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OVERTHROW THE CLIQUE! #GAMERGATE

OVERTHROW THE CLIQUE! #GAMERGATE

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Hands off our vidya

HANDS OFF OUR VIDYA #GAMERGATE

HANDS OFF OUR VIDYA #GAMERGATE

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How many emails have you sent?

HOUW MANY EMAILS HAVEYOU SENT? 0

HOUW MANY EMAILS HAVEYOU SENT? 0

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Jim's rant.

Original title was offensive to insane people so it got removed.

Original title was offensive to insane people so it got removed.

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In light of Polygon's Bayonetta 2 review.

At this point, I'm convinced that this site is biased in favor of Rockstar and just Western AAA games in general.

Especially when you consider that nearly every other site (including IGN), have given Bayonetta 2 immense acclaim.

(image from reddit)

At this point, I'm convinced that this site is biased in favor of Rockstar and just Western AAA games in general.

Especially when you consider that nearly every other site (including IGN), have given Bayonetta 2 immense acclaim.

(image from reddit)

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Drawing the battle line

Heva GameJournos So by now, you're probably wondering why there are so many more misogynist neckbeard trolls than you thought, and why all of them seem to have it out for you. Well, I'm here to try and explain To start, I suggest you go and watch an old Extra Credits video on harassment. I'd post a link for you, but that would be pretty useless in an infographic(butI will pause this infographic while you find it and watch it) Back yet? Awesome Now, let me guess, your reaction to that was "Yeah, that's exactly what we've been doing." and maybe even "How can #Gamergate support that behavior?" I'd say we don't, but of course you wouldn't believe me So allow me to try and illustrate. Let's rewind to the point in time when this video was made and say the gaming community looked like this: The hate-spewing trolls Gamers Now back then, you had a choice, even if it wasn't one you made consciously. You drew battle lines, and for whatever reason, you drew them like this "Them" When you should have drawn them like this Assholes All Gamers We had a chance to stand together, all as gamers versus the extremely vocal few. We would have had to put pressure on publishers and console makers to develop the kinds of tools suggested in the video, but it could have been done But instead, you turned on gamers as a whole. You forced us into bed with real misogynists and real racists, and you continue to give them the attention they seek instead of listening to gamers. But let's take a step back and try and observe what your motivation for this was. Just a heads up, these are some pretty harsh accusations 1. Laziness: It's way easier to blame everyone excepts yourselves. Why take responsibility and work on something when it's easier to just point a finger? 2. Self-serving: Don't think gamers haven't noticed you rarely publish pieces that target publishers. The deals that pay your bills come from publishers, so most of your pieces only go after developers. Also, trying to be positive and to find a solution doesn't generate the clicks that controversal pieces do 3. Egotism - Where would your self worth be if you included yourself in gamers. It really drives up your self-importance to tell yourself you're more progressive than 98% of gamers than to realize your only better than 2% of them So where to go from here? Honestly I don't know. An apology and admission that you at least helped create this problem would go a long way. This is just one element of gamergate but it would be nice to have some common ground on at least one thing

Heva GameJournos So by now, you're probably wondering why there are so many more misogynist neckbeard trolls than you thought, and why all of them seem to have it out for you. Well, I'm here to try and explain To start, I suggest you go and watch an old Extra Credits video on harassment. I'd post a link for you, but that would be pretty useless in an infographic(butI will pause this infographic while you find it and watch it) Back yet? Awesome Now, let me guess, your reaction to that was "Yeah, that's exactly what we've been doing." and maybe even "How can #Gamergate support that behavior?" I'd say we don't, but of course you wouldn't believe me So allow me to try and illustrate. Let's rewind to the point in time when this video was made and say the gaming community looked like this: The hate-spewing trolls Gamers Now back then, you had a choice, even if it wasn't one you made consciously. You drew battle lines, and for whatever reason, you drew them like this "Them" When you should have drawn them like this Assholes All Gamers We had a chance to stand together, all as gamers versus the extremely vocal few. We would have had to put pressure on publishers and console makers to develop the kinds of tools suggested in the video, but it could have been done But instead, you turned on gamers as a whole. You forced us into bed with real misogynists and real racists, and you continue to give them the attention they seek instead of listening to gamers. But let's take a step back and try and observe what your motivation for this was. Just a heads up, these are some pretty harsh accusations 1. Laziness: It's way easier to blame everyone excepts yourselves. Why take responsibility and work on something when it's easier to just point a finger? 2. Self-serving: Don't think gamers haven't noticed you rarely publish pieces that target publishers. The deals that pay your bills come from publishers, so most of your pieces only go after developers. Also, trying to be positive and to find a solution doesn't generate the clicks that controversal pieces do 3. Egotism - Where would your self worth be if you included yourself in gamers. It really drives up your self-importance to tell yourself you're more progressive than 98% of gamers than to realize your only better than 2% of them So where to go from here? Honestly I don't know. An apology and admission that you at least helped create this problem would go a long way. This is just one element of gamergate but it would be nice to have some common ground on at least one thing

IGN stands for...

BEFORE AFTER score up. But nothing of Sidescroller persists from game to game. In fact, you lose all your power-ups at the start of each level score up. But nothing of Sidescroller persists from game to game. In fact, you lose all your power-ups at the start of each level View all 3 videoS» There are but three stages made up of four short levels each and then a "last stage" end boss encounter. Seeing everything PixelJunk SideScroller has to offer is a matter of minutes instead of hours. Finish the last stage and defeat the final boss and what is vour reward? A swift kick back to the title screen with no more than "congratulations.Yl expect a bit more out of a $10 console game in 2011. The arcade purist may argue it's all about chasing high scores, but Sidescroller doesn't have the hooks that compel me to keep improving my game the way, say, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX does There are but three stages made up of four short levels each and then a "last stage" end boss encounter. Seeing everything PixelJunk SideScroller has to offer is a matter of minutes instead of hours. I expect a bit more out of a $10 console game in 2011 The arcade purist may argue it's all about chasing high scores, but Sidescroller doesn't have the hooks that compel me to keep improving my game the way, say, Pac-an Championship Edition DX does Levels do provide a few interesting obstacles to both look at and maneuver through. Giant worms float through caves, lava will reach out as you pass by, and poison gas may ignite into a wall of flames. The liquid physics impress, such as when you shoot a drain hole into a reservoir and let the water slush down and douse a volcano, but I needed more of this sort of thing Levels do provide a few interesting obstacles to both look at and maneuver through. Glant worms float through caves, lava will reach out as you pass by, and poison gas may ignite into a wall of flames. The liquid physics impress, such as when you shoot a drain hole into a reservoir and let the water slush down and douse a volcano, but I needed more of this sort of thing DaemZero Daemon Hatfield My PixelJunk SideScroller review ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1 5 hours ago close X @dylancuthbert Dylan Cuthbert dylancuthbert Dylan Cuthbert @DaemZero you didn't play it on normal (as is obvious from your review) - completing it on casual doesnt unlock the last epic stage 3 hours ago woah @DaemZero that's really unprofessional..you removed the section from your review showing clearly you rushed through the ame in casual DaemZero Daemon Hatfield @dylancuthbert Rest assured I definitely beat it on normal. Usually a big fan of your games, sorry this one didn't click for me 59 minutes ago 5 minutes ago via web Retweeted by ShadyDevil99 and 1 other in reply to ↑ @dylancuthbert Dylan Cuthbert @DaemZero if you beat it on normal you would have seen the entire ending sequence 19 minutes ago via web

BEFORE AFTER score up. But nothing of Sidescroller persists from game to game. In fact, you lose all your power-ups at the start of each level score up. But nothing of Sidescroller persists from game to game. In fact, you lose all your power-ups at the start of each level View all 3 videoS» There are but three stages made up of four short levels each and then a "last stage" end boss encounter. Seeing everything PixelJunk SideScroller has to offer is a matter of minutes instead of hours. Finish the last stage and defeat the final boss and what is vour reward? A swift kick back to the title screen with no more than "congratulations.Yl expect a bit more out of a $10 console game in 2011. The arcade purist may argue it's all about chasing high scores, but Sidescroller doesn't have the hooks that compel me to keep improving my game the way, say, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX does There are but three stages made up of four short levels each and then a "last stage" end boss encounter. Seeing everything PixelJunk SideScroller has to offer is a matter of minutes instead of hours. I expect a bit more out of a $10 console game in 2011 The arcade purist may argue it's all about chasing high scores, but Sidescroller doesn't have the hooks that compel me to keep improving my game the way, say, Pac-an Championship Edition DX does Levels do provide a few interesting obstacles to both look at and maneuver through. Giant worms float through caves, lava will reach out as you pass by, and poison gas may ignite into a wall of flames. The liquid physics impress, such as when you shoot a drain hole into a reservoir and let the water slush down and douse a volcano, but I needed more of this sort of thing Levels do provide a few interesting obstacles to both look at and maneuver through. Glant worms float through caves, lava will reach out as you pass by, and poison gas may ignite into a wall of flames. The liquid physics impress, such as when you shoot a drain hole into a reservoir and let the water slush down and douse a volcano, but I needed more of this sort of thing DaemZero Daemon Hatfield My PixelJunk SideScroller review ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1 5 hours ago close X @dylancuthbert Dylan Cuthbert dylancuthbert Dylan Cuthbert @DaemZero you didn't play it on normal (as is obvious from your review) - completing it on casual doesnt unlock the last epic stage 3 hours ago woah @DaemZero that's really unprofessional..you removed the section from your review showing clearly you rushed through the ame in casual DaemZero Daemon Hatfield @dylancuthbert Rest assured I definitely beat it on normal. Usually a big fan of your games, sorry this one didn't click for me 59 minutes ago 5 minutes ago via web Retweeted by ShadyDevil99 and 1 other in reply to ↑ @dylancuthbert Dylan Cuthbert @DaemZero if you beat it on normal you would have seen the entire ending sequence 19 minutes ago via web

Vivian want you

I WANT YOU FOR GAMERGATE NEAREST FREE SPEECH FORUM

I WANT YOU FOR GAMERGATE NEAREST FREE SPEECH FORUM

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Jack Chompson, the Gamer Gator

| John Walker of Rock Paper Shotgun, on Oct 12 2014: "I have received abundant and appalling abuse from GG, that has been at times upsetting, infuriating, and frightening. I've received thousands of tweets that have been insulting, offensive, outrageously inaccurate, spiteful, cruel, or disturbing. Not one or two. Thousands. I've had boring, tiresome insults thrown at me in droves, and specific, distressing descriptions of how people would like me to be killed. [..] And I have repeatedly been informed of the ways in which I should commit suicide. [...] No matter how at fault one might believe me to be, GamerGate has been, toward me, horrendous." from: http://botherer.org/2014/10/12/a-thing-about-gamergate/ archive: https://archive.todav/iai4m Wow. Thousands of them? This should be a piece of cake Tweets per day: @botherer GamerGate September 12th-October 12th TOPSY TOPSY @botheer #Gamergate commit suicide @botherer #Gamergate killed "commit suicide" Latest Results Latest Results Past 1 HourNo results found Past 1 HourNo results found 1 Day 1 Day Past 7 Days Past 7 Days Replies to @botherer GamerGate 152 Past 30 Days Past 30 Days 75 Specific Range TOPSYescherer "seppuk TOPSY otherer 50 @botherer #Gamergate seppuku Latest Results Latest Results Past 1 HourNo Past 1 Day Past 7 Days Past 30 Days results found Past 1 HourNo results found. 1 Day ANALYTICS BY TOPSY Past 7 Days Past 30 Days Specific Tweets per day: @botherer #GamerGate September 12th-October 12th Specific Range TOPSY @bothere death Sort by 350 Latest Results Past 10 Hours Tweets Over Past 30 Days Replies to @botherer #GamerGate 460 Past 1 Hour Topsy Sentiment Score: 45 iew trends on Topsy Analytics Past 1 Day 7 Days 200 Ahmed Jaffery @ahmed jafery @botherer You're certainly going to show us images of tese death threats that #GamerGate sent you, right? y 10 hours ago勺Reply ta Retweet ☆ Favorite P2 more Past 30 Days Well that's not it. 100 Specific Range TOPSY@botherer kl Sort 50 10 Past 27 Days 8TWEETS Topsy Sentiment Score: 48 Latest Results Tweets Over Past 30 Days ANALYTICS BY TOPSY Past 1 Hour Past 1 Day Past 7 Days Past 27 Days Past 30 Days All Time Specific Range Mew trends on Topsy Analytics 4 Where are these "thousands"? Logan @MorganRamsay Well @botherer explicitly said the guy telling him to kill himself used the hashtag twitter.com/bothererstatu #GamerGate y 10 hours ago勺Reply Retweet ☆Favorite John Walker @botherer 12h @SeanleSkykiller I'm genuinely bemused that my pointing out that "I" have beern Demonic Terrorson @dominictarason @otherer The tutorial lasts under five minutes and then you're on a magic tower with Ghost Eir iggy Pop telling harassed by GG at enormous length isn't a response to this. you to go kill some orcs. That's not it. 11 days ago Reply tRetweet ☆Favorite Skykiller @botherer I'm genuinely bemused that you link #GamerGate to harassment where there was no mention of GG at all Gary Townsend @gary townsend @GamersGate2014 @Scrumpmonkey @botherer Maybe you should hear our experiences? Being told to kill myself because 'm a single father That's not it. 3 days ago 勺Reply Retweet ☆ Favorite D1 more Steven Poulton @calinleafshade @botherer "Whilst" is a wonderful word! Don't kill it John Walker @botherer at's definitely @SeanieSkykiller The abuse I received had the hashtag in it. Hundreds and hundreds of times 日本語 @botherer Oh lord...my nieces and nephews....my sister would kill me if that happened Pycc @botherer Did an evil clown use a rusty blade called Occams Razor to kill all their puppies as kids, & "thats why they refuse to employ it? y 10 hours ago Reply tRetweet ☆Favorite 4、Reply Retweet * Favorite … More 5:33 AM-12 Oct 2014 @SeanieSkykiller The abuse I received had Where??? the hashtag in it. Hundreds and hundreds of Topsy invariably gives me the same times result, either explicitly, or implicitly after sorting through the tweets:

| John Walker of Rock Paper Shotgun, on Oct 12 2014: "I have received abundant and appalling abuse from GG, that has been at times upsetting, infuriating, and frightening. I've received thousands of tweets that have been insulting, offensive, outrageously inaccurate, spiteful, cruel, or disturbing. Not one or two. Thousands. I've had boring, tiresome insults thrown at me in droves, and specific, distressing descriptions of how people would like me to be killed. [..] And I have repeatedly been informed of the ways in which I should commit suicide. [...] No matter how at fault one might believe me to be, GamerGate has been, toward me, horrendous." from: http://botherer.org/2014/10/12/a-thing-about-gamergate/ archive: https://archive.todav/iai4m Wow. Thousands of them? This should be a piece of cake Tweets per day: @botherer GamerGate September 12th-October 12th TOPSY TOPSY @botheer #Gamergate commit suicide @botherer #Gamergate killed "commit suicide" Latest Results Latest Results Past 1 HourNo results found Past 1 HourNo results found 1 Day 1 Day Past 7 Days Past 7 Days Replies to @botherer GamerGate 152 Past 30 Days Past 30 Days 75 Specific Range TOPSYescherer "seppuk TOPSY otherer 50 @botherer #Gamergate seppuku Latest Results Latest Results Past 1 HourNo Past 1 Day Past 7 Days Past 30 Days results found Past 1 HourNo results found. 1 Day ANALYTICS BY TOPSY Past 7 Days Past 30 Days Specific Tweets per day: @botherer #GamerGate September 12th-October 12th Specific Range TOPSY @bothere death Sort by 350 Latest Results Past 10 Hours Tweets Over Past 30 Days Replies to @botherer #GamerGate 460 Past 1 Hour Topsy Sentiment Score: 45 iew trends on Topsy Analytics Past 1 Day 7 Days 200 Ahmed Jaffery @ahmed jafery @botherer You're certainly going to show us images of tese death threats that #GamerGate sent you, right? y 10 hours ago勺Reply ta Retweet ☆ Favorite P2 more Past 30 Days Well that's not it. 100 Specific Range TOPSY@botherer kl Sort 50 10 Past 27 Days 8TWEETS Topsy Sentiment Score: 48 Latest Results Tweets Over Past 30 Days ANALYTICS BY TOPSY Past 1 Hour Past 1 Day Past 7 Days Past 27 Days Past 30 Days All Time Specific Range Mew trends on Topsy Analytics 4 Where are these "thousands"? Logan @MorganRamsay Well @botherer explicitly said the guy telling him to kill himself used the hashtag twitter.com/bothererstatu #GamerGate y 10 hours ago勺Reply Retweet ☆Favorite John Walker @botherer 12h @SeanleSkykiller I'm genuinely bemused that my pointing out that "I" have beern Demonic Terrorson @dominictarason @otherer The tutorial lasts under five minutes and then you're on a magic tower with Ghost Eir iggy Pop telling harassed by GG at enormous length isn't a response to this. you to go kill some orcs. That's not it. 11 days ago Reply tRetweet ☆Favorite Skykiller @botherer I'm genuinely bemused that you link #GamerGate to harassment where there was no mention of GG at all Gary Townsend @gary townsend @GamersGate2014 @Scrumpmonkey @botherer Maybe you should hear our experiences? Being told to kill myself because 'm a single father That's not it. 3 days ago 勺Reply Retweet ☆ Favorite D1 more Steven Poulton @calinleafshade @botherer "Whilst" is a wonderful word! Don't kill it John Walker @botherer at's definitely @SeanieSkykiller The abuse I received had the hashtag in it. Hundreds and hundreds of times 日本語 @botherer Oh lord...my nieces and nephews....my sister would kill me if that happened Pycc @botherer Did an evil clown use a rusty blade called Occams Razor to kill all their puppies as kids, & "thats why they refuse to employ it? y 10 hours ago Reply tRetweet ☆Favorite 4、Reply Retweet * Favorite … More 5:33 AM-12 Oct 2014 @SeanieSkykiller The abuse I received had Where??? the hashtag in it. Hundreds and hundreds of Topsy invariably gives me the same times result, either explicitly, or implicitly after sorting through the tweets:

Doritos and Mountain Dew

File: 1351170955854 png-(292 KB, 600x339, 600x-1.png) □ Anonymous 10/26/12(Thu)09:15 No.159903047 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-24-lost-humanity-18-a-table-of-doritos There is an image doing the rounds on the internet this week. It is an image of Geoff Keighley, a Canadian games journalist, sitting dead-eyed beside a garish Halo 4 poster and a table of Mountain Dew and Doritos. It is a tragic, vulgar image. But I think that it is the most important image in games journalism today. I think we should all find it and study it. It is important Geoff Keighley is often described as an industry leader. A games expert. He is one of the most prominent games journalists in the world. And there he sits, right there, beside a table of snacks. He will be sitting there forever, in our minds. That's what he is now. And in a sense, it is what he always was. As Executive Producer of the mindless, horrifying spectacle that is the Spike TV Video Game Awards he oversees the delivery of a televisual table full of junk, an entire festival of cultural Doritos. How many games journalists are sitting beside that table? Recently, the Games Media Awards rolled around again, and games journos turned up to a thing to party with their friends in games PR. Games PR people and games journos voted for their favourite friends, and friends gave awards to friends, and everyone had a good night out. Eurogamer won an award. Kieron Gillen was named an industry legend (and if anyone is a legend in games writing, he is) but he deserves a better platform for recognition than those GMAs. The GMAs shouldn't exist. By rights, that room should be full of people who feel uncomfortable in each others company. PR people should be looking at games journos and thinking. "That person makes my job very challenging" Why are they all best buddies? What the hell is going on? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:16 No. 159903081 Whenever you criticise the GMAs, as lve done in the past, you face the accusation of being "bitter". Ive removed myself from those accusations somewhat by consistently making it clear that I'm not a games journalist. I'm a writer who regularly writes about games, that's all. And I've been happy for people who have been nominated for GMAs in the past, because I've known how much they wanted to be accepted by that circle. There is nothing wrong with wanting to belong, or wanting to be recognised by your peers. But it's important to ask yourself who your peers are, and exactly what it is you feel a need to belong to Just today, as I sat down to write this piece, I saw that there were games journalists winning PS3s on Twitter. There was a competition at those GMAs - tweet about our game and win a PS3. One of those stupid, crass things. And some games journos took part. All piling in, opening a sharing bag of Doritos, tweeting the hashtag as instructed. And today the winners were announced. Then a whole big argument happened, and other people who claim to be journalists claimed to see nothing wrong with what those so-called journalists had done. I think the winners are now giving away their PS3s, but it's too late. It's too late. Let me show you an example. One games journalist, Lauren Wainwright, tweeted: "Urm... Trion were giving away PS3s to journalists at the GMAs. Not sure why that's a bad thing?" Now, a te tweets earlier, she also tweeted this. Lara header, two T p xin the gallery and a very subtle TR background #obsessed to braider pictwitte com OWDSaT And instantly I am suspicious. I am suspicious of this journalist's apparent love for Tomb Raider. I am asking myself whether she's in the pocket of the Tomb Raider PR team. I'm sure she isnt, but the doubt is there. After all, she sees nothing wrong with journalists promoting a game to win a PS3, right? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:17 No.159903134 Another journalist, one of the winners of the PS3 competition, tweeted this at disgusted RPS writer John Walker: "It was a hashtag, not an advert. Get off the pedestal." Now, this was Dave Cook, a guy Ive met before. A good guy, as far as I could tell. But I don't believe for one second that Dave doesnt understand that in this time of social media madness a hashtag is just as powerful as an advert. Either he's on the defensive or he doesnt get what being a journalist is actually about. I want to make a confession. I stalk games journalists. It's something Ive always done. I keep an eye on people. I have a mental list of games journos who are the very worst of the bunch. The ones who are at every s who tweet about a get. I am fascinated by them. I won't name them here, bec of you will know who t are. lm fascinated by these creatures because they are living one of the most strange existences - they are playing at being a thing that they dont understand. And if they dont understand it, how can they love it? And if they dont love it, why are they playing at being it? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:17 No. 159903164 This club, this weird club of pals and buddies that make up a fair proportion of games media, needs to be broken up somehow. They have a powerful bond, though - held together by the pressures of playing to the same audience. Games publishers and games press sources are all trying to keep you happy, and it's much easier to do that if they work together. Publishers are well aware that some of you go crazy if a new AAA title gets a review score on a website, and they use that to keep the boat from rocking. Everyone has a nice easy ride if the review scores stay decent and the content of the games are never et their exclusives. Ad reve lled. Everyon stays friendly. It's a steady flow of Mountain Dew pouring from the hills of the money men, down g that stuff and demand something better. through the fingers of the weary journos, down into your mouths. At some point you will have to stop Standards are important. They are hard to live up to, sure, but that's the point of them. The trouble with games journalism is that there are no standards. We expect to see Geoff Keighley sitting beside a table of s". We expect to see the flurry of excitement when the GMAs get announced, instead of a chuckle and a roll of the eyes. We expect to see our games journos failing to get what journalistic integrity means. brilliant writers, like John Walker for example, dont get the credit they deserve simply because they dont play the game. Indeed, John Walker gets told to get off his pedestal because he has high standards and is pointing out a worrying problem. Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:18 No.159903215 Geoff Keighley, meanwhile, is sitting beside a table of snacks. A table of delicious Doritos and refreshing Mountain Dew. He is, as you'll see on Wikipedia, "only one of two journalists, the other being 60 Minutes said, There's such a lack of investigative journalism. I wish I had more time to do more, sort of, investigation." And yet there he sits, glassy-eyed, beside a table heaving with sickly Doritos and Mountain Dew. It's an important image. Study it lent Mike Wallace, profiled in the Harvard Business School press book 'Geeks and Geezers' by noted leadership expert Warren Bennis." Geoff Keighley is important. He is a leader in his field. He once HAL

File: 1351170955854 png-(292 KB, 600x339, 600x-1.png) □ Anonymous 10/26/12(Thu)09:15 No.159903047 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-24-lost-humanity-18-a-table-of-doritos There is an image doing the rounds on the internet this week. It is an image of Geoff Keighley, a Canadian games journalist, sitting dead-eyed beside a garish Halo 4 poster and a table of Mountain Dew and Doritos. It is a tragic, vulgar image. But I think that it is the most important image in games journalism today. I think we should all find it and study it. It is important Geoff Keighley is often described as an industry leader. A games expert. He is one of the most prominent games journalists in the world. And there he sits, right there, beside a table of snacks. He will be sitting there forever, in our minds. That's what he is now. And in a sense, it is what he always was. As Executive Producer of the mindless, horrifying spectacle that is the Spike TV Video Game Awards he oversees the delivery of a televisual table full of junk, an entire festival of cultural Doritos. How many games journalists are sitting beside that table? Recently, the Games Media Awards rolled around again, and games journos turned up to a thing to party with their friends in games PR. Games PR people and games journos voted for their favourite friends, and friends gave awards to friends, and everyone had a good night out. Eurogamer won an award. Kieron Gillen was named an industry legend (and if anyone is a legend in games writing, he is) but he deserves a better platform for recognition than those GMAs. The GMAs shouldn't exist. By rights, that room should be full of people who feel uncomfortable in each others company. PR people should be looking at games journos and thinking. "That person makes my job very challenging" Why are they all best buddies? What the hell is going on? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:16 No. 159903081 Whenever you criticise the GMAs, as lve done in the past, you face the accusation of being "bitter". Ive removed myself from those accusations somewhat by consistently making it clear that I'm not a games journalist. I'm a writer who regularly writes about games, that's all. And I've been happy for people who have been nominated for GMAs in the past, because I've known how much they wanted to be accepted by that circle. There is nothing wrong with wanting to belong, or wanting to be recognised by your peers. But it's important to ask yourself who your peers are, and exactly what it is you feel a need to belong to Just today, as I sat down to write this piece, I saw that there were games journalists winning PS3s on Twitter. There was a competition at those GMAs - tweet about our game and win a PS3. One of those stupid, crass things. And some games journos took part. All piling in, opening a sharing bag of Doritos, tweeting the hashtag as instructed. And today the winners were announced. Then a whole big argument happened, and other people who claim to be journalists claimed to see nothing wrong with what those so-called journalists had done. I think the winners are now giving away their PS3s, but it's too late. It's too late. Let me show you an example. One games journalist, Lauren Wainwright, tweeted: "Urm... Trion were giving away PS3s to journalists at the GMAs. Not sure why that's a bad thing?" Now, a te tweets earlier, she also tweeted this. Lara header, two T p xin the gallery and a very subtle TR background #obsessed to braider pictwitte com OWDSaT And instantly I am suspicious. I am suspicious of this journalist's apparent love for Tomb Raider. I am asking myself whether she's in the pocket of the Tomb Raider PR team. I'm sure she isnt, but the doubt is there. After all, she sees nothing wrong with journalists promoting a game to win a PS3, right? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:17 No.159903134 Another journalist, one of the winners of the PS3 competition, tweeted this at disgusted RPS writer John Walker: "It was a hashtag, not an advert. Get off the pedestal." Now, this was Dave Cook, a guy Ive met before. A good guy, as far as I could tell. But I don't believe for one second that Dave doesnt understand that in this time of social media madness a hashtag is just as powerful as an advert. Either he's on the defensive or he doesnt get what being a journalist is actually about. I want to make a confession. I stalk games journalists. It's something Ive always done. I keep an eye on people. I have a mental list of games journos who are the very worst of the bunch. The ones who are at every s who tweet about a get. I am fascinated by them. I won't name them here, bec of you will know who t are. lm fascinated by these creatures because they are living one of the most strange existences - they are playing at being a thing that they dont understand. And if they dont understand it, how can they love it? And if they dont love it, why are they playing at being it? Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:17 No. 159903164 This club, this weird club of pals and buddies that make up a fair proportion of games media, needs to be broken up somehow. They have a powerful bond, though - held together by the pressures of playing to the same audience. Games publishers and games press sources are all trying to keep you happy, and it's much easier to do that if they work together. Publishers are well aware that some of you go crazy if a new AAA title gets a review score on a website, and they use that to keep the boat from rocking. Everyone has a nice easy ride if the review scores stay decent and the content of the games are never et their exclusives. Ad reve lled. Everyon stays friendly. It's a steady flow of Mountain Dew pouring from the hills of the money men, down g that stuff and demand something better. through the fingers of the weary journos, down into your mouths. At some point you will have to stop Standards are important. They are hard to live up to, sure, but that's the point of them. The trouble with games journalism is that there are no standards. We expect to see Geoff Keighley sitting beside a table of s". We expect to see the flurry of excitement when the GMAs get announced, instead of a chuckle and a roll of the eyes. We expect to see our games journos failing to get what journalistic integrity means. brilliant writers, like John Walker for example, dont get the credit they deserve simply because they dont play the game. Indeed, John Walker gets told to get off his pedestal because he has high standards and is pointing out a worrying problem. Anonymous 10/25/12(Thu)09:18 No.159903215 Geoff Keighley, meanwhile, is sitting beside a table of snacks. A table of delicious Doritos and refreshing Mountain Dew. He is, as you'll see on Wikipedia, "only one of two journalists, the other being 60 Minutes said, There's such a lack of investigative journalism. I wish I had more time to do more, sort of, investigation." And yet there he sits, glassy-eyed, beside a table heaving with sickly Doritos and Mountain Dew. It's an important image. Study it lent Mike Wallace, profiled in the Harvard Business School press book 'Geeks and Geezers' by noted leadership expert Warren Bennis." Geoff Keighley is important. He is a leader in his field. He once HAL

i have stared at the abyss and what i saw was the temptation of the dollar and mounds upon mounds of powdery chips and piss colored elixer. i cannot tear away from it it is now my lifeblood my eyes scream at my own greed as i stand i have sealed my own punishment in an airtight bag. it's contents are 20% chips and 80% stale air. weep not for me. instead follow a path separate from mine.

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Women in GamerGate?

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My experiences with #GamerGate

My experiences with #GamerGate I've been on the internet a long time. Most of actually. During this time I've been a part of many communities, from Newgrounds and Diablo to 4chan and Warcraft. Big, to small; hardcore, or casual; mainstream, and obscure. I can honestly say that of all the many communities I've been a part of #GamerGate has been the most welcoming and inclusive, with the most to worry about and the most to lose. my life Through all of the media I've consumed in my life I've honestly never felt a connection to a character like I have Vivian, it is my opinion that she truly represents us She is a mascot I'm proud of and honestly love. Never once has somebody in the #GamerGate camp seriously brought up my gender or orientation as a potential issue. From the start this movement hasn't been about attacking or harassing anyone. I have never seen legitimate concerns from #GamerGate about anything other than support for transparency in journalism, and against intellectual cowardice. @emeldavi_dota

My experiences with #GamerGate I've been on the internet a long time. Most of actually. During this time I've been a part of many communities, from Newgrounds and Diablo to 4chan and Warcraft. Big, to small; hardcore, or casual; mainstream, and obscure. I can honestly say that of all the many communities I've been a part of #GamerGate has been the most welcoming and inclusive, with the most to worry about and the most to lose. my life Through all of the media I've consumed in my life I've honestly never felt a connection to a character like I have Vivian, it is my opinion that she truly represents us She is a mascot I'm proud of and honestly love. Never once has somebody in the #GamerGate camp seriously brought up my gender or orientation as a potential issue. From the start this movement hasn't been about attacking or harassing anyone. I have never seen legitimate concerns from #GamerGate about anything other than support for transparency in journalism, and against intellectual cowardice. @emeldavi_dota

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Oh my god! It's GamerGate!

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OH MY GOD RGATE! ITS NOT CHECKING ITS PRIVALIDGE!!! I CAN SMELL HUGBO X NOT SAFE THE H oh hai can i has ethics

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