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  1. Okay faggots, for the last couple of days I've been compiling a list of the most egregious shit IGDA and Femfreq have pulled. It's still not complete, and I plan to add a section with Josh's assorted Twitter imbecility, which is gonna take ages. But since people are starting to listen on Twitter, here's the preliminary list.
  2.  
  3. Don't just tweet a pile of these links. Go one at a time, explaining the context. Remember, we're not trying to bash Intel, we're supposed to show how they made terrible choices in partnerships for this.
  4.  
  5. Also it might be a good diea to check the link before tweeting, just in case I fucked up. Anti-gamers spew so much bullshit it's hard to keep track of it all.
  6.  
  7. _____
  8.  
  9. IGDA and ggautoblocker
  10.  
  11. Endorsed ggautoblocker, a terribly coded Twitter blocklist that blocked one of their own representatives, Robert Rosario, among thousands of unrelated people.
  12. https://archive.today/hdmqF
  13. https://archive.today/qitc8
  14. http://markdownshare.com/view/6ce8fd6e-b93e-4355-91f5-660dd127dd06
  15.  
  16. Despite claiming ggautoblocker was a third-party tool, an IGDA internal board called Women In Games Special Interest Group (WIG SIG) was involved in its coding.
  17. https://archive.today/hdmqF#selection-2333.0-2339.1
  18. https://archive.today/93P5w
  19. http://archive.today/lRQla#selection-1849.0-1866.0
  20. https://archive.today/fTUfE
  21. http://imgur.com/NvvllCQ
  22.  
  23. After much public outcry, they removed their link to ggautoblocker altogether.
  24. https://archive.today/GdAbv
  25.  
  26. IGDA itself was targeting Gamergate despite claiming to represent all developers.
  27. https://archive.today/b1q8R
  28.  
  29. The creator of ggautoblocker has a history of harassment on Twitter, and openly tells her Twitter followers to blacklist people for their opinions, and they follow up with harassment.
  30. https://archive.today/A1Azz
  31. https://archive.today/AUZ2O
  32. http://imgur.com/YDPlBcS
  33. https://archive.today/486Hp
  34. https://archive.today/w6AEC
  35. https://archive.today/hpBq1
  36.  
  37. People of IGDA
  38.  
  39. Now for a couple of the specific people mentioned as advisors in the harassment resource that initially included ggautoblocker.
  40. https://archive.today/hdmqF#selection-2793.0-2793.8
  41.  
  42. Tristin Edwards, who is also one of IGDA's two main staff members and former member of the steering committee of the WIG SIG group which helped create ggautoblocker, has openly targeted Gamergate as a whole, as well as spouted supported misandrist positions. She has since deleted every single tweet she made.
  43. https://archive.today/YmYVJ
  44. https://archive.today/k3an8
  45. https://archive.today/89FWi
  46. https://archive.today/42JWD
  47.  
  48. Elsa Henry has also made spurious accusations against Adam Baldwin of abusing women, and has shown support for misandry.
  49. https://archive.today/bwPg2
  50. https://archive.today/WRYHu
  51.  
  52. Now let's look at someone from IGDA's board of directors.
  53. https://archive.today/2PZra
  54.  
  55. Luke Dicken has just plain attacked gamers as a whole. "Anti-gamer" is not an euphemism when referring to him, and yet he's in the board of directors of a game developer association.
  56. https://archive.today/MRuTH
  57. https://archive.today/NPc2X
  58.  
  59. Perhaps the worst offender of all, however, is IGDA's own founder.
  60. https://archive.today/pel4K
  61.  
  62. Ernest W. Adams, despite talking about representing all devs and standing against censorship at the same time he threatens to blacklist dissenting developers and justifies private censorship.
  63. https://archive.today/OM5aw
  64. https://archive.today/xh9Rp
  65. https://archive.today/gV4dL
  66.  
  67. So that's the IGDA in a nutshell. Claiming to support equality and diversity in gaming development while calling for blacklisting, promoting bigotry, shunning debate, excusing censorship and playing favorites.
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  69.  
  70.  
  71.  
  72. Feminist Frequency
  73.  
  74. Their descriptions of the games they criticize are full of cherry-picking, crass misinterpretations and plain falsehoods. In a particularly crass case, FF's video about Bayonetta from Februry 2010 was so full of factually wrong statements that it was removed. In June 2012 it was uploaded after being re-edited, taking it from 4:10 to 2:58 in length. The page in FF's website about the video does mention the edit, but of course, whitewashes the reason for the re-edit.
  75. The original video, now unavailable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcaKvZLNVek
  76. Mirror of the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbihPTgAql4
  77. The re-edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17_bd03vGP0
  78. The whitewashing on FF's website: https://archive.today/ixYyu#selection-137.0-137.467
  79.  
  80. FF uses footage from other people's let's-play videos without asking or even notifying them. Here's a long list of instances.
  81. https://archive.today/UGUwq
  82.  
  83. Anita Sarkeesian
  84.  
  85. The many factual inaccuracies and the theft of LP content both point towards what has become a common criticism of FF videos. The only two possiblities are that either the FF staff hasn't actually played the game at all, or played it and are willingly lying about it. Anita Sarkeesian often spouts her narrative of being a lifelong gamer, but footage from a lecture she delivered at Santa Monica College 2010, she openly admits that she "isn't a fan of videogames" and "actually had to do research", and "I would love to play video games but I don’t want to go around shooting people and ripping off their heads and it’s just gross" is nothing if not a statement that she's barely involved with the subject she claims to be a cultural critic of. The issue isn't whether she's a "real gamer" or not, but that she's criticizing cultural products she hasn't even consumed. It's exactly like judging a book by its cover.
  86. Her own tweets claiming to be a fan of games: https://archive.today/hFdgF
  87. Unable to name 3 games relevant to her arguments about misogyny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_Wmeg7OTU#t=1m57s
  88. The Santa Monica College lecture: http://vimeo.com/13216819#t=12m20s
  89. Clip of the relevant parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afgtd8ZsXzI
  90. Short clip showing her disparate claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-69xXD734
  91.  
  92. Her masters thesis is a perfect embodiment of pseudo-science, passing ill-defined, lazily made "research" as cultural criticism.
  93. https://mega.co.nz/#!UBxSEY6S!fsPHYmoZO2XigZTBDYxRGxZQbxUqxj_Jx4tTxw4bM-A
  94.  
  95. Her past as a pyramid scheme peddler and similar scams, which neatly mix her pseudo-science with her social manipulation.
  96. "Anita Sarkeesian, Teleseminar Success Story": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpw3wHn9Sk
  97. Peddling handwriting analysis hogwash for a "Handwriting University": https://archive.today/zVsYF
  98. Handwriting University is not only a scam, but a scam owned by a PUA called Bart Baggett: https://archive.today/H3k72
  99. Another source showing Sarkeesian as working for Baggett: https://archive.today/5URKY
  100. Another source: https://archive.today/iSM8h
  101.  
  102. She didn't much mind sexualization or objectification of women when she was the one shooting their pictures.
  103. https://archive.today/iy4FH
  104. https://archive.today/W6oi7
  105. https://archive.today/ZbIkv
  106. https://archive.today/Osm9d
  107. https://archive.today/2jHmA
  108. https://archive.today/QxHaB
  109. https://archive.today/ji0B2
  110.  
  111. Assorted nonsense:
  112. Complaining that "piracy culture" is male dominated: https://archive.today/B6Irc
  113. "Toxic masculinity": https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/525793436025118721
  114. Totally not about the money: http://imgur.com/GORfrlW
  115. Source: https://twitter.com/search?q=computer from%3Afemfreq
  116. Having power is necessary for sexism, said the scam artist with the full backing of the media to the masses of gaming nobodies: http://imgur.com/SCggcw2
  117. Source: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Afemfreq since%3A2014-11-12 until%3A2014-11-16
  118. Hypocrisy: http://imgur.com/aXuLoxo
  119. Source 1: https://archive.today/qS0WL
  120. Source 2: https://archive.today/6slbc
  121.  
  122.  
  123.  
  124. 3/2 because the board can't handle so much anti-gamer bullshit at a time
  125.  
  126. Jonathan McIntosh
  127.  
  128. Like Anita Sarkeesian, McIntosh has no problems with sexualization and objectification of women when he's behind the camera.
  129. https://archive.today/0WxOr
  130. https://archive.today/Ercra
  131. https://archive.today/JEvuD
  132. https://archive.today/obO73
  133. https://archive.today/HgsoT
  134. https://archive.today/GXJkx
  135.  
  136. I'm sure Intel suits would love to hear what one of the recipients of their $300m has to say about Israel and capitalism.
  137. https://archive.today/DzbIH
  138. https://archive.today/QnQVn
  139. https://archive.today/rPgNQ
  140. https://archive.today/tSvx6
  141. https://archive.today/9sucd
  142. https://archive.today/Tc1v5
  143. https://archive.today/XWXmw
  144. https://archive.today/t2B7I
  145. https://archive.today/BKa1t
  146. https://archive.today/APcqr
  147. https://archive.today/zMxpK
  148. https://archive.today/73SY0
  149. https://archive.today/S9TKW
  150. https://archive.today/aDQsu
  151. https://archive.today/OZfIa
  152. https://archive.today/9V0gR
  153. https://archive.today/xZWsI
  154. https://archive.today/FBiBV
  155. https://archive.today/a4qMf
  156. https://archive.today/bNj9N
  157.  
  158. Last but definitely not least, McIntosh's specialty: pseudo-intellectual drivel.
  159. to be added later lel
  160.  
  161.  
  162.  
  163. Appendix: the more cogent rebuttals of Femfreq's drivel.
  164.  
  165. Much has been said about their intellectual dishonesty. Unfortunately, much of the criticism against FF comes from other similarly unreliable Youtube e-celebrities. The ones below are the best I know of.
  166.  
  167. @cainejw's Medium articles
  168. https://archive.today/DOXZh
  169. https://archive.today/6vJAM
  170. https://archive.today/8A3Ca
  171. https://archive.today/6AhqI
  172. https://archive.today/8DPY0
  173.  
  174. Mytheos Holt's articles on gamesided
  175. https://archive.today/bfVbk
  176. https://archive.today/NHUNm
  177. https://archive.today/dlfcI
  178. https://archive.today/Jm1tR
  179. https://archive.today/BLFkE
  180. https://archive.today/7LF8H
  181. https://archive.today/4MaUf
  182.  
  183. Foxigon analyzes FF's source, dunno if he ever made a part 2
  184. https://archive.today/uko3a
  185.  
  186. Todd Bowes for The LFB
  187. https://archive.today/esnTI
  188.  
  189. Cathy Young
  190. https://archive.today/NOsrH
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