| DanneSandin said: Bolded part kinda shows everything that is wrong about GG: Zoe receives death threats, and you're saying that she isn't wrong, while completely disregarding all the male journalists involved. I should necver have written in this thread. GG always gets out of hand. But yes, I'd much rather have corrupt journalists than people receiving death threats. And I also think that's why journalists are "attacking" gaming culture; becasue IT is corrupt and rotten. Who the hell sends death threats tro some one over bad scores or bad ending?! Thats fiucking sick. Something IS seriously wrong within gaming culture. |
This works entirely on the assumption that the death threat held any water at all, and wasn't just an idle empty parade, like pretty much every other online threat. The police themselves stated that they did not believe the threat posed any actual risk.
Get good at a multiplayer game, or cheat, and you'll get the occasional insult, get REALLY good and you'll occasionally get a really irate player saying he'll come over to where you live and kill you, but these are idle threats, and just an extension of playing out their emotions in an environment where anonymity allows them to exaggerate every portion of their being, his isn't exclusive to gamers nor is it exclusive to men.
If course, if you'd like to link to any news or any reports of anyone actually following through on these threats, THEN we've got a discussion, until then it's just an empty guesture, exaggerated by the anonymity of internet.
This problem with using these threats in the way they are doing, is that you're associating the freedom and relative saftey of an online anonymouse platform with real world violence and aggression, when it simply isn't the case for 99.99% of people.
If the person is actually willing to go through with a threat, then that person clearly has issues that predate the entire discussion.
