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Yeah it's dumb and kind of funny, but it bothers me, not least because I find it super gross that youtube thinks I want to see that shit.

 

Yeah, I feel kind of dirty that YouTube's vaunted metrics can't tell the difference between me watching Sarkeesian for enjoyment and someone hate-watching it for nitpicking.

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I haven't even been doing that! I watched like the Jordan Owen rubber ducky video and like 30 seconds of that interview where they completely failed to set the sound up properly and it's been dogging my recommendations forever. If it's going to fill it with random shit I watched a year ago, why not AGQD speedruns or romhack playthroughs? :(

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So that's what Mark Kern has been up to lately!

 

(This is a joke!)

 

Actually, I can imagine Mark Kern wandering around E3 with a pack of those hate posters and a stapler... he's just the right kind of pathetic. :mellow:

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I always love it when an advertisement undercuts the viewpoint of a publication:

 

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Of course, Polygon wouldn't know about this advertisement and its message necessarily. It seems like you only have a chance of getting it if you use a mobile browser and have a German IP address.

To translate roughly: "Stop the gender craziness! An absurd ideology conquers our everyday life." The three words close to the kid: "Don't gender me!"

This refers to a planned reform that wants to introduce into the classroom curriculum the idea that a diversity of equally valid sexual and gender identities exists, which the AfD (Alternative for Germany), a political party that is backwards facing, homophobic and hostile to foreigners, is strongly against. And this paper called "Junge Freiheit" (Young Freedom) apparently, too.

I really should pay more attention to the politics of my own country, it's starting to get crazy! Maybe Vainamoinen can elaborate more, I'm not sure I even got the spare details I offered here right. :/

A friend of mine sent me this terrible video that argues against the reform and features a parade of white old men and a member of the AfD, presumably straight, saying that gays and lesbians already arrived in society (like WE had to walk there!). I didn't watch it past the first five minutes.

 

 

My weakness, among many, is that I don't pay attention to what is going on directly around me. I prefer to observe what's going on in the USA since it is far away from home. Therefore it has a certain entertainment value and harmlessness for me.

Edit: I just had an edit war just with myself. Gosh, it's always amazing how I manage to write the opposite of what I intended!

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I always love it when an advertisement undercuts the viewpoint of a publication:

 

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Yup, had exactly that leaflet in my post box. I have seldom read such a spectacular load of FUD. Wrote a lot of refutations on it, sent it right back to them, Gebühr bezahlt Empfänger. The best part was the "think of the kids" part. Because the fact of the matter is, THESE are our kids:

 

 

White old men, afraid of the future. HAH! White old men, afraid of the PRESENT!

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Sad to see AMD's final throes are a gamergate endorsement by Roy Taylor (AMD "Corporate Vice President Alliances", whatever that means). I am unable to gather a lot of outrage for this... I've had ATI cards in my desktop PC exclusively for 15 consecutive years, particularly as I wanted to counter the emerging Nvidia monopoly these last years. So it's just sadness when I look at the once proud company. But I can't really go on buying ATI cards when AMD doesn't advise their employees against speaking out for a harrassment campaign.

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Okay, I know that this doesn't help but I had to laugh at this comment below that Youtube video:

 

"The fact Anita Sarkeesean transformed a corruption scandal in the game industries in a gender inequality problem, misleading public opinion etc etc can't justifie death threat. Her credibily among gamers is almost ruined and this should be enough. Threating her and accusing John Oliver of foolishly include her in his video is ignorant. The video is about Death Threats, revenge porn and non-existing legislation to protect people who are being harrased. That's all. He didn't talk about Gamer Gate and he didn't defend her based on her opinion just based on the fact her safety was in danger."

 

The guy makes some valid points about nothing justifying death threats but the rest is an amazing leap.

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I read this really interesting piece on actual ethics within Photo-journalism:

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/posing-questions-of-photographic-ethics/?WT.mc_id=2015-MAY-KWP-INTL_AUD_DEV-0503-0531&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&kwp_0=20934&kwp_4=136288&kwp_1=158176&_r=0#

 

Thought it was interesting to see how far spread it was within photography (National Geographic making the pyramids closer together) in aid of selling images.

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I guess I didn't know until now (clicking on the first link in that article) that Mark Kern was "that guy" I had read about years ago who wasted a bunch of money on useless stuff that doesn't belong at a game development company. Now that I made the connection, I'm not understanding why anyone is even listening to says at all.

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Oh shit, that guy? I only just realized they were one and the same.

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Reminder: this is the same group who gave a platform to Jack fucking Thompson.

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Hah, I also just made the connection between those two Kern stories. That Reddit post pretty much paints him as a sociopath, which seems like a good fit for gamergate.

Also, apparently the newest batman game has a dig at gamergate in the form of a bio on The Riddler talking about his attempts to start #crusadegate.

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As Anita Sarkeesian pointed out, it's kind of ironic for a game that treats its female characters so poorly to be making cracks about GG.

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As Anita Sarkeesian pointed out, it's kind of ironic for a game that treats its female characters so poorly to be making cracks about GG.

Unfortunately it's pretty predictable that a game with problems focuses on how they're not as bad as a truly despicable group.

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That tumblr post is just really good at hitting the nail on the head. It kinda summarizes how I've felt about a lot of guys in general juxtaposing themselves against GG. 

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As awful as it is, it's kind of hilarious seeing them say "no qualification in journalism" right before listing some pretty impressive qualifications in journalism. Pretty much par for the course with GG though.

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Also I've seen Last Week Tonight, and I know that if GG try anything, the writers will turn it into a segment in which GG are made to look like dipsticks for reacting.

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So I don't if this particular instance was GG (but it usually never is, no true Scotsman and all) but I was at alterconf today and there was a guy hanging outside of the entrance taking notes on people coming and going. I know it's been said before but geez that's some serious creep factor going on there.

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John Oliver said in an interview earlier this year that the biggest benefit of his show being once a week and formatted the way it is is that he and his staff have a lot of time to thoroughly research and verify things before airing any of it. He's talked about how they'll sometimes have ideas for segments that don't have that much heft, so what may happen is that segment idea may become a piece of a puzzle for a different segment. They don't really write up segments having to stretch any given topic. If it doesn't have meat, it will support a different topic later on.

 

That said, the whole GamerGate thing has so much going on with it that they can definitely come up with a full segment on it. They probably don't have it high on their totem pole of issues to raise awareness on, but if they get poked hard enough by GamerGate (which isn't hard to imagine, since GG digs the whole "harass like crazy" strategy) they'll probably get motivated.

 

Another thing from that interview is that John Oliver kind of has an "up yours, we only live once" attitude when it comes to people or things that could potentially be dangerous (the spirit of the question was speaking the truth about people or groups of people that are known to get physically violent).

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