Vultures circle GamerGate

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Back in those days I used to do some work for major labels and it was very clear that there was both a chilling effect in that pretty much every label instituted a policy of either not releasing content which would have to have the label or producing sanitized versions for mass market sales and a negative sales impact on material with a warning label. This also affected smaller labels who signed distribution deals with the majors as they in turn had to alter content or distribute on their own.

Is this the “best” I’ve got? Probably not, but it is what it is. If you think I got nothin, great.

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Great!

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Not so much, otherwise, fewer of my CDs would have that stupid little box on the covers.

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The fact that they are unwilling to adress this betrays their intentions. Fuck them. Let them crawl back to their holes. Funnily enough, they’ve been slowly crawling back to /v after they noticed maybe 8chan is a bit bad for pr, and nobody fucking wants them back. It’s kind of beautiful.

Also: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamergate/

click on the links. Beautiful.

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you’re right there, Spartacus.

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Do you honestly believe that what sarkeesian and indie developers make are the “sanitized” version of videogames? Have you even seen call of duty? They are sandblasted to a perfectly innocuous polish. You’ve all got it backwards.

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I’ve watched her videos, and I know a large number of people in the games industry. Let me tell you, it is 99% the gamers that think that. While the developers I know may disagree with a few specific points, they don’t feel the least bit offended by her videos. In fact, I know a few companies that have had her as a speaking guest.

Also, it’s not “cherry-picking” when one says “Here is a specific example of a woman being murdered to further the plot” and then shows specific examples. That’s … how you do examples.

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How bizarre, the r/gamergate subreddit is actually a parody of the r/KotakuInAction. All images link to pictures of sonic and MLP fanart. Hilarious.

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I stopped reading after this.

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ok then, no need to get mad. Have a good one!

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Actually, your “facts” aren’t actual facts. and you and your ilk are making shit up, as has been well documented.

But keep it up and you may fool – temporarily – low-information readers with your FUD campaign.

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I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I see Falcor has been eating sock puppets again. (Must give terrible indigestion, though - the nutritional value has got to be worse than your average Big Mac…)

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That’s some Nth-dimensional mansplaining.

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Wooooowwww…

I think I’m just going to go back to bed today.

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Rape’s, like, totally not significantly bad. I mean, you’re paying attention to women, so, it’s, like, far from anti-woman.

Damn it. I’m going to go work at a women’s shelter as penance just for reading some of that gamergate stuff.

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Throwing dirt = losing ground.

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I gotta say, it takes a special sort of person to see someones appropriate personal authority over their own taste… as authoritarianism.

Quite an entitled POV being mansplained there. Wow. WOW.

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Well, yes. It only becomes “obviously toxic” when we get sock puppets driving trollies us - GG sock puppets make anything toxic. Most of the world understands that now.

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But then again, there is an announcement played quite regularly on the NYC subways that a crowded train is no excuse for molesting people around you, which would suggest that this isn’t necessarily a “Japanese problem…”

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And yet…

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