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Another games journalist happy about GTA pulled off shelves.

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I think that games journalists should be allowed to have their own unique opinion with regard to this issue; I don't see any reason why they should be made to conform to any particular line of thought. That said I think most people who are "pro" gaming should get worried when retailers start taking arbitrary stands over the content of individual games (while I disagree with it, removing games from shelves that have specific ratings is, IMO, no different from a movie theater chain deciding not to send "XXX-rated" films along with the G, PG, and R films to their multiplexes.) I'm sure each games journalist has their own "feel" on the matter. The problem is the disconnection between them(journalists) and their audience(gamers, developers). Majority of gamers or developers don't want to see games taken out of store shelves. With this and the "Gamers are dead" articles one thing has come abundantly clear: games journalists aren't gamers anymore. Some of them seem to even hate games and gamers.

Not really related, but my favourite Life of Brian trivia: Due to Terry Jones' refusal to allow certain cuts, this film was banned for one year in Norway for blasphemy, being released with an '18' rating and a warning from the censors at the beginning. Thus, it has been marketed in Sweden as "The film that is so funny that it was banned in Norway!"

For me the bigger problem is games journalists being okay with Target banning GTA V than the actual banning. Here's a Reddit thread of them doing just that.

The Warehouse takes all R18 entertainment off the shelves. Because family values... I just don't understand. Doesn't every family have at least one adult in it? Don't those adults enjoy doing different things than their kids? This moral panic has to end.

Kotaku Australia defending Target Honestly, what the hell is happening? These journalists first attacked gamers and now are attacking developers. Edit: I mean who do they think is their audience? If they alienate gamers and developers who is left to read their ****ty opinion pieces? I mad. I take break.

http://i.imgur.com/TCZblha.png I'm not sure why I'm surprised. When Jack Thompson was spouting his **** ten years ago, we were all against him. What has changed? It feels like these "gaming journalists" don't actually play games anymore and so they don't know what is **** when it comes to games.

Unless you could legally prove that the Kickstarter creator never had any intentions to provide the product/service it described then I don't think you'd have a legal case to sue them (and they have no money anyhow, aparently). Kickstarter's legal agreements put the onus onto the pledger for the loss of their pledge if what they backed falls apart so I doubt you'd have much room to go after them for re-embursement. I just don't understand how someone could make a public statement: "I have money, but I'm not deal with my debts. I'm going to give them to these people instead." And it's okay?

That has to be illegal, right?

The recent twitter war was over this? I guess Zoe is becoming desperate to get some attention. Oh Milo, you beautiful bastard!

Am I the only one who doesn't understand the appeal of watching other people play games? I do enjoy watching really good players especially if they are explaining why they did the things they did. I watch PvP videos mostly.

You are a: Left-Leaning Multilateralist Humanist Liberal Collectivism score: 33% Authoritarianism score: 0% Internationalism score: 50% Tribalism score: -50% Liberalism score: 33%

According to reports, the pilot is up-and-coming actor Oscar Isaac. Oh. Right. I guess all the pilots from the original trilogy would look much older than that guy. *cough*

Yeah, I got it wrong, but that pilot is from the original trilogy. I'm sure of it.

Did I see Wedge flying one of those X-wings?

If the hilt blades turn out to be the worst thing about this movie I'm going to be one happy kitten.

And how's that somehow million times worse than things were?

Image link to all this happening. Contains coarse language. Edit: TrueNeutral beat me to it.

Wasn't "their" Vivian created by /pol/ as a troll-attempt? Because this 'LilianWoods' argues like one as well. I think antis created their own Vivian and /pol/ too saw the Aryan ideal and created Polina.

His definition of fun was something something toxic masculinity. I'm not even joking.

Guildmaster? Also, third FTC update.

I knew it!

Think of the children and don't support this!