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  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Just goes to show what I've known for years, fucking Gamergate was the origin of so much of this stupid shit, can you fucking imagine, it breaks my brain

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      You're exactly right:

      [Steve] Bannon had actually spent about a year in the mid-2000s in Hong Kong as the CEO of this bizarre video game company. The company didn’t actually make video games, what it did was try to profit from something called gold-mining, where you have players go in to these games, win gold and special armor and prizes, and then go sell it to gamers in the real world so they can kind of cheat and skip ahead a couple of levels.

      This was a serious business, it was actually backed by Goldman Sachs, but it crashed and went bankrupt because the gamers themselves who weren’t cheating became enraged basically that these other people were doing, they put so much pressure on the gaming companies. The gamers organized themselves on these “World of Warcraft” message boards. They put so much pressure on the video game companies, that they decided to basically ban gold-farming, which killed Bannon’s business, but it awakened him to the power of what he called “rootless white males” who spend all their time online. And five years later when Bannon wound up at Breitbart, he resolved to try and attract those people over to Breitbart because he thought they could be radicalized in a kind of populist, nationalist way. And the way that Bannon did that, the bridge between the angry abusive gamers and Breitbart and Pepe was Milo Yiannopoulous, who Bannon discovered and hired to be Breitbart’s tech editor.

      From the time I met him in 2011, he’s had exactly the same politics. The same stuff you heard from Trump, you saw on the campaign trail.

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It very much was the big warning shot about what was simmering just underneath the surface, which Trump tapped directly into

    • polonez [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It's not and the game she made was trash and her sleeping with the reviewers so they could give good reviews to her trash game should have been made fun off, but at the same time imagining journalists, especially fucking video game journalists have any morals but also who gives a fuck.

      The day I can't make fun of someone for sleeping their way to success is the day society has failed. Kamala Harris slept with Willie Brown to get her career ahead. That is all

      All in all, stop being clinically online.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        the game she made was trash an her sleeping with the reviewers so they could give good reviews to her trash game should have been made fun of

        This literally never happened and was made up by smoothbrained morons on 4chan

        • polonez [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I saw the tapes so what say you? It was like the Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot footage, but pretty authentic. Also who gives a fuck, an idiotic spat between former lovers was then turned into some really important thing when everyone was interested in extending the drama as it was profitable for everyone involved.

          The only thing gamergate was was the point at which the wild west nature of the internet disappeared and the general obsession of society and the structures that govern it, ala politics, etc., with politeness. I grew up on an internet where I would be called slurs or insulted on the daily on obscure Russian forums which shall not be named, in the spirit of friendly negativity. Whether you think that is good or bad, I am not arguing about that but it is how it is what it is.

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            As far as I know the "game" in question was never reviewed* on Kotaku or whatever website people were brandishing their pitchforks and torches at, merely mentioned in an article as something interesting that people should check out. Apparently the writer of that article knew the person who made the game, which made a bunch of people on /v/ and kotakuinaction very mad

            *it was more of a free interactive browser game/art piece/thing, so it was never sold and as such never reviewed in traditional games media