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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @11:48PM
Let it be known that I take no exception to the statement made in Parent's comment title.
I do take exception to right-wing though. If you think libertarians are right-wing, you're so far to the left that you're about to fall off the scale.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by spamdog on Monday August 31 2015, @11:55PM
I'm not interested in your bullshitty vanity labels. All your submissions are drenched in ideology and it's tiresome. We've all been early-20's ideologues but most people grow out of it.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:06AM
How much ideology do you find in mocking aggressive navels, precisely?
Face it, what you really object to is any mention of GG, because they're slowly but surely winning the fight a bunch of social justice types decided to pick. I get that you're probably chapped today because one of the most prominent anti-GGers out there just got outed today as a pedophile [youtube.com] but that's not my problem.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by spamdog on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:09AM
It's a bunch of idiotic triumphalism for people with nothing else to be proud of.
This, moments after characterizing yourself as a libertarian. Gamergate is not libertarian. Gamergate is conservative culture warring. I searched for this "aggressive navels" and the sites that come up are KotakuInAction, on reddit and voat.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:14AM
See, you're blinded by how far left you are. If you could take a step back for a moment, you'd see it's not just the right you're fighting in your PC cultural invasion. You're fighting right, center, and even part of the left. Which is why you will lose.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by spamdog on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:17AM
I come here to read tech articles, not for a victory over those darned SJW's.
Like I said, bullshitty triumphalism for people with nothing else in their lives.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:30AM
And that's what you got. Gaming is part of tech. PAX is a gaming con. For that matter, #GamerGate is an online movement by gamers and very much tech-related. Live with the facts or deny them, won't change a thing.
You really should read more of my comments. I care more about fishing than I ever will what the SJWs are doing. I know it probably butthurts them to no end but they're really not that important. Gamers simply refuse to lose a game they're playing. It's kind of built in. It doesn't mean we're going to lose any metaphorical sleep over the game.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by spamdog on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:40AM
You are not nearly as objective and detached as you claim. Otherwise why would you need to pimp these kinds of stories?
I have read up about your recent triumph against @srhbutts, and as suspected, it's a sordid story of doxxing and 8chan cretinism.
Your "mocking" of navels comes across like Rush Limbaugh trying to be funny. It's less about the humor and more about the ideology. The "jokes" are always accompanied by Very Serious Internet Furrowed Brow.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:17AM
Outing a pedophile by their own public statements is doxxing now? Who knew? I thought it was what journalistic types call doing your research.
As for objectivity, I never claimed it. I believe what I believe and make no secret of it. This, however, was nothing but a joke and had no politics in it whatsoever. If you don't get or don't like the joke, groan and move on. Bringing your baggage over the mere mention of the word GamerGate isn't making you look all that well balanced, I gotta say.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday September 01 2015, @07:18AM
I think we have identified the problem:
And that's what you got. Gaming is part of tech. PAX is a gaming con. For that matter, #GamerGate is an online movement by gamers and very much tech-related.
Gaming is not part of tech. It may be an application of tech, but does not have to be. (Cards, anyone?) Gaming is part of childhood. There's the problem. Gamergaters are children, they do not understand women, they do not understand adult behavior, they do not understand sexuality except in the most " aggressive navel" and "aggressive cleavage" ways, which makes them suckers for marketers with the most bodacious booth babes. And furries. Though I never could get what the attraction is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @07:49AM
Gaming is part of tech.
Sure, if you're into minecraft or dwarf fortress and craft a difference machine out of the blocks/tiles, or create your own games using mad gwbasic skills or even write mods for an existing game. The other 99.99% is better described as consumerism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:18AM
GG is definitely libertarian though. Not conservative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:44AM
What is wrong with liking young girls (didn't watch video)?
(Score: 2) by gman003 on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:11AM
Libertarians are a diverse lot, and are identified on both sides of the left/right spectrum. Wikipedia helpfully labels them as Left-Libertarians [wikipedia.org] and Right-Libertarians [wikipedia.org], if you wish to do some reading. In any case, your views on market economics were not evident from your summary or comments, and in light of your noted affiliation with a reactionary right-wing group, labeling you as right-wing was a reasonable assumption.
The whole left/right spectrum is a bit foolish anyways. It has nothing for Socialist Libertarians like myself. The two-axis model is marginally better but still rather limited.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:36AM
I'm a flat liberty libertarian. I don't approve of government intervention in either cultural or fiscal matters.
I'm also an egalitarian, which is why I absolutely cannot stand the racist and sexist positions of the "social justice" crowd. Social justice is a phrase made up so as to incorporate the legitimacy of the word justice while being directly opposed by actual justice. Treating people equally is the only way you will ever have equality and equality is the only way you will ever have actual justice; this means never giving anyone preferential treatment because of their race/gender, even if that race/gender was legitimately oppressed in the past among other things.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:21AM
What proof do you have that GG is a "reactionary right-wing group", out of morbid curiosity?