So.... people are idiots.

The worst thing about the internet age is that most people don't REALIZE they are idiots.

(Which is more unforgivable when you consider the glut of information available to them at the click of a mouse)

This whole Ebola nonsense is reminding me why I have such a low opinion of people in general. Just this morning I overheard a locker room conversation on how the government should take Minute Men on the Mexican border and have them patrol airports for people from Africa and there should be drones over airports as…

And a good deal of residents.

If you could quarantine against stupid, New Jersey would be without a governor.

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was placed in quarantine upon her return from West Africa despite showing no symptoms of Ebola, will be released from the clutches of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie this morning and allowed to finish out her quarantine at home in Maine. To quote Hickox's boyfriend, Christie "messed with…

THIS IS MY POINT. Why doesn't she talk about BOTH? She's not my jam but I can stand back and admire the calculation that it took to get her here. Why not actually say, "Hey, I bake cookies with my buds, wear knees socks and ALSO, kick fucking ass in my business, particularly in regards to promotion and…

But here's what I'd like to see, her differentiating herself as a businesswoman from this twee persona. Listen, lady is a master MASTER sales and PR person. And I wish she'd admit to that instead of constantly going on and on in interviews about "baking with her girlfriends*." Do a grown-up businessperson interview…

I can't find it in my heart to hate her. She seems smart and earnest. Sure, she's a little twee but it works for her and doesn't distract from her talent. She writes her own songs, she seems to genuinely care about her fans and she gets a lot of unfair blow back for being a "serial dater" which she handles with a lot…

So cute! Are they heavy? Because I love clogs but the weight of Danskos and others turn me off.

There was a simmering anger about people like me — "Social Justice Warriors", as they call us — who are asking for change in the game industry: a better, broader representation of characters, among other things. We're "the cancer that's killing games", and Kotaku is seen as the key enemy site, with Polygon a close…

GamerGate is no more about journalistic ethics than the Civil War was about states' rights.

And if it was actually about ethics in video game journalism, it would have started a long time before Zoe Quinn made an indie game for a novel concept.

Unhitch your cause, whatever it is, from #GamerGate. Its moved well beyond the point of redemption. Find another name, find another fight, find another way of expressing what you want ("ethics in journalism" or whatever— good luck with that) #GamerGate is done.

The original genesis of it was a man, dating a woman. The woman was a game developer.

Golden. +1

They want to feel power over women.

I've been saying this for a while now.

I grew up in a time when being a "gamer" was cause for ridicule. Shit, admitting to owning a Nintendo in the mid-80's was a good way to get your ass kicked at my school (not at all schools, I understand).

Now that gaming's finally mainstreamed, and the hobby has -finally- gained…

What strikes me about the doxxing comment I saw was that it was posted as a weird, fucked up way of reassuring Felicia Day—their assertion was that the info was easy to find, so all her fears were silly. And it's just such ridiculous logic. Here's someone being vulnerable, and that's how you respond?

What actually does Gamergate want? That is to say why did they come together in the first place?