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Games Journalism: That Prick
The Journalism family photo. L-R: Barbara Journalism, Games Journalism, Michael Journalism
Today I’m going to tell you about a person who gets a lot of abuse and criticism on the internet: Games Journalism.
Games Hayden Journalism was born in Portland, Oregon in 1979. Its parents, Barbara and Michael Journalism, could tell that at a very young age Games was destined for big things.
Games played its first video game at an early age, and was so blown away by what it witnessed that it decided to dedicate its life to preaching the good word of gaming to others.
At the time, the best way to reach these audiences was through print. So, a young Games Journalism released numerous magazines, charging gamers a small fee to find out about the latest games.
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Huxley vs. Orwell: The Webcomic
Stuart McMillen’s webcomic adapts (and updates) Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World was ultimately more accurate than the one proposed by George Orwell in 1984. (Via).
GamerGate’s Misconceptions Thus Far
Feminists: The fact we haven’t killed you means we don’t hate women, extremely creepy dude explains
How weird is it that this old magazine has two different articles relevant to this post?
I‘ll get to that thing in the headline in a second. But first: A Voice for Men’s Director of Lying Liars Janet Bloomfield has responded to my last post about her embattled tit pics — see here; the whole thing is too bizarre to explain briefly — by informing her readers that I was
failing to distinguish between pics sent to individual men privately as a means of manipulation and pics plastered over social media to make a broader point about feminist censorship and harassment.
AVFM’s flying monkey army has been making the same, er, argument in a series of highly original tweets:
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What is biological sex?
Yes, Christina Hoff Sommers is a Rape Denialist
If you were around for the so-called Culture Wars of the mid-1990s, you probably remember Christina Hoff Sommers — her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism? was a centerpiece of right-wing attacks on mainstream feminist theory and organizing at the time. Recently Sommers has re-emerged as the “mom” — that’s literally what they call her — of #GamerGate, that weird movement of video game fans obsessed with “ethics in gaming journalism” and what they see as feminist attacks on their hobby.
I haven’t paid more than desultory attention to Sommers since the nineties, so when I somehow wound up at her Twitter feed on Saturday I was surprised to see her supportively retweeting this:
If universities are really in the grip of a rape culture, why did Rolling Stone need to invent their story on the topic?
— Joanna Williams (@jowilliams293) December 6, 2014
The assertions in this tweet — that Rolling Stone “invented” its recent story on an…
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Ancient “genomic parasites” spurred evolution of pregnancy in mammals
Very interesting read. I always wondered when and how mammals evolved to no longer come from eggs
Pogo now says his misogynistic posts were an “experiment.” Then he denounces most self-described feminists as “hyenas” and “brats.”
Seems Pogo is still at it
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
So the musician who goes by the name Pogo, best known for his magical audiovisual mashups using snippets of old Disney movies, is now declaring that the awful misogynistic nonsense he recently posted on his blog and on YouTube was “somewhat of an experiment for myself,” intended to rile up
the enormous breed of hyenas out there taking gender equality and feminism hostage, and bending it into a social status to validate their feeling that the world owes them everything because of their gender.
As Pogo (real name Nick Bertke) explains it in a new blog post today, his attacks on women were intended to expose these fake feminist “hyenas … as the self contradicting brats they are.” To do this, he says,
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Memories of The Escapist, and pondering the future
definitely an interesting perspective of a site I still regularly go to
So for those who missed it, last week Defy Media announced huge lay-offs at two of the sites under their umbrella, The Escapist and GameTrailers, including the Escapist’s editor-in-chief, Greg Tito, and one of GameTrailers’ most prolific contributors, Michael Damiani.
Prevailing theory seems to be that Gametrailers (which has seen its traffic fall in recent years) is likely to be merged with the Escapist so that they can bring all their video content together under one banner, bolster the ranks of content at the latter site (which has seen withdrawals in recent months, not least Jim Sterling, who went independent) and generate extra traffic for the under-visited GameTrailers. Given that large amounts of the sites’ maintenance already takes place in the Defy offices, this would make sense.
The Escapist was the first gaming forum I ever went on. I admit that I went there for Zero Punctuation (like most of…
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