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Technogeek: If the developer were male there wouldn't have been a "conversation" in the first place.10/19/2014 - 2:27am
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Monte: trolls are just at their absolute worst when it comes to women and feminist. You could bet good money that if the developer were male the trolls would be silent and the conversation would actually focus on the journalism.10/18/2014 - 9:18pm
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Monte: Papa: Not the first time we've had a journalism scandals before, but the harassment never got close to this level; the difference with this scandal is that feminists are involved. Without the feminist angle, their would be A LOT less harrassment10/18/2014 - 9:15pm
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Papa Midnight: Monte: That's honestly rather short-sighted. As has been proven with other persons who have been targeted, if it wasn't Quinn, it would be someone else.10/18/2014 - 6:26pm
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Avalongod: I think that's part of what gives an esoteric news story like this real life...it taps into a larger narrative about misogyny in society outside of games.10/18/2014 - 3:29pm
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Avalongod: @Monte, well the trolls made death threats that came to police (and media attention). I think this is tapping into a larger issue outside of games about how women are treated in society (like all the "real rape" stuff during the last election)10/18/2014 - 3:28pm
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Wonderkarp: Zippy : Havent tried the PS4 controller. might later.10/18/2014 - 2:37pm
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Monte: Seirously, If Quinn was not involved and GG was instead about something like the Mordor Marketing contracts, the trolling would have never grown so vile and disgusting. There have been plenty of movements in the past that never sufferred from behavior..10/18/2014 - 1:57pm
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Monte: We have seen scandel's before but the trolling has never been as vile as what we see with GG. Trolls usually have such a tiny voice you can barely notice them, but its like moths to a flame whenever femistist are involved.10/18/2014 - 1:53pm
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ZippyDSMlee: Wonderkarp: You might be able to if you had a PS4 controller.10/18/2014 - 1:00pm
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MaskedPixelante: http://store.steampowered.com/app/327940/ Night Dive starts charging for freeware.10/18/2014 - 12:21pm
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Matthew Wilson: the sad thing is there are trolls on both sides of this. people need to stop acting like their side is so pure.10/18/2014 - 12:19pm
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MechaTama31: So, only speak out on a scandal that hasn't attracted trolls? I wouldn't hold my breath...10/18/2014 - 10:49am
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Monte: I feel like GG just needs to die. The movement is FAR to tainted by hatred and BS for it to be useful for any conversation. Let GG die, and then rally behind the NEXT gaming journalism scandal, and start the conversation fresh.10/18/2014 - 10:33am
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quiknkold: and we dont have a Dovakin to call a cease fire10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
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quiknkold: The whole thing is Futile. Both sides are so buried deep in their trenchs that there isnt a conversation. Its just Finger Pointing, Name Calling, Doxxing, Threats. there needs to be a serious conversation, and GG isnt it.10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
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quiknkold: I thought it was a good article. Jeff is right. I feel like GamerGate did destroy its message. I am for Ethics in game journalism, but man. so much hate. and its on both sides. I've seen some awful stuff spewed on twitter. Its a big reason why I exited..10/17/2014 - 7:34pm
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Matthew Wilson: while he focused on gg, he did call out both sides crap.10/17/2014 - 7:18pm
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Papa Midnight: That was a damn good read offered by Jeff Gertsmann.10/17/2014 - 7:17pm
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Matthew Wilson: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/letter-from-the-editor-10-17-2014/1100-5049/ deferentially a nice write up.10/17/2014 - 6:44pm
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Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids ...
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Obviously they're not. We need PRE-apocalyptic games for that.
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Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids ...
Anyone think Jack Thompson is going to take this news report seriously?
Like church members, once sent Scholastic an Onion article that said kids were converting to Satanism because of Harry Potter, not realizing it was a joke.
Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids ...
Man, the people in Scholastic's offices must have had a good laugh at that.
Some will take literally anything they can get i nattempt's to ban what they find offenisve I guess.
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I'm already saving up bottle caps so I have spending money in the future.
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I agree with this video, more needs to be done in order to prepare for the Apocalypse. I wonder how we will ever survive if kids can not learn how to make a shelter out of cars...
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Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids ...
Haha...if we go along with the arguments that video games teaches kids to become so-called "cop killers" and stuff, then definately, games would teach you to prepare for the apocalypse. Especially fallout 3.
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To be serious, does anyone genuenly learn stuff from video games? Like I belive that this generation will either be the worst or best soilders in the world, or the best and worst drivers of the world. From games I learned how to aim a firearm, why you should hold your breath while shooting long ranges, why you should implement covering fire, why cover, manever, and flanking are all important docterines. At the same time with driving games, you learn how to counter-steer, drift, E-brake, and so forth. At the same time, an inconsequencial world might provoke actions that are "risky" for some.
That video wasn't as good as the other works The Onion has done like the Mac Wheel.
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The first time I ever drove in snow, I hit a bad patch of ice during a turn and my car started to spin, but my gaming training took over and I was immediately able to get the car back under control. I've heard of this being a fairly common situation with gamers.
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The breath holding thing is applied incorrectly most of the time.
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"At the same time with driving games, you learn how to counter-steer, drift, E-brake, and so forth."
Yeah unfortunately, cause to this day I still pop in NFS: CARBON on occasion and tear up the drift events... there's one course in particular I almost broke 500,000pts on, even though I probably couldn't do it in real life :(
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Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids ...
Aparently they aren't teaching us basic spelling and sentence structure...
Anyway, The Onion is great, that was funny.
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Have fun reading Zippy's responses in the future then. XD
Edit: It just came to me that I don't think people saying "KK LOLZ" on WoW is helping "traditional" grammer and sentence structuring.
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I know a kid who plays wow a lot and has that grammar issue, though more or less the issue of capital letters and punctuation.
Of course, my response is that he can be very much an idiot since right now I am, to the the best of my ability, using those said things.
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We shouldn't have to worry about grammar since we won't need it when the world goes to hell. =P
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Lol, touche.
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You won't be laughing when poor grammar causes the apocalypse.
"That's not ironic. That's justice."
Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids For
Of course they are! Afterall according to some, Games actually train your mind to do these tasks! So I now know that if the world goes to shit, I need to stockpile a couple flats of Coca-Cola...have a mountain of bottle caps, and get a shotgun and bolt action rifle! Oh and stay away from radioactive waste, it may turn you into a ghoul.
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Just tune in and listen to three-dog and you'll be fine.
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"Don't feed the Yao Gui! That is all."
Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids For
Of course not, they don't teach skills like baricading a building, finding water sources, and conserving ammo.
Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids For
Fallout 3, COD5 zombie mode
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Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids For
Someone hasn't been playing Resident Evil!
Re: The Onion: Are Violent Games Adequately Preparing Kids For
Resident evil isn't post apocalyptic.
Not yet atleast
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Close enough though.