The Gatekeeper

[AlexanderDitto]

I probably wouldn't like videogames either if I became the target of a torrent of death threats and photomanipulations depicting my rape when I opened my mouth to talk about videogames. But I wonder how Sarkeesian's taste in entertainment would relate to her observations about the toxicity of videogame culture. Kind of like saying, how can your cancer research give any meaningful results? You don't even LIKE cancer!

Well obviously hating video games would make your criticism biased

whereas loving video games makes your criticisms totally impartial.

But that's OK because NO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO LIKE VIDEO GAMES ANYWAY THEY'RE NOT FOR YOU

THE GATEKEEPER: AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

(Possibly my favorite thing about this video, after Graham's hedge dive and Alex's ass-slap, is the way The Gatekeeper says "NO!" It's like this petulent little yelp. SO GOOD GRAHAM. SO GOOD.)

[deathjavu]

Why in the fucking hell did I read that entire comment section

at this rate I'm going to end up trying Anita's videos again out of sheer spite for the weird hateon that illogical internet manchildren have for her. I mean, I watched the first one and kept saying "yeah, ok...when do you start saying something that isn't 1+1=2?" It was just so boring and insubstantive, nothing I couldn't get from a cursory read of the respective tropes on tvtropes or having a functioning brain and observational skill.

If people keep making these dumbass argumentative reacharounds, typically based on literally anything but the actual argument their opponents are presenting, I might have to murder the internet. "I hate her work because she did blah blah blah" either argue with the work itself or ignore her, every time her name is typed it's making her recognition more valuable from a marketing perspective.

ugh, arguing on the internet. like sisyphus and the boulder, but the idea of the world as a better place is at the top, and your mom is getting fucked at the bottom

[BenMarc]

I'd give an opinion on this video, but I'm worried that the Gatekeeper would chastise me for it.

[deathjavu]

I am still sad on a daily basis that I opened that youtube comment thread. Because I read it once I opened it, and responded once I read it, and now I can't escape it because I KEEP GETTING EMAIL NOTICES ABOUT THE G+ THREAD. AND ALL OF THE DUMB SHIT PEOPLE ARE SAYING IN IT.

Man, I'm SO GLAD we were pressured into combining our youtube and G+ accounts.

SO

GLAD

/sarcasm, commence weeping

[phlip]

Go to G+, go to that post, and hit the little arrow in the top right of the post, and pick "Mute this post". You should stop getting notifications about it then.

[deathjavu]

Thank you so much.

[plummeting_sloth]

So, I got invited to an Air Wrestling show and decided (inspired by this wonderful video) to make my Wrestling Persona "The Gatekeeper"... I'm just going to get into the ring and criticize the other wrestlers for competing as they clearly don't know enough about it.