Of course it mentions GamerGate. 187 times to be exact.
Obviously it lies about it and dismisses the FBI investigation in favor of anecdotes.
Misrepresenting an entire movement should get you mocked by the academia, not get you a PhD.

It reads like a fucking blog post.

"The night Trump won the election I was driving home from giving two guest lectures about
online abuse, Gamergate, and the Alt-right in Waterloo. That night I’d warned students not to
joke about or underestimate the very real threat Trump posed, but they really didn’t seem to take
me seriously. It took me four hours to get home because roads were closed, traffic was bad, and
there were lots of accidents."

"There is a thing that has always bothered me about horror movies"

When you don't have anything substantial to write about so you just describe your drive home.

I don't know if I want to read the entire thing. She interviewed a lot of people and it took her a lot of work, but it doesn't look like she found anything that wasn't already known.
She cites a lot of MSM, but a lot of other papers and books.
I think if I wanted to make a proper critique, it would take several months going through each source and it's sources.
Tbh honest I get why garbage gets published. If you make it look like you have sources for everything, no one is going to bother reading the sources.

I sorta did the same thing in high school. I have entire "sourced" paragraphs that I made up and nobody noticed.

Fucking hell. She is giving a motivational "speech" to her clique at the end.

"Pay them. Cite them. Promote them. Furthermore, do not become complacent with the gender
politics of a space just because you yourself are a feminist—there is always work that can be
done to make your space more culturally accessible. Interrogate the structures in place behind
them to reveal the underlying hegemony of men. The worst thing we can do is receive diversity
training, or safe space training, call ourselves feminists, and then determine that the work is
complete."

@matrix
Sucking up to whoever is in charge gets you a PhD. Honest people need not apply.

@matrix what the hell happened to academic style of writing. Who even supervised, opposed, reviewed and published this?!

@dyske
The following served on the Examining Committee for this thesis. The decision of the Examining Committee is by majority vote.

External Examiner Dr. Todd Harper
Assistant Professor
Supervisor(s) Dr. Neil Randall
Associate Professor
Internal Member Dr. Aimée Morrison
Associate Professor
Internal-external Member Dr. Shana MacDonald
Assistant Professor
Other Member(s) Dr. Jennifer R. Whitson
Assistant Professor

Hope this is formatted right

https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/13649

@matrix > concept Iâve created
That's where it should have been rejected

@matrix > I also explore my own experiences
Another ð point

@dyske @matrix yeah i don't regret on giving up on acedemia naymore

@karen @dyske @matrix Rethinking it myself due to my professors.

@RehnSturm256
Yeah. That's her paper.
What she is describing is real and you can fall down a rabbit hole of seeing SJWs where they are not. The one teeny tiny detail she didn't mention is that it's people like her who create and perpetuate these associations.

@RehnSturm256
You wish they disappeared so it could be just YOUR beliefs in the medium?

ð¤

@setunai
Expected response from idealogues ð
You don't understand or wish not to. This is not a new thing for leftists. Gaming was inclusive & communities diverse before this push for identity politics & demonizing of the very medium from corrupt actors within. The same thing happened in Hollywood filmmaking, comics, television, and gaming is simply another target for these... cultural marxists.

You do not even know the full extent of my own belief, but I will tell you that these people do not belong in gaming if they wish to use their positions of "power" to spew hate & falsehoods. The difference between her and me is that I am accepting of true diversity in gaming, but she wants to destroy it, replacing it solely with her neo-liberal ideology.

@RehnSturm256
First: Left/Marxist or Neo-Liberal. These are mutually exclusive and you need to pick one.

Second, if someone you don't like makes a game you don't like, how about not playing it? It's called freedom of speech. Maybe you've heard of it.

@setunai
Oof. You are one unrelated aside-making fool with no knowledge of what's going on. ð¬ This'll be an "amusing" conversation XD

That person does not believe in freedom of speech for everyone, bc when confronted with a single differing ideal, she uses it to hate the community she is infecting. Her very "dissertation" relates Gamergate, a movement pointing out the toxic & politically biased games media, a movement of anti-censorship advocates, to Trump fearmongering. XD

Games "journalists" & sjw criers slander, dox, & bully developers desiring to make different concepts in games or having the freedom to make what they WANT to make in in an attempt to force the medium into their own propaganda machine. That's some cultMarx bullshit: infecting media with freedom for creators & audiences & twisting it to mold the minds of the people.
This is NOT freedom of speech. To even side with these hateful monsters who have goals to destroy the medium reveals you're quite the idealogue who has little sight of this pervasive, toxic ideaology-driven group of people.

@setunai
Tldr:
Games have been diverse and fun, but these kinds of political agents, who view gaming with contempt & want to see it fail or its creators to be restricted, have brought more hate & toxicity into gaming than any Xbox live chat XD

@RehnSturm256
Freedom of speech means people who don't believe in freedom of speech also have the right to say so.

That's how this works.

@setunai
The idea that those who want to REMOVE freedom of speech for others by using their privileged station of power in "academia" & "journalism", and with lackies who are willing to harass their targets to silence them, are allowed to spew their authoritarian against the individual, is dumb.

Mob rule that silenced others isn't free speech.

This is the EXACT SAME THING that happened with Hollywood: cultMarxists cry about "muh freedom of speech" to get their ideals spread throughout the medium, then when in positions of power, they remove freedom of speech for dissenters. The whole thing is now a left-leaning industry who blacklists non-conformers.
Same thing occurring in gaming rn.

@RehnSturm256
It sounds like you're arguing we need to curtail freedom in order to "preserve true freedom."

It's hilarious because that's exactly the same thing red fash think THEY are doing.

@setunai
These are institution-protected people infecting fandoms to destroy it from within. It is foolish to not oppose their malign cancers. They do not believe in freedoms: only sofar as they use it to silence others.

The irony that you're arguing FOR the privileged & corrupt in abusing free speech other others on TWITTER and biased academia is laughable!

You do not give your attacker, your Invaders, weapons to destroy you.

>Red fash
You mean REDS. Period? ð.
Your attempt at word manipulation to hide admittance of your leanings, biases, & support of the propaganda machine chipping away at the freedoms of the individual is so Marxist & revolting.

@RehnSturm256
I'm not a Marxist or an authoritarian.

I also hate Marxists and authoritarians in general about as much as you do and kind of want both of your sides to duke it out and hopefully kill each other off so I don't have to deal with either of your fascist cults anymore.

But yeah, I am a red. Deal with it, nerd.

@setunai
Wtf it sounds like I'm speaking to an orekix alt ð¤®
Le anarchist siding with the establishment bc they don't like freedom of expression in art & entertainment, apparently.

@RehnSturm256 @setunai is aria.co becoming the new third position? ;-)

@setunai
>Freedom of speech means people who don't believe in freedom of speech also have the right to say so.

This is so fuggin retarded and not how it works I don't even know where to begin...

You don't get to abuse a freedom just to destroy it for everyone. Christ, that's such a Marxist tactic... I know what team you bat for ð


If someone does not believe in the values of your freedoms, and actively pushes to censor & dominate over those who DO believe in free speech, their actions are being judged, not their words.

@setunai @RehnSturm256 can you pop out of this thread for a sec, get your arguments straight, and come back in with something substantial? because so far you've been trolling and trying to derail the thread

@setunai
I'd like to point out the expected but still humorous aspect that the first correction made is an argument of definitions and NOT what is actually happening in the games, social, and mainstresm media
How very ... Neo-Liberal Commie Marxist Socialist of you

@setunai @RehnSturm256
Every game console in every game generation I have played has been censoring games because of politics from every person not in gaming.

Try being smarter instead of making bad arguments.

@zemichi
If you willingly change the content of your own product, that isn't censorship.

Also, it sounds like you need to play more PC games. Consoles are designed to give the console manufacturer (e.g. Sony, Nintendo) power over the developers and will always allow censorship through that avenue.

@setunai @zemichi
>Blacklisting from industry bc of biased & ahenda-pushing media isn't censorship.
>"It's not censorship if you give up your freedoms bc of threats & harassment by an entire institution that wants to see you fail" :DD

@RehnSturm256
There are a fair few indie games about with far right, "anti-PC" viewpoints.

The reason mainstream games don't have those viewpoints is because developers are afraid they won't sell if they do. Because most people don't want to hear that speech.

If you want to legally enforce that everyone is has to listen to what you, specifically, want to be said, you can do that all you want.

But you should stop calling it freedom, because it isn't.

And if you want everyone to have nearly equal freedom of speech... these sorts of constant "assaults on your values" are exactly what that looks like.

@setunai
>afraid
"It's not if we bully & harass you into doing as you're told" :DD

>Most people

You mean the thousands of leftist scum who have their voice elevated and broadcasted on politically biased social media :^)
Game devs only hear the bullshit & cowtow because of the way socmedia works. Propaganda, vile machines designed by elites to staunch flow of artistic freedoms & creative enterprises, target & bully those stepping out if line

You should learn more about Marxist views on media & it's hold on a people by it's control.

The people who get games to censor don't EVEN BUY THE GAMES XD. Bc their goal is destruction & censorship, not art & creativity.

@RehnSturm256
From my perspective, Twitter is dominated by far right thugs and constantly adding the left's memes and phrases to their autoban AI.

Also, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the creative arts tend to express leftist ideas because most artists are leftists. Especially the good ones.

Even in Japan, the only "art" the right wing creators can manage to push out is Yet Another Magic High School Harem.

@setunai
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WOT
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Bwahahahahaha!

Pffttt. When you hate the right so much that you ignore the inherent authoritarianism of the left and label it as "right-wing". Oh man... I can't believe I wasted words on someone so brainwashed &... insane. Lmao

I'm not even gonna waste the time pointing out that "left leaning professional artists" are only considered the norm bc the academic establishment favors them, ousting dissenters by refusing them entry.

IE: Hitler was denied from artschool not bc his art was bad, but bc the school he was applying to was dominated by a Communist population. You should see some of the absolute SHIT that Weimar believed was "art" coming out of that "school" XD

>Fitting Japan-hate bc you're such a NPC

Holy shit why are you even here? You're literally a carbon copy of the Twitter retards.

@setunai
Brb, still waiting to get unsuspended from Twitter for calling out Leftist trannies who mass-flag & send hate messages at artists & devs who only want to create what they love.

I'm sure they were just "alt-right thugs" tho XD

@RehnSturm256
Because Twitter definitely haven't been suspending and banning LGBT people for "harassing" people like you...

@setunai
They haven't. No.
Nowhere near the level of their opposition. Have you been there lately? It's... Chaotic. Toxic. The "far-right" is more stable & life-loving there than any Red. Trannies & commies avoid bans by crying "muh discrimination" and use their protected status to mobilize politically against opposition.
Each day is another needless censorship & assault on those who only wish to enjoy what they like.

Speaking of which, you never told me what "far-right" games exist. Plz tell me what they are ð sincerely.

@RehnSturm256
mechanika

@setunai
I keked XD

@setunai @RehnSturm256 lets see what art you come up with then lol

@wowaname
@RehnSturm256
I'm a writer. Maybe I'll whip up a short story for you sometime.

But I'm sure you already have a list of reasons in mind for why that wouldn't count. â(ãâ½ã)

@setunai @RehnSturm256 just like you have a list of reasons why art originating from japan doesnt count?

@setunai
Name the games with "far-right" views, plz.
I would like to know them, and what you think is "far-right" ð

@setunai >"willingly"
>Games must be under a rating system to be sold in some places
>Sony ignoring the rating system for their own system and forcing devs to change content
>Steam removing games for following the rules

You can't win arguments when you're ignorant. Get smarter.

@zemichi
Who are you quoting?

@zemichi @zemichi
In all honesty though, I'm fine with ratings boards being stripped of any legal power.

@setunai @zemichi they don't have any legal power. Rating systems are based sometimes on social standards and some games rated as T became rated as M in the future for the same content.

It is entirely social, outrage culture has infested everything to the point where they can affect every avenue of releasing a game. As I said, you need to read more about this because this was evident 10 to 20 years ago.

@setunai @zemichi @zemichi
ð¤¦ââï¸ Ratings boards don't have any power.... What the fugg? Last I check, the most egregious thing they do is give M ratings to T games bc of "war scenes" or fanservice. They do not restrict, but give an approximation of what age the content is "aligned" for.

The ones abusing power are legislators, or currently, the liberal tech & media tyrants, who silence not with legislation but with outright censorship and mobilizing idealogues against targetted dissenters for harassment.

@setunai @zemichi it's self-censorship, it's terrorism

@setunai @RehnSturm256 if people make arguments you don't like, how about not engaging in them? it's called freedom of speech to call people out on their stupidity

@matrix
Games with women are not even mocked ffs... And hair length? Have they even been on gaming forums where guys fawn all over the tomboys with short hair, non-White characters, & more? XD

But It's when those things are shoved in WITH clear & in-your-face agendas that people call put the bullshit. Play through Horizon Zero Dawn for example and tell me the main character isn't a modern feminist's Marie Sue role-model.

Or how romance or appealing character designs are slandered if they aren't in a woke game depicting a neo liberal concepts.
IE: The Last of Us & Life is Strange is applauded for having lesbian relationships, but games with Yuri on steam or PS4 are censored or outright deplatformed.

ffs, even fuckin Gargron & the rabbit made anti-gamer posts like any pallet-swapped Twitter leftist. ð¡ What destructive, unfun scum...

@RehnSturm256 @matrix
two races: human and attention whore
two hair styles: normal and attention whore