Malcador
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SQL Triggers are dangerous, and should come with warnings. A relatively new concept to me, only noticed it maybe 18 months ago, stupid Reddit. It is a bit weird to see it in some cases, so mocking it's overuse is fine. I guess those jokes were a trigger for you ?
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http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/09/gamergate_explodes_gaming_journalists_declare_the_gamers_are_over_but_they.html
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Well you (whoever the 'we' is) can call it whatever you like, doesn't really make it fit. Invasion of privacy would be best, privacy is still invaded and abused when the photos are shared. I suppose it is piracy as well, as they are distributing content without the owner's permission. -
Well it doesn't make much sense to call it theft to me, the items are still in the people's possession (well, assuming the cloud service didn't retain it against their wishes). Identity theft might make sense, at a point your identity no longer belongs to you as the criminal's messing around with things
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Stealing digital things ? Nah. Definitely is an invasion of their privacy, people went nosing about where they shouldn't
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Well, Bruce seemed to be of a different mind, so.
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People looking for the nudes here.
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=882344 has a pretty good take on it
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By consider, you really mean "just agree with them", don't you ? While hacking is wrong, it somewhat trivializes people who are the victims of sexual abuse to compare this to it.
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Well, think about that, they are still slurring a large swath of people - the 'hardcore' as they define, which used to be the largest group and probably still is a big group - as Bad Men as it suits them. Hardly a good step off, and generally enthusiast excuses for press snarking at their audience is a poor approach. On the Twitter front, some lady named Jenn Frank got "chased out" by trolls or something, Burch and Walker so far are in a tizzy. This is getting funnier by the day
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What is wrong with elitism anyway (one of the charges these enlightened 'journalists' are making)? This whole "games must be for everyone" approach is why I can't get a decent Rainbow Six game ever again
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‘Virtual rape’ hard to track in online gaming, police say
Malcador replied to ktchong's topic in Computer and Console
Go go Canadian journalism. F**king Rogers, CityTV was crap but never this crap. -
The original was a great game, nothing is hurt or diminished by playing it. Additionally, you get to hear the original voices.
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And it is offensive to the Amish
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It's seen all the time. Often on this board too. Often the words being used are just slightly different. It's almost a daily occurrence on the BioWare Forums for there to be a heated discussion over the term "RPG" because to some, referring to anything that doesn't fit their strictly defined view of what an "RPG" is threatens that vision. If RPGs are popular, but popular in the wake of something like Fallout 3 or Skyrim, then those that want more Fallout 1/2 or Baldur's Gate 2 have now become marginalized. Devs will make RPGs not "for them" but "for those other people" instead. I agree that those labels are fluid, but then I also respond to the disagreements I have with people that use the term in ways I find confusing in entirely different ways (it typically involves less hate than some people). True, labelling a static product like a game is a lot easier to discuss than labelling people though. Fair enough though.
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Sure, I must verify a charge you make, carry on. Outrage being exaggerated, hmm...well probably true, it is the internet. Reading around, it's full of histrionics - postings about this being part of a war on women, bizarre connections of industry people and the usual flaming. Hm, thinking of more serious offenses, I guess I tacitly accept homicides, heh. But really, an endless crusade against abuse online sounds like a good path to a stroke.
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If you're trying to point an inconsistency or hypocrisy, you're going to need to dig it up at a poster level - so find where everyone saying journalists selling out now said something bad about them back then. Else this is just a convenient fiction. Also I think people here have gotten on RPS and EG's case for their editors deciding their work must have meaning and write for The Cause. Also, could have those that suspected in the past glad to have proof, be it real or otherwise and see this as a chance to ram the spear in to the "journalists".
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Never did understand how you could possess ownership of a word, but I guess I need to waste time studying that to fully get it. In this situation, gamer just means someone that is into the hobby - distinction should be like that of reading. Everyone reads but not everyone "reads", as I imagine everyone knows. The "journalists" should just be clear, could have avoided all this fuss if they just referred to the demographic they meant explicitly rather than engaging in some campaign to define a word based on what they do. Interesting attitude they possess to do that. Don't think they really are for games stagnating, unless you believe "social justice" issues in gaming is the only avenue to that. For the most part, see people mainly getting backs up over being lectured or preached at, fairly expected, I suppose ideally it wouldn't happen.
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Shame too, was looking at getting this for my sister.
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"Reading the Kotaku comments also tells me that they do not censor dissenting opinions - they just delete the really bad, hurtful stuff." Funny how that always works out, I find.
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Hm, interesting that you'd say there is no corruption. Thin line between them being bought off or being plain useless, I suppose. If the accusation encourages "journalists" like Walker, Grayson, Sessler to be under stricter standards, no big deal.
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That was a long flounce there. Remember the 'Like' button does exactly what you posted.
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Hm, I must not have been looking closely at the scheming. So then this is all a giant smear campaign on Quinn, as relevant as she is, but done by who and why ? For the most part this caught fire and left Quinn a while back, the curious crackdown on discussion about it on some sites sure did help - gives the impression she has plenty of friends in key places (r/gaming moderator was a rather funny one)
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So there's a conspiracy against Quinn ?
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God damned Humanities majors, I bet.
