#goobergate

[cannedsandwich]

why did goobergate have to ruin the internet forever

[themintycupcake]

Speaking of Vivian James, I remember when Tumblr started drawing her kissing girls and wearing trans pride flags and it made the Goobergators Big Mad. They claimed we were using her to push a political agenda, as if they hadn't been using her as a literal sock puppet to tell us that feminism is bad for video games.

[diversegaminglists]

Sharing primarily because GOG actually fired Halliday (good riddance) and because I actually said a lot of this stuff myself back in the day.

I’m not sure I’m going to trust GOG ever again though.

(Halliday trying to claim ignorance of goobergate memes when he actually RAN a goobergate website is peak gamer nonsense.)

[sam1tron]

h1ghlander360 replied to your post “also as a bonus to the person i replied to tagged that post...”

If you still care about Gamergate this day and age, please shut the fuck up.

yea the fact this is related to ubisoft temporary suspending an asshole for bad language and they tag it as goobergate shows how fucking clueless they were

[familiaralien]

katisconfused replied to your post: I don’t like being that dude because it comes off...

Yeah i have noticed that like, people are in fact having fiction vs reality problems where people are just fine dehumanizing “celebrities” even when that means like… online ones with like a few thousand followers and subminimum wages from patreon. You created something? You are not a person just an art machine we will attack you for treating the characters bad. That’s what it feels like now and I don’t think its been helping my already low art motivation

;n; Yeah. Like if its not worrying about alt right goobergate dingbats auto hating any game I’d make because I’m a dirty autistic queer guy its dealing with left leaning kiddos putting me on this unrealistic pedestal over those same traits and then having a fucking conniption if I prove I’m not perfect.

Like did ya’ll know in the past I used to make like Nazi and rape jokes? I also used to use the ableist r slur all the time. I used to be also a big drama llama that would snap at people over almost nothing. Furthermore I used to be really Islamophobic to the point of spreading a whole lot of hate against them like your typical shitty online atheist. 

In short being trans doesn’t mean dick shit for me otherwise as a person in regards to political beliefs and social views. While I’m certainly not that awful person any longer it just goes to show being marginalized in some way doesn’t mean you’re “woke” to everything. It took many years of actually shutting up and listening to be as socially aware as I am now. Not every trans person is that capable of swallowing their pride and being truly willing to learn. Same goes for any social group (cis LGB are often transphobic, black people can be prejudice against other races and I’m not talking about white people here btw, physically disabled people often stigmatize the mentally ill, etc...).

Oh and about characters, to be honest I don’t care if I get flack for being mean to a character. As much as my goal with writing to make characters feel like real people that could exist they.. aren’t real. Its one thing to criticize uses of tropes and so forth (like using domestic abuse just to spice up to story or something else that’s utterly insulting and insensitive) I can’t take someone seriously if they upset that a character underwent something traumatic. I have absolutely respect for people that just write fun cute slice of life kinda comics (for example: Lemonhead and Lollipup) but not every piece of media is going to be so nice. Some stories are full of death and despair and that’s ok! If that makes you upset its probably best you get out of the habit of reading it. You shouldn’t purposely trigger yourself like that is actually pretty unhealthy. 

I’ve gotten out of the habit of reading super depressing stories because I KNOW it has a negative affect on me, others need to learn this skill as well.

[its-changemod]

Wow, way to go full SJW on us. Next thing you know you'll be ranting how the goobergators created Mike Pence and how the Alt Right keeps stealing everyone's peanut butter. How dare you kinkshame people from writing their genderless aliens as male, you cockles.

...Tabs?

[xenodweeb]

You can go on about how bad this site is and how awful a subset of this site’s community is, I’d rather say on the “vile 5JW kuck site” rather than 90% of other sites where having left-leaning opinions will lead to a legion of squealing goons, at best, screaming out “kek troggled 5JW kuck -insert current ablest meme of the year- #Goobergate”

[gamergate-news]

Did you know there’s a #goobergate tag?

just like the peanuts in the candy

It's salty

[themintycupcake]

I almost reblogged an article about the class-action lawsuit against Bethesda but I noticed that it came from a Gamergate blog and like... I'm sorry guys but I'm not reblogging anything from a Gamergate blog in the year 2018, almost 2019.

Tfw you go to the blog and find out that Goobergators are still acting like Zoe Quinn is literally Satan.

[diversegaminglists]

Goobergates are upset *now* because a patch for Total War Rome II LAST MARCH added a 11%-16% chance to have a female general (except for Kushites which have 50%).

[androlphegax]

[youcantescapethehammers]

Remember when the Gamergate movement was about journalism ethics?

Me neither.

[xenodweeb]

Why does my dash have uncritically reblogged Goobergate comic defending Tar0 for making the most convoluted excuse for designs next to “She breaths through her skin” and calling critics “p0litically c0rrect puritans” over the fact people don’t agree with them?

[thehumanarkle]

How 2014 Pretty Much Killed My Next Novel In 3 Ways

In 2013, my NaNoWriMo project, a book I tentatively titled Racing Game just so I could have a title for the NaNo website, which was a book about a fictional candidate for the 2016 Presidential election in a world that's sort of side-saddle to our own; by which I mean Obama was the man my main character was running to succeed, and the Tea Party exists, etc. There were differences of course, such as in the world of my book Reagen lost two states in 1984 instead of one, little things like that.

Sadly, apart from being in a funk for much of the year for 2014, as well as my Beta reader never getting her notes to me, there are three major reasons why I just don't think I can complete this work (making it my 3rd finished first draft in a row to get trunked*).

1: This is actually a good thing, the first reason. One of the issues my candidate I created, David Takashima (yes, my book was going to be about the first viable Japanese-American candidate for the Presidency) was the issue that was hot in the news for the year I wrote it, which was of course marriage equality. In the book, I went in assuming that New Mexico would recognize it (which was likely but not official yet as of when I wrote the book), and that maybe a few more states would make the jump into the 20th century (as Diamanda Hagan would say). While it would mean a fairly major re-write, the fact that I turned out to have been pessimistic in my estimations, this by itself wasn't enough to hurt the book. I could just pick another issue, like pot legalization or something. And frankly, even if it were enough to kill the book, it's not like I could complain, right?. :)

2: In my book, I went in figuring that the grip of the GOP on the House of representatives, which had been shrunk after 2012 despite them holding on to the majority, might shrink further. I never thought they'd lose it completely, what with the gerrymandering and all, but for the sake of the book, I decided to allow myself a small conceit and give the Democratic party a 1 seat majority in the house, while keeping their majority in the Senate (though not expanding it). The 2014 mid-terms though was enough of a drubbing even compared to what I thought might be possible that even with my book being in an AU where Reagen lost Oregon in '84, and Colorado's Junior Senator was my main character instead of Michael Bennet (at the time; Cory Gardner holds that title now, the fucker), I'd have to really stretch things to keep it plausible. Maybe make a full on fictional reality where I replaced the real names I used with Expys. This by itself, like above, wasn't quite enough to kill the book, though it was a major blow, and combined with the above was definitely strike 2 (though that may be a bad analogy considering my pro-marriage equality stance; not really fair to call that a strike now is it?)

3: This one however is the metaphorical straw. My character, Senator David Takashima (D-Colorado) is married to a woman named Cassidy Hale (no jokes please, the connection between their first names didn't occur to me until I'd already passed 50k words). Cassidy's profession? Video game critic. A female video game reviewer. Now what was that little thing that happened last year, had something to do with women and video games... Yeah. Granted, I'd gone back and forth over how much of the story would focus on that aspect of the character; initially the A plot was going to be about the GOP in my book being so desperate for a win they tried to make her job a major issue for the campaign (hence the original title of Racing Game; it was a play on words you see), though as I wrote more and more I had that being less and less important (though it was always going to be present in the story, just not the focus of it). In the draft that currently exists, it's really when you boil it down my fantasy Presidential candidate actually existing, with a few concessions made here and there in order to keep the book at least semi-realistic. But still, to try and finish that book and out it up on Lulu this year (alongside my one published project, And Here's To You, available in PDF format for just $1.99, #shamelessplug) and not acknowledge it, especially when Cassidy's love of video games is a major part of her character (they named their son Garrus for crying out loud), I'm just not sure I could've.

So yeah, three events in 2014 (with one of them being good news, so there's that at least) that have, if not outright killed Racing Game, at the very least put it on life support. Maybe for my next book I should just take another stab at soft sci-fi. Not much in real life could possibly undermine that, right? #temptingfate

[sofarsobadblog-blog]

Tommentary - Five Guys Shuffling

Alllllrighty, the time has come for the very first TOMMENTARY!! A short segment in which I round up everything I know about a news story and give my thoughts on it. The emphasis is on short or we’ll be here all damn day. 

(Also yes, my name is Tomas and this a commentary, jeez, just let me have that one.)

Recently during a stream of the new Paper Mario a couple of little mushroom fellas made a gag about Five Guys Shuffling and somehow the line ‘ShuffleGate: Exposed’ came up?

Now, most people claim that this was a reference to WaterGate, a political kerfuffle that took place in the US circa 1970, however more recently (And much more relevant to games and gaming!) there has been the GamerGate ‘scandal’.

From here on in, when referring to GG, ‘scandal’ will be in quotes because it’s quicker to type that than to type ‘misogynistic witch hunt perpetrated by impotent, weak little men that think scaring women will make their flaccid cocks grow.’ Which is what GG is, but I digress.

The main, but by no means only, target of GG, Zoe Quinn immediately called out the joke with a few screen caps on twitter, which was how this whole thing gained traction.

Nintendo hasn’t clarified who or what the joke was referencing but GG forums have also lit up with discussion about the gag.

And that’s about all I know. I hope Nintendo was just making a dated Watergate joke. I hope Zoe doesn’t cop anymore heat for this. I hope GG fucks off and leaves this industry a safer place for women.

But aside from all of that, whether it’s WaterGate or GamerGate, it’s a shit joke for anything, let alone a Paper Mario game. Jeez, Nintendo, step up your comedy game.