They targeted gamers.
GAMERS.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even WEEKS ON END, performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over and over, all for nothing more than a little digital token saying "yep. That was me."
We'll punish ourselves doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time maxing the stats of a fictional character, all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know every little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed in frustration? All to later be referred to as "bragging rights"?
Do these people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us "racist", "misogynistic", "rape apologists" is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10-year-olds with a shitty head set.
They picked a fight against a group that's already become desensitized to their strategies and methods. We enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. We perceive it as a contest when they tell us we "no longer matter". Our obsession with proving we CAN after being told we CAN'T, is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers and/or sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be, that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competitive, hard core, by nature. We love a challenge. The worst thing you did in all of this was to threaten us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
Step right up. Us gamers are ready.
October 11, 2015
secretive TPP
we dont want sovereignty, we want TPP.
Do people seriously not understand that this deal is the end of free life as we know it? Everything we hold dear: gone. All our core values that pertain to freedom, sharing of information, safeguarding our health, safeguarding our safety will be DESTROYED through this pact.
Do you like posting on this board? You can be prosecuted for about 80% of the content posted here, right now, that we see. Memes? Illegal. Linking to pastebin/wikileaks/liveleak? Illegal. Criticizing the policy of certain companies? Illegal. That is, if we're fucking lucky enough that 4chan itself doesn't get shut down.
>The TPP will shape lives across the world from North America to Chile to New Zealand, but most of the text was written in secret by negotiators and corporations, without public input. When Wikileaks revealed a portion, we got a sampling of how bad it is:
>If a nation bans a toxic chemical, or labels genetically modified foods, or tightens environmental regulations, TPP empowers companies to sue governments in secret global tribunals, run by corporate arbitrators. If the government loses, taxpayers could be forced to pay companies billions of dollars for lost profits.
>Under TPP, pharmaceutical giants could extend their monopolies so far that cheap life-saving drugs for cancer and AIDS patients could be prevented.
>The deal could criminalise those who sound the alarm on corporate illegal activity through a computer system.
Even being AFFILIATED with anonymous is likely to get you prosecuted for being a "member" of an "organization" that commits copyright infringement, "slanders" corporations and uses computer systems to commit "crimes" (and if they aren't crimes, they'll MAKE them crimes in their courts.
Internet will be DEAD if this deal passes.
Do people seriously not understand that this deal is the end of free life as we know it? Everything we hold dear: gone. All our core values that pertain to freedom, sharing of information, safeguarding our health, safeguarding our safety will be DESTROYED through this pact.
Do you like posting on this board? You can be prosecuted for about 80% of the content posted here, right now, that we see. Memes? Illegal. Linking to pastebin/wikileaks/liveleak? Illegal. Criticizing the policy of certain companies? Illegal. That is, if we're fucking lucky enough that 4chan itself doesn't get shut down.
>The TPP will shape lives across the world from North America to Chile to New Zealand, but most of the text was written in secret by negotiators and corporations, without public input. When Wikileaks revealed a portion, we got a sampling of how bad it is:
>If a nation bans a toxic chemical, or labels genetically modified foods, or tightens environmental regulations, TPP empowers companies to sue governments in secret global tribunals, run by corporate arbitrators. If the government loses, taxpayers could be forced to pay companies billions of dollars for lost profits.
>Under TPP, pharmaceutical giants could extend their monopolies so far that cheap life-saving drugs for cancer and AIDS patients could be prevented.
>The deal could criminalise those who sound the alarm on corporate illegal activity through a computer system.
Even being AFFILIATED with anonymous is likely to get you prosecuted for being a "member" of an "organization" that commits copyright infringement, "slanders" corporations and uses computer systems to commit "crimes" (and if they aren't crimes, they'll MAKE them crimes in their courts.
Internet will be DEAD if this deal passes.
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