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@honkalot: It's somewhat ironic that his twitter handle is Nero, because I bet he's getting great enjoyment out of watching this industry burn down around him.

Also Breitbart (the site Milo writes for) is apparently extremely pro-Tea Party. It's extremely easy to connect dots that may not be there when you have this rattling around the back of your mind, and you don't know whether to believe it or not. But honestly? I don't think he has either the best interests of the consumers - or the industry at large - in mind. As Eric Bischoff would say: Controversy Creates Cash.

@juniper: The issue I have with this whole thing, is that regular Joes like you and I end up talking about this, as we are, and we end up caught up in the snowball rolling down Everest. It did start out as an extremist thing, you're dead right on that, but it has spiralled out of control and anyone who chimes in gets caught in the avalanche and they're just as much of a part of it as those who are on the more extreme side of the fences.

@freedo: I think that that's why some of the rational people are trying their best to re-establish themselves on their own without attaching it to that hashtag, purely because of the negative connotations involved in using it. And that's pretty great. At the same time, you're right in that we can't really just bury our heads in the proverbial sand and hope it all goes away. That's probably what most of us are doing, whether we're aware of it or not, but those times that folks do address these GamerGate people, they're usually met with nothing but hostility. With that in mind, why would anyone want to voluntarily invite that upon themselves? Unless you have extremely thick skin and can cut through the crap, actively charging in and trying to find the needle in the haystack (or in this case, perhaps it should be a strand of hay in a needlestack) probably isn't the best course of action.

Do people honestly believe that saying stuff like this will somehow endear these people to their cause? I'm all about debate and I'd be more than happy to sit down with some of these people and have a civilised conversation with them, and at least maybe try to understand what they want (even if I vehemently disagree with them and will never give them what they demand), but this is beyond rude and it's stuff you should never say either on the internet, or to anyone in person.

These loonies certainly aren't the face of the people they're attempting to represent, and it's pretty god damn awful that when people talk about people who oppose the thinkings of Sarkeesian and other individuals on that side of the thought spectrum, these are the kind of people who instantly spring to mind, not the "Well, I disagree on this, because *3 paragraphs of well thought out discussion points*, but I do see what you mean by it, and by no stretch are you wrong" types.

I don't want the world to think that because I play videogames, that this is the sort of person I am. Is it too much to ask of these people, that I dunno, they can be assholes in their own right without using the rest of us as a crutch to somehow justify their behaviour, as if it makes it any less of a hurtful thing to do?

And also Bill DeMott being in WWE 2K15. Seriously. MyCareer in it looks very promising. If they can fill out the NXT section with a good number of superstars (Tyler Breeze plz) and supplement that with Community Creations being imported to fill out the NXT undercard, that stage of the career will be great. Well, as long as it doesn't decide to break the immersion by importing VGCW Sonic The Hedgehog into it or something dumb like that.

Realising it may be too late to make the on-disc edition, but if they done an NXT-centric Season Pass content update or something that had Kevin Steen, Hideo Itami and Finn Bálor, I'm in. That's if that rumoured PC version exists, of course, cause I don't have a current-gen console, and I hope to not need one if more of the typical console-only games decide to take the leap.

Supposedlyit's Justin Gabriel, which makes sense because like the Bunny, he's also a high flyer. Reddit (if you hold stock in their opinion), seems to think that their similar mannerisms means it's him, but I'd bet it's someone new every week.

Spoiler'd in case someone out there wants to keep it a mystery.

Jeff just retweeted someone saying they spotted a "Push Dr Tracksuit" sign in the crowd - anyone got a screencap of this? PAX Rumble getting over on Raw would be pretty incredible.

I want Dan to win so we have GB East vs West in the main event, but I totally voted for Dave Lang.

DAVE LANG NEVER LOST.

This is correct, Alex faces the Rumble winner.

Current lineup:

• SR Big Show (base level)
• R Jey Uso (Max level, just waiting for my KOTR to end before I pro it with my second maxed Jey)
• R Seth Rollins (Max level, in the process of levelling its dupe before pro-ing it)
• R Undertaker (9/20, have a duplicate so will level both before Pro-ing)
• UC AJ Lee (100% Maxed)
• R Stop Sign (+15 Toughness)
• R Ladder (+15 Speed)

I have a R Edge as well I can max, but I'm maining Undertaker instead because he's at a higher card level. Might do it later if I still need it as a KOTR sub or something). pretty much every time I find a Rare and reset the prize board, i take my trash commons and uncommons and use them as training fodder, so I'm regularly upgrading my dudes.

My highest Diva is a Rare Natalya, but I haven't leveled it yet because aside from the occasional Super Rare, my Maxed Pro Uncommon AJ Lee will win pretty much any pairing there.

Probably won't until I can luck upon a second, because I don't really need it, and I don't want to level cards I don't have the means to combine yet. I'm a real min-maxer.

It depends mostly on the games they play, but I've been enjoying Sips and Hat Films' GMod videos a lot. Kinda waned off on the whole Minecraft stuff, but the occasional Yogscast group Civ V games were also very good. Pyrion Flax is another good youtuber, and I also enjoy NorthernLion, Matt Lees, Errant Signal, and depending on what they're playing, Phil Kollar and Dylan Hecht's StreamFriends. PortsCenter is also really enjoyable too.

I've only really started playing semi-seriously since the start of the International 4 qualifiers, and I'm sort of in the same way. There's a ton of games in my backlog that I want to try to get through before the year's done, or at least before AAA primetime rolls round again (or the GTA V PC release, whichever's first) - but I can't get DOTA out of my head. It's got the hooks in deep, but what's putting me off is that, while I started off with the Compendium, and getting tons of XP boosters, I'm at Level 10 now, with a 50% win rate after 44 games played, and I'm getting put in matchmaking against people who've played 400+, and in no situation is that fair and balanced. It's starting to put me off a game that I sort of do want to invest the time to get to know it, and it's a shame.

Thing is, having some trust issues makes it sort of hard for me to want to jump in on people on the GB chat channel's "lf mm" requests, because they've always played far more than I have, and even though they come carrying the flag of a place that I love, there's no guarantees that they're gonna be the same people that'll flame you out for every and no reason at the same time that you get in solo matchmaking.

I watched most of ESL One the other weekend, and I can sit around and watch DOTA till the cows come home, but having those one or two matches where it all goes wrong always makes me just want to rage-uninstall, and I can't ever bring myself to do it. I have to keep reminding myself that videogames are supposed to be my stress relief, and not my stress cause, which is what DOTA does more often than not.