Bah humbug, Fenris has retracted his criticism. I refuse to though, because, well really, the tinkly piano music and clinking forks really did irritate me. It’s just too heavy handed for me. More subtlety in “Call of Duty: Kill Every-Goddamn-Thing!”
Your Mileage May Vary, this may be the most important game ever in the history of ever or she may just be slutty McSlutttington…
Or maybe she’s just really good at PR because she’s managed to get a fuckton of it for free.
See, this is some ugly shit. Nobody thinks it’s the most important game ever. Plenty of people think she’s a bad person because she’s a slut. Acting like these are the two views out there is bullshit, since only one of them is held by anyone. And acting like this is a PR stunt is not the most obnoxious blame-the-victim joke I’ve ever heard, but only because such jokes are so common.
I know you’re trying to be witty, but you’re making the classic mistake of angry and confused 13-year-olds by confusing casual shittiness with wit.
No, see, to do that I would actually have to care, and I don’t. Whereas you make the mistake of angsty fifteen year olds by investing emotional energy in a quixotic defense of some poor oppressed individual who has, because of all this, managed to garner a HUGE amount of attention for themselves and their related companies/products.
Primarily because she was being internet bullied.
Unlike you, I don’t take personal umbrage nor feel the need to put on my plate mail and sally forth to defend yon maiden’s honor from the filthy rapist peasants.
Or whatever the hell it is you’re doing.
She got internet bullied. She’s what’s called a “grown up” and if this is the worst that happens to her she’s about ninety thousand times better off than pretty much anyone in Africa or most of the rest of the world. She’s a billion times better off than the Yazidi women who are actually being raped, you know, for real.
So try to keep your tempest in a teapot in context. It’s in a teapot. Pretty much no one outside of a few select first worlders gives a good goddamn about it. At all.
Harassment still bad, iBullying(tm Me, right now) is also bad. Number of actual rapes occurring, despite hysterical arm-waving… still less than one.
“I’m a dick! And I’m part of the problem, and I’m proud of it! I’m an internet bully, but thats okay because bullying is cool! And you guys are all hysterical arm waving White Knights! Go me!”
Your allegation that she “managed to garner a HUGE amount of attention for themselves and their related companies/products” indicates one of either two things: either you are woefully ignorant of what this all about, or you actually do know what this is all about and are deliberately trolling. Bullying is bad. And as you’ve admitted to bullying, and as you’ve admitted that its bad, its time to stop it. Because the stench of a bully will follow you where ever you go. If you are so concerned for the Yazidi women then open a thread about them. And if you really care as little as you claim then stop posting here and stop posting so much. Or just admit you enjoy being a bully and a troll and saying disgusting things about people because thats just who you are.
There’s a little bit of a difference between “internet bullied” and “getting your dox dropped, getting threatening/harassing phone calls and emails, and getting real, credible threats from people who actually do know where you live - basically a 3-week-long concentrated harassment campaign from 4chan”.
Internet harassment can be threatening in a very really way. They make it very clear that they know exactly where you live, what your personal routine is, details on your family, etc. They do things with real-world consequences, trying to make you lose your livelihood, sending nude photos to your family, setting you up for identity theft that could cost thousands and take years to untangle, harassing your friends and family, etc.
We are not talking YouTube comments, here. These are credible threats that attack a person’s fundamental sense of security.
Yeah, it was the screencaps Quinn posted on her twitter that convinced me that I was firmly on the wrong side of the issue. This is not someone who needs to grow a thicker skin, this is someone who needs help from the FBI.
He has the option to step away from the drama and do something less stressful. 4chan et al aren’t actually harming him unless he lets them, which he admits to allowing. The hail storm won’t knock you senseless if you stay out of it.
Oh my lord this is hysterical. I’ve never once, ever, posted in 4chan, nor have I ever spoken directly about this woman, other than to criticize what I see as a form of bribery for positive reviews. You are absolutely amazing in your willingness to shout down others. In fact, I’m starting to wonder if you and others aren’t paid agents of some sort, since wow, you seem fanatical about your crusade. (Note that pay need not be financial).
It’s breathless the way you scream at anyone who dare think that perhaps content creators and the content QA providers (reviewers) should perhaps not be literally in bed together, lest some objectiveness go away. Or that, at the very least, if they are making the funtimes, they should go ahead an put a disclaimer in their articles acknowledging that.
But Aieeeee!!! Anyone not supporting her because she was bullied is themselves a bully!!! Blah blah blahbitty blah. Wave arms, call names rinse, lather repeat but never ever acknowledge that there is a FUNDAMENTAL problem with honesty when you are trading favors with people who are supposed to QA your work and that MAYBE there might be a lesson there.
Seriously, switch to decaffeinated. You’ll live longer.
Yes, it was mentioned a few pages back. And personally, I think the FBI is getting much better at tracking this kind of shit. Even if Internet bullies don’t go away completely, their power will fade when they start to realize that the penalties are five years in the pound me in the ass prison.
You’ve been to Africa, and you didn’t learn that some Africans would find it offensive to imply that pretty much all Africans have shitty lives? I’ve never been to Africa, but that seems pretty obvious to me.
Their power may fade, but I dunno, people still commit all kinds of crime from behind the screens, because all you little pixels are not real people etc etc. I get your point, I do, I’m just a bit more dubious about prison stopping these types. I’m not saying don’t imprison as necessary, I just suspect you’ll be hooking crips up with people who know how to commit credit card fraud on a larger scale, and I’m not so sure that’s a great idea.
Sigh, really? You’re parsing out the word Africa? Okay, we’ll just change it to “she’s about ninety thousand times better off than people without potable running water” which is hey, MOST OF AFRICA and also a lot of the rest of the world.
This “White Knight” thing seems to be used today roughly the way “race traitor” was used a century ago, which is ironic, given that a century ago, if you called someone who sided with the victims of harassment “race traitor,” there’s a good chance you were a white Knight of the Ku Klux Klan.
Just as I’d be fine being called a race traitor, I’m pretty okay being called a white knight, because all the epithet does is boomerang back on the namecaller.