Autistic Xbox Player's Mother Admits He Cheated
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Republicans are the cream of the crop when it comes to playing the victim...Might want to erase that bit of redundancy.Kitteh said:
Taken out of context, yes that looks bad, but I wasn't referring specifically to the kid. I was making a general statement about parents who try to lie and make a big huff about things to cover their kids. It was a poor choice of words that I used to try to make a point.strangeotron said:
Maybe she does have difficulty raising her son, and I'm not going to presume that I know anything about that kind of life, but the mother was the one who turned this thing into a newsworthy story.
In retrospect, I now agree that the kid shouldn't have to suffer a lot of ridicule because his of his mother's lie. You can see why people are upset about this though, it shows that you can lie and try to slander a company and maybe you can get away with it.
How do you know that this mystery somebody lied to the autistic child? For that matter, how do we even know that this mystery somebody even exists?Asehujiko said:
And his mother didn't come out asking WTF. She came out accusing Microsoft of discrimination against autistic peoples.
On the first point, I'm just being cynical. But on the second point, that's called grandstanding and it is reprehensible.
I admitted it was a poor choice of words that I used. I was making a point, and you took it out of context again.strangeotron said:
If you want someone to blame, blame the mother. The one who made such a huge deal about this. The one who knew he cheated, and still went through with it all.strangeotron said:
And besides, according to the news story, Microsoft is offering a new gamer-tag and free one month for him to start over. Its the most they can do in this situation. If they un-did all this because of his condition, others would try to take advantage of it all.
Makes me glad my comment on the original story was a neutral one. So let's be glad that Microsoft isn't an evil overlord, it's still the same morally gray overlord we've known for years.
I never claimed to know anything about the mother or child, but I do know that Microsoft would not have know beforehand if the child was autistic. They followed their normal operating procedure when they discovered someone cheating. It was the mother who brought the child's autism into the picture, and it was her grandstanding that made a media spectacle out of it.strangeotron said:
It's not arbitrary at all. Microsoft state in their terms and conditions of service that hacking achievements is cheating, the kid agreed to these terms and conditions when he signed up. Evidently he knew he had done something wrong, because he hid the existance of the person who got him the armour until it was apparent that crying "I have autism" wasn't going to get him off the hook. And maybe his mother doesn't understand how obtaining the armour without earning it is cheating. That doesn't change the fact that the rules were broken and the appropriate punishment was meted out.strangeotron said:
And while we're talking about lack of knowledge, you know nothing about me. My son doesn't have autism, which is something I'm grateful for, but my neighbours son does. I've seen firsthand the problems it can cause for parents. I know how much effort it can be to raise a child with a difficult condition, be it mental or physical. So don't assume I know nothing, just to try and prove some nonexistant moral superiority over me. Check your own attitude before lecturing others about theirs.
