Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong?
/pol/
>>333935257
People doing it for the lulz were replaced by legit autists hell bent on an internet crusade
>>333935257
Nothing. They rose up and became the mighty #Torrentialdownpour, which is filling /v/ in on censorship.
>>333935257
Logo's not that great.
>>333935257
>affiliating 4chan with any "movement"
enjoy your automatic dismissal
>>333935353
> torrential down pour
> fire emblem fates is the best selling fire emblems game in North America
Great job there
>>333935478
See>>333909048
We are beating them, by pushing back the SJW's on this board. We're not cucks, we're taking this board back.
Acting like WE R LEGOON faggots on twitter.
NOT VIDYA
>report
>hide
>move on
>>333935719
implying /v/ is any better
>>333935682
I'm utterly unsurprised it's weebs that are front lining this retarded crusade.
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
Trolls and people who took it a bit too far. This goes for both sides.
co opted by faggots
also literally caring this much about literal whos and not just playing videogames
>>333935257it birthed a bunch of copy and paste anti SJW youtubers, you know the ones I'm talking about, they usually have an avatar, never show their face, play youtube SJW videos and respond to everything they say like they're having an actual conversation.
some examples
I'm for social justice and ethics in game journalism. Good thing SJW and GG have nothing to do with either, because i would hate to side with one of those retards.
>>333935257
Nothing. Despite having its name dragged through the mud, it did its job.
>>333935991
So you’re fine with the current state of vidya and vidya journalism?
>>333935257
GG didn't have a solid spokesperson to weave all their strong points into a strong case on public media.
GG was asked to come on mainstream media with spokesperson a few times, but no one wanted to get crucified/warlockburned by the SJW zealots (which was a credible threat, unlike the madeup bullshit of Zociopath and co).
Even today, GG has a narrative that works and is completely defensible, but no one wants to stand up and get flayed by the SJW and left-media smear machine.
You went after the media. You attacked their bottom line and they hit back by making you look like a bunch of misogynist monsters who were just a step above nazis.
Even now, 90% of the newfags here probably believe that narrative, and just about EVERYONE in the mainstream media believe it.
You don't go after the media.
>>333936078
>vidya journalism
focus was shifted from gaming journalism as a whole to some kind of vendetta against Five Guys almost immediately
It was a poor choice of initial focus against a target that already knew how to be a professional victim anyway
>>333935257
>Within hours of being fired, she started working as a prostitute. Her tattoos and wedding ring led to her being discovered within a week. She then quickly took the site down. Archived photos are here, here, and here. But what's more is she has a husband, Twitter- Jake Rapp. He describes himself as a "feminist", wears women's clothing in selfies, votes for Bernie Sanders, and is a total cuck! In nine months she'll give birth to a black baby and he'll help raise it!
and you guys still give shit to anthony burch
>>333935861
Oh and because this was basically a hashtag on twitter, anyone could say just about anything and as long as the say #GG or whatever, gamergates image got worse. It was too easy to sabotage.
>>333935257
GG made their primary target a woman.
This summoned a legion of feminists and white knight detractors.
Nothing. It's the ultimate boohgeyman now.
Something bad happens? Gamergate must be behind it.
>>333935257
Lost its teeth. Became more concerned with its own image than attacking its enemies. Tried playing the vicitm, using feminists own tactics against them. Didn't work, they failed to understand that their public perception was uninportant, that their strength was anonymity and the nebulous nature of their movement. In essence, their only goal should have been destroying the public perception of their opponents.
>>333936078
>>333936078
>>333936078
>vidya journalism
>>333936164
The Zociopath Post and numerous character witnesses prove she was pretty much a demon incarnate, and still everyone rushed to her defense. Female oppression, everyone.
![uzi[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/Ubfk4DV.png "uzi[1].png")
>>333935978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVFu_3QtHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlJcpJ_63GM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm5X-QbnXYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a89rBhxdjg0
not to be racist but these channels are copy and paste, they're all run by stuffy nosed dorky voiced white guys who have the exact same style and respond to the same low tier videos.
>>333936078
>video game journalism
Who gives a shit? It's been hot garbage since forever.
>>333936236
>>333936139
Answer the question: are you fine with the current state of vidya and vidya "journalism?"
>>333935257
Nothing, after that Law & Order episode it couldn't be more obvious that it was all worth it.
After a few months it became more than vidya and /pol/tards bitching about white genocide, muslims and black lives matter
>>333935257
They didn't abuse women like they should have
I don't understand why people got worked up over some dumb woman's free shitty game in the first place.
>>333936312
Yes, because there isn't any """vidya journalism"""
As for videogames, yes
>>333936283
I don't even want to watch that, because i know youtube will flood me with recommendations based on that shit. I remember watching a few minutes of that new channel of that internet aristocrat guy, had to delete my history.
>>333936078
>Reading kotaku or RPS
Just go to niche gamer, lewd gamer, tech raptor or escapist for news and browse /v/ for further info.
>>333935257
We became #Torrentialdownpour, and I encourage everyone to go to this thread to support us.>>333909048
>>333936397
Gotta be mad at something, otherwise what else to you say on twitter? "Eating a burrito nao"? You don't get followers that way.
>>333936312
even if I wasn't, there's nothing you or I could do about it
we're literally all cogs in the machine
>>333936450
But torrential down pour already failed
>>333936150
hes a prositute too
>>333936283
Why are 90% of these kinds of people always so nasally when they speak?
>>333936397
On that note, I don't get why people got so mad over a butt slap being removed by the creator of the game.
Fucking manchildren
http://thewordonthe.net/12/2014/a-neutral-mansplains-gamergate-social-justice-and-radical-feminism/
Here's the best write-up of the thing I've ever read.
e-celeb idolization and worship are what killed it
>>333936150
>Jake Rapp is basically Anthony Burch 2.0
We might have been wrong guys. It might actually be possible to become Anthony Burch
>>333936150
Source on the black baby?
>>333935637
>Gamergate has ruined more lives than pedophilia
RALLY ROUND THE FAMILY
WITH A POCKET FULL OF SHELLS
>>333936397
it's a fucking mystery anon, here is your (you)
>>333936702there is no black baby, it was just the article that was exagerating, the rest is true though
>>333936713
That was after people got worked up over a shitty free game
>>333935257
It's not as if it was hard to see why. After Moot went full retard, GG fell into complete chaos and people started losing sight of what was most important.
https://www.docdroid.net/TaoypPE/the-rare-candy.pdf.html
That pretty much sums it all up.
If everybody''s divided, shit will never happen like it should.
If everybody's united, the entire movement is unstoppable.
The biggest problem is that everybody's too stupid to notice the obvious-as-fuck mistakes that need to be avoided.
To be honest, I've never fully understood what's the deal.
I mean, sites that give shitty reviews like Polygon and Kotaku are really lame, but I never access them (I don't think I've been to Polygon even a single timey). Sure, I'd like their shitty "muh-soggy-knee" shit to go away, but I doubt it'd happen with how popular feminism and other shit is today.
I think GamerGate had something to do with bashing on those kinds of site? I'd see no problem with that, but obviously they'd get labeled as "doing it because they hate women", just like when people hated DmC and those retards kept saying it was because of Donte's look.
In the end, it's probably a dumb and fruitless effort.
>>333936791
The corruption documented by Eron's post was so fucking egregious that there should be no surprise whatsoever that it was the ten ton weight that broke the camel's back.
>>333936869
Wasn't corruption, just a slut being a slut. Nothing to start a crusade about it
>>333936791
and world war 1 was just after some random hobo got killed :^)
>>333936869
>corruption
Nigga, it was a free game with like 5,000 downloads
Chill the fuck out
>>333936713
Lel, I find it hilarious that gawker got fucking crushed
>>333936970
>>333937019
It was the first in-depth chronicle we got of the bullshit that goes on, and it was a microcosm of all the other bullshit.
People objected to it. Why weren't their objections honored? It was objectionable.
reminder this is our backup home:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/
reminder this is our backup home:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/
reminder this is our backup home:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/
>>333936397
Literally Who 1.0 wasn't the issue.
It was cold, hard evidence of the game '''''journalism''''' establishment being corrupt and careless, something supposed but that there wasn't actual evidence of.
Then the mailing list came out and shit really got moving.
I still think that altogether this happening was a good thing because of the solid gold that happened afterwards, what with Quinn and Sarkeesian actually showing up to the UN accompanied by an absolutely wretched paper that was an embarrassment to everybody involved. As long as you get these motherfuckers running they'll trip all over themselves.
The way to win is to convince the people in the middle that you're right, not to just slap one anothers backs and agree with the people who are already on your side. And you enemies aren't going to join you just like you aren't going to join them.
You need to convince the middleman, or the people who aren't interested. But GG calls these people SJWs instead of trying to make a reasonable and attractive case.
Ask yourself how this movement appears to an outsider. A tumblr-created OC recolour of an anime girl pushed by people who will call you a SJW if you don't agree with them or ask any questions or are in any way critical of any aspect of the movement. Does this sound appealing to the outsider? No. It's a clubhouse of faggots sticking their tongues out at everyone and that's why nobody gives a shit anymore other than hardline faggots.
>>333937087
What was so objectionable that deserved public attention?
>>333937118
Frankly I'd rather be homeless.
>>333937118
>backup home
Get fucked
>>333937202
Frankly, how dare you ask me that. You don't get to decide that.
>>333937202
Just stop, you're embarrassing yourself, lol
>>333937087
>It was the first in-depth chronicle we got of the bullshit that goes on
How old are you? Do you not remember the gaming mags in the 90's or the huge Kane & Lynch 2 shitshow?
The vidya sites rely on the dev's they're supposed to critique for early review copies, interviews, exclusives, and advertising. It was always a conflict of interest since day one.
A group of keyboard warriors with nothing better to do launched a holy war on games journalism and all worked hard to uncover absolutely fucking nothing
In all honesty I thought games journalism was corrupt as fuck before GG happened. But their failure to dig up anything juicy made me realise it really is nothing more than a bunch of shitty bloggers looking for clicks. They are retards and sometimes assholes but there was so little dirt to be found that people had to spin insane shit just to justify how mad they were about it. The people attacking the journalists ended up looking obsessive and insane as it became more and more clear that there wasn't really anything there to be mad about other than "waaah this person is a liberal!"
You can hate liberals all you want, I certainly do, but they're entitled to their own opinion and it'sunethicalto try shut them down just because you disagree with them.
>>333937190
Bringing "SJW" into the mainstream vocabulary was the greatest victory of GG.
>>333937323
>implying /v/ didn't meme it's brains out over all of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbjaiZVVo00
>>333935327
>MUH /pol/ BOOGEYMAN
>>333937252
>>333937310
Again, just a slut being a slut. Something shitty, but nothing so important as to necessitate public awareness.
>>333937360
There was a ton of shit uncovered. Sorry if you haven't kept up.
>But Anon, GG never harassed anyone!
What about this?
>ugh you idiot, those are CLEARLY false flags, they harassed THEMSELVES for money!
What about this, along with proof that it wasn't a false flag?
>Pffth you call THAT harassment?
Well, yes.
>These people should grow thicker skins!
So GG members DID harass others?
>lol fuck off cuck xD
Every time.
>>333937437
>mainstream vocabulary
I haven't seen a mainstream site outside of 4chan where using SJW unironically doesn't get your opinions immediately discarded
>>333937583
>i'm not a rabid fanatic, just a normal progressive person in the year 2016 :^)
Fuck off, SJW.
>>333937547
Approximately 0% of the activity on the tag was harassment. Yes, it was false flags and trolls.
>>333937516
Your apathy doesn't mean things don't matter. Sorry.
>>333937547
I personally prefer:
>Whoa GG isn't one person, just because one of us is being an idiot doesn't mean you can paint us with the same broad brush
>someone finds a stupid comment by a sjw
>hah hahaha look at that - all sjws and people who disagree with me are equally retarded as that one poster!
The cognitive dissonance is palpable
>>333937524
>educate yourself!
This sounds so familiar
>>333937437
The only person I've ever seen say "SJW" irl was a greasy quiet guy who vaped and talked about his knife collection a lot.
As soon as it got a logo, a nickname, and a fucking mascot it was fucked.
You don't give your enemy a name that they can smear.
>>333937724
It's almost impossible to find someone today who isn't an egalitarian. SJWs subscribe to a whole host of whackjob unscientific ideologies like intersectional feminism and neurosexism.
>>333937759
What do you want me to say? I'm not going to write it all out for you. Google it.
>all we want is politics OUT of games journalism!
>sweet this unashamedly right-wing paper guy supports us, haha he complains about feminists all day long, he is so BASED!!!
>but the important thing is no agendas are being pushed
>haha milo is so right about trannies being insane
>the only reason I hate all these SJWs talking about games is that they don't even play videogames!!!
>haha milo wrote a game review for a game he never played and made fun of SJWs haha BASED
>milo also wrote an article after a shooting where he blamed videogames
>haha it's fine though there's no way milo is just an opportunist looking for clicks because he's not like the SJWs
>haha milo so based, he even knows the memes!! xD
>>333937832
The worst part was that the whole Vivian/Afterlife Empire clusterfuck was manipulation by a bunch of goon shitposters.
Somehow the media never picked up on GG donating tens of thousands to feminist organizations, though. Mysterious.
>sjws/faGGots: devs should be free to make games they want
>dev puts something in a game they don't like
>sjws/faGGots: waaaaah take it out take it right now!
Both sides are insane.
>>333937507
/pol/ is literally the same thing as essjay double jews
>>333937885
>"Ethics in journalism"
>Reads beritbart
>>333937940
> donating to feminist organizations
Why the fuck would you do that?
right wing cuckold lovers and left wing lunatics
>>333937516
Hey anon, can you off the top of your head tell me who the developers of Capsized were without looking? How about the developer of Ittle Dew?
Maybe you can tell me which developer conferences they have been to speak at?
>>333938040
To prove GG wasn't bigots. Look how well that worked, lol.
It's like expecting the Catholic Church to dissolve itself because you tithed.
>>333938081
Nope, no and no
>>333938040
So that you can feel like you're the good guys while also making right-wing shitters like Milo and Sommers famous for writing right-wing clickbait and making republicanism and conservatism cool for todays kids.
There was literally nothing to be outraged at in the first place
I actually supported GG at first but I stopped a few months later.
They completely lack the ability to think strategically. You need to pick and choose your battles but instead they went digging for the next thing to get mad at and just came across as zealous loons making mountains out of molehills.
>>333938209
Believe it or not, the right-wing ethos has some worthwhile components.
If you were "above the line", you'd probably be a right-winger. You hate capitalism until it works for you.
>Anita and friends are only famous because of Gamergate
Poetry
>>333938220
Agreed, comrade. They were enemies of the people, these people.
>what went wrong?
this shit was orchestrated from the start, everything moved as planed and gamers "died" during those months, they died long enough to be walked over like that progressive stack shit destroyed the wall street ocup.
It was ment to be like this.
>the fappenin
>gamers are ded
>indice scene gets more censor power than anyone else
>gee i wonder..
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>3
>>333938350
what the fuck are you smoking
>>333938242
This.
By all means oppose things you feel are unjust or wrong, but when you're literally trawling though twitter and old forums trying your absolute best to find evidence of any devs or journalists being "too liberal" or having the wrong opinion somewhere on the internet you are an obsessed fucking loser LITERALLY looking for outrage.
>>333938295
>insidious disease gaining traction
>attack it with antibiotics
>flares up and you have a Herxheimer reaction as the toxins are dumped into your body from dying bacteria
Lol these antibiotics made me sick.
>>333938295
>memes
>tfw hate right wing cucks and leftwing freaks
>>333938474
Well, prepare to be ruled by left-wing freaks then.
>>333938443
>gaining traction
top kek
Anita was another feminist nobody and she would have stayed that way if people didn't draw so much attention to her kickstarter
>>333938516
im a murrifat and theres no far leftwing other than sanders running and hes losing
>A bunch of angry spergs pissed off with the current state of the industry
>They decide to focus all their attention on indie nobodies and blogger journalists
>>333938546
Controversy would have been manufactured. She's a puppet that just spouts her handlers words. That's why she stumbles in interviews because she has to go off script.
>>333938637
Meanwhile, EA and Activision still making mad bucks
>Americans spend every single day terrified that the liberals are OUT OF CONTROL!
>Liberals still have literally no power outside their worthless blogosphere
>Everyone is still getting fucked hard every single day by the right-winger in charge and who control everything
>Kids want to vote for an even FURTHER right-wing government just because they say some dumb liberal tweets
Heat death of the universe when?
>>333938546
SJWs have been a growing scourge since ElevatorGate and the huge wars in the atheist movement. Games were their next target. They literally had a "Gamer+" tag at one point, like Atheist+.
You never interacted with radical idpols on social media. They are dedicated to infiltration and turning all expression into propaganda.
Read up on critical theory and rules for radicals. Many radicals are entering games just because of politics. Unless you want it to be "normalized" to be burned at the stake for showing a nipple, you should probably be concerned.
>>333938637
>Dorito pope is known for being DEWRITOS POPE
>no one gives a fuck and everyone have a good laugh
>Indie bloggers and shit are discovered for being paid shills or something else
>Is a national security problem
>>333938717
its always cool to be contrarian
4chan was never right wing except for nigger jokes when bush was in charge
now a democrat is president and everyone is suddenly voting for mussolini
>>333938662
Is McIntosh still dating her and writing her material? People used to flood /v/ with this silly tweets all the time, but I don't think I've seen him brought up for ages.
>>333938717
Idpols are stooges of the right-wing. All this divide and conquer "BlackLivesMatter", "trans-exclusionary" bullshit started immediately after OccupyWallstreet scared the elites.
GamerGate literally had the SUPPORT of the OccupyWallstreet Twitter account.
>Bunch of neckbeards in their moms basement organizng a campaign against snooty rich upper class privileged folks
>it fucking works
>>333938719
Instead of "reading up" on that book you should just read it, because it has nothing to do with pomos.
