Gonna place this board back on hibernation for now. Might end up using it as a metatboard later depending on how shit goes.
New board here:
https://8ch.net/ggrevolt/index.html
Configuration and vote thread: https://8ch.net/ggrevolt/res/767.html
Digging
Master Dig Thread
Master digging thread for digging on any topics necessary. This thread will remain cyclical and stickied.
Topics that need attention at all times
1. ThinkTanks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18gU4HSkW9Y
2. RAND/Gamification:
Rand master: https://archive.is/1UE3Z
3. Other fun stuff: Kasumovic labs:
As always please post whatever you find on ANY topic here, digging is a great activity and sometimes requires little effort.
DeepFreeze
Deep Freeze archive thread. For those new to this here's the idea:
Find something nice?
Place it here
Simply place links, info-dumps, research projects, or other similar things here and the thread will be archived when full. Text copies of all information will also be saved. The idea is that this is where you place info dumps/writeups or really important seeming things, where as the dig threads are for general digging and dumping, so finished products/collections go here.
## Board Owner
Welcome to GamerGateSquaredThe gamergate archival and clerical research board.
Purpose
As discussed previously, the purpose of this board is to aggregate infodumps, provide a place for long term research projects, and to provide archival threads for all things relating to gamergate. This board can also be used for research into related topics such as common core, social justice, and more.
How it works
At any given time there are three primary "work" threads.
1. Digging general. Digging on anything related to social justice, gamergate, mainstream media ect goes here.
2. General research and discussion thread. Discuss any research projects you have and work on them here. Also includes discussion of long term ideas.
3. Deep freeze threads. Place archives, links, articles, ect that you want backed up in a safe way here as a "Fallback" to other methods such as archive today gamergate.me and others. These threads will be saved down to a text file and archived once full and a new one opened.
Other uses
Besides the primary threads, feel free to post your own threads for digs, long term research, or what have you. This board is strictly for long term research, digs, information aggregation, and historical research. It is not for discussion of current events or drama.
Rules here:
http://pastebin.com/6Kmv29jL
Note: This board also acts as a backup to the current gamergate board or "boards". Should drama or future problems occur, this board could become the general gg board if users wanted it. Research from /v/ is encouraged to be posted here.
Hope you enjoy the board!
-Zan
Have you taken the brown pill yet, mateys?
it's a tough pill to swallow! The brown pill was founded in 1999 by Sir Reginald Brownpill, who presents and narrates the attached video.
Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.
Video related. Please leave your questions, comments, and concerns below about this radical new paradigm of thinking!
Swallow the brown pill today! Red pills are for fedora fucking wearing faggots, blue pills are for the ignorant masses. Ignore the other le epin /pol/ maymays, this one is the readl deal.
Eat my dick!
New Board, New Name
Hey Board Owner, I'm just making this thread so we don't forget the discussion here:
https://8ch.net/pol/res/2219473.html#
We're brainstorming names for a new board that you and the /burgersandfries/ owner can collaborate on. The reason being that gg2 and bnf are both pretty bad names that won't stick.
So far the best suggestions (IMO) have been:
/gamersunion/
and
/vidyarevolt/
If you REALLY ARE more hands-off and freedom-oriented than Acid Man, and if you REALLY DO understand why "infighting" and dissent are important to a movement, then you could be our only hope. Don't fuck this up.
I hope you guys dont make the same mistake
Just got permabanned from GGHQ for making a civil discussion thread for boycotting
So yeah. Made a thread specifically for constructive boycott discussion.
Got perma-banned again, because "shit-stirring"
Acid Man says he's "cracking down" on "boycott shills" now, that the "roundtable" has started.
GGHQ is officialy shit
Hello all
I have recently become aware of some problems regarding /gghq/ and the fact that people are becoming vastly dissatisfied with moderation there.
Given this, I am placing this board on standby status in case a meltdown/failure occurs
However
I would like to point out to people that another migration is going to be very frustrating to alot of folks. That being said, my advice is to watch and wait, not listen and believe. Lets just see how things play out for now guys.
That being said though should a serious meltdown occur I will convert this board back to active status and we will be ready to rock and roll.
As I said previously before gghq was founded, my only really big rule (outside of spam/shitpost removal) would be absolutely no identity politics/tone policing, that shit kills the board. But that being said
Ultimately, board rules would be chosen by a strawpoll vote
So it would be up to you guys.
Stay tuned my friends.
Boards General Thread
http://8ch.net/boards/res/8348.html
Meta thread
Mods... cops... always "a few bad apples"
Where were YOU on the day Order 66 was actioned?
05/21/2015:
1. KiA Admin Hatman, after discussing speaking to Brianna Wu on ways to "improve" KiA, anounces authoritarian new rules. Proudly states KiA is "Not a democracy", and "not worth saving".
2. AcidMan, a proud tripfag from Opchan (who only visited 4chan's /v/ as Gamergate was being forced to leave), decides "chan culture" has no place in /gamergatehq/ and bans it, permitting only "robust" debate. ReactionFace.jpg, GreenText, 1-line responses and all "chan" behaviour are grounds for banning.
All occured on one day.
Where were YOU?
/ggheadquarters/
https://8ch.net/ggheadquarters/
How bout this for our new board? Just claimed it :D
The Dreaded Developer Boycott Topic
Introduction
There has been continuous ongoing discussion about developer boycotts, some people love it, some people hate it.
It is now causing the GGHQ board to become kill because Acidman wants to silence discussion. He doesn't like that some people might boycott devs and are trying to discuss what criteria should be applied to this whenever a dev slips up.
Why This Discussion Cant be on GGHQ
Because Acidman and his Knights of the Rulecuck Table will remove any posts which are too 'on point' and risk them seeing a political defeat.
Facets for Discussion
- Boycotts, Yes, Maybe, No?
- Value of Boycotts to Consumer Value
- Value of Boycotts to Developer/Industry Value
- Criteria under which a developer should be collectively boycotted?
- Boycott by GG as a group or attempt to go beyond?
- Mechanisms for achieving maximum penetration.
Backstabbing and Based Gamer
Several months ago when Jennie Bharaj was raising funds for her site Based Gamer, there was a huge FUD campaign within GG telling people not to donate and condemning her for seeking money for a private enterprise. The community essentially kicked her out of GG after she did a great job defending us in a TV interview. Then Drybones launched startbutton.net shortly afterward.With the revelation that Drybones has been part of Zoe Quinn's friends' network for months, these past events might be worth revisiting and digging into. We may have had our own TFYC situation within GG.
On a potentially related note, does anyone remember who exactly was being such an asshole to Internet Aristocrat that he quit?
ODN MasterThread
Operation Disrespectful Nod and Rebuild MasterThread
This thread is for all ongoing work in relation to operation disrespectful nod and operation rebuild.
Please place all operation rebuild stuff in here as well as writing emails for both advertiser pulls and for developer outreach/or in support of new sites is a twofold part of fixing our industry, doing one without the other just doesn't make sense. If you are gonna send emails, do both.
ODN
http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Operation_Disrespectful_Nod
Rebuild
http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Rebuild_Initiative
Below is a repost of the original OP for ODN, written by AcidMan. Love him or hate him the OP was decent so we kept it for now.
Archive of original thread
From original:
MASTER DISRESPECTFUL NOD LIST
https://gitgud.net/gamergate/gamergateop/tree/master/Operations/Operation-Disrespectful-Nod
http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Projects:Operation_Disrespectful_Nod/Advertisers
MASTER DISRESPECTFUL NOD LIST
Backup archives: https://archive.today/6iAQo https://archive.today/wx6dZ
I've been waiting a while to make this thread because I needed to gather some resources first. Getting the board stable took up all the time I would normally use digging advertisers, so expect this list to be updated over the coming weeks.
First, the assessment.
As some of you know, I was the person who volunteered to scout the journo sites back in January and gather new lists of advertisers. Because of that activity, I have a very in-depth perspective on just exactly how effective Disrespectful Nod has been.
#GamerGate, you don't know what the hell you all have done.
Let me put this in perspective for you all.
The journo sites, at the end of January when the updates were finished? The original O:DN advertiser list that we targeted with emails through all of September, October, November, and December? You killed them all.
Every. Single. Normal. Advertiser. Pulled. Out.
All of them. At every site. The updated ad list was 100% new targets across the board.
Do you know where Gawkers "seven digits" came from? Gawker's main site was a WASTELAND of advertisements when I went back to do their update. Where once were ad boxes and pop-ups galore, there was only a single native ad link. ONE.
We left Gawker fucking sterile.
What happened was what we had expected to happen. After all the drama by aGGro over Intel dropping Gamasutra, the remaining advertisers saw the writing on the wall.
None of those who were left renewed their ad contracts with the journo sites at the end of the year. NONE. Not even INTEL. On Jan 1 they dropped Gamasutra AGAIN and didn't tell anyone a thing about it.
Quiet ad pulls that stripped most of the sites of their remaining income and forced them into using tons and tons of Google aggregated ads and native advertisements (product shilling articles.)
FROM THE WAY PEOPLE TALK YOU ALL HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW MUCH DAMAGE DISRESPECTFUL NOD HAS CAUSED.
The journo sites are surviving on life support, and have been for months!
Now is not the time to even CONSIDER stopping the email train. O:DN was, is, and shall remain the sword that slays the dragon.
This thread will be stickied to facilitate daily email goals targeting advertisers who remain. Many of these will be aggregated ads that we can only marginally affect - but we have options there also. Native ads we can destroy without mercy.
Carry on, #GamerGate. We are fucking winning this war. Emails are a grind, but we're due to level up. :3
DeepFreeze.it Planning
DeepFreeze.it planning
Place ads, art, and anything you guys want to discuss regarding deepfreeze tan and deepfreeze.it here.
From the previous thread
The current main focus is syndicated ads to be targeted at gaming related sites or Youtube, but we might do other sites too. The actual campaign is likely to go though the /v/ board owner Mark who is trustworthy and has an Adsense account. Bonegolem has asked to be given time to prepare before it goes live but otherwise seems to be mainly leaving it up to us.
Designs are needed and advice is appreciated. Let's do this!
Previous thread here:
>>143506
Archive:
Please also see
>>174352
>>175001
>>175045
>>175069
>>175070
For more information from the previous topic, including some general advice. Twitter and youtube seemed to be discussed the most with Reddit and Facebook behind it. 9gag had some discussion too and the anon giving advice made a point to bring up bingads as another alternate, cheaper source over google's adsense. Seems something worth exploring as cheaper is good and Microsoft does want to play the game seriously so there's opportunity there.
Archive of previous thread
GossipMasterThread
Off topic master thread
Things that go here:
*Off topic discussion
*E celebs
*Drama
*Gossip/rumors
*Twitter/tumblr/reddit ect drama
>mfw zan says hes leaving in a month until September
>mfw that means gamergate is over in a month
Update 2
Another poll was opened including more choices. the board /gamergatehq/ apparently was endorsed by mark kern and the owner of /v/ so I suppose thats sort of relevant. Here is the new poll:
http://strawpoll.me/3947753/
And the previous one:
http://strawpoll.me/3947266/
Please be sure to revote on the new poll as well as it has more selections.
Likely won't change anything wrt this board.
Based on the poll: http://strawpoll.me/3947266/
https://8ch.net/gg/index.html Is the new board for now.
I will wait 24-36 hours before going back to a pure archive format board. Per earlier discussion this board would be purely for dumping info and alternate dig threads instead.
Many thanks to everyone who voted and good luck all. Hope we soldier on.
Previous post:
Hello all. Old /pol/ack /v/irgin here.
All I want to do is create a space where you guys can discuss whatever you want however you want regarding this shitstorm. No bullshit no eceleb drama no pasta nonsense. I have no vested interests in control ect beyond one simple thing: tone police/handwringers ect (like people who go around calling each other shills when they dont agree) aint allowed. Besides that anything goes.
Ask me anything.
/Gamergatehq/ is kill
GamerGateHQ Is Over
Back to /gg everybody
Straw poll time
Where should we go
Digging General
Digging general thread.
GamerX
From the GamerX thread:
http://pastebin.com/VLuWXz8s
Things to dig into:
Dig more on kim pallister, UBM extensions/connections
Dig into connections to MSM/think tank interests
Some related things from the last few months:
Every journolist revealed Milo, webcache Nov 19 html:
http://pastebin.com/BDFJJDzB (paranoi archive of paste: https://archive.today/6GzZW)
All articles mentioning Milo on GG (besides the deleted every journolist):
The Authoritarian Left Was on Course to Win the Culture Wars… then Along Came #GamerGate - 12 nov.
https://archive.today/1eqma http://www.peeep.us/3d8015e3
The rand connection?
Randcorp may have been involved with some gamification related things/ubm related activities on IGDA/GDC presentations
Rand Basics:
1. Previously contracted by DOD for disinformation operations including cointelpro back in the day
2. Originally formed during WWII by the douglas aircraft corporation
3. SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED to researching and analyzing human behavioral patterns, learning abilites, and how people learn, as it applies to national defense and security
4. Worked with CGD DIAJA DIGRA on Gamified learning research/common core research:
http://www.rje.org/
https://archive.today/yQ86h
http://www.rand.org/nsrd.html
https://archive.today/jMUBu
http://www.rand.org/multi/homeland-security-and-defense.html
BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
http://www.rand.org/about/organization/randtrustees.html
https://archive.today/zgeXj
GameJournoPros: Joking about Paid Reviews and Mocking Phil Fish - 10 oct.
https://archive.today/oaYBq http://www.peeep.us/96fc7405
'They're On To Us': Gaming Journalists Respond to Critics in Newly Revealed GameJournoPros Emails - 22 Sep 2014
https://archive.today/5xycz http://www.peeep.us/4f05c6d8
New #gameJournoPros Leak: The Email Summaries - sep 22
https://archive.today/c8UlM http://www.peeep.us/f0c81247
Supporting GamerGate Does Not Make You a Bully - 17 oct
http://www.peeep.us/2893a270
I was off the board for a bit today and would someone please kindly tell me what in the name of all that is holy happened to the original GG board?
Gawker is Burning: /gg2/ Edition
Gawker is burningAdland has just shared the nosedive traffic data of Gawker, Jezebel and Kotaku over twitter.
https://twitter.com/adland/status/580046240869650432
>Previous thread
https://archive.today/q4YGx
I checked /gamergate like 2 hours ago how do you fuck up this fast
Again? Are you fucking kidding me? How fucking incompetent can we be? I never thought I'd say this, but /gamergate/ needs to be Hotwheels-controlled.
Vent thread here.
/gg/
50% already in favor of /gg/. Zig-zagging through faggotry, we go back to our old home.http://strawpoll.me/3947266
GG screencaps and the like
Bumping the board because of shenanigans.Anyways, post your GG caps. Pic related.
So what the fuck happened?
The way I understand it, a password got leaked and /gamergate/ is being trolled?
Are we just sitting tight until things cool off?
Will be doing a stream on wednesday on youtube will post link here if you're interested in watching
Jimisquinfatition
Well, I did not do all this work to get fucked by the Ayypocalypse
Jesus Christ almighty. Are you fucking kidding me? It happened AGAIN? Are you fuckers so fucking incompetent and mentally unstable that you can't hold onto a fucking PASSWORD?
What in the everlasting shit is wrong with you imbeciles? We've had two mods and so far they have both been deserving of the title of subhuman trash. I wonder if the next mod will give us a reacharound before fucking us in the ass and giving the password to the Bill Waggoner Crew.
Fuck you.
remember this
blade, in the end, thought he was the leader of GamerGate and got angry when we didn't do what he wanted us to dohis bitchfit was predictable, and we likely all will benefit from his leave
Mirroring the current events thread from /v/ and the previous boards
> Current Happenings:
http://gitgud.net/gamergate/gamergateop/tree/master/Current-Happenings
ONGOING:
Blockbot in full damage control mode after possible lawsuit
>DC Comics removed the alternated batgirl cover because "muh feelz". Cuckchan mods on /co/ delete topics discussing it.
>Updated Steam TOS: Curators must now make public any sorts of "favors" from developers that might influence their review
>Mancil's blog has been made private after dealing with Kuchera
>Devs are speaking out, if you see one, screencap and post it for future FART
>GaymerX has dug up the sockpuppetry narrative, alert the NYS'ers
>Consolidate your filters to deal with it accordingly
>Understanding the process of love Milfs and Lolis, Also Gitting Gud
> Summaries of #GamerGate:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9bisUIP3w - #GamerGate - If It's Not About Ethics;
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipcWm4B3EU4 - #GamerGate in 60 Seconds;
• https://archive.today/23Fde - GamerGate: A State of the Union Address.
> Reminders (important, READ THESE!):
• Use https://archive.today and http://peeep.us to deny sites ad revenue and traffic and preserve websites in case they are deleted later;
• Use https://tweetsave.com to archive tweets before they are deleted;
• Beware of COINTELPRO tactics: The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
• Be civil if you have to argue with people on Twitter, Tumblr or any forum - don't make us look like douchebags;
• Do not accept requests for any goal or demand list: http://pastebin.com/p5dVp1e5
> Background and Evidence for #GamerGate (read and spread these):
• The #GamerGate Dossier: http://press.gamergate.me/dossier/
• #GamerGate.Me: http://gamergate.me/
• History of #GamerGate: http://www.historyofgamergate.com/
• View the timeline links in the Current Happenings section!
> How Can I Help?
• Operation Disrespectful Nod: http://v.gd/2pVtlO (e-mail advertisers);
• Operation Shills in a Barrel: http://v.gd/WHA3l9 (pick a journalist / outlet and find conflicts of interest);
• Operation Baby Seal: https://v.gd/jnQZ2v;
• Operation Prime Rib: https://v.gd/ktXXrD (stacks with above for x2 damage);
• Operation DigDigDig: https://v.gd/Bh2si4 (find connections and corruption);
• Operation Vulcan: http://v.gd/YKJHvR (educate yourself on logical debating);
• Operation UV: http://v.gd/15TTIT (contact the FTC about Gawker);
• Operation Firefly: http://v.gd/tqn5WP (spread #GamerGate to Tumblr and help update the Wiki page);
• An Anon's Guide to Twitter: https://v.gd/3RnFEC (the basics).
> Lists:
• GamerGate.me: http://gamergate.me/approved/
• GamerGate Wiki Boycott List: http://v.gd/xj8J9T
• Support List: http://v.gd/8Ovc69
• Boycott List: http://v.gd/joWTe7
> Key GamerGate Hubs:
• General #GamerGate Board: https://8chan.co/gamergate/
• Main #GamerGate Thread: https://8chan.co/v/
• Plebbit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/
• The Escapist: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.860762-GamerGate-Discussion-Debate-and-Resources
• #GamerGate Community: http://gamergate.community/
> IRC:
• #GamerGate Discussion: #burgersandfries @ rizon;
• wiki.gamergate.me Discussion: #GamerGate.me @ rizon;
• GitGud Discussion: #4free @ rizon;
• 8archive.moe Discussion: #8archive @ rizon;
• 8chan Discussion: #8chan @ rizon;
• Off-Topic Discussion: #friesandburgers @ rizon.
> Want to Help Contribute to GitGud?
https://gitgud.net/gamergate/gamergateop/tree/master/How-to-Contribute
Dear Board Owner,
Can we have IDs? To help point out the actual shills and such, as well as make things a bit easier to read.
Thanks!
Toni Rocca: Running And Abusing GaymerX, Kickstarter, And More
A large dump of info is about to come about GaymerX, Kickstarter, and Toni Rocca abusing his position of power.This all shows a massive amount of irresponsibility from Kotaku for not looking into things, possible collusion happening between them and Toni Rocca, and the misuse of funds from many places without anyone knowing it. This all starts off with a really, REALLY stupid game from Toni Rocca that needs to be shown so we can better understand things.
First three posts on the game, everything else on what everyone needs to know about.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1286005138/bear-senpai-date-the-bear-of-your-dreams
https://archive.today/6S3DJ
>Finally, relive that fantasy of romancing a real life bear that you did or did not know you had!
What the page opens up to for people.
>Are you tired of limited dating options in games? While games pretend to offer a variety of dating options, most of them are really just the same character over and over. Bipedal, house-dwelling, eats-with-silverware humanoids.
This isn't selling people on your game as of yet, nor why people should care about a bear-dating simulator.
>I think it's time that games make the logical next step, to expand the art form. So I'd like to announce that I'm going to be working on Bear Senpai, a game where the romance options are… bears.
Expanding the art form? Of what? And didn't you just state people are tired of past dating games and their limited options? So this time around, it's just replacing humans with bears. Are you going to tell us what you're going to actually change and add to the options that come with dating a bear?
>–Why the heck are you making this?–
Good question.
>Okay, so I'm making this because.. I want to. Because I sat down one day and said "man, I wish there was a game where I flirted with adorable bears." In this day and age, I believe that waiting for the games you dream about is a waste of time. Technology is so accessible now that people should try to MAKE the games they want to play! So that's what I'm doing.
Hold on, because you want to? Didn't you just state it's to expand the art form of this genre? To expand the options that you felt are limited in this type of game? So that's not true at all if you're only making this because you want to.
I do agree with the rest of what you just said, but that also points out the many other people making games much like you. Again, what makes you and your game so special from everyone else enough to donate to and kickstart?
>My goal for Bear Senpai is to make a game that's more or less a dating sim with a really quirky attitude, not so serious or sultry. I do take big inspirations from games like Hatoful Boyfriend and the Waluigi dating sim, but this game was in my head long before I'd learned of those.
So this game is going to be much like those games, which weren't really all that good and more like joke games than anything else. Even less of a reason for anyone to back this game up.
Let's contact hotwheels directly.
Let's directly get in touch with hotwheels so he can start leading da way with a board directly instead of some two bit fucktard nobody.
/int/ernational front
Say, How's GG doing on the international front. From what I see, most of our dudes come from Western places. Do we got influence in other places like Argentina, Finlan, Polan, Yurop, etc?
Crosspostan for obvious reasons
The good news: There are already several possible replacement boards for /gamergate/
The bad news: There are already several possible replacement boards for /gamergate/
>>>/gg/ (Apparently under new ownership since the last time)
>>>/gg2/
>>>/gamergays/
It's already been proven that all you guys can handle a board change just fine, so the most pressing issue during this transitional phase is to make sure that nothing important gets lost in all the ruckus. I personally would suggest watching all three (or at least checking the other two now and again if you already have a favorite) until one gets enough headway to become the primary.
Godspeed you unbearable, unbearable faggots.
I warned you faggots
If some of you want to make yourselves useful though, contact the FTC regarding Gameranx running prize scams.
Christina H Sommers is apparantly level 2 on the blockbot
https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/579868907051307008
Deep archive thread number one.