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Making good life choices Paid Members Public
This morning I am mainly questioning my life choices. I just received this through the post: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/03/blizz-box.jpg] What’s inside? Why, a statue to celebrate the fact I have been an unbroken subscriber to World of Warcraft for
Understanding chan culture, the birthplace of GamerGate Paid Members Public
Boing Boing has published a fascinating exploration of chan culture [http://boingboing.net/2014/12/31/how-imageboard-culture-shaped.html] – the society of “anons” that congregate around 4chan and its spinoffs – and the problems created when it clashes with, say, Twitter culture, as it did at the height of GamerGate: > This hostility
Social media, data journalism and #gamergate Paid Members Public
I thought that yesterday’s brief post on #gamergate [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/10/obligatory_gamergate_post.html] would be all I had to say on the subject – but two really interesting posts caught my attention, that I want to bring to yours. First up, some serious data
Obligatory #gamergate post Paid Members Public
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/so-gamergate-just-women-seem-4508850] on prominent women developers [http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/brianna-wu-gamergate]
Sexiest Gamer? Paid Members Public
This is quite, quite terrifying. There are competitions running to find the sexiest gamer in the US [http://www.sexiestgamer.com/main_us.php] and UK [http://www.sexiestgamer.com/main_uk.php]. Categories include “personal hygiene closest to society’s norm”, “ability to utter an intelligible word in front
