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Fabricated Notch/Mojang party escort allegations; Twitter monsters spring into action
- Thread starter Misguided
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There's a saying about assumptions that I can't be assed typing that sums up this situation pretty well.
voodoopanda
Member
This seems like basically a problem with Twitter more than anything else. I recall similar things happening before. All it takes is for one person to make a claim on Twitter, and a couple people to believe them and retweet it or comment about it. Then everyone sees multiple tweets about something happening and assume it's true and start talking about it. I think I remember reading an article about this phenomenon after someone was tweeting fake information when Hurricane Sandy hit New York.
StevePharma
Member
Yeah, seems that a lot of these industry people never went to a presumed classy party with people throwing some money at it. Everybody always looks hot there and they don't need your 300 bucks for that. Boom! Generalization up in this, but true most of the time.
Also Twitter and Reddit feel like the sewer of the regular internet for me nowadays.
It's like a 140 character Jbaird story
Jasper Avenue
Member
I think most of these guys assume that if an attractive woman is talking to them, they were probably paid to do it.
I still dont see the problem even is everything were true...
Which is so ironic that I actually have a hard on right now
Which is also ironic.
Uh.. You obviously don't even know what feminism is, so your post is the laughable one here.
Wanting equality is hilarious? I guess me wanting gays to have the same rights as I do is also hilarious, since I'm not gay?
JakkuFurosu
Member
her and Gies would make a great couple
Notice how she's using the word "paid companionship" when she really wants to use the word prostitution. She has a problem with women being paid for specifically being women, that's what it all comes down to.
BRocknRolla
Member
Real shitty that someone would make up a story. Just takes away from real issues that do need to be addresses. Thanks for using twitter irresponsibly to start controversy where none should have existed. I hate the Internet somedays.
Puppet Shadow
Member
Sometimes I think that when people try to make a name for themselves on twitter, they forget that they are also doing so on Google.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Looks like simping to me.
He's always overtly nice to females (or vaginal companions, as he likes to put it).
hipster
Exactly.
JakkuFurosu
Member
I'll be honest. It already annoys me to no end.
I can't argue with this as I have no personal experience with drugs, so I guess I'll leave it at that.
MDSVeritas
Member
https://twitter.com/notch/status/317725886919081985
I'm confused about this. I'll give Notch props for trying to reach out and find out what happened, but I don't really see how this conversation is going to develop beyond "Did you hire women to stand around?" "Nope" "Okay then."
Plus, I feel like she would not be the person to talk to about it, since she wasn't even there. If Notch wanted to find out about the event he should talk to the people who first made the claim, not the person who fiercely defended it.
I'm confused about this. I'll give Notch props for trying to reach out and find out what happened, but I don't really see how this conversation is going to develop beyond "Did you hire women to stand around?" "Nope" "Okay then."
Plus, I feel like she would not be the person to talk to about it, since she wasn't even there. If Notch wanted to find out about the event he should talk to the people who first made the claim, not the person who fiercely defended it.
Wrestlemania
Banned
This lunch has already happened.
She's still insisting something happened. Doesn't know when to give up. Now she's blaming the club. WTF are the people who were actually there, why does Holly think it's her cause to fight?
Wrestlemania
Banned
Very few people lambasted Notch himself over this.
Angry Fork
Member
So can someone Lionel Mandrake this thread for people who haven't read all the pages?
If I'm to get this right:
1. Someone tweets about 'hired' women who were put in VIP section to entertain 'lonely, anti-social' developers/fans?
2. These anti social guys were being sexist, saying and doing stupid shit to them?
3. Notch says this is untrue, and then...
Is this basically it? If this is all untrue then who made it up and why? And why would people get faux outraged over something they hadn't confirmed?
If I'm to get this right:
1. Someone tweets about 'hired' women who were put in VIP section to entertain 'lonely, anti-social' developers/fans?
2. These anti social guys were being sexist, saying and doing stupid shit to them?
3. Notch says this is untrue, and then...
Is this basically it? If this is all untrue then who made it up and why? And why would people get faux outraged over something they hadn't confirmed?
Delusibeta
Banned
i don't get why i'm supposed to care
seems like a couple of people trying to create an issue where there is none. just embarrassing all around.
this post is the most laughable "entitled gamer" thing i've ever read
seems like a couple of people trying to create an issue where there is none. just embarrassing all around.
this post is the most laughable "entitled gamer" thing i've ever read
JakkuFurosu
Member
pretty ladies seen in vip room.
must be "paid companions"
Notch says no
here we are
Also pretty ladies in the green room
Must be "paid companions"
Hydrogen Bluebird
Member
Not making this shit up:
A personal acquaintance of mine is a former editor at Gameranx and he told me that the site's EIC usually hires women (or gives women preference if there is a vacated position on the site).
A personal acquaintance of mine is a former editor at Gameranx and he told me that the site's EIC usually hires women (or gives women preference if there is a vacated position on the site).
Welcome to the twitter-tumblr-reddit age folks, where joining the bandwagon of tears, pain, and pointed fingers for social justice is more important than the truth. It's taking the internet by storm and its infection of the gaming industry wasn't the beginning, nor will it be the end.
Nice to see people starting to notice. Pop culture and entertainment are such easy targets.
Nice to see people starting to notice. Pop culture and entertainment are such easy targets.
That's a great way to get the best staff for the job, indiscriminately hiring based on sex. If a male could ever prove their hiring practices it'd be lawsuit city.
Equality lol
That sounds more believable actually.
Maybe?
Enough bullshit has already been wrought in this thread due to false and misleading information already. I'm not going to speculate why some people made the assumptions they did until I actually hear their story.
JakkuFurosu
Member
TheNatural
My Member!
Twitter "news" needs to be banned from GAF. People make up shit, goes on Twitter, someone reports it here - cycle repeats. Guess Notch got the short end of this shit stick.
Somebody tweets something that has no truth, others take that tweet (without confirming it) and twist the logic with some faux outrage. Accusations are made. Kinda like a modern day Chinese whispers. People getting paid keep a party moving along is hardly something to get angry over in the first place.
Hesemonni
Banned
Oh. GDC sounds like a blast
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
Making the assumption that a group of pretty women at a party must have been paid to be there is probably the saddest (and most sexist) part of this whole debacle. The stupidity that followed afterwards was to be expected.
To me, that says a whole lot about those who originally jumped to the (false) conclusions in the first place.
To me, that says a whole lot about those who originally jumped to the (false) conclusions in the first place.
Puppet Shadow
Member
Worse, is when Misguided refused to to update his OP, even when asked repeatedly to do so. If you're going to make a thread, at least update the damn thing.
... that they will do anything to jump on the latest trend of whatever news might be popping up in their field of choice because things like twitter give them a voice and a platform and allow attention that shouldn't be afforded to them.
You know that quote "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel?" Well, the "intellectuals" operating in the periphery of the gaming industry that make up the "new games press" have two such refuges. Gender and ludonarrative dissonance.
Those allegations of sexism sound pretty sexist.
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