The Musings Of The Consensus

Recently, Joshua "Null" Moon, he of "Kiwi Farms" fame/infamy, decided to launch 9chan, which runs using his own custom designed chan board software. Barely three days after it hits the public internet, and it's already been targeted by the following: 1. Epik, the domain registrar, decided to weasel out of providing Moon service on utterly spurious grounds that basically amounted to "because I want to and I'll seize any cheap excuse to justify screwing you over without notice". This obstacle was overcome, but it's still galling such bad faith has gone unpunished. 2. The usual SJW types have fired up the propaganda machines at Wikipedia and various tabloid rags on the internet conflating 9chan with all the evils possible and trying to shame anyone possible into getting it choked off the internet. The owner of Epik fell for this because Wikipedia published such blatant attack articles on him Joseph Goebbels would blink in amazement at and th...

Went digging through my old emails, discovered the LONG series of insane brain dribblings from Nate Spidgewood from long ago, figured I might as well post it up here for the lulz: (his crap in all caps/bold, mine in regular font. These were sent in December 2014) I'M DEA!!!!!!!!!! FUCKING!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP CALLING ME NAMES LIKE " STUPID ", " IDIOT ", " TROLL ", " VANDAL ", " IMBECILE ", " FOOL " AND " PATHETIC "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! IT JUST SHOWS THAT YOU DON'T LIKE ME ANYMORE, YOU FUCKING TRAITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I TOLD YOU A MILLION FUCKING TIMES , I'M NOT A TROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU CALL ME NAMES LIKE THAT AGAIN I SWEAR TO GOD, I'LL SMASH YOUR FUCKING TEETH IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

It seems Nate refuses to shut the fuck up and leave me alone, as shown in his latest unsolicited email: ------ STOP CALLING ME A "FAGGOT" ON YOU FRIGGIN' TROLL BLOG, YOU BUTTLICKING ENCYCLOPEDIA DRAMTICA BELIEVER AND SUPPORTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! I'M JUST PISSED THAT I LOST MY TV TROPES ACCOUNT BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING NAZI WIKIPEDIA ADMINS WHO TOOK OVER THE SITE AFTER I JOINED AND THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT NEGATIVITY AND ONLY CARE ABOUT NOTABILITY AND THE FUCKING NAMESPACE SPAM PLAGUE THEY'VE BEEN CRAMMING THE SITE WITH BECAUSE THEY THINK IT MAKES THEM MONEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY'RE NOTHING BUT FUCKING GREEDY CORRUPT BASTARDS WHO DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT FANS AND MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE REASON I JOINED TV TROPES IN THE...

I write this post to say that for everyone in #Gamergate, congrats, you're on the winning team. A year ago, things looked bleak. A year ago, social justice warriors held most of the media by the balls, trying to sell them on the idea that all gamers were evil, sexist assholes who hate women and don't want them in the industry. To be honest, we only wanted one woman (Zoe Quinn) not exactly out, but taken to task for her collusion with game reviewers in exchange for positive coverage without disclosing the COI, and it prompted a backlash. Why? BECAUSE GAMERS STRUCK A NERVE. The nerve we struck was one where the gaming press had become an arrogant body unto themselves that didn't believe their mandate was simply to report on gaming culture. Instead, they felt they could abuse their power to shape gaming culture and this arrogance had corrupted them into doing corrupt things, and all those who kicked off Gamergate caught them with their pants down. Their counterattack...

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...