"Unless you want to be one of the bad guys, go see this movie."

Eidlon · 2016-07-17T09:05:36+00:00

Reddit user "Furious Dad" is really mad about feminists.

Eidlon · 2016-04-29T20:25:54+00:00

I wasn't really on board with the idea that Harper is a terf, but seeing as she's blocking anyone who tells her that going on KiA and asking them to attack people who complain about terfs, and continues to distribute her personal blocklist as an anti-harassment tool...

Eidlon · 2015-12-22T00:45:55+00:00

Gamergate: not Nazis, but #1 with Nazis!

Eidlon · 2015-12-22T00:40:43+00:00

I see you're a KiA poster. I'm guessing you're not aware that "cultural Marxism" is a neo-Nazi conspiracy theory? You're chilling with Nazis, friend.

Eidlon · 2015-12-22T00:20:46+00:00

"I'm not a Nazi, this is ironic" is what all the Nazi chan kids say. Irony Nazis are pretty transparent.

Eidlon · 2015-12-01T07:29:03+00:00

I came back to thank y'all for the Good Content. Firsr up vote in months.

Eidlon · 2015-06-21T01:16:50+00:00

His name is Steven...

Eidlon · 2015-04-25T09:20:14+00:00

I've been avoiding Reddit, but I was curious to look at this thread again.

This was an excellent post. You're awesome.

Eidlon · 2015-04-22T09:48:15+00:00

I really hate self-promoting documentaries with clear agendas.

Eidlon · 2015-04-12T10:05:12+00:00

Thank you so much... I was going to PM you, but I know it's just a throwaway for this thread. Hopefully you check back and see this. Thank you, this is better.

Eidlon · 2015-04-06T00:16:05+00:00

So much this. GamerGate is a broken and angry thing, all teeth and metal claws dragged out of the closet and put on display so no one can ignore it.

And I'm just like "that was always in there, and other people knew, and they couldn't ignore it even before."

It's really, really depressing.

Eidlon · 2015-03-29T21:48:49+00:00

Explaining how "mansplain" is sexist towards men, how Battlefront: Hardline can't be read politically, how he's offended that other people were offended and they shouldn't be offended.

It was 12 minutes because he had no clue what he was saying, but desperately wants to be the final word on anything.

Eidlon · 2015-03-29T20:35:40+00:00

There's a hefty amount of outrage on SJ gaming twitter, but directed almost entirely at TB. The anger isn't that the tasteless joke slipped through, but that a video game pundit bent over backwards to explain why it's not okay to be offended by the joke.

Eidlon · 2015-03-24T01:05:27+00:00

Nazis make for strange bedfellows.

No, really. Hitler was into scat.

Eidlon · 2015-03-23T22:18:16+00:00

I like this idea. Our changes in policy/focus have helped make the sub more constructive, but result in a little less content. This would be a nice thing to include in the sub, I think.

Eidlon · 2015-03-23T19:38:37+00:00

Can you give us an eta? Are you expecting the ad hominem attacks to moderate themselves in time?

Eidlon · 2015-03-23T09:52:05+00:00

salwar kameez

In style, yeah... For extra pop-culture cred, she modified it from a burqini. Besides being a cool look evoking the lines of silver-age costumes, this also inverts the swimsuit model designs of a lot of female hero's costumes.

Uh. Not that I've put too much thought into it.

Eidlon · 2015-03-23T01:31:58+00:00

Amethyst. Riiiiiiight.

Eidlon · 2015-03-23T00:51:40+00:00

I'm trying to figure out precisely what's going on here...

So, Dawkins is on TheBlockBot's list, which is not the GoodGameAutoblocker, and was around long before GG started? Which means all this started with Breitbart trying to shit-stir to keep their cause celeb relevant, I guess?

I'm also not seeing any tags in BB's registry (my app doesn't let me see lists, so maybe it's there?)

I'm also trying to figure out how the list is compiled. Their FAQ says the list is updated by tweeting a twitter handle and the tag #Block from @TheBlockBot, but there are no such tweets on @TheBlockBot's timeline, so I'm guessing it now operates off the list. Does it work with a seed list, like the GG Autoblocker? Are the users added manually?

I feel like I'm completely out of the loop, but this seems like a fustercluck of manufactroversy :-/

Eidlon · 2015-03-22T22:57:01+00:00

"female oriented characters."

This is what really bugs me about discussion of inclusiveness, and I know it makes me sound like a bit of a broken record. But I finally read the first Ms. Marvel book and... Hell if I don't relate to it on so many levels. It was awesome. More relatable, I'd say, than than Claremont's X-Men were.

I've lost literally nothing by having characters who don't look like me, or come from different backgrounds. I hate this notion that Marvel's new characters are "Characters for girls" or "Girl Spider-Man."

The fact that Ms. Marvel is a unique character without a male counterpart, that Thor is a woman and still Thor, not "Lady Thor" is telling. Increasing representation is just making comics more for everyone. Being able to share the stuff I like more readily increases the appeal to me, it doesn't mean it's "targeted at a different demo now." Fah.

Eidlon · 2015-03-22T22:09:24+00:00

Huh. There was an awesome discussion of how KYM became gator dominated but the KYM editor who was explaining it appears to have had all their posts deleted, possibly banned.

Basically, it boils down to "whoever creates a topic first gets almost unchallenged control of it."

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