Recent content by Calbeck

Meanwhile, in the next room over, the 18-month battle continues to rage...

"reporting actual news" Um, no. Clickbait and manufactured outrage ain't news. At this point, even Notch is calling them gaming's version of Fox.

I do appreciate the suggestion that when Randy is making sweeping statements about gamers being sadists and such, NO ONE thinks he's talking about GamerGate. -:)

"Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford" Also claimed, last year, to have received a bomb threat at his offices in Plano, Texas. He claimed to be afraid that turning over the key in his car to start it might get him killed. He made a rather big to-do about calling the police, then taking pictures of...

Classiest possible way of handling it. Good on ya, WB.

Apple seems to be coming to their senses, but my biggest disgust so far is reserved for those people who leapt to defend corporate freedoms as the ONLY concern involved. Ban Civil War games? It's just business! There is absolutely nothing else to say because it all goes right down to a...

A brilliant piece of writing. Damn fine work, well-researched and to the point.

Booyah!

Sexualization is a storytelling tool. To say it cannot be used is to return to the days where Ricky Ricardo and his wife Lucy had to sleep in separate beds lest "I Love Lucy" imply the two were having sex at night.

So...you also want to ignore what the OP was asking for, and also want to throw in a straw man? Okay. Well, Ert, hope these guys don't totally derail your thread. Good luck, I'll wait to see if anyone actually comments on what you were asking about.

Mm. Worse, it could be construed to apply to any deliberate falsehood. Meaning courts could become embroiled in determining what the sender believed or knew to be false. If someone down the street sees smoke coming from a building and tweets to one of the residents that there is a fire (it...

Much as I hate to say it, the liberal American Left is not in agreement, particularly not the ACLU. They've fought (and won) cases all the way to the US Supreme Court, defending the right of extremist groups to march and be heard --- regardless of speech content --- in public areas. So until...

This has always been the crux of the problem, the requirement of showing intent. Unfortunately, the alternative seems to be to simply accept any claim of threat as credible on the face of it, with the result of jail time, which seems like most of the Internet would get locked up at some point...

Okay, first of all, I made no such claim as to what was unethical. Throwing in your own strawman doesn't change that. Secondly, I WOULD like to talk about the Kane & Lynch controversy in terms of things that didn't get addressed in its aftermath. Can we have that conversation, as OP...

>wants to talk about ethics in reporting >demands elimination of most recent major lapse in reporting ethics out of boredom >wants to talk about even older scandals Okay, let's talk. What, about the Kane and Lynch Scandal, has not yet been resolved? Just to get the basics out there which...