Wil Wheaton writes "“On the Internet,” says the iconic New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.”
It’s a joke, but it’s also a problem. More venom than ever before is flowing from behind the cloak of anonymity, where people remain entirely unaccountable for their words and deeds. Recently, random men used the anonymity of a huge city like New York to harass actor Shoshana Roberts while she walked the streets of Manhattan. Unnamed users of Ask.fm bullied a British 18-year-old until she killed herself last year.
This is especially true inside the gaming community, where female developers like Zoë Quinn and Briana Wu were forced from their homes by credible, anonymous threats. Feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesean has canceled public speaking engagements thanks to anonymous threats of violence. And activists from #GamerGate are hiding behind user IDs to terrorize women like my friend Felicia Day."
EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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Funny because I recall Felicia Day specifically calling out anti-GG for these issues earlier this month. Guess what she thinks is irrelevant to what this guy wants her to think. IMO 3rd wave feminism is all about oppressing people.
He only gave a shit when Felicia Day was "attacked"...you know when she suddenly decided to speak out about it. She once said "I don't want to talk about GG as I'm afraid of being hacked"...moments later he account is hacked and she's "abused"...GamerGate is automatically blamed straight away. I mean being hacked and attacked just after you said you were scared of speaking out about it...seems fishy to me. Besides Felicia Day is a fake in my opinion, she uses the gaming industry to keep her self relevant as her acting career isn't the best and since she's seen as this "Geeky goddess" to most she decides to play on it to keep herself known. Can't blame her but it's annoying.
Will, like most, doesn't have a clue what he's talking about and is trying to become involved like how Adam Baldwin was to the pro side....except Adam got involved because he was actually interested in the situation
"Briana Wu were forced from their homes"
Did she really leave her home though? Did Zoe? I mean after Briana was caught out I wouldn't be surprised if Zoe was lying aswell
"to terrorize women like my friend Felicia Day"
See...he's speaking out over something he knows nothing about just because it's his friend. Least if I was defending my friend I'd look at the entire picture.
It's all human nature. The internet gives people an outlet to act like a bully, a jerk or whatever because they feel like it and because they can do it anonymously.
You can enact laws to prosecute people for harassment, but people will still continue to be harassed everyday because human nature is much harder to change.
Did you care when threats were sent to Gabel? No. How about when Rotten tomatoes had to shut down comments because of death threats? Blah that's nothing.
But a "strong" woman? END THE PATRIARCHY
Again these movements are all to enact tyranny upon the masses. To track down enemies of the state.
"End gamer anonymity"
Said the big mouthed rich mangina public figure, who's still living off of royalties from that one little role he had in Star Trek: The Next Generation...
Anonymity encourages fair discussion, since you do not know what kind of person you are talking to, thus can't use their race/gender/nationality/life style against them to take cheap potshots. But I shouldn't have expected some moron to understand this.