/gg2/ - (GG)^2

National Endowment

>https://archive.today/e5CmY

>$75,000

>To Support the Development of an Interactive Video Game for Social CHANGE

>https://archive.today/riPqW

>$579,301

>Adaptation and Evaluation of Video Game to Reduce Sexual Violence on Campus

https://archive.today/NMpk7

>$24,000

>To Support the Production and Exhibition of Video Games Created by the Different Games FELLOWS

more on the last one

>A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will bring five thought-leading designers and authors to exhibit their games and discuss issues.

>Opening night will feature games exhibited by the NEA-sponsored Different Games Fellows Anna Anthropy, Mattie Brice, and Robert Yang

>Opening speaker will be Leigh Alexander, noted game journalist and news editor for the industry site Gamasutra

>https://archive.today/qvmyp

IGDA

https://archive.today/Q4jPT

>>481

Acid Man, not Hatman. But him too, need to shill it on KIA as a necessary pr strategy, we need to learn from the last time when the e-celebs got involved

EVERYONE HERE POST IN THE ROLL CALL THREAD:

>>>/ggrevolt/43

>>481

Posted in the role call thread.

I will do a full disclosure tomorrow.

>>485

Pm me a burner email address and I'll send you the log in, not able to pm you.

>>485

> Kovkel56

PM SENT

>>422

>>422

Hell no.

>>422

this is one of the most retarded images I have ever seen and makes me think it was made as black propoganda by the anti side

>gg is the same as the kkk!

another thing about the image is that it offers no solution only criticism, just like Left wing critical theory.

the image reads like a critical theory take on gamergate.

>>338

>So yeah. Made a thread specifically for constructive boycott discussion.

>Got perma-banned again, because "shit-stirring"

Rejoice! The true Leader of Gamergate has send word from his Headquarters that such activity is no longer bannable!

Banning people under strict rules, then relaxing the rules was all part of Our Glorious Leader's masterful plan to... uh, well, fuck up the post counts and out him and his mods as dramaqueen social engineers for some strange reason.

THAT DOESN'T MATTER

What matter's is that you're now free to post about boycotts again!

>>>/gamergatehq/183890

Oh, wait, "perma-banned". Nevermind. Carry on anon.

So, this board will be about ho much Acid Hitler hurt your feelings?

I haven't discusses gamergate for months because of the shit mods.

GG is a consumer revolt, our only power is economic power. To say we cannot discuss boycotts is to declaw us.

>>486

Our wiki even declares boycotts against several developers and companies, it's just the mods of the discussion places who seem to be brain-damaged individuals.

I disagree that our only power is economic though. We have strong social media presence as well which means we can hurt brands and even hold a small political weight, not through collective voting but by mass e-mailing campaigns and sending letters (see FTC, TPP etc).

>>477

>Retard spotted already.

Said the guy saging a sticky :^)

Also,

>movement

>a series of actions or activities intended or tending toward a particular end

>actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons.

GG is a movement, get good.

>Do you have any examples?

A couple:

>>338

>>>/gamergatehq/180407

>>>/gamergatehq/180476

>>>/gamergatehq/180610

>>>/gamergatehq/181004

>>>/gamergatehq/182048

>>>/gamergatehq/182373

It's stupid to choose rules by strawpoll, anyone can fuck with those.

>>484

But muh downvote. It's called being an offtopic post.

No, it's not. The dictionary definition is effectively worthless. Eating a meal could be considered a movement by it. Nobody rational would describe breakfast as a movement. Additionally, dictionary definitions follow usage and seek to inform usage, but the relationship is not automatic. Therefore, we need some other objective criteria.

If we look at other movements, not a single one in history is even remotely like the response to the GG controversy. I've asked this every time some retard busts out "movement." What movement is it like? And then crickets.

Therefore, it's a shit objective descriptor at best. Words exist to describe patterns and there's no pattern for what GG is yet because it's the first of its kind. Even "consumer revolt" really fails to make sense of the shape. Here's a question for you to think about: Is there any real need to refer to the response to the controversy at all? If what we care about are the issues, why are we even talking about the response? Why is there any need to affix some label to it?

The answer for the opposition is that movements are what they think in and where you play the battleground of PR - it's where they're fish in water. The answer for us? It's just a giant waste of time for us and it comes with the baggage of how we look at our tactics, strategy, and how victory works. I don't give a shit how they think about us, but us thinking about it like this? That's a detriment.

As far as those examples, I don't really see anything wrong. In my opinion, the only one contributing any real criticism instead of spewing hyperbole like a retard is

>>>/gamergatehq/182373.

There are some legit good questions in there. There are also things like this that give the person away: "Defeatism [a.k.a. acknowledging reality]."

The reason why this is obvious is - well - just look:Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>488

>But muh downvote. It's called being an offtopic post.

It does absolutely nothing since the thread is stickied.

>The dictionary definition is effectively worthless.

If you wanna argue using definitions that only exist in your head I'd like to recommend a place filled with more like-minded individuals:

>>>/tumblr/

I'd rather use the universal meaning of words rather than arguing imagined definitions. If it pleases you I have no problem using 'revolt' instead for this conversation but I'd rather not get into a pointless argument about semantics.

As for the bans being justified or not: These were all in threads dedicated to discussing the more strict moderation. If they were criticizing anything else with the same arguments do you think they'd have been banned for dramafagging? Should users who think the new system is bullshit should be censored if the mods don't agree with their posts?

Truth is, moderation on /gghq/ has always been authoritarian. AcidMan has the bad habit of forcing his views on the rest of the revolt. Ralph was wordfiltered even though he wasn't part of the boycott list and over 75% of the users were against it. Acid constantly posts with his capcode on threads when not discussing board-related things. Pedobutts digging thread was deleted even though lots of interesting info was being dug out. And then there's the boycott thing: mods claim that there's a consensus but any thread discussing the issue, no matter how civil, gets deleted and the poster banned for shilling.

This decision to make the rules more strict was at no point discussed with the users. They just held a closet meeting and later informed us what they decided.

I'm not saying that Acidman hasn't done good things when running the board. Important OPs usually get stickied within 24 hours, mod logs are public and obvious spam and bait gets removed quickly. Problem is, sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>489

>It does absolutely nothing

Then you should waste less time making an issue out of it.

>If you wanna argue using definitions that only exist in your head

I love it when my argument is strawmanned hard. It doesn't please me to use "revolt" either, although it's definitely more precise than movement. One of my points is: Why the fuck do you need so hard to categorize it? Seriously, I want to know. Why is it so important, especially in internal dialogue?

It's not a pointless argument, unless you think selection of tactics, strategy, and victory conditions being different somehow constitutes "pointless" differences. Even if you think that, it's only your opinion that it's unimportant and means nothing for general discourse. It does not mean that it is universally unimportant because you think it's not.

And ultimately, this "universal meaning" you speak of is completely nonsense. Usage informs dictionary definitions. This is a fact. Dictionaries sit around trying to keep up on what sticks and then put that into the definition. It follows usage and only in some cases. As we've established, the dictionary definition is effectively meaningless because it covers things that are clearly not movements. Usage of the word movement in a political context (and we could argue about whether or not this is a political context at all) means much more specific things. Based on this usage, it is inapplicable. It's not in my head. If you think it is, argue what movement this is similar to. Go ahead, I'll wait.

>Should users who think the new system is bullshit should be censored if the mods don't agree with their posts?

Users that think the new system is bullshit should provide constructive criticism about their opinions and why instead of bathing in the emotion of the moment. The majority of the posts you outlined did not do this and as such, I find it difficult to feel like there's a problem here.

>Ralph was wordfilterePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>Just claimed it

How long did it take Hotwheels to reply to your claim?

How about ggfob (forward operating base)

Ggccc (command and control center)

Ggstation

Etc

I registered ggstation if the BO wants it, please let Thidran know as well.

>>447

Oh I mean "claimed" as in nobody else had made a board with this name before I did.

>>459

Will do. And yea whatever you guys want to do. I will gladly run whichever board people want.

>>329

might be a good time to raise awareness of this board.

Please try and do that if possible acid seems to be on a binge today

>>337

Yes actually the directory we compiled Wi contain this. Hoping to have that posted when I get back in Internet range in a couple days. There will be alot of stickies initially however as there is going to be at least one for the current events/migration until things calm down.

>>337

I'd rather have one board for everything.

Both this board and >>>/burgersandfries/ seem like fine alternatives to /gghq/, it'd be nice to see either of them rise to the top.

Best is to just shill them whenever possible make good posts and OC here, cultivate a nice board. Hopefully every time Acid spergs out more users will come.

The way I see it, creating a really good awareness campaign similar to www.eastarwars.com from that Russian anon, combining it with people speaking up against companies during the paid mods situation along with something similar to O:DN which creates the threat of a boycott would be a lot more effective than having a boycott on its own.

It lets you hit the company from the PR front and makes them worry about losing customers and losing money the same way advertisers were worried about advertising their stuff on Gawker due to losing potential customers along with having a PR nightmare after Gawker got shown what it really is on Twitter.

>>329

>Boycotts?

Yes for the love of god

>Value of boycotts

A consumer's only power in this world is that of his wallet, whether or not he spends his money or not. A boycott is merely the consumer exercising this power to dictate the path of the industry.

With a sizable enough boycott, you can force corporations to stop shitty business practices, such as the horrible relationship between publishers and journalists leading to gamers being shit on (Mountain Dewrito, ME3, DmC)

If we gather enough support, we can get everything we ever wanted. Support SJW shit? No money for you. Day 1 DLC, bullshit preorders? No money for you. Any other assorted jewish shit? No money!

It's quick, it's efficient. All it requires is a little self control. The XBoner and Steam Paid Mods shit were killed out of the mere fear of a boycott, we just need to stir up that sort of outrage.

BasedGamer still has no future if they continue with the advertising model they outlined. There is no way it will be profitable.