Literally any sensible thing you may say nowadays gets you called a “libtard” or you have “TDS”. They have rallied around catch all responses. We went the wrong way with making bullying bad, a lot of these nerds have never been punched and thats the issue.
gamergate was "my ex girlfriend sent review copies out for free, here's a bunch of her stolen nudes" followed by an incredibly massive tonal pivot to try and shift away from the literal abuser that started it btw
sure, but the initial trigger was basically just a random event and could have been any other little thing; the underlying current of "why are there girls in videogames" was the necessary component for it to get the traction that it did
I don't feel it beneficial to literally reduce a story so much you erase the primary victim of it and its ignition, so I clarified it for people who may only know it as the nonsense it spiralled into
as in, that is genuinely how it started. It was literally a massive shame page full of revenge porn posted about a game dev that had broken up with their abusive partner, made by said partner, who also offhandedly mentioned said game dev sending out review copies to journos
the post was so awful and genuinely evil that the only thing the incel community(not yet called that) could latch on to was the VERY MINOR point about said review copies - the only "gamer" thing in it at all - and it became the central visible focus and nexus of harassment
I only say all of this to preserve the reality of how pathetic it all was; it was one man, literally one sad, pathetic pissbaby of a wifebeating revenge porn-posting loser, who posted a 10,000 word essay with 60 words about game review copies in it
Imagining a peer reviewer eighty years from now reading the history of this era and rejecting the manuscript because there’s just no way it was this dumb
idk man the oldest words we've ever found written somewhere were people going "olaf sucks" and "this guy's rice had bugs in it, his wife must be a whore"
Besides everyone knows that Ariel, being part fish, would most likely have displayed countershading. She’d have lighter pigment on her ventral side and darker pigment on her dorsal side. These snowflakes are so stupid.
And don’t even get me started on how they put a racist, sexist, raging narcissist with limited intellect and an overinflated ego in charge of the country
According to the NTSB’s official CAROL database of aviation accident investigations, there have been 50 accidents since Trump was inaugurated. By contrast, NTSB recorded 94 aviation accidents during Biden’s first month in office in 2021.
The Republicans decided we didn't have enough plane crashes and will say it's because the airline had a photo of a black pilot on its website instead of them getting rid of regulations that existed for obvious reasons.
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“ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? WHAT 1984 BULLSHIT IS THIS!?
"look, I only called Derek a homo because he was crying at his desk.... can't have that"
“What do you mean I can’t call her honey and lean over her shoulder?”
In - DIE
Weird dudes still wanted to say faggot at work.
i think this is just how we are