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12-13-2014, 12:11 PM
This won't end well for them. The metal crowd is a different animal than gamers - not nearly as, well, civil at times.
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12-13-2014, 12:15 PM
I grew up into the heavy metal scene.
It's an interesting target because like gamers, metalheads are as a rule genuinely tolerant of pretty much everything. In fact, it was (90's-early 2000's) really progressive in terms of politics. Also, it's such a small niche it doesn't really benefit anyone to bring it down.
Like gamergate, it's really attacking a little market of people who just want to live and let live.
Like gamergate, it will fail utterly because it's one thing taking on white-collar workers in Silicon Valley who have a lot to lose. Metalheads in general tend to be non-comformist anyway, so telling them to conform to "the rules" is probably not going to end well.
+ in b4 #hellsangelgate
EDIT: 20:40 my thoughts exactly. "How about you don't and just fuck off."
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12-13-2014, 12:18 PM
Scandinavians have pussy governments and strong metal traditions. This will be interesting.
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12-13-2014, 12:23 PM
Lets see if metalists have as much balls as gamers to resist this.
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12-13-2014, 12:34 PM
I can't see this going over well for any advocates of this cause. Except these guys won't need us coming to their aid, I think they'll be able to handle it just fine.
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12-13-2014, 12:36 PM
What's next, #JuggaloGate ?
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12-13-2014, 12:48 PM
I'm surprised. I assumed feminists wouldn't go after rap because they knew those guys wouldn't give a fuck. Now I know it's just because they're black. David Draimen (front man of Disturbed) has already come out in favor of #GamerGate. I hope to see those guys shred SJW like they do guitars. We'll see who in the metal scene is actually a pussy and who isn't.
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12-13-2014, 12:48 PM
As a big heavy metal fan, I can tell you this won't go over. Head over to any big heavy metal forum, read the comments and see what those guys are like. Metal gate is going to be dead in the water. While the heavy metal community is pretty tolerant, it is RAMPANT with trolls and other people who would not only survive, but thrive off of #metalgate. Those dudes are animals.
It's like trying to fight a hydra. There is no head of the community, so they'd have no targets and nothing to work with and the longer the gate goes on the more they risk the ire of the less tolerant NS strains of metal. It would be pretty ugly.
I will be checking my PMs weekly, so you can catch me there. I will not be posting.
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12-13-2014, 12:54 PM
So they think they can win an argument with someone who doesn't mind burning a church to prove a point.
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12-13-2014, 01:06 PM
Why am i not surprised.
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12-13-2014, 01:10 PM
It's like Germany in WW2. They are fighting on too many fronts. If gamer gate is the allies, the metal scene is cold ass Russia.
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12-13-2014, 01:17 PM
The anti-GamerGate campaign attacked the community *most* sensitive to women's feelings, using that sensitivity as a weapon. Metalheads don't give a fuck.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. - Camille Paglia
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12-13-2014, 01:44 PM
Jeez! Let's fuck with a bunch of short-tempered, rebellious people who don't really give a shit about what people on the internet think about them and wholeheartedly believe in "an eye for an eye".
What could possibly go wrong?
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12-13-2014, 01:48 PM
For guys who might have kids over the next decade. How can you justify bringing your son into this world? this shit is only going to get worse and infest everything from media to education.
A young impressionable boy has no chance in this climate.
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12-13-2014, 01:57 PM
Anyone at a mainstream festival should have seen the writing on the wall.
Consider Coachella this year, Motorhead's set.
When Lemmy came out, the first ten rows were millennials telling people to 'stop moshing' so they could 'get a better view' and 'take pictures'
That shit lasted ten seconds.
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12-13-2014, 02:11 PM
I used to be a metal journalist. This is going to be funny.