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Souplex

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Second: So apparently there's been a "Gamergate" going around. Nobody's mentioned what it is, simply saying that either we should be ashamed, Fox should be ashamed, or we should stop talking about it. Maybe it was that Zoey (Zoe, Zoe with an accent mark over the E? I can't be bothered to find the correct spelling) Quinn story, maybe it was something else. I don't particularly care.
That's not what we're here to discuss.
No, we're here to discuss people calling every scandal ____gate.
I was hoping gaming would be immune to this phenomena due to the lack of baby-boomer gamers. I was apparently mistaken.
There are so many better options:
Gamer-Lewinsky. (The Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex-scandal)
Gamer-Chad. (The 2000 election hanging chad controversy scandal)
Gamer-WMD (The missing WMD Iraq war scandal)
Gamer-Ford (After Toronto's crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford.)
What should we call our scandals in the future?
 

Racecarlock

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I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane too!

Oh, you were talking about something else. Still funny.
 
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Gamer-Nuremberg trials.

I reckon the nazis on trial is about on as equal a footing as some scandal over vidya garmes, for sure.
 

Ten Foot Bunny

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Souplex said:
Maybe it was that Zoey (Zoe, Zoe with an accent mark over the E? I can't be bothered to find the correct spelling) Quinn story, maybe it was something else. I don't particularly care.
Zoë... that's Alt+09963 (type the numbers on a keypad while holding down alt).

Might not make a difference to most people, but it's kind of a big deal to those of us who are named Zoë. ;)

OT: How about Gamer-Butt. That's for all the instances of "Okay, we have 'proof' that [fill-in-name] supposedly wasn't lying, but they (this), and but they're (this too), and but they did (that), so I don't believe this 'proof' is real." Pretty much saying "but(tocks)" to any info that doesn't fit their pre-conceived notions despite mountain ranges of evidence to the contrary.
 

Goro

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Is it too late to add -RAGE as an option?
Gamer-RAGE....
SJW-RAGE..
How about as a prefix instead? Like, Rage of the-
 

Something Amyss

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GamerChad. Preferably hanging chads. Yes, I remember this controversy quite well, why?

Ten Foot Bunny said:
Zoë... that's Alt+09963 (type the numbers on a keypad while holding down alt).

Might not make a difference to most people, but it's kind of a big deal to those of us who are named Zoë. ;)
My keyboard's set to US International, so I can literally just type quote marks and e to get the ë in Zoë I could even go further and type Zöë with fair ease.

Not that I know many Zoës, but still.
 

Thaluikhain

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Eh, _BS works for me.

Unless it's about Britney Spears, cause that's her initials. Britney, if you're reading this, if you murder someone or something, don't get caught, and we can skip this issue.
 

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I say we call it a 'Gamer-Contra' because then it would at least be tangentially related to video games.
 

Canadamus Prime

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"Gamer Watergate"?
"Gamer McCarthy Trials"?
"Gamer Salem Witch Trials"?
...that last is kind of a mouth full, isn't it?
 

Thaluikhain

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canadamus_prime said:
"Gamer Watergate"?
"Gamer McCarthy Trials"?
"Gamer Salem Witch Trials"?
...that last is kind of a mouth full, isn't it?
"Witch hunt" works well, though.

OTOH, they did like hanging people in witch hunts, and this hasn't happened yet...though, Sarkeesian did get driven from her house due to death threats.
 

Evil Moo

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I'm convinced this whole thing is secretly a devious marketing campaign for GamersGate [http://www.gamersgate.co.uk]...
 

Canadamus Prime

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thaluikhain said:
canadamus_prime said:
"Gamer Watergate"?
"Gamer McCarthy Trials"?
"Gamer Salem Witch Trials"?
...that last is kind of a mouth full, isn't it?
"Witch hunt" works well, though.

OTOH, they did like hanging people in witch hunts, and this hasn't happened yet...though, Sarkeesian did get driven from her house due to death threats.
I don't know. All this SJW nonsense sure seems like a witch hunt to me.
"He's a witch... uh, I mean SJW! Burn him!"
 

shrekfan246

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I'm not sure I really have anything to add, I just wanted to link that because of the thread name.

If we can somehow display even less self-awareness than has already been shown, we could have the meta "GamerSonsofthePatriots"? Bit wordy, but...
 

Something Amyss

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thaluikhain said:
Eh, _BS works for me.

Unless it's about Britney Spears, cause that's her initials. Britney, if you're reading this, if you murder someone or something, don't get caught, and we can skip this issue.
I don't know. B.S.-BS is possibly the most accurate it could get.

Though I dislike your underscore agenda.
 

elwood612

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Souplex said:
Gamer-Pelosi. (The Clinton/Nancy Pelosi sex-scandal)
Wait, is there another Clinton sex scandal I'm unaware of? Or did you mean to call it Gamer-Lewinski?
 

Neurotic Void Melody

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You know...i like to go outdoors sometimes. Just breath in the various flavours of existence. Let the sun shine through my closed eyes so everything becomes a warm red. Remember some lost love i should have tried so mch harder with. Forget how much i hate myself by only focusing on my basic senses being a conduit for the present world around me. Then all these subjects become nothing more than an overly mixed soup of endless personal agendas. I would love to love you to love, but that is also a personal agenda. So what am i even saying?
 

DoPo

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Zachary Amaranth said:
canadamus_prime said:
I don't know. All this SJW nonsense sure seems like a witch hunt to me.
"He's a witch... uh, I mean SJW! Burn him!"
Do SJWs weigh the same as a duck?
Yes, they do. The reason is, they are ducks. That's why you can't see them IRL but only on the Internet - that's how they hide their true identity.
 

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Xsjadoblayde said:
You know...i like to go outdoors sometimes. Just breath in the various flavours of existence. Let the sun shine through my closed eyes so everything becomes a warm red. Remember some lost love i should have tried so mch harder with. Forget how much i hate myself by only focusing on my basic senses being a conduit for the present world around me. Then all these subjects become nothing more than an overly mixed soup of endless personal agendas. I would love to love you to love, but that is also a personal agenda. So what am i even saying?
That the shadowy specter of bias is as abstract and inescapable as the passing of time?