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THQ Nordic holding an AMA on... 8chan (UP: website linked to multiple mass shootings) READ THREADMARKS
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"this thread is cancer"
"what about the topic of the thread"
"yeah that bad too i guess"
Yeah. Because a 83 pages thread is far worse than a company linking to a website with CP.
Let me quote this post again: What are you calling "cancer"?
Cancer is a fucking strong word. It's a disease that has caused misery and horror and suffering since before the dawn of mankind. I have lost a few family members to cancer, as have many of the people in this thread.
Now please, explain what pissed you off so much you decided to name it after one of the most horrible diseases in human history? A disease that represents the horror of one's own body and life becoming a blight?
Don't worry you're definitely not the only person downplaying the fact that a company chose to associate itself with a website that shares child porn.
I don't mean to troll, honestly. I just saw the thread and read the OP and I was like: "Holy cow, this is really bad and really stupid. Probably PR failure of the year, if not even more. It might even damage the industry and they could've also just said "Alright, let's set ourselves on fire, maybe it will be fun, let's see. Come join us!"
And then I was wondering why the thread has 82 pages. A thread about a topic that is by all means and standards really really bad.
Toxi: Maybe because of posts like this one?
That's the thing that upsets you? Not the fact that senior management for a major company did an AMA on a stite that hosts pedophiles and white supremacists, but that?
Oh. Ok.
your wondering why a thread involving a really bad topic is really long?
so you called it a cancer?
Doesn't this one part of your post answer the other part?
Yes a joke about THQ N embracing pedonazis is really a cancer that needs to be excised.
Maybe you could keep your outrage for shit like... I don't know publicly traded companies promoting CP or something.
But no, the real issues are the people making fun of the companies that make the toys you like to buy.
The ONLY good thing that came out of this bullshit is that I can ignore the pedo lovers in this site.
Fuckers coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches.
Fuckers coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches.
It's always amusing when someone has an account for like a year, barely posts, and then sees a thread like this and thinks "yes, this... this is where I'll be the most active I've ever been in my entire history on Era. By finger-wagging people mad about [checks notes] nazi pedophiles."
What even is your argument here? "Don't discuss terrible news"?
Significant events are likely to generate discussion, I'm surprised I have to explain to you that talking about a subject does not mean condoning or supporting it.
If there's a school shooting do you go "oh man how are there so many people talking about a SHOOTING?? That's really bad!"
Also, I learned about threadmarks. Didn't know about them before, and damn, they are one of the best message board features I ever saw.
Well shit, I really hoped yesterday it was a PR rep gone rogue, but with the latest updates...
The fuck were they thinking? Why damage your company and its image in such a way? I rarely boycott, but I'm sadly going to have to vote with my wallet on this and avoid their games. It's the developers who were just trying to get by and release games that I feel really sorry for.
The fuck were they thinking? Why damage your company and its image in such a way? I rarely boycott, but I'm sadly going to have to vote with my wallet on this and avoid their games. It's the developers who were just trying to get by and release games that I feel really sorry for.
As long as people like Brian Singer have a job and that there is any doubt the safety of child actors could be in jeopardy, you are absolutely right.
Yeah, ever heard of Reddit AMA? And what the fuck is even 8chan, is there 16chan?
I have never been to 4chan either, since I heard there is a lot of gore in there and I hate that. Misc™ is enough for my guilty pleasure forum.
I have never been to 4chan either, since I heard there is a lot of gore in there and I hate that. Misc™ is enough for my guilty pleasure forum.
You are actually right, it's incredibly useful.
No more need of updating the OP constantly, just provide threadmarks and reference them.
In any case, sick cynism or dumb naivety, people who profesionnaly decided and endorsed this aren't in their place.
No matter how excuses will be formulated, it's not a missteps but a disaster for the company image and all their entities.
So the main company still has three business day to react.
No matter how excuses will be formulated, it's not a missteps but a disaster for the company image and all their entities.
So the main company still has three business day to react.
To give you the benefit of the doubt - it has 82 pages because this thread was discussing very much a developing story.
Like, at the creation of this thread, the AMA was announced, for like 10 pages people were in utter disbelief and discussing whether or not this was legit or if the account had been hacked. This warranted discussion / reaction.
Then we received confirmation from press sources who confirmed that this was indeed THQ nordic. So people discussed 8chan and the AMA itself, including the posts they made there.
Then people discussed THQs silence while at the same time 'liking' a tweet saying that the outrage is just people being overly "sensitive"
Then the """"apology""""" came and people discussed the plausibility / sincerity of what said apology is stating; and possible further consequences THQ would need to take to distance themselves from this whole shitfest.
That's why the thread has so many pages. It's a dumpster fire in like ... 4 acts.
I like how the coffee stain looks like a shocked face. Should have been facing towards THQ though, for maximum effect.
You called this thread a cancer before you said anything negative about the child porn support that caused it to be made. That is worthy of being questioned.
That's some people to feel sorry for.
They have a loose relationship with the offending partner, can't do shit about it and get smeared because of obtuse corporate hierarchy.
Bad advertisement, is still advertisement and if it's free.... let them destroy their firm. THQ doing THQ. RIP
Not sur if this has been posted yet. But rps have an article up.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...website-de-listed-from-google-for-child-porn/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...website-de-listed-from-google-for-child-porn/
"...well we're currently bigger than Pokemon, right guys! Ha ha ha.... no?THQ have to know they reaaaaally fucked up just looking at this lmao
Should I collect my stuff now or will you send it me later?"
As THQ Nordic are based in Austria, an Austrian newspaper covered this now too: https://derstandard.at/200009866305...agestunde-auf-beruechtigter-Seite-und-es-geht
The article is obviously in German, and the only new news is a statement they got from Philipp Brock, quoted indirectly:
I'm not quite sure which postings he's talking about, because some of them they actually answered to weren't all that nice either.
The article is obviously in German, and the only new news is a statement they got from Philipp Brock, quoted indirectly:
"Speaking to the Standard [the newspaper in question], the head of marketing of the Vienna branch [of THQ Nordic] said that during the 'AMA', there definitely had been moderation taking place and the worst postings had been deleted. The screenshots containing problematic material thus would not reflect the actual course of what happened, because the person contacting the company actually did moderate the AMA."
I'm not quite sure which postings he's talking about, because some of them they actually answered to weren't all that nice either.
This is like the equivalent of Lionsgate doing PR on 8chan. You're right that the film industry is much worse behind the scenes, but something public like this would *never* happen without major backlash
They did? They suddenly realized that a hollow apology is not enough if you continue to link to a site with nazi pedophiles for many more hours?
The damage is already done. No one should trust THQN until they fire the two imbeciles responsible for this debacle.
Man, the creeps we get even on a supposedly progressive board such as this one.
RPS was pretty tough on them. Said the apology didn't mean anything.
"dying" as in a one week ban ? Some weak shit. Dude will be back to play ignorant in the next thread of this kind.