They get attention because they're masters of attention whoring. You can't really smack someone for looking at a sign that glows, has arrows pointing to it, and tries to annoy the shit out of you if you look away, even if you want to throw that sign down the stairs afterwards because it's a smug asshole.
That said, we had a big dose of habbendings this week, with Jace vs. Wu, Brianna Wu getting greenlit (and about to find out that getting Steam to greenlight
Revolution 60 is going to be a much crueler fate than letting it wither on the vine, all whilst ignoring the Streisand Effect), the reveal on Phil Fish which essentially proves what we called weeks ago, Pinsof giving Kotaku a fist in the balls, and Intel essentially ready to throw FemFreq under the bus. It's been a busy week, and the other, more relevant habbendings have gotten essentially buried, so let's go over some of the others that happened in the last two weeks:
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Sargon revealed David Gallant as getting his job because he kissed enough ass, and essentially displays why smart sites are establishing ethics policies, and how Gallant and his buddies are essentially trying to blacklist TotalBiscuit, a plan which is essentially dead on arrival because TotalBiscuit has about 4 billion times the audience size of Gallant.
* Operatives recently learned that Ryulong's up to his old tricks.
RationalWiki has teamed up with Ryulong's old buddies on Wikipedia to try to establish more narrative-alteration bulshit, and it's pretty Orwellian in its implications. RationalWiki's a lost cause, as most are aware, since the place got infested with so-called SJWs ages ago and they drove off the sane people, resulting in a site that's about as much based in reality as the Timecube Guy.
* We have yet more evidence of how these assholes are more set on filling their narrative than actually telling the truth about anything, and they don't care how immoral it is for them to do it (like we needed more proof of that faggotry). Small wonder people going to the mainstream news for press isn't much of a thing anymore.
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Probably one of the most brutal takedowns of Reddit's doublethink on "toxic" culture got published, and good god, it is glorious. For the uninitiated, Reddit is planning to "deal with" so-called "problematic" communities responsible for "Harassment" (read: KiA is probably DOA in their eyes, but shit like SRS is probably going to be safe despite being countless orders of magnitude worse).
* Let's get some fun in here with something silly and irreverent:
A number of Pro-GGers have taken to calling Anti-GGers Anti-Gamers, and this has, predictably, resulted in chimp-outs. Something to consider moving forward.
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"Graphics Privilege" is the best thing ever, and I fucking love it.
* In other Reddit news, Reddit's userbase is starting to have concerns that the site might be too far gone to save. Reddit may wind up being 4channed in the next few months, with a huge chunk of the userbase migrating to a new (and potentially much better) site. We can't dismiss that this can happen, because it has before, countless times, and people already have Reddit's Source Code. If anything comes up about a Reddit exodus, I'll keep you Kiwis abreast as soon as I hear about it.
* Anita's becoming increasingly viewed as a con-artist by the internet writ large.
Even on Reddit, on which the Anti-GGers have a huge presence, there are fucking pages of criticism threads about the woman. Most analysis on the matter indicates that given time, Anita Sarkeesian will have the same respect afforded to her as Ann Coulter. For now, she's a major presence (and irritant), but don't let it get to you too badly; there's plenty of lulz to be had over her even if she won't shut the fuck up and go away.
* Geordie Tait has been silenced by the Anti-GGrers; his Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking shit has all be scrubbed. He's purportedly banned from Ghazi as well. It's like the guy got subjected to the practice of
Damnatio Memoriae, wherein the Romans destroyed all evidence of a traitor's existence (statues, monuments, texts, etc) and pretend they never existed.
* I'm still confirming this, but apparently
Gawker got in shit for manipulating one of Coca-Cola's textbots into doing quotes from Mein Kampf. This allegedly pissed off a few Jewish advocacy groups, leading me (and doubtlessly others) to ask the 3000-credit question:
who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
* Some brilliant motherfucker found
Phil Fish's old Deviantart, and
it is fucking hilarious.
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Niche Gamer supposedly got blacklisted from XSeed for reasons unclear. Whilst XSeed denies Gamergate was involved, a lot of evidence points to the contrary. Might need to pay attention to this one.
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This is very likely to be bait. To make sure, certain nameless parties have been tweeting him congratulations in the hopes of a chimp-out. Either Chu freaks out because how dare Gamergaters address him, or he inadvertently makes clear any details of this little deal, which is win-win. It
is pretty disturbing if true, though - if it is, Google just hired a racist and rape apologist. It'd be Intel/FemFreq all over again.
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Gamergate's got a movie in the works, trying the Michael Moore approach. Worth checking out if you're into that kind of thing.
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Patricia Hernandez has started to take aim at the Fallout series, dubbing it "problematic" (there's that fucking word again) and generally showing that certain people should never be allowed to have a platform:
PatHern powiedział(a):
The game defaults your character to "Caucasian," which I suppose could be vaguely problematic, in that standard video-game kind of way.
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Thought For the Day: You ever notice how Anti-GGers will scream about how the various prominent anti-GGers' personal lives should remain private (you know, despite those personal lives being directly implicated in ongoing corruption scandals), whilst in the same paragraph, scream about the need to go after anyone who disagrees with these people in their personal lives? Fucked up, man.
Anyway, that's all for the day's news-burst. I'll keep you fine Kiwis posted if anything new or interesting comes up.
