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  1. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Wrong thread? Pretty strange phenomenon of the modern age really. The exact same thing is happening with the Labour party elections. Group you can buy into has a vote, the vote gets massively swollen with people voting in ways others dont like . Don't think I entirely buy that it was a hijacking as such though. People legitimately joined worldcon. Feels like they should have had a mechanism to stop that sort of thing, a limited number of members per year or whatever, but I guess nobody...
    Post by: JoJo23, Aug 26, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  2. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Twitters business model is based around handing torches and pitchforks to local villagers and then selling their details to google. I am very skeptical any changes they apply will be greatly effective.
    Post by: JoJo23, Apr 22, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  3. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Theres a difference between broken and trashed and regards to the Hugo's. The Sad Puppies trashed it. Its true that there was a great deal of garbage nominated and winning awards in recent years, but most of the Sad Puppy stuff isnt really better. It didnt fix the problem, it exacerbated it. And reading from Larry's posts, that was exactly his intention.
    Post by: JoJo23, Apr 12, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  4. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    As ridiculous as Tim Shceafer is, claiming that your opponents are all in fact bigots its exactly the kind of inane and ridiculous argument people used to attack gamergate in the first place.
    Post by: JoJo23, Mar 5, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  5. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Banta, his point was that conversation is not harassment. "Expect to get swarmed with people disagreeing" is not harassment. Otherwise you are harassing Odran arent you?
    Post by: JoJo23, Feb 28, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  6. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Few months old, and I only just became aware of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-7RLxrsJ04 Interesting short interview with a professor of Journalism about the way in which many games websites act. Worth a watch.
    Post by: JoJo23, Feb 19, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  7. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    I do not necessarily think that Gone Home's high reviews are a result of corruption. I was defending an image you accused of being tinfoil garbage that literally consisted of twitter screengrabs. The censorship people were complaining about was widespread policy of shadowbanning on reddit from an admin level, as well as other gaming forums.
    Post by: JoJo23, Dec 3, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  8. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Banta I am beginning to believe you are a troll. Everything in that "tinfoil conspiracy" image is publicly available information. I did read your post. I myself have never played Rome 2, or Aliens Colonial Marines. I am well aware that these games are god awful. Its very well documented in youtube videos and discussion. You are denying this on that basis that you did not play the game. Thats the equivalent of putting your hands on your ears and yelling you cant hear me. They do stink,...
    Post by: JoJo23, Nov 30, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  9. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Banta, I gave you an example and you ignored it. Look up details on Rome 2. It was an awful, broken game. As was Aliens Colonial Marines. These are at least two points where there is no "opinions" to be had. These games stunk. Objectively. Im not sure how anyone can defend this. Game journalism has never been great. I recall a scandal over Driver 3 when I was younger. Its always been an arm of the games publishing industry. There have always been goodies (look up Rob Florences article). And...
    Post by: JoJo23, Nov 27, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  10. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Do you think feminist criticisms of film and television are all the rage? Do you think film critics hate on Riefenstahlfor her fascist sympathies evident in her work? Cultural criticism is not artistic criticism. Someone who marked down Von Treirs films for their depiction of women would be laughed off the street. The role of the critic and of the media is utterly critical in controlling excesses of producers when it comes to crass commercial exploitation. They are all blatenlty bought and...
    Post by: JoJo23, Nov 26, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  11. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    So you believe Rome 2 could be described as a good game? Or even a functional one?
    Post by: JoJo23, Nov 23, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  12. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Yes, there were also about 7 of them all on the same day. This was what was exploded over. It was very strange.
    Post by: JoJo23, Oct 22, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  13. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Im not entirely sure I grasp the point that an argument can become corrupt and evil on the basis of negative activity. Its absurd. Its framing the narrative, and controlling it. As I understand it gamergate began when a couple of journalists did a bad thing, and used personal connections to try and cover it up. To say that you cannot speak out about this, or campaign to against these sites without being a misogynist is absurd. There are a million fucking stories, on popular media sites...
    Post by: JoJo23, Oct 22, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  14. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    oddly enough it seems to be usually very good games that blatantly pay for reviews and distort for good coverage. Rockstar does a shit tonne of it, and I think they've only released one game in their history that was anything less than excellent. Gotta protect the investment I guess.
    Post by: JoJo23, Oct 3, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  15. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    In an update: Intel have withdrawn advertising from Gamasutra over some of their articles due to the pressure campaign, hopefully more will follow, particularly for the likes of Polygon. Shadow of Mordor had some dodgy review practices, review copes were only sent to certain you-tubers if the reception was positive. No surprise that it has 9/10 from the usual suspects. Although this has not stopped polygon from also publishing a negative article where they pretend to be offended by the...
    Post by: JoJo23, Oct 2, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  16. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    and now, with this whole Rantic thing we can see the situation extends beyond games media. Online Journalism is not Journalism. It is reblogging for clicks. Simple investigative work is only done by forums. edit: I mean, we're talking mainstream news sites here https://archive.today/KiXpg https://archive.today/VMa3f totally ate this hoax, hook line sinker. Despite being obviously false (the icloud images had been hacked some time ago, and had no relation to Watsons Feminism) and the site...
    Post by: JoJo23, Sep 24, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  17. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    well. Swans is pretty good. A lot of these indie titles really arent. I get a lot of it is up to opinion, but I personally get really skeptical when John Walker says he thinks Gone Home was a masterpiece and Myst was shit. That kind of makes me feel like he cannot differentiate a bad game from a good one. It does feel like its more to do with its "indie" nature than anything. And film and music have long since gotten over their indie love affair (well maybe not music, where they are all...
    Post by: JoJo23, Sep 24, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  18. JoJo23
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    sorry, I know this has little to do with anything, but I keep coming back it it. Zoe did not engage in normally infideloius behavior. It was beyond fucked up (from the blog I read, obviously) and went on for years. From the blog I can only conclude that she is, in fact, an irredeemably terrible human being. I find it pretty disturbing that people would refer to this as "cheating" or as a simple example of the ups and downs of romance. This is the key element that it comes down to, and its...
    Post by: JoJo23, Sep 23, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  19. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Well, yeah, I've done some bad things. But I have never done what, in my opinion, verges on domestic abuse. I have also never doxxed anyone.
    Post by: JoJo23, Sep 22, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  20. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    Well no, I would never do something like that to someone. I get that its a biased point of a view, but his blog gives me the impressions she's a psychopath. Its certainly nothing to do with much of the issue (beyond obviously Greyson) but if I learned any friend of mine was like that I would cut off all contact. Its pretty much a textbook definition of maximally immoral but still legal behavior. Im not sure how you could dismiss disgust of that kind of behavior as a variety of misogyny (slut...
    Post by: JoJo23, Sep 22, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  21. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    well, you know, serial cheating is generally regarded as a horrible thing to do to someone. Im not sure I would use the word slut, because it is a loaded word, but what she did was very morally wrong by most standards, including her own. I've been following this since the inception, and while I have decided its mostly bull spun by people desperately seeking a point, im not entirely sure its right to jump fully onto the other side of the fence either. I mean, im sure there are some pretty...
    Post by: JoJo23, Sep 22, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  22. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    I think this is the principal issue. I dont think its a bad issue. These people are nuts and their arguments go unchecked all to often. However, beyond strings being pulled to kill discussion of this on sites like reddit (extremely worrying in and of itself) I dont really see much evidence of a conspiracy. These people are terrible, and they are all friends. Thats it.
    Post by: JoJo23, Sep 22, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  23. JoJo23
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    The Five Guys Shit Storm...

    I disagree with the concept that saying someone is a bad person for serially cheating and lying about it is slut shaming. She's a horrible person, end of. That said, I suspect a lot of the frustration here has little to do with corruption, or toadying between journalists and developers (repellant as everyone falling over each other to defend their mates is), it seems mostly based on trends in the games industry that people dislike. And im not sure you can append "gate" to that. I have...
    Post by: JoJo23, Sep 22, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
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