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new rule: if you send a death threat about video games you are banned from video games

Jintor

Jintor

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I can't think of a single situation where you ever could legitimately need to send a death threat over video game shit. None. There's no situation. Someone beats you in a fighting game? pop-off sure. get mad. try and avoid heated gaming moments. don't threaten death. Mtx? annoying. garbage. Don't send death threats over it. Epic store? Legit stuff to complain about. Exclusivity and monopoly stuff is weird. Again please stop threatening death over it. What's wrong with you.

if you send a death threat about video games you can gtfo thanks. Not saying any of you are sending death threats (RIGHT????) but if you could get the word out that'd be good. i know enforcement will be a pain so if you could all just let people know this rule exists and they should follow it that would be appreciated. cheers.

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Neiteio

Neiteio

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Oct 25, 2017
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I, too, would prefer that people don't wish death on each other, but I'm old-fashioned like that so
 
stinkyguy666

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feel free to use this image whenever you see a gamer say something stupid
 
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Tuco Benedicto Pacifico

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iAMr229 said:
Why tf are people sending death threats over anything...
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Frankly? because they think of them as something inconsequential.
"I'M RAGING VERY HARD SO I'M GOING TO WRITE SOMETHING PETTY AND ANGRY TO THIS PERSON" and then five minutes later they probably don't even feel guilty about it. CHances are some of them won't even remember it, if questioned a mere couple of days later.
 
kinjx11

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just when you thought the media was wrong about linking violence to video games , this crap happens every couple of months
 
Greywaren

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You can't be a true gamer if you haven't threatened to murder a dev's family over something incredibly petty. It's in the Standard Gamer Rulebook.
 

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There are laws already for these kinds of things, getting banned from video games is silly (edit*) because in some States/Countries you will get into bigger troubles.
 
TheShampion

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I agree. If you are getting mad enough to send death threats, you probably need to stop, find a new hobby, and get some perspective.
 
Shark

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Oct 28, 2017
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Preach. This shit has become normalized and accepted as a way to communicate your anger to a dev if they dare besmirch the holiness of The Gamer™ and no one really bats an eye.

The video game industry did have a hand in creating this beast by pandering to a certain demographic for decades and now they're left picking up the pieces of the Monster they created. Doesn't excuse it though.

Look how fucking angry people got because someone dared talk down to someone as enlightened and important as a Gamer. I thought I had entered another dimension reading the Apex subreddit over the weekend.
 
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Jintor

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RvinP said:
There are laws already for these kinds of things, getting banned from video games is silly (edit*) because in some States/Countries you will get into bigger troubles.
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listen if nobody is enforcing the laws then the video games will have to do it themselves! some call it vigilantism or technocratic authoritarianism i say shut up you're banned from video games don't make death threats
 
Neiteio

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We should all take a black marker and scrawl "Don't be a meanie" on the backs of our hands. That way when we go to type stupid bullying shit we see our hands and we're like "Oh that's right."
 
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico

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Oct 31, 2017
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Greywaren said:
You can't be a true gamer if you haven't threatened to murder a dev's family over something incredibly petty. It's in the Standard Gamer Rulebook.
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Can't really say the idea ever crossed my mind. And not even because of some sense of moral superiority, but because I would feel pretty fucking stupid doing it.

Honestly I find almost more bizarre than ethically questionable that this is even a common thing.
 
Calvarok

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Zefah said:
I don't think you're going to find anyone around here defending death threats...
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a lot of people seem to think that death threats leading a person to be any less than perfectly professional is unreasonable. feels like there's a general thing of "yeah yeah you got a death threat, but what i really want to focus on is how you used a mean word in response"
 
Strings

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Jintor said:
listen if nobody is enforcing the laws then the video games will have to do it themselves! some call it vigilantism or technocratic authoritarianism i say shut up you're banned from video games don't make death threats
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How else are we going to get SE to add trophies to the FFXIV expansions? THEY CAN'T JUST IGNORE THE LAW LIKE THIS.
 
Neiteio

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-Technically- when I tied up the wife and children of the Snake Pass icon designer and suspended them over a vat of acid I didn't threaten to hurt anyone, just to be clear
 
Slime

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Really would not be against bringing back ostracism and applying it to anyone who feels the need to angrily @ the creator(s) of any work they don't like
 
defaltoption

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Oct 27, 2017
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Fuck everyone who does this, one of the bigger problems I have with people these days as well is that people will see something like this and say "gamers" something something the scum who does this type of stuff shouldn't be called gamers it almost begins to normalize it. We shouldn't be afraid to identify as a gamer or not want to because if shitty people who also play games. They are assholes.
 
matrix-cat

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Look man, we all have heated gaming moments. We've all threatened to eat someone's children, burn down their home and track down every member of their family for three generations. Isn't the real problem really those SJWs, though? Just... like, SJWing? You know what I mean.
 
Neiteio

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defaltoption said:
Fuck everyone who does this, one of the bigger problems I have with people these days as well is that people will see something like this and say "gamers" something something the scum who does this type of stuff shouldn't be called gamers it almost begins to normalize it. We shouldn't be afraid to identify as a gamer or not want to because if shitty people who also play games. They are assholes.
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I always find this hilarious.

A gamer is just someone who plays videogames.

Just because some people in a group are unpleasant doesn't mean everyone is.
 
Nano-Nandy

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People love throwing death threats around to "show them who's boss". Happened to me once at a job when said employee was fired. Until you counter with a restraining order.

Online, as long as anonymity is part of users, and they can hide behind a made up name and avatar this will continue.
 

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I mean sure. Death threats are never okay. I'm not sure you'll find anyone on here who thinks otherwise.
 
Neiteio

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matrix-cat said:
Look man, we all have heated gaming moments. We've all threatened to eat someone's children, burn down their home and track down every member of their family for three generations. Isn't the real problem really those SJWs, though? Just... like, SJWing? You know what I mean.
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Those Super Jujitsu Warios are tearing this country apart with their karate and garlic breath!
 
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