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Edited by LOLdragon89: 8/31/2014 8:37:01 PM
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This last week was horrible for all gamers

Article has plenty of links to events and more details about why this past week was so terrible for gamers, but here's some highlights of what's happened in the last week: 1) A game designer's personal life was exposed to the internet, and used to justify physical threats to both the developer and her colleagues. 2) The PlayStation Network was shut down by a DDoS attack from someone who also threatened to blow up an airliner with president of Sony Online Entertainment onboard. 3) A designer's personal information and online accounts including banking information and other personal details were hacked into and spread over the internet. 4) A Counter-Strike player was SWATed at his school while livestreaming, prompting a lockdown of the school. 5) A media critic posted a video about violence against women in games and had death and -blam!- threats sent to her and her family. I understand that people get passionate about things, but this recent wave of hacking and threats of extreme violence is making me ashamed to call myself a gamer. I know a lot of people are pissed off over Zoe Quinn, and Anita Sarkeesian has always had a ton of detractors but why all the escalation to this point? This isn't so much about the content of our games but the people who play them. Are we contributing to a culture of violence here?

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  • >Zoe Quinn I'm just going to leave this here

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  • tried looking more into this whole deal. wanted to know more about this quinn chick, and the anita person. heard about leighs gamer piece article. tried googling the term sjw and other shit in the end i really dont give any fcks anymore about it. these people want to duke it out, good for them. i'll be over here, playing games i enjoy.

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    • Edited by Bistromathics: 8/29/2014 2:38:10 PM
      The sad, twisted truth is that the trolls are making people like Sarkeesian invincible in a way they never would have been before. If you pull the camera back and look at this long-term, then you see that things are going to get much worse for those who complain that SJW's are taking over the world (or whatever). And I can't say I'm dreading the day that gaming leaves the Super Hardcore Real Gamers behind.

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    • Emo Joe pls. Gamers are dead. It's all about "Gamer+" or whatever the gaems jrnlsts are going to call themselves from now on.

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    • I don't know, Battlefield 4 has been working flawlessly on my Xbox One and I finally caught all 718 pokemon in Pokemon Y. Alright, alittle joke, but seriously, this week hasn't been the industries best momemts in terms of news revolving around gaming. I'm really just hoping that this and next week passes faster so that I can finally get my hands on Destiny. However, the news about swatting really struck me as insanely and unnessecarily troublesome for all those involved.

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      • Never be ashamed of yourself, because if you lose sight of yourself, you lose yourself, and if that happens you're nobody, and nobody wants to be nobody [spoiler]don't you change a bit[/spoiler]

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      • God you're so such a bitch.

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      • That swat video, makes me trust the police so much. DON'T YOU MOVE BOY!!! GET ON THE -blam!-ING GROUND! Yeah classy.

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        • Edited by TGI Skuldier: 8/29/2014 12:08:01 AM
          That's because gaming is now an "industry" like movies and other shit which means its going to get infected by political and sociological bullshit. And here I just wanted to enjoy playing games in relative obscurity.

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        • So why did you list Zoe Quinn things like a million times? She's the one in the wrong.

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        • >Designer >Phil Fish Pick one

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          • Edited by Mystical: 8/30/2014 12:44:06 AM
            1) She deserved every bit of it. By making her stuff no longer personal but affecting businesses and then consumers it's her own fault. Don't forget it was [b]never[/b] about her personal life (that is what people who don't read into the real truth keep saying) but rather the abuse in the gaming industry by people like her who can skew reviews and lie to re-direct consumers falsely. I am glad places like Kotaku now REQUIRE any journalists to disclose any groups or projects they fund publicly so this shady crap of reviewing a game they are endorsing and giving it false reviews can no longer happen. 3) That is the fez 2 guy who cursed his fans out and hates gamers right? I see no loss here. You act like a jerk to people on the internet you are messing with the wrong people. Glad we won't see him again. Maybe if he wasn't so much of an idiot and spewed so much hatred towards others he might not have found himself in such a predicament. I have no remorse for people like him who clearly hate people who got him to where he was and then turns around and acts like a Class A jerk and then some. Do I endorse people spreading his personal info? No, but something was bound to happen whether it be that or something else. I'd rather see the trash get taken out than a good person in the gaming industry get messed with so works for me. 5) More like a liar who opposes any and all open-discussion and spreads her junk around making gamers look like misogynist losers when it's anything but the truth. Her incessant "la la la my words are the only way! gamers hate women la la la!" will only stir the bee hive and thus it did. If you go on a public platform, spew nonsense, and [i]refuse[/i] to hear criticism or see other point of views from logical and [i]smarter [/i]people, you are asking for something to occur. Those threats are her own doing. [url=http://imgur.com/p6eaary]I would never believe a thing she said anyways.[/url]

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          • anita a freaking Fool and miscontrues the context of 90% of what she is claiming to be sex or violence for no other reason than just to ass sex or violence

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            • Anita Sarkiesm, (I know I spelled it wrong,) is nothing new, most people have stopped giving a damn at this point, Zoe Quinn is a whore, who slept with five people to get good press for her game, she got what she deserved, Phil fish is a douche, and he got what was coming to him, though I personally don't think he deserved to be doxxed

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            • Anita I can deal with. I don't agree with her personally, but it's a social viewpoint. Whatever. Zoe, I still don't give much of a f­uck about. Who she sleeps with is none of my concern. What concerns me is the fact that writers are literally sleeping with people they publish things about. That should piss everyone off. Death threats are unwarranted. They always will be. That being said, journalists sleeping and living with people they write about is dirty down to it's core. If you enjoy gaming as a whole, you should be mad about that subject. If you want to continue moving gaming forward as a medium, we need legitimate criticism. Not echo chambers and hug parties. I am someone who enjoys games. I see them as an art form. When people try to force their social views into them, I'm going to get defensive. Am I sorry that she got dragged through the mud? Well, no, I don't like her personally. Do I think she deserved it? No. No I don't. Would I talk about the situation and spread information based on it regardless of who it happened to? You bet your f­ucking ass I would. Don't let the media bully you into having a specific opinion. /rant

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            • I don't see how that reflects poorly on gamers. Besides that you tube chick ( jeez, I hope she doesn't find that disrespectful) the hacking isn't necessarily a gamer thing. The dev banging out for a good review is old school and done in every trade. I'm a gamer for 35 years and if I have a shit what people thought I would have quit 20 years ago.

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            • None of this affected me

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              Meh. I got pretty far in Bravely Default. Seemed like an alright week.

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              • - Overzealous [Exhibit A]ists dislike [Exhibit B]ists. - All will soon learn that it is pointless fighting in either world, unless the power of words. - Threats only force power-wielders to remove human rights, we'd be better off as Reapers (Mass Effect).

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              • I've been watching the Simpsons marathon for 8 days now. So this is all new to me and yet I don't care.

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              • >Number one is on the side of Quinn Welp -blam!- this -blam!- all of this

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                • No, your just seeing the gaming world get infected by the real world & it's problems. The internet is a creation that will unite humanity more & hopefully start a path to eventual world peace

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                  • There's one thing on that list that actually has to do with gaming. Another great polygon article.

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                    • I learned about "Social Justice Warriors", clickbaiting, and using feminism as a tool for money, this week.

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                    • It's funny that I couldn't care less about any of that stuff.

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                    • I hate hearing stuff like this. It makes me sad :(

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