The Canary In The Coal Mine

Oh jeeeeees..."Gamergate" I think I just fell down the rabbit hole
https://www.samizdata.net/2017/01/gamergate-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine/
I feel like Rip van Winkle. :(
To say that I had no idea that this gamer thing was a 'thing' would be a serious understatement

bobby b's explanation in the comments is the clearest summary of the whole affair that I have ever read.

I've recently visited Samizdata.net after an absence of a few years, (no excuse for this) good to see them still plugging away ..

Well yes I wrote about this back before it had a #.

http://takimag.com/article/western_civilizations_last_line_of_defense_kathy_shaidle/print

But the trouble with Gamergate was that the soldiers were obnoxious dorks who had no sense of history. I -- yes, I -- would get lectured about the evils of censorship and political correctness and the need to fight back by boys whose idea of an old movie was Star Wars; who'd never heard of Private Eye or Lenny Bruce or, well, Mark Steyn.

Anonymous boys with Crusader knight avatars on their 300 follower Twitter accounts who called themselves "shitlords" while still living in their childhood bedrooms while I was scrambling to pay 4 and 5 figure legal bills.

They won, but frankly they're still losers. I don't think they'll ever contribute anything to society besides winning on that particular front. And I also believe but can't prove that they turned off as many sympathizers as they won over.

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I was aware and reading about Gamer Gate when it was occurring. Not much seems to have changed among the major game design franchises.(I'm looking at you Bethesda, EA, and Ubisoft dropped the ball with The Division last year))

I did to my amazement get an invitation from Ubisoft last week to be a beta tester on For Honor, but my taste runs to sandbox games(Ubi should know this) and For Honor will be mainly an online game. This old man already knows that he can't keep up with the young gamers and I'd probably be taking the beta test slot from a better more experienced youngster and end up getting hated for it.

Anyway back to Gamer Gate: most gamers watch real in-game play of the betas on YouTube and decide a lot about the game for themselves these days instead of depending on the oh-so-corruptible Game Reviewers to tell them what's hot and what's not.

One last thing: It looks like For Honor may have too much in common with The Division(hackers formed gangs and ruined the game for lower level players by piling on and stealing the best armor and weapons from the lower level players + using exploits and glitches that they discovered in the beta which Ubi never fixed...also because you had to sign on to Ubisoft Club and Steam it caused a lot of crashes and downtime)

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I was told there would be no tests.

By those guys breaking GG stories, Aurini and Forney didn't, the alleged losers KS referred to did.

The only toxic paper written since 2008 ... went to "students" ... with no visible means of ever repaying the $$$ Trillions doled-out by the adjunct-Professor-in-Chief.

The last video game I ever played was Tiger Woods Golf on my IBM 386 computer ("your ball is in the parking lot") ... so this whole subculture of shut-ins is completely lost on me. However, there IS a significant principle that should be learned from this ... that a subculture of people who would NEVER be mistaken for "right wing Christian gun owners (real guns, anyway) ... enthusiastically REJECTED the oppression of runaway PC thuggery.

And the most significant takeaway from this subculture flare-up ... isn't about whether this was the first shot fired in HER assassination ... but that the ASShole leftists STILL don't "get-it". The left is doubling down on this shit-split of cards. They are shouting-down everything THEY deem "inappropriate" at even higher volume and pitch. They don't yet understand that people cherish LIBERTY and FREEDOM far more than any of the tortured "safe spaces" promised by their would-be Communist overlords

But the trouble with Gamergate was that the soldiers were obnoxious dorks who had no sense of history

The Duke of Wellington famously referred to his soldiers as "the scum of the earth" and proceeded to win a great many battle with them. Most soldiers have very little sense of history. The fact the rank and file of GamerGate was and probably still is rather less refined that the people you are accustomed to just means you probably need to get out more, darlin'

Kathy has deep-rooted personal issues and her coping mechanism is a form of adolescent iconoclasm. Don't engage.

I'm actually not a fan of gamers but it seems to me Kathy is pissed that these 'dorks' accomplished more than her WITHOUT the legal bills.