Vainamoinen

It's, in a way, great that Fogarty (Lizzy) comes back in any kind of official role after her dox on gamergater training camp sites. She is, after all, one of the victims of this terrible mess. However, as to her "views"... particularly on Quinn ("an abuser", guilty because she has failed to "dispute" Gjoni's remote terrorism epos) and Sarkeesian's TvW series ("A large amount of the material is misinterpretation, removal of contradictory facts, and cherry-picking, which is easily identified by people who have played the games covered") ...all your standard sub 60 IQ gamergater nonsense with a good bit of slutshaming in the mix.

Uhm, examples?

PAX is Latin and means peace. Just sayin'. : (

Publishing death threats, harrassment, sexist/misogynist/racist comments and emails supposedly points at a systemic problem. Yes, there is outrage after publication, congrats Levine, and there is a great dose of courage needed to face that outrage. If there is no publication, these threats become mere hearsay and the problem is swept under the carpet. No way, I say. This is the time we shame harrassers out of the medium. It is the time to go public. Yes, you supported Adrian Chmielarz and the Astronauts. That's not too bad though. As I said, Chmielarz is latching on to gamergate topics while making games of a type that is explicitly attacked and despised by gamergaters. And while Chmielarz is the CEO of his company, there still are members of his team that might not share his confused, pseudo intellectual and self glorifying opinion. It's clear by now that we can't vote against opinions and ideologies by holstering our wallets – then again, neither can gamergate. Voting against individual people might be even more difficult. Not sure it's the way to go.

A few hard to deny facts from Sterling this week...

Explaining gender stereotypes away by projecting them on rectangles. Wow, I am so convinced now. That sure gave me a new perspective, those evil rectangle tropes have become pretty excessive in the meantime. This guy got far too close to his buddy Biscuit. /edit: Biscuit's trying to coach the gaters quite a bit [at least if genuine, but I think so. It's hard to write up that shit.]. Short version: If you gamergaters would stop acting like gamergaters and started ignoring what gamergate is really about, maybe even focused on journalist ethics for a bit, you swell guys could really win at gamergate! Oh John, how do you get in your panties every morning. But hey, the penny dropped on issues of harrassment and "the SJW" it seems. He even understands where that crap is coming from. Took him only just half a year.

I wasn't kidding back then. The guy gets full on gamergate with the usual strategies - exaggerate Sarkeesian's position until it sounds as if the trope was bad in itself and games were effectively ruined by them, then show counterexamples to refute the strawman. But let's not forget where Chmielarz stands. The guy's a core indie with a very strong tendency towards the narrative at the cost of gameplay mechanics. In the video where he claims to have found the "holy grail of narrative games", he expressly praises "Gone Home" as a great game (9:20). Quoting the words of "Sarkeesian Effect" maker Davis Aurini, it becomes all to clear what Adrian Chmielarz is to gamergate personalities: (sorry for quoting Aurini, this is painful for me as well. I always hear Goebbels talking about Jews. Though here he sounds like Nietzsche talking about women.) Chmielarz is hopping onto gamergate territory, maybe out of opportunist motives, maybe out of extreme stupidity. But it will end really bad for him, because the people who happen to like Ethan Carter are very, very likely to hate his new friends, and his new friends are very likely to hate Ethan Carter.

I actually still have to find that original "gamers are dead" article. Huh, funny, it's nowhere around... Yes, Kern is aggressively asking for positive coverage in order to 'heal the rift'. Heck, if the conflict is buried and never mentioned again, maybe the violence will cease. Personally, I think Merkel's peace treaty has worked out far better than this would.

That Mark Kern petition, it really is incredibly silly. Gamers in large numbers have behaved like shitbags, and journalists have done their job – to call them out. Back in 2014, every journalist that didn't report [favorably] on gamergate was an enemy figure for the cult. Now Kern asks the press to look away so the healing powers of positive coverage on the medium could take effect. He's asking for 80s video game journalism, he's asking for advocacy, he's asking for the bias he calls 'fairness'. He's asking for what gamergate tries to paint as conflation. In other words, Kern asks for more corruption in games press. The wind of change will intensify in video gaming. Diversity will increase, because thanks to the press more people are becoming aware of and ask for complex narratives with less stereotypes. Gaters will undoubtedly react to that by crying louder and behaving more violently. Imagine Mark Kern right in the middle of the storm, demanding that no one reports. Sad little king of a sad little hill. The 'sensationalist' - which Kotaku is very, very prone to - is to report in a way favored by the general public. Here, kotaku annoys their usual clientele while the gamergate opposing parties may not really like kotaku articles. That's quite dangerous. I like that they're doing it.

Relevant: http://zenpencils.com/comic/weirdness/

Somehow exactly the central gamergate agitators are only ever perceived to be at the fringes of the movement, 'helpers' and 'supporters' at best. The main argumentative assaults are led by 'not really gamergate' figureheads – "neutral" Hoff Sommers and Yiannopoulos from the far political right, prime conspiracy theorist Davis Aurini right from the very heart of misogynism, John Bain from the wing of imprudent consumers and MRAs, or Adrian Chmielarz from the Association of Indie Game Developers Fighting for Their Own Extinction [AOIGDFFTOE]. All 'not really gamergate', all their immediate advocators.

Okay, my comment was of course meant as hyperbole. Still, exactly that "sling a lot of characters at the canvas" is what he's particularly good at. His arrangements, his composition simply hits home. But it's not like is oeuvre is composed of the floating heads you see mimicked with photographs in movie posters today. Actually, he really gets some diversity in. And apart from practically always achieving a spot on likeness with the actors, he is really great at capturing that "moment" that makes a movie. Of course, it's not all peachy with Struzan. His style, particularly the strongly saturated oranges aren't universally welcome. Due to the nature of his work, he mostly used photographs of actors made well after the movie was finished. He made do with those pretty well, usually slapping actor heads on still photographs from his own body and friends (Harrison Ford once said to him: "Thanks for the bod"). Consequently, his art often looks a bit too staged. Other poster artists achieved more impressive results by using stills from the actual movie (e.g. David Grove, that incredibly talented bastard), at the cost of precision of course. In a nutshell, I adore Struzan's work, but am aware of flaws of course. As to Star Wars, "The Art of Drew Struzan" describes the process for the Episode III poster in detail, and it kind of is presented as one of the central reasons why he retired. I'm hoping he'll take on the new trilogy, and I really hope he'll get more creative freedom. Struzan really WANTS to try something new, but art directors are usually shocked out of their wits when they see what he has in mind (as with his comps for the 2004 "Sahara" movie). Abrams to the rescue?

"Related searches: gamergate". Nope, they're trying to ruin this full force. What a bunch of crapheads. Attack the indies, they're not dealing out the 'real' stuff anyway.

Wasn't about "satisfaction".

The idea that Double Fine "have gone back and asked for more money" is one hundred percent incorrect, and in fact that was the last impression Schafer wanted to make when he split Broken Age in two parts. Double Fine finishes Broken Age on their very own money, and in the end they will probably have pulled 70 or even 80% of the financial weight themselves. The "slacker backer thing" is also of no real consequence. The Double Fine Adventure was TEH first game Kickstarter, and they didn't introduce a Paypal option during the campaign because they didn't quite understand that they could do that as soon as the original goal was met. So they introduced one later, no problem there. The point Molyneux was trying to make here however - the unforeseeable cost explosion in game development - couldn't be demonstrated better than by name dropping Double Fine, which are likely developing the most expensive 2D adventure game of all time and have left an ambitious space sim as a core game on Early Access without its many hundred of brainstormed features. : (

Not a chance in hell accessing that article. Screenshots welcome.

The outrage over the Law & Order episode is far reaching. Interestingly, I have seen gaters actually recognize that gamergate opposing groups and persons hate the episode as well. The yarn they're spinning as a consequence is, not surprisingly, that the video game press (and their feminist/-nazi/SJW/cultural marxist/etc. allies) have brought this media portrayal on themselves through their way of speaking about gamergate. Well, I guess if Sarkeesian had just kept her damn mouth shut and never published all those rape threats she received, it would have been an all-peachy and conflict free SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT episode... This is all fucked beyond belief. It is gamergate who takes under their wings people like the "pickup artist" and self proclaimed "only technically a rapist" Daryush Valizadeh. And unless large batches of gaters finally start saying that they don't WANT this guy's support, I'm counting that guy in and I'm pointing at guys like that until my fingers bleed left and right. If they repost Sommers videos, they wallow in US centric Republican mud; if they pay Davis Aurini's patreon, they're wallowing in misogynist mud, and if they cheer Roosh, they wallow in rapist mud. Congrats, doofuses.

So gamergaters hate the SVU episode because it literally portrays gaters as rapists, and gamergate opposing groups hate the SVU gamergate episode because it doesn't portray the actual issues. Okay, great. Moving on. : (

How's this: Remote terrorism. Much the same kind of crap Eron Gjoni pulled off with the gamergater crowd, only with US armed forces. Use other people to attack whom you don't like. They have a faith, they have a doctrine. So, to a degree, they believe in something.

Not even that, no. The same haters that went batshit crazy when Depression Quest threatened to ruin "their" Steam for them had already gathered under the Tropes vs. Women Kickstarter video in mid 2012; and Quinn had already suffered harrassment way earlier. The "group thinking", the feeling of unity and the whole pluralis sociativus speech dates from after the Baldwin label. I.e. as far as the slander, yes, that is one hundred percent correct. I said earlier in this thread how this works: The accusations remain unaltered whatever arguments you bring forth, and at one point in the discussion with gamergate all your arguments will be forgotten and everything goes back to gamergate 1.0 – that's one of the main reasons I will continue to call gamergate a "cult" with a "doctrine". And there's an extremely relevant example these days, which I'll sum up as follows: Techraptor publishes Interview with Allistair Pinsof. Main 'corruption' accusations against the industry by Pinsof are hearsay. Gamergate has a fucking ball with this interview. Kotaku tracks down both central sources of the Pinsof allegations. One says that no, she didn't say that her boyfriend had rigged some irrelevant indie game award (remunerated with the grand total of $200,000 one glass boot filled with beer), and the other says that no, Phil Fish did not "steal Fez" from him. The accusatory pillars of the techraptor interview article are therewith completely obliterated. The fucking gamergate ball continues undeterred.

They probably didn't exist as a 'group', that's what makes that label so damn annoying. The individual people were self-righteously harrassing and hating around, but only under the gamergate umbrella did they start to feel validated and strong as a group.

That part is actually pretty annoying.

I asked the same question on GOG, and there was one guy who just googled "Grim Fandango" and, of course, found the wrong font. And then he seemed to work tirelessly to make up for that mistake, ever posting links to fonts that looked closer and closer. Eventually, he found exactly what I was looking for. Great guy! http://www.dafont.com/betty-noir.font

Yup, that's what failed one hour ago. ;) Thanks nonetheless!

Guys, what font is this? Maddening to find out...