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   ☻ (mrsaturday@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 07:21:45 JST ☻

   • Sexy Moon
   • iced depresso
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   @RustyCrab @icedquinn @Moon @teratology They were shocked at the level of outlets that got involved. Like NBC News, BBC, Stephen Colbert, etc. didn't have anything else to report on? The UN got involved? It was just bizarre to see the levels at which establishment ran interference for some uggo that was banging people shilling her game. I think they expected the shitpieces from woke games journalists, but not the mainstream media.
   
   Note that it wasn't sex-for-reviews, I honestly think it was a case of games journalists and indie devs literally being in bed with one another, like a polycule, and just them trying to elevate each others' content. Still very corrupt, but just favoritism rather than quid pro quo. Also, if Gamergate did lose, it was a pyrrhic victory, since the whole thing brainbroke journalists and they started covering Trump like they did Gamergate, which shattered the public's trust in them.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 07:21:43 JST iced depresso

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     • Sexy Moon
     • Rusty Crab
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     @teratology @RustyCrab @Moon @mrsaturday
     
     > 6% of people trust the press (associated press, 2016)
     
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     cipote :bishrexual: (teratology@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 07:21:44 JST cipote :bishrexual:

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     • Sexy Moon
     • iced depresso
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     @mrsaturday @icedquinn @RustyCrab @Moon it is very american to come to the conclusion that the media is bad because of gamergate....
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     guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 07:51:34 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     • Sexy Moon
     • iced depresso
     • Rusty Crab
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     @icedquinn @RustyCrab @Moon @mrsaturday @teratology At this point, believing the press is the lizardman's constant, the baseline number of people who on any poll will express an opinion that's batshit insane.
     
     (Reference for lizardman's constant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ )
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