Reminder that gamergate is communist and that bourgeois female normies should stay away from my vidya and stop trying...

Quick question, user. Do you think that women, by their nature, are inherently bourgeois?

gamergate is maximum bourgeois

aren't you a ray of sunshine

kek

Define "their nature".

I wish somebody threw your mother down the stairs.

youtube.com/watch?v=-rMJ1NKtBis

Sounds a bit like the cartels tbf.

Through genes, if you must.

I had to ask, because some anons on Holla Forums (I'm looking at you, Prickly and some other tankies) are so spooked by SJW culture that they believe giving women the right to vote was a mistake, and that the revolution will bring them "state-mandatepd spouses." OP seems to be one of those guys.

I use to be pro-GG, I kept up with the whole operation here on Holla Forums and everything, participated in threads, sent emails, etc. but at the point when it became obvious my other "compatriots" didn't actually give a shit about the plight of the workers and it was entirely "fuck u devs, fuck ur low salary, fuck ur werking conditions, gimme muh gud gaems" and blaming all their problems on an imaginary kultural margsism and muh leftists pretty much alienated me and now I don't give a shit. Besides its been, what, 3 years since the quinnspiracy? Who fucking cares anymore.

It's thanks to this that i learned the concept of identity politics, and that there is a fundamental difference between leftist tought and liberal tought.
If it wasn't communist, it certainly helped to create some communists.

There is nothing communist about trying to replace certain gaming journalists so that they "better" represent your identity as a gamer and can sell you your soma all the easier. There is nothing communist about creating a little movement-tan, Vivian James, and using her when you donate to groups like the Fine Young Capitalists or just for masturbating to. There's nothing communist about saying you play games to escape the frustrations and absurdities of everyday life, only to try and exclude whatever demographic you don't like because they no longer produce the kind of games you play or talk about the games you like. There is nothing communist about pointing out that many liberal feminists are trying to dysfunctionally police sexuality only to compensate for it with the reverse, doing your best to cater to this stereotype of 'male' attraction; heck, I know a lot of very now popular gamer-gaters who try and use sex as a way to offend people, as if that's going to solve the initial problem.

what annoyed me so much about gaymergayte was that they refused to ever consider the possibility that games they don't like are being made because they sell. their lives are so centered around video games that they couldn't accept how little of a shit that publishers gave about anyone or how "games journalism" is literally nothing more than paid advertising

Seeing the Holla Forums thread now depressing.
I still have to wonder, with all the capitalist fuckery the videogames industry has, it had to be some idpol shit that happened every six months what imploded in this way.

Personally, I thought GamerGate had a point back when they discovered the whole GamesJournosPro thing, which was a problem of corruption that could also be extrapolated to mainstream media. So initially, I was actually kinda sympathetic.

However, Holla Forumsyps shitted the whole thing up and it lost any and all sense of direction and just ended up being a Sargon-of-Akkad-tier circlejerk.

this but gamers aren't scum where do you think you are?

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Idiots, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, whole GG movement makes no sense in this context.

Really reveals who much of this board is just liberals pretending to be leftists.

I paid attention. It was basically just /r9k/.

Literally never heard anything about GG except from friends who were themselves participants or equally as annoyed as I am.

In what sense do people like OP understand the term 'communist'? Read a book or kill yourselves ASAP.

My guess is in the sense of "practically useful to the Communist goals".

It always annoys me that LeftCom (AnCom) do not distinguish between goals and methods. As a consequence they have this delusion that good goals can be achieved only by good people who use good methods. The logic of buying expensive things because you want to be rich and rich people buy expensive things.

If anything is killing Left, it's this magical thinking.

Gamergate dove nose first into IDpol as as soon as Holla Forums and the new atheist community got their hands on it tbh.

Whatever you might think about them, they helped kill Gawker.
That's worth a couple points in my book.
>tfw you guys are still using my banner

…those are not the same thing

If GG had truly been communist they would had fight for the rights of vidya devs
Vidya devs have some of the most awful working conditions in the world yet nobody talk about it

Ignore the tripfag, he's retarded.

Not within the context (of confusing goals and methods).

You can replace it with:
> LeftCom (or AnCom)

true
false

prickliests are aware that all forms of identity are ghastly apiritions in the mind, and that there is no innate quality in the mind of any sentient being.

Daily reminder to rape Prickly if you see him in the street.

daily reminder that bunkerfags are legit mentally ill and are the ones to bring prickly up in every thread

t. guy who likes to wear dresses and doesnt believe in rape as a concept

t. hates fun and can't consider things that hurt their feefees

t. i want to rape people but if you want to rape me ill cry about it guy

I dont want to rape people

that's exactly what a rapist would say

Only a rapist would fail so badly as saging, lack of impulse control

I think it may just be one guy who sucks at trolling and never gets any (You)s without it. Often has a porky flag.

Reminder that technology has boomed for the past decade and porky decided to make geek/nerd culture cool to make money off of it. Hence why you have liberals and suits infesting it like pigs wallowing in a mud bath.

Gamergate didn't like the idea of people like Anita Sarkeesian dictating what is allowed in the video game industry.
They also didn't like the fact that popular game reviewers like IGN were taking money from game developers in exchange for positive reviews.

Gamergate was an exercise in consumer rights.

Reactionaries always refuse to blame the system for whatever problem is currently upsetting them. It's always reduced to just a "few bad apples" or ridiculous conspiracy theories like "cultural marxism" or that whole psyop thing a lot of hardcore right wing GGers were throwing around near the end.

I need more Alunya sexually liberating and converting Vivian to Communism lewd art in my life.

there is more, but no one seems to have saved it

Gamergate had potential to be an opportunity to educate people on how the drive for profit incentivizes making bland copies of shitty games over and over because it's easy, how things they have long complained about like using DLC to sell them a game ten times over makes perfect sense, and explain how much the developer-producer relationship has come to mirror factory production.

The key word is had.

I think one of the best things about Holla Forums activism especially what happened just preceding gamergate was how many people there were openly talking about the evils of large companies and people were even starting to link this to stuff outside of gaming.

The Dragon Age Inquisition threads were more about how evil EA was than it was about the game itself and the same could be said about ubisoft shit that was being talked about before.

The problem is Holla Forums co-opted the burgeoning movement and redirected it to reactionary dog shit once again. Zoe Q's burger situation was basically the death rather than the start of anything fruitful as I saw it.

Cultural marxism is the system, a sub-system in the wider system of jew.ry to be exact.

LOL 👌

Holla Forums has always hated gamergate

Hence why they had to destroy it with their endless gultural margsism and other crap?

Many people involved in gamergate, like anita sarkeesians bf, are cultural marxists. You don't need be Holla Forums to see that.

The only reason you get so triggered by stating this fact is because you feel it infringes on your copyright.

Gamergate was a liberal reformist movement that got treated like communists by the press because actually reforming would have cut into their profits.

It was motivated not only by "consumer rights" (although letting porky-owned journalists engage in "reviews" that were basically hidden advertisements is hardly a good thing) by reports of industry blacklists, casting couches, and other awful labor practices within the industry.

The hostility towards Gamergate shows the hostility in the press to even mild pro-worker reforms. The fact-free editorials about "online harassment" (which soon shifted targets from Gamergate to leftist Sanders and Corbyn voters - and occasionally to Trumpcucks) were nothing more than a rhetorical tool to advocate for internet censorship. The purpose of this press offensive was to give tech CEOs political cover to implement unpopular and arbitrary policies of ideological censorship (aimed at all radicals, not just Gamergate) and to present any alternatives to neoliberal centrism as a danger to identity groups.

Unfortunately, it's basically dead as an effective political movement at this point; what's left is just KotakuInAction but it's morphed into anti-SJ clickbait.

Show us de texts my friend.

Where did gran pappy marx say identity politics should be a cultural focus of a political movement.

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HAHAHA

Where did marx say any of the things lenin, trotsky, kautsky, bordiga, althussers etc said.. ?

The thing is I don't see much talk of culture or at least not in the sense of identity politics in the extended literature of Marxism.

I honestly think the focus on identity politics comes not from class conscious philosophers and economists, but from people who want to skirt around the system and show tokens of change without real change. That is why companies like Intel, EA, the democratic party and others make such a big deal about how inclusive they're to distract from how repugnant they're economically and environmentally. Or at least they're the start point along with bank rolled professors who are teaching people to look elsewhere for reforms and Tumblr and Holla Forums are the end point.

No one is a cultural marxist, there is no such thing.

grr I want to be a locust and consume all media uncritically

fucking suhjuhwuhs

How many layers of irony is this sentence on

I kek every time.

it's the most correct part of that image tbh. unlimited no-risk loans really fucked us

whatever happened to Anita? She is so monumentally relevant and important I haven't heard about her in a year and a half.

I second the motion!

she's a fucking critic, she just talks about stuff holy shit
also this is hilarious coming from a nazbol

She was using idpol and fear/shame tactics to push developers to change or censor their games. Even if she had no influence, she represented a trend of censorship.

Third! also, make it more romantic

To be a critic means your ideas are also open to criticism. Her criticism was trash but it was treated like incontrovertible truth. It was really stupid for a long time just how True everything she said was and disagree with her on literally any point was unacceptable.

Now that she's ascended to the upper level of $100k speaking fees for lectures about sexism to New York millionaires, occasionally lowering herself to sell the feminist stamp-of-approval to game companies, we don't have to deal with it anymore and can forget how stultifying it was to talk about videogames at the peak of gamergate.

Oh and what Quinn did to her boyfriend was a textbook example of DARVO

Uhm…forgive me for being stupid…but what is DARVO?

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lel, first worlders not even once

it's like you guys don't even want to grind the human spirit into dust. What does a person have to do to become a nonperson around here?

changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/coping/darvo.htm

just search it up next time

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Where did this Alunya shit come from?

Reminder that gamergate hasn't been relevant for three years

Nazbols being fucking retards as usual, I see.

The short story is that a guy posted a blog (with shitloads of evidence) about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his ex-girlfriend, some Indie Darling who had made a piece of (psuedo) Interactive Fiction. Some random gamers read this blog, put 2 and 2 together and realized she'd been sleeping with some of the games journalists who had covered her work. When presented with evidence of their failure to disclose a personal relationship, rather than admit they fucked up, the "game journo pros" community decided to run a smear campaign calling gamers woman hateric manbaby pieces of shit and making up bullshit about the ex-boyfriend.

As the story spread, it was quickly censored, initially ineffectively, on sites like Neogaf, Reddit, and even 4chan, creating a Streisand effect which drew a lot of people to the cause. Many people were rightfully angry to be lied to and about by the media, boycott and reform campaigns were started, and everything was good, for a time.

Gamergate attracted a few different types of people:
1. People upset about the treatment of an abuse victim, and the lionization of his abuser
2. People upset about corruption, lies, and unethical behavior in news media
3. People upset about SJWs

Unfortunately, due to the nature identity politics, the third group kept growing and growing, and by the second year had pretty much entirely pushed the first two groups out of the movement. They managed to get the FTC to change disclosure rules, a MAJOR victory for what was basically an entirely online slacktivist campaign, but by then almost nobody even cared, it was all bitching about "cultural marxism". Three years in it's just a big idpol circlejerk.

wow a wishywashy gator is a problem to his own other wishywashy causes whoda thunk

It still is for the current left.
Yesterday I read a critical article of gamergate and bashing the whole movement as white supremacist neo-fascist punch form Libero(Leftist alliance`s youth organizations official monthly paper).

Needless to say that the Finnish equelevent of 4chan went apeshit after being attacked by these idpol leftists.

use less vidya

People who buy games have an economic relationship with people who make games. The gaming press ran stories claiming that the people who buy games don't need to be the audience for games. They were arguing for games to pivot and target different markets. This doesn't actually have anything to do with idpol, the journos are libshits who don't know how to frame it any other way.

Your stupidity is depressing.

I do believe that video games are absolutely useles. It's just a scheme for a few corporations to make a shit ton of money. I do believe games offer absolutely nothing but silly escapism. The majority of the games at least are nothing but interactive hollywood films, where the player has to follow the path that game designers want the gamer to follow, leaving no freedom for something the gamer paid for.

But what's the deal with this gamergate/gamerghazi bullshit? should i read more into this or is just a non issue?

pls remove ancom flag

This

This is stupid as fuck.

Most video games are made by small companies and indie developers, especially for the "core" gamer market. In fact, "gamers" frequently have disdain for large companies and shitty practices. Also, stop playing CoD.

Kill yourself. Seriously, just go chuck yourself into a guillotine.

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If some people make an identity out of their economic behavior, that doesn't stop them participating in the economy. Those people ended up being the overwhelming majority but GG started as people mad about outside forces in the form of bourgeois kiddos trying to fuck with their economic relations.

nice, thanks

I would read the shit out of this doujin.

Fuck off you petty bourgeoisie faggot.
Small game devs just produce endless quantities of fucking shovelware, about the only good game made by a small studio recently was Age of Decadence, and it's very much the exception to the rule.

I don't really agree, there are good indie games, even if most of them are either pretentious shit or unoriginal shovelware.

There isnt money to be made anymore, she cashed in and ran.

I wasn't saying that all indie games were good or that all "small" businesses are good. (In fact, we need more medium-sized game companies like before, not too big to produce Hollywood tier slop but also not too small to not be able to produce.)

I'm just disproving that faggot who thinks that all games are made by a few big companies. Also, I found more good games from indies, smaller game companies, and medium-sized companies than from the big companies, mostly because they don't have enormous inflated budgets and aren't casualized garbage. (The pretentious indie devs mostly fucked off since Gamergate. The shovelware stuff is mostly on Steam Greenlight, and we've always had shovelware, even before indie game companies were a thing.)

This.

*able to produce expansive/high-quality games.

Early Bethedsa and Rare come into mind.

Obsidian being a modern example.

Except you can probably count the number of good indie games on one hand. The smaller companies that are producing decent games tend to be medium sized companies like obsidian (which has an operating budget of about 1 million dollars a month).

;___;

eighty four percent

Only if you have super high standards. Here's indie games on my steam history over the last few months that I thought were good:

Reus
GearCity
Analogue: A Hate Story
Technobabylon
SPAZ
Dust: An Elysian Tale
DEFCON
Democracy 3
Undertale
Hotline Miami
This War of Mine

You need to be a bit forgiving in some aspects but there are plenty of good sames by tiny studios out there

Is it true there was a conspiracy to lower the score so they didn't have to pay the bonus or is it bullshit?

Just the fact that the bonus was tied to the metacritic score is bullshit. I don't think it's proven that it was fixed, but it's highly suspicious at the very least.

It is plausibly true, but Bethesda more likely just saw New Vegas as a crappy spin-off.

By "bullshit" I don't mean false, I mean porky finding reasons not to pay people.

related one

You know, there's a lot of Vivian porn even though she's 8/v/'s "daughterfu". Why isn't there more Alunya porn? What would we call her, comradefu?

I dunno, there's quite a bit of alunya porn
lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=alunya

I have basically zero interest in any of those, though i just remembered Frictional Games are a relatively small indie studio, so that adds a couple more games to the actually-good-indie-game list. still only talking about a handful of titles though.

GG are all cucks.
We're talking about dipshits who bought fucking Nintendo Magazine, which was nothing but Nintendo advertising you were expected to pay for. People who stared with slackjawed apathy as games were rated on a scale of 9.0 to 10.0, depending on how big a kickback the reviewer got. People who did nothing when Gertsmann and countless others were fired for giving low scores to games that their companies were paid to shill.
But then a few Holla Forumsack shitstirrers show up, and suddenly ethics in games journalism is important?
No. It is, was, and always has been bullshit. I was on Wizardchan when this dumbshit started, and we were constantly spammed with idiots from Holla Forums showing up and saying they supported "our fight," but it was never our fight. It was always Holla Forums astroturfing like they always do.

What game was censored because of AS?
You fucking gamergays act like Obama sits in the oval office all day, watching youtube and twitter and dropping the hammer on any game that includes anime titties.

Holla Forums says they'll; violate her.

Oh fuck off that excuse doesn't mean shit. GG is when the critical outrage mass finally happened and it had to be taken advantage of. There's a million reasons why it might have happened then and not earlier, but it doesn't make it any less legitimate.

Gamergate us really when chans died as a community. It was the 2008 that didn't fully kill 2008.

Gamergays literally believe this

It centered on one woman and the journalist that gave her game coverage. The other two provocateurs tried their damnedest to weasel their way into the controversy.

You fucks know it's true, it's happening right now with that cancerous anfem poster.

Ironically this image used to be less retarded.

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