https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/videogame-publishers-no-preserving-abandoned-games-even-museums-and-archives
>Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games, Even for Museums and Archives, Because All "Hacking" is Illegal
>The Entertainment Software Association doesn’t want anyone to restore the functionality of older videogames that are no longer supported by their publisher, because, says ESA, this is “hacking,” and all hacking is “associated with piracy.”
Thread on /v/ http://8ch.net/v/res/3101049.html
https://www.eff.org/let-game-fans-keep-abandoned-games-running
This thread is important, and here's why:
For those of you here who still play videogames, this is a major morale crusher if this is encouraged. Many of you more than likely still play older videogames over newer ones because our industry is producing less and less good videogames.
This is why so many of us here are retro. If they take away retro gaming for us, we will have nothing left at this rate. Please understand the importance of preserving the past so we do not forget what made the gaming industry great…what made it a glorious beacon of enjoyment.
Make absolute certain this brand of kikery law is not passed in wherever you're living, even outside of the UK. There is no justification for attacking unsupported games and ancient fanbase support aside from forcing others to eat new shit. Those are my two cents. How are we going to stop this?
Rules are simple:
Global Rules Apply
Keep it GamerGate related
Don't spam
Keep E-Celeb shit in the containment thread
We are not about attention whores, leaderfags or censorship
We welcome all ideas. If you like an idea someone proposes, do it. If you don't, don't. But no one decides for everyone. This is NOT our way.
If you are interested in being a mod, email me at ggchan@8chan.co
if you have a twatter, mention that as well as any experience you have. Real names not needed, but i do need to know you aren't a shill or a troll.
Google has changed the official definition on GamerGate
Google has changed the official definition on GamerGate back to muhsoggyknees citing the bullshit Wiki article.Related is a guide on how to correct this problem.
If you have a few minutes, please go use their feedback system and get the description changed back to normal.
Gamergate.me is back up and running.
MASTER DISRESPECTFUL NOD LIST
MASTER DISRESPECTFUL NOD LISThttps://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.
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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.
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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.
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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
A reminder Stallman is a sjw cucklord atheist jew
Richard Stallman has talked bad about gamer gate twice.
"29 January 2015 (Wikipedia sides with Gamergate)
Wikipedia has taken the side of Gamergate, ruling that the Gamergate-supporting editors can write the pages about the women that Gamergate attacked, and banning the editors who opposed them.
Many years ago, a clique of people that don't want the GNU system to be mentioned took effective control of pages that concern the GNU/Linux system, expunging the term "GNU/Linux" from nearly all of them and banning people that tried to resist. I tried to activate Wikipedia's decision procedure but was unable to even get it started. " - Richard Stallman https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html
" Here's what I think of this.
The principal wrong in this issue consists of the threats of rape and murder made against some commentators. These threats are inexcusable. Even supposing the targets' statements were mistaken or dishonest, that would not justify these threats.
The integrity of journalism is a significant issue, in regard to computer games as in every other area. However, according to this article, the initial accusation that a game designer exercised dishonest influence on a journalist is demonstrably false.
Meanwhile, US journalism is subject to distorting influence in regard to issues such as war, destabilization campaigns, supporting tyrannical allies, global heating, "free trade" treaties, massive surveillance, and others.
The quality of journalism is also a significant issue. Journalism about computer games is generally lousy because it focuses solely on what playing the game is like, and disregards the grave ethical flaw nearly all these games have: a nonfree software engine. " - Richard Stallman https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html
Linus Torvalds is based anti sjw
"I'm not a nice person, and I don't care about you. I care about the technology and the kernel—that's what's important to me."
and
"all that [diversity] stuff is just details and not really important." - Linus Torvalds https://archive.today/o8pEB
FFShrine selling pirated games while charging users
Ok, look who found out things…
Resuming all: https://twitter.com/RSG_VILLENA/status/589886488269193217
Selling games: https://twitter.com/_icze4r/status/589884905288531968
Selling animes: https://twitter.com/_icze4r/status/589884742331424770
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW… SARAH BUTTS RUN THAT SHIT.
Mission of FFShrine: https://twitter.com/_icze4r/status/589884427129458688
https://twitter.com/_icze4r/status/589883175142305792
And probably trying to scam people: https://twitter.com/_icze4r/status/589885380004077568
Then what the hell I was trying to tell?
MISSION TO COMPLETE IF YOU ACCEPT!
Report this to competent authorities about copyright shit with the power of your emails.
Like Microsoft and other companies of games being pirated.
It's time to bring down the troll Sarah Butts with financial and copyright issues!
Vox buys ReCode.
Looks like there's no money to be made in spinning Chairman Pao as a superhero. No one gives a crap, unfortunately about their hugbox journalists.
Good news that morons who want to be TechTED have no value.
Just waiting for the Voxfail to run out of VC money, and then we're all good.
RAND Corporation and Final Nail In The Coffin
Here in this topic will be presented evidence to finally make this a closed and shut case that YES they are all colluding and with far more nefarious people than once imagined. Brace yourself, because the next dump is huge and is like reading over a mega DiGRA and UBM combined. I highly suggest getting a snack and something to drink, because you are going to be here reading this for a long time. You are going to see a lot of familiar names in this info dump and a lot of connections to corporations you always suspected they did, but this time there is proof and is the proverbial "tinfoil" slayer. So let us get started on this train wreck.
What is RAND:
RAND is literally worse than DiGRA and UBM put together. They are the largest think tank in the world and are a pseudo government/private industry venture with government origins. They operate without any oversight, as far as can be told, and their members and leads operators have included the most powerful figures in the last 95 years of human history from around the globe. They have connections to DiGRA, UBM and even Game Journalists directly (Ezra Klein is listed as former staff and was on GJP), but these connections need to be fleshed out. Rand likely has been involved in many nasty things, but focus on direct connections to gaming related ventures for now.
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.rand.org/multi/homeland-security-and-defense.html
Board of Trustees:
OK you faggots, the senate just bought us some time, TPP fast track has been canned. But the real bill is still on its way.
How does this relate to GG? Censorship my friends. This bill will give immense powers to media companies and the worst part is we are not allowed to read it until years after it is passed.
Do you remember CISPA/SOPA? TPP is the same thing but on steroids. There will be no escape. Combined with TPIP, the entire free world will be under the control of media companies and large corporations.
TPP Trade Deal Would Curb Freedom Of Speech Online, Internet Activists Warn
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Killallgamers&src=typd
SJW's created another hashtag its Kill all men again
Get the Word Out
Retweet and comment on this
https://twitter.com/bonegolem/status/595958929751986176
Bonegolem and others have put in months of labor to get this site off the ground. Bonus points if you can get this trending.
What is the website about?
>DeepFreeze is a journalism reference resource, conceived to supply a reader with easy-digestible information to determine the reliability of an individual writer or outlet.
>DeepFreeze strives, whenever possible, for maximum objectivity — supplying factual information so that readers can form an opinion on their own.
>For the time being, DeepFreeze is focused mostly on online game journalism, although mainstream press might be more carefully examined in the future.
Some more links to retweet and comment on
https://twitter.com/thewtfmagazine/status/595869635263787008
https://twitter.com/thewtfmagazine/status/595869635263787008
https://twitter.com/GamingAndPandas/status/595959219938951169
https://twitter.com/a_man_in_white/status/595909275572051968
Does anyone else ever wonder if there is more to the whole SJW thing than some greedy fucks trying to collude within their niche group to eke out a living and perhaps some influence? It seems like there are a LOT of jewish connections in the prominent 'shotcallers' and voices of the SJWs, and controlling the 'vox populi' in the media, movies, education and now video games seems right up the jew alley.
food for thought: our 'enemies' might seem to be hipster/feminist blowhards, but is it possible they are useful idiots for the zionists? there are too many connections to ignore, i think.
Jews and SJWs (two heavily overlapping demographics) are really pushing the PC left-wing agenda in video games. Gotta get to those young White males.
SJW exploiting PTSD "survivors" for money.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amydentata/trigger-1
They're claiming to be trying to make a visual novel about the aftermath of having "PTSD" instead of getting over it. Oh no I got raped, better sulk about it and expect the world to bow to me. This is nothing different from Depression Quest and just as fucking retarded. Also it's from a tranny who has never even experienced ptsd.
So now the SJWs that run /GamerGateHQ/ want to create an autoblockbot to block ayyteam and what they determine to be 'trolls, shills and other voices of dissent'
Is this what GamerGate has come to?
smh.
Blockbot pushers claim we don't want to talk. The gods of irony weep
>"There's no interest in dialogue. At all. It's not about that for GamerGate"
So Edwards claims there is no interest in having a debate from our side. Can't tell if lying or just stupid.
But that's ultimately irrelevant. What matters is she made the claim, now we get to prove her wrong.
It's simple: I say we start making buzz about this and try to set up a debate. Milo already challenged Sarkeesian even with ten grand on the table, and got nothing. Maybe he'd be interested in another challenger. If not him, there's got to be someone else interested in doing this. Sargon, Oliver, whoever. The point is to throw a direct and unambiguous call for debate at the IGDA.
>"Bah, they'll just ignore it."
Yes, most likely. But then it becomes another data point. It's another link in the papertrail to point at whenever anybody accuses us of not wanting to solve this, and it's yet another proof that the same people who fill their mouths about "having a dialogue" will run for the hills when actually presented with one. It might be only one example, but those pile up and make it easier to argue our position with neutrals later on.
So, any interest in this?
I know there's a rule against e-celeb discussion, but this is a MAJOR victory– and last I checked, those are exempt.
TLDR version of the whole story is that Harper was accused of supporting violence against transgenders, likely by someone even more batshit insane than Harper is.
Naturally, the SocJus train doesn't stop for stragglers, and runs her over pretty hard. After being tormented by the entire Ghazi community, she calls it quits.
==NEW UPDATED THREAD. NEW SPONSORS. LETS INVOLVE POLITICIANS. SEND THE FUCKING EMAILS, TWEET TO SPONSORS, USE THE HASHTAG==
Talking points:
- Unnacceptable behavior of security that refused to state on record the reason for why Honey Badgers were kicked out and then threaten and laughed at them
- Stated reasons are provably false
- Censorship of different opinions
- Calgary Expo kicked them out without refund and basicaly stole from them 10 000 that Honey badgers paid for their booth
- Honey Badgers were falsly smeared by attendees and harrassed on twitter, and yet Calgary Expo not only didn’t protect them, but they bullied them and victim blame them
- Calgary Expo failed to provide safe enviroment and participated on harrasment of women which made one of them even cry
- Non-inclusive, misogynistic behavior, preventing women from attending
- Do these sponsors support such behavior? Do they want to be connected with this?
Proofs you can include into the emails:
- Press release of Honey Badgers - (http://honeybadgerbrigade.com/2015/04/18/go-home-gamer-girl-press-release-on-unjust-banishment-from-calgary-expo/)
- Full audio of the panel proving they didn't harrass anyone - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymkIiGRvtBg)
- The short part when they speak - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyBfJuvopPg)
- Heartbreaking video commentary by Alison, a Honey Badgers manager who was mistreated by Calgary Expo. - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymkIiGRvtBg)
Contact Calgary mayor who attended Calgary Expo. Does he support an organization that bullies and censor women?
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi; themayor@calgary.ca; @nenshi
New sponsors that were not on the last list.
They are sponsors of Edmonton Expo, which is organized by the same company as Calgary Expo. The Edmonton Expo will be in September, but we should help those sponsors to disassociate from such terrible organization before it will be too late.
Pattisonoutdoor; bwilliamson@pattisonoutdoor.com; @pattisonoutdoor
Cmpauto; info@cmpauto.com; @CMPAutomotive
Vueweekly; ron@vueweekly.com; @vueweekly
Blueskylimos; info@blueskylimos.com; @BlueSkyLimos
Sponsors from the old list
Cocobrooks; info@cocobrooks.com; @cocobrookspizza
Gaycalgary; magazine@gaycalgary.com; @gaycalgary
Space; feedback@space.ca; @SpaceChannel
Air Electronics; admin@airelectronics.ca; ——–
x929 radio; gbrasil@x929.ca; @X929
Squareup; press@squareup.com; ——–
Vistek; customerservice@vistek.ca; @Vistek
Dean Reeves; graphiclanguage@shaw.ca; ——–
Rue Morgue; jody@rue-morgue.com; @RueMorgue
Sponsors with contact formulas.
Summit Trucks; http://www.summittrucks.com/contact/ ; @Summit_Trucks
Air Miles; https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/ContactUs ; @AIRMILES
Bullseue Creative; http://bullseyecreative.net/ ; @bullseyeseattle
ATB Financial; https://www.atb.com/contact-us/Pages/your-feedback.aspx; ——-
Redd skull; http://www.reddskull.com/index.php?page=contact ; @redd_skull
SJW terminology was used deliberately. Like it or not, this is what works. And all of it is true. This is fucking nightmare of Calgary Expo.
==SEND EMAILS TO SPONSORS OF CALGARY EXPO==
It's time to get back to work.Explain them situation. Ask them if they support behavior of calgary expo, if they support that Calgary Expo excludes women, that they are violating their own rules. Ask them if they support misogynist behavior and excluding women for political reasons, if they support anti-diversity, non-inclusive and intolerant politics of Calgary Expo. Tell them that you won't buy anything from them. You know the drill, I'm sure you will have some ideas. Also tweet to them, I have found their twitter accounts.
Name of company; email address; twitter account
Cocobrooks; info@cocobrooks.com; @cocobrookspizza
Gaycalgary; magazine@gaycalgary.com; @gaycalgary
Space; feedback@space.ca; @SpaceChannel
Air Electronics; admin@airelectronics.ca; ——–
x929 radio; gbrasil@ x929.ca; @X929
Squareup; press@squareup.com; ——–
Vistek; customerservice@vistek.ca; @Vistek
Dean Reeves; graphiclanguage@shaw.ca; ——–
Rue Morgue; jody@rue-morgue.com; @RueMorgue
These don't have public email adress, you have to use contact formula.
Summit Trucks; http://www.summittrucks.com/contact/ ; @Summit_Trucks
Air Miles; https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/ContactUs ; @AIRMILES
Bullseue Creative; http://bullseyecreative.net/ ; @bullseyeseattle
ATB Financial; https://www.atb.com/contact-us/Pages/your-feedback.aspx; ——-
Redd skull; http://www.reddskull.com/index.php?page=contact ; @redd_skull
New CameraLady video. It's IGF time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAUG8tQP7Jo
Well it's happened. #TIME100 is trending on twitter and Josh made the list despite receiving a statistically insignificant portion of the votes.
What does this mean?
It means this is another red pill opportunity to inform more normal fags. Drop information POLITELY into the tag. When using screencaps of her tweets be sure to include an archive.
Some long form articles would be good as well:
https://medium.com/@cainejw/dishonesty-feminist-frequency-part-1-fe937f6a791e
https://medium.com/@cainejw/dishonesty-feminist-frequency-part-2-damsels-in-distress-pt-1-2309ce61c2a5
https://medium.com/@cainejw/dishonesty-feminist-frequency-part-2-damsels-in-distress-pt-2-fde349026b7d
https://medium.com/@cainejw/dishonesty-feminist-frequency-part-4-b26293b4755b
Caine's writing is redpill city.
If you want to hit up those on the fence feminists use Kerzner
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-1
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-2
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-3
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-4
http://metaleater.com/video-games/feature/why-feminist-frequency-almost-made-me-quit-writing-about-video-games-part-5
Use youtube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJihi5rB_Ek -Kite Tales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eQW-NvtAEs - Sargon, Who is harassing Anita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-69xXD734 - Sargon, debunked in under a minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA0aKjY8K50 - Anita in a Nutshell
You know what to do. Be polite, be firm be factual and provide sourcing. Be sure to provide more info in this thread for people to spread. Get out there and engage anons.
We seem to always talk about Journalism and Politics.
Lets talk about favorite female characters.
Who are they?
Why is THAT character your favorite?
This is one of the things that I've been looking forward to the most: the lifting of Eron's gag order.
We already know that Literally Who committed perjury (pic related): https://medium.com/@brokenomelette/understanding-the-zoe-affidavit-29d001415f23
Eron told us that he knew why so many people have defended Zoe, but could't tell that because he wasn't legally allowed to.
What do you guys think? Could Eron be working on a Zoepost 2.0?
Was Zoe so vehemently defended because of the narrative? Or was/is something more sinister going on?
#OperationBabySeal
Copying this here for reddit OPToday, Gawker published another hit-piece. Honestly, we as a community can do this. We really can get some bloody noses. But we need to fight together; as individuals, we're okay. But as a collective, we're a force to be reckoned with. We need a collective campaign to inform advertisers and ad-hosts of what Gawker is doing.
Many of you remember this old post on Gawker, it had 1k upvotes. It was extremely sophisticated but to be honest, we did not follow up on the strategy laid out. Basic email campaigns won't work against Gawker…
So, as the post pointed out, moat ads (used heavily) for heat maps and ad exposure measurement. Yet, what do we have here?
http://www.moat.com/search/results?q=gawker+artists
Gawker is registered here. They go by the name of "Gawker Artists" and have the username gawker582857354, as pointed out.
NOW, THE TERMS OF SERVICE AT MOAT.
Things You Cannot Do
Lie to us in connection with your use of the Sites or the Services. This includes but is not limited to giving false information in your account registration.
Post anything that could be considered defamatory, libelous or criminal.
Open a new account without our written permission if we have terminated a prior account or suspended your access to the Sites or any Services.
Transfer your account to someone else.
Do anything that smacks of bad online citizenship such as spam our users, distribute spyware or viruses, collect personal information without disclosing and abiding by your privacy policy, or attempt to reverse engineer or hack into our systems.
Bypass any technical protections or throttling that we institute, or access, use or scrape the Sites or the Services by any automated means unless you are a search engine crawling the Sites for the sole purpose of creating a publicly accessible search index.
Do anything we ask you not to.
Notice that second bullet point? Gawker has violated it by seriously libelling on several accounts.
Also, Moat's infringement policy:
http://www.moat.com/infringement
EVIDENCE OF LIBEL
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Kinja publishe an anonymous, unverifiable, and defamtory story about someone's alleged one-night stand with Christine O'Donnell
https://archive.today/F7tEr
Gawker published false and defamatory allegations concerning Blake Lively and Preserve LLC
https://archive.today/0zFHk
Refused to remove the aforementioned when contacted by lawyers
https://archive.today/cs9gM
Gawker published a false story claiming Chris Christie was in a gangbang
https://archive.today/8qxXe
WADING INTO CRIMINAL TERRITORY. COPYRIGHT, INFRINGEMENT AND THEFT ALSO VIOLATES TOS
Gawker called for Jane Pratt stolen nudes
https://archive.today/4NN35
Employee Adam Weinstein called for theft from Darren Wilson
https://archive.today/tW7uN
Gawker published hacked messages from a girl with a mental illness
https://archive.today/UoXqf
Gawker refused to obey court order to remove Hulk Hogan sex tape
https://archive.today/uBnKa
Gawker was sued by Quentin Tarantino for leaking his script
https://archive.today/3hK0P
Gizmodo illegally acquired an iPhone prototype
https://archive.today/XgcLE
INCITING VIOLENCE ALSO CRIMINAL?
====
Gawker promoted rioting in Ferguson
https://archive.today/CEjPG
WHERE TO MAIL TO…
info@moat.com
So..contact them with this info, archived links and TOS. I am sure that is the contact email, if it isn't, PLEASE correct me.
REDESIGNS ARE ONLY OKAY IF WE DO IT
So somebody with actual artist sensibility re-did Zarya and of course he gets dogpiled.http://www.deviantart.com/art/ZARYA-Reviz-WIP-526152242
Joss Whedon says the new Jarassic World movie is sexist
https://archive.today/pyCMpThis guy keeps fucking digging himself a hole…
I have seen people talking about why we shouldn't boycott because if we do that no devs would support us, but I have a question: why the fuck do you guys care about dev support anyway? Most devs who have posted on 8ch and elsewhere have made it clear, they wouldn't publicly support us because their companies wouldn't allow it, and they are afraid of SJW blacklash. Afraid of a tiny group of madpeople whining on twitter. While they don't give a damn about the far larger group of gamers who have been slandered from day 1 and are increasingly losing patience with the dev's not trying to defend their art.
So what's the fucking use of devs coming out to support us anyway? Are they going to put SJWs and corrupt Journos on blast and cut ties with them forever? Because my impression is that most of them care only about $$$$$$$$$$. And even if they say they hate SJWs, they'll be happy to pander to and make friends with SJWs if doing so allows them to quietly make $$$$$$$$. Even if it means their art, their industry and their audience is being stamped and spitted on.
more evidence that /gamergatehq/ is a troll and anti-gamergate principles.
We need to have a serious discussion just one moment.About boycotts.
Hold on for a second. Let me finish before you start screaming.
I appreciate the things Acid Man has done for /gamergatehq/. He put himself on the line, put his name out there when he didn't have to, and even put in safeties so the board won't fall if he does.
But. The fact that he refuses to even allow the idea of a boycott to be discussed without shitting on the OP and locking the thread. That's concerning. I was all set to debate the various merits and drawbacks of it in this thread:
>http://8ch.net/gamergatehq/res/35526.html
Boycotts should not be off the table as something to potentially be discussed. They are one of the most powerful tools at our disposal as consumers. The mere threat of a boycott is what caused Microsoft to backpedal so frantically on their media center Xbox One and it's "must connect to the internet every 24 hours" DRM. The simple threat of organized resistence and mass refusal to purchase sent them sprinting in the opposite direction as fast as they could. The Bone had a day one software patch to fix the things they said they could not fix and that we would just have to accept and deal with, all because a large number of people threatened to not buy it.
Simply threatening to incorporate boycott tactics into GamerGate would be enough to cause many people to sit up a little straighter and pay a little more attention to our demands for journalistic transparency and corporate integrity. We wouldn't even have to actually go through with it, which I think is part of the problem a lot of people who are opposed to it do not understand. The threat alone carries weight. To remove it from our arsenal entirely is a dire mistake. We should always keep it on the table as an potential option. The very fact that the topics about it that briefly stayed up got bombed so hard by Ghazi and shills is proof that they're afraid of us even talking about doing it, which should tell you how powerful a weapon it can be.
But you won't even let people talk about it. I'm sorry, since when was that your decision to make? You're a custodian of the space in which we talk, not the thought police. One person trying to boycott is like one man trying to row a viking longship and you know it, so your "you can do whatever you like so long as you do it alone" excuse is horseshit. If we all followed that rule for everything, there would be no GG. That we can stand here in the same space and share ideas while getting along and organizing ourselves is the reason we're as strong as we are. We're all "fucking autists" here, Acid Man, yourself included. It is a valid issue to be discussed, and even if the OP of a given thread about it is being a faggot, their faggotry does not change the fact that we need to talk about this. That would be falling prey to the Fallacy Fallacy, i.e. your opponent has no valid point simply because they made a logical blunder.
You'll let obvious shills and people trying to stir shit with wild unsupported conspiracy theories like Bill Gates trying to take over the world with mind control stand unmolsted, but lock any thread about boycotts on sight? You are stifling that conversation purely because you personally don't like it. How does that make you any better than the people you've taken over your duties from?
We need to talk about this, Acid Man, whether you like the conversation or not. If the community wants to reject the idea of boycotting completely out of hand, that's on them, but you have no right to make that decision for us and then enforce it with your moderator powers. Some of us think the idea may have potential merit, later even, if not right now, and you have no right to shut down discussion about it out of hand. You do that, you're no better than Ghazi. Either let us talk about it, as it is a GG related topic and relevant to our continued pursuit of transparency and ethics in the gaming industry, or hand over the keys to someone who doesn't let their own personal feelings rule how they arbitrate the forum.
And no, this has nothing to do with Obsidian, before somebody tries to Strawman me with that. This is about far more important topics. The day may come where the circumstances warrant a boycott, either on a developing house or a major publisher like EA or 2k. What do we do if a CEO comes out and starts retweeting somebody like LW, or if somebody's corporate starts openly drinking the Kool-Aid? We'll be glad we talked it out now, when it hasn't yet come to that, instead of having to do it then, when tensions and emotions are running high, and we run the risk of overreacting.
Regarding the 'corrections' ew has made on their article:
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/06/hugo-award-nominations-fall-victim-misogynistic-and-racist-voting
The corrections at the top only show up if you have saved cookies from ew.com
In other words, it's only being 'corrected' for people that already read it!
Try navigating off the page, deleting your cookies for the site, then reloading it.
The coordinated effort to inform thousands of neutrals on twitter. Shake the earth underneath 1355 Market St, San Francisco.
As of now we have not yet used a tried-and-true tactic for twitter hashtags. A tactic we use in massively multiplayer online games every day. Every large scale attack in an MMO is planned and coordinated. We wouldn't go into an EVE online battle without a battleplan and without informing all captains when it takes place. For clan based attacks in browser games like TribalWars we set alarm clocks to 2am so we can surprise our opponents in their sleep.
It is time to bring the experience we have gained in those games to twitter.
On Thursday 9. April 6pm PDT we take to twitter and trend the hashtag #AreYouBlocked? If we put some effort into it, say 1000 or 2000 people starting with 10 tweets each, we can have it trending the first minute world wide. To put it into perspective Jimmy Fallon in his late night show and Michelle Obama tried to get #momdance trending, as promotion for her "Let's Move!" campaign. They managed 1,754 tweets http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23momdance&q2=%23gimmefive&via=Topsy
> “Hashtag it #momdance #gimmefive, and let’s see it trending tonight or tomorrow.” Fallon said, encouraging his viewers. (live) + to his 2,47M followers this tweet https://twitter.com/FallonTonight/status/583845743187914752
Make no mistake viral campaigns we are able to pull are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The publishers and advertisers just do not know we can. Time to show them what exactly we are capable of if we treat twitter like a clan based multiplayer game.
Why #AreYouBlocked?
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As first earthquake I propose #AreYouBlocked? to inform neutrals about the Blocklists. The question it poses pulls on the curiosity of twitter neutrals and they will try to find out if they are and what this is all about. Thankfully Mark Kern and his leagueforgamers made our job loads easier by providing an easy tool where everyone can check their blocklist status and show that there are (at least) two blocklists http://blockcheck.leagueforgamers.com/
This has the added benefit that we are not just reaching gamers, but also atheists and everyone else who is on the atheism+ blocklist.
Also we have tons and tons of blocklist related original content we can use on twitter. Articles on Breitbart, a BBC report, images showing that KFC is (was?) blocked, that Dawkins is blocked, that Sommers is blocked, that Baldwin is blocked. Easy pickings to flood twitter with interesting short bits for neutrals.
We also open up an avenue for developers to come forward, with pretty much the same explanation Patryk Kowalik used here
> Today I saw Mark Kern retweeting fellow indiedev that they got on blocklist, that prompted my curiosity… Lo and behold, I'm on blocklist too. I never was strictly pro or against gamergate, I liked to read it from the sidelines and then just move on… Keeping my opinions to myself. you know how it goes, don't say in public anything that people could use against you and stuff. But I got blocked regardless, so I guess I'm part of the horrible/cool kids club now. Which got me thinking…
https://www.red*dit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/30myys/block_list_checker/
Why Thursday 9. April 6pm PDT
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http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23gamergate&via=Topsy&slice=60%20minute&period=10%20day
Looks like the GamerGate peek during the day is 6pm PDT (3am CET/ 1am GMT/ 9pm EDT). It makes sense to use a time in which GamerGate already has the most traffic. Use http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for example to convert to your timezone. And the puffer time to Thursday is so we can prepare the original content and to spread the word.
The plan
They are doing this censorship bullshit again.
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/04/03/too-sexy-new-final-fantasys-hunky-male-lead-has-his-revealing-costume-toned-down/
ALL E-CELEB DISCUSSION
ALL E-CELEB DISCUSSION, DRAMA, AND GOSSIP NOT PERTAINING TO A MATERIAL ISSUE OF #GG GOES HERE.NO EXCEPTIONS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgKLBWcX788 I'm going to be starting this soon. I'll be discussing this issue and be taking questions and criticisms of this idea from 8chan and twitter.
Science favors negative agitprop
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/advertising.aspxthe tl;dr of this is that positive memes with informational content do not convince dissenters, but affirm bias in those who already hold a congruent viewpoint.
negative memes with informational content cause people to investigate the claims, aka check their bias.
So, you know how every batshit article that demonized GG attracted people to GG?
And you know how our morale stuff is really only for us, not redpill material?
That's why.
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That's also why emphasis on a positive PR strategy is useless for GG and has always been useless, when all efforts should go towards negative PR for GG's enemies.
>What about NYS?
NYS is a rebuttal to SJW claims. It is most effective when hoisting SJWs on their own petards, and least effective when claiming #GamerGate is a diverse feel-good kind of place/revolt/media criticism discussion what have you.
GamerGate goin' hollywood, baby!
So, the Shat just said no to an SJW.Looks like we going to Hollywood next.
https://archive.today/gLxcS
Ralph I used to mod the /gg/ boards before they went nuclear, can I help be a mod on your board?
Heather Kelly and Controlled Invasion
1) Zoe Quinn and Heather Kelley are connected.2) Heather Kelley did a talk on controlling people via video games, and how to use this power correctly. This is the Ludic Salon talk.
Key points of this talk:
2.1) How the concept of "Achievements" makes people do things they wouldn't.
2.2) How loss of control is politically powerful.
2.3) Kelley was working on a manifesto (If I'm right, it's called "Controlled Invasion"…even though that's the title of a small video she shows) on how to harness this power, and does express a fear that this will be used for evil; she wants to make sure these mechanisms aren't entirely hidden.
2.4) The manifesto happily suggests that the distinction between the "real world" and "game world" would be eliminated…and that games could be used as "agents of change."
2.5) It also suggests that this sort of change would necessarily have to happen over multiple generations, and that governments could use this as a tool to promote social change.
2.6) They suggest that both the right and left are very interested in using this.
2.7) They suggest that a set of ethics should be put forth to only use this power for "positive results." Someone suggests that this term would have to be defined. They put forth their own definitions.
2.8) They suggest that game developers admitting that they *do* have the power to create "positive results" would imply the power to create "negative results," which is frowned upon. (They did not say "Because Jack Thompson," but they obviously wanted to.)
2.9) Most disturbing: one person suggest that without a market incentive to make fun games, they wouldn't have to make fun games…and this might be good.
2.10) A refrain of theirs is "Break the magic circle." That is, they want to break the barrier between the "real world" and the "game world."
3) Heather Kelley is testing these techniques out in a benign fashion: teaching african kids to not beat the shit of their wives.
4) M00t is also connected to Heather Kelley.
Proof of above segments:
1) Zoe Quinn and Phil Fish were seen at a wedding together (https://archive.today/zaAcy). Heather Kelley worked under Phil Fish at Polytron (https://archive.today/IRgm9). So, ZQ and HK are connected.
2) All is direct from the videos. Those desiring proof of these points should go watch it.
3) Is around the 42 minute mark of OMFGNinja's video.
4) M00t is connected with Jamin (https://archive.today/DvCda), and Jamin is connected to Heather Kelley (https://archive.today/jG2ZZ).
Analysis:
I was not immediately convinced that Kelley is a "bad guy." She addresses the same concern that /pol/ has: that people will unknowingly be brainwashed by video games. However, she goes on to speak about this positively, rather than negatively.
We can't stop this technology from being developed. It's happening. The only thing we can do is make ourselves immune to it, and to point it out when it happens. At the very least, we have to thank Kelley for being relatively open about using it. A government would not have been so open. At the very least, we can do something about it, because these people are very open about using it in the ways that they are.
Their refrain is "Break the magic circle." That is, they want to mix the game world and the real world. (At the risk of being called a shill, I must say that if Gamergate were to rebrand itself, calling ourselves "The Order of the Magic Circle" or some variant would be good.)
We must defend this magic circle! Reality is reality, and video games are video games!
Speculation:
It's somewhat clear that this clique wants to use games as a socio-political tool, and they want to develop technology/techniques that allow them to do this.
It's possible that Depression Quest was an attempt at launching these techniques on the general gaming populace. They may have been collecting information on how successful their methods are, by doing this. They may have wanted DQ to be much less noticed than it was, for the purposes of data collection.
I think the fact that m00t's actions after getting wrapped up into all of this are…interesting. 4chan would have been a very valuable thing for the Social Justice crowd to control. The fact that m00t is selling out…actually baffles me.
Direction:
I think new goals of ours should be:
1) Learn how to resist propaganda in video games.
2) Spread that information.
/v/ counterpart >>>/v/3033267
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ea-infects-battlefield-hardline-with-new-ghastly-drm.html
http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/343871/Corruption-consumer-hate-and-bad-journalism-in-games-journalism/
http://imgur.com/NWmGuk4,AGfisXT,AeTbh5u,zN1ZlMc,g5fYAZh,GLaCatn,dSXjjzm,8SU5Lyg,NVoOwfe,yeAqDML,0geZooL,ewREBtm,0elS2S3,CPFgbNH,ay2mHLf,NRy75pf,ptO0NE6,NMsqvv9,I293NPU,aRHY8DD,E0IArt3,BNeqLbQ,hEyt1CI,wDMnE3X,nxcSTOh,8T7vxYP,26ynGKv,l4LVxPX,X2grZz3,BzNFjCu,ZdohZFt,08BaQMk,g1tRubU,6N2oTaK,yUXHujP,OHvRxw2,UZzOYSB,MSpb9RF,a5zvHoP,jAZnoOD,1K88NF6,AAza0Jy,kGUxdl3,rXlRsTG,9bkhii4,n6vZN6M,HfY8jnb,SUFpiL3,7U9OhIa,VukMA7i#49
Some previous OC about EA's faggotry in the past
ATTENTION I have an idea that will require the help of anyone in /v/ with hatred of EA in their hearts. I intend to overtake the Battefield hardline tag and fill it with infographs and bait EA's sycophant Games journos to jump in with Damage control due to being the hired shills they are. I encourage people to not use the gg tag to avoid any weak kneed faggotry where pussies will complain about boycotts. We're consumers remember? Not a hashtag. And no this is not a boycott to begin with anyways this is spreading information about shitty business practices to consumers so they decide. I encorage everyone to make some form of OC and spread it in the hardline tag as well
AND I REPEAT DO NOT TAG GG INTO THIS FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST
Ralph I have experience being a mod if you need any help