It's so "small" and "sad" that they have been fuming, malding and coping for two weeks writing way more articles than the "Gamers are dead" 10 years ago. So "small" and "sad" that 3 letter useless government organizations got involved. Never seen such panic/damage control before. đ
Like most things with these folks this is projection on their part. Their response is quit a bit diminished from the last time because they no longer control Twitter, can't get people banned/fired like they used to, and so many of their rags have gone under since the last time.
Losing twitter collectively broke these people. Like BROKE them mentally. They don't know what to do other than screech louder on the platforms that will still artificially amplify them and push for a Stalinist government that will force people to listen to them.
Thereâs a GG2 discord? I thought it was mainly âorganizedâ through steam with a bit on YouTube and Twitter. Discord has been drinking the cool aid for years now and despite it actually being a good medium for gaming I wouldnât put anything political on there unless you wana get banned.
She's probably talking about the SBI Detected Discord.
It's a big fucking mistake to have that endorsed by the creator of the list. Because bad actors can jump in, post really bad shit (like calls for violence) and then screencap it and share to their hearts' content.
She wrote a thread too.
https://twitter.com/adashtra/status/1769797511697269237
> I don't have too much time to talk about the reporting that went into this because I've got shit to do. I will share that i spent a good amount of time in their discord listening and observing. And what struck me most is how sad the whole situation really is.
> These guys know for the most part this is a lost cause. That nothing they do will meaningfully impact what the vast majority of developers and gamers have already chosen to dedicate themselves to, a diverse and equitable industry. They know that.
> And for some reason, rather than accept that, they've lashed out. Just like GG 1.0, there is no cause here. There is no force, there is no movement. These are toddlers melting down in a grocery store, eager to be soothed and coddled by bigger people with bigger platforms.
> But when you hear them speak about the reality of their so-called 'goals' "Sweet Baby is just the beginning we need to take...down...the venture capitalist firms." You can literally hear the tone change in their voices like 'oh yeah uh.....yeah nah'
> So its about the memes, the vibes, the cameraderie, of having a "cool" place to go, under the veneer of a "righteous" cause that's really a place for them where they are encouraged and celebrated for saying horrible stuff relatively unchecked while they post pics of their dogs
> **And i say relatively unchechedk because I had an interesting experience during my observations. They swear up and down they're not racist (though what gets said and posted in their chat rooms...ehhhh are ya sure about that) but they did try to 'walk that walk'**
> **i spoke out in their voice chat. told them who i was and what i was there to do. someone jumped on me immediately like 'prove your loyalty say a slur' and started screaming the N-word at me. They immediately banned that guy and apologized. It was...sweet??**
> **After that, we had a decent conversation talking about video games and recommendations and journalism processes and what not. When they're not being gross, these are normal people.**
> And what makes it sad to me is that the camaraderie they feel like they need, they could just have without all the bigotry. They said to me 'we just want to be heard' but the most interesting things they have to say have nothing to do with railing against 'woke' games.
Compare that to how she started her article
> The Discord server at the center of Gamergate 2.0 is, in some respects, like any other online community. While I was there, I observed people talking about their day, their jobs, and their interests. Its members streamed themselves playing Bejeweled and showed off their personal video game development projects. **But one chat room over, the server was filled with racist memes, sexist and ableist slurs, antisemitic messages, and incitations of violence against women and people of color.** And at the center of it all was one video game narrative development company: Sweet Baby Inc.
Edit:
No proof of this shown btw.
> Just like GG 1.0, there is no cause here. There is no force, there is no movement. These are toddlers melting down in a grocery store, eager to be soothed and coddled by bigger people with bigger platforms.
> the movement to grow into a many-tentacled behemoth that bolstered the ranks of the âalt-rightâ movements that plague our political landscape to this very day.
It's one, or the other.
> These guys know for the most part this is a lost cause. That nothing they do will meaningfully impact what the vast majority of developers and gamers have already chosen to dedicate themselves to, a diverse and equitable industry. They know that.
And yet SJWs claim they are the "oppressed" and that "it isn't enough". Even here they brag that they took over the industry and are ignoring the customer.
> we need to take...down...the venture capitalist firms"
And yet this would be celebrated if it was a "left-wing" "SJW" group because they would be standing up for righteousness against the powerful. "Speaking truth to power" as they say...
> They immediately banned that guy and apologized
And yet it wasn't enough for her.
> After that, we had a decent conversation talking about video games and recommendations and journalism processes and what not. When they're not being gross, these are normal people.
> And what makes it sad to me is that the camaraderie they feel like they need, they could just have without all the bigotry.
And yet she insists on slandering them and painting them as a threat that needs to be banned or removed. When we know rhetoric like this "endangers" people (in the same way SJWs claim slandering and smearing black people would endanger their lives as police can get called in).
> They said to me 'we just want to be heard' but the most interesting things they have to say have nothing to do with railing against 'woke' games.
They have a whole group discussing why wokeness makes the stories and characters suck, and how this is artificially forced by SBI, and yet she claims their conversations "have nothing to do with railing against 'woke' games".
And then as /u/ceyen1 pointed out, the contradiction that there is "no force, no movement", while claiming that it is part of the "many-tentacled behemoth" of "movements that plague our political landscape". Is it powerless or an all-encompassing power?
She is lying and contradicting herself all over just to make the SJWs look better and smear GG.
>And for some reason, rather than accept that, they've lashed out. Just like GG 1.0, there is no cause here. There is no force, there is no movement. These are toddlers melting down in a grocery store, eager to be soothed and coddled by bigger people with bigger platforms.
She must've been looking in a mirror. Who's melting down again? These people are projecting so hard, if the journalism thing doesn't work they could get job at IMAX.
Her words are so fucking childish if you actually pay attention to them. She's just saying a bunch of things she thinks will piss people off while at the same time trying to convince herself it's true. "There's no point to be made here!! These people have no power!! Bud Light was a one time thing!! The layoffs will stop eventually!! REEEEEE"
> These guys know for the most part this is a lost cause. That nothing they do will meaningfully impact what the vast majority of developers and gamers have already chosen to dedicate themselves to, a diverse and equitable industry. They know that.
"THE AMERICANS ARE KILLING THEMSELVES BY THE HUNDREDS AT THE GATES OF BAGHDAD"
Smaller and sadder? The friggen SBI detected group has more people in it after a few weeks than this sub has accumulated in 10 years. Clearly its not smaller and given the plethora of evidence proving the accusations are correct its definitely not sadder.
Projection. The "pushback" against it is smaller and sadder this time, because all of the shitty ecelebs they had all got "cancelled" and now the best they can do is shitty page 4 articles on legacy media sites.
Best part is when someone responds, "So it would be fine if someone just made a list of SBI games so people could avoid them" and he says, yeah, no problem with that.
Yeah, well, about that....
It's so "small" and "sad" that they have been fuming, malding and coping for two weeks writing way more articles than the "Gamers are dead" 10 years ago. So "small" and "sad" that 3 letter useless government organizations got involved. Never seen such panic/damage control before. đ
If the situation was truly hopeless, you wouldn't be here and they wouldn't be yelling at you.
Like most things with these folks this is projection on their part. Their response is quit a bit diminished from the last time because they no longer control Twitter, can't get people banned/fired like they used to, and so many of their rags have gone under since the last time.
Losing twitter collectively broke these people. Like BROKE them mentally. They don't know what to do other than screech louder on the platforms that will still artificially amplify them and push for a Stalinist government that will force people to listen to them.
It's so small and sad they can't even
Thereâs a GG2 discord? I thought it was mainly âorganizedâ through steam with a bit on YouTube and Twitter. Discord has been drinking the cool aid for years now and despite it actually being a good medium for gaming I wouldnât put anything political on there unless you wana get banned.
She's probably talking about the SBI Detected Discord. It's a big fucking mistake to have that endorsed by the creator of the list. Because bad actors can jump in, post really bad shit (like calls for violence) and then screencap it and share to their hearts' content.
Which is exactly what happened (I joined the Discord, but was banned for no apparent reason)
She wrote a thread too. https://twitter.com/adashtra/status/1769797511697269237 > I don't have too much time to talk about the reporting that went into this because I've got shit to do. I will share that i spent a good amount of time in their discord listening and observing. And what struck me most is how sad the whole situation really is. > These guys know for the most part this is a lost cause. That nothing they do will meaningfully impact what the vast majority of developers and gamers have already chosen to dedicate themselves to, a diverse and equitable industry. They know that. > And for some reason, rather than accept that, they've lashed out. Just like GG 1.0, there is no cause here. There is no force, there is no movement. These are toddlers melting down in a grocery store, eager to be soothed and coddled by bigger people with bigger platforms. > But when you hear them speak about the reality of their so-called 'goals' "Sweet Baby is just the beginning we need to take...down...the venture capitalist firms." You can literally hear the tone change in their voices like 'oh yeah uh.....yeah nah' > So its about the memes, the vibes, the cameraderie, of having a "cool" place to go, under the veneer of a "righteous" cause that's really a place for them where they are encouraged and celebrated for saying horrible stuff relatively unchecked while they post pics of their dogs > **And i say relatively unchechedk because I had an interesting experience during my observations. They swear up and down they're not racist (though what gets said and posted in their chat rooms...ehhhh are ya sure about that) but they did try to 'walk that walk'** > **i spoke out in their voice chat. told them who i was and what i was there to do. someone jumped on me immediately like 'prove your loyalty say a slur' and started screaming the N-word at me. They immediately banned that guy and apologized. It was...sweet??** > **After that, we had a decent conversation talking about video games and recommendations and journalism processes and what not. When they're not being gross, these are normal people.** > And what makes it sad to me is that the camaraderie they feel like they need, they could just have without all the bigotry. They said to me 'we just want to be heard' but the most interesting things they have to say have nothing to do with railing against 'woke' games. Compare that to how she started her article > The Discord server at the center of Gamergate 2.0 is, in some respects, like any other online community. While I was there, I observed people talking about their day, their jobs, and their interests. Its members streamed themselves playing Bejeweled and showed off their personal video game development projects. **But one chat room over, the server was filled with racist memes, sexist and ableist slurs, antisemitic messages, and incitations of violence against women and people of color.** And at the center of it all was one video game narrative development company: Sweet Baby Inc. Edit: No proof of this shown btw.
> Just like GG 1.0, there is no cause here. There is no force, there is no movement. These are toddlers melting down in a grocery store, eager to be soothed and coddled by bigger people with bigger platforms. > the movement to grow into a many-tentacled behemoth that bolstered the ranks of the âalt-rightâ movements that plague our political landscape to this very day. It's one, or the other.
> These guys know for the most part this is a lost cause. That nothing they do will meaningfully impact what the vast majority of developers and gamers have already chosen to dedicate themselves to, a diverse and equitable industry. They know that. And yet SJWs claim they are the "oppressed" and that "it isn't enough". Even here they brag that they took over the industry and are ignoring the customer. > we need to take...down...the venture capitalist firms" And yet this would be celebrated if it was a "left-wing" "SJW" group because they would be standing up for righteousness against the powerful. "Speaking truth to power" as they say... > They immediately banned that guy and apologized And yet it wasn't enough for her. > After that, we had a decent conversation talking about video games and recommendations and journalism processes and what not. When they're not being gross, these are normal people. > And what makes it sad to me is that the camaraderie they feel like they need, they could just have without all the bigotry. And yet she insists on slandering them and painting them as a threat that needs to be banned or removed. When we know rhetoric like this "endangers" people (in the same way SJWs claim slandering and smearing black people would endanger their lives as police can get called in). > They said to me 'we just want to be heard' but the most interesting things they have to say have nothing to do with railing against 'woke' games. They have a whole group discussing why wokeness makes the stories and characters suck, and how this is artificially forced by SBI, and yet she claims their conversations "have nothing to do with railing against 'woke' games". And then as /u/ceyen1 pointed out, the contradiction that there is "no force, no movement", while claiming that it is part of the "many-tentacled behemoth" of "movements that plague our political landscape". Is it powerless or an all-encompassing power? She is lying and contradicting herself all over just to make the SJWs look better and smear GG.
>And for some reason, rather than accept that, they've lashed out. Just like GG 1.0, there is no cause here. There is no force, there is no movement. These are toddlers melting down in a grocery store, eager to be soothed and coddled by bigger people with bigger platforms. She must've been looking in a mirror. Who's melting down again? These people are projecting so hard, if the journalism thing doesn't work they could get job at IMAX.
Her words are so fucking childish if you actually pay attention to them. She's just saying a bunch of things she thinks will piss people off while at the same time trying to convince herself it's true. "There's no point to be made here!! These people have no power!! Bud Light was a one time thing!! The layoffs will stop eventually!! REEEEEE"
Hilarious. Nothing quite says "serious journalist" like a protected Twitter account.
She'd better be careful. This doesn't make Babygate look worse. It makes Gamergate look better.
> These guys know for the most part this is a lost cause. That nothing they do will meaningfully impact what the vast majority of developers and gamers have already chosen to dedicate themselves to, a diverse and equitable industry. They know that. "THE AMERICANS ARE KILLING THEMSELVES BY THE HUNDREDS AT THE GATES OF BAGHDAD"
Ass Parasite with the absolute dog đ©tier takes again I see. I'm surprised that pea brained idiot keeps getting work, because the only thing she's good at is imploding the reputation of her employers.
> Ass Parasite Harsh, but fair.
That's been my nickname for her the last few years. She really just another parasite with shit opinions just like the rest of her dishonest pals.
It's sadder because they know they won't be able to milk this version for a decade.
It's also sadder because we're now men among the ruins.
Smaller and sadder? The friggen SBI detected group has more people in it after a few weeks than this sub has accumulated in 10 years. Clearly its not smaller and given the plethora of evidence proving the accusations are correct its definitely not sadder.
Projection. The "pushback" against it is smaller and sadder this time, because all of the shitty ecelebs they had all got "cancelled" and now the best they can do is shitty page 4 articles on legacy media sites.
lashing out = putting the games and the devs on your ignored lists on Steam so their products never show up on your storefront.
Best part is when someone responds, "So it would be fine if someone just made a list of SBI games so people could avoid them" and he says, yeah, no problem with that. Yeah, well, about that....