Alex "The Hatman" Baldwin
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Former writer/editor. Wannabe ace attorney. Chocoroom eater. Recovering Reddit mod. Alleged bad guy. Eevee enthusiast. Total conundrum. 🦏
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Can someone confirm that 4chan /v/ is moving threads about Sweet Baby, Inc. to /pol/?
Because if this is true, it's fucking happening again.
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Sometimes I think about the time I Streetpassed with cat Hitler.
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Just think: Somewhere, someone's writing a hot take about how Gamergate led to Elon Musk buying Twitter.
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Kinda wild how Superman and Captain America are being written to be embarrassed at being American.
Superman now officially has a new motto: Truth, Justice, and A Better Tomorrow.
#DCFanDome
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HOW TO STOP
#GAMERGATE
2:
1: Games press admits that Sweet Baby, Inc. engaged in a targeted campaign against a Steam curator
2: Sweet Baby, Inc. apologizes for the campaign against the Steam curator, and the people responsible for leading the campaign resign
It's so simple.
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Oh shit, here we go. It's 1999 all fucking over again.
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Don't let anybody spin the narrative any other way.
#Gamergate2
was started by an employee of Sweet Baby, Inc. trying to mass-report a Steam user because they made a curator page that effectively acted as a boycott model, claiming it amounted to harassment.
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So in the last 48 hours, we've had four gaming news outlets run defense for Sweet Baby, Inc. in some way.
None of them covered the retaliation against the "Sweet Baby Inc. Detected" Steam curator page by SBI themselves.
It all feels so familiar...
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Alec Holowka's death should be a testament to the toxicity of "cancel culture."
If he was truly guilty, then nobody gets justice, and everybody feels shitty.
If he was innocent, then he was driven to this point by an angry mob, and they should be ashamed.
There is no resolution.
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I've found it.
I've found the Twitter experience in a single image.
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Remember that time when James Rolfe said he wouldn't watch Ghostbusters 2016 because he knew he'd hate it and hatewatching was pointless, and a segment of the Internet had a conniption fit because of it?
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@bitchute_
>reads the deletion discussion page
>most of the people calling for deletion are part of WikiProject Socialism
Imagine my shock.
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So now Sweet Baby, Inc. is describing what's going on as a "far-right harassment campaign/conspiracy theory."
Let's be clear: they *want* another Gamergate because the intersectional activists ended up gaining ground, and now they want more.
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Whatever happened to the whole "virgin-shaming is bad like slut-shaming is" thing?
Because we're still out here calling people "incels" like a person's social worth is determined by whether or not they're fucking. And, in doing it, unintentionally feeding into incel tropes.
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>Abolish the Electoral College
>Abolish the Constitution
>Abolish the Senate
>Abolish the Supreme Court
Have you ever been so woke that you advocated for abolishing the structures meant to prevent a dictatorship so you could finally be right about Trump being a dictator?
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There's that call for a coup.
It is necessary to remove, and arrest, the president of the United States. Tonight.
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So, quick check:
>No Sweet Baby, Inc. threads on /v/
>Three SBI threads on /pol/ including the /gg/ General thread
So it looks like it's being run off /v/, but not run off 4chan entirely, like it was last time.
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So is the Sweet Baby, Inc. thing gonna start Gamergate 2: Electric Boogaloo?
'Cause I got a feeling that this'll be framed as a "harassment campaign" pretty soon...
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Raise your hand if you played a lot of video games as a child and never felt compelled to kill anyone or commit a terrorist attack.
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@DalagaHelios
It basically means the mods of the video game board, /v/, don't think it belongs on the board because (presumably) it's not related to video games.
A VERY similar thing happened in 2014 when /v/ mods removed Gamergate threads en masse.
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Look, developers should be able to make the games that they want to make. If they want to make a game about dismantling patriarchy, fine, whatever.
Just as equally, consumers should be able to decide for themselves if they want to support those games, for any or no reason at all.
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This is what happens when you overdose on woke.
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Remember how Amy Schumer's Netflix special pushed the company to pull the star ratings?
And now they're getting rid of user reviews altogether?
Guess what movie just made its way to Netflix in the past week?
The Last Jedi.
🤔
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>objectivity
>individualism
>characteristics of white supremacy
Holy shit.
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Oh holy shit, I didn't realize that the New Guy artist was Jessica U.
For those that are unaware, she did a webcomic called "Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls" at one point. We ended up banning the comic from r/TumblrInAction because it was THAT inane.
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1) Can we *please* stop calling these things "updating for a modern audience"? As if you enjoy this stuff, you're "out of time" or some bullshit.
2) I feel like this is more of a prudish move more than removal of the damsel in distress trope.
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>You should be upset that Kotaku journalists are losing their livelihoods with the site's new direction!
Look, it sucks to love your job, or be in a position where you're forced to resign.
But y'all changed direction to "piss off gamers" YEARS ago, and expected perpetual success.
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>revamping
Bitch, Terminator STARTED with a woman.
The future is female in
#TerminatorDarkFate
— meet the badass women revamping the iconic franchise
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A story about the AR-14 and getting caught lying about it for political points.
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Even though I predicted this on Discord and not publicly, I STILL CALLED IT.
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"I'm 16 and Marxist-Leninist!"
No, Sarah, you're a teenager from an upper-middle-class household who's trying to get some social clout online because you're bored and rebellious. Stop screwing around and do your chores.
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>"After playing, participants were given the chance to send sexist jokes to a male or female partner."
>"... more sexist jokes were actually sent to men than to women."
>"female participants sent 'significantly more sexist jokes than male participants.'"
BURY THAT LEDE
Study Says Sexualization of Female Video Game Characters Can Lead to Sexual Harassment
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Wait, I thought Buzzfeed said nude leaks were a sex crime?
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For the record, and since I'm still getting people who don't understand this, I rated the note as "Not Helpful" because it was bullshit. My "get fucked" comment was directed at that note.
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So far we have:
>Multiple gaming news sites giving one-sided accounts of the SBI incident, with most dismissing it as a "conspiracy theory"
>4chan's /v/ removing threads about SBI
>Allegations that SBI employees are being harassed en masse
AUGUST
NEVER
ENDS
So is the Sweet Baby, Inc. thing gonna start Gamergate 2: Electric Boogaloo?
'Cause I got a feeling that this'll be framed as a "harassment campaign" pretty soon...
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>Biden was VP for 8 years of the Afghan War
You're forgetting a major detail.
He was also on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for another 8 of those years. And was chair for 4 of those.
He was involved—in some capacity—for 16 years of this 20 year conflict.
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I guess real diversity is having a room of people who all look different, but think the same.
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>tfw The Fairly Odd Parents did the NPC meme years ago.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad
Justification of political violence is literally a hallmark of fascism. Antifas have absolute zero self-awareness.
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Also, as a sidenote, I guess the Internet will now declare open season on this infamous poster.
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It's funny, because this comic is about how people shouldn't conflate sex and gender, but that's exactly what it's doing in the first panel.
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Anyone who references racism or white privilege in their reaction to the Rittenhouse verdict is not to be trusted.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad
What's the takeaway from this?
If you have a reputation as a victim, you're allowed to break the rules and get special accommodations.
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>an underdeveloped protagonist that borders on a "my OC is more powerful than everyone else" trope
>Leia Motherfucking Organa
>a character that experiences 0 development and hinders a protagonist
>a character with illogical motives
...how do you define "best," exactly?
One final thought: The Last Jedi is the best film in the saga since Empire and here’s 4 reasons why:
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- Discouraged cross-examination
- Accusers could appeal contrary rulings
- Lowered the burden of proof
- Denied equal access to evidence
Betsy DeVos/DOE says the Obama-era guidance led to procedures that are "stacked against the accused." Really? Let's see the data on that.
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Also gonna preempt some of the inevitable "they changed it because Superman is a global citizen" responses.
They didn't have to change it. They could've kept it dropped like they did in the '90s, and nobody would've cared as much. The timing of it has a clear political motive.
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Reminder that Walt Disney was a fervent anti-communist. 🙂
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"gross"
"yikes"
"ewww"
"trash"
"toxic"
"folks"
"👏"
"it's [current year]"
"man[verb]ing"
Don't pretend like the hashtag Resistance or wannabe revolutionaries are immune to this.
Amazing how Nazi parrots that mindlessly repeat “soyboy” and “cuck” in response to anything they dislike could accuse anyone else of repeating phrases.
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"Hey Hatman, you wanna talk about Gamergate?"
"You son of a bitch, I'm in."
Remember the first battle of our culture war, Gamergate? Tomorrow at 10am
@Timcast
, OGs of gamergate
@BriannaWu
&
@TheHat2
will discuss the culture wars from then and now.
Don’t miss this one.
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@reddit_lies
Casual reminder that Reddit considers "xenogenders" a protected class, and shuttered r/XenogenderCringe and similar subs for "promoting hate."
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Taiwan is an independent nation.
Tibet is a nation under Chinese occupation.
Hong Kong deserves autonomy.
China is responsible for the worldwide spread of COVID-19 via coverups and propaganda.
Fuck the Chinese Communist Party.
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When real-life headlines read like plots to South Park episodes, you know shit has gotten absolutely ridiculous.
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@GayRealist
Oh no, I fully expect them to double-down like they did last time.
I'm just saying, there's a simple way to stop the bleeding, but they're not interested in doing it.
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@PandasAndVidya
>"They're harassing us!"
>"Anyway, report bomb them and their Steam account."
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Yeah, that law criminalizing ownership of a full-auto uterus manufactured after 1986 was pretty fucked up.
America, where a uterus is more heavily regulated than an AK-47.
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>over 15 minutes not seen in theaters
On top of the 116 minutes not seen in theaters. :^)
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@ChristinaTasty
@PandasAndVidya
>remember when Tumblr got mad
Yes. Every thirteen seconds, there was something new.
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IF THE PURPOSE WASN'T NATION-BUILDING, THEN WHY THE FUCK DID WE OVERTHROW THE TALIBAN THERE AND HELP ESTABLISH A GODDAMN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC THERE AFTERWARD?
WHAT THE FUCK WAS ALL THAT MONEY SPENT ON?
President Biden said that the purpose for the war in Afghanistan had been accomplished and it was time to leave. “Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation-building,” he said.
Follow our live coverage.
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So… is now a convenient time to talk about ethics in games journalism?
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"Death to America. Burn it down!"
Uh huh. And what skills do you have beyond making hot takes on Twitter, Brian? You know, life skills? The kinds that you'll need in a post-capitalist, anarchist society.
Oh, you can make art? Well that's gonna be... useful?
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@shoe0nhead
This is very good. I used to be one of those Nice Guys™ back in high school. Hearing "you're nice BUT" made me think that nice was somehow wrong, or just not good enough. But then I grew up and figured out that you can't convince people to be attracted to you. Maturity is great.
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I suppose it's necessary to make an additional comment on this.
Not every allegation of abuse is true. People are capable of lying and weaponizing empathy for their own purposes. "Trust, but verify" is the best approach.
Blind belief is bad enough. Acting upon it is worse.
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- Memes may now be subjected to copyright law.
- Got a picture of a building you don't own in the background of a video you've monetized? The building's copyrighted.
- Hate the Content ID filter on YouTube? It's about to get ten times worse.
Fuck the EU.
EU lawmakers have agreed on a copyright reform position ahead of talks on legislation to force Google, Facebook and other tech giants to share revenues more fairly with Europe's creative industries.
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If Blue's Clues (of all things) can get their reboot right, all those other franchises have no excuses left.
You're going to need to sit in your Thinking Chair for this news: Steve and Joe will be in the first episode of Blue's Clues & You! Check out this clip as they return to help Josh play his very first Blue's Clues 🐶💙🖍️
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And before anyone brings up the "Accusers don't know if someone is depressed, they don't mean for someone to take their own life!" point, consider the following:
If you had the foreknowledge that something you said would cause someone to self-harm, would you still say it?
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Telling games journalists that they're shit at their jobs and need to be held accountable for it is "information terrorism."
This has gone beyond derangement, and into what I can only compare to paranoid schizophrenia. How on earth is this a sane take?
Some call it trolling, but that term is far too mild. The conspiracies and attacks of these "information terrorists" began back with gamergate and helped propel Trump's rise to the presidency. Now, they're transforming the way Americans consume news
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If y'all know Assigned Male, Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls was a contender for its crown of the "Jesus god you can't actually be serious" webcomic.
Knowing this is where the New Guy comic came from suddenly makes all of it unsurprising.
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"My pronouns are fae/faer."
No they're not, and you have never corrected anybody when they used "she" or "her" to refer to you. You're just trying to feel unique and special because you lack the artistic talents that your peers have.
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The irony of GameStop offering this kind of trade value.
GameStop is doing a better job at distributing wealth to Americans during a pandemic than the US government .
#GME
#wallstreetbets
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You know, I keep seeing all these elaborate conspiracy theories as to why GG was a thing.
Guess people just want to avoid Occam’s Razor, else they’d learn how simple it was.
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When I watch the interviews she's given, honestly, she seems like one of those silly, dorky people that I'd get along with. I kinda hated that I didn't like Rose, because I think Kelly's a cool person. And she absolutely did not deserve any hate.
Kelly Marie Tran has deleted all the posts off her Instagram due to months of harassment she has received for her character Rose in
#TheLastJedi
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>when you're researching some old gaming controversies, and you find this bit from a 2013 blogpost
Motherfucking prophet, right here.
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>company makes tweet
>people get offended
>blue checks demand tweet's removal, an apology, and someone's head on a spike
>company removes tweet and apologizes
>offended parties claim apology isn't good enough
>supporters get mad company apologized
>everything goes to hell
Always.
Yesterday, we posted a tweet containing a trending hashtag as a pun. The tweet was neither intended as a malicious attack, nor as a comment to the ongoing social debate.
GOG should focus only on games. We acknowledge that and we commit to it.
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The only thing more insufferable than people who endlessly cry over The Last Jedi are the people who think it's their holy duty to defend the film and Rian Johnson from any and all criticism.
The movie has flaws, and it's on him. Own up to it.
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