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Topic 2: What in the hell happened today?

If you're reading this, you've presumably played some Fallout games. Perhaps quite a lot of them. Perhaps repeatedly. Perhaps you've tried some things to make play-throughs more interesting, like playing through Fallout 1 without killing anyone, or an Iron Man run in any of the games. I don't...

"Steel be with you."

That may be what you think people should do, but it's not at all what people actually do. People listen to and get their information from the media they consume. EDIT: Oh hey, GamerGate's perfect example of an ethical journalist Milo Yiannopoulos wrote a hitpiece wherein he outs a trans woman...

But Mazes and Monsters and Reefer Madness both had a pretty big impact on how the public saw D&D and weed, respectively. Yeah, we laugh at that now because it's idiotic, but those campaigns shaped the public's views for quite some time. That's not to say that this episode will have that...

The episode shows the dismissals and "demonization" (read: describing what has been done to people) to be completely justified, given that everyone on the "GamerGate" side in the episode is either a childish asshole, or a violently dangerous asshole. Which yes, is a simplification. But it's not...

I am baffled that GamerGaters like MundaneMatt think the episode was good for them. They were ridiculed throughout. All of their complaints were mocked. They were portrayed as anything from whiny, entitled assholes who feel threatened by women, to violently dangerous whiny, entitled assholes...

Bethesda Softworks has announced a dedicated conference at this year's E3 on June 14, according to EuroGamer. That's a first for Bethesda, who are generally pretty reluctant to share any details with the press. The announcement of a conference at one of the biggest yearly game press events in...

Correct, the bit I quoted above was from a Ta-Nehisi Coates reaction to the conservative reaction to a Barack Obama speech that...talked about Christianity and slavery. Here's what Obama said: Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the...

Because previously you were engaging in discussion, and now you're just trolling. Though note that you have also repeatedly been told to not just post linkdumps. There is consistency, here. No one else in this thread is treating this as a linkdump and trolling space. No one in this thread is...

What Crni said. But also, this has nothing to do with "white guilt" and everything to do with the understanding that history affects the present in many ways, and can be used to illuminate the present as well.

Why are you conflating the treatment of indie writers within SFWA (which has gotten much better in recent years -- they're certainly not treated as untouchables) with the push for diversity in SFF as a whole? Those two things aren't remotely the same thing. I'm not sure which specific incident...

Oh yeah, people on all sides are going to disagree with specific incidents, as with Jonathan Ross. Ross is a bit of an odd example, though, because while that was a fairly high-profile incident, it didn't really have all that much to do with the social-justice-split in SFF. See for instance...

I'm removing posts by Akratus until it's clear he intends to treat this topic as more than his personal trolling ground. Gave him a chance by replying to his last post. Instead of trying to show some good will, he immediately came back with more trolling. /shrug Hah, I like how Milo...

Yep, and after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, France arrested 54 people for "condoning terrorism" and "making threats to carry out terrorist acts." But free speech is sacrosanct, right? Meanwhile, Barack Obama mentions that Islam doesn't cause terrorism any more than Christianity caused...

Yes that's totally what you did. Oh wait no! Also a single pithy image does not constitute a discussion. You're free to ignore me or anyone else you want. You are not free to then treat this thread as your personal blog and space to troll. Don't try to disingenuously rules-lawyer this: that's...

You're free to not engage people, but this forum nor this thread are your personal blog. It's a community where people communicate and discuss. If you have no interest in that, you can just not post.

This is what we call trolling. Going forward, your posts will be removed from that thread.

Bro, they spoke to the people Pinsof quoted and both flat-out denied it on the record. Pinsof is full of shit. But yes, Kotaku is biased against GamerGate in the exact same way that the New York Times is biased against 9/11 truthers and birthers.

Kotaku rebutting the latest TechRaptor nonsense. http://kotaku.com/gamergates-latest-conspiracy-theory-doesnt-hold-up-1684012308 Shocking revelation: GamerGate still can't dredge up anything remotely relevant.