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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

They think they've won

The pinkshirts don't just think they're winning, they think they've already won. Because Inevitable, insofar as I can follow what passes for the logic:
There’s a culture war happening right now. It’s happening in games, in film, in journalism, in television, in fiction, in fandom. It’s happening online, everywhere. And everywhere, sexists, recreational misogynists and bigots are losing.

They are losing, and they don’t know why....

I’m talking about gender itself, sex and sexuality itself, as a game you can play and win by ‘beating’ the other ‘side’ into submission. A game where the other ‘side’ isn’t really human at all. Shoot to kill. Destroy the brain. Move on.

Games and pickup artistry gave a formal structure to that mindset for this generation, but it’s older than that. The gamification of misogyny predates the internet, but right now, in this world full of angry, broken, lost young men convinced that women have robbed them of some fundamental win in life, it’s rampant.

The trouble is that treating other human beings like faceless opponents doesn’t work in the real world.

Gender isn’t a game you can play and win by brutalising and harassing and shaming and hurting the other ‘side.’  Ultimately, there is no other side. Gender oppression is structural. Everybody loses, in the long term, because everybody has to live in a culture where it’s normal to hound women out of their homes for daring to demand fairer treatment, normal to shame girls and queer people into silence for suggesting that there might be other interesting stories to tell. There is no way to win this game, except by not playing at all.

So they can’t understand why they’re losing.

They can’t understand why their arguments aren’t working. They can’t understand why game designers, industry leaders, writers, public figures are lining up to disown their ideas and pledge to do better by women and girls in the future. They can’t understand why, just for example, when my friend, the games critic and consultant Leigh Alexander, was abused and ‘called out’ as an unprofessional slut, a lying cunt, morally and personally corrupt, just for speaking truthfully and beautifully about all of this, it was Alexander who was invited to write her first piece for Time magazine, Alexander who got to define the agenda for the mainstream, who received praise and recognition, whilst her abusers’ words will be lost in a howling vortex of comment threads and subreddits and, eventually, forgotten.

Their rage is the rage of bewilderment.
This is a beautiful piece of feminist agit-prop, which begs the very question it asserts. It is an attempt to simultaneously encourage the Social Justice Whores who are demoralized by the unexpectedly fierce resistance being shown by the gaming community while undermining that resistance by falsely claiming it to be counterproductive.

Notice how the need to resort to existing allies is portrayed as some sort of victory; is there any doubt that Time Magazine was on their side from the start? The classic female attempt to silence the opposition and pretend it doesn't exist instead of confronting and defeating it is portrayed as a victory, instead of the renewed offensive it actually is. But in fact, the need to throw in your big guns is indicative of the fact that the battle is not going your way.

The Social Justice Whores, who as I noted yesterday are the moral mutaweenies of the godless Left, are making two major mistakes. First, they have completely failed to understand their enemy. Second, they have prematurely declared victory.

We aren't bewildered at all. Nor are we even slightly mystified by why we have been losing for decades, anymore than we fail to grasp why the pinkshirts are suddenly feeling the need to screech louder and redouble their efforts. The truth is that they are meeting with active and stubborn male resistance for the first time in years and they are stunned and astonished by it. Remember, an angry woman always engages in psychological projection. When Penny Red talks about "the rage of bewilderment" she is talking about herself.

The problem is not that "women are creating culture, changing culture, redefining culture", the problem is that women are actively attempting to DESTROY culture and they offer nothing that anyone wants in its place. That is why "those cunts, those poisonous cunts, those disgusting, uppity cunts must be stopped". And that is why they will be stopped.

We will win so long as we refuse to submit because we are the creators. They are nothing but pale imitators and parasites. They create nothing new, they bring nothing to the table, they gorge themselves insatiably off the scraps that we cast off and then claim to be feeding themselves.

A year ago, Castalia House did not exist. In six months, we have sold or given away more than 35,000 books. That's a drop in the bucket, but it is a start and we are but one minor player in the growing resistance to the SJWs "in games, in film, in journalism, in television, in fiction, in fandom." The sides are being drawn up, and soon it will become apparent that the pinkshirts have absolutely no idea how reliant they were upon male forbearance.

But we know what our predecessors did not, we see where their perceptions failed them, so we will show no mercy and we will not give them one single inch of additional ground. They will soon find that victory comes considerably harder when the enemy is actually aware there is a war on. Ask yourself this: if they are truly winning this latest battle, why did Penny Red feel the need to close comments on her blog post?

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141 Comments:

Anonymous Heh September 24, 2014 1:09 PM  

if they are truly winning this latest battle, why did Penny Red feel the need to close comments on her blog post?

Because shut up, she explained.

Anonymous Josh September 24, 2014 1:15 PM  

if they are truly winning this latest battle, why did Penny Red feel the need to close comments on her blog post?

Safe space.

And no shut up it's completely different from Augusta national not having any women members because sexism and patriarchy and rape culture.

Anonymous Alexander September 24, 2014 1:21 PM  

She had to close them because they are winning, but there are still men out there who will make a woman feelbad against her consent. Safespace against feelbad rapists.

Anonymous kh123 September 24, 2014 1:26 PM  

"they gorge themselves insatiably off the scraps that we cast off and then claim to be feeding themselves."

One with plow, several with spoons.

Blogger Owen September 24, 2014 1:27 PM  

The truth is that they are meeting with active and stubborn male resistance for the first time in years and they are stunned and astonished by it.

Exactly. It's all the more stunning because they had save havens in schools, in the media, in politics.

And, despite all the push-polling, men still aren't giving completely up. In fact, there's pushback.

And they've no idea how to handle actual conflict because they've been soft-pedaled their whole lives.

Anonymous Leonidas September 24, 2014 1:27 PM  

The pinkshirts don't just think they're winning, they think they've already won. Because Inevitable, insofar as I can follow what passes for the logic:

It's an easy mistake to make given that they are either very, very near to or actually exactly at their high water mark. Things have been going their way for so long that they don't know anything else. But the cracks are already there and getting wider. The devastation of their policies is no longer a prediction, it's actually happening around us now. Reality always wins in the end.

Anonymous Alexander September 24, 2014 1:31 PM  

Yeah Leonidas, but didn't you know reality is Time Magazine?! Wow, just wow you troglodytes are so I can't even.

Blogger Rabbi B September 24, 2014 1:34 PM  

" . . .why did Penny Red feel the need to close comments on her blog post?"

Dissent will not be tolerated.

Anonymous Vidad September 24, 2014 1:35 PM  

I've been actively pushing back. It's interesting how feeble the resistance actually is. Like waving your hands through mildewed curtains and feeling the them disintegrate as light pours in from an unexpected window.

Anonymous Salt September 24, 2014 1:36 PM  

They started it, this war. They demand it be their way or else. Okay, or else. Now what's ya gonna do, Social Justice Warriors. What's ya gonna do as the pink turns blue?

Blogger LysanderSpooner September 24, 2014 1:36 PM  

"Remember, an angry woman always engages in psychological projection."

Certainly Proverbial from the Church of Voxology.

Sir, you have made my day, thank you.

I will not only remember, but commit it to memory, and it will become like a giant billboard every time this man meets an angry faced female, although it certainly applies to angry PinkShirts and their Minions.

Anonymous Stilicho September 24, 2014 1:37 PM  

And they've no idea how to handle actual conflict because they've been soft-pedaled their whole lives.

That's OK, the leftist media are ready to deploy as many participation ribbons as it takes.

Anonymous Zell September 24, 2014 1:38 PM  

The Time Magazine line really is the big giveaway there. She may as well have cited someone from MSNBC praising Alexander, as if that's some shock.

GamerGate blew up in the SJW faces. They found themselves on the defensive, being forced to clumsily orchestrate responses (being caught on that), and more. They couldn't control the narrative for a change, and they found out neither SJWs nor their causes are really held in universal esteem.

What was problem the most "hurtful" realization they've come to recently is that it doesn't really matter what friends they make. They can have ideological allies all over the place - in magazines, in gaming, on 4chan, on reddit, wherever - and they still won't be able to censor their way to victory, because people will just find other venues to criticize them through. Loudly, at times.

They never wanted to "have a voice". They wanted to have the only voice. Sorry, kids - you can't have that.

Anonymous Daniel September 24, 2014 1:46 PM  

Comments closed is to winning as Houston Oilers is to the George Halas Trophy. Never did happen, never will happen, never could happen. Try again, toots.

Anonymous bw September 24, 2014 1:46 PM  

The Big Guns have been on the Marxist Bolshevik side all along. That is the only way they have had any success whatsoever.
Media. Entertainment. Schooling. Government. A constant barrage for decades and decades. Self-loathers destroying themselves and everyone else with them. Imagine that. The Excuse is the root of it.

It tells you all you need to know about nature when you are given every propaganda outlet advantage, yet people are still seeing through it.
That pendulum swing can be a real bitch.

Anonymous kh123 September 24, 2014 1:47 PM  

Pretty Penny: "...but right now, in this world full of angry, broken, lost young men convinced that women have robbed them of some fundamental win in life, it’s rampant."

Suppressing the laugh reflex: Maybe she covered the why later in the article as to those angry, broken, and supposedly lost modern men.

Y u no smile with pink?

As time goes on, I can see why Vox points out that "feminazi" is an insult to National Socialism. I don't think even the Nazi's denied what all took place; they either minimized the scope or shifted the blame, not the reality of the event.

Though, there was Arbeit macht frei, so I guess there is some overlap.

Denial of the scope of family dissolution and societal cannibalism, all the while praising progress and brighter more productive days ahead, and wondering why you're not whistling while you work, comrade... this tends to be more of a Bolshevik trait.

Anonymous kh123 September 24, 2014 1:47 PM  

...And then there's Time's Man Of The Year. Another point of overlap.

Anonymous Josh September 24, 2014 1:53 PM  

Comments closed is to winning as Houston Oilers is to the George Halas Trophy. Never did happen, never will happen, never could happen. Try again, toots.

Thread winner

Anonymous hygate September 24, 2014 1:54 PM  

Time magazine is still a thing?

According to wikipedia Time's circulation is 3,289,377, Game Informer 7,629,995.

The two magazines with the biggest circulation are both put out by AARP with over 45 million subscribers between the two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation#United_States

Be afraid, very afraid.

Anonymous T September 24, 2014 1:56 PM  

They have seriously screwed up this time. They have woken up tons of previously oblivious male gamers to the danger the Progressive Long March poses.

As someone who has studied progressivism for many years (and a gamer as well), I am finding an open, receptive audience to my explanations and advice. These men are awake now, and their eyes will never be closed again.

Gaming is possibly the most revered and loved activity amongst the average male. They moved on it too soon. It's like storming the keep while the courtyard and surrounding countryside are still enemy territory.

Blogger totenhenchen September 24, 2014 1:59 PM  

What if there was a war on women and men actually engaged?

Anonymous Josh September 24, 2014 2:04 PM  

Time magazine is still a thing?

Drs offices, bro

Blogger jimmy-jimbo September 24, 2014 2:05 PM  

A win is when those defenders of anti-gamergate are fired. That hasn't happened yet.

Anonymous Zell September 24, 2014 2:06 PM  

The only thing I'd disagree with in the OP is the idea that they think they're winning. If they do, it's the kind of 'thinking they're winning' that 400lb landwhales (male and female) get into when they start telling themselves they're super hot and attractive to people. It's less a conviction, more a mantra they tell themselves.

In fact, they can't really win. Not in their own view. Winning would mean they aren't victims anymore, for one thing. More than that, the existence of any dissent robs them from defeat in their own view. The SJW life is one of constant overreaction and paranoia.

Anonymous Samuel Scott September 24, 2014 2:09 PM  

Vox,

A year ago, Castalia House did not exist. In six months, we have sold or given away more than 35,000 books.

Just a note from the marketing and business perspective. If you want to tout the success of Castalia, I'd cite revenue and profit figures -- especially as a percentage-growth quarter by quarter -- rather than just sales figures. (Not to mention profit-margin and all those other line-items.) Selling 1,000 books is meaningless if you made only $0.25 per book.

Of course, I'm sure you know this -- and you may not want to release such data since, I assume, Castalia is a private company. But just some quick advice on the marketing side of the business. Citing the right data is what would give Castalia the best PR play.

Blogger LysanderSpooner September 24, 2014 2:10 PM  

What if there was a war on women and men actually engaged?

Fish in a barrel.

Anonymous Samuel Scott September 24, 2014 2:13 PM  

Vox,

Oh, not to mention market share. If you can cobble together how many sci-fi books (print and digital) were sold in X period of time and then show your percentage of that share growing and growing -- that's PR gold.

Anonymous Wendy September 24, 2014 2:16 PM  

"...everybody has to live in a culture where it’s normal to hound women out of their homes for daring to demand fairer treatment..."

What an odd turn of phrase. It is the SJWs who try to hound women out of their homes, not the reverse. "Just a stay at home Mom? You're wasting your life."

Anonymous Josh September 24, 2014 2:16 PM  

Just a note from the marketing and business perspective. If you want to tout the success of Castalia, I'd cite revenue and profit figures -- especially as a percentage-growth quarter by quarter -- rather than just sales figures. (Not to mention profit-margin and all those other line-items.) Selling 1,000 books is meaningless if you made only $0.25 per book.

I disagree. Blue vs pink is about who's reading what. 35,000 blue books is a big deal. It's a much bigger deal than revenue, because this isn't about who's making more money, it's about who's reading and whose reader base is growing.

There's a reason tv shows are judged by ratings and not ad sales. It's all about eyeballs.

Anonymous Anonymous September 24, 2014 2:18 PM  

It's not often that you see projection this blatant. I was reading in a hurry, and halfway through I was still trying to figure out which side was writing this. I was pretty sure Vox said at the top that it was from a pink-shirt, but every single word she says describes her own crowd.

Blogger The Deuce September 24, 2014 2:19 PM  

The pinkshirts don't just think they're winning, they think they've already won.

Naw, they're desperately trying to tell themselves that they think they've already won. That they have to keep hammering the idea that their victory is "inevitable" is a sign of their actual insecurity. In truth, they know that reality is against them and that theirs is a false narrative, one that depends on suppressing everyone's observations in perpetuity and on reality never asserting itself. Hence, they live in perpetual fear that they will be exposed and it will all come crumbling down, and that's why they're so angry and paranoid, and must constantly keep that fear at bay by pumping sunshine up their own asses all the time.

Anonymous Earl Ragnar Cheddarman September 24, 2014 2:22 PM  

"The pinkshirts don't just think they're winning, they think they've already won."- Vox Day

I will win with the pink shirts, when I am playing football with thier severed heads.

Sincerely,


Earl Ragnar Cheddarman

Anonymous Anonymous September 24, 2014 2:22 PM  

For the love of all that's holy, it's Laurie Penny. You should have expected nothing else. This kind of delusional crap is her stock-in-trade, pretty much all she writes. Typical loud, angry, strong, independent, perpetual victim "journalist-activist" who is somehow always triumphant in her own mind.

She closes comments because they're no longer an echo chamber and SJWs need their echo chamber like Green Lantern needs his lamp. Both are fictional inventions. In GamerGate, they found that their Fortress of Sistertude had been breached and they couldn't control the narrative; hence the number of incidences of doxxing or the threat of doxxing to blackmail and silence critics.

The louder they declare victory, the deeper and more fundamental their fear.

Anonymous Samuel Scott September 24, 2014 2:22 PM  

I disagree. Blue vs pink is about who's reading what. 35,000 blue books is a big deal. It's a much bigger deal than revenue, because this isn't about who's making more money, it's about who's reading and whose reader base is growing.

Right. See my later comment about percentage of market share.

Blogger Aquila Aquilonis September 24, 2014 2:29 PM  

TV shows and Books are very different animal. TV shows can measure viewers while books cannot measure readers. Does Amazon offer the data of how many people who downloaded your book actually read it?

Anonymous Wow September 24, 2014 2:33 PM  

I'm so confused by this #gamergate....
Doesn't it all come down to sales?

Why are feminists turning this into a "one culture must over throw the other in the court of public opinion"??

Isn't that a weak way to fight this?

Make games that people want to buy. it's as simple as that.


Imagine how silly it would look if the makers of Resistance: Fall of Man.... opposed to just making a game that people wanted to buy over Halo resorted to shaming people out of buying Halo with vague, abstract concepts of "social justice, diversity"....


Isn't this what it all boils down to? They want people to buy their games.

Anonymous BluntForceTrauma September 24, 2014 2:37 PM  

Vox, in another example that he gets it: "the pinkshirts have absolutely no idea how reliant they were upon male forbearance."

Exactly right. This happens in marriages all the time, where the guy just have the energy or inclination to argue and peck, peck, peck. . . .

Anonymous Zell September 24, 2014 2:39 PM  

Isn't this what it all boils down to? They want people to buy their games.

No. They want people to NOT buy games they don't like.

Blogger Quadko September 24, 2014 2:41 PM  

The backbone of a strong culture really is either work and eat, or don't work and don't eat; and for everyone's ambition to be minding their own business and working themselves. Oddly, whinging isn't work, and it's usually minding other people's business, two strikes against it. For a healthy society, punishment and justice should bend behavior toward the ideal of 100% participation in these efforts.

I'm sad to say I'm reading a painful atheist book having a similar SJW problem, "Why Our Children will be Atheists" by Williams. I'm halfway through, and his answer seems to be "because Atheism is obviously true and everyone will finally realize that once it's taught in schools, but too late for stubborn old fogies." I'm finishing it so I can fairly review it, but he doesn't seem to understand why people believe in their religion to begin with, and he has no idea why the culture war is raging and isn't over yet. After all, "inevitable" and "right side of history" so he's sure he's won. No indication yet he's even heard of the philosophic, observational, or cultural difficulties with Atheism, much less has answers, but he's naively confident he's one of the special ones with the truth and every opponent will eventually join him or die, no need to engage ideas with the ignorant unwashed. Sure is the same song, different verse as these gamergate SJWs.

Anonymous Wow September 24, 2014 2:42 PM  

Hi Zell,

So, they're explicitly saying "don't buy these games"?


Where is a good breakdown of all of this?
I see there's a wiki article.... but I have little trust of wiki articles.

Blogger buzzardist September 24, 2014 2:44 PM  

Isn't this what it all boils down to? They want people to buy their games.

Oh, but it's not, at least not for the left. For the left, it's always about power.

Why should they care about sales? It's not like feminist games were selling anything before, so if they totally wreck the industry, the feminists still won't be selling any games. At least that way it will all be equal.

No, the left wants power. They are willing to wreck an industry to obtain power over it. They will not stand for something that they don't control. Their tactic is to tantalize companies with sales to new markets--"Girls play games, too!" As they do this, they get enough of "their" people scattered around the industry that they are able to start wresting control away from anyone who resists them. When the new markets don't particularly pan out and sales start to lag, they resort to demonizing threats--"Your industry is sexist!" Well, gee, a company doesn't want to be branded sexist. That could mean lost sales, so obviously they have to apologize and make some concessions. And, oh, oops! Now they're outraged again and demanding more concessions. And, oddly enough, although the company acted to prevent a drop in sales, the capitulation has, as their next couple products rolled out, earned them lower sales. The traditional market that was supposedly a dead end is pissed and has begun to jump ship, while the new markets haven't come nearly close to making up for the losses. But do the lefties who now control things care? Nope. They have power. And that's better than sales any day.

Anonymous Strange Aeons September 24, 2014 2:44 PM  

Based on the countless commercials and sitcoms that relentlessly portray white males as hopelessly clueless buffoons who, as least among equals, are constantly being schooled and upstaged by every womyn, gay or black in suspiciously overdiversified settings, clearly there is no way a man could ever have raped a woman without her help getting his jeans unbuttoned in the first place, no way a man could ever make a sexist remark without being immediately buried in witty rejoinders, and all our efforts to drown gays and blacks were stymied when Teachable Moments revealed that they walk on water. Gee, I guess it's true: we have utterly lost the war.

*turns off the tv, looks outside*

...oh, what's this? Still on top and nobody says 'boo' to me in real life?
If there's a war and we're losing, why are all our 'victorious conquerors' hiding in hashtag bunkers?
Odd, that...

Blogger Quadko September 24, 2014 2:46 PM  

I'm so confused by this #gamergate.... Doesn't it all come down to sales?
Why, that kind of objective measure is obviously sexist malespeak representative of all that is evil in the world. Reeducation camp for you! All game authors should be fairly and equitably subsidized, and people should be forced to buy a quota of games and must play the ones we give awards to. Of course, subversive game creators will have subsidies removed and be made to grow food or clean sewers for their badthink; when we say "all" we mean right thinking game designers - that should be obvious.

Anonymous damaged justice September 24, 2014 2:47 PM  

Wow: Try this: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate

Timeline of relevant events: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/wiki/index

Anonymous Noah B. September 24, 2014 2:47 PM  

Maybe I'm giving them too much credit, but I believe that most of the pinkshirts know that if they make Call Of Duty 5: Buttsex In The Trenches practically no one is going to buy it. So they want to invade already successful enterprises and use them for propaganda delivery.

Blogger Outlaw X September 24, 2014 2:48 PM  

I had to look up Mutaween and doxxing both. We need to do some doxxing on the mutaween SJW's.

Part of Gen X legacy may well be the destruction of feminism as a viable political and social doctrine. I'll lay good odds on it.

Blogger ajw308 September 24, 2014 2:56 PM  

They are nothing but pale imitators and parasites. They create nothing new, they bring nothing to the table, they gorge themselves insatiably off the scraps that we cast off and then claim to be feeding themselves.
Other than our limited efforts to fight back, there's parallels here with our war against Islam.

Blogger Bob Wallace September 24, 2014 2:57 PM  

Erik von Kuenelt-Leddihn, in his "Leftism Revisited," wrote that the Left doesn't merely misunderstand human nature. They don't understand it at all.

Anonymous Zell September 24, 2014 3:03 PM  

So, they're explicitly saying "don't buy these games"?

Take a look at the sort of nonsense that was going on when GTA5 was out. Googling for "GTA5" and "misogyny" should turn up results.

Reason? GTA5 has yet to feature a female main character, therefore it's a misogynist game and Rockstar should feel bad and address this injustice. See the whole "Dickwolves" controversy. Or Dragon's Crown.

Yes, when they argue this or that game is misogynist or this or that, they're trying to hit the sales of it, and are frowning on people who play it without looking all ashamed.

Anonymous Josh September 24, 2014 3:04 PM  

TV shows and Books are very different animal. TV shows can measure viewers while books cannot measure readers. Does Amazon offer the data of how many people who downloaded your book actually read it?

Actually, tv shows measure tv sets, not viewers. So if you left the tv on and your dog watches qvc all day, that number is equal to watching espn with four other people.

Also what if someone buys a book, reads it, and gives it to a friend to read?

Anonymous Anonymous September 24, 2014 3:06 PM  

The truth is that they are meeting with active and stubborn male resistance for the first time in years and they are stunned and astonished by it....the pinkshirts have absolutely no idea how reliant they were upon male forbearance.

No. They don't. Feminists get all screechy when I point out to them the obvious: Feminism can only exist insofar as men acquiesce. But, no, that can't be right, I'm told, Brave, Strong Feminists have wrested their "rights" at great cost from the clutches of the evil Patriarchy!!

They also don't like it when I point out that this mythical Patriarchy must be pretty bad at its job with all the feminist victories and feminist changes in society. But, no, that can't be right, I'm told. All women everywhere are completely oppressed by Patriarchy, wretchedly down-trodden and cowering in fear for their lives!

So that they're declaring victory and running away is not surprising in the least. If they've so long believed their own PR and the fantasy and lies that are the primary pillar of feminism, they're not going to stop now just cause they're getting a little push-back...

Anonymous Earl September 24, 2014 3:06 PM  

The logic is inevitability. Her logic is hurting peoples feelings and treating them as the other, as subhuman, is bad. Except when she does it against her enemies. And her logic is easily refuted by pointing out out t hat everyone else is in fact an other, and there is no law of nature that says you cannot treat them as an inferior. Her views are merely religious. She believes people ought and ought not do a list of things, and has no proof to back her religious assertions. Her post is a sermon. Let the men be silent in her church during her sermon. If you have a question, go home and ask your wife. That's why comments are closed.

Anonymous Earl September 24, 2014 3:07 PM  

...Her logic ISN'T inevitability...

Anonymous Porky September 24, 2014 3:09 PM  

Today, Wesleyan announced that all fraternities are required to admit women.

This is what happens when you stop teaching latin.

Anonymous CDC Scientist September 24, 2014 3:10 PM  

A year ago, Castalia House did not exist. In six months, we have sold or given away more than 35,000 books.
Assuming 4,000 books in the first month and a 15% monthy growth rate, that's over 4 million books by the end of year 3!

Anonymous I love games September 24, 2014 3:13 PM  

maybe im blind. Maybe im not seeing what you guys are seeing, but from my perspective, gamer gate is slowly dwindling into irrelevance. What have we changed? what has gamer gate changed in the industry? have any of these people been removed from their jobs? fired? not that I've seen. I have yet to see anything happen since gamer gate blew open. Sorry, but all of this social media 'protesting and outrage' hasn't done much. I think the only thing that will create any sort of change would be targeted assassinations or something.

Anonymous Anonymous September 24, 2014 3:17 PM  

I noticed the same phrase Wendy did... women hounded out of their homes? When has that EVER happened? The SJWs are the ones doing the hounding, and mostly hounding people out of their jobs, although sometimes they do manage to hound people out of their homes too. Is it that the SJWs wish to be able to hound people out of their own homes on a regular basis? I think so. They want the ability to throw people out of the tribe to starve or die of exposure, all without being subject to the same penalty themselves.

Anonymous bob k. mando September 24, 2014 3:18 PM  

Wendy September 24, 2014 2:16 PM
What an odd turn of phrase. It is the SJWs who try to hound women out of their homes, not the reverse. "Just a stay at home Mom? You're wasting your life."



try Janay Rice. now that they've succeeded in firing Ray, this married couple has no real income.

athletes are notoriously poor shepherds of their own wealth. does Janay strike you ( heh ) as the kind of wife who would be wise enough to have invested his wealth?

Anonymous damaged justice September 24, 2014 3:19 PM  

"From my perspective, gamer gate is slowly dwindling into irrelevance"

Then you're not following the action. It's understandable inside the echo chambers, but as far as everyone else is concerned it's no more than a tempest in a teapot. For most people, it's not even a blip on the radar.

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/

The forces of truth are just getting started, and the SJW's are growing more desperate every day.

Anonymous Anonymous September 24, 2014 3:20 PM  

What fucking idiot ever came up with the idea of "Women's Rights" anyway? Seriously? Who gives a shit about how women are treated? Outside of baby-making and sex they have no actual use or value anyways so why should anyone pander to them?

Blogger Cataline Sergius September 24, 2014 3:20 PM  

I’ve been thinking about what happened to Jennifer Lawrence; about what happened to Zoe Quinn; about what happened to Anita Sarkeesian;

Not really thinking you understand, just feeling, which is much more important for a feminist.

All three of these women are being held accountable for their actions. That is the horror beyond imaging that they are now enduring. And that is indeed, intolerable to a feminist.

I will grant that of the three, Jennifer Lawrence is the closest thing to an innocent party, she has an exhibitionist fetish that she could have kept under wraps in the days of the Polaroid Instamatic but not in the days of the iPhone iCloud. I would care but I can not.*

Penny Red is right about one thing. The SJWs do have one big advantage. They love to organize and be organized. They can't manage rational thought, logic or reason. But they can pack themselves into rows and columns dictated by height, weight, gender orientation, gender intelligence, political focus, environmental awareness and a hundred other measurements that determine their pecking order, like beavers build a damn.

I swear, it is in their genetics to do so.

And they happily submit to that pecking order!

We, on the other hand, get into fist fights over preferred pistol caliber.

It's an issue and we may need to work on that.


Anonymous Zell September 24, 2014 3:23 PM  

What fucking idiot ever came up with the idea of "Women's Rights" anyway? Seriously? Who gives a shit about how women are treated? Outside of baby-making and sex they have no actual use or value anyways so why should anyone pander to them?

And here we have a great example of the SJW mindset at work.

Most of us here are simply mocking the SJWs, pointing out their flaws. SJW onlooker sees this, fumes that there's not nearly enough clear hostility and bullshit in the conversation - so they helpfully add it themselves, hoping others can add to it. And even if they don't, they can point at their own anonymous quote and go "See? See? This is how they think!"

Anonymous Corvinus September 24, 2014 3:26 PM  

Today, Wesleyan announced that all fraternities are required to admit women.

This is what happens when you stop teaching latin.


The concept of "women's fraternities" has been around for a while. There's some BS reason they don't call them "sororities", but for the life of me I can't quite wrap my head around it.

Anonymous Zell September 24, 2014 3:27 PM  

maybe im blind. Maybe im not seeing what you guys are seeing, but from my perspective, gamer gate is slowly dwindling into irrelevance. What have we changed? what has gamer gate changed in the industry? have any of these people been removed from their jobs? fired? not that I've seen. I have yet to see anything happen since gamer gate blew open. Sorry, but all of this social media 'protesting and outrage' hasn't done much. I think the only thing that will create any sort of change would be targeted assassinations or something.

Targeted assassinations? Are you a real idiot, or just faking it?

All gamergate changed is awareness. It presented pushback. It gave non-SJWs, reasonable critics and more the opportunity to fight back in social media. That's pretty mere, except for the fact that those people see the value of their jobs as largely amounting to dominating "the narrative". It's been shown: they can't, and they don't. In fact, a lot of people think they're corrupt or full of shit.

But, considering "targeted assassinations", you probably know this. Everyone knows the one thing SJWs crave is talk of physical violence and threats being directed at them, particularly anonymous ones. Because then they themselves can make those threats, and scream about their being victimized.

Anonymous Salt September 24, 2014 3:31 PM  

It's an issue and we may need to work on that

What an issue? The fist fights or the preferred caliber?

Anonymous Krul September 24, 2014 3:33 PM  

Two things:

1) Mischaracterization - The problem is that women are doing it. That’s why the naked selfies, the slut-shaming, is not just incidental to the argument – it is the argument. Underneath it all, you’re just a woman, just a body. You can be reduced to flesh. You are less. You are an object. You are other. LOL, boobs.

No.

The problem isn't that the SJWs are women. Many of them are male, in fact. The problem is that they are corrupt, decietful, worthless killjoys.

2) Obliviousness - the people who are so unspeakably angry that women dare, they dare with their stupid ladyheads and evil ladyparts, they dare to come into their special boy spaces and actually demand a voice

What is it with women and their intolerance for male groups?

How do you think the SJW would react if men entered one of the special girl spaces and "demanded a voice"?

Anonymous Zell September 24, 2014 3:37 PM  

How do you think the SJW would react if men entered one of the special girl spaces and "demanded a voice"?

This is supposed to be a SAFE space! SAFE! WE FELT SAFE HERE! Yet here YOU come, MANSPLAINING things to us!!!

I've seen this sort of thing happen with male SJWs. They chime in on a conversation about feminism and how to help women, and God help them if it's the wrong day. Suddenly all kinds of sarcasm about how they're mansplaining and sarcastic thank yous for their input because lil' girls like them couldn't think about solutions without a MAN showing up to help.

There are few things more pathetic than a male SJW being on the receiving end of such a thing, trying desperately to apologize his way out of it, and his every apology being met with yet more mockery.

Anonymous Thomas Mann September 24, 2014 3:39 PM  

one big advantage. They love to organize and be organized.

They have a desperate psych need to be a part of something and be somebody
Anything. Thus, the self-loathing and the Collective and the Warren.

Blogger FALPhil September 24, 2014 3:39 PM  

Vox wrote:
Remember, an angry woman always engages in psychological projection.


I have noticed this trait in more that a few "protected minorities" regardless of sex.


hygate wrote:
The two magazines with the biggest circulation are both put out by AARP with over 45 million subscribers between the two.


Magazines? Who reads magazines any more?

Salt wrote:
What an issue? The fist fights or the preferred caliber?


If it ain't 0.429 inches or better, it ain't worth discussing.

Just sayin'.

Anonymous Strange Aeons September 24, 2014 3:44 PM  

"Come, Alpha males, there is much we could both gain from equality."
"If you haven't noticed, we've been sharing our equality with you all morning."

Anonymous Krul September 24, 2014 3:45 PM  

The problem is that they are corrupt, decietful, worthless killjoys.

I have to emphasize the "killjoy" label. Their mission in this is literally to spoil other peoples' fun. That's the big reason that they're getting so much resistance among gamers.

Zell - They chime in on a conversation about feminism and how to help women, and God help them if it's the wrong day.

By "the wrong day", you mean "the wrong time of the month" I presume.

Blogger Quadko September 24, 2014 3:51 PM  

Magazines? Who reads magazines any more?
Obviously, only the old people.

Anonymous Stilicho September 24, 2014 3:51 PM  

when I am playing football with thier severed heads

There is no time for such frivolity until after you've built that longship. Now, back to work...

Anonymous VD September 24, 2014 3:52 PM  

Just a note from the marketing and business perspective. If you want to tout the success of Castalia, I'd cite revenue and profit figures -- especially as a percentage-growth quarter by quarter -- rather than just sales figures.

You're missing the point. Unless we are actually expanding the market, there are around 35,000 fewer mainstream-published books being read this year as a direct result. Being a shrinking market, SF/F is a zero-sum game these days. That's why I count free books as a win in their own right instead of just a marketing tool; the Pink vs Blue social justice war is not just about the business elements.

Anonymous Stilicho September 24, 2014 3:59 PM  

There is no way to win this game, except by not playing at all.

Is that just femsplaining a preemptive retreat?

Blogger Eric September 24, 2014 4:05 PM  

Time magazine is still a thing?

According to wikipedia Time's circulation is 3,289,377, Game Informer 7,629,995.


I'm surprised Time is still in print. It'll be a website only before too much longer.

Blogger James Dixon September 24, 2014 4:09 PM  

> Unless we are actually expanding the market...

I'd say you're definitely recapturing a lost market, at the very least.

Anonymous FP September 24, 2014 4:23 PM  

"There’s a culture war happening right now."

She just made Bill O'reily's day.

Anonymous Anonymous September 24, 2014 4:31 PM  

I don't care if we're winning or losing. I fight anyway. And keep fighting.

Anonymous 0007 September 24, 2014 4:32 PM  

What do suppose all these sjw's will do if they succeed in destroying this country's dominent culture?
Somehow I doubt that whatever replaces it(and nature truely abhores a vacuum) will be quite so interested in their hurt feelings.(comm/ islims/ oligarchy/anarchy - whatever)but rather more interested in bending them over the nearest elevated or flat surface - them and their friends.

Anonymous Danto September 24, 2014 4:51 PM  

An article from the second leaker of GameJournoPro

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/09/gamergate-game-journalists-ignored-facts-to-push-gamers-are-dead-agenda-according-to-e-mails/

Anonymous old coyote September 24, 2014 4:52 PM  

the female of our species has more "good" and "worth" than any anonymous piece of shit troll. highly likely SJW, as noted previously.

Anonymous bob k. mando September 24, 2014 4:58 PM  

0007 September 24, 2014 4:32 PM
Somehow I doubt that whatever replaces it(and nature truely abhores a vacuum) will be quite so interested in their hurt feelings.(comm/ islims/ oligarchy/anarchy - whatever)



Laurie calls herself "Penny Red" because ... she IS a cultural marxist.

" Without a doubt the loudest and most controversial female voice on the radical left.
The Telegraph"

to put it another way, the Telegraph identifies her as a Leftist troll.

to put it another way, the only metrics that the Social Justice Whiners have for success is being 'loud' and 'controversial'.

factual accuracy and utility in everyday life are completely beside their point.

Anonymous Noah B. September 24, 2014 5:06 PM  

"I’ve been thinking about what happened to Jennifer Lawrence"

Clearly she's a ZZ Top fan.

Anonymous Michael September 24, 2014 5:21 PM  

I've encountered this pathetic attitude when dealing with SJW Marxists here and elsewhere. They declare victory, over what I don't know. They didn't succeed at changing my mind about anything -- and they never will either. We've seen the same attitude take shape with the evolution/bigbang/AGW crowd declaring them settled science.

Anonymous Borderline Anonymous September 24, 2014 5:24 PM  

VD
Being a shrinking market, SF/F is a zero-sum game these days. That's why I count free books as a win in their own right instead of just a marketing tool; the Pink vs Blue social justice war is not just about the business elements.

This is not entirely true, for the simple reason that given a choice between crappy pink SF and no SF, I have chosen to read other things. I'm one tiny reason Analog magazine's circulation is down, for example. Stan Schmidt's editorial bleatings back in the late 90's and early 00's of "SF is better than ever! Really, it is!" failed to convince me, and I got tired of buying the 'zine off of the shelf, reading only part of several stories, gagging over a letter or two, and basically only finishing a Probability Zero and any sorta-science article that somehow leaked in. I think the last brand new, off the shelf SF hardcover I bought was by Larry Niven and it was back in 2002 or so.

I have access to used bookstores, I have old books to re-read, and there's plenty of decent SF written prior to the New Wave of the 1970's - 80's. I like Saberhagen's Berzerker novels even if they tend to be a bit space operaish, and even when I recognize which historical campaign he's rewritten. So my reading is not a zero sum game in terms of pink vs. blue. I'm a lost reader so far as pinkstream SF is concerned. And picking up a new "radium age" SF book such as Night Land doesn't really count, because I'd rather read pseudo King James text than dinoporn.

When and if I purchase a copy of, say, Wright's Awake in the Night Lands it won't affect pink SF one bit. Because I'm not their target market. I bet I'm not the only one.

Blogger Robert What? September 24, 2014 5:28 PM  

The thing they seem to have forgotten from the history of the 20th century "progressives" (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot) is that the first people to be purged are the useful idiots

Anonymous A Paradigm Is More Than Twenty Cents September 24, 2014 5:29 PM  


Isn't this what it all boils down to? They want people to buy their games.


Nah. Because for that to work, the Social Justice Whores would have to actually create a game that's more interesting than Depression Quest. A game that would sell in the gamer market. That means a game that would sell to a market consisting mainly of men.

So that means the SJW's would have to do something that men would actually like enough to buy. Right there we're talking some major, major oppression by the patriarchy. Wait, I wrote that incorrectly.

RIght there we're talking major, major oppression! by! the! patriarchy!

Probably not enough exclamation points, but closer.

Anonymous Ed September 24, 2014 5:35 PM  

No idea who she is. Looked on Wikipedia and found out she contributes to the guardian. Says it all. That damn paper makes me so angry.

Blogger Cataline Sergius September 24, 2014 5:38 PM  

@ Noah B.

Clearly she's a ZZ Top fan.

And a slob.

There are several things that the Fappening has revealed about J Law...But the most consistent thing (apart from her exhibitionism) is that the girl will not pickup after herself.

After a bit, the overwhelming clutter in the background actually manages to distract from the rampant nudity.

That took some doing.

Blogger Mekadave September 24, 2014 5:51 PM  

One of the funnier side facts about this whole thing: Depression Quest is apparently permanently *FREE* on Steam. They can't even charge money for the POS! ROFL!

Blogger ray September 24, 2014 5:55 PM  

"The Social Justice Whores, who as I noted yesterday are the moral mutaweenies of the godless Left, are making two major mistakes. First, they have completely failed to understand their enemy. Second, they have prematurely declared victory."



Good analysis, right on it I think. These people -- female AND male -- don't really know what it means to be in a fight. And to get hurt. To risk and sacrifice heavily for the right reasons. Which always happens in a real fight.


Instead, they've been able to use the State, churches, private enterprise, and weak men to bully, intimidate, silence, and beat down (often legalistically) anyone who dared disagree during the past forty years. Usually we never heard of these treacherous takedowns, b/c their victims are only lone men or little boys, w/o the ability or wealth to defend themselves. Cowards and bullies don't like fights. They like Group Stompings . . . and keeping the money-machine humming along. (Hell-O NFL!)


Also correct that they project their own spirits and minds onto others; thus, haven't the faintest idea who/what they are up against. They imagine that you, for example, are just a sort of copy of themselves (because isn't everybody really just like ME ME ME! lol) and that therefore you will behave as they behave -- backhandedly, dishonestly, greedily, utterly self-interestedly, shamefully, and cowardly. They have no other frame of reference, and given the state of western masculinity, it's not difficult to grok their inability to understand an actual MAN when they encounter one.


Right also that their desperation is reflected in both the gamer-grab fail, and in the feminizing of sports push. Finally figuring out that they are in an actual fight, they rush to consolidate and control the last secular areas of healthy masculinity in America.


If they could get past the projection, the pinkies would understand that they cannot win, and that Personal Destruction of any dissenters is all really available to them. The core of opposition will not be giving up. Nor making compromises. Nor sitting down at the bargaining table. There is nothing to negotiate and they are not being ASKED for anything. We are not voting on what's gonna happen, nor gathering in a circle for cuntsensus.


Your punches are landing. Well done.

Blogger YIH September 24, 2014 5:57 PM  

hygate:
The two magazines with the biggest circulation are both put out by AARP with over 45 million subscribers between the two.
Their number inflation would even put JOHN SCALZI to shame. Three months before age 50? You get a 6 month sub to AARP Magazine automatically. Sign up for AARP? Lifetime subscriber.
Not even TIME can pull that off.

Blogger YIH September 24, 2014 6:05 PM  

damaged justice:
"From my perspective, gamer gate is slowly dwindling into irrelevance"

Then you're not following the action. It's understandable inside the echo chambers, but as far as everyone else is concerned it's no more than a tempest in a teapot. For most people, it's not even a blip on the radar.

From what I've seen 4chan has taken a serious hit on traffic. Considering how ad dependent it is, that will sting.

Anonymous Anonymous September 24, 2014 6:18 PM  

@ Borderline Anonymous

When and if I purchase a copy of, say, Wright's Awake in the Night Lands it won't affect pink SF one bit. Because I'm not their target market. I bet I'm not the only one.

I disagree.

I, too, stopped reading SF/F years ago, and have only recently returned. A growing market in "Blue" SF/F is a direct threat to the pinkshirt market, authors and publishers, and will start to siphon off readers. As that market continues to contract and sales continue to dwindle, it affects publishers' bottom line. Given that some of the SF publishers may be in trouble already, that could bode well for us. The corporate masters of those publishers don't really give a damn about social justice in SF/F, and if those houses aren't pulling their weight, they'll be shut down or their editors will be replaced. This especially if the corporate masters see a functioning and growing alternate market that they're not part of.

It may take years to accomplish, but I think that Vox's point is valid: growing the market for good SF/F is more important right now than focusing on sales numbers and revenue (obviously there has to be some revenue, but given the lean business model of Calista House and no corporate masters to please, it's less of a concern).

Anonymous Sarcophilus September 24, 2014 6:23 PM  

The pinkshirts have only lost one thing. Their minds. Ok, maybe 2, their souls, but that may have been lost long before...

Blogger Joshua Sinistar September 24, 2014 6:29 PM  

I don't think you really understand what they're saying. In order for Life to be fair, everyone must have an equal share of the misery that Losers experience everyday, because if you're having Fun you're doing it wrong!
How dare you act superior! Do you think you're better than them? Because they think they're better than you! That's not hypocrisy when you're delusional!

Anonymous kfg September 24, 2014 6:54 PM  

Neighbor's goat, too, must die>

http://www.ramzpaul.com/2014/01/when-i-was-in-eastern-europe-girl-who.html

Anonymous Titus Didius Tacitus September 24, 2014 7:08 PM  

I thought that style of argumentation was familiar. Laurie Penny is of course of Jewish descent.

Her advice to the (implicitly white gentile) men, which is inevitably bad, boils down to this: "fear our big media allies and stop fighting this battle that you're winning (so that we can take the fight to you at some later time when it will be more to our advantage)".

Nothing in the world will convince her that she's not an innocent victim of some out-group she is disposed to hate, or that she can't argue any of them down regardless of the lack of facts and logic in her favor, or that her bad advice won't be accepted and her unreasonable demands won't be granted if she is persistent enough, intense enough, and shameless enough in her rhetoric and her sense of entitled specialness.

Taking someone like that seriously as an interlocutor is like syllogizing with cicadas. They will have the last word because they are making their noises for purely biological reasons.

To mistake someone like that for a fellow-member of a real community, to whom one might make more-than-just concessions for the greater good of community peace, is a mistake.

She doesn't need a response other than possibly a polite "on your bike".

And of course the gamers should keep fighting and winning.

Anonymous CloseHauled September 24, 2014 7:25 PM  

Time Magazine

All bubbles pop with Time Magazine proclaiming no bubble....it is a good indicator of the market top

For example:

Viewpoint: Stop Calling Student Loans a “Bubble”!

And

Time Magazine: Calling the Top of the Housing Bubble

Anonymous bw September 24, 2014 7:29 PM  

The Skull and Bonesman Henry Luce's Time Magazine?
It's a small world, after all.

Blogger LP 999/Eliza September 24, 2014 7:30 PM  

The lord has blessed you many times over, this too, the Castalia House will be and already is a success!

Blogger LP 999/Eliza September 24, 2014 7:42 PM  

Winning; debate! We will never back down!

Blogger LP 999/Eliza September 24, 2014 7:45 PM  

Speaking of college, just wait until the kids go to their old colleges with a lighter in one hand and the degree in the other.

The moral people will disown the piece of paper along with the fraudulent, punitive, hideous debt!

Anonymous Hunsdon September 24, 2014 7:48 PM  

Even Rob Schneider MUST DIE.

Anonymous p-dawg September 24, 2014 8:14 PM  

"The trouble is that treating other human beings like faceless opponents doesn’t work in the real world."

You mean like this?
"in this world full of angry, broken, lost young men convinced that women have robbed them of some fundamental win in life,"

You're right. It doesn't work.

Blogger Retrenched September 24, 2014 9:21 PM  

Doxing, DDOS attacks, fabricating death threats, blocking all non-SJWs on Twitter and Facebook, deleting all disagreeing comments and imposing strict censorship in places where it was previously unheard of - these are not the tactics of people who believe they are winning the debate, and that victory is inevitable.

Anonymous I love games September 24, 2014 10:07 PM  

All this cheering and not a single shred of tangible evidence that gamer gate is nothing but a bunch if people complaining on social media.

Anonymous Gara September 24, 2014 10:13 PM  

fabricating death threats

Yeah right, keep telling yourself that. No wonder you need such pathetic attempts to explain away the rape and death threats, since they are a tacit admission that right wingers can't win the debate in terms of arguments, so they need to resort to these kind of tactics to silence their critics. You can't even see the irony in the fact that Doxing and DDOS attacks are typicall 4chan angry male tactics.

You want to know another reason why we are winning, another key difference between you guys and the SJW you despise so much? We are also willing to voice our opinions in real life, and not just as some angry rant on the internet. For all your talk about "courage", the truth is most of you would be too afraid to say in real life the kind of things you say here, and you know it. Ask yourself, for example, if you would be able to say that women should not be allowed to vote when you are around female colleagues at work.

Anonymous sending to FBI September 24, 2014 10:14 PM  

GARA SENT ME DEATH THREATS

Anonymous Tad is a nigger September 24, 2014 10:15 PM  

courage = gara/tad coming here everyday w/a new sockpuppet

Anonymous Titus Didius Tacitus September 24, 2014 10:50 PM  

Gara: "You want to know another reason why we are winning, another key difference between you guys and the SJW you despise so much? We are also willing to voice our opinions in real life, and not just as some angry rant on the internet. For all your talk about "courage", the truth is most of you would be too afraid to say in real life the kind of things you say here, and you know it. Ask yourself, for example, if you would be able to say that women should not be allowed to vote when you are around female colleagues at work."

Communists had the same advantage in the Soviet Union: they were willing to voice their opinions in real life, in front of the KGB.

They lost.

Blogger Michael Maier September 24, 2014 11:06 PM  

Gara: go piss up a rope. I say anything I want in real life. Dismissive contempt is enough to deflect all the liberal idiots I encounter in real life.

Anonymous Daniel September 24, 2014 11:11 PM  

knock knock knock Penny.
knock knock knock Penny.
knock knock knock Penny.

Contrary to the apparent belief of those like yourself with suboptimal intelligence quotients, misogyny is not, in fact, a recreational activity. Perhaps the word you intended was something more in keeping with your intellectual capacity. Say, "makeup application" or "monkey feeding" or maybe even "maple syrup tasting."

Anonymous Cassandra (of Troy) September 25, 2014 3:10 AM  


Anonymous/24Sept14@3:20PM,

They have a 3d use,: Bait


Cataline Sergius/24Sept14@3:20PM,

Why would someone get into a fight over their pistol cal (or firearm type, automobile, music, recreational beverage, etc.) pref?

Anonymous VD September 25, 2014 3:39 AM  

No wonder you need such pathetic attempts to explain away the rape and death threats, since they are a tacit admission that right wingers can't win the debate in terms of arguments, so they need to resort to these kind of tactics to silence their critics.

I get death threats from the Left on a regular basis, Gara. I have for 13 years now. Obviously your side can't win the debate in terms of arguments.

Anonymous Discard September 25, 2014 4:15 AM  

Not many, if any of us here worry about death threats. May as well threaten to hit me with a lightning bolt. It is the very real threat of Left-organized shunning that keeps us anonymous. We need our jobs.

Blogger Akulkis September 25, 2014 4:32 AM  

What if there was a war on women and men actually engaged?

"Strip & spread 'em, or die. I'll be nice and give you your pick!"

Blogger Akulkis September 25, 2014 4:48 AM  

There's a reason that Encyclopedia Dramatica's page on Hans Brievik casts him as a hero...

Anonymous Vogon September 25, 2014 5:13 AM  

Most amusing thing about the article: it's not a game, it's not possible to win, but we're still winning and you're still losing!!

Blogger Akulkis September 25, 2014 5:32 AM  

The two magazines with the biggest circulation are both put out by AARP with over 45 million subscribers between the two.

Their number inflation would even put JOHN SCALZI to shame. Three months before age 50? You get a 6 month sub to AARP Magazine automatically. Sign up for AARP? Lifetime subscriber.
Not even TIME can pull that off.


AARP started sending me their crap when I turned.. oh... 42, I think.

I kept sending back their "postage guaranteed business return mail" sign-up cards taped to a box holding a letter and whatever rock or brick I could find laying around to put in it.

Everyone contained the following note: "you have been conspiring to get laws passed for the sake of stealing money from my family and me ever since I was an infant. And now you want me to send you a check directly? Screw you, and your harpy-filled club."

They must have started putting ID numbers on their junk mail, so as to figure out which recipient address was doing this to them, because I haven't received any more of their trash in a few years.

Blogger Rseven Rocket September 25, 2014 5:39 AM  

We are also willing to voice our opinions in real life, and not just as some angry rant on the internet. For all your talk about "courage", the truth is most of you would be too afraid to say in real life the kind of things you say here, and you know it.

I would be afraid to say heretical things in real life if I wasn't part of the holy inquisition. And it will be so until my friends and I have more guns than the holy inquisition does.

Blogger Tommy Hass September 25, 2014 6:43 AM  

Still wondering why this Gara faggot isn't banned yet.

Anonymous $hamele$$ September 25, 2014 8:23 AM  

Gara, would you agree your whole program is based on fear, intimidation and instilling SHAME?

Blogger Rseven Rocket September 25, 2014 9:58 AM  

Gara doesn't like video games, just like Hamburger Hepler...

Anonymous Blaster September 25, 2014 10:36 AM  

Interesting post from the escapist forums (from a couple of days ago)

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.860762-GamerGate-Discussion-Debate-and-Resources?page=260#21430845

I think this conversation has spent so long going around in circles, being derailed, being put back on the rails, and then going in circles again, that people have forgotten what really matters here. As we sit here arguing the finer points of whether or not someone personally thinks journalistic ethics have any purpose, or what a group would or wouldn't like to be called, or how to best appeal to nonexistent moderates that have somehow been listening to all of this for six weeks, but just really don't have any idea what it is all about, or where they stand on it, there are people losing their jobs, journalists and devs getting blacklisted, people being intimidated and threatened, allegations of extortion, contest rigging, and a stifling overall atmosphere of fear throughout the whole industry.

https://twitter.com/j_millerworks/status/513268615144296448
http://techraptor.net/2014/09/12/interview-daniel-vavra/
http://www.nichegamer.net/2014/09/real-gamedevs-sound-off-regarding-the-gamergate-controversy/
http://gamesnosh.com/fez-investors-outed-judges-2011-igf-award/

The question is, if this has been going on for years, why now? Why this sudden revolt? The short answer is, because they decided to do this, planning it more than a year in advance, but events pushed their hand, and they declared gamers dead a little sooner than they intended, and before they had laid all the ground work to lull their audience into it.

http://www.reactionzine.com/an-open-letter-to-games-media/

So instead of their plan, they just went with 11 articles in 24 hours.

https://archive.today/l1kTW
https://archive.today/YlBhH
https://archive.today/2t93l
https://archive.today/i928J
https://archive.today/9NxHy
https://archive.today/jVqJ8
https://archive.today/rkvO8
https://archive.today/L4vJG
https://archive.today/HkPHc
https://archive.today/11OEl
https://archive.today/wptL5

But who are "they?" That is the question I am constantly asked, as though some nebulous "they" proves that it is all just a shadowy conspiracy theory, cooked up from paranoia and insanity. Except, to be quite specific, "they" would happen to be:

Ben Abraham
Jenn Frank
Akira Thompson
Rami Ismail
Ben Kuchera
Brenden Keogh
Anita Sarkeesian
Anthony Burch
Anna Anthropy
Phillip Kollar
Ian Miles Cheong
Mattie Brice
Kris Ligman
Zoya Street
Adrienne Shaw
Leigh Alexander
Alan Williamson
Chelsae Van Valkenberg
Samantha Allen
Lucas Johnson
Andrew Grant Wilson
ceMelusine
Maya Felix Kramer
Devin Vibert
Danniele Livengood
Brian Clark
Kayla Kinnunen
J.C. Hutchins
Melinda Johnston
Jonathan McIntosh
Zach Alexander
Eric Swain
Lindsey Joyce
Mark Filipowich
Cameron Kunzelman
Lana Polansky
Zolani Stewart
Alex Lifschitz
Samantha Allen
Joe Köller
Oscar Strik
Michel McBride-Charpentier
Michael Clarkson
Erik Hanson
Denis Farr
David Carlton
Katie Williams
And several others who are clients of Maya Kramer.

And what makes that list of names a "they?" Every person on that list is financially connected to a company named Silverstring Media, and it's web publishing arm Critical Distance.

So what is Silverstring Media? From their own webpage:


... and so on. Highly recommend checking it out.

Blogger borderwalker September 25, 2014 10:54 AM  

Remember, an angry woman always engages in psychological projection.

Thanks, Gara, for the additional proof that Vox is right. (Of course, there seems to be some doubt about whether or not Gara is female; if not, then the behavior is certainly indicative of what kind of male it is.)

"After a bit, the overwhelming clutter in the background actually manages to distract from the rampant nudity."

This.

Clutter isn't necessarily crazy, nor is the willingness to pose for candid snaps. However, the combination of the two is, ahem, strongly correlated with crazy.

I could have saved myself a lot of grief as a young man, had I understood this.

Anonymous Titus Didius Tacitus September 25, 2014 10:56 AM  

Very interesting indeed. Thanks for the link, Blaster.

Anonymous liljoe September 25, 2014 12:19 PM  

Why anyone would cite being published in Time as anything other than an embarrassment is beyond me.




Blogger sysadmn September 25, 2014 12:32 PM  

Today, Wesleyan announced that all fraternities are required to admit women.

I would sooo love it if one of the fraternities wholeheartedly adopted this. As in, black knighting by declaring, "We believe in the absolute equality of men and women. Any woman who wishes to join is welcome to apply, and will be treated exactly as a male pledge / brother would be treated." Then, they implement co-ed bathrooms, rooming arrangements, etc.

For heaven's sake, you're joining a fraternity, not a sorority.

Blogger Danby September 25, 2014 1:47 PM  

Poorly read? Since he's a failed "aspiring science fiction novelist" and his only written output is for the room-temperature IQ leftist readers of the Grauniad, I would say he's barely read at all.

Anonymous Bluto September 25, 2014 1:51 PM  

"Our modern culture is not based on esotericism – esotericism requires that the commoners are allowed comfortable platitudes while philosophers revel in The Real Truth. Instead we have a culture of Orwellian Crimestop and Newspeak where people are forced to humiliate themselves through the cant of evident falsehoods, the opposite of comfort. Virtue is marked by the ability to believe in contradictory falsehoods through effort of will. A tyranny of the philosophers?

My impression from discussions among the actual leftist intelligentsia is that they are able to believe in these falsehoods, although their own discussions are much more nuanced and reasonable-sounding than the dogmatic assertions of the lumpen-intelligentsia enforcer class."

http://takimag.com/article/from_taboo_to_common_sense_steve_sailer#axzz3ECdyZCC9

Anonymous Shut up rabbit September 25, 2014 2:59 PM  

@Gara
Piss off. And I would have no trouble telling you that to your face. And I get death threats IRL from vibrants living off the tax payers coin when I call them on their disgusting behaviors.

I have no fear of you Gara, none at all. You are a fool not to realize that *your* empowerment is the empowerment of anonymity and distance provided by the Internet. Previous generations of your type had the decency to STFU once the realized the couldn't hack it in the real world.

This virtual safe-space, no-blame, non-fat/slut/fail-shaming, rasiss-rape-sham bubble is bursting and all you're going to be left with is your participation ribbons. Hold them close to your chest when you step outside into *our* world, Dorothy.

Anonymous Gen. Kong September 25, 2014 3:18 PM  

It's the classic hubris of the tyrant they display. They seem all-powerful at present. They're taking great delight in making displays of it too. From Derb, to Paula Deen (a faithful party-member who voted twice for D'Won Mocha Messiah), to the Duck-Dynasty guy (who actually stood up to them at least somewhat), to whoever their next target is, the "official" opposition folds up before them like the cheapest aluminum lawn-chair (which is what John Boehner really needs to be sitting in). Their collapse will come sooner or later. As Ann Barnhardt likes to say, history does not repeat but it rhymes.

Even though I am not a Science Fiction of fantasy writer and have zero aspirations in that area, I do consider Castalia House and its launch as one of the very few and genuinely encouraging signs in this dark, truly evil era. I salute Vox and his companions and wish them great success and encouragement in their brave endeavor. More people need to study Castalia's model and follow their example.

Anonymous tiredofitall September 26, 2014 12:13 AM  

"Still wondering why this Gara faggot isn't banned yet." - Tommy Hass

I imagine for the same reason your common house cat doesn't immediately kill its prey. It's far more fun to bat around the dumb helpless mouse because putting it out of its misery right away would end the game too soon.

Blogger Desiderius September 26, 2014 3:40 AM  

Blaster and Titus,

"Highly recommend checking it out."

If anyone needs a developer, I'd be surprised if Mr. Lloyd did not turn out to be an exceptional one.

Or a writer or an attorney, for that matter.

Anonymous Steve September 26, 2014 8:42 PM  

"They can’t understand why, just for example, when my friend, the games critic and consultant Leigh Alexander, was abused and ‘called out’ as an unprofessional slut, a lying cunt, morally and personally corrupt, just for speaking truthfully and beautifully about all of this, it was Alexander who was invited to write her first piece for Time magazine, Alexander who got to define the agenda for the mainstream, who received praise and recognition, whilst her abusers’ words will be lost in a howling vortex of comment threads and subreddits and, eventually, forgotten."

We can't understand that over 85% of the media is owned by Jews who handpick freaks like you to appear in their media in order to try to minimize the achievements or culture of White males and relegate White males to second-class citizens and wage a cultural war against White people in their own countries with the ultimate aim of exterminating our race?

"If white men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are"-Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr,Owner of the New York Times

We understand it.

What you don't understand is that even the Jews think you are the inferior force. If the Jews did not consider us superior to gays as a group, or blacks as a group, or hispanics as a group,or even Jews as a group, why would they spend BILLIONS mobilizing EVERY SOCIAL GROUP except for White heterosexual males against our group? Why wouldn't they fight us themselves, or just have the blacks fight us,or just the gays, or just the transsexuals,or just the liberal/Marxist contingent?

They need ALL OF YOU attacking this tiny group, less than 7% of the world's population, AND they need us disarmed, with no weapons or groups of our own to defend ourselves to even have a HOPE of winning against us. And in the end, they have no hope against us.

We are not confused, we do not suffer from any lack of understanding or bewilderment, and the Jews who have been your financial benefactors,who taught you everything you believe about us and the world itself and who have created your organizations and organized the gays,women,blacks,communists,hispanics,muslims,transsexuals,etc,against us will never bring us down no matter how many underlings they recruit to war against us.

We don't have to fight their minions. The Jews are only 2% of the world's population and are physically deficient and defenseless.We are twice their number,physically stronger, and once we cut off the head of the anti-White,anti-male, and anti-heterosexual contingent,none of you will be able to continue the war against us because just as you cannot reproduce,yourselves in some cases, and our technology and culture in all cases,neither can you reproduce that of the Jews without their guidance.

I don't have to tell you that you are inferior, you already know it. That's why you hate me with every fiber of your being. But it may be news to you that the Jews also know you are inferior. You don't HAVE any FRIENDS,freaks. You are a tool, and the current generation of White heterosexual men will outlive the Jews' usefulness for you.

I think it is funny that you believe that your words repeating the consensus of the Jews on the modern world are going to last forever,whereas our opposition will be forgotten. Do you know the name of 5 people who thought the Earth was flat before it was proved to be spherical? Do you think none fo them got "praise and recognition" for repeating ignorant lies and trying to silence the opposition? But you know the names of some of those who said it was round, don't you? That's because your conformism has NO intrinsic value. WE will be remembered forever. Even if we are exterminated, we will be remembered (falsely) as the evil boogeymen that your children are afraid of FOREVER.

We will oppose you FOREVER,even if only in your primitive legends and cautionary tales.

Anonymous Steve September 26, 2014 9:02 PM  

"But who are "they?" That is the question I am constantly asked, as though some nebulous "they" proves that it is all just a shadowy conspiracy theory, cooked up from paranoia and insanity. Except, to be quite specific, "they" would happen to be:

Ben Abraham
Jenn Frank
Akira Thompson
Rami Ismail
Ben Kuchera
Brenden Keogh
Anita Sarkeesian
Anthony Burch
Anna Anthropy
Phillip Kollar
Ian Miles Cheong
Mattie Brice
Kris Ligman
Zoya Street
Adrienne Shaw
Leigh Alexander
Alan Williamson
Chelsae Van Valkenberg
Samantha Allen
Lucas Johnson
Andrew Grant Wilson
ceMelusine
Maya Felix Kramer
Devin Vibert
Danniele Livengood
Brian Clark
Kayla Kinnunen
J.C. Hutchins
Melinda Johnston
Jonathan McIntosh
Zach Alexander
Eric Swain
Lindsey Joyce
Mark Filipowich
Cameron Kunzelman
Lana Polansky
Zolani Stewart
Alex Lifschitz
Samantha Allen
Joe Köller
Oscar Strik
Michel McBride-Charpentier
Michael Clarkson
Erik Hanson
Denis Farr
David Carlton
Katie Williams
And several others who are clients of Maya Kramer.

And what makes that list of names a "they?" Every person on that list is financially connected to a company named Silverstring Media, and it's web publishing arm Critical Distance."

Who is "they"? Look up the ethnic backgrounds of everyone on that list. I imagine that one particular ethnicity which is not White but which looks like Whites will be represented to the tune of 70% or more of those on the list and that many of those with Anglo names will turn out to belong to this ethnic group. Then start looking up the ethnic backgrounds of everyone on EVERY list of those involved in what we may politely call "cultural subversion",i.e., criticism of European history,promotion of homosexuality,pedophilia,bestiality,necrophilia,incest,cannibalism,hatred for Christians and Christianity,antagonism against White cultural and historical figures and interest groups,promotion of non-White racial groups and non-Western beliefs and practices, and so on and so on and so on.

There is 1 just ONE thing that ties them all together, and that is their relationship to/with the Jews. They either are Jews,half-Jews,married to Jews, or working for Jews.

Jews are 2% or less of the world's population. The odds of this being coincidental are vanishingly small.

Blogger Retrenched September 27, 2014 12:48 AM  

If you take a SJW's ramblings and substitute "sin" for "racism" and "sexism", and then substitute"righteousness" for "justice" and "equality" you can really see the inner Puritan shining through.

Anonymous Titus Didius Tacitus September 27, 2014 8:11 AM  

Steve: "Jews are 2% or less of the world's population. The odds of this being coincidental are vanishingly small."

More like 0.02% globally and 2% in America, though nobody really knows.

And the odds of this being a coincidence are indeed so low it's ridiculous.

Anonymous Anonymous October 01, 2014 2:38 PM  

I agree that Jews make up the majority of this list. However, believing that a group that makes up 2% of the US population has the power to control the rest of the country is nonsense. The Jews are just the well paid court jesters of the real world elite who are trying to rule the planet.

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