• @[email protected]
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    ContraPoints has a great Tangent video about Gamergate (I think you have to be a Patreon subscriber to get access to it, but it’s seriously like $2 or something).

  • @Benjaben
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    All I’m getting from this is that something called “tenya” (?) is probably really fun. And now I’m annoyed I’ve never gotten to play!

    E: oh maybe just “tens”. Screw it, whatever it is, deal me in lol

    • konalt
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      Tenys = tennis?

      • @Benjaben
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        I’m assuming a dice game based around the number 10 most likely lol, but it is possible (and fun to imagine) that maybe rampant tennis enthusiasm needed to be quelled :) Weirder things have happened. Like a town dancing themselves to death.

    • @someguy3
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      Not violent enough for Shakespeare.

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        But it would have been great for a Shakespearian minor joke character bit.

        GUARD: “See, milord, how in this year’s almanack the booba hath been veil’d, compared to last year’s edition.”

        KING: “Greatly?”

        GUARD: “Yes, greatly indeed! Two inches of cloth more!”

        KING: “Thou art a nutter and I ought to throw thee in the madhouse.”

        GUARD: “But you wouldn’t dare, sire? Tales of your treachery and oppression already circle widely.”

        KING: “Thou shouldst consider thee lucky that we have to get the Hell onward with our plot.”

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    “dise-player, carder”
    Ah, so this is probably some law trying to curb gambling-
    “tenys player” wait, what? Were people betting on tennis matches back in the day or something?

  • @seaQueue
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    What? They targeted gamers?!‽

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      “Too”? It was ONLY because of gambling. To this day, the gambling industry cringetastically calls itself the “gaming industry”

  • @TootSweet
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    And that document was written by a time-traveling Anita Sarkeesian.

  • @Warl0k3
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    God I hope this is satire.

    • @aeronmelon
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      I just looked it up, the term “gamer” predates the term “satire” by about 50 years.

    • @dtrain
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      600 years and homie thinks it still stings.