Yup, that’s what happened to Felicia Day, who, as a staple of the geek pack, wrote a piece on how she had always enjoyed approaching fellow gamers out in the “wild,” because of the sense of community, but after gamergate happened she realized she couldn’t trust that sense of community, and had become wary of…

“This article is invalid because of a grammatical error. I tip my fedora, and back to reddit I go!”

There’s also the “Women accuse me of being sexist, so I’ll say they’re hysterical and just imagining misogyny and the patriarchy keeping them down”, which is unfortunately common.

If that ever happened to me, I would BURN. SHIT. DOWN. I would absolutely kill for revenge if someone killed my dog. If I could discover who had me swatted, that is.

Me too. My dog is sweet normally but god help anyone who comes in unannounced and, in her mind, tries to hurt me. She doesn’t care if you have a badge. She will just attack with every ounce of strength she has in her ten year old body. This swatting thing is the ultimate worst that a person can do.

Not always, but most of the time...yeah, you’re right. Dogs tend to be shot as a matter of routine, due to the fact that dogs can be very dangerous to responding officers, and they don’t have the time to deal with it in a less forceful manner. That’s just one piece of the whole layer of how crappy swatting antics are:…

It’s designed to provoke a heavily armed police response, and can be deadly.

Hi! If you’re reading this, you’re probably in the greys, reading the grey comments. I’ll be honest, it’s probably gonna get pretty hairy down here! This is just a friendly reminder to not support any trollish comments or inappropriate behavior. And remember especially—this is REALLY IMPORTANT YOU GUYS—in this case,…

It’s probably not a good move to claim that Gamergaters face similar persecution to a religious group of people...just saying...

Any SWAT activity can result in an innocent person being maimed or killed. It has happened many times.

Ahh we have our first basement dweller. Yes it was probably the Muslims and just a coincidence that she just introduced a bill to fight SWATing, which is a tool almost exclusively employed by male online harassers...

LOL it was for undergrad (and not even for a lab or even my major) so it reads like a 3rd grader’s tweet ;)

Thanks for the brilliant analysis champ. You’re just cranky because mommy didn’t bring dinner down to the basement for you like you demanded huh?

Does any proof exist that GG had anything to do with this? I suppose that we could just as easily blame Muslims, amirite?

Innocent people have died when someone called swat, see Bettie Jones. It’s been proven deadly, no need for the qualifier.

I wrote a long paper about the psychological effects of sexualization of female characters in video games for my social psych class. In my intro I was finally able to talk about GamerGate in an academic light. That was probably one of the few papers I actually enjoyed writing in college. :D

At least the odds are really good that the idiot who did this will be caught. You generally don’t make threats against members of congress without some sort of investigation.

Are we sure this wasn’t a false flag by the feminazis to make the GGers look bad? GGers have never harassed anyone. It’s about the ethics in gaming journalism, not misogyny.

At least we can be thankful she didn’t live in a minority neighborhood or it could’ve been a bloodbath with all those ‘older looking’ kids running around looking dangerous.

It’s about time! twitter threats are one thing, but swatting actually puts people in immediate danger.