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If you're like me and couldn't be arsed to make it up to Seattle this year but still dig you some gaming in general and PAX in particular, gamespot has a couple articles up covering the best cosplay and game related crap to buy there this year. As usual, there were way too many Deadpools.
Mind you, if you're looking for aggressive navels, you won't find them at PAX this year as they were banned. This didn't sit well with some on Twitter, thus the hashtag #PAXNavelPolicy was spawned by the wacky folks of #GamerGate for all your navel needs. Sic Semper Umbilicus.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @10:08PM
Are we just posting whatever Buzzard submits now?
I hate political correctness and otherkin tumblrista as much as the next dude but this guy is a little unhinged in both his hatred for, and broad categorization of society's ills as SJWs. SJWs are a specific class of keyboard activist, nothing more. They aren't your Orwellian overlords, just the media's current social trend du jour at the moment.
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @10:24PM
Wait, where did I bring up SJWs in that article? Oh, right, I didn't.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @10:40PM
Can you explain what #GamerGate is about, for those who haven't heard of it?
(Score: 3, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @10:57PM
Exposing corruption and conflicts of interest in gaming and the journalism thereof.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @11:14PM
Disagree all you like, it won't change GG's repeatedly stated reason for existing. You don't get to define it to fit your narrative, sorry.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:47AM
it won't change GG's repeatedly stated reason for existing.
In the long forgotten words of Def Leppard - Action, not words.
A puny campaign to scare away advertisers that backfired barely even counts as action.
But all that protesting about not being haters, those words are soooo believable.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:09AM
I know it conflicts with your narrative but when the Kokatu CEO says GG cost them over seven figures, I'm inclined to believe him. Ditto the harassment. The aGG crowd (Randi Harper and Anita Sarkeesian in particular) doxx, try to get fired, and generally harass anyone who disagrees with them that they can find info on; when was the last time you saw a doxx come out of GG? Or harassment (not simply disagreeing with someone, that is not harassment)? Go ahead, look, I'll wait. Yeah, that's what I thought.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Informative) by gman003 on Monday August 31 2015, @11:23PM
If that's all Gamergate is about, then what relevance does it have to convention rules regarding dress code for exhibitors?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @11:28PM
GGers started the hashtag. That's the only relevance. Why? Aggressive navels. It's absurd and begs to be mocked.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 01 2015, @03:10AM
If that's all Gamergate is about, then what relevance does it have to convention rules regarding dress code for exhibitors?
I'd ask for an explanation, but I'm ethically opposed to the torture of logic.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by skullz on Monday August 31 2015, @10:36PM
Which stories did you submit? Asking for a friend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @11:24PM
You have a point. I'll try my hand at submissions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:57AM
SJWs run the Education Department, the Commerce Department, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, Reddit, Hacker News, the EFF, CBS, NBC, ABC, AP, Reuters, BBC, CBC, both ABCs, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Democratic National Committee. Disagreeing with them -- no, scratch that -- saying that it is possible for people to disagree with them will cause you to be publicly slandered, expelled from university, banned from employment in the tech sector, and banned from most open source development networks. They already are our Orwellian overlords. If you don't see it yet, you have been fortunate enough not to have personally encountered them.