The fun part is when they meet the new recruits and tell them "we don't look for a particular type of person, we value everyone for their individuality".

It's a word, it's a plan... it's Letterman!

I see both sides of this. On one hand, it's a game and the idea that you have to do (essentially) homework to play a game is pretty stupid. On the other hand, you are asking other people to give their time to participate in the group content, and once you get into the serious content (i.e. heroics and raids — you can…

I missed the part where shoplifting or even resisting arrest became on-the-spot death penalty offenses. You can't claim to be a fan of law and order and then say "whatever a cop does is automatically OK".

My contribution would be "Help! My daughter is stuck in a Norwegian prison!"

Even as a Steeler fan, I'll give you that one. Well played.

Show us on the world map where the bad man nuked you.

So it's an entirely different sort of dysfunction. Carry on, then.

Which amounts to "it's only legitimate if we talk about what I want to talk about". Which isn't really a position befitting the "ethical" conversation you presume to cloak yourselves in.

When do we talk about the fact that parading some jilted ex's sleazy gossip around is — at best — way out of proportion with the…

An actual GG'er can feel free to correct me, but one of GG's assertions is that feminist/liberal "agendas" get too much coverage from the gaming press and are not subjected to enough scrutiny, and Sarkeesian's work (and subsequent coverage of the threats she received) is frequently trotted out as an example of that.

And when I say "since it started", I mean "since the arbitrary point I chose so I could ignore that the whole GamerGate movement started with a a bunch of ignorant mouth-breathers exploiting "ethical journalism" as an excuse to parade a jilted ex's sleazy gossip down the street. Whereas if the developer was male, the…

I didn't have much of a problem with WHAT she said, but the fact that she said it mere hours after the shooting left a bad taste in my mouth. I guess respect for the dead isn't as important as page-clicks.

I would argue that having her on the show pretty much says what side he's on.

Bumgarner was great, but it did reach a point where they were talking about him even when he wasn't on the field where I felt like Jules from "Pulp Fiction": SAY "BUMGARNER" again!

I'd say the only thing that would be stupider would be if the "community service" consisted of signing autographs for the guy who turned him in, but I wouldn't want to give the NCAA any ideas.

I don't think game review has ZERO value, but I think its value is being tremendously exaggerated in this case. 99.999999% of the people acting like GamerGate is the end of the world would've sooner poked their own eyes out than played Depression Quest anyway. No one was misled, no one thought they were getting GTA V…

And yet I'm not the one parading some total stranger's dirty laundry down the street because I'm (apparently) too weak-willed to spend my own money without "gaming journalists" to tell me how to spend it.

Physician, heal thyself.

You're absolutely right. I shouldn't have said "I prefer". I should have said "Pretty much anyone with a modicum of human decency or a shred of empathy for others would prefer...".

BUDEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN!