On one hand, yay indie-reviews hopefully devoid of payola and pandering, on the other this very much has the potential to turn directly into rotten tomatoes hyper bandwagoning hype aggregation.

Hopefully they'll find a balance between "rome has spoken, there is no other verdict" and letting people who are fully inculcated in the medium touch on things a general consumer/player might miss or not even give a shit about.

In addition to this fill out the survey they sent out if you signed up early its your site.

narrative within a narrative, I think he wants to have real life attempts made to concoct at narrative that the internet makes man commit sin.

And I'm sitting here, desperately trying to get on the blocklist, and I'M STILL NOT ON IT.

Seriously, fuck my life.

I thought following Totalbiscuit would have been enough, but I'm still not on the list :^( either.

I'm fairly sure i'm on the list and i've not been that big into twitter.

Must had managed to piss someone off somehow.

The full list of twitter accounts that will get you on the block bot is here . Try following one and wait for them to update the bot.

Only 7 twitter accounts there? Man that bot sucks.

6 considering roguestargamez is a suspended account.

i followed most of those accounts and i'm not on the block list or any block bot i can see. does it have to do with how many followers you have? i don't have very many. ive even posted an animation on twitter taking the piss out of polygon.

the way the shitty thing was "coded" must be laughable

My quick bet is that you're following someone on the white list. That is without looking at the code and just assuming its really bad.

Not familiar with the language but this might be it.

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Here's the whitelist.

nope, i don't follow any of these people. also >kfc

Then its just reaching the max amount of calls twitter allows and nobody runs the second part of the list when allowed to or only the new people on it.

lol @KFC. How can you have to put that in the whitelist and genuinely think your code is solid? They might as well chalk up a manual blacklist at that point.

Even she thinks its fishing it a too large net :v:. Apparently the next version should be better.

Wouldn't be surprised if they ended up finding more AGG than pro-GG that way :v:

(Theory) The blocklist was created to censor opinion, not harassment. Easier to convince people when it appears nobody is criticizing you; it was designed to block as many rational people as possible so that there is zero dissenting opinion.

Sounds conspiracy-theory level, but the fact she refuses to fix it and make it actually block harassers makes me and a couple others highly suspicious. It's pretty clear this was made to block gamergate opinion, that's a given fact. Also, new accounts can easily get past the blocklist, which the majority of harassment came from in the first place. There was clearly no thought put into this blocklist - or maybe more then we think.

i just dont think freebsodgirl or whatever is a very good coder. this is considering she lost her job as a programmer recently.

I was just thinking about her losing her job, I wonder if it's because of something a gamergater said (which I'm not sure that I'd be okay with, considering they've done the same and brings us down to their level) or her boss found out what she was doin via social media and realized she was more of a liability than anything else?

https://archive.today/VcT0m PC Gamer, says stop using PC master race because the nazis used it.

you certainly adore the Valkyrie gazi.

So does that mean female thor promotes Nazism to?

Nice, finally a piece of journalism that ghazi dislikes.

They're not beating at the gates of kotaku yet but it's a start.

Doesn't tell that much about the person or programming ability.

Can't find the reddit story but some guy got fired for doing his job and his boss not understanding it, even had it as why he was fired on paper.

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There it is.

I think you're giving her too much credit. She, and the people supporting the blocklist are not some kind of criminal mastermind, they're just fucking bonkers. They convinced themselves to be perfect to the point where someone disagreeing cannot possibly be right and is therefore just doing it to harrass you.

To quote south park's infinite wisdom:

"Yes, I believe that you believe that. That's how people like you work! Your ego is so out of whack that it will do whatever it can to protect itself. And people with a messed up ego can do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves they're awesome, when really, they're just douchebags!"

Also a hundred times this, she doesn't have the skill to do a proper job (it would take years to come up with a algorythm to reliably do what her blocklist claims to do, if it were that easy someone would have already done it), but she doesn't care about doing a proper job, so long as it gets the job done she doesn't care how many people get caught in it, cause she's the most important hair-dyed special snowflake in the world, fuck the others! Using a flamethrower is an effective way to get rid of weeds in your backyard, technically.

Basically I was trying to get at they were just bonkers - they are censoring opinions, not harassment.

There's also the vague social hierarchy these people work with where they congregate around a handful of outspoken figureheads. Anyone who is 'lower' than the person they are talking to is seen as speaking above their station, which can only be interpreted by them as harassment.

We, being completely outside their social hierarchy, have no rank so any interaction with them is considered harassment.

Great article by gameinformer on the intel partnership with IGDA/FF

https://archive.today/9gZwU

Nothing new but it's a great summary to pass around to people who aren't in the loop

YEAH.

FUCK. FUCKING YEAH. They slammed Anita on the 2012 deadline!

Edited 14th January 2015

This entire fucking article is beautifully written.

there's also this article by "ben shapiro's truth revolt": "Is Intel In Bed With An Anti-Semite?"

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/curtis-intel-bed-anti-semite

not a huge site i dont think? but still plants the seeds.

That is a blog, not an actual GI article.