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GamerGate Explained!!! [locked]
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09/13/14, 05:42 Locked 01/04/16, 01:39
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Found this while at the opa, user didnt mind a repost here...also since i havent seen this part of the mess covered in this thread might as well put it for the sakes of whatever. I highly recommend to watch the video first. Posted 03 October 2014 - 07:58 AM
holy fucking shit, THOSE BITCHES!!!!.
this is some pretty scary shit as well, since shes part of a gov-funded team tasked with making teaching-based video games, but you have to wonder what kind of teaching and for what purporse (to fuck with good people, we all know thats all they want, fucken scum) https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/asc-alumni-develop-video-game-train-adults-how-overcome-critical-decision-making?nid=1011&ntype=student This project advances educational game research by systematically and experimentally identifying a serious game design that leads to most effective learning” explained Stromer-Galley “Our objective is to turn computer games, which people generally view as entertainment, into powerful learning tools.” The 50-month CYCLES project (Cycles of Your Cognitive Learning, Expectations, and Schema) project is supported by a $8.7-million contract from the U.S. Air Force, and is sponsored by the Sirius Program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), an arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which heads the nation's intelligence services. In partnership with game company 1st Playable Productions, the CYCLES project will develop a computer game that will teach players how to recognize six common cognitive decision-making biases: confirmation bias, fundamental attribution bias, bias blind spot, representativeness bias, anchoring bias and projection bias. Although people are hard wired to attend to certain information and disregard other information when making decisions, that game will train them to become more aware of this process. “Our game will provide ways of thinking to minimize the cognitive processes that lead to biased decision making” explained Martey. The team of researchers will conduct a series of experiments with undergraduate students at Colorado State University, the University of Arizona, and the University at Albany, SUNY to test various game mechanics’ effect on learning about decision making and cognitive biases. They also are working with consultants from the intelligence community to make sure the game is ultimately relevant to analysts. Kenski explained “We hope for people to learn about these biases and to think differently when faced with a decision where they don't have all the information and time they want.”
tldr: yeah, they were fucking with us since the start, the gamer bashing was planned long ago to legitimize a couple of fat professor cunts and their stupid fucking ideas.
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I have read a good deal of that woman's journal regarding her views on the word "gamer" and how they can change said views, TRULY SICKENING that these types of people exist within academia , but at the same time it seems like its just a bunch of failed social sciences folks trying to give their worthless degrees some worth while licking the great powerful ass of organized neofemenazism.....well, they kinda fucked with the wrong group. Keep emailing i guess. whoda thunk it huh? loser gaf-types being at the core of it all. goddamn gaf has gone to shit since this. |
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@Unplugged3My reaction is: Whoop de doo. All the video proves is that some academics influenced some blogs which influenced some mainstream games journalist sites. This is neither remarkable nor surprising, since that's precisely what media studies departments at Universities are supposed to do - come up with ideas and, if they are popular enough to become adopted in the private sector, affect change that way. I'm not sure why this is taken as if it's shady or a conspiracy, considering the video is upfront about the mainstream sites linking to that guy's blog which links back to the original study. So the process couldn't be more transparent. What I find more remarkable is how besieged these gamers think they are, so that a transparent and frankly boring-as-shit process is taken as if it's something that demands an emotional reaction. Again, this reminds me of right-wing American politics and the "we're losing our country" mentality that's been going around for years. That video has the tone of an exposé, as if it is showing the secret machinations of academia. When, in fact, all it is is the record of how some ideas about the term "gamer" might have disseminated to a place like Kotaku. Me? I think the term "gamer" is a little dopey and I've said it for years. More than playing video games, I'm a fan of listening to music. But I don't go around talking about myself as a musicker, as if that's some specific identity I have. Or a movier. Or a TVer. I'm just a human being who enjoys those things. So why is gaming so different? I'll tell you my theory: Gaming was considered for kids for so long that it had to exist as a sort of subculture for years. Older folks weren't willing to buy into the genre, so it was... I'm not going to say underground, because that's not accurate, but let's say not accepted in mainstream culture. I think that changed with the Wii, actually, and then eventually with smartphones and tablets. Also, those of us who grew up with consoles also simply grew up. My dad wouldn't play games when he was 35 but I certainly will. And now gaming is mainstream and subject to the scrutiny that comes with being another part of the broader culture. And I think all the people who felt really at home in the gamer subculture that developed when gaming was outside of the mainstream are feeling lost in this new world. My reaction? Oh well. If you want to reminisce, you have your memories of when your tastes were the only ones that mattered. You were lucky to have had your tastes catered to for so long. But you're not going to get me to rally behind you just because I've played games all my life. To be honest, these sorts of gamers strike me as the same assholes who used to call my tastes "kiddie" and stuff like that. If gamer culture is changing then, hey, those self-important bullies are getting what they always deserved. |
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