"What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that this goes far beyond some simple name calling or fat shaming, and into a more personal realm. People having all their personal info posted online just so even more people can throw their insults at someone, serious threats of violence, descriptions of horrible acts a person would like to commit against another, releasing nude photographs to the public and continuing to harass the person to the point they kill themselves..."
And what you don't seem to realize is that Randi Harper, One of the speakers for this anti-harassment panel, is guilty of those same actions.
If there are people who want to have a serious discussion about actual online harassment, that's great; I'm all for it. But I can't take this panel seriously when one of the speakers unapologetically released the private info of a debt collector who was just doing his job, and regularly tells people to kill themselves.
And after that, she had the nerve to call Anne Rice, a 70 year old author, a bully and harasser because she called her out for posting fake amazon reviews.
This isn't someone who has anything worthwhile to add to a discussion about harassment. If you're looking for a serious discussion about real online harassment, I think you should look elsewhere.
Gamergate doesn't give a crap about being threatened.
Their Airplay event in august had over 10 bomb threats (deemed credible by the police) and they wanted to keep going. They were forced to evacuate, but they continued the discussion outside.
One of their meetups also had a credible bomb threat. They continued the party outside until the police searched the area and let them back in.
Gamergate now expects to be threatened when they have an event, and they're prepared to go through with it even if it gets officially shut down. Are you trying to say that Gamergate is responsible for the threats because they're not backing down, while everyone else is?
There's no way to know for sure; it could have just been a group of trolls doing it for the lulz. But the SJWs did get pretty butthurt when they found out about Gamergate being there, and they were definitely trying to get it shut down.
I think SXSW really wanted people to be able to have an open discussion about it, with the "diverse ideas" meaning "opposing viewpoints" but after the threats, they decided they didn't want to be involved with it anymore; which I guess is understandable, it wouldn't be fair to all of the other panels and guests if the entire thing was shutdown due to a bomb threat.
One was a SJW panel to talk about "harassment" (people saying mean things on the internet), the other was a Gamergate panel to talk about the current state of gaming journalism and the gaming community as a whole with Lynn Walsh, a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Mercedes Carrera, a pornstar (formerly a mechanical engineer) who took interest in Gamergate due to its anti-pc/sjw stance and how the SJWs reacted to it, and developer Nick Robalik from PixelMetal.
Only speculating as we don't have all the facts, but I'm guessing the threats were made to stop only the Gamergate panel; the other panel getting shut down was unintended collateral. Every time Gamergate has a public event, there are threats sent in to shut it down, but I don't recall ever hearing about SJW panels getting shut down due to threats before.. Like I said, only speculating; but that seems like the most likely scenario to me.
@chrilops that's true, but you can't expect a reviewer to take unreleased content into consideration; they can only review what they've been given. While I think a 6 is a bit low, KV's review is pretty fair.
I was expecting a bit more of an in-depth analysis of what the similarities and differences between them were, rather than just "coop, guns, skills, high-five!"
I don't understand why they want this international acceptance anyway. What do we gain by labeling gaming as a sport? I can't really think of anything.
Gaming is unique; we shouldn't be trying to conform to something that doesn't represent us.
And you want to know how to promote women in gaming? You let them play with the big boys on equal ground, not by setting up a separate tournament. Seeing women who can hold their own against and beat men is the only way it'll ever sink in that we're all gamers.
"I didn't know what I was getting into, therefore the game is mediocre."
The only point I agree with is finding the emerald herald to level up. I went in expecting to be able to level up at the bonfires like in DaS1, but DaS2 put this random NPC out of sight and expected you to know where she is and that she's the most important NPC in the game. Everything else in the game has some form of explanation, but there's not so much as a hint about her.
But overall, it seems like he was trying to make it fit into his idea of what a RPG should be, rather than judging it for what it is.
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