Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)

xaade

@Lorne_Kates said:

@blakeyrat said:
That's great, but neither of you clowns is Mr. Gamergate Xaaaaaaaaaaaade.

Um, actually, can you PROVE that "fact", or are you just parroting what some feminist told you?

He can't understand that I

Can be against death and rape threats
Recognize that gamers are offended when you say "gamers" are dead, in an attempt to rationalize crappy games. Sure it's framed with examples of casual gamers, but that just means that there are different types of gamers now.
See ethical journalism as a rational point, regardless of the other actions of the movement.
Hate the politicization of gaming in general.
Recognize that feminists have sent death threats too, as well as faked threats against them.

But if I say all that

I must be pro-gamergate, regardless of its history.
I must either condone or deny the rape threats feminists say they've received.
I must think the primary activity of gamergate is their activism and not their threats.

The reality is that

Both "sides" have acted stupidly.
Both "sides" have arguments that can be appropriated outside their movement, and when done so, are not mutually exclusive.
Both "sides" have rational people with legitimate concerns and are being swept away by stupidity on both "sides".

But, if I say anything bad about ANY feminist, I'm a sexist rapist.

Lorne Kates

Wait, I'm confused. Is Discourse supposed to restart the lists from 1 each time, or continue numbering them? Why can't we come to a consensus on this???? WHAT THE FUCK GAMERGATE?!?!?!

dkf

@Lorne_Kates said:

Is Discourse supposed to restart the lists from 1 each time

Yes.

xaade

So, I hear only women get threats and curses when they criticize the videogame fandom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtZgpEqfoaI

CreatedToDislikeThis

The game watcher fandom is an entirely separate fandom. <>

<invisible=I'm not even sure what I'm saying here. I guess that I want this thread to be active again but all the stupid arguments to be replaced with more crazy and insane arguments. Can this happen, please?>

xaade

Gribnit

@blakeyrat said:

- People asking for games to be more inclusive (I hope this is the
"side" you've assigned me to)

People who love to send rape threats over social media and/or
defend others who send rape threats over social media

I don't see these as mutually exclusive.

blakeyrat

tar

My parody detector is broken... :``\

Lorne Kates

Can we just call the SJW movement what it is? A campaign to eliminate 0.25% of high-fructose corn syrup from canned fruit - particularly peaches.

RTapeLoadingError

Is SJW the blonde one from Sex In The City?

ben_lubar

Can we just call the bowel movement what it is? A campaign to eliminate feces - particularly into a feces recepticle.

Gribnit

You have misspelled receptacle. Hang your head in shame.

tar

tabernacle?

Lorne Kates

Star Trekking,
Across the universe
On the startship Enterprise,
under Captain Kirk

Star Trekking,
Across the universe!
Only going forward,
Cause we can't find reverse!

Lorne Kates

So... Discourse both can and cannot handle markdown across linebreaks? Because (and this is a whole other WTF), once I hit reply-- I see a literally half-baked version of my post for a good fifteen seconds, before the actual post shows up:

http://i.imgur.com/SAANSZt.png

... in which it has taken out my text between the asterisks-- AND THE ASTERISKS-- and replaced it with the words "emphasized text" in emphasized font-- and then re-replaced it with the asterisks and my original text.

So it can emphasize it-- but not with my text-- and-- I-- no. Fuck this entire piece of shit software.

Bort

@RTapeLoadingError said:

Is SJW the blonde one from Sex In The City?

Sarah Jessica Wonka?

Come with meeee
and you'll beeeee
in a woooorld of pure vanity...

boomzilla

@blakeyrat said:

antiquarian

At least she admits it.

boomzilla

I am concerned about my transphobia, and had been taking steps to cure it, till I realised that "taking steps" is ableist.

So now I'm slithering towards transphilia, but not in an objectifying way like Alan Partridge's unhealthy interest in Bangkok ladyboys, because that would be problematic.

I have sellotaped a picture of Caitlyn Jenner to my bathroom mirror, and every morning I spend at least an hour staring at it and repeating the mantra "So stunning! So brave!" while beating the white cisgendered privilege out of myself with a flail made of recycled tampons and a rolled-up copy of The Guardian.

— Commenter Steve 2 - Stevement Day

blakeyrat

blakeyrat

We Hunted The Mammoth is coming soon

Polygeekery

Meh, Breitbart has become successful by hiring people who don't know shit about politics. No reason to think that they couldn't do the same with gaming. Just tell people what they want to hear, without regard for ethics or correctness.

boomzilla

@Polygeekery said:

Meh, Breitbart has become successful by hiring people who don't ~~know shit about politics~~agree with me.

FTFY

https://twitter.com/Nero/status/659758181741105152
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1fVIdRFeUI&feature=youtu.be&a

Polygeekery

@boomzilla said:

FTFY

You really didn't. Breitbart and Fox News have both gained market share by simply telling people what they want to hear, regardless of truth or journalistic ethics.

boomzilla

@Polygeekery said:

You really didn't.

Yeah, and you kind of confirmed it with the rest of this post.

Polygeekery

Nope. Sorry.

Even on the things I agree with those two on, I find they overstep the bounds of truth and journalistic ethics.

boomzilla

@Polygeekery said:

I find they overstep the bounds of truth and journalistic ethics.

I'm not saying they never get things wrong. Every outlet everywhere does.

loopback0

@Polygeekery said:

Fox News .. regardless of truth

@Fox by name, @Fox by nature...

Fox

I'm genuinely surprised that you guys aren't Faux "News™" fanboys, since you just loooove parroting all of their political talking points.

Polygeekery

@Fox said:

you just loooove parroting all of their political talking points.

Not all of them. I am squarely against their viewpoint on the death penalty, gay rights and abortion. Probably more, but those are the three that stick out.

Also, I was calling them "Faux News" before you were in junior high.

boomzilla

@Fox said:

I'm genuinely surprised that you guys aren't Faux "News™" fanboys

Because why break your streak of being wrong, eh?

Groaner

@Polygeekery said:

Also, I was calling them "Faux News" before you were in junior high.

Faux News: We report, you deride!

I especially liked this interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1cOnNrY5s

dse

This guy is a liar. He even starts this interview by lies about his credentials.

Fox

@Polygeekery said:

I was calling them "Faux News" before you were in junior high.

Hey, me too! We're practically twins!

Polygeekery

@dse said:

This guy is a liar.

And you're a goat.

dse

Goats are amazing, I have seen them eating cardboard and somehow produce milk, a true nature .

_{they eat anything and everything, they chew your armchair if you have them as pets}

loopback0

@dse said:

they chew your armchair if you have them as pets

If you have goats and keep them inside then you are definitely TR

dse

Domestication should start at some point and it needs pioneers, I am thinking about it

In a brave new world:
http://www.petstouch.com/assets/dogs&goatx250.jpg

loopback0

Anyone with Labradors already has animals that'll eat anything, including chewing your armchair when they're puppies

tar

@Polygeekery said:

Also, I was calling them "Faux News" before you were in junior high.

TBH a whole channel devoted to "news" about foxes barely qualifies IMSMHO.

Buddy

this is the hero that gamergate deserves
lol @ the @scholrlea-level O/T in the comments section
wtf is up with that nbsp? I had assumed that discourse just fails at html escaping, but there's a break right there in the article, so where did the nbsp come from?