Recent content by pacmonster

The tough thing about what the EA exec said is in understanding what he meant by saying that. The concern that it raises in the hardcore gamer crowd is that when he says things like "our games are too hard" he is really saying, "we need to dumb down the gameplay to make it easier for everybody...

I wasn't speaking in specifics for the casting of the movie or all movie casting, just in regards to your general statement that all hackers would never look like that and tend to look like the stereotype. However, as I said, it's a bell curve. I'm sure there exists somewhere a hacker who is...

Like I said you are a walking collection of logical fallacies. First of all, nothing in life is as binary as you just described this issue. "It either exists or does not". Gamergate is a movement, not an organization. As such, "members" if you want to call somebody posting in a gamergate...

Statistically speaking? Hackers are no different then any normal person who's job it is to sit in front of a computer. Hacking is generally not a day job either. These people work as programmers, network security experts, or government contractors / employees. There's a broad spectrum between...

I see you subscribe to the X person is a part of Y organization. X person commits Z crime. Therefore everybody in Y organization must be a part of Z crime. That's some hefty generalization there. While I don't condone the gamergate movement as it has mostly been co-opted into an excuse for...

You're misunderstanding the point. First of all, real hackers aren't breaking into 1 person's computer to vandalize it or break it. What you're talking about is the equivalent of somebody leaving their Facebook account logged in and some asshole changing your information or deleting stuff. Real...

While I agree the movie looks pretty silly I wish Bob would have researched hacking a little more instead of continuing the disappointing trend of attributing cyberbulling or vandalism to hacking. "Blackhat" the name of the movie is an actual term to describe (usually crackers, the term for...