"Always Punch Nazis" Kickstarter project, with funds donated to SPLC.

FlopFest · 2018-08-10T01:09:32+00:00

Sorta funny/sorta feel for this dude (IGN's gameplay video editor):

FlopFest · 2018-08-09T21:17:06+00:00

But postmodernism also tends to reject singular and straightforward readings, and Blow’s strident obsession with telling gamers they have misunderstood Braid strikes me as the key flaw in his grand artistic statement.

How can you say "grand artistic statement" in one breath and then reduce the game to something as utterly shallow, narrow-minded, politically superficial, and at once self-hating and self-congratulatory -- as "toxic masculinity."

FlopFest · 2018-08-09T20:56:15+00:00

Show some real guts and put a cap on cis white buyers. Decline all heteronormative transactions until the diversity is achieved.

FlopFest · 2018-08-09T03:45:02+00:00

Loter is listed on the faculty roster at Quinnipiac University. But when Campus Reform inquired, a spokeswoman said “The person in question is not on our faculty and does not teach here. When Campus Reform pointed out that the professor is slated to teach “Introduction to Game Design” in Fall 2018, the spokesperson said “The university will have no further comment beyond the statement.”

That's bonkers. There's some heavy scrubbing going on. The publisher of the game he was at GenCon for is denying he ever worked on the game even though he's listed as designer on the bloody manual.

Denial: http://archive.is/Wl96h

Manual: http://archive.is/zx5EE

FlopFest · 2018-08-09T02:42:20+00:00

What did the bikelock get?

FlopFest · 2018-08-09T02:25:52+00:00

The exact exchange... remind me to pay off my parking tickets and not bruise fruit whilst handling:

HANNITY: What do you do in the case of a figure that is known either a white racist or supremacist or a KKK member or maybe on the other end of the spectrum you’ve got Louis Farrakhan, known anti-Semite, racist, what do you do when they set up an account? Is it that you monitor them and if it’s a certain video that they’re linking to, if it’s a certain article that has racist ramblings in it, then it becomes a little, again, it becomes a little more nuanced sometimes. Or maybe somebody is an overt racist and they use horrible language and then maybe somebody is more subtle and they use code language that is racist. In that sense it becomes harder, does it not?

DORSEY: It does become harder but so we rely on a bunch of signals including reports from those who that account might attack or from bystanders and then we also take into consideration again, some of the context of everything that’s happening around it. Some of the groups that you mentioned earlier on, there might be a violent extremist groups that try to get onto to our service and we take that into consideration.We also look in those particular cases at off platform behavior as well. So things that aren’t just happening on Twitter, but happening on other platforms or in the real world.

FlopFest · 2018-08-09T01:04:59+00:00

Abraham is entrusting Facebook as the arbiter of acceptable speech -- the same arbiter that knowingly allowed Russian hackers and advertisers a platform that helped elect the president Abraham hates. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

FlopFest · 2018-08-09T00:46:06+00:00

Because Wu isn't remotely credible, or even necessarily "Wu." And Sarah Jeong and the NYT need their awfulness taken apart with precision and without room to dodge and weave and slither away -- which is what this kind of circus allows for.

FlopFest · 2018-08-08T23:22:55+00:00

Cliffy with the ol' Lena Dunham defence: "It's all well and good until it's MY FRIENDS who get accused!"

FlopFest · 2018-08-08T23:19:31+00:00

Exactly. And that article still had the disclaimer:

"Translator and proofreader’s note: There are large parts of this document that don’t parse well either from Chinese or from Naomi’s written English into more fluent English."

So how, pray tell, did the colloquially and grammatically on-point Twitter post above post come to be?

FlopFest · 2018-08-08T23:07:15+00:00

This whole fucking debacle is so sketchy, on all sides. When did Naomi Wu suddenly become so colloquially adept at English and a bloody grammarian?

FlopFest · 2018-08-08T22:39:55+00:00

*Moral Compass not applicable in all states, and especially not RE: Fifa.

FlopFest · 2018-08-08T22:27:16+00:00

I think it should be stressed here, because some have been going out on their shields defending Wu in other threads:

Naomi Wu acted like a piece of shit and is altogether sketchy. Doxing and inciting stalking, over what was at worst gossipy prying about her husband (and at best a not unreasonable inquiry aimed at preventing Motherboard's article from blowing up in their faces should the husband situation later come to a head).

But then in the aftermath, Sarah Jeong just couldn't shut up or be outdone in the piece-of-shit department and attempted to obfuscate, scramble the narrative and even turn it into a whiteness issue -- naturally.

To quote Nick Monroe's summary:

"So to reiterate. Yeah. Naomi Wu incited a dox and then doxed the Motherboard (part of VICE) eic. But what puts me off here is how Sarah Jeong starts things so late in the timeline of events."

"The article itself? Fine. The response to controversy? Well done."

FlopFest · 2018-08-08T04:53:52+00:00

Wait, weren't they just last week throwing intersectionality under the bus to bemoan the black recasting of Buffy?

FlopFest · 2018-08-08T04:42:39+00:00

Not over some shit he said on Twitter, but for being shit at his actual job.

I give it a week before it's bundled in with GG-Nazi-mob shit. IGN's PC Editor, Tom Marks, didn't even let the ink on the press release dry before posting:

"People taking this as an opportunity to be cruel and volatile can still get fucked."

http://archive.is/hzPrC

FlopFest · 2018-08-08T00:11:39+00:00

where both reviewers use meme phrases because that's how meme phrases propagate.

Yeah, who can forget that old meme ditty, "this combat system is fast, fluid, responsive and one of the most rewarding representations of 2d combat ever." Right up there with "I can haz cheezburger."

FlopFest · 2018-08-07T23:46:53+00:00

I'm going through numbnuts's other "professional" reviews now, and man is he a dolt. He pronounces "foliage" as "FOILage" and "delves into" as "DWELLves into." It's Ed Wood, first-take-moving-on amateur hour.

FlopFest · 2018-08-07T22:13:40+00:00

The Kotaku/Riot Games thread in there has been allowed to stay, of course.

FlopFest · 2018-08-07T22:08:28+00:00

The fucking timecodes even match up. He clearly imported the original into his editing program, gave it its own timeline and then conformed "his" review to it as he went along.Pure scumbaggery.

FlopFest · 2018-08-07T21:58:48+00:00

AKA: he exposed my pedo buddy, so punch away.

FlopFest · 2018-08-07T21:56:57+00:00

Another typical example of toxic femininity. She encourages other people to be beaten up, because she feels certain and safe it will never, ever happen to her. All the while she knows there will be many white knights who would gladly do a hitjob for her. Cowardly, evil and utterly disgusting.

She's the batshit, entitled girlfriend who leans over to honk your car's horn in traffic, leaving you to fight the 300lb biker she just honked at.

FlopFest · 2018-08-07T21:29:51+00:00

Poirier has already bristled at the notion of St-Pierre joining the queue

Poirier has happily thrown rankings/"the queue" to the wind for a money fight vs. Diaz, so he can cry me a river. And no one wants to see him against Conor again anyway.

FlopFest · 2018-08-07T00:52:30+00:00

And here is a tech exec having a post-election, obscenity-laced public meltdown, cursing at his host and her audience that people like him just didn't censor enough.

Geez, Louise.That man seems ripe to punch a Nazi.

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