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>I didn’t know everything I needed to about reporting.

So 4 years later, she finally admits incompetence, and confirms that kotaku hires unqualified people and doesn't bother to train them on the absolute basics of journalistic ethics, but then follows it up with this;

>I also know the controversy was all a part of a twisted campaign that didn’t want people like me to stick around.

People like what? Incompetent bloggers who shill for their friends? People who write about an innocent man accused of rape as if he's already guilty and criticize him for having the temerity to say he never raped the accuser?

What kind of people are we talking about here, Patricia?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/married-with-children-gay-couple_n_5c741ce5e4b04927a8766a48

I don't know why you'd make a fight out of something that's this obviously demonstrable. The Simpsons had an episode about Homer overcoming his homophobia too...or at least, as close as anyone on the Simpsons ever gets to personal growth.

> Malka claims the incident was exaggerated to defame him, a consequence of NeoGAF's strong opposition to GamerGate, even though it was thoroughly discussed on NeoGAF itself.

and...

> Due to this hostile relationship between GamerGate and NeoGAF, some wondered if the new allegations against Malka were fabricated as part of an attempt by GamerGate-friendly individuals to trick users.

Kotaku's Jason Schreier comments on a Kotaku article on the subject

>> And, since I know someone will ask, I’ve seen Gamergate cretins accusing me of wanting to protect Malka because we had him on Kotaku for an AMA a couple of years ago and I didn’t pay close attention to the comments, many of which brought up the Spain post and other allegations. Earlier today I went back and checked my history and found that back then there was a brigade post on the vile, racist website “NeoFAG.” From what I remember, I assumed those were horrible people just trying to get a rise out of Malka and Kotaku.

So, at this point the alleged perpetrator blames Gamergate for false accusations against him, while the people who covered up and censored the allegations... also blame Gamergate for their actions.

Critical minds might start to finally realize that whichever side the buttered toast lands on, if under stress some people will blame Gamergate. I hope they wonder if a bunch of people who were just

> responding to a fucking hashtag

have the power to make both happen at the same time... In other words... Is Gamergate really what journalists like Schreier and censorious forum operators want to make you think or is it a carefully constructed carpet to sweep dust under?

> I was also surprised to read about a black culture—5th edition’s first—that seemed to trade in dated stereotypes of African cultures.

So does Wakanda, yet SJWs are cheering Black Panther on.

This sort of shit is WHY non-white civilizations have been so hard to find in recent D&D. Make the theme park version of medieval Europe, nobody minds. Make the theme park version of an ancient non-white culture, you get this shit. Unless you're one of their pre-chosen darlings, then you can do the same things and get universal praise from the same site..

Yup. It would be nice if he'd just STFU and let people enjoy their damn games, and if he has to gloat, at least wait until the goddamn game is released. ~~There's still plenty of time for Treehouse to censor it.~~ Edit: It's being published by NISA, so it's probably safe. They don't censor much except for really blatant loli stuff.

It's worth noting that both Polygon and Kotaku already have positive coverage of this game (including a positive mention of a bikini costume in the Kotaku article). If this dumbass culture war is ever going to end with our video games mostly intact we all need to walk away quietly and let everyone else save face.

>It's gate keeping for the sake of gatekeeping narrowing the potential of games as a whole.

and esential to oh you know... discuss game design. Idm them being called games in casual conversation. Entertainment software is unwieldy so who cares. I do mind when there is misleading advertising, they are in the wrong section on steam (Adventure?! rpg?! what?) or people pretend they fill the same market as say AAA shooters.

> Hell the whole idea of fail states being what defines a game was came up with my a youtuber who has never designed anything, not a developer.

are you kidding me? The modern distinction made in discourse between entertaining activities/toys etc and games is as old as 1944 when John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern started to publish their work on game theory (the math). But the concept arguably goes back over 2000years to the ancient greeks. What is and isn't a game became a popular contention in the gaming industry by atleast 2003 that i'm aware but probably way earlier.

>A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome

from: http://www.worldcat.org/title/rules-of-play-game-design-fundamentals/oclc/51879625

claiming some youtuber just randomly made up that destinction is nonesense.

>Then what SHOULD you and people with political views similar to you be called?

I always thought the W comes from the term 'keyboard warrior' not 'culture warrior'.

There should probably two different terms. One for people who have those political views. And another for people with those political views who also act like 'Keyboard Warriors' about stuff related to those views.

If it's an unedited image it might still have EXIF data on it - not much to go on but something to look out for: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/exif-photo-data-find-understand/ - you can maybe get times and dates it was taken and the camera make. I'm guessing this would have been scrubbed in a blackmail attempt although you never know.

That way if the school/council/police has a camera or two you might be able to cross collerate number plates and stuff.

The barrier of entry has been lower than it has ever been before.

The development tools and software are better and easier than they have ever been before.

Here is a starting point. Go forth and envision the game you so desire.

From the KiA thread, this is all the evidence against Nick so far.

Contained are various sources ranging from twitter (DM convos), to unrelated subreddits (CoolGames Inc).

Most of it is people coming forward with their experiences with Nick, but there are a few hard pieces of evidence of the conversations he had.

The full extent of what Nick has been accused of is missing. All I can get from this is that Nick sucks at flirting.

A game review that tells you more about 18th century prison systems than about the game is pseudo-intellectual by default. I literally went through the review at one point and struck out anything that wasn't relevant. Over half of the review is irrelevant. The rest is so pointless that without a few offhand mentions of the word "simulator" and the Dwarf Fortress comparison, it would be impossible to even extract the game's genre from this non-review.

Here's the .DOC file I did. Witness for yourself.

EDIT: Some extra things...

> The metric is already present in a lot of other categories like storytelling and character dev, and I don't see anyone else complaining about those categories.

You still have not responded to the existence of five-star reviews for "Birth of a Nation" and "Triumph of the Will". This metric isn't present in storytelling/character development aside from special circumstances.

> It doesn't fucking matter because people should have the reading comprehension and analysis skills necessary to distinguish bias from facts.

The same way I distinguished the relevant and irrelevant portions of that review I linked to. This doesn't make it not shit.

> And given how subjective reviews are there are lots of bias to "correct" for. It's not critics job to mollycoddle to your way of thinking.

When the subjectivity is about aspects that are relevant, it's simply having an opinion and expressing it is the review's purpose. When it's about aspects that aren't relevant, it's bias.

Oh yeah, it's not their job to mollycoddle to my way of thinking. It's their job to rise up to my way of thinking. Because what they're doing right now (example: that review I linked) is really fucking stupid.

(Yes, I can be this arrogant if I want to. I rarely do, but this seems like the perfect time.)

/u/Teuthex is right.

>My name is Brianna Wu. I make games, including Revolution 60 which has been on two Game of the Year lists for 2014! Unfortunately, you may also know me better as a direct and sustained target of internet harrasment.

Sauce.

So another article came up a while back that I thought might be of interest here:

https://kotaku.com/inside-the-nsfw-world-of-skyrim-and-fallout-nudity-mods-1751678433

It doesn't judge anyone or try to play off fictional characters as victims.

Here. Whether this counts as uncritical reportage or not, I'll leave up to you and /u/Aurondarklord to decide. My opinion is that it is a reasonably fair article, clearly slanted against GG but not painting the entire movement with a broad brush. And I think that stance is characteristic of most of Kotaku's reportage on GG. Here's another early article they wrote about it. Again, seems eminently fair (keeping in mind that "fair" is not the same thing as "neutral" or "balanced") to me, but pro-GG people might disagree.

In general, Kotaku doesn't cover GG much at all. Their "Gamergate" tag contains just 22 articles, out of thousands they've written since 2014. And they don't write explicitly "SJW"-ish articles all that often either. I read it pretty regularly and find the standard KiA/GG conception of it as "SJW clickbait central" pretty laughable. It really is one of the best gaming sites out there.

> No words are not actions

Your own link says the exact opposite.

Words are "something done or performed" or else someone reading a poem is neither doing something nor performing. Words are "an act that one consciously wills and that may be characterized by physical or mental activity", such as moving your mouth and tongue. That's two of the first three definitions on your own link satisfied. Since to be an action it only needs to satisfy one definition that's twice as much as we need.

> Only ethics in journalism is the modus operandi of gamergate

Now you are using your own Humpty Dumpty definition of GamerGate as well.

> Oh you want a remotely plausible story? That's completely different from what I think, they wanted everyone to send her roses because of how great she is and how much she's gone through.

I'll take that as an admission that you can't even be bothered trying to pretend that it wasn't a collaborative harassment campaign any more.

> I said actual not everyday, the legal definition is the actual definition.

No it isn't. Lots of words have everyday definitions which differ from the legal definitions. Look at a dictionary some time. Maybe even the one you linked to earlier?

www.dictionary.com/browse/harass

It means to to disturb persistently, to torment, to bother continually, to pester and/or persecute. These are all things GamerGaters do to people who get on their hate list. I notice that the legal definition of harassment is conspicuous by its absence from that page. It's almost as if absolutely nobody really thinks that legal definitions of words are the actual definitions, except for GamerGaters repeating a meme.

> Yes if you're a shark.

Freedoms don't matter if you are dead.

> La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.

Although I particularly like this quote from the same man. I assume you can read French.

> S’il fallait absolument choisir, j’aimerais mieux faire une chose immorale qu’une chose cruelle.

Shit he was full of fucking gold.

> When people tell you "this isn't a game" they aren't saying "this is worthless" they are communicating that the context in which they got exposed to the thing lead them to believe the thing had certain characteristics. like challenge.

I know what they are trying to say. I also know that they are using the word incorrectly because they don't know what it means.

> yea no. https://www.google.com/search?q=dictionary+defenition+game in english it can be used as synonymous with play but usually refers to things dealing with competition or challenge.

Okay, the problem is that you don't know how English and dictionaries work. This is a fixable problem.

If I say "X is a game" that is considered true if X meets any of the definitions of a game. If X is, for example, "an activity that one engages in for amusement", then "X is a game" is true.

If you are using an unusual or obscure definition of a word in a situation where the reader could reasonably expect that you are using the most common definition then yes, you should make it clear that you are using the unusual definition. But since the top definition on dictionary.com is "an amusement or pastime", it's the GamerGaters who have the burden of explaining that their definition is the non-standard one. Gone Home is a game. End of story.

Now it's unlike the stereotypical computer game in important ways, and I think any honest advertising for Gone Home absolutely has an obligation to make that clear. However it's definitely still a game and anyone saying otherwise is just ignorant of what the term "game" means.

It is definitely ironic, seeing as you'd think self-described "gamers" would know what a "game" is, but that's GamerGaters for you. They aren't representative of the kind of gamer who knows what a game is.

> You haven't heard? Google just nuked Parler, and Apple has given them 24 hours to put in place a moderation plan, as they found numerous examples of people planning the failed coup on the platform.

They did the same thing to Bitchute back in October. Its traffic is higher than ever.

Look at her chin though, she has the square jaw of a dude. It's hard to see in that picture because of her armor, but that is not a feminine jawline. There is a reason for all of this.

> Somewhat true. However... I hear the phrase "modern beauty standards" thrown around a lot. Taking the most obvious one, Aphrodite is, by modern beauty standards, rather plain

We are talking about this character, right? I think you've spent too long on the internet if you think that is "rather plain".

> It stands to reason that modern renditions of goddesses described as "perfectly beautiful" would be beautiful by modern beauty standards.

The original Kali model still wasn't serious or scary in my opinion. The revised one is easier to take seriously, somewhat.

> Of course, I'm all up for, as Anita puts it, "equal opportunity objectification". Especially if the "objectification" is something the characters themselves would do. I suspect that this is a common viewpoint amongst gamergaters, and I have met a fair few feminists who don't mind fan service as long as it goes both ways.

That's close to my own view, although I'd like to see costumes that are appropriate to the games in question. Smite is all-goofy so it's fine by me. Whereas people fighting zombies in Resident Evil in combat lingerie is just stupid.

Are your serious? https://www.deviantart.com/?section=&global=1&q=tropes+debunk here are the lies in the video alone. One well-known example of a blatant lies elsewhere is "I was always a fan of video games" / "lifelong gamer", when previously she said: "I'm not a fan of video games because they're "gross" due to violence.

While I myself mostly agree with the "Damore memo-like" stance, I feel compelled to mention a counterargument that is history:

https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/history-of-women-computing/

Or google "computer science female dominated" to find out stuff about early history.

One possible explanation is "during the 40s most men were in WW2, allowing the profession to be, essentially, swiped clean until much later" but I have no idea if that's good enough.

Documented biological sex differences in personality traits are real, but how that translates into job specifics is a much more difficult question.

Very briefly, I was bored almost immediately, which I suppose is not surprising from what is a very basic webpage on disk. In a world where Sorcery exists as a yardstick, if you're going to do interactive fiction, you'll have to raise your game a little higher than DQ.

This is his father.

I couldn't find the picture online but it is in this video at 0:55, the picture shows the two of them together.

Liana explains her position more clearly in this video (jump to 3:00): https://youtu.be/7UdJLng-54U TLDW: In my understanding, she mainly has a problem with the hypocrisy of Kotaku allowing the author to publish both “An Ode to Kratos’ Nipples” and “God of War Has Finally Grown Up” (https://kotaku.com/god-of-war-has-finally-grown-up-1825458851). In the latter article, the author argues that the previous GoW games objectified women. Meanwhile, Liana says that the nipple article is objectifying and sexist, and while it might be fine in a humorous context, it should not have been presented in the same context as the “Grown Up” article.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171129163830/https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/taking-action-harassment-and-bullying-2017-11-28 That's coming from Wizards themselves in response to this.

Again, name one instance of a similar reaction to bullying or even threatening behavior in a female dominated fandom.

I've been wondering what you'd have to say about this one, since you're the only person here with an actual expert opinion on climate science. I'm surprised and I must say relieved you don't think hitting 2 degrees warming is quite as vast a danger as it's commonly presented. But I'm also worried, if that does turn out to be significantly exaggerated, by how much ammo it'll give the deniers.

The only area where I think I really disagree with you is about China. They may still be technically called a "developing country", but they exert considerable political pressure to keep that label while they are in fact the world's second largest economy, and if this emissions map is anywhere close to accurate, they're the biggest problem by miles. And yes, I realize they are also the most populous country, but relative to their actual size they're not as densely populated as India and still producing way way more emissions. I am very worried about what might happen if, in an effort to reduce emissions and go green, the US allows our economic dominance to slip and China to get past us in that way, we will lose any meaningful leverage to be able to push China to reform its own environmental standards in the future.

Also, as for solutions in the long term, what do you think about ideas pitched to build a monumental solar farm in some basically empty desert, hundreds of square miles of solar panels, to power the entire planet? Is that a scientific solution or just science fiction?

> That Zoe Quinn had sex for positive reviews of her game.

That Nathan Greyson wrote positive coverage in multiple articles about somebody he was in an undisclosed relationship with.

Fixed That For You

> https://www.deviantart.com/?section=&global=1&q=tropes+debunk

I'm looking through the first PDF and seeing a lot of "this is an opinion!" which is apparently bad for some reason, but I don't actually see any lies yet. Rather than me digging through that haystack, you wanna just actually point some out?

> One well-known example of a blatant lies elsewhere is having "always been a fan of video games" / "lifelong gamer", when previously she said: "I'm not a fan of video games" because supposedly they're "gross" due to so-called violence

What's the lie? People change how they identify with terms all the time, and "gamer" has notoriously slippery and changing definitions.

https://www.cloudflare.com/features-security/

I mean, are they lying? They seem to think they're a Security Service.

>I mean just think about it for a second, they deal with uptime, not with e-celebrities and swatting. They are IT not security.

I don't think you have a clue what IT Security is.

Here is a searchable timeline of corruption in games journalism that provides the general outline for gamergate.

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/355300/The-Dirty-History-of-Games-Journalism/

Every entry is sourced and archived. I have always found it fascinating to see how corruption has evolved over time.

Nitpick - 100 Greatest Video Game Franchises is a book, purchasable through Amazon and probably available through inter library loan should you desire.

The boots look quite a bit like a combination of hoof high heels and ballet boots. Here's an Amazon link to an example; click in a private browsing window unless you want your future Amazon suggestions to be fetish gear. Not really combat gear, but then it looks like that the game's style.

I see what you're saying, largely agree with your suggestion. But.. indeed on the part of the authors credibility, for example: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Before-Childrens-Memories-Previous/dp/031237674X

> Moral realism only work when you accept the existence of nonmaterial moral facts

That is not true. That is like saying mathematical realism only works if you accept the existence of nonmaterial mathematical facts. I believe that the claims made by mathematicians are generally true/factual, but not because they correspond to objects in some non-material mathematical realm.

The mistake is taking the simple correspondence notion of truth we use when talking about concrete objects in the external world and apply that notion to all other forms of discourse as well. I think there are true claims in the domains of mathematics and ethics, but I don't think "truth" there should be understood in the exact same way as it is in science, as involving correspondence to mind-independent objects. Moral facts don't work in the exact same way as scientific facts, but they are still facts.

As for the supposed disconnect between moral realism and atheism, it's worth mentioning that a very prominent atheist has recently written a book defending moral realism. I don't actually agree with much of that book, but it does illustrate that atheist moral realists might not be as rare as you think. And Harris doesn't accept the existence of non-material moral facts, either, despite being a realist.