Jimquisition: I'm Going To Murder Your Children
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The definition of a white knightjluzar20 said:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=white%20knight
It doesn't really match up with what Jim is doing at all.
How many people honestly sent death threats to Hepler about her children? I bettering it was no more then a few(3-4) and likely as little as 1.
The problem is that this stuff is meant to stir up fake controversy. Its an excuse for the victim to point the finger at all of us and tell us what a bad group of people we are. I think its deplorable that someone would send death threats about a Woman's children. That doesn't mean I am OK with the victims of such crimes using it as an excuse to shout, "Look, look, I'm being oppressed" and try to villainize against all of their critics, including the one that only make fair and logical criticism and don't send death threats, by putting them in the same category.
If I were in the same position as her, and got those death threats, none of you would know about it. I would simply delete the email. If I felt it was a real enough treat I would tell the police. I wouldn't feel the need to post them on a blog or message board somewhere as a means of casting guilt on the gaming community and bashing my critics.
The problem is that this stuff is meant to stir up fake controversy. Its an excuse for the victim to point the finger at all of us and tell us what a bad group of people we are. I think its deplorable that someone would send death threats about a Woman's children. That doesn't mean I am OK with the victims of such crimes using it as an excuse to shout, "Look, look, I'm being oppressed" and try to villainize against all of their critics, including the one that only make fair and logical criticism and don't send death threats, by putting them in the same category.
If I were in the same position as her, and got those death threats, none of you would know about it. I would simply delete the email. If I felt it was a real enough treat I would tell the police. I wouldn't feel the need to post them on a blog or message board somewhere as a means of casting guilt on the gaming community and bashing my critics.
I can't help but think that this video is rather pointless - the people that Jim is making this video to argue against are unlikely to watch this. I think most of us know that it's BAD to say such things, it's just a few idiots who have to ruin it for the rest of us.
If Jim were a forum poster, we'd all be telling him to stop feeding the trolls.
Between this, the Anita Sarkesian thing and the Dragon's Crown review "controversy"; the whole message can be summed up by "Hey jerks, stop being ridiculous over-the-top jerks" and yet without Jim ranting for however many minutes about it, I'd never have heard about any of them.
If nothing else, the people who act out like that probably love the fact that it kicks up a storm. And those of us who watch the Jimquisition just get a bit fed up of being called "sick fuck(s)".
Between this, the Anita Sarkesian thing and the Dragon's Crown review "controversy"; the whole message can be summed up by "Hey jerks, stop being ridiculous over-the-top jerks" and yet without Jim ranting for however many minutes about it, I'd never have heard about any of them.
If nothing else, the people who act out like that probably love the fact that it kicks up a storm. And those of us who watch the Jimquisition just get a bit fed up of being called "sick fuck(s)".
Quite the opposite.Retrograde said:
As others in this discussion forum have made very clear to you already, subcultures are viewed as a collective. It's not just some random asshole on the internet that can't buy or even sell certain games in countries like Australia, it's everyone. Like it or not, we're judged as a group & need to take a certain level of responsibility for the actions of the group. I didn't send those threatening emails, & odds are neither did you, but responding with inaction & indifference makes us complicit. Saying nothing is the same thing as condoning it.
As a culture that often identifies by both its intellect & history of social stratification & inequity, we should be above that. I'm not saying it will never happen, there will always be trolls. I'm saying we should be holding ourselves to a higher standard than rabid One Direction fangirls
You know, I think anyone whose immediate response to this isn't "Yeah, fuck those guys!" is part of the problem. Death-threat spewing, insane fanatical assholes that infest our community need to be cast out and ostracized. They need to be exiled and we need to show that THEY DO NOT DEFINE US.
Anyone who thinks "Oh they should just grow thicker skin" or "Oh stop making general statements" or "Oh focus on the good" or "Oh blah blah men blah misandry" are indirectly supporting the behavior by not showing it the absolute contempt it deserves.
Anyone who thinks "Oh they should just grow thicker skin" or "Oh stop making general statements" or "Oh focus on the good" or "Oh blah blah men blah misandry" are indirectly supporting the behavior by not showing it the absolute contempt it deserves.
I'm more familiar with being called a fag because of my Mic Lisp (as in, my microphone sucks) and being pelted with homophobic slurs until the end of the match. At which point the idiot rage-quits because I didn't give him the pleasure of raging back or writing down something passive-aggressive in chat.TheSniperFan said:
My usual tactic is pretty simple: clam up and keep playing. Lack of response always drives potential rager types up the wall and usually leads to them being votekicked.
Who knew silence could be the best weapon?
Unfortunately I can't link you right now.RobotDinosaur said:
However the things that sparked up gamers hatred towards her was in an interview with her- the interviewer in question asked her a bunch of questions.
Two of them sparked the controversy.
First question was what did she dislike most in videogames in which she said playing them. Hepler acknowledged right off the bat how horrible that sounded and further explained that the reason for this opinion was because she has poor hand eye co-ordination, struggles immensely with game maps, dislikes combat type of gameplay, and inventory checking.
The second question was if there was one thing she would like to be put in games, to appeal to more people what would it be. Hepler responded by stating that the same way devs offer gameplay enthusiasts a fastforward button to skip all the cutscenes so they can get right back in the action, they should offer a similar option for those who aren't great with videogames, but immensely enjoys the story of said game a fast forward button to skip the unnecessary and/or difficult bosses.
This last question is the one that pissed off people the most. Many people claimed that she was attempting to strip out gameplay in videogames (a feat that is not possible as a writer anyway.) and completely ignore the fact that games such as Super Mario Galaxy 2 already offer such a feature. If you lose a certain amount of times on a specific stage- You have the option to allow Princess Luna to play the stage for you and obtain a bronze star.(doesn't count as an actual star so there is still much incentive to actually beat the stage yourself.)