Hiro Protagonist

I wonder why the health workers who are working in these areas aren't isolated from the general population when they come back. You'd think if a health worker returns to their country that they'd be isolated for a couple of weeks to confirm if they've been infected or not.

So not only are Gawker media attacking their audience, they are also attacking their sponsors such as intel by calling them morons and idiots and lacking integrity. Can they dig that hole they're in any deeper?

You did make some posts in the other thread with any death threats should be taken seriously. I expect the police to be involved and a thorough investigation to be carried out. Just to be on the safe side.

Second result from google comes up with the urban dictionary definition. I always took it as that with doing anything you like regardless of what people say.

Hypocrisy is the engine that drives the SJW. The SJW wears the cloak of duplicity, the sword of inaccuracy and the shield of sanctimony. Even when the engine is turned off, you can still hear the whining.

Comes back to what Decado said in his wall of text on the Codex. Sincerity. Liz comes across as sincere and someone you'd like to have a chat with. Rex comes across as angry, ranting about everything and someone to avoid and you know he wouldn't be listening to what you'd be saying unless it's to agree with him.

I couldn't finish the Rex interview. In fact, I couldn't get past the second question. It was just too abrasive and confrontational could picture him frothing at the mouth when he answered these questions. On the other hand. Liz was warm, welcoming, funny, on topic and just all round nice.

You didn't refute what I said and it's quite true with every comment I've made in this thread. Even the list from Anita's website of games she's criticised. How you can criticise a game like Pac-Man is beyond me. I guess you really can see discrimination, prejudice, bigotry, racism, misogyny and anything else in everything. Next, we'll have some feminist/SJW complain about having white tiles instead of black tiles in someone's bathroom. Maybe you can change that biased view you have someday. I know it's going to be hard, but maybe one day you can be a gamer like the rest of us. PrimeJunta seems to be a lost cause for now.

The social justice warrior title is a misnomer. They're Self Justified Whiners who've never been about justice in any social sense.

Disgusting. So these 'journalists' are all okay with bullying and harassment and openly admit it. And you have some people on these forums all silent. But I'm sure they'll be back when the dirt is on #GG.

Yeah, it's pretty hard running your own business. And very easy to be one of those statistics with so many businesses failing in the first year. My partner runs her own company and it's very time consuming for her and at times myself when she gets me involved, but I try and distance myself as much as I can away from it. Her phone never stops. Even last night when I was playing WL2, I heard her ask me a question from the other room and I had to look something up while she was answering a query. But one of the biggest things is cash flow. Can not understate that enough.

When I do a google search on soggy leg, the Obsidian Forums are third from the top.

So the games she's criticised she doesn't play? Okay, lets have a look at the games she's criticised but doesn't play. A very very small selection (because I can't be bothered to list all the games) taken from her website and videos. TRIGGER WARNING!!! Wow! Even Pac-Man (1980)? And Angry Birds is on that list! Damn, I played a lot of those games, even in the arcades. Gauntlet (1985) was a huge hit at the time. Edit: Forgot to put in the trigger warning. The list might offend some people. I did notice a trigger warning on Sarkeesian's site when copy/pasting some of this.

So someone trolled the USU? Looks like the trolls know how to stop Anita Sarkeesian doing any more speeches. The trolls just send anonymous death threats to any place where there's a public speaking event she'll attend.

Of course. How silly of me.

Sounds like a lot of baloney. So you're suggesting women can't negotiate a better starting salary than a man even though it's anonymous. Women value their time less than a man. And Women typically ask less than a man? And women can't negotiate a better pay rise. Holy blame the woman, Batman! But even so, if you're a manager and you have a man and a woman applying for the same job, with the same credentials. You as the manager isn't going to hire the woman who gets paid less? You're the manager, you need to keep costs down. You would hire the woman for less pay.

Interesting. So it's possible that she trolled gamergate and she was then trolled herself and it spiralled out of control. Whether it's true or not, it's a good idea not to poke a hornet's nest. I was hoping the guy during the interview was going to ask Brianna what prompted the death threats, how did this all start. Not what happened afterwards. That would have been one of my first questions to get to the bottom of this.

Re: Women paid less than men. Reminds me of this:

Thanks KP but I'm really after what preceded the threats. As far as I know, Internet users don't decide to randomly pick a female out of thin air from the thousands of females in the gaming industry and then go after them, send threatening messages or anything like that. Yeah, you could be right. She could have been trolled. Then made a big song and dance about it and was trolled and threatened even more. Who knows. It's what preceded it that I'm wondering about. There's usually something that sparks this and I'd be interested to know what the spark was that snowballed this. And I decided to watch it and what a chore listening through her, interrupting other people while they spoke. And she came across as very litigious, almost 'I'm gonna sue you' type of hysteria with the admin of 8chan. The 'you don't know the law, I know the law from college. Better be careful and watch yourself' attitude. Better get yourself a lawyer. The admin probably knows his stuff and presumably has a lawyer to go over this with his website.

I couldn't even get five minutes in and Brianna Wu in that interview said she had to take a twitter break as it all got too much for her and she took 24hrs off from it. I'm just shaking my head thinking... well I won't say. Anyway, how did Brianna Wu become the latest topic of discussion in this whole affair? How did she become the current news story? She says she received death threats but what preceded this? I mean there are hundreds if not thousands of females working in this industry. What happened for her to be singled out from the hundreds if not thousands of women in the industry.

I'm sure if you picked any day out of the year and call it anything you want, someone somewhere will be offended.

Must be a slow news week for the Register? We already had a thread about this earlier this year in February citing the same 'paper'. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/65146-internet-trolls-really-are-horrible-people/page-1 And there were people in the previous thread who agreed you can have a 'good' troll.

It always surprises me how so many people don't know or don't remember the arcade/video/computer games targeted to females in the 80s. But of course some websites would have you believe all that never happened.

I enjoyed the post-apocalyptic tv show Jeremiah, from J. MIchael Straczynski the creator of Babylon 5. It sort of has an ending with Season 2. Could have gone on for another season but Straczynski left the show in disgust due to the studio's meddling involvement. I'd also recommend the short 5 episode zombie mini-series Dead Set if you haven't watched it Monte. Great stuff.

They want higher paying jobs than in the mining industry? What, earning more than $2000 a week as a driver isn't high enough?