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Before I read that post, did she ever publish a rebuttal?

In answer to your preamble, of course! It was a self-published free game. What possible beef could there be?

As for the next branch, I would have a strong preference for choice 1, but I would be interested in hearing your thinking behind 2. Bearing in mind, however, that you're asking a layman to understand the context of what appears to almost any lay reader choice 1.

Well, that just muddies the water a little more. Write that piece! It'll get a million comments.

Let's run with that. The woman game developer develops and gets published a game that doesn't appeal to the usual audience for video games. Said audience claims that the only reason she got it published was because she's a woman. Absent that, a game as sucky as the one she developed never would have seen the light of day. Am I on the right track?

All right, I'm just about as befuddled as a man could be. You and Jay seem to think there's a defense of the perpetrators of Gamergate to be made that would be understandable to someone coming in with zero knowledge. As a person who fits that description, I'm anxious to read it.

Maybe you and Jay could collaborate.

If there's another angle, by all means have at it. As I wrote above, my knowledge is extremely limited, so enlighten me.

I would be anxious to read a defense of that reprehensible behavior.

I'm talking about a group of guys who mounted an online harassment campaign against a woman who developed a game they didn't like. A harassment campaign that included threats of death and rape, and apparently enough of them to make the news. If your definition of sanity and good sense include that then I'm not sure what to think about the values you uphold. Am I missing something?

I'm not sure how I see the connection to Gamergate with this criticism.

I know what I know from reading the Wikipedia entry, so let's go with your football analogy instead of talking about the actual people. Are you claiming that Marv's disciples behavior towards Knute's is forgivable because Marv's playbook is different?

My narrow window, as you put it, is the golden rule.

Take me through that, man. I wouldn't even know where to start.

It's highly unlikely sane people would have conceived that such a conspiracy theory would signal a mass political movement, yet here we are. I mean, where do you even begin to try to counter such a nonsensical thing?

If you look up pictures of the heads of the other 2 branches of the service, you might notice a difference from the 3 who were relieved.

Looking at the lists on Wiki, people who didn't serve out their terms are very few and far between. Generally, they seem to be very non-tumultuous positions.

The incident itself is not amusing. People living in 21st century NYC as though it's 19th century Russia is.

Those black hats will never cease to crack me up.

I think she'll just let time take care of Adams. There's an election in November and he's wildly unpopular.

https://apnews.com/article/eric-adams-popularity-trump-corruption-charges-nyc-a367838a7a438c159d6d0bfb10339680

Forcing Devin Williams to shave revealed why some guys should wear beards.

That stupid region is never going to know peace.

If your prediction comes true, it'll be interesting to see what constitutional basis SCOTUS can come up with for ruling it unconstitutional.

Given the level of fearmongering that goes on in this country these days, I'll bet a lot more people think they need it than people who actually need it.

I'll likely never sign up and I'm writing this as a resident of Chicago, where I'm shot and killed at least once or twice daily. ;-)

Thanks for this great write up. It truly is a wonder that all survived that crash.

Some guy on social media priced it out and the cheapest ride he could get was a grand.

Oh, boy, this won't end up with someone in prison. /s