Gamer Gate 2.0 Update: Disproportionate Response Edition

“Well, that escalated quickly.” – Anchorman

I’ve been stuck in Ancient Rome all this week.  All of the roads seem to have this one weird design flaw.

All visual content today is as-found, except the bits that I might add a comment to.

This will be a post with exceptions:  normally I like to post “second day” type material, where we’ve had a chance to get through the event and reflect back on what really happened.  On Monday, I posted about the history of Gamer Gate 1.0, and what I thought just might be the start of Gamer Gate 2.0.  Here’s a link if these posts ever get separated (LINK).

I have another post, nearly completely done, that I was going to run today.   Completely different subject.

Then fresh info on Gamer Gate 2.0 hit, and I thought it was important to show just how fast this story is moving, and how critical it is.  The older stuff can wait, and I’ll have an easier week next week polishing it and it will probably even be a better post.  I do promise that, pending significant developments, this won’t be a regular feature.

The hallmark of Gamer Gate 1.0 was that gamers just wanted to play games, and after they saw the journalistic community (allegedly) SIMP out (look it up) for a talentless narcissist, they complained.  The response was coordinated and disproportionate – it’s like you say, “I don’t like this package of McDonald’s® Chicken McNuggets™ and they say . . . “You can never come to any McDonald’s© again for the rest of your life.”

It was weird.  So, Gamer Gate 2.0 started with something simple:  “We’re watching woke Marxists injecting The Narrative into our video games and we don’t like it.”  Simple enough, and in 2024 not particularly controversial.  The response?  “Biden Admin Zeroes In On Gamers In Push To Crush ‘Domestic Violent Extremism’”.

Because Gamers are easer to catch than the unending hordes of illegal aliens that were let into the country.

Gamer Gate 1.0 very, very strange way to treat the people that are your core audience.

Gamer Gate 2.0 is using the full power of the FBI, DHS, and probably NSA to crush people who just want to play video games without a bunch of woke crap.

I know many readers aren’t into gaming, computer or otherwise.  This is not at all about video games.  It is about the attempt to use hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to create a fully functional propaganda system to fundamentally alter the values of the nation.

This is a big deal.

In this case, the journalists that hate the majority of people in this country are still awful.

And it’s wonderful that they tell you, right out loud, that they are Satanists.

Doesn’t that make it a Satantree?

But they’re only part of the problem.  Dr. Rachel Kowert, who, on her website indicates that she is:

. . . currently working on a two-year project funded by the Department of Homeland Security (in collaboration with with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Logically AI) examining the landscape of extremist radicalization and recruitment within digital gaming spaces. This project aims to establish a baseline of understanding for the unique characteristics of extremist activities within video game communities, build capacity within the gaming industry to prevent and counter violent extremism in these spaces, and create collaborative networks across public and private sectors.

I left the “with with” in there.  Yeah, I know I have typos on here, but it’s a bad look Dr. Kowert (and she also talks about her “cahnnell”, which I assume means “channel”.  I guess if you have a Ph.D., you’re not allowed to use spellcheck.

Regardless, this is the point:  the DHS, rather than finding the millions of illegals crossing the border, is instead putting as much money into Rachel’s fat cheeks so she can bury them with her nuts for winter.

Here’s her Tweet on 3/11:

As Anon notes, her response was because ONE GUY made a LIST of games that Sweet Baby®, Inc. might have collaborated on.  ONE GUY.  ONE LIST.

Dr. Kowert apparently locked down her X account.  Huh.

And this is what puts the Kow in Dr. Kowert.

But one thing the GloboLeftElite doesn’t complain about is when they get the game they want.  Since they’re not horribly creative, they end up making games that . . . well, you be the judge:

Gee . . . sounds fun.

And here are the stakes.  Wonder why the full weight of the DHS comes down on ONE GUY making ONE LIST?

It’s because of this.

Author: John

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35 thoughts on “Gamer Gate 2.0 Update: Disproportionate Response Edition”

  2. Gamergate aside, I think most of this DEI nonsense will be gone by this time next year (either by choice or by insolvency). Boeing is a good example of this, but I see it with my former employer as well. DEI mostly happens in larger companies because large companies are notorious for having lots and lots of employees doing meaningless work that has no real impact on profitability. But DEI has taken the problem to a whole new level because it actively rewards and promotes organizational incompetence which has accelerated corporate destruction. So there are lots of companies that are now facing uncertain futures that are being faced with the reality of either cleaning up their act or going broke.

    1. Unreal “our” democracy at work. Hope somebody besides me is chiseling out millstones

  4. Ouch. Hopefully the economy & the USD crashes and the funding evaporates.

    Hopefully.

  5. Wow, that escalated fast.

    I watched a video that Critical Drinker just put out talking about this. Figured it would be one of those topics that would float around a bit, but nope. You’d think the companies would start to learn where their bread is buttered. OTOH if the Federal Govt is stepping in…

    1. Yeah, there’s a programmer leading the Wakanda video game for Disney. Refuses to hire white people. Which is . . . illegal. Like anything will happen.

      1. “The law is an ass.”

        The law is people. People just like us. People with names and faces. People with home addresses. Families. Pets. Children.

  7. Stop a moment and ponder why the woke enforcing company is called “Sweet Baby”. It’s not because it’s run by an attractive, pleasant woman. It’s more to do with PizzaGate. Their web page is covered with symbolism.

    1. I believe I mentioned before that I’m not a gamer, but…
      I invented a game of sorts that I do play.
      Every time I read an article about stuff like this, I load another magazine.

      1. The trouble with that approach is, things won’t get better until every time someone reads another article like this, they unload another magazine.

  9. This is about control. The one thing that matters more than anything else to the DEI/commie braindead left is control. Absolute total complete control over everything and everyone. It’s almost like an addictive compulsion. Certain people…who are almost ALWAYS committed leftists…have an insatiable need to control others. And they will burn down everything rather than forgo being in control. The subject may change but their need to wield total control never goes away.

  10. I’m still playing my original Xbox and Wii. Been having date nights with wifey at Dave and busters and she really liked the Halo game they had. I told her that I had it at home for the Xbox, and she said “great, let’s play”. Then they discovered that I must’ve sold it back to GameStop after I finished it. So we played a lame wrestling game instead, then I found my copy of WWF raw, which was much better. Going to hit up vintage stock in my area to see if I can’t find copies of halo and Halo 2.

    By the way, John, I tapped my keg of penpenultimate ale, and it is delicious.

    I’m hoping it will last until St. Patrick’s Day, to be finished alongside our corned beef and cabbage.

    1. NICE! Beer is our friend. The Mrs. is the big gamer between the two of us, and I think she’s done . . . .

  11. Look, it’s a ‘Doctor’ Rachel Cowart nation now. This is just the collective feminine imposing totalitarianism on men and boys. Been going on since the jump.

    The government and institutions are jammed with Rachel Cowarts, all of them massively empowered and funded to crush the last of masculinity/freedom out of New Amerika. The Empowered Ones now ARE D.H.S., N.S.A., etc.

    Recall when the demons trotted out their Disinformation Governance Board? Nanny Nina Jankowitz? They explicitly targeted the ‘manosphere’ with their threats and promises. Now it is male gamers daring to disobey the Hive, and to do male things! . . . in THEIR democracy!!

    Same with GamerGate2. The future is XX, don’t ask Y.

    1. You are 100% correct. They subsidize the creation of Cowarts and then pamper them. Thankfully, they don’t reproduce.

  12. John, this could be resolved largely, if not completely, if gamers simply went on strike and stopped buying games. Games are 100% a luxury (e.g., not survival related item). Magically, if the bulk of the market stops buying, these companies wither.

    Calling attention to them is great – then, just go ahead and ignore them. They thrive on the publicity.

    1. No, it needs to be pushed. Why is Disney backtracking from the slop they’ve created with their IP? Because people have pushed back. Yes, Disney is toxic, and not buying tickets helps, but they have to know the reason.

      And it also gives us more converts.

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