/gamergatehq/ - The GamerGate Headquarters

Reddit suspended the top three mods of /r/The_Donald for protesting against the rules that Reddit had imposed on /r/The_Donald and no one else.

https://archive.is/DO0Ka

Someone, probably a Reddit admin, edited Seth Rich's Reddit posts after The_Donald found his account.

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/someone-just-edited-seth-richs-reddit-posts-b5f185b0aab

Reddit admin bananas-n-pajamas accidentally tested an upvoat script on his main account.

https://archive.is/odx8z

What else is going on over there?

GamerGate affected me profoundly, and I know there are others who were similarly affected. We were always right. We were right about the incestuous nature of game journalism. We witnessed how a rigid ideology of victimhood created massive blindspots not just in games journalism, but wider mainstream media, how the exact same handful of individuals would be quoted as gospel.

Such a huge range of people were mischaracterized to an extreme degree that it served to inform us on how untrustworthy establishment media is. The 'official' narrative is drastically wrong. Despite this, GamerGate became an effective information network to counter establishment narratives, shaping online discourse for years to come. GamerGate was a pivotal moment in the Great Meme Wars.

I was moved by the memes, the artwork, the pages of digging and archiving, hours upon hours of well reasoned discussion whether on forums or on video, all of which went ignored by media. Those first 6 months or so of GamerGate were something special, hundreds of thousands of people finding each other through the false-narrative, finding each other in the darkness. We were ahead of the curve of mainstream discourse because we knew that we were individuals acting towards common goals, and it didn't matter who was left wing or who was right wing, that the media's black and white view of politics only divides people rather than fostering much needed discussion. We recognized the identity politics moral panic for what it was, years before we saw it affect the mainstream in huge ways, like how we've seen with James Damore at Google. GamerGate is a part of history.

I was moved to create a video in an attempt to capture what I believed the heart of GamerGate to be. This video serves as not just information and summary, but as a love letter to the people of GamerGate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80fqrg0dmTU

Thank you to everyone who has supported GamerGate.

You're all diamonds.

Rev up those lol-cows, this shit is legit

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/21/technology/gamergate-brianna-wu-congress/index.html

she looks to be running on a "I was a victim of gamergate" and "I fought the Alt-Right" gimmick

Founder of WildTangent, Alex St. John wrote a piece about the gaming industry and wages - about how making games pretty much always includes a 'crunch time' to get the work done and how long hours are just part of the deal. Nothing new here you'd think - except what he wrote has generated a backlash from the usual suspects he didn't expect:

>I just wrote a guest column for VentureBeat that apparently … has caused shock and outrage among lazy millennial hipster game developers

Original article:

http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/16/game-developers-must-avoid-the-wage-slave-attitude/

St.John's response on his blog:

http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2016/04/17/wage-slaves/

Blog response includes much salt in the replies and links to sites who have picked up the story, including kotaku/destructoid.

A quick search shows up more - neogaf etc.

Millennials - yeh hi.

(Not archived yet -can't get it to work today)

"Social Justice" is an interesting couplet of words. A term originally without a dictionary definition, it exists far more by what it implies rather than what any one person or group categorizes it as.

Of the definitions available by Merriam Webster, the most appropriate would seem to be

>"Social:" of or relating to human society, the interaction of the individual and the group, or the welfare of human beings as members of society.

"Justice" has similarly fitting options:

>"Justice:

>a: the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments.

>c (1) : the principle or ideal of just dealing or right action (2) : conformity to this principle or ideal.

A common theme of the second definition is that it is related to the management and application of what is just.

>Just:

>c : conforming to a standard of correctness.

>a (1) : acting or being in conformity with what is morally upright or good.

So in aggregate we have Social Justice definable as:

>Conformity to the principle or ideal of what is morally upright or good, as applied to the interaction of individuals and human society.

Sounds nice on paper, doesn't it? "When people interact, they should do so in moral and good ways, or with an eye to create moral and good outcomes."

The fly in the ointment is an implicit but unanswered question. That question is, briefly: Who is deciding what is morally upright and good in this context?

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Sorry about my english

So, i want to know, what the actual shit is this?

If you don't know - even in russia, gamer gate and anti-gamer gate lives.

In Vk.com (Russian very quality opposite of Facebook) some "lefty" guy wrote this:

>>Do not believe me, I myself was a gamergate for a long time. When I decided to talk directly with the leftists / feminists, all my views on this disintegrated instantly. It became interesting to learn about the situation with feminism and the left in the open spaces of the UIN (Union of independent nations - which calls some counties of post-USSR), here I am collecting a little in a bunch of public groups.

But, in fact, the proof: https://storify.com/davidsgallant/the-origins-of-game ..

Participated not only Pol-es, but also robots.

Also, this: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Gamergate

So, is it true? I'm really shocked, and don't know - how to react of this.

Hey everyone, I'll be hosting a GamerGate meetup in Saint Louis on Monday, August 28th to celebrate the third anniversary of GamerGate. The meetup will begin at Fuddruckers in Sunset Hills, MO around 1PM, where we can have lunch and a couple drinks. After lunch we'll be heading right down the street (walking distance) to 66 Cigar, where I've made reservations and will be bringing my GameCube and Super Smash Bros. I'll also be bringing some complimentary beer to the 66 Cigar for us to enjoy, but if you want to bring your own drinks and snacks, the owner is also fine with that. Obviously you don't have to drink or smoke if you don't want to.

Finally we will head out from 66 Cigar around 7PM and head to the South County Mall about ~10-15 minutes driving distance. If you have too much to drink, then you can also take local bus or carpool with someone else. Please don't drink and drive. At the mall we can grab dinner at one of the many restaurants at the mall. As far as I can tell, Buffalo Wild Wings is open the latest at the mall, so regardless of where we decide to eat, we could head there for drinks and hangout until midnight.

I have created an RSVP form which is linked below. I have also explained my plans for the meetup in greater detail here. If you don't plan on attending this particular meetup, but would be interested in attending future GamerGate meetups in the Saint Louis area, feel free to fill out the question on where you would like to organize future meetups. People who are neutral or opposed to GamerGate are also welcome to attend, provided they are respectful and do not attempt to disrupt the event.

RSVP Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuWMdCsVWYQFJ-r_6TobxtCW_1t_veRhb3okC2Juq6iJqD9g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Where were you when glorious Nippon otaku raised their fists in anger at having to deal with SJWs from the west ruining their games?

>source for those that read moon runes

http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/8542569.html

Here is the full story about Star Ocean V being censored because of fear of SJWs here in the west. Yes both the Japanese and Western versions are now being censored because of SJWs this is the first time this is happening and its a historical moment.

http://nichegamer.com/2016/03/28/square-enix-gave-star-ocean-5s-miki-bigger-panties-in-fear-of-western-criticism/

Now they hate the west for ruining their games and they hate us too. Surely some of us can calm them down and teach them of the SJW and how they are ruining are games.

Together we can fight and win bringing even more glory to Nippon once again!

https://discord.gg/abV3fWQ

There's been a couple GG Discord servers in the past, but recently there has been some drama at one ran by netscape9 from KiA (pics related, the last of which was right before a ban they'd later justify with false claims of attempted doxxing). There have been 16 bans recently within the last week or so for racist jokes and helicopter memes. One of the mods (who was actually the head moderator but has lost that position now, in title only) has been going ape over them, as she is a leftist, and feels personally attacked when someone makes helicopter jokes. Not only that, but both she and Netscape himself have stated that they do not believe that the movement is about free speech. Some of the people banned from there decided to make a new one. (Full disclosure: I am a moderator there.) The new server has channels dedicated to several GG ops and subtags, as the old one only had one dedicated to torrentialdownpour. The few rules are pretty clear and leave no room for revengebanning or nofunallowed.jpg If you're looking for somewhere to discuss GG, vidya and misc. bullshit, I suggest you check it out.

>gamergate pretending it's still relevant and capable of doing anything

>proving the opposite when they failed to counter the shill narrative surrounding The Last Night

>still using a board run by an FBI informant that threatened to give IP information of people he didn't like to the FBI for daring to try to push gamergate back to what it was before you faggots and reddit let the entire thing be taken over by ethics cucks and ecelebs to the point you are where you are now, doing nothing and pretending you're the ebin revolutionary

>even the commies at /leftypol/ can pretend to be relevant better by VPN switching and botting to artificially inflate numbers

>the only real GG win was actually Hulk Hogan's win

You failed when you exiled /pol/ for MUH PR OY VEY WHAT IF THEY THINK WE'RE EVIL NADZEES. You failed when you let ecelebs take over the movement while shouting at Jim for bailing when he saw what you were becoming. You failed when you let TotalAsscancer become a voice. You failed when you let the one "headquarters" board become a cult of personality over the board owner and decided that any other attempted board on this site was an enemy. Screencap this, archive it. The truth fears no investigation, but the target of the investigation fears both it and the truth.

Hey everyone, just a heads up that we'll be organizing a big GamerGate meetup in Saint Louis for the three year anniversary on Monday, August 28th! So far I've talked to quite a few people from previous meetups and a few GG-neutrals who are looking to know more about who we are and what we stand for, so I'm expecting a pretty big turnout.

The meetup will begin at 1PM at Fuddruckers in Sunset Hills, where we can have lunch together, have a couple beers and maybe play a couple games in their arcade. Then at 3PM I have reserations for 20 people at 66 Cigar, a cigar lounge within walking distance of Fuddruckers. As part of the reservation, I've got us exclusive access to their television, so we can play vidya together (maybe Smash Bros), so feel free to bring your own game consoles and/or games. Also, the reservation is officially for 20 people, but if more people show up that's fine. Another note about our meetup at 66 is that you can drink, but you'll need to bring your own alcohol - but snacks (namely pretzels) will be provided for us.

The meetup doesn't end there though! When 66 Cigar closes down at 7PM, we'll make our way to the South County Mall about 10-15 minutes down the road. From there we can decide to have dinner at the food court or one of the local restaurants. We could also check out some of the stores at the mall and/or head to Buffalo Wild Wings at the mall and relax for the rest of the night with wings, alcohol and good conversation.

There are three hotels in the immediate area of Fuddruckers and 66 Cigar, a Hampton Inn, a Days Inn and a EconoLodge. There are also dozens, if not hundreds of other hotels in the Saint Louis area to choose from, but those are the three closest to our meetup. The meetup location is also about 30-40 minutes from Lambert International Airport. The Saint Louis bus system runs through the area and all three locations are next to a bus stop, so public transportation shouldn't be much of an issue.

>Fuddruckers Address

10752 Sunset Hills Plaza

St. Louis, MO 63127

Phone: (314) 966-3833

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https://archive.is/5qdpD

>Beyond the Holocaust: Embodying Jewish Values in WWII Games

https://archive.is/6plt8

>Planned Parenthood illustrates that virtual reality can impact empathy and technology has revolutionized the way people access information and sexual and reproductive health care.

https://archive.is/P9Ya1

>>>/v/13083485

>>Mike Gallagher of the ESA

>>Tracy Fullerton is back

>>that same Constance Steinkuehler who talked about Gamergate is back

>>someone from fucking Planned Parenthood

>Also majority of the speakers don't look like they enjoy vidya. What the fuck.

>GFC schedule

https://archive.is/UiQKH

>>>/v/13083525

>Alright fellas, since people have been unearthing some shady personalities at Games For Change, I suggest you dig further into their background and the controversies either they themselves have been into or the organizations they are affiliated to. Make sure that you don't miss anything. This calls for a massive planning and it's 8 days to go before July 31! Good fucking grief!

anybody still doing the gamergate musical?

Dirty little secret

Dirty little lies

write your blogs and dye your hair

virtual singal tonight

Drift among the triggred

Bury your desires

Aberrations fill your head

You need a place to hide

And we are

Do you remember us?

The kids we used to be?

Do you remember us?

When your tower comes crashing down

We want to be there.

If Gaben is looking down on us!

We’re not Pepe,

Pepe wasn't there!

You project it all away,

But it's only shit to us

If Gaben is looking down on us!

We’re not Pepe,

We will not forgive!

No we won't!

We’ve thought you were a journalist,

We’ve thought you worte about games

You hippocratic, messiahianc, child abusing, turned misogynist.

Do you remember us?

Do you remember us?

The kids we used to be?

Do you remember?

Do you remember?

When your Ivory tower comes undone,

Let us be the one to say:

(If Gaben is looking down on us)

We’re not Pepe,

You can't silence us all!

And the innocence you labiel

Found a way to live

If Gaben is looking down on us!

We’re not Pepe

We will not forgive!

We will not forgive.

We won't be whatever you want to.

Do you remember us?

The kids we used to be?

The Last Night has been hit hard by SJW clique shilling, as well as aGG and other cancer that is killing the industry. For whatever reason, the publisher has thrown the dev under the bus and the dev has been forced to apologize.

WE DO NOT STAND FOR THIS

We said three years ago that this is the kind of bullshit we don't want around anymore. Creators should not be forced to censor their games, or have their hard work destroyed before it has a chance to succeed because of ideological gatekeepers. Regardless of the dev's and publisher's reactions, we all can agree, that THIS is what we stand against. This pressure, this bullying, this kind of inquisition. They wanted to kill The Last Night,

NOW THEY FACE THE FIRST DAWN

For any operation to be successful, we need goals, objectives. We seem to agree on the following overall,

>We must push back against the central clique members who start these inquisitions

>We must push back against the media who enable them to continue said inquisitions

>We must support devs who are willing to fight through the witch hunts, and aid the ones who cannot

>In the end, we want vidya to be a place where creators are free to make the games they want to

But how do we accomplish this? Simply put, we divide things into the short-term and the long-term.

SHORT-TERM

First, we gather all of the evidence we can about The Last Night's media blitz. We need to make it clear, the only reason this game is under any pressure is because the creators didn't toe the line of an ideological clique that they never asked to be involved with. This means gathering info on every outlet and author, every blue check that retweeted the articles/smearjob, and uncover other things, like the person behind the @Justgamesonly22 account, or anyone who said dumbPost too long. Click here to view the full text.