The Onion skewers the video game violence issue in this faux news report which celebrates the launch of Close Range, a new game which features an "immersive, richly-detailed world where players shoot people in the faces with guns."
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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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Comments
Re: Onion Parodies Video Game Violence
The news anchor in that clip is a woman I am well familiar with, Bobbie Battista. She used to be a reporter at Raleigh, NC's CBS affiliate WRAL. She left there to go work for CNN. I've seen her on CNN a few times. Having her be the anchor lends a sense of reality to the clip. The clip was almost as good as the fake Zelda movie trailer.
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ROFL
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Cue people making this into an actual game in 3... 2--- Whoah, they actually did it before I said it, Great Job Net community, you haven't been slacking off.
(Meant to be a joke, plus I edited it when I saw the above comment).
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What the hell is this shit? I go to play the demo and as soon as you start the level, the damn screen goes completely red so you can't see a damn thing!!
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Nevermind..stupid Firefox and flash...works in IE.
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you probably don't have flash installed for firefox. It worked for me.
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It worked on Firefox for me...
-- Obi
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If you go on the website it shows, closerangegame.com, you can play the demo.
Suprisingly good graphics for a flash game :/
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I was gonna state the game was real to some extent but looks like you beat me to it.
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Gotta admit, that was pretty good.
Though, honestly, like Praetorian said, it could be a fun game...
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I'm not really a fan of the Onion, but that was funny -- they managed to irritate the two groups I hate the most.
Anti-violence people and PETA.
Also, I think they are on to something...I could possibly pay ten or twenty dollars to just shoot people in the face...sounds like it might be fun if done right.
Praetorian
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Or you could shoot people in the face for free at http://www.closerangegame.com/
It's not as funny as the video about it though, so you won't miss out on anything if you don't.
-- Obi
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:: Waiting for some individual or group to demand a ban on the "game". ::
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Was gonna say, the humor will be lost on certain people.
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Jack Thompson thinking this game is real and demand not to sell it to children and also wants to sue The Onion for glorifying murder Simulator in 3...2...1
and
PETA claiming this game glorify Horses and Ostriches murders in 3...2...1
I saw this video in the morning. The Onion makes me laugh a lot. Thank you, Onion.
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That poor Ostrich
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That, admittedly, was quite funny
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Funny, well-made... and so classy !
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Wow, they went as far as making a whole shelf filled with fake covers for that game.
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Yay Onion!!!!!
You also need to see
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games
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GP also covered that
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/02/26/onion-are-violent-games-adequately-preparing-kids-apocalypse
岩「…Where do masochists go when they die?」
岩「…I can see why Hasselbeck's worried about fake guns killing fake people. afterall, she's a fake journalist on a fake news channel」