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What is the verdict on cyber bullying and death threats made online? Do people take them too seriously? Or are they something that should be regulated? Should there be punishments for someone who makes online threats or does cyber bullying? What about with kids? In the U.K. there has been a recent movement to censor the internet in this regard.
originally posted by: WilsonWilson
I'm not a big Gamer but i do ove to read, my favourite genres are sci fi, urban fantasy and fantasy. It is frustrating as a women to invest and spend time reading a book, where the women are sappy, please can some man save me princesses.
I like characters with guns and swords killing the bad guys on her own. Strong female characters.
Whats wrong with women in the gaing community expressing the opinion that games are disappointing and asking for stronger female characters.
Games may be an art form but then all art is put up for critisims. and for review, they are just telling it like it it!
That article is over a month old, though.
Right. #Gamergate actually began in August as a pernicious attack on one female game developer, Zoe Quinn, and her sex life.
Quinn has been the victim of death threats and harassment since she began trying to publish Depression Quest, a text-based game partially based on her own experience with depression, in 2013. Last month, the New Yorker attempted to explain why Quinn and her game inspire such outrage among gamers —Depression Quest is not a "real game," it's "just words," its portrayal of depression is too personal to be relatable—but it's hard not to look at the last several weeks of chatter in the gaming community and not come to the conclusion that it's about the fact that she's a woman.
originally posted by: WilsonWilson
a reply to: Punisher75
Of course you can be angry that you dont get want you want.
And this is a conspiracy website where people have strange political ideologies and theories about secret controlling bodies with sinister agendas.
To be fair though this thread is not actually in the Conspiracy portion of the fourms.
It may not make sense to everybody, but then a lot of the ideas on the website dont make sense. but everybody has a right to express them.
Look at some of the comments on here, talking about women complaining about sexism in gaming and somebodies brought up the personal sex life of tone of the people, would that have happened if it was a male?
highly doubtfull.
Forget all that though GG is about accountability in gaming media it always has been except the media sites and publications that were selling reviews and giving handouts to each other and their friends such as awards and blacklisting desenters of course dont want you to know that so they pushed sexism as being what it was about. Its not.
originally posted by: stosh64
I had never heard of this and frankly I couldn't help but chuckle as I watched the videos.
Am I the only one that thought this was a joke? They were serious?
This is what our world is coming to??
People need to get a life. I spent 1000 hrs playing...........REALLY?
We are doomed.
Turn it off and do something real, ANYTHING.
originally posted by: Punisher75
originally posted by: stosh64
I had never heard of this and frankly I couldn't help but chuckle as I watched the videos.
Am I the only one that thought this was a joke? They were serious?
This is what our world is coming to??
People need to get a life. I spent 1000 hrs playing...........REALLY?
We are doomed.
Turn it off and do something real, ANYTHING.
Well you know 1st world problems and all.