GamerGate Events and Discussion

[Jaimas]

http://towerfall.tumblr.com/post/110562144181/alternate-archers

Next up is the alternate blue archer. If you keep up on gaming news she may seem familiar - her appearance is loosely based on feminist games critic Anita Sarkeesian. Anita’s work has been an inspiration to the TowerFall team. Her “Tropes vs Women in Games” video series gave us a valuable new lens through which to assess our character designs. TowerFall is about bringing people together, so it’s vitally important that the cast of playable characters makes everyone feel invited to join in. Simply put, this wouldn’t have occurred to me if not for Anita, and feedback from players has reinforced how important it really is. We’re very excited to immortalize Anita in a small way, as the alternate Last of the Order.

Oh thank Christ.

For a few seconds, I was worried this was a replacement sprite for one of Shantae's Fey Archers, and I was about to verbally fist-fuck something.

Also, have you guys seen the responses? There's some great ones amongst the reblogs and ass-kissing, and they're priceless:

Wow! Anita is going to be a cool character! as soon as you hit her she’ll use pseudo-science about you being a misogynist until you give her money!

Anita Sarkeesian is now (sorta) a videogame character.

Collusion intensifies

So for those who missed it, Anita Sarkeesian is going to be a character in an actual video game.

Meanwhile, on an unrelated but-still-amazing bend, Ben "I Hate My Audience And Do Not Want a Career" Kuchera may have just gotten himself in trouble, by giving Gamergate just what they needed to make advertisers leave Polygon in droves:

Some other anon found this, might be of interest to you guys. Reposting.

Just the other day, I happened to stumble on a little gem some of you may get a kick out of. This involves the misadventures of Ben Kuchera promoting fan edits with unauthorized film footage…. on a gaming publication, no less

As a refresher, Ben Kuchera tends to advocate film piracy from time to time, especially if the film happens to be a fan edit or an unreleased-director’s-cut-definitive-edition-omfg-download-now sort of thing. His magma opus for his pro-pirate stance is a peculiar Polygon article headlined,

>"You can watch an ‘unaltered’ version of Star Wars in HD today, if you bend the law.”

https://archive.today/C56jE

Bennyboy can be pretty sneaky. In the youtube video Ben linked to, the video description provides a link to a paste bin, which then leads you to a list of instructions in order to acquire the Despecialized Edition.

Basically,
Polygon article -> Youtube Video -> Pastebin -> Torrent

ANYWAYS, THE HOBBIT

Five months later, Bennyboy is back with another fascinating tale of another legendary yet “legally-problematic” fan-edit. Enter, The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit. Basically, it’s Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy with all the filler bullshit cut out. Sounds awesome, right?

https://archive.today/qfpju

Well, here’s the catch. The Tolkien Edit covers all three of Jackson’s Hobbit films. Also, the third and final film just came out in theaters a month ago, and has yet to see an official Blu-Ray release to date. How exactly did this anon editor get ahold of the third Hobbit film, in 720p no less? As with most fan edits, take a wild guess.

Oh, and Ben Kuchera directly links the website hosting the fan-edit at the bottom of the article, listed as “Source." He basically points his readers directly to the torrent.

So, in this case:
Polygon article -> Host of fan-edit -> Torrent

And how exactly did Bennyboy found out about this magnificent fan-edit? Once again, check down at the bottom of the article: io9. A film/tech/“geek” blog owned by Gawker Media. Of course

https://archive.today/izCLd

Now, ask yourselves this: how would Polygon’s advertisers feel about plugging their products on a website that advocates fan-editted torrents and film piracy, especially when linking the source of the torrent directly in the article? Hell, I doubt a majority of their advertisers are even aware of the existence of these articles.

It’s worth mentioning that Ben Kuchera isn’t the only one from the Polygon Bunch who advocated film piracy. Back in July 2014, a massive HD torrent of the Expendables 3 leaked online late July, well before its theater release date in August 15th. David Pierce from The Verge decided to torrent the film on his laptop. In fact, he watched it twice. He then proceeded to write an article headlined,
>“I torrented ‘The Expendables 3’ and I’m still going to see it in theaters.”
Subtitle:
>Why a leak could be the best thing that ever happened to Sylvester Stallone.”

https://archive.today/USKOm

These fucking guys

tl;dr - Ben Kuchera wrote another article on Polygon about advocating film piracy. Also, if Polygon’s advertisers happen to find out about this article, they may not too pleased.

 

[NegaCWC]

The checkered cltohes seem to be about right, those are definitely Anita's eerings, the hair is more or less the same... What happened to Anita's nose? I'm not saying this to make fun of Anita or anything (I don't even think large noses are off-putting), I just think it's funny they try to pander to SJWs while upholding traditional standards of beauty.

Edit as to not double post: I totally forgot that they also made another part in Anita's body smaller than it is in real life:

Spoiler

Thanks you Anita for making sure any attempt to draw a realistic portrayel of you is deemed sexist.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Jewkeesian

wait
wut

 

[Jaimas]

And the habbendings over the Kuchera Piracy-Advocation are beginning:

KiA's covering it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2vcstu/polygons_ben_kuchera_has_advocated_for_film/

The Internet Hate Machine has been riled, and Gawker's about to be subjected to a second round of boycotts, because losing Millions to Gamergate wasn't good enough:
http://www.8ch.net/gamergate/res/336425.html#337589

In related news, Gawker's about to get reamed by Coca-Cola over the MeinCoke campaign:
https://archive.today/inBOZ

Sam Biddle is once more in the news, saying that hacking into some celebrity's email was a fine thing to do:
https://archive.today/yG5wJ

I'll keep you guys posted if any new developments occur.

 

[Hodor]

The hiiiiiilla are aliiiive with the sound of reckoning~!

 

[Watcher]

Yeah, the fact that TB is buddy-buddy with Sterling is a massive red-flag. Also, I vehemently disagree with TB's "we need to stop focusing on sjws/LWu's, sjw's aren't really, because it makes us look like we're about harassment" bullshit, it's impossible to deny that SJW's are real, and how intertwined the sjws are with Gamergate. Effectively everyone who is anti is either an SJW, or a fool who can't look past their noses and question anything the media/people like Jewkeesian tells them, because you'd have to be either a lunatic who thinks women always tell the truth, or a seriously thick motherfucker who actually believes that there's been a coordinated effort to harass women out of gaming for the past 6 months, despite ZERO EVIDENCE TO PROVE THIS, as opposed to it ACTUALLY being about wanting ethical reform to the gaming press and radical feminist/sjw agendas not forced into gaming, and going into any Gamergate friendly discussion board, as far as I've seen, indicates the latter is the reality.

There is another side to this that I see from TB's perspective. I understand another ulterior motive for not wanting to focus on the "e-celebs". He foresees that if we don't focus that much on them they'll become more likely to speak out about it.

I don't really see TB's perspective as a bad one. For one it's not particularly original (8chan has looked down upon "e-celeb" threads for a while and has tended to try and keep them all in one thread as opposed to having a dozen Brianna Wu threads). I see his point I just don't particularly foresee people following it.

 

[Gothicserpent]

Who the hell would want to play as a spoiled rich girl.

 

[NegaCWC]

So I'm not totally sure how GamerGate-related is what I'm about to post, and it also goes into the e-celeb shit TB wants to avoid, so if some mod wishes to remove my post to another thread go ahead. Anyways... someone revealed to Ralph (from the Ralph Retort, most prestigious blog EVER) that Anna Antropy, a game developer for whom Patricia Hernandez shilled in Kotaku without disclosing she was her roomate, did porn. Here's an archive of Anna's profile on some weird porn site (surprisingly not so much NSFW). Here's a link to the vid. It's surprisingly not that NSFW as well, but it's just a preview. Looking at Anna and hearing her voice, I can definitely say that I DO NOT WANT to watch the full video, it's going to eclipse For Julie's Eyes Only as the worst lolcow sextape.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

So I'm not totally sure how GamerGate-related is what I'm about to post, and it also goes into the e-celeb shit TB wants to avoid, so if some mod wishes to remove my post to another thread go ahead. Anyways... someone revealed to Ralph (from the Ralph Retort, most prestigious blog EVER) that Anna Antropy, a game developer for whom Patricia Hernandez shilled in Kotaku without disclosing she was her roomate, did porn. Here's an archive of Anna's profile on some weird porn site (surprisingly not so much NSFW). Here's a link to the vid. It's surprisingly not that NSFW as well, but it's just a preview. Looking at Anna and hearing her voice, I can definitely say that I DO NOT WANT to watch the full video, it's going to eclipse For Julie's Eyes Only as the worst lolcow sextape.

WHY IS JIM STERLING WEARING A WIG? WHAT IS GOING ON?

 

[GREEDY FIREMAN]

So I'm not totally sure how GamerGate-related is what I'm about to post, and it also goes into the e-celeb shit TB wants to avoid, so if some mod wishes to remove my post to another thread go ahead. Anyways... someone revealed to Ralph (from the Ralph Retort, most prestigious blog EVER) that Anna Antropy, a game developer for whom Patricia Hernandez shilled in Kotaku without disclosing she was her roomate, did porn. Here's an archive of Anna's profile on some weird porn site (surprisingly not so much NSFW). Here's a link to the vid. It's surprisingly not that NSFW as well, but it's just a preview. Looking at Anna and hearing her voice, I can definitely say that I DO NOT WANT to watch the full video, it's going to eclipse For Julie's Eyes Only as the worst lolcow sextape.

Spoiler: O_O

 

[Iä! Iä!]

So I'm not totally sure how GamerGate-related is what I'm about to post, and it also goes into the e-celeb shit TB wants to avoid, so if some mod wishes to remove my post to another thread go ahead. Anyways... someone revealed to Ralph (from the Ralph Retort, most prestigious blog EVER) that Anna Antropy, a game developer for whom Patricia Hernandez shilled in Kotaku without disclosing she was her roomate, did porn. Here's an archive of Anna's profile on some weird porn site (surprisingly not so much NSFW). Here's a link to the vid. It's surprisingly not that NSFW as well, but it's just a preview. Looking at Anna and hearing her voice, I can definitely say that I DO NOT WANT to watch the full video, it's going to eclipse For Julie's Eyes Only as the worst lolcow sextape.

[insert melting faces from Raiders here]

 

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Yeah, that's not all that surprising, nor does it really pertain to anything Gamergate, as you mentioned. Quinn did porn , Leigh Alexander has taken sexually suggestive photos, fuck I'm sure the whole male-beta team would have loved to gotten to show off their pasty white asses to the camera as well if they knew it wouldn't be immediately offensive to anything with eyes. Also, a person who has done porn and has been in the video game industry isn't all that shocking. After all, we had Tera Patrick and Sasha Grey doing VA work on Saint's Row, and Traci Lords being a VA in Hitman: Absolution.

Remember folks - video games aren't necessarily family-friendly affairs.

Gamergate related though... I believe that Law & order Gamergate-inspired episode was supposed to be on the air tonight. I don't have even basic cable, so has anyone bothered to watch it?

 

[Wulfgar Von Heltzer]

http://towerfall.tumblr.com/post/110562144181/alternate-archers

Next up is the alternate blue archer. If you keep up on gaming news she may seem familiar - her appearance is loosely based on feminist games critic Anita Sarkeesian. Anita’s work has been an inspiration to the TowerFall team. Her “Tropes vs Women in Games” video series gave us a valuable new lens through which to assess our character designs. TowerFall is about bringing people together, so it’s vitally important that the cast of playable characters makes everyone feel invited to join in. Simply put, this wouldn’t have occurred to me if not for Anita, and feedback from players has reinforced how important it really is. We’re very excited to immortalize Anita in a small way, as the alternate Last of the Order.

Doesn't really look like her, tho.....

 

[StallChaser]

Holy hypocrisy, Ben! Ben Kuchara is the same guy that bitched someone out for mentioning SNES emulation in an article about a game that had never been released on cartridge (and therefore was only playable via emulator up until then).
http://8bittherapy.tumblr.com/post/42115310043/game-journalist-adventures-making-a-fool-of

 

[Spork]

Gamergate related though... I believe that Law & order Gamergate-inspired episode was supposed to be on the air tonight. I don't have even basic cable, so has anyone bothered to watch it?

You're about a day early. How much do you want to bet that NotIntosh is behind the plot somehow?

 

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You're about a day early. How much do you want to bet that NotIntosh is behind the plot somehow?

Ah. Like I mentioned, no cable. It would explain why the GG twitter is only at a mild frothing right now instead of full blown nuclear meltdown mode.

And yeah, considering he apparently has an actor playing his part, I think he's going to be involved in this somehow....

Holy hypocrisy, Ben! Ben Kuchara is the same guy that bitched someone out for mentioning SNES emulation in an article about a game that had never been released on cartridge (and therefore was only playable via emulator up until then).
http://8bittherapy.tumblr.com/post/42115310043/game-journalist-adventures-making-a-fool-of

How do you know when Ben is up shit creek? When even NeoGaf is tired of him.
https://archive.today/BvF8z

 

[Jaimas]

Ah. Like I mentioned, no cable. It would explain why the GG twitter is only at a mild frothing right now instead of full blown nuclear meltdown mode.

And yeah, considering he apparently has an actor playing his part, I think he's going to be involved in this somehow....
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t6I1VQTkrCU


How do you know when Ben is up shit creek? When even NeoGaf is tired of him.
https://archive.today/BvF8z

Please. Please let Kuchera be thrown under the bus.

PLEASE. LET HIM OUTLIVE HIS USEFULNESS AND BE TREATED WITH THE COURTESY YOU SHOWED GEORDIE TAIT, ANTI-GG.

HE'S MALE, I KNOW YOU WANT TO.

 

[StallChaser]

In other news, Liana K wrote a really good article criticizing Anita Sarkeesian and the cult that follows her. It's going to be the first in a series.
http://metaleater.com/video-games/f...made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-1

 

[Jaimas]

In other news, Liana K wrote a really good article criticizing Anita Sarkeesian and the cult that follows her. It's going to be the first in a series.
http://metaleater.com/video-games/f...made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-1

Fucking fantastic watch and read. Highly recommended.

 

[lurkermouse]

The salt is reaaaal (on their side and mine):

Because attitudes become more inclusive when you block discussion and dissenting opinion, don’t you know?

It hurts, but it’s nice to know who my broken pedestals are through GamerGate putting their feet to the fire, so I can move on to people who aren’t hypocrites and actually worth supporting.