Poll: So Escapist, are you a rapist?
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...you have sex with dead books? either that or you read dead books... or the necronomicon maybe?soren7550 said:
OT, some gamers are rapists, gamer =/= rapist
Playing GTA or Bulletstorm does not make me want to go out and rape people.
Harvest Moon, on the other hand...
Harvest Moon, on the other hand...
I came to this thread to answer yes to the poll. Not of course because I am a rapist, but because this is entirely a stupid thing to get filled up over and rant about.
Really dude, to borrow something from the early 90s "take a chill pill!"
Rape is bad, m'Kay. Some people use popular targets and bad things to make a sensational statement. They want their five minutes in the spotlight, no matter what.
Really dude, to borrow something from the early 90s "take a chill pill!"
Rape is bad, m'Kay. Some people use popular targets and bad things to make a sensational statement. They want their five minutes in the spotlight, no matter what.
It's all bullshit folks. In most media outlets the only thing that matters are ratings. They will exaggerate, exploit, and lie to get what they want out of a story. The fact that there is no accurate way to predict the affects of video games doesn't make interesting news like "ZOMG HALO 3 WILL MAKE KIDS RAPE PUPPIES!!!!!!"
Sensationalism in an outlet that should be about the spreading of information. It's a fucking disgrace.
Sensationalism in an outlet that should be about the spreading of information. It's a fucking disgrace.
Love that video. Awesome stuff.carnege4 said:
OT: I feel your poll is discriminatory and biased. What about those of us[footnote]I'm not a rapist. All inclusive pronouns are inaccurate in that they don't include me[/footnote] who are mentally unstable and games acted as our 'rape-trigger'? Why are we not properly represented! We are a part of this community and demand the corresponding ability to represent ourselves statistically through the means of a context relevant poll!
Seriously we.... we haven't dropped this subject yet? Did you guys actually read the FOX news article everyone is upset over? I'm guessing most of you didn't (ironic as thats all people complain FOX news does... condemn a game without even playing it). It was an entirely bland article which included a couple pro game experts and a couple idiot anti game experts with almost no editorializing itself. The only notable part about it was the cheesy artist rendition or sculpture or whatever depicting the dude getting his arm blown off. The "video games make violent/rapey people" comment was from one of those "experts" and not from anyone from FOX. It hasn't been on the FOX news site in at least a week and seems all but forgotten except in gaming circles. Yes there are the occasional sensationalist BS pieces from various news agencies but that shit hasn't gotten real traction since Mortal Kombat. No the scary government isn't going to kick down your door and take your games away and there will ALWAYS be a market for mature games so don't expect Rockstar to drop GTA and work on their own version of Cooking Mama. Methinks we gamers might need to drop the victim mentality once in awhile. All it does is empower the game-hater types.
Maybe the article should be dropped, but come on, that line was almost entirely false. The "experts" were hardly so, the line about rape was an alteration that in itself was editorialisation, and the structure of the article was such that it tried to draw from point a (Bulletstorm=bad) to point b (games attributed to increase in rape).Rogerstein said:
This was about as un-editorialised as a Beck Rant or an Olbermann "special comment." Take your pick. Should we pay attention to this crap? Maybe not. But pretending this was something it wasn't? Also wrong.
At 8:30 - GTAIV causes an influx of illegal immigrants and Dragon Age linked to dragon sighting.katsumoto03 said:
Stay tuned for why the Fallout series increases the likelihood of a nuclear Armageddon by 11%!
I am now in the process of constructing an analog clock face with the word "Tetris" replacing each number...Zachary Amaranth said:
Oh, my! Look at the time!
I saw the poll and started cracking up. But anyway, now? Nope. Tuesday? According to Fox News, yep.
It's True!!! All those hours of playing Solitaire have turned me into a blood-thirsty degenerate. Why, even the sight of spades at Home Depot sends me into a RAGE OF UNSTOPPABLE SORTING AND MATCHING!!!
Honestly though, I'm pretty sure these are the same numbnuts who wrote books about how D&D teaches kids how to summon the devil http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Prepare-for-War/Rebecca-Brown/e/9780883683248/?itm=2
Honestly though, I'm pretty sure these are the same numbnuts who wrote books about how D&D teaches kids how to summon the devil http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Prepare-for-War/Rebecca-Brown/e/9780883683248/?itm=2
I am a rapist, if your definition of "rapist" is "someone who sits at his desk all day at his computer or playing video games and has not once touched anyone of the opposite sex in pretty much any way". However, if you are using the conventional definition of "rapist", I am quite the opposite.
What!!! There is no yes option. That's bias. Rapists are people too. Why aren't you giving me the opportunity to represent myself!!
Just cause I keep people chained up in my basement and don't feed them doesn't mean I shouldn't be proud of myself.
That was sarcasm by the way. I do not have people in my basement.
In all seriousness mehh.. This stuff will blow over in about ten years. And unless something seriously drastic happens between now and then (which it probably won't) we''l be fine. Irritated and inconvenienced bu fine.
Just cause I keep people chained up in my basement and don't feed them doesn't mean I shouldn't be proud of myself.
That was sarcasm by the way. I do not have people in my basement.
In all seriousness mehh.. This stuff will blow over in about ten years. And unless something seriously drastic happens between now and then (which it probably won't) we''l be fine. Irritated and inconvenienced bu fine.
I don't really care about how mass media portrays games. Mass media is a reflection of the contemporary view of things and games are still a topic of little knowledge to a great number of people. Watching the news for games is like asking a man who's only been to Europe once to write a tour guide on France.
I was about to abuse the crap out of you (OP) and then I realised what this post was about. Good on ya xD