Anonymous asked:what is this quinnspiracy / gamergate thing i keep hearing about and what does it have to do with jontron? do you have an opinion on it?
Anonymous asked:
voyagerwitch asked:jontron didnt draw the comic, plebcomics did, jontron just endorsed/supported plebcomics' comic
oh ok then it was the one i found, i was wondering
i like how he describes it
I posted a comic where she’s depicted naked briefly.
yeah. alright. whatever, dickhole.
(if you haven’t seen the comic, you aren’t missing anything, but suffice to say his description of it is the understatement of the fuckin year)
move along if you don't care.
I’m probably gonna get a lot of flak. but I really don’t care. Jontron does not deserve the shit hes getting on twitter right now. people have the gall to claim getting harassed is so horrible and immoral and then turn around and call this man human filth. scum. make fun of him and treat him like…
hello yes i am here to deliver the flak
this is, like, really apologetic
the irony being that jontron is not
Jontron is an honest man. he can say things the wrong way sometimes. a lot of people do that. but ultimately you can see if he truly feels he is wrong by logical standards he will back down and apologize, any reasonable person would.
but he didn’t. or, at least, he didn’t feel he was wrong by logical standards. instead he went off about ‘censorship’, which i guess he has confused with 'compassion’, because someone asked him to not use a rude word.
me and my friends usually make jokes. I make black jokes in front of my black friends and they make white jokes about me and we both laugh because we’re friends. if they are ever offended I apologize.
maybe that’s because you’re friends and not, say, one person broadcasting to hundreds of thousands of other people.
you should probably not make cracks about oppressed groups unless you are really sure your entire audience will be in on it with you.
and again, jontron did not apologize. he doubled down. (and then drew a naked comic of a female game developer, as i understand it. what a charming young man.)
they prefer to attack small jokes and friends because they’re easier than paying attention to actual issues that have an effect on minorities.
maybe having public figures constantly crack small jokes does have an effect on people. maybe. let me ask them.
ok i just checked and it totally does
they have no forgiveness in their hearts and it makes me sick to watch them treat people who do like trash and hurt them like it’s okay to treat anyone like that for having an opinion.
forgiveness? he didn’t apologize. he has shown no remorse. he has given entire interviews about how right he thinks he is on this.
hurt them? what if his words hurt someone else? why is only the backlash invalid, but you excuse his original actions — even almost-implying that he apologized or regrets them, multiple times?
for having an opinion? calling someone “retarded” is hardly an opinion.
i know the whole point of your post is to try to offer perspective, so fyi: immediately after reading this post, i glanced at twitter to discover that apparently someone has made “some very scary threats” against anita sarkeesian and her family. that is what is going on in the game industry right now. threats of violence over an internet documentary about video games.
but what really gets to you is that some famous youtube douchebag can’t be a dick without having people call him a dick.
maybe we’d be better off if people got called on being dicks more often.
metroid prime trilogy is here!!
but i don’t want to unbox the tv by myself so
What. Is this something that can actually be done?
it is! which is how i did it
the trick is, there’s a trick, which is not explained anywhere in the UI for some reason. i had to google it up and sift through a bunch of other people who also didn’t understand what was going on. gj nintendo.
if you try to start wii mode after the wii u has already booted, it’ll insist that you use the wiimote to choose “tv only” or “tv + gamepad” on the tv, which obviously doesn’t work if you don’t have a tv. so you need to hold B while the wii u is booting, which puts it directly into wii mode.
if you have your wii u set for hdmi out (and why wouldn’t you), booting into wii mode gives you a bizarre message about being unable to connect to the tv. (i guess because hdmi can actually detect whether it’s plugged in, but component cables can’t?) there’s a button for “try again”, which will never work. you have to switch to non-hdmi mode, and then it’ll boot happily.
the gamepad has a built-in sensor bar (the two purplish dots in the photo), so once you’ve gotten in wii mode, you can awkwardly use it to your heart’s content
oh christ
ok i think it goes something like this
a jilted ex posted a bunch of chat logs and a kinda spiteful-sounding story about how a female game developer, zoe quinn, had cheated on him with a few people in the game industry
reaction 1 was “omg what a dirty slut” because, y'know, gamers. but that turned out to not be popular rhetoric. this is the only place jontron is relevant: he retweeted a comic someone drew that starred zoe graphically in the middle of a gangbang. (probably because he was also in the comic, presented as the voice of reason. but wow.)
a couple of the accused people were writers for internet video game websites, so reaction 2 was a rallying cry for more ethics in game journalism. which on its own would be okay except
(a) the worst dirty laundry by far in game journalism imnsho is how review scores are kept artificially inflated effectively by extortion — if you give a game a bad review, the publisher can just not give you early access to its games any more. which is possibly why only 3% of games have a metascore under 33, versus 9% of movies. but that’s a problem with the publishers, really, and not something journalists can directly control.
(b) none of the journalists zoe had a relationship with gave her game a good review, as was a common refrain. as far as i can find, only one of them wrote about her game at all, and it was months before they were supposed to have hooked up. even the jilted ex confirmed this.
so reaction 2 was kind of complete hogwash as well.
reaction 3 was to devolve rapidly into conspiracy theories and general mudslinging like: zoe was in cahoots with a reddit mod (evidence being that he tweeted at her asking to DM), explaining why tons of posts were deleted from /r/gaming (which the mods claim was to remove personal information); that zoe had actively doxxed and destroyed a gaming charity (based on a reddit comment from someone involved with the charity) (but the charity now explicitly says zoe was not involved); or that zoe had faked being hacked and doxxed (????) because the posted phone number was from a place she’d never lived (my phone number is from pennsylvania where i’ve never lived, welcome to cell phones).
meanwhile, with spectacular timing, anita sarkeesian released another “women vs tropes in video games” video, which i guess showcases a bunch of examples of women as decoration or sex objects in video games, and everyone exploded anew.
faced with all this, basically everyone with a voice shook their heads and tut-tutted at gamers for being big whiny woman-hating baby manchildren. and then there came some murmurings that it might be time to hang up the “gamer” label altogether, because it’s become toxic and insular, and who never plays any games whatsoever?
which brings us, i think, to #gamergate. i’m not actually sure, because its origins and goals and contributors are all incomprehensible. i’ve been told two completely different things:
1. that #gamergate is about journalistic ethics, i.e. doubling down on reaction 2. i was talking to someone last night and asked for an example of “misconduct” he was tired of; he linked me to an article by leigh alexander, one of the people suggesting “gamer” is obsolete. apparently the problem is that she’s a journalist but also runs a consulting firm for game developers, but has never disclosed this “potential conflict of interest” in her articles. i think that’s fucking ludicrous, because if she’s not writing about her clients, there’s not even potential for conflict of interest, right? also, surprise, she’s a woman.
2. that #gamergate is about we’re not gonna take this disrespect of gamers any more. some feathers got ruffled by the fact that the people with an audience in the gaming community are making fun of the people who think they are the gaming community. (this is one of those awkward problems where, well, whose responsibility is it to ostracize toxic members of a group? if anyone’s?) my response to those people is that maybe they should try playing a game online with strangers for two minutes. i tried getting back into tf2 recently and very clearly recall joining a server just in time to hear an exchange of rape jokes. riot has had to pour untold manhours and UI tricks into tricking its players into not being complete assholes. and xbox live is basically infamous. navigating a minefield full of this kind of sludge is not really what i consider a good relaxing time, which is why i basically never play worldwide multiplayer anything. (but thank god for mario kart.) anyway given the long-running reputation self-labeled “gamers” have for being xenophobic and generally hostile to anyone who’s not a straight dude who loves FPSes, being taken aback when journalists point this out is kind of bewildering to me.
the one thing they do seem to agree on is that this isn’t about hating women, except a few thing it is about fighting “SJWs” or something, i don’t know.
a curious observation: most of the people replying to #gamergate tweets (and believe me, if you use the hashtag, you will get replies) are using accounts with a handful of follows/followers, three digits of tweets, and basically nothing except #gamergate replies and retweets. so it’s a bunch of people who don’t even use twitter trying to do twitter activism over a thing they can’t decide the meaning of.
oh and naturally several of the accounts i looked at were also retweeting misogynistic garbage. because gamers.
anyway stay tuned for further developments as the core gamer demographic burrows itself ever deeper up its own collective asshole