Female Gamer "Sexually Assaulted" While Playing PS3
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WE need the HOME police on this!!
It would give us a reason to "play" home. Let vetted subscribers join the virtual police, and tag and bag deadbeat croachers. PS3 could finally pay for their upgrade online support by selling HOME Lawyer services for both sides at say 1.99 a virtual case. "Guilty! the defended shall turnover three trophies and restrain from entering HOME for 3 months!" Sayeth virtual Judge Judy.
Otherwise the real world "victim" of this "crime" is only part of the growing number of people who have a hard time seperating reality from virtual. Perhaps there is a psychological condition for this that needs to be addressed beyond this issue, but that is a totally different story.
There is real crime that occurs on the net. But this case certainly is not an example of one that warrents use of public resources.
It would give us a reason to "play" home. Let vetted subscribers join the virtual police, and tag and bag deadbeat croachers. PS3 could finally pay for their upgrade online support by selling HOME Lawyer services for both sides at say 1.99 a virtual case. "Guilty! the defended shall turnover three trophies and restrain from entering HOME for 3 months!" Sayeth virtual Judge Judy.
Otherwise the real world "victim" of this "crime" is only part of the growing number of people who have a hard time seperating reality from virtual. Perhaps there is a psychological condition for this that needs to be addressed beyond this issue, but that is a totally different story.
There is real crime that occurs on the net. But this case certainly is not an example of one that warrents use of public resources.
Sexually assulted?
Peanuts! People get killed at an alarming rate constantly all over the world!
Just because you get shot in a game doesnt mean it isn't real!
Peanuts! People get killed at an alarming rate constantly all over the world!
Just because you get shot in a game doesnt mean it isn't real!
Please, it's not Sexually assult, it's just plain annoying and that may be a pain but its nothing to cry over. Seriously, no one complains when they die in-game at the hands of others players so why is this such a big deal? Surely she could have blocked this guy or I don't know...simply ignored him like any muture person would have.
I'll put it to you this way. Just like making arguements for perfect equality, perfect safety is impossible to achieve in any kind of free society, or heck in any kind of society dealing with a large number of people to begin with. Online services and games give you a rating for the content put in by the developers, all of these services tell you that this might not be reflective of what you see online due to other people.
As things stand now I think things are too limited. I found the idea of things like "Second Life" fairly boring, but I did like the idea of free expression to begin with even when it went into some rather taboo and sexual areas. It took a good long while before I began to think things might have been going too far, but even then I tend to think free speech is more important in a general sense than outrage because someone made moving pictures of children involved in sex or whatever.
I feel we need strict policing IRL, and in cases of real sexual assaults/pedophillia/whatever but I am comfortable with the idea of information networks being a "wild west" of sorts. Sure some people will abuse it and get truely offensive, but I believe it rapidly becomes a greater evil to actually stop them.
To me, someone being "sexually assaulted" in a game is absolutly ridiculous. This complaint is akin to someone trying to sue because their corpse was teabagged in a FPS game. Heck in that case you could make it a doubly whammy because not only is it a sexual assault, but can also be a disgrance to your religion and/or customs in dealing with the dead, both of which have been big real world/"meatspace" issues.
To be honest I sort of lost interest in home during the development. Originally when it was going to be like a more advanced "Second Life" with user created content I was interested. However about the time one of the devs started talking about how they wanted it to be like Second Life "but without the naked people in the sky" it was downhill from there. Without any desire to police it actively (which would be wrong) they rapidly removed a lot of planned features like user developed content. Besides, who would buy clothing and such if they could just make their own? They basically seemed to build something similar to "Habbo" with minigames. I've gradually been trying to build up the ambition to finally login to it with my PSN account, but really I keep deciding not to and doing something else due to not really seeing the point for the most part. Chat Modes strike me as being nothing new, and that's fundementally what "Home" is.
At any rate, to get back to the point and wrap this up, the person making the complaint is after five minutes of fame (or at least attention). It's a sad state of affairs that she actually got it and had something like this taken seriously enough to even make it to "The Escapist". It's even sadder that I could actually see a case being made out of this if the right factors all aligned. Someone like Hillary Clinton or Obama could promote such incidents as part of a springboard towards getting people to agree to more intense goverment censorship.
Simply put, in any free enviroment some people are going to be jerks. That's just the way it is. The jerks are comparitively a small price to pay compared to what you would lose in establishing enough control to stop them.
As things stand now I think things are too limited. I found the idea of things like "Second Life" fairly boring, but I did like the idea of free expression to begin with even when it went into some rather taboo and sexual areas. It took a good long while before I began to think things might have been going too far, but even then I tend to think free speech is more important in a general sense than outrage because someone made moving pictures of children involved in sex or whatever.
I feel we need strict policing IRL, and in cases of real sexual assaults/pedophillia/whatever but I am comfortable with the idea of information networks being a "wild west" of sorts. Sure some people will abuse it and get truely offensive, but I believe it rapidly becomes a greater evil to actually stop them.
To me, someone being "sexually assaulted" in a game is absolutly ridiculous. This complaint is akin to someone trying to sue because their corpse was teabagged in a FPS game. Heck in that case you could make it a doubly whammy because not only is it a sexual assault, but can also be a disgrance to your religion and/or customs in dealing with the dead, both of which have been big real world/"meatspace" issues.
To be honest I sort of lost interest in home during the development. Originally when it was going to be like a more advanced "Second Life" with user created content I was interested. However about the time one of the devs started talking about how they wanted it to be like Second Life "but without the naked people in the sky" it was downhill from there. Without any desire to police it actively (which would be wrong) they rapidly removed a lot of planned features like user developed content. Besides, who would buy clothing and such if they could just make their own? They basically seemed to build something similar to "Habbo" with minigames. I've gradually been trying to build up the ambition to finally login to it with my PSN account, but really I keep deciding not to and doing something else due to not really seeing the point for the most part. Chat Modes strike me as being nothing new, and that's fundementally what "Home" is.
At any rate, to get back to the point and wrap this up, the person making the complaint is after five minutes of fame (or at least attention). It's a sad state of affairs that she actually got it and had something like this taken seriously enough to even make it to "The Escapist". It's even sadder that I could actually see a case being made out of this if the right factors all aligned. Someone like Hillary Clinton or Obama could promote such incidents as part of a springboard towards getting people to agree to more intense goverment censorship.
Simply put, in any free enviroment some people are going to be jerks. That's just the way it is. The jerks are comparitively a small price to pay compared to what you would lose in establishing enough control to stop them.
I'll admit, I loledDistorted Stu said:I got sexually assaulted on COD. Stop Tea bagging me!
Also, this kind of thing happens everyday on Habbo Hotel.. and they're just 11 year olds!
I was sexually assaulted on L4D. I was playing as Zoey, and my friend died. We tried to save him but we were too late! Somehow, he managed to make me teabag him! It was degrading that his corpse could make my character do that!
Oh, the huge manatee of it all. The female in question needs to get over herself, and fast. She's probably one of these people who screams "Rapist" whenever a guy comes within 2 feet.
Oh, the huge manatee of it all. The female in question needs to get over herself, and fast. She's probably one of these people who screams "Rapist" whenever a guy comes within 2 feet.
I will never forget a timeless moment, when playing the popular MMO guild wars, that I was dancing in a town square with a female avatar. A male avatar came up to me, of the warrior class. Any familar with guild wars know the specific dance the male 'warrior' class does. It involves undulating hips and one hand thrust, skyward. My friend, also a dancing female avatar then said to me, in words I have never forgotten:
"He is thrusting in your direction"
"He is thrusting in your direction"
I just realized we have the "This game is not rated for on-line play" by the ERSB, for everything game wise, I can't remember if HOME has that or not. But it should, as should Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, etc.
I guess the word should be spread (to those who have no clue) this typically means rated "R" or "A" or "X" movie type rating. Unfortantely this still does not stop ppl with no common sense of not taking the warning seriously or actually thinking about what they are doing.
ie movie example: you brought your 7 year old kid to an "R" rated movie and than complain the content was to graphic (nudity, especially male nudity, not the violence or the story) and harmed your child's psyche....really??
I guess the word should be spread (to those who have no clue) this typically means rated "R" or "A" or "X" movie type rating. Unfortantely this still does not stop ppl with no common sense of not taking the warning seriously or actually thinking about what they are doing.
ie movie example: you brought your 7 year old kid to an "R" rated movie and than complain the content was to graphic (nudity, especially male nudity, not the violence or the story) and harmed your child's psyche....really??
Yeah, what he said?!?!DP155ToneZone said:
Also. can't you report these idiots or something? (never having used Home) Even so... its a bit stupid, more than a bit shut-in ish and utterly full of fail... but it isn't Sexual Assault.
Killer's remorse. Didn't want to kill you, it was just what was expected by society, what was necessary, just following orders. war sucks. Though no one ever hugged me in Modern Warfare or Halo...Does that make WOW players more humane or that they have more emotes/personal actions to play with?x0ny said:
Wait on that note, what do naked dancing Elves count as?? And if I see someone paying them Gold for a dance, is that paying for the purpose sexual exploitation of a non-human species?
