#GamerGate and #OpSKYNET, and why I consider it today's most important social movement
I apologize in advance for the length of this post.
However, I assure you, for those who get through it, you will be as excited as I am.
Some of you may have noticed that I have been absent from this board for a bit.
Some of that was getting ready for a new project.
Some of that was researching the #GamerGate movement.
There are a lot of references that I have included below: take the time.
Some of the references use strong language, note that.
Simply put, #GamerGate is a grassroots uprising of video gamers who are demanding ethics in video game journalism.
Supporters of this movement use the twitter hash tag #GamerGate to identify themselves and their twitter posts.
On the surface, #GamerGate probably sounds like a non-issue.
But it is not - it is huge, it is important, and it is not going away.
For the record, I am not a video gamer.
I am, however, very interested in Liberty movements.
To me, #GamerGate is a grassroots opposition movement to our Ruling Class Marxists who have decided to co-opt the messaging of games.
This is what got me intrigued about #GamerGate in the first place: #GamerGate is a Liberty movement, even if its supporters might not fully realize it.
I started coming to this realization when I saw *striking* correlations between the Tea Party and #GamerGate uprisings.
Here are just a few:
1a) The Tea Party wants fiscally responsible government.
For this they have been demonized by the Ruling Class and the media as racists and bigots who are just short of terrorists.
1b) #GamerGate wants ethics in games journalism which they believe to have been co-opted by what they call Social Justice Warriors (SJWs).
For this they have been demonized by the SJWs and the gaming media as sexists and misogynists who resort to online threats and intimidation.
2a) The Tea Party is constantly portrayed by the media as being over, dead, or irrelevant.
2b) #GamerGate receives the same treatment from gaming media.
3a) The Tea Party discovered that the media was colluding against it in the now infamous JournoList.
3b) #GamerGate has found the same media collusion in a private chat group called GameJournoPros.
4a) The Tea Party is deeply concerned over corruption and oppression from a Ruling Class which is pushing an agenda of Cultural Marxism.
4b) #GamerGate is deeply concerned over corruption and oppression from Social justice Warriors who are pushing an agenda of Cultural Marxism.
What is interesting is that neither group realizes fully yet that they are fighting the same battle against the same people.
Although there are flashes of that realization:
“I used to mock right-wingers when they raged about biased liberal media and feminists. Mea fucking culpa.”
http://twitter.com/eudaimoniarick/status...
The online gaming community is absolutely on fire over #GamerGate, and I believe with good reason.
But to be fully understand #GamerGate, it is necessary to become familiar with two people: Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian
Both women are central to the issue, and both women have been the targets of harassment concerning it.
Who #GamerGate thinks Zoe Quinn is:
"Quinnspiracy Theory: The Five Guys Saga": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51PfwI...
Who the Main Stream Media present Zoe Quinn as:
"GamerGate Zoe Quinn: 'I have a folder called those who left'": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nVDjIX7h...
A #GamerGate response to harassment against Zoe Quinn:
"RANT: #GamerGate - Zoe Quinn, Journalism, and Anita Sarkeesian": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D6EAmH53...
Who #GamerGate thinks Anita Sarkeesian is:
"REFUTING ANITA SARKEESIAN's 'Damsel in Distress: Part 2'": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25o0EZiog...
Who the Main Stream Media present Anita Sarkeesian as:
"The Colbert Report: Gamergate - Anita Sarkeesian": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_Wmeg7O...
A #GamerGate response to harassment against Anita Sarkeesian:
"Anita Sarkeesian vs Marilyn Manson": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1PkyVzR...
So, with that background, we now come to #GamerGate proper.
Here are two very good video synopses of the #GamerGate movement:
"GAMERGATE! Gamer's fight back! Guest video by TheInvestigamer!": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCExXie1X...
"The Evidence and History of #GamerGate": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMdf8D0l...
#GamerGate spawned a second twitter hashtag #NotYourShield.
#NotYourShield represented "minority" gamers who supported #GamerGate
"This is #Gamergate (What Media Won't Tell You)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QERu2Y2i1...
#GamerGate spawned a third twitter hashtag #OpSKYNET.
#OpSKYNET is best describer here:
"WTF is #OpSKYNET? (and its relation to #GamerGate)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or5se6xZL...
Here is the reaction I received on twitter when I identified with #OpSKYNET: http://twitter.com/eudaimoniarick/status...
48 retweets, 61 favorites, and about 80 follows from one tweet.
As far as #GamerGate is concerned, what happened to them, what happened to Matt Taylor at ESA, and to some even what happened to Brandon Eich at Mozilla are all connected.
They correctly see it as the same battle against the same forces.
http://twitter.com/themanclaw/status/533...
As further proof, these are the two pieces by SJW Games Journalist Chris Plante which were mentioned in a previous link:
1) "GamerGate is dead": http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/30/71319...
2) “I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing”: http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/72138...
GamerGate supporters are serious and they are not backing down.
Lastly a pro #GamerGate piece in Breitbart:
"THE AUTHORITARIAN LEFT WAS ON COURSE TO WIN THE CULTURE WARS... THEN ALONG CAME #GAMERGATE": http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Londo...
Some of the oldsters like me might have been asking themselves, "Where are the young-bloods who will raise up and carry the standard of Liberty when we tire?"
I humbly submit :
They are here;
They are #GamerGate;
They are #NotYourShield;
They are #OpSKYNET.
Your comments are welcome.
However, I assure you, for those who get through it, you will be as excited as I am.
Some of you may have noticed that I have been absent from this board for a bit.
Some of that was getting ready for a new project.
Some of that was researching the #GamerGate movement.
There are a lot of references that I have included below: take the time.
Some of the references use strong language, note that.
Simply put, #GamerGate is a grassroots uprising of video gamers who are demanding ethics in video game journalism.
Supporters of this movement use the twitter hash tag #GamerGate to identify themselves and their twitter posts.
On the surface, #GamerGate probably sounds like a non-issue.
But it is not - it is huge, it is important, and it is not going away.
For the record, I am not a video gamer.
I am, however, very interested in Liberty movements.
To me, #GamerGate is a grassroots opposition movement to our Ruling Class Marxists who have decided to co-opt the messaging of games.
This is what got me intrigued about #GamerGate in the first place: #GamerGate is a Liberty movement, even if its supporters might not fully realize it.
I started coming to this realization when I saw *striking* correlations between the Tea Party and #GamerGate uprisings.
Here are just a few:
1a) The Tea Party wants fiscally responsible government.
For this they have been demonized by the Ruling Class and the media as racists and bigots who are just short of terrorists.
1b) #GamerGate wants ethics in games journalism which they believe to have been co-opted by what they call Social Justice Warriors (SJWs).
For this they have been demonized by the SJWs and the gaming media as sexists and misogynists who resort to online threats and intimidation.
2a) The Tea Party is constantly portrayed by the media as being over, dead, or irrelevant.
2b) #GamerGate receives the same treatment from gaming media.
3a) The Tea Party discovered that the media was colluding against it in the now infamous JournoList.
3b) #GamerGate has found the same media collusion in a private chat group called GameJournoPros.
4a) The Tea Party is deeply concerned over corruption and oppression from a Ruling Class which is pushing an agenda of Cultural Marxism.
4b) #GamerGate is deeply concerned over corruption and oppression from Social justice Warriors who are pushing an agenda of Cultural Marxism.
What is interesting is that neither group realizes fully yet that they are fighting the same battle against the same people.
Although there are flashes of that realization:
“I used to mock right-wingers when they raged about biased liberal media and feminists. Mea fucking culpa.”
http://twitter.com/eudaimoniarick/status...
The online gaming community is absolutely on fire over #GamerGate, and I believe with good reason.
But to be fully understand #GamerGate, it is necessary to become familiar with two people: Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian
Both women are central to the issue, and both women have been the targets of harassment concerning it.
Who #GamerGate thinks Zoe Quinn is:
"Quinnspiracy Theory: The Five Guys Saga": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51PfwI...
Who the Main Stream Media present Zoe Quinn as:
"GamerGate Zoe Quinn: 'I have a folder called those who left'": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nVDjIX7h...
A #GamerGate response to harassment against Zoe Quinn:
"RANT: #GamerGate - Zoe Quinn, Journalism, and Anita Sarkeesian": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D6EAmH53...
Who #GamerGate thinks Anita Sarkeesian is:
"REFUTING ANITA SARKEESIAN's 'Damsel in Distress: Part 2'": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25o0EZiog...
Who the Main Stream Media present Anita Sarkeesian as:
"The Colbert Report: Gamergate - Anita Sarkeesian": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_Wmeg7O...
A #GamerGate response to harassment against Anita Sarkeesian:
"Anita Sarkeesian vs Marilyn Manson": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1PkyVzR...
So, with that background, we now come to #GamerGate proper.
Here are two very good video synopses of the #GamerGate movement:
"GAMERGATE! Gamer's fight back! Guest video by TheInvestigamer!": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCExXie1X...
"The Evidence and History of #GamerGate": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMdf8D0l...
#GamerGate spawned a second twitter hashtag #NotYourShield.
#NotYourShield represented "minority" gamers who supported #GamerGate
"This is #Gamergate (What Media Won't Tell You)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QERu2Y2i1...
#GamerGate spawned a third twitter hashtag #OpSKYNET.
#OpSKYNET is best describer here:
"WTF is #OpSKYNET? (and its relation to #GamerGate)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or5se6xZL...
Here is the reaction I received on twitter when I identified with #OpSKYNET: http://twitter.com/eudaimoniarick/status...
48 retweets, 61 favorites, and about 80 follows from one tweet.
As far as #GamerGate is concerned, what happened to them, what happened to Matt Taylor at ESA, and to some even what happened to Brandon Eich at Mozilla are all connected.
They correctly see it as the same battle against the same forces.
http://twitter.com/themanclaw/status/533...
As further proof, these are the two pieces by SJW Games Journalist Chris Plante which were mentioned in a previous link:
1) "GamerGate is dead": http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/30/71319...
2) “I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing”: http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/72138...
GamerGate supporters are serious and they are not backing down.
Lastly a pro #GamerGate piece in Breitbart:
"THE AUTHORITARIAN LEFT WAS ON COURSE TO WIN THE CULTURE WARS... THEN ALONG CAME #GAMERGATE": http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Londo...
Some of the oldsters like me might have been asking themselves, "Where are the young-bloods who will raise up and carry the standard of Liberty when we tire?"
I humbly submit :
They are here;
They are #GamerGate;
They are #NotYourShield;
They are #OpSKYNET.
Your comments are welcome.
Sorry, I do not know you. Still, I would like to explore. Why would mature, reasoning individuals, familiar with Objectivist philosophy and ethics wish to insult each other? Does not the "insulter" reveal, by definition, a character problem? The 'insultee", by responding in kind, reveals something very similar, in their character. Well, for me, "they found each other" and, if they are of opposite sex or homosexual, they can even marry (at least in some states!). Some marriage that ... in all cases.
Forgive my detour into trying to be funny.
Why insult?
encroachment into the electronic lives of private
people is a plus, as well. Thank You Sir!!! -- j
What? I am so lost. I thought this was about biased video game reviews. You write we should have an objective discussion about the fact that there are jerks in the world, a basic fact of life unrelated to reviews. Your stating there are jerks in the world drives people nuts. None of it makes a lick of sense.
"I tend to see them as the character of Ellsworth Toohey in the Fountainhead."
I've also compared them to Sid Hudgins in LA Confidential, and the Gentleman who visited Thomas Gradgrind's class in Charles Dickens Hard Times. Oh, and for Simpsons fans, the Tabloid TV show "Rock Bottom."
Also "Basically any scabby little gotcha journalist jumped up on their own self importance and the ability to send screaming crowds.. .. against anyone they mildly dislike." (Also from May 13th).
I had this one pinned to my Twitter for a while:
https://twitter.com/tamlin69/status/5135...
But alas that would be a fantasy right up there with honesty and efficiency in government.
The horrid behavior of a large chunk of the gaming population, especially in MMOs has to be experienced to be believed. The anonymity the net grants allows egos a free rein, and the results are often very ugly.
Heck, look at the trolls that pop up in the Gulch from time to time, and this site is definitely a niche market by any definition. Imagine how much worse the trolls are elsewhere, especially in gaming where a lot of the audience is immature youth, and many adults who refuse to act as same.
ANY ethics they can push in the gaming world is a net plus, and starting with the "journalists" would at least be a beginning.
I have not followed the links yet, but if I understand right, you're likening people writing favorable biased web reviews of small-time video games they received free samples of to a Fascism gov't.
I like to think of games and books in the same context. Like the state of literature is what games should aspire to. So to that end I can get behind that depressing game Sarkeesian made - as an artistic work. That doesn't mean its any good. As gaming grows, it should produce works that do more than just entertain. They tell stories, express opinions, and sometimes are so confusing and pointless that they beg to be adopted as thesis topics by English PhD students for years to come. (I'm looking at you, 'Finnegan's Wake')
2. I hadn't heard that claim, interesting. Like you say though, whatever she did/does/wants to do is her decision. However as all politicians know, anything slightly questionable you may have done in the past is all on the table as soon as you become a public figure.
3. Ok, now I better understand your point. And I agree. What I'll say to it is the best thing gamers can do is acknowledge they can't go back. Nor can they ignore the problems. Gaming is no longer a hobby, but a new territory with expanding borders to be defended by the natives (gamers) or seized by the Colonialists (your Ruling Class). The #GamerGaters should welcome immigrants (the #NotYourShields). If they don't band together to defend and shape it now it'll be a lot harder, if not impossible, to change later. Make it into a community of Liberty as you say, rather than political correctness.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2...
yes, b*tches be crazy. people are crazy. but what i'd like to be able to do after getting one of these inane messages is turn to my guy gamer friends sitting on the couch next to me and we all laugh it off, like "yeah, happens all the time. whatever."
currently though, when one of these messages comes up on screen the guys get awkward and quiet. I've asked, and it does not happen to them. Specifically some of the more explicit messages I've received.
I'd just like a place where girls and guys come together and are insulted in equal measure. Is that too much to ask?
I asked him to stop.
He got belligerent.
The mods zotted him.
It would be unfair to smear an enitre group for asshats who claim to represent it.
In the Tea Party we have seen *way too much* of Alinsky tactics from the Ruling Class and the Social Justice Warriors to not know how this game is played.
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