A you trying to make me a feminist?Follow

Well, there's also the timing of the death threats to take into account.

Lots of things are 'suspicious' that doesn't make them any less real or imaginary.

Why are you so determined to discredit this person's claims?

Why are you so determined to protect her?

Edit: To add: Why did people stand up to Jack Thompson? Because he was lying in an attempt to push his ideology onto us. Anita Sarkeesian is only different in the way the media has treated her. Beyond that, she is the same intellectually dishonest person he was. He got the same threats, but you didn't hear anyone putting on a pity party for him.

For that matter, some pro-gamergate folks have gotten similar threats. Someone went as far as to mail Milo Yeahimnotgonnatrytospellhisname a syringe of some unknown substance. I don't see him with a Tedx talk or a spot on CNN talking about how brave he is.

Edited, Oct 6th 2014 11:47am by Poldaran

Considering how manipulative and faulty said research is, it's not unreasonable to doubt any other claims she makes. Just sounds like a ploy to remain relevant more than interest in getting one's point across.

You have any evidence? Because I only required about a minute to find a pic showing those things I think are fishy enough to suggest that maybe she did lie about the latest death threats.
It's from RoK, but that's what you get in under a minute. Either way, where's yours?
You're right. We can't forget that cabal of games "journalists" who decided to tell us that we were "over". You can insist this isn't about them, but they are pretty much my primary focus. I'll discuss Anita and Zoe when brought up, as they are tied up in all of this. Anita has been tied to Silverstring Media, which is tied to a number of these publications and indie games companies. Zoe has ties as well, not to mention her role in the TFYC incident.
When it's news about more ******* corruption, you bet your ***. Or if it amuses me. I'll tell you when it's the latter.
If you don't think that one-sided, collusion-driven press coverage by a bunch of self-serving whack jobs with an agenda is a danger to a medium, you haven't learned the lessons of history. Imagine if all news was suddenly Fox News and no one was willing to call them on their *********

Edited, Oct 6th 2014 1:23pm by Poldaran

I realize that there's a "theory" that she faked the Tweet but I'm also sure that she gets a bunch of Tweets threatening all sorts of stuff. All she'd need to do is call the police about one and say that she's really scared. It doesn't mean that the police will find it to be a credible threat or ever act upon it beyond "We'll send a car to drive past your house tonight" but it meets all the marks for "I got a terrible Tweet and it super scared me and I had to sleep at a friends and now the police have it so that's how terrible the world is".

To be clear, none of this excuses any of the threatening messages. There's really no scenario that makes it okay to send a Tweet threating to murder-rape someone that doesn't start with "But what if aliens were going to blow up the world unless..."

I don't have an argument with that. Like I said, I could easily see the "reported to police" being the same thing as lightly slapping your siblings arm and having them run crying to mom saying you just hit them so hard you probably broke it.

Same as Quinn and her remarks that she's been forwarding IRC logs to the FBI. That doesn't mean the FBI gives a shit or placed her case as a higher priority than planning the birthday party for Mary in Accounting. But just saying "I forwarded this to the FBI" or "I contacted the police" makes it sound like a Real Big Deal.

Hey, my half-assed theory doesn't involve self-created threats!

Credited news sources report she was threatened: bomb threats, death threats, FBI investigations etc. No credited news source has, as far as I know, renegged on those reports nor offered up any follow up explaining that the threats were self-created.

If you guys want to go off on some half-***** conspiracy theory because of an gurl that said mean things about your games, go for it.

It's more that her prior behavior matches what one would expect of an attention seeking borderline personality. So, when something happens that would fit that pathology perfectly, it's not disingenuous to wonder if it might be the case. It's unfortunate, either way, but no additional harm is done by speculating. It would seem rather odd, however, given modern computer forensics that police were unable to find the origin of a death threat. Generally something that's taken fairly seriously, particularly with even a little bit of PR impact.

Edited, Oct 7th 2014 11:35am by Smasharoo

I will say that the "Oh no, someone said Gamers are over!" thing is very overblown in my mind. "Gamers" will be "over" when said gamers stop accounting for 95% of the revenue of the AAA titles designed to appeal to them. No matter what some silly gaming rag has to say about it.

Feel much the same about Sarkeesian. I'll pick apart her arguments for fun but her actual impact on the direction of mainstream console/PC gaming is going to be minimal until someone else is ponying up the billions of dollars spent on it.

I doubt Sarkeesian is being harassed by legions of Thomas Was Alone and Kentucky Route Zero fans. From what I've seen of her videos, all the recent games she harps on are AAA titles: Watch Dogs, Hitman, Tomb Raider, Dishonored, Grand Theft Auto, Saints Row, yadda yadda... I suppose Hotline Miami isn't AAA. I tried to look for a list of games she's used in her videos but it wasn't the first hit on Google so then I got bored.

Edited, Oct 7th 2014 11:18am by Jophiel

I take it you'll be the first to volunteer to protect our nuclear ******* from space aliens? When can I expect you to visit my state with a proton pack?

More or less what Smash said.

Maybe Jack Thompson shouldn't have pulled on his big girl panties and instead should have damselled himself to get protection from the big, bad gamers. Oh wait. He couldn't do that.

He didn't have friends in the media who would make the problem go away like the corrupt ******** they are.

Edit: Arsenal.

Edited, Oct 7th 2014 12:37pm by Poldaran