With the premeditated murder charge off the table, Pistorius can still face a charge of culpable homicide, which means he may spend 5 years in prison rather than 25 years. He is also facing three unrelated weapons charges: two counts of unlawfully firing a gun in public and one count of illegal possession of ammunition.
This tawdry scandal boils down to a young woman who was trying to get attention for a "social justice" game she developed, who then decides to shop her product. The problem is she can't, or won't, keep her legs closed as she is doing it.
When she was called on it, some gaming media decide to declare the era of the white misogynistic gamer to be over. And gamers responded.
Gaming media should congratulate themselves. They have arrived: a legitimate paid media, espousing lefitst values while denigrating those who oppose those values.
You really don't get a sense of the scandal in the linked article, but that is only because it is so weird, it defies description.
From TFA:
It was during this rising crescendo of malcontent that a sudden chorus of articles were published from numerous gaming outlets claiming, more or less, that the age of the “gamer” was over. Gamers as we knew and stereotyped them��"white, male nerds with deep-seeded fears of both reality and women��"were going extinct, and all this backlash over the Quinn scandal was a reaction to this fact. Foremost among these was a piece by Gamasutra���tm�s Leigh Alexander.
Game writers claimed that all cries of corruption in media were merely thin veils to give cover to what was, essentially, a misogynistic movement. In less than two days more than ten such articles appeared around the internet, on the one hand preaching to the choir, and on the other leading many already-upset gamers to cry foul even louder. This many articles at once all saying the same thing seemed fishy to many, though I would argue it had nothing to do with coordination and everything to do with like minds feeding off of one another.
I wrote a piece on the notion as well, criticizing both sides of the controversy: Game journalists for condescending their audiences and gamers themselves for their lack of diligence in how they critique the press and their insistence on focusing on Social Justice Warriors. …
Relationships between various indie developers, the press, and PR representatives led to more questions and theories on everything from the validity of the IGF awards, to the overall nature of the relationship between the press and the industry it covers, which many see as far too cozy. Lots of YouTube videos have been made about this. Lots of screenshots of tweets and various websites with lines drawn between various members of the press and the industry have also been created. It���tm�s a maze of allegations and connections without a solid destination.
Whether any of these theories hold water is an open question and one that, in my mind, is secondary to one very big fact: Readers have grown deeply distrustful of the gaming press.
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Oh, so the gamers finally realized that in speaking out, their so-called press would would reveal the sneering "I know better than you" grade-A liberal a-hole behind the mask of "reporter" - and worse, that when the "gamers" called the press out on the sex-for-reviews, payola, and other general lefty favoritism, the gamers would be called all kinds of names by those in the press - racist, sexist, misogynist, etc. Censored. Looked down upon by the press that was supposed to be reporting objectively and honestly.
It has become an advocacy press, almost a PR operation with only one "correct" view on any given issue is allowed to be heard and presented positively. All other views to be either suppressed or those who hold alternate views liead about, pilloried and slandered.
Welcome to the world Conservatives have lived in for years. The main stream press, as an institution, is fundamentally broken. I guess the gaming press has grads form the same libtard schools too.
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That would mean only 3 have read the Instaprof. The problem for the Social Justice Warriors (SJW) is most gamers can't be shamed. They have a good 'I don't give a $h!t' attitude having experienced years of on line taunting from 13 year old adolescents with personality disorders (very similar to the SJWs). The gaming companies (and allied spin offs and auxillary) which are all 'entertainment industry' need to be very careful that they don't kill off their audience (like newspaper readership and television viewership) by pandering the the SJWs.
#4
Dumb, dumb, dumb. Despite pervasive stereotypes, trailing daughter #2's gaming circle is about half female, as was my D&D group back in the late '70s. And given that the majority of the population is white, one would expect the same of the gaming world.
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It's a chance to educate a whole new set of the population on the corruption of the press, and perhaps open some eyes to the possibility what they "know" just ain't so.
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The stereotype of a raging profane 12 year old boy is no longer applicable. I play MMOs, and the gamers in that population are very social, and a lot of that particular population is older, and female. The use of the stereotype is as accurate for gamers as is the liberal press KKK image use as a stereotype for Conservatives.
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And yes I am a gamer from way back in Paleolithic times of paper and pencil gaming, and wargaming (back to the old days of Avalon Hill, Strategy & Tactics lifetime subscriber under Jim Dunnigan). I'm a grognard and damn proud of it
I work in a related industry and know some of the people involved. My two-cents worth: while the anti-Gamergate people have some valid points (that there's a certain amount of sour grapes, sexism, and *gasp* reaction involved), you can see from the attached article above that what author Tadhg Kelly really wants to talk about is how much he hates Republicans in general, and the Tea Party specifically... though neither have anything at all to do with Gamergate. He strains VERY hard to draw an analogy between "traditional" gamers and the "far right." Hysterically so.
Basically, much as the American media no longer like the American people and desperately wish to replace us with someone, anyone else, the video gaming media no longer actually wants fat men in Green Lantern shirts who, you know, like to play video games a lot as their audience. Only... that's who likes to play video games. And they can't even claim its a race thing because there's there’s "about 150-200m of them around the world." THEM being the people the video gaming media no longer likes.
That's a lot of eyes on screens to not want to read your articles there Tadhg.
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As for me, all I can say is: welcome 200m sweaty international brothers to the Far Right! You have nothing to loose but your consoles! Arise... at least far enough to use the Twitter app on your cell phone!
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More than anything it shows how far the rot has gotten in media. You can't even trust gaming mags not to screw the public over to help themselves, just like their MSM cousins.
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Eye but there's the rub DarthVader: they're *not* the Old Media. Video gaming media is typically "new" media. But what does that mean exactly?
Case in point: video game "journalist" Tadhg Kelly (he's Irish, so that probably is his real name) was educated in Dublin, Ireland - which pretty much makes him a leftist-academic, even if you haven't read his weird article. He is co-owner of something called Simple Lifeforms, which "makes games, consultant and write about games as a business and an art form."
Kind of nebulous, but okay. Sure. It's had two rounds of funding. The first for 100k in 2008, and second for 40k in 2011. Let's have a look at who has done the funding, shall we?
The first 100k came from EM-Media, a Beverly Hills based company that "connect to a broad range of groups [Young, Old, Male, Female, Gay, and Straight] from all over the world bringing safe and enjoyable content to the comfort of the visitors own home." Though what the actually *do* to make money is extremely elusive, at least on the front page of their website where such things are typically made very apparent. You have to call people to find that out.
So: mostly likely a liberal front group for channeling some wealthy dilitant's money to left-wing causes they might not want to be directly associated with. Or possibly just a left-leaning venture capital firm of some kind. Kind of amounts to the same thing when you're giving Tadhg and his pal 100k to play with, doesn't it?
After Simple Lifeforms blew through 100k of somebody else's money in three years, they got another 40K from the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, "A joint venture between the Ryan family (Ryanair, Tiger Airlines etc) and Dublin City University." I see.
So there's your video game media: a a Temple Bar coffee shop Marxist who'se good at getting and spending sucker's money.
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By old media I mean media in the old style after magazines and newspaper modeling of business practices. Game blogs, and blog news sites for that matter can't get away with stuff like this for any length of time. They get exposed or drive away their audience pretty quickly.
With blogs there are far more gatekeepers to the publication and it is a lot harder to corrupt that many people rather than the few editors and chosen writers in the traditional model.
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#18..cause unlike a herd of RINOs and gaggle of college presidents, the geeks and nerds are showing a heck of a lot of backbone to those whose ammo of catch phrases and trigger words have been so effective in the past in advancing the power of the Left. Suddenly, they find their tools are firing up a resistance they're unfamiliar with and responded with the standard 'double down' behavior, only to create even greater response in return. This is entertaining.
Thank you - you're very kind trailing wife. It wasn't too hard to do. Just a little digital elbow grease combined with those odd bits of knowledge only Rantburgers seem to have.
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Well, it does appear that young Mr. Bieber works out a lot.
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Not my generation like MILEY, but I'll ask anyway, FRUIT-OF-THE-LOOM OR HANES???
The photo at the link shows what looks like Calvin Klein embroidered in letters 2" high on his waistband, Joseph M dear. It seems our little songbird would really rather be a male model.
The sun fired off a medium-strength flare on Tuesday (Sept. 9), then followed up with an Earth-directed X-class flare the most powerful type on Wednesday evening (Sept. 10). Both storms erupted from a sunspot known as Active Region 2158, which will be the focus of a webcast hosted today at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) by the online Slooh Community Observatory on its website: www.slooh.com.
You can also watch the solar flare webcast on Space.com, courtesy of Slooh
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Yet another consequence of Global Warming(tm). Is there nowhere in the solar system unaffected by our deadly CO2 emmissions?
[Tolo News] Celebratory gunfire on Tuesday left one civilian dead and five injured, once again raising anger against authorities who seem unable to prevent the reckless behavior among gun owners even in the country's major cities.
During celebrations for Massoud Day, the national holiday honoring the mujahedeen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, a 21year-old male in Kabul was killed and five others, including a woman and child, were maimed by stray bullets.
The families of the victims have demanded action be taken against those responsible, who some seem to believe were coppers.
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FWIW - I arrived in Kabul on that day and didn't hear anything. I'll be here for year reporting as your man in Kabul.
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What brings you there, Billy? (If you can say.)
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A plane from Dubai brought me here. Actually I work at the embassy.
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You are my friend, the most interesting man in the world.
[Dhaka Tribune] Despite eyewitness claims that demonstrators responsible for arson and vandalism near Titumir College Monday night were disgruntled Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... (BCL) activists, police said they suspected "outsiders" of trying to foment anarchy.
Banani police yesterday filed a case against 150 to 200 unnamed people for the rampage at the college.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Unidentified miscreants have gunned down a local leader of Shwecchashebok League, a volunteer wing of the ruling Awami League, in the capital's Shyampur area. Probably in a disagreement over how to spell it.
The deceased Riajul Karim Lalu, 42, son of Moktar Hossain, succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical college Hospital. "He's dead, Jim!"
Riajul's brother Nazim told the Dhaka Tribune: "Unidentified miscreants open fired on my brother around 7:15pm, while he was sitting at his store in Shyampur area, leaving him critically injured." Shwecchashebok League is headed by Joe Btfsplk.
"He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries at 8pm while undergoing treatment." ...by Dr. Quincy.
The reason behind the killing could not be known immediately. "The 'w' is silent, dammit! [BANG!]"
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[Ynet] Russia carried out a successful test of its new Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile on Wednesday and will perform two more test launches in October and November, the head of its naval forces said.
The armed forces have boosted their military training and test drills since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which Russia considers in its traditional sphere of influence.
The 12-metre long Bulava, or mace, has undergone numerous tests, some successful, and can deliver an impact of up to 100 times the atomic blast that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.
To be used to obliterate ISIS' capital in Syria, Ar-Raqqah, no doubt.
Shelling by both sides in the Donetsk metropolitan area in the Ukrainian war continued Wednesday, accoridng to the pro Russian news outlet Voicew of Sevastpol.
Artillery strike were recorded in several locations including in Oktjabrskiy, Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky. Those locations were hit "periodically", some coming from Ukrainian troops near the airport in the north.
Strikes on five other locations near but outside of the city were recorded, including at Spartak, which was hit by artillery from the direction of Avdeyevka, the 3rd Vostochny building estate, hit from the settlement Svetly Put', Makeyevka and Yenakievo.
Near Kemerovo-Popasnaya artillery mostly heavy MRL 122mm rocket artillery was recorded from both sides.
In Mariupol, both sides exchanged gunfire and artillery fire, with battles recorded near Vostochny (a district of Mariupol city) and in the village of Sakhanka.
Immediately north of Mariupol, pro Russian militia checkpoints reported artillery fire, including at Hartsyzsk and Olkhovka, and gunfire between forces was reported in or near Telmanovo, Uglegorsk, Yasinovataya, Ocheretino, Vesyolaya Gora and Peski.
According to Russian social media, Ukrainian forces are being moved up near the north of Donetsk with tanks on railcars and as many as 60,000 fresh troops. A counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces is expected just after October elections.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[Dhaka Tribune] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised yesterday to propose a bill granting "special status" to rebellious regions in eastern Ukraine, in a bid to boost support for Kiev amid a shaky cease-fire, The Christian Science Monitor reported.
But Poroshenko said that the east would remain part of Ukraine, underscoring his unwillingness to consider calls from Moscow and pro-Russian rebels for federalization. Kiev has long argued such a move would give the eastern region near complete autonomy and propel it toward secession.
"Ukraine will not make any concessions on issues of its territorial integrity," Poroshenko said in remarks during a nationally televised Cabinet meeting addressing the conflict that's so far killed over 3,000, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The president also said that 70% of Russian troops in Ukraine have left the country, something he said "strengthens our hope" for peace prospects, Rooters reports. Russia denies sending troops into Ukraine, a claim that Kiev and its Western supporters
strongly dispute.
But Poroshenko also noted that "the cease-fire was not proving easy to maintain because 'terrorists' were constantly trying to provoke Kiev's forces."
The Ukrainian leader's speech comes as he faces mounting pressure in western Ukraine to prove that he did not negotiate away Ukraine's territorial integrity during cease-fire talks last week, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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As per CNN, looks like a flock of young, beateous, local pro-Russia or Pro-Autonomy "New Russia" Babes are applying for a job as Femme Anchor wid "New Russia TV" News.
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Donetsk public officials have already said independence, not federation. And Ukraina is preparing as new counteroffensive, prolly to start in October.
On the results of consultations of the Trilateral Contact Group, in relation to mutual steps directed to implementation of the Peace Roadmap of Ukrainian President P. Poroshenko and the initiatives of Russian President V. Putin.
The Trilateral Contact Group consisting of representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, having considered and discussed proposals advanced by participants of consultations in Minsk of September 1, achieved understanding of the need to take the following steps:
1. Provide an immediate bilateral ceasefire.
2. Provide OSCE monitoring and verification of the ceasefire regime observance by the conflict sides.
3. Kiev authorities are to decentralise power, including the adoption of the Ukrainian law on temporary order of local self-government in separate districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
4. OSCE officials are to ensure the permanent monitoring and verification on the Ukrainian-Russian state border with creation of the security zone in border areas of Russia and Ukraine.
5. Immediate release of all hostages and illegally held persons.
6. Enact a law prohibiting the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that took place in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.
7. Continue an inclusive nationwide dialogue.
8. Take measures for the improvement of the humanitarian situation in Donbass.
9. Ensure early local elections in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “Concerning the temporary status of local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” (Law on Special Status).
10 Withdraw illegal armed groups, military equipment, militants and mercenaries from Ukraine.
11. Adopt a program for Donbass' economic development and the restoration of vital activity of the region.
12. Provide personal security guarantees for the participants of the consultations.
Participants of the Trilateral Contact Group:
Heidi Tagliavini, the OSCE Ambassador
Leonid Kuchma, the second President in Ukraine
Mikhail Zurabov, the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine
[IsraelTimes] Two Algerians were attacked by a gang of Jewish youths in a Parisian suburb as they carried out deliveries to restaurants in the area, Le Parisien reported earlier this week.
The two victims, high school students aged 17,
... who apparently had done nothing to deserve what happened except be in the wrong place at the wrong time...
were delivering bread on Sunday evening in the Saint-Mande suburb that lies southeast of the capital when the became involved in an altercation with local Jewish residents.
One of injured teens said the incident started with an "simple exchange of looks."
However, as tempers flared dozens of other "young" people reportedly joined in the fray, kicking, punching, and butting the two delivery boys.
One of the victims suffered a head injury, bruising to the scalp, and bruises on the forehead and left shoulder. The other teenager, who regularly delivers bread to restaurants that is baked in his parents' bakery, said that the attacks were racially motivated.
"They told us dirty Arab, you have nothing to do at home," he said. "Here is our neighborhood."
According to the report, a Polish friend of the victims who tried to help was also attacked.
A large number of police arrived at the scene and arrested three people, two of them minors. All were released due to lack of evidence.
All three of the victims were briefly hospitalized and lodged complaints with police.
In July thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rioted in Paris in protest against Israel's Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip. During the disturbances Molotov cocktails were thrown at synagogues. The violence has seen an increase in activity by France's Jewish Defense League.
[Ynet] Energy minister says construction of Turkey-Israel gas pipeline unlikely after IDF Operation Protective Edge.
That's ok. Soon your sponsorship of ISIS will come home to roost, so best you concentrate on things you can control while Israel enjoys her energy independence.
[ARABNEWS] Thousands of people fled their homes in Pakistain on Wednesday as monsoon flooding that has already inundated the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmire coursed down onto the plains, causing a major river to breach its banks.
The flooding began earlier this month in Kashmire, where it has caused landslides and submerged much of the main city of Srinagar, on the Indian-administered side. The corpse count from the flooding in both countries has climbed to at least 457.
The rains have washed away houses, bridges, communication equipment and crops. Pak and Indian troops say they have evacuated nearly 75,000 people. The floods are the worst to hit Pakistain since 2010, when some 1,700 people died.
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Wait a minute. I was told that Gerbil Worming would cause the monsoons to stop and the Himalayan glaciers have all melteded.
[ARABNEWS] Police Wednesday charged the president of India's ruling political party, Amit Shah, with inflaming religious tensions during the national election campaign, an officer said.
"The charge sheet against Amit Shah has been filed by the investigating officer," deputy superintendent of police Yogendra Singh told AFP in the northern town of Muzaffarnagar.
Police filed the chargesheet in a local court in Muzaffarnagar, although Shah, president of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was not present.
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1) DC is still a swamp of evil that needs to be drained
2) The left has nothing left except "Blame Bush"
3) Homeschooling or alternate schools to the public model need to be pushed
4) Tar and feathering needs to be brought back
#3
Institutional bigotry and bias. Why did the teacher even think it was OK? Compare Ray Rice and Bull Connor? How would you think a response to that assignment would be? Wouldn't even think of it would you? Yet, the world the teacher lives and works among gives that kind of license.
#4
So this is what our public school system has devolved to? This teacher shouldn't be teaching. This teacher is a frigging no-nothing dunderhead with a strong dislike for George W. Anyone know what the background of this teacher is?
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The last I saw, the school was refusing to divulge the name of the teacher involved. With so many angry parents, though, no doubt it will come out in the next few days
#8
A far more comparative exercise would be comparing Barak Obama with hitler. He took over the auto industry, healthcare, "environmental controls" executive power, purges, and stalinist courts. Brandishing the tea party as the new jews.
You know, We need an eventual de-democratpartyification in this place. It smells like murder.
P.S. Barak Obama is Moslem Brotherhood. Same as hitler.
Stupid fucking useless pieces of shit.
Criminals, all of you.
The most expensive school system in America, and the most destructive.
Fuck you DC
Just fuck you.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
On the results of consultations of the Trilateral Contact Group, in relation to mutual steps directed to implementation of the Peace Roadmap of Ukrainian President P. Poroshenko and the initiatives of Russian President V. Putin.
