So apparently there was a super big gaming controversy where a bunch of gaming sites said "Gamers are dead." A twitter hashtag got made from it.

Here's the gist

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate

This is going to get permasaged just like the other thread someone tried to make. Even though it shouldn't be.

FTR. If it does get permasaged again, maybe try posting it in the News area. If it gets permasaged there too then well...let's raise eyebrows.

Let's just raise all the eyebrow!

I bet it's just cuz a lot of people are afraid to touch this thing. I honestly find much of it hilarious, especially the cathedral of misogamy crap.

The only real shining light would by The Fine Young Capitalists. One of the few feminist organizations I've come to almost completely agree with.

“Words created to soften the blow of something taboo quickly absorb any negative connotations they were meant to avoid in the first place. Steven Pinker, a Harvard University linguist, calls this the “euphemism treadmill”, also known as pejoration. By creating such euphemisms, Newspeak only creates a new generation of derogatory terms. As Pinker argues in “The Game of the Name”, the euphemism treadmill signifies that “concepts, not words, are in charge: give a concept a new name, and the name becomes colored by the concept; the concept does not become freshened by the name”."

Newspeak, relevant.
Also, I find it funny how in order to prove gamers were wrong in thinking they were being ganged up against, the journalists all posted their hate articles on the exact same day.

The cabal is real.

Hopefully not going to get permasaged again.

Lucky for me, it's really easy to boycott these "journalist" sites because I never really cared about them to begin with. Most of the gaming news that actually matters I find out through company's official facebooks/twitters, random gaming sites, forums, friends, tumblr.

I think the only time kotaku or those places ever came into my radar was when their SJW stuff started or when they covered weird bizarre things in their articles (Like blah blah some weird thing that happened in Japan or something random and amusing)

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>>7 Exactly.

>>7 Yep. I actually play games for most of the time, and don't read about them. Maybe that's not a very 'gamer' thing to do, I don't know.

This never should have been a thing. It would have been a quick tabloid bit about a minor e-celeb that would blow over in a week or two. But instead they decided to quash any discussion because she was their friend and call all gamers nerds and losers to pander to a new audience.

They tried to censor a nothing and started WWI: Internet Edition

I'm actually shocked this hasn't been locked yet. Maybe Dollars supports free speech after all.

Well I came across something interesting. https://twitter.com/FortesSnC/status/513488629264416768 Supposedly someone got blocked from the Mighty Number 9 twitter, even though he pledged $300 to the game, for being a GG supporter. Might try and investigate further.

>>12 Only threads that break the site's (very few) rules are removed. It's got nothing to do with free speech.

>>13 Then why did the other GG thread get deleted? I didn't see broken rules

>>13 I mean permasaged

>>14 I never saw it and can't say exactly, but this is what generally constitutes removal: repeat threads, miniscule topics that don't need a thread, NSFW, misplaced threads, poorly made threads, and pointless threads.

The one it probably fell under is miniscule and pointless threads, as does this one. Just linking to a KYM article doesn't make a thread.

>>16 I don't know, I've seen other threads with far less effort put into them stay around. The ones with vague, uninformative single sentence descriptions (often in the form of 'does anyone else like this?' or something similar), no links, maybe a related image - you know the kind. This thread isn't great, but I don't think it's quite bad enough to be permasaged.

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