The Musings Of The Consensus

I accidentally sent a tweet to Ian Miles Cheong from the ATT site twitter instead my personal one, and since the tweet isn't far from the path of how ATT officially represents myself, I'll clarify. Ian Miles Cheong was, from my understanding, a fiercely hateful anti-GGer who had an epiphany that hate had made him a horrible, closeminded asshole, so he repented and has been trying to be a better person. He has not entirely renounced his Gamergate and gaming culture views, but he's no longer an abrasive prick about them and has been trying to reach out to his critics. Speaking as founder of the site meant to be an alternative to TV Tropes and a pro-GGer personally (All The Tropes does not represent me in that regard), I admire that. I don't ask he give up his convictions, he's entitled to his views, but I'm glad he's focused less on spreading hate and instead wants to build bridges, much like I never wanted our site to be the hateful spinoff of TVT, but in...

Before I go on, I've made clear my disgust for many of the actions of Brianna Wu (aka John Walker Flynt) here many times, but that doesn't mean I'm not capable of trying to be civil in the company of someone who actions I despise. For example, I had a lot of vitriol for TV Tropes, but I still tried to be a bridge builder, and today we're on rather cordial if not outright friendly terms. That said, I tweeted Brianna Wu a few times, all of them with me trying to be polite, and I fail to understand why I was blocked, Here are the tweets: https://slimgur.com/image/TzZ In this tweet, Wu is asked to speak about racism against blacks, and Wu wisely decides to show discretion, an action I applaud Wu for. https://slimgur.com/image/TzM In this tweet, Wu makes reference to a friend who lost someone and who had been misgendered in the process. I expressed my sympathy, but I was unsure how misgendering could be so devastating, and I really did want more context. http...

Gay marriage was recently legalized across the entire United States, and I couldn't be happier. Me, I personally do not benefit or care, as I have no interest in a gay marriage for myself. However, for those who were gay married or wanted one, glad you all can enjoy that across the nation now. The reason I'm happy is because the argument used to strike down all existing bans is the logic that everyone is entitled to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and that cannot be abrogated without due process of law, and the only barrier up to this point has been a bunch of people bitching about how marriage should be defined as a union between a man and a woman. Why? Discounting religion (which has no place in laws governing people of all faiths, and no faith in a country that has no established church) and traditional societal standards (which can change and are thus meaningless), there are no good arguments I can come up with legally to bar gay marriage, and since my rights...

First off, there is a reason this blog post is titled this way: I want to add another Google result for the truth a certain middling male to female transsexual indie game dev with a big mouth and mile long list of lies and bullshit stories is trying to suppress. My admission of blatant trolling out of the way, now onto the actual subject. Both Wikipedia and Rational Wiki have entire teams of people suppressing any hint of information about Brianna Wu being born John Walker Flynt, Wikipedia because of their terror of being sued/Biographies of Living Persons policy, and Rational Wiki for similar reasons, not to mention they've taken such a blatant anti-GG stance they don't care to pretend they are neutral, which means this information cannot exist in any form there. Let me tear apart the reasons they say we should not mention Brianna Wu was born John Walker Flynt. Note: I'm primarily addressing the parties who disagree with my feelings here. 1. What a person does no...

Reddit used to be infamous for its pride in free speech and zealously defended it's right to all forms of speech so long as they weren't illegal, fighting hard for such shit as those jailbait subreddits run by that violentacrez guy. Now, Reddit is shitting on its former prized principles. The goal seems to be, as they call it, ending harassment. However, this makes me wonder: How is a discussion board harassment? Okay, if the people on the board are purposely needling the people claiming harassment, the latter have a case, but for those passively discussing them, it's not harassment. What makes it more retarded is that not only is this cleansing being led by a woman named Ellen Pao who has called her opponents "idiots" and who has been dubbed "Chairman Pao" for this "Cultural Revolution", this is being hailed by the idiot asshole SJW types as making the internet safer. HOT FLASH, SJWS, YOU DONE FUCKED UP! First off, banning shit like ...

I already posted on Voat (great site, better than Reddit) about why I was pissed on by RationalWiki, and since I don't feel like belaboring that shitstorm, here's a link to my Voat post with more detail: https://voat.co/v/GamerGate/comments/145724 Anyway, what I want to get off my chest is that, while the above link covers quite a bit of my disgust, I have other reasons than RationalWiki's sad descent into SJWism for why I consider them a laughingstock. 1. They actually used to honor civil debate, no matter the topic - Well, not entirely true, they tore Tisane a new asshole over him trying to debate the merits of child porn, but given my own feelings on that subject, I mirror their disgust, but otherwise, they used to be pretty openminded, and the debates were surprisingly civil and rational. Not anymore. In the shitstorm detailed above, I have to admit I was surprised by the raw, vicious venom spewed by the posters there. Not just Ryulong, I already knew that jac...

First off, just want to say I'm a big fan of Deus Ex as a series (well, Invisible War sucked, no denying it), and while Human Revolution may not have surpassed the original, it came damn close, which is why I'm stoked for Mankind Divided. And, speaking of divisions among man, SJWs imbeciles were freaking out over the game having "mechanical apartheid" themes, where cyberaugmented people are discriminated against as a major theme, calling it racist or some shit, despite them moaning for fucking months now about how games should explore this sort of social commentary. I'm going to try avoiding spoilers for Human Revolution, but I'm just going to rip apart their bullshit, so here goes: 1. IT A WORK OF FICTION YOU ASSHOLES - If anyone wants to explore any theme in a game, that does not necessarily means it reflects on real life, and even if it does, I thought you fucking idiots WANTED social commentary in games. You're getting it, so why are you complain...

I try to be a nice guy to people, but when you set out to piss me off from day one, wreck my shit, and screw with my friends, I get mad to the point I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. Such is my wrath towards the worthless shitsack who decided to fuck with Orain. About a week or two ago, Orain was under assault by some skript kiddie asshole who confirmed they had DDoSed us once before, accused my boss Dustin Muniz of selling private data on our users (this is utter horseshit, and I would be willing to say so under oath in any court on this planet), then threatened to leak private server data on us if we refused to do.....well, we're not sure what they wanted and leave their threats and libel up. Since we refused to negotiate with terrorist scum, said dickhead decided to leak that server data, which I managed to get suppressed for the most part, and just in case anyone finds it now, it's now useless, as we've changed all that data, so for anyone planning o...

Before I begin this post proper, I should explain what forking means in the technical and practical sense. Forking is a tech term for taking software (almost always open-source, though some proprietary software allows for this under certain legal and technical conditions) and making your version based off an existing branch of the software's development, which may or may not follow the path of the original software while still retaining the base code behind the original. Tv Tropes uses a customized fork of PmWiki, which is a freely modifiable wiki engine, this is a technical fork made to suit their needs. However, forking is also a social tool, as forking can be used for websites and website concepts. 8chan is a fork of the 4chan concept. Voat is a fork of the concept behind Reddit, Slimgur is a fork of the idea of Imgur and my own site, All The Tropes, is a fork of TV Tropes. When websites fork, it's usually due to ideological splits with the site they forked from, and...

In previous posts, I have indicated my sympathy for the pro-Gamergate crowd, if only because I found them much less detestable than the antis as a whole. Now, thanks to Wikipedia allowing blatant bullshit as opposed to actual fact on the Brianna Wu article because it goes against the narrative of the apparent SJWs , I'm now a proud, open supporter of pro-Gamergate. For those who don't care to click that link, it's me on Wikipediocracy expressing my misgivings with their policy on Biography of Living Persons, where I noted politely on the talk page that Brianna Wu was born John Walker Flynt, and despite my own bias, which I carefully noted in advance, I felt it would be in the interests of honesty to note Wu was not born female, as the Wikipedia article on Wu would lead one to believe. My reward for daring to challenge the narrative was my objection removed, then suppressed, and I was also sent a not so subtle threat on my Wikipedia talk page I was treading on sacred g...

Recently, within almost two weeks as of the date of this writing, the Orain wikifarm has sustained a repeated UDP attack,  or a denial of service attack utilizing the user datagram protocol . The apparent intention behind the attack was either to obtain access to our servers, deny our service to others, or a combination of both motives. The source was an apparent botnet with connections to Russian servers, but with connections as far flung as American Verizon connections, and based on the repeated, malicious nature of the attacks, it is the general belief of our staff Orain was specifically targeted with malice aforethought. The reason this attack could not be mitigated effectively was unfortunately due to our hosting with DigitalOcean, which shunted off all traffic to our IPv4 servers and kept it that way instead of blocking the source of the attack. IPv6 server connections were unaffected, as the attack originated from an IPv4 source and was aimed at targeting our IPv4 connec...