Twitter has been insane today. The dumbass kerfuffle over Leonard Nimoy’s passing being tagged with GamerGate (muh PR) was part of it. But the major issue of the day, seems to be the battle between TotalBiscuit (TB) and Leigh Alexander. She tweeted out some comments about Ken Levine’s Bioshock earlier today. After they were seized upon by TB, she then claimed she was just joking around. Sure you were, Leigh. And I’m a fucking astronaut. Based Biscuit, to his credit, didn’t pull one single punch. Instead of holding back, he dropped bombs:
This was just the opening salvo, ladies and gentlemen. Then Leigh came out with this stupendously disingenuous nauseating spurt of tweets:
If you have thrown-up after reading that (hell, even if you have), here’s TB’s response. Notice how he’s hitting her with cold hard facts, while she calls him a “chode.” What a respectable newswoman Ms. Alexander is!
There’s so many good tweets here, that I have to show them all. I’m tempted to cut them down, but I just can’t. They’re all so fucking good:
Ahh I see, Leighs nonsense regarding Bioshock and Ken Levine was just too high brow for me, it obviously went over my head.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
Oh teach me how not to be a wailing hyperconsumer, please Senpai :[
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
Oh and Matt Lees can fuck off while he's at it as well.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
This is why I have little interest in being involved in the old trad games media clique. Too buddy buddy.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
Leigh Alexander is the center of this whole shitstorm. Her hyper-aggressive, insulting article, her "advising" of The Guardian
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
Her article set off the inferno. SVU was ripped from the headlines she helped write
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
If you want me to respect someone like that then you're out of your bloody mind.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
It's freeing to be reliant on nothing but your own audience for your success and not have to clique it up to keep it up.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
Some might say I burn bridges. Maybe, but we have a helicopter, we dont need bridges.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) February 27, 2015
Later on in the day, TheIvyClover1 and I were talking about all this. I found it funny that someone like Leigh Alexander, a notorious drunken bully, could even think about lecturing someone else on anything…especially professionalism. And the same goes for Matt Lees. Do you guys remember when he called Christina Hoff Sommers scum? Well, I do.
Inferring that a professional within your field is an alcoholic is just unbelievably inappropriate. I have zero time for that.
— Matt Lees (@Jam_sponge) February 27, 2015
So, Ivy went digging. Fortunately for us, she didn’t come up empty-handed. Leigh truly is the gift that keeps on giving. I wonder where TotalBiscuit could have came up with the idea that she’s a drunk, Matt?:
Yea, cause battling cancer and fighting for your life are easy. You're a disgrace, Leigh. #GamerGate #LeighSTFU pic.twitter.com/n43YNNllBn
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 27, 2015
You don't say!!
Hypocrite of the Year 2015
Drunken Megaphone http://t.co/2c30rQzv6l#GamerGate #LeighSTFU pic.twitter.com/lHmGPlhLFj— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 27, 2015
Yea, cause battling cancer and fighting for your life are easy. You're a disgrace, Leigh. #GamerGate #LeighSTFU pic.twitter.com/n43YNNllBn
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 27, 2015
How you gonna top it for #GDC2015, Leigh? Article not far-fetched, huhhttp://t.co/IqlpzYEaX9#GamerGate #LeighSTFU pic.twitter.com/BHXTa6g0SI
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 27, 2015
She started deleting shit mid-search lol:
LOL that won't save you, Leigh. pic.twitter.com/eEDBlZtw4d
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 27, 2015
I'm an asshole pothead semi-drunk myself. The difference is, I'm not a journo, & I don't hold myself out 2 be better than others. #GamerGate
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 27, 2015
Seriously, does Leigh ever stop drinking? She might need some help. #GamerGate pic.twitter.com/KI4wT002fq
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 27, 2015
Anyway, the point is, Leigh Alexander has a lot of fucking nerve talking to anyone about decorum and dignity. #GamerGate
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 27, 2015
That last point is the one I always come back to. I enjoy a drink or six myself on occasion. I smoke weed daily, and will until I either die, or am forced to give it up. But I don’t try to act like I’m better than the next person. I’m also not a professional journalist at something like the GDC, for example. And finally, I don’t try to force my minority ideology onto others. Leigh Alexander just doesn’t get it, and I doubt she ever will.
UPDATE: Leigh went there…
Leigh Alexander, 100% Class
Check out the fav…https://t.co/A9VuYri03O#GamerGate (h/t @_shemmie_) pic.twitter.com/2Gf8a7FgTI
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) February 28, 2015