! I got the new page!!!

…and BETTER! Even though it's not GamerGate related, but still it's nice to see more SJW butthurtism.

"Also causing offense is an Irish potato who sings [Irish ballad] “Danny Boy” and whose catchphrase is “Jesus! F**k!”"

As an Irishman myself, I would like to point out that Irish people consuming and/or being associated with potatos/potato based products is not a stereotype. We consume potatoes as if we were expecting another famine and it may be our last chance.

We also do say "Jesus! Fuck!" or some sort of variation. A lot. We all swear quite a lot.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone sing Danny Boy before, not in person anyway. But I don't have a problem with it.

Honestly, whenever I see Irish stereotypes in fiction, I'm generally pretty amused by them. I doubt this movie abuses them in such a way that I could consider it offensive.

That movie had so many extremely fucked up parts. It was great

I know this controversy died down months ago but I figured you guys might be in the mood for a funny animation poking fun at the "Tracer's butt" controversy that involves a character that's a very obvious Anita Sarkeesian stand-in:

Anniversary cake anyone?

Anita Sarkeesian's butt episode in a nutshell.

More on this, an interview with Mombot from TGG.

GamerGate’s Eron Gjoni Breaks Silence, Talks About Infamous Zoe Quinn Post, ‘Five Guys’ Joke

Feel bad for him and what's happened to him. How badly he's gotten smeared and defamed and strawmanned. Considering what we've been going through, I can justifiably sympathize with him.

News time:

Ian Miles Chong clarify's his involvement while talking about the merits of Gamergate

Some information is a little off but hey, at least it talks about what is happening as a result in ethics.

Also Gawker was a voice of a generation

The comments differ.

And Ziff Davis and Univision (the people who bought The Onion and are pushing a narrative…) are the bidders for Gawker

And lastly:

BBC praises Megalia and gamedrops

Doesn't state which Megalia it praises as that thing fractured into several groups, some pro-, others anti-feminist. sarscasm One thing is certain, they're all anti-gamer! Maybe? Who knows? End scarcasm

Edit: Also Happy Quinnspiracy week! Join us next week for the two year anniversary when everything went to hell!

The archive on the CBC article doesn't show the comments, though I hear they're not exactly buying into the article's BS.

Also IIRC the woman who wrote that Gawker article for the CBC is anti-GG and pro-Gawker, which should explain everything.

Update on the Twitter-Milo War.

Twitter is deciding to be difficult, they claimed he lives in America and thus they don't have to provide any info.

Milo is having none of it, and Twitter better behave because the UK Data Protection Act does not fuck around.

The ICO has the power to serve fines of up to 4% of a business' worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, or €20 million if higher.

Twitter had a revenue of $2.21 billion in 2015, 4% works out to just over $88 Million.

And even more on this

Update on Milo in general, vice doubles down on narrative.

If this is to be believed, we all may be in serious trouble.

Oh shit, we're fucked

See I feel like something like this would be getting a lot of attention all over the place.

Can we get some additional sources?

That corporation has been doing it since 1998 already. It's just that usually the Dept of Commerce is tasked to do the work and they outsource it to the corporation. Now the corporation will be tasked directly with doing it.

I recommend looking at sources that are technical news sites rather than political news sites.

News so great it deserve a 10 hour version of this

News from Twitter:

Matt SantoriGriffith aka @FotoCub is pushing an agenda to get replica weapons removed from conventions.

Jason Schrier of kotaku is butthurt.

Amy Schumer to be discrediting a writer because he's stated that the public should wait for a verdict instead of assuming that the accusation of rape is a guilty verdict. As a result Amy is claiming he never worked for her, despite writing for her show for three seasons.

Hugo award winning artist has been banned from twitter.

And for games?

Valkyrie Drive banned from Germany and Australia for being damaging to minors

(Sorry not much in the games department.)

As for Hulkmania?

And Gawker may avoid paying Hulk via a loophole

Ok got a little more information on the Amy Shumer thing

Kurt Metzger posted on Facebook about how the accusation of rape is viewed as true without confirmation and compared it to the word of the bible. This offended several people and started a mob mentality against him, leading to a decry from Amy Schumer.

It also explains the College Humor post that cites a flawed study

some news i found http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/08/npr-removing-online-comments-starting-august-23rd/9925/

So it's basically just business shuffling around and not an Orwellian death blow to the freedom of the internet?

Something good happened!

I read it too Dioxin.

I suppose there is some principle about privatizing governmental functions at stake. Which is what makes me laugh when the particular politicians who want to transfer prisons, soldiers, social security, and medicare to the private sector shit their pants at the prospect of DNS assignment doing it.

That third image… I love it.

And now for another news update:

NBC, who paid 12 billion for exclusive coverage of the Olympics until 2032, blames loss of revenue on Millenials

Sarcasm Probably had nothing to do with the fact that it was held in Rio, the coverage was nothing but adds and the casters would not shut up. It's clearly the younger generation's fault for taking an interest in something else (Like TI6) End sarcasm

Gawker does some repositioning

And… sigh Steam got hacked again

I only watched the Olympics for the Rogue One trailer

I only watched the Olympics for the Rogue One trailer

Former Gawker EiC Max Read talks about who killed Gawker, declares GamerGate their arch-enemy.

> Of all the enemies Gawker had made over the years -- in New York media, in Silicon Valley, in Hollywood -- none were more effective than the Gamergaters.

Artist's impression.

And the SPJ weighs in on Gawker.

> Looking back on the events that led to the shuttering of the website, I think the message is that responsible journalism is a good investment.

> While people can place blame with Bollea and Thiel for dealing the deadly blow to the website, the truth is that Gawker died from a thousand self-inflicted cuts.

> The website shrugged and recoiled time and time again at journalism’s best practices. Time is the only thing that stood in the way of Gawker acting outside the bounds of the law, too.

> For example, anyone taking a basic journalism ethics course could see it was an unacceptable act for Gawker to out Thiel in 2007. The post was not illegal, however.

> As a jury decided earlier this year, its posting of Bollea’s sex tape in 2012 was illegal. Obviously, posting a sex tape irrelevant to the public is unethical in the eyes of the Society’s Code of Ethics, too.

> The bottom line is that Gawker likely would still be publishing next week if it adhered to at least some basic journalistic principles.

How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet by Joel Stein -- They’re turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse

News time:

Vice praises Rami Ismail and other developers for doing F*kall

Zelda Informer asks the question of Race for the Zelda Franchise

Freedom of the press is fair as long as the press is controlled by those that are running for government

Kotaku tries to be more diverse by hiring someone based on representation rather than qualification

Examples of the hire's previous work

Gamergate is Feminism's biggest threat according to OXYGEN

(Note entries #6 and #7, also if you go to their links that define what Gamergate has done, you end up with 2 wikipedia definitions and that one Kotaku article where authorities didn't even verify the threat.)

And, recently with a cartoon… the subject of Violent Videogames:

Edit: Grammar trouble

OH also, Gawker shut down with several farewells cursing Gamergate, claiming that money and lies won out over journalistic integrity, and an overall salty death.

Opinion

That said. A warning: Now with Gawker "Dead" (The corpse will probably shamble a bit in referendum) and taking the fall for corrupt Journalism, other publications are steeled and more ready to attack than ever. (See previous archives.)

We're now starting Disk 3 of Gamergate.

What will next years boss battle be?

End Opinion

Looks like the scientific peer review guys might be dragged into this by our detractors

Looks like the scientific peer review guys might be dragged into this by our detractors

>Enemies of feminism include: the alt-right

>red-pillers

>new atheists

>Men going their own way

STOP IT, STOP IT. I'M DYING RIGHT HERE. I haven't laughed so hard at an article since that one time they wanted a gamergate-free mars mission.

Uh oh

TL;DR: An "official" LGBT London police account revealed information of a man who asked a question about the division, which was perceived as "harassment/homophobia."

So asking questions that can even look wrong can get you into trouble/cause unnecessary worry when the person in authority views your inquery as problematic.

In gaming news:

Deus Ex is out now.

Query
Where'd everyone go?
End query

Anyway here's a weird parallel I found out.

So, fun thing if you paid attention to the Rio Olympics and one swimmer Ryan Lochte. The story went like this: Ryan Lochte claims he was robbed by police impersonators during the Events in Rio. When he gets home, two of his team mates are detained and confess his story isn't true, and the Brazilian Police state he smashed up a convenience store bathroom. Vigilante Justice goes nuts and Lochte loses his sponsor-ships, Lochte even suggesting that maybe (he) lied about being robbed as he's not quite certain of being asked to hand over cash at gunpoint fits that definition.

Turns out his original story was mostly true. (Wow a yahoo link!)

However the damage has been done, right now there have been some depictions decrying Lochte's punishment as a slap on the wrist for being a white male and are currently spearheading as much defame on the athlete as possible.

The reason why I'm posting this is because it's a weird parallel of what can happen when and instance is used to deliver a false narrative which is then bought in masse, similar to the "gamergate by proxy" (the script that FreeBSD girl made to get rid of 'harassers on the internet' )

TL:DR; Swimmer gets drunk, swimmer pees on wall, cops rustle swimmer for cash. Swimmer tells his story to media, media goes nuts, cop tells their version of story (with embellishments), swimmer gets crucified by public and media, companies drop funding to save face.

Our next boss fight?

>Turns out his original story was mostly true.

Except for the part where their cab was pulled over. And the part where their wallets were taken. And the part where he had to get on the ground with a gun pressed against his forehead and cocked. But hey, aside from that.

Source?

I had not heard of those embellishments, and I'll happly change my opinion of the matter. If its true, then they're both lying. I'll chalk this one as a messed up situation with an alarming fallout. Since, now both stories have little will have to do with what was, and add to both narratives of "cops are liars" and "white people have privilage"

I think that qualifies as a declaration of war just as good as anything (or however you'd put it), even if our implication was the writer being an idiot.

I think we have our new End Boss.

Quoting his original interview with NBC:

We got pulled over, in the taxi, and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing just a police badge and they pulled us over. They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground -- they got down on the ground. I refused, I was like we didn't do anything wrong, so -- I'm not getting down on the ground.

And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, 'Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like 'whatever.' He took our money, he took my wallet -- he left my cell phone, he left my credentials.

My issue with the whole situation is that the swimmer lying is for some reason considered worse than the cops lying. The Swimmer is an ordinary person (well more physically fit but in no way psychologically trained or well-composed in stressful social situations) and he was both drug when the event occurred and most likely was ambush interviewed. Ask the average person what they did last night and they're likely to lie by accident alone or miss a few details.

The cops didn't need to give an immediate answer and cops are well trained to survive stressful social situations and thus have absolutely no excuse for lying. They claimed he was breaking the bathroom when he didn't even go into it. How exactly does a mistake like that happen when it involves a trained professional?

Another important note is that the swimmer is supposed to be paying thousands of dollars as well as possible criminal charges for crimes that didn't happen. The worst he could be charged with is public urination and extremely minor property damage (the poster he had apparently torn down).

Oh well it looks like this is going to be one of those he said and she said sorts of cases.

@Panuru

Thanks. That clears things up. It also puts his apology into context as well. Since he claims he still did not lie.

Back to news

So remember that Oxygen article? Apparently now Gamergate is being confused with the terrorist organization 4chan, again, and the ALT-Right! (Youtube link. I'm posting from a potato at the moment.)

They just need to tie Gamergate to Wikileaks and they'll get a Bingo! (Cry sexism and collect 200 victim bux)

This could be a bit dangerous as the Alt-Right is also taking a bad rap against a person running for one of the most powerful positions in the world

Hey, his story might be wholly true. A number of impoverished/corrupt countries have police forces that regularly shake down American (or whoever) tourists. They have someone come up to a tourist and offer to sell them illicit drugs, then they arrest the tourist and basically hold them for ransom, extorting release money from their "wealthy" families.

As for the news, I think that cinches Hillary's position as the new End Boss.
She is and will be appointing the people that do and support everything we've been fighting against. Only, they won't just be some nutcase writing lies online… They'll actually be able to come after anyone they deem guilty of "wrongthink."

Something really bad happened.
I know it's not really GG related, but it's… it needs to be known.