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    Over 1,800 Gaming Professionals Condemn Hate Speech in Open Letter

    Bottom line, if someone offered me $160,000, fame, influence, to endure the impotent online rage of anonymous people making puerile remarks about my genitals and shit like that, and to make a relatively inexpensive (for reference, look at the quality and volume of content someone like James...
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    Over 1,800 Gaming Professionals Condemn Hate Speech in Open Letter

    I think what fuels the hostility to (specific) women in the gaming industry is not the fact they're women as everyone would like you to conveniently believe, but the fact that the bar is lowered for them. I'm sorry for the frankness, but this point needs to be made. Deep down, we all know that...
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    Over 1,800 Gaming Professionals Condemn Hate Speech in Open Letter

    The sad thing is, we people who took the time to research and fact check what's going on are and will probably remain a minority. I hazard the guess that the average reader peruses some articles and videos and that's that. And that's the demographic that matters. That's the demographic that has...
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    Over 1,800 Gaming Professionals Condemn Hate Speech in Open Letter

    If you want to know what the outrage here is all about, let me use a metaphor: yesterday, the leadership of faction A executed a highly coordinated carpet bombing operation that razed an entire town from faction B. People from faction B are furious and outraged. The next day, you open the...
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    Woman Seduces Teen She Met on Xbox Live, Gets Busted

    Ah, the puritanism of the US never ceases to amaze me (more like the rest of the civilized world). Had this happened here, people would be joking about it.
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    283: Introducing The Escapist's Genre Wheel

    I'm sorry to say this classification has failed to show any patterns to my likes/dislikes. The only genres I won't touch no matter what are Sports, Music (which are on rather distant sides of the spectrum there) and games that are mere skinner boxes, like MMORPGs/"social" games/etc. The only...