Recent content by wisefatmatt

If you can find ANY evidence that shaming these idiots would convert ANY of them, maybe I would agree, but I just don't see the point of arguing with brick walls. I believe the best we can do is report these people to the authorities and maybe call for bans. Simply telling them they're doing...

I'd hate to see a small minority forcing me to give up my anonymity. These people are awful, but there should be some middle ground here. I mean, if you receive death threats, inform the police. They can track these idiots down and I still get to be anonymous. To simply force the majority of...

I recall two reasons people were harassing Fish before Fez's release. The first reason was that his "Upcoming XBLA platformer Fez won the Seamus McNally Grand Prize, the top honour at last night's Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards at GDC in San Francisco." Emphasis on the upcoming. He...

How could telling these people who consider death threats a legitimate way of communicating their displeasure that they're assholes possibly stop them? Why would they even care what we have to say? We don't mean anything to them. You would have a more productive time trying to convince a brick...

Shaming these people will do nothing, the only thing that could work is the banning, and that's entirely up to the people running the site, not the community in the site. Granted, the community could ask the administrators to do this, but still, the responsibility is on the administrators for bans.

Do you really think vilifying people will somehow stop these nutcases? If these people are unhinged enough to think that the best course of action is to threaten the lives of family members over a game patch, or any other reason, that if I say "Hey now, that's way to harsh. You are scum for even...

You've told us to help. How exactly are we supposed to stop these people from threatening people? Do you really think we're going to change hearts and minds by telling these people that they're wrong? That we can shame them into stopping this behavior? Can you point to a single case where this...

I fail to see the point of your video Jim. I'd say a large majority of gamers already know that it's not okay to threaten families. Did you think this video was going to change their minds? Did you think that by telling these people that it's not okay and they should stop would do anything? They...

I get and respect what you want geek culture to do, but it's going to be hard to do. My main criticism is that you spent 6 minutes talking about how we need to change, and spent no time actually suggesting ways to improve the culture. It's one thing to realize we have an issue, it's another...

I suppose it's not as bad as most of yours, but it did mess with me. My grandfather died when I was in 6th grade, and we had just moved. It was a car accident, he was hit from behind at 70 miles an hour at a stop light. The man driving had Alzheimer and didn't know what he was doing. My uncle...

This is my first post so I hope I don't sound too stupid. I like the tenets of socialism. The rich give back to the lower classes, it seems fair. But to actually say that the left wingers (me for example) tell people you can't make something of yourself? How ridiculous. I have never advocated...