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That's what we usually do, but just removing the image didn't seem to stop anyone from posting it anyway, so that wasn't much of a preventive measure. And at the heght of the controversy, having to check every screencapped wordy article, reddit thread or twitter war for profanity was a massive timesink and too easy for them to slip through.

Continued from here: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/80106-journalism-and-bias-in-the-gaming-industry/page-27 Same ol' stock description starting every thread here: For the uninitiated: The 'Gamergate' controversy was sparked in early 2013, as the release of Zoe Quinn's "Depression Quest" was criticized from gamers who believed that the game had received a suspicious amount of attention in relation to it's quality and scope. Eron Gjoni (Zoe's ex boyfriend) wrote a blogpost accusing Quinn of having had an affair with Kotaku journalist Grayson, prompting the critics to conclude that the attention and success of "Depression Quest" was due in part to unfair bias and nepotism in the industry. Several articles from both sides of the issue has highlighted inconsistencies in the stories of both Grayson, Quinn and Eron as well as the many other examples that have followed. Gamergate is wideley seen in the public, as a culture war over the diversification of gaming, artistic recognition and social criticism of video games and the gamer social identity. For the posters in this thread: Many bloggers and populists have tried to steer the discussion into areas they feel are the underlying issue - ranging from simple bias, to widespread misogny or misandry. I would however prefer that we keep this discussion as objective and clean as possible and so I will be keeping an a extra close eye on this thread. This certainly does not mean that you may not discuss any issue you feel, but rather that you should be thoughtful of how you discuss it with those you disagree with. Especially in regards to these three guidelines: Discrimination: Obsidian has a zero-tolerance policy with regard to racial, ethnic, gender, religious, disablement, and/or sexually discriminating remarks. Harassment: We ask that the users of this board treat one another with respect, even when opinions differ. Personal attacks that are intended to cause unwanted attention, embarrassment, or harm will not be tolerated. In addition, Obsidian does not tolerate disrespectful and/or slanderous posts about its competitors, developers and publishers. Such posts will be subject to editing or deleting, with its posters censured or banned. Objectionable Content: The use of abusive, vulgar or profane language, even if hidden through the use of symbols or other characters is not tolerated. Intentionally posting workarounds to our language filters are prohibited. Posts may be edited or deleted at any time by the moderation team, and depending on the severity and frequency of said posts, the poster may be censured or banned. Any posts in violation of the Forum Guidelines will either be removed or modified and authors of such posts will receive warnings and/or have their content placed under moderated review. AS BEFORE, PLEASE CHECK YOUR IMAGES FOR PROFANITY. IF THE IMAGE CONTAINS UNCENSORED PROFANITY THAT THE BOARD WOULD NORMALLY CENSOR, WE WILL REMOVE YOUR ENTIRE POST.

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I agree, that movie has a lot of things going for it. I watched it recently and I was laughing at it through most of it, especially how well it parodied the time. The kid was really terrible, though. am recalling that Gene Hackman, an academy award winning actor known for his serious roles (save for a tiny bit-part in Young Frankenstein) was asked why he played lex luthor in the 1978 superman movie. were an interview contemporaneous with release o' the film that posed the question. hackman kinda shrugged and said something to the effect that the film's producers came to his house with a dump truck full o' money... wasn't a hard choice at all. HA! Good Fun! I think Michael Caine's response is still one of the best. He went through that period of showing up in some seriously dire movies, and when asked if he has seen any of them he turned around and did "No. But I have seen the house they let me buy." That was specifically about that Jaws movie he was in.

Favourite social media responses I've seen so far were "screw this, I'm moving to Canada" and the 3-time divorcee going "this has ruined marriage forever!"

Oh cool, Fox News have something to blame the upcoming hurricane season on.

I thought it was fun. Totally ridiculous of course, an excercise in nonsense-science. But I liked seeing some of the ridiculous stuff they came up with. I especially liked the part where mammals like rodents and bats became extinct because the world became too hot and humid, despite the fact that those animals rose to prominence during a time of heat and humidity. My favourite bit was definitely the spiders who built giant webs to catch thousands of dandelion-like seeds which they proceeded to feed to fat, fast-breeding rodents named "Poggles" to fatten them up to eat.

The Nazis had to be defeated because they used a lot of new guns after being pissed that people with guns took all their old guns.

Couldn't sleep so instead I spent all night watching The Future Is Wild, a speculative fiction documentary about animal evolution after human beings go extinct, on YouTube. FML.

No need to use profanity to make a point TN, lets try to be civil ? And its only hypocrisy if you seriously think the Zoe Quinn furor is the same as Hogan having sex with his friends wife..and clearly I don't think they are the same. In fact its disingenuous to compare the two incidents I didn't say that what happened was the same. I'm saying that what you are saying is the same that the people who harassed Zoe were saying. Down to the exact words, for ****'s sake. You are literally being the part of #GamerGate that even we can't stand.

Will the new NPCs be like Sarevok, as in only available in that expansions content, or will they be "transplanted" into what came before?

What the holy ****, Bruce? This is the worst piece of hypocrisy I have ever seen. So this is kinda okay because Hogan was cheating? He gets to have his reputation ruined and all of his private videos and pics plastered all over the internet and harassed because of it? Then it becomes "sure they posted it just for clicks but he's got no morals anyway because I don't like cheaters?" This is literally what happened with Zoe ****ing Quinn. Your double standards are showing in the worst possible way.

"You're wrong because I name drop fancy names that smart people have told me are smart."

How much do you think the technical rigging artist affects how well a game sells?

No ? For a game designer I'd think that would be one, you design games that sell well (or work on games that do) and that works in your favour when trying to get ahead in the industry. Was like that, somewhat, at Sierra, recall Jensen mentioning that Williams would give designers one chance and if it sold, then you'd move up and get another. It doesn't have to mean you worked hard or put in a lot of effort. A lot of selling well is based on marketing or pure, dumb luck.

Selling well is hardly merit.

But it didn't? The only result is that people applauded status quo to show their own ignorance.

I may have mentioned that I was recently downsized and decided to go back to school to finish my bachelor (game art & design). When I was there a couple of years ago, it was about 25% girls or so. Currently, I've seen 1 girl on about 25 dudes. That's a huge drop. Of course this is all anecdotal, but I can't help but wonder if a certain narrative pushed other passionate women away from what they really wanted to do.

So what you're saying here is, Fight Club needs to be required viewing.

The Babadook. A lovely bit of psychological horror. Oculus was my favourite horror movie of 2014, but since this originally came out in 2014 too I guess this supplants it. The director was a genius at making me feel unsettled simply by the way his shots were framed, how long they were, how the sound was mixed. The ending was... weird but an odd final 5 minutes doesn't take away that I was freaked out enough to be violently shivering at some points.

News of this somehow hadn't reached me despite the fact I read a newspaper today. It really just makes me very sad that something like this can happen. I don't even want to take this oppertunity to criticize the American left vs right response or gun laws or whatever. Instead all my 'murica rage is just kinda replaced with this.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/19/swiss-reddit-clone-voat-has-its-servers-closed-by-hosting-provider-due-to-politically-incorrect-content/ Voat got shut down by the hosting providers that Atko was hosting the platform on for, I kid you not, having politically incorrect content as the reason given.

Thanks for the link, Barothmuk. That was an interesting read, if very disturbing. There's a lot of solid points to be made against the idea that the world is worse off than it was. Most of the arguments for it seem to boil down to That's not saying we don't have unique problems such as mass shootings and the growing detachment from society, but overall I think we're in a pretty good place and I'd rather not go back in time. Although sometimes I read something disturbing and then I briefly go "human beings must all be destroyed" like the alien roach infiltrator that I am, but that's just a scutellum-jerk reaction.