"Journalist" Who Wrote Fake GTA Story Ridicules Gamers
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It still amazes me that the "gamer" stereotype lives on. Us "adult gamers" don't sit around playing games all day, we work our 8 hours, then come home and play video games for a few hours. You know, instead of sitting in front of the TV and letting our brains melt.
I... wow. Congratulations Mr Lawton, with that statement you've just pissed away any journalistic integrity.
Now, I know this is a pretty small thing, but I hope Anonnymous gets wind of this and strikes back. C'mon 4Chan,
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Its just disgusting that he'd use this as a chance to take a cheap shot at gamers "They spend their time with technology thus must be evil"
Clearly a man behind the times finding it ridiculous for someone to communicate online and play games. I don't even mind the verbal lashing about how stupid it is for adults to play games, but using someone's grief as a way to do it? Not cool.
Clearly a man behind the times finding it ridiculous for someone to communicate online and play games. I don't even mind the verbal lashing about how stupid it is for adults to play games, but using someone's grief as a way to do it? Not cool.
At the risk of sounding impolite Fuck Him! Being disrespectful to those who died and then getting pissed off when people complain. To save time please imagine a further 3-4 lines of abuse aimed at him as i'm not bothered to write it.
Well, I don't know much about British magazines, but it seems from the comments that this particular magazine is nothing more than a moronic rag... In my opinion, any journalist that writes for a low-quality magazine such as that has no right to ridicule anyone.
Also, aren't there any laws against the publishing of fabricated news stories? There should be, in my opinion.
Also, aren't there any laws against the publishing of fabricated news stories? There should be, in my opinion.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....you think the Daily Star is worth getting upset about...in Britain it's considered a story book for gullible people to laugh at because even they don't believe the bullshit those nutcases come up with...I'm not entirely sure that it's not published from padded cells and scrawled across paper in faeces; but hey if you want to take it seriously that's your idiotic right I guess also:
This is why I hate americans...not all of you just the ones who think that they have to be the best even at the worst...you have 30+ serial killers!! WOW you win more dead people than us give them a round of applause and those people's families a fruit basket you arsehole...and while I'm setting you on fire I might as well mention that it's not GTA that would be making the game it's Rockstar; Grand Theft Auto is just the title of the game series also stop saying off of, about is much easier to say about and it doesn't make you sound like a retard...though you did just seem pleased about the fact that 'the greatest country on earth' has more serial killers than the country that it gained independence from so I don't really see how you can claim to be anything other than a COLOSSAL RETARD!!gilthanan said:
I've never even heard of the daily star, but I'm going to have to assume it exclusively hires tools.
What disgusts me the most bout this guy isn't the whole insulting gamers thing it's this.
Seriously that is fucked up!!! Who does that? How does he till have a job?
Seriously what the fuck? He phones up the grandmother of a murder victim with a fake story, to get a quote for the sole purpose of making BS news article.
Seriously that is fucked up!!! Who does that? How does he till have a job?
Done a few days ago, thanks for the linkDelusibeta said:
Got a reply this morning, seems I wasn't the only one and they did bitchslap the Daily Star for it. Result shown here:
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/145880/Rockstar-Games-Grand-Theft-Auto-An-apology
Particularly like the part:
We unreservedly apologise to Rockstar Games and we have undertaken not to repeat the claims again. We have also agreed to pay them a substantial amount in damages which they are donating to charity.
Jerks lose money, charity gets a donation, we get to refute a tabloid in it's stupid claim against video games. Well that's sure as hell enough to make my day
Quoting Andy to give him a bump in case he wants to make another update on thisAndy Chalk said:
If he didn't explicitly say in the article that no such version of GTA exists and he was using the example for dramatic effect, then he should probably be fired for fabrication and any libel cases that Rockstar Games could probably win as a result of the article.
However, I think his over all point in making the fake game was rather obvious: games like GTA place criminals on a pedestal.
I can agree with that, even though he made his point in a ridiculously over the top manner and acted like an ass in the process.
After all, the goal of GTA and similar games is to commit crimes to reach some goal. I think any guy can agree that the idea of being a big, muscular, tattooed bad-ass that does what ever he wants in his own little sand-box isn't an unappealing idea.
But that is as far as the criminal idol worship goes in my opinion.
People who write articles like this fail to understand that GTA places faceless criminals on pedestals. If a criminal that actually existed were to star in a game where you killed people that actually existed (IE the game he seemed to be proposing), instead of fantasy characters and generic pedestrians A/B/C, even gamers would be disgusted with their selves for playing it.
Though I doubt that would actually stop the game from selling. It would get so much bad press people who don't even like GTA type games would buy it just to see what all the fuss is about.
Edit: Also, I am pretty sure that quote every one seems to be taking seriously was meant to be sarcasm. He is British, after all. He can't help himself. <---another example of sarcasm!!11
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However, I think his over all point in making the fake game was rather obvious: games like GTA place criminals on a pedestal.
I can agree with that, even though he made his point in a ridiculously over the top manner and acted like an ass in the process.
After all, the goal of GTA and similar games is to commit crimes to reach some goal. I think any guy can agree that the idea of being a big, muscular, tattooed bad-ass that does what ever he wants in his own little sand-box isn't an unappealing idea.
But that is as far as the criminal idol worship goes in my opinion.
People who write articles like this fail to understand that GTA places faceless criminals on pedestals. If a criminal that actually existed were to star in a game where you killed people that actually existed (IE the game he seemed to be proposing), instead of fantasy characters and generic pedestrians A/B/C, even gamers would be disgusted with their selves for playing it.
Though I doubt that would actually stop the game from selling. It would get so much bad press people who don't even like GTA type games would buy it just to see what all the fuss is about.
Edit: Also, I am pretty sure that quote every one seems to be taking seriously was meant to be sarcasm. He is British, after all. He can't help himself. <---another example of sarcasm!!11
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Journalists write in a completely different style than one would write an english paper in. From what I can tell as a journalism student that particular part looks fine.RobCoxxy said: