{"id":175861,"date":"2020-11-08T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/08\/boy-i-screwed-up-this-one\/"},"modified":"2020-11-08T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:18:00","slug":"boy-i-screwed-up-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/08\/boy-i-screwed-up-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, I Screwed up This One\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamergate_controversy\">Gamegate<\/a> affair was metastasizing into an orgy of white male privilege and terrorism, I<a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/Boy,%20I%20Screwed%20up%20This%20One%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6\"> made fun of what I referred to the &#8220;Quinnspiracy<\/a>&#8220;, seeing it as little more a controversy about gaming and gaming journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that, what was a kind of an inside-baseball controversy became the blueprint for white male (and it is almost always white male) terrorism via the internet.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I thought that it was a metaphor for the corruption in game journalism, and how it made it difficult for independent studios to get any coverage. (Valid, but irrelevant to what it revealed)<\/p>\n<p>The real story, which was that an army of violent racist, sexist, and homophobic dirt-bags poised to terrorize our society, and in 2016, our electoral politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, as Gamegate affair was metastasizing into an orgy of white male privilege and terrorism, I made fun of what I referred to the &#8220;Quinnspiracy&#8220;, seeing it as little more a controversy about gaming and gaming journalism. Shortly after that, what was a kind of an inside-baseball controversy became the blueprint for white male &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,561,430,398,569,605,373],"class_list":["post-175861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-gaming","tag-meta","tag-racism","tag-sexism","tag-stochastic-terrorism","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}