Poll: So Escapist, are you a rapist?

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

The sad truth is, when her generation dies, it will all be better

Hah. Hah! You want to know the real sad truth, kid?[footnote]I graduated high school an ungodly number of years ago, and I get a small quota of uses of "kid" per year as a perk. That's one of them.[/footnote] It's always something. Always. In the 50s, it was rock and roll with its "jungle rhythms". In the 60s, it was hippie culture and its scary countercultural connotations. In the 70s, it was heavy metal and its spooky darkness. In the 80s, it was Dungeons and Dragons--oh, and look, heavy metal again and backward masking, for a double dose of supposed Satanism. In the 90s, it was Beavis and Butthead and Generation X making for millions of lazy slackers.

Your generation--not necessarily you, but your generation--will find something just as asinine to clutch its pearls and shriek "Won't someone please think of the children?" about. The good news is that each wave usually lasts about five to seven years max.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

The correlation between video games and rape is preposterous. Me being a rapist has nothing to do with my game playing.

 

[Nieroshai]

I'm a Grapist

You molest grapes?

I'm a Grapist

Is that someone who molests grapes?

What annoys me is that when parents etc hear horror stories and assume that is the typical reaction. One kid starves to death due to an addiction to WoW; so that means all kids playing WoW will starve.... riiiight.

Fucking Ninja

I'm a Grapist

Wow that video has to be the most awesomely hilariously accurate picture of our current media. One guy sees the problem, everyone else is "STFU, it's funny!" Also, I WoW (yes that's a verb now lol) but only an hour daily, and have a very balanced diet. So TAKE THAT "STATISTICS!"

 

[lacktheknack]

The correlation between video games and rape is preposterous. Me being a rapist has nothing to do with my game playing.

I tried to "like" this... stupid Facebook.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

The correlation between video games and rape is preposterous. Me being a rapist has nothing to do with my game playing.

I tried to "like" this... stupid Facebook.

I'd rather you didn't. Someone might think I'm not joking.

 

[lacktheknack]

The correlation between video games and rape is preposterous. Me being a rapist has nothing to do with my game playing.

I tried to "like" this... stupid Facebook.

I'd rather you didn't. Someone might think I'm not joking.

Nah, no one's THAT oblivious to sarcasm.

I hope.

 

[God's Clown]

I think I'd probably kill a Rapist if I met one. I absolutely hate them. Get a job, save up 100 bucks or something and buy a hooker. Don't assault an innocent person.

So no, I am not a rapist, because if I was, I wouldn't be alive, as I would have made myself less then alive.

 

[Something Amyss]

Games are the new rock and roll.

Does that make teabagging noobs the new "shaking your hips?"

 

[Retosa]

The correlation between video games and rape is preposterous. Me being a rapist has nothing to do with my game playing.

I tried to "like" this... stupid Facebook.

I'd rather you didn't. Someone might think I'm not joking.

Nah, no one's THAT oblivious to sarcasm.

I hope.

Be afraid, be very afraid. There are people so oblivious to sarcasm that they don't even understand what it is when you say "I will be sarcastic in my next statement.", continue to be sarcastic, and they believe you... People are epic stupid.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I choose to write in my answer (all ballots have them) and say yes.

And of course I joke, but since the poll is a joke, it doesnt matter.

OT: I think its cause games are the new evil, so gamers are the new evil doers. and thats why we get so much hate.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

The correlation between video games and rape is preposterous. Me being a rapist has nothing to do with my game playing.

I tried to "like" this... stupid Facebook.

I'd rather you didn't. Someone might think I'm not joking.

Nah, no one's THAT oblivious to sarcasm.

I hope.

There may be one. [http://www.drcarole.com/about.htm] I think she wrote a book, too. [http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Girls-Carole-Lieberman/dp/292386512X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top]

 

[TheRealCJ]

Where's the Yes option?!

Because I totally am!

 

[WrongSprite]

Poll is biased, some escapists may well be rapists. But it's got nothing to do with gaming

 

[lacktheknack]

The correlation between video games and rape is preposterous. Me being a rapist has nothing to do with my game playing.

I tried to "like" this... stupid Facebook.

I'd rather you didn't. Someone might think I'm not joking.

Nah, no one's THAT oblivious to sarcasm.

I hope.

There may be one. [http://www.drcarole.com/about.htm] I think she wrote a book, too. [http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Girls-Carole-Lieberman/dp/292386512X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top]

Now, to her credit, that wasn't failure to read sarcasm. That was failure to cover that everything she said was made up.

 

[Nexoram]

WTF you're not being fair. Where's the YES option huh? You're discriminating against rapists. (In case you're sarcastic meter is off, I wasn't being serious)

 

[Scabadus]

No-one buys Mass Effect and goes out raping women, no, they sit for a moment contemplating the moral choices they made and feeling slightly cheesed off that they didnt have a better ending after that epic boss fight.

I once got raped IN Mass Effect, does that count?

No seriously, I was trying to play through ME1 without having sex with either woman (yes, I was trying to save myself for Tali. Shut up.) then one of them jumped me. I must have said the wrong thing or something, but the sex scene started and I was shouting "Nooo! NOOO! GET OFF MEEEE!!!". I had a friend round my flat too, they got a little worried.

 

[Infernai]

Short Answer: No

Long Answer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO