*eye darts side to side*

rofl

im here cause I love tim pool he's honestly my favorite news source he's simple he's solid

tbh he'd never be the same if he was in a professional studio

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy

Yeah, Tim is great guy

tim is the next evolution in journalism when ever we get of this shit show cycle hopefully

Tim is an anomaly, very few journalist, let alone independent ones, are as unbias as him.

>used to have hate-love relationship with Tim
Loved his work, hated his opinions cus I was much further from the center back when I found him hehe

Pretty sure his work helped me get from the bad influences that were pulling more to the extremes

Well, guess I hated his work at times when it didn't fit my narrative

how can you have a narrative as an individual

I think we were all in a position where we couldve gone off the deepend, but lucky enough to not get dragged in

define narrative

I wasn't individual back then..I was pretty partisan

the group opinion was my opinion

maybe narrative isn't the best word, but you get my drift don't you

AGENCY

holy fuck that took me a while to remember

agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. By contrast, structure is those factors of influence (such as social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, etc.) that determine or limit an agent and his or her decisions.

worldview

yes basically, i had no agency of my own, literally sheeple

to be fair, i wouldve been an sjw by now if it werent for 4chan

i notice all the indoctrination technique used by my school

Well I would probably still be a libertarian socialist if it wasn't for sargon

yea he's been pretty good influence as well

I think I actually found him because he called out someone I watched

sargon is a little bit up his own ass but the people he is criticizing is much worst, so he gets a pass.

not perfect by all means, but he was very moderate and sane voice in the mess I was in

Is it safe to say that if it werent for gamer gate many of us wouldnt be here?

Like i wouldnt have founded Tim if it werent for Sargon, and i wouldnt have found Sargon if it werent for the gamergate thing

I had no clue what gamergate was back then

...Did y'all live in the same place or something growing up? I thought it was always pretty prevalent that people didn't quite understand society correctly. Or maybe it's from accidentally moving from the boonies to higher than expected suburbia as kid (then out of region for college), on my side.

I was forced to learn when every gaming publication, podcast, and my coworkers all universally agreed that gamers are evil and harass women.

^

I just wanted to play video games 😦

all of a sudden im seeing a plethora of news article calling the games that i love 'a shit'

I knew only basic of goobergate and what was going on but didn't care much since I underestimated how bad it was at first

Well I am like 17 and barely touch video games so I never ended up caring about gamergate at all

Be glad you didnt experience it, although it was enlightening, its was also incredibly stupid

Thinking of it, I was pretty insulated from the whole ordeal at first, because I was never much into social media so only heard about it from the original /v/ threads and stuff before mods banned it