Something tells me it's going to take more than a rebranding to reduce the company's association to PEDOPHILIA
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Will be hilarious to see all the pedophilia apologists get banned though.
Eh. They have the rights to Nickelodeon's games. I wouldn't be surprised if a child-oriented network tries to pull out of that deal.
Yep. It's still there.
Christ, that's appalling. Thank you for the context.
I mean, that's the first thing that crossed my mind but this is a board member that was on that website posting comments.
It also doesn't make sense with the "apology" they presented after.
I think the most popular theory is "destroy your own business to own the libs".
Because usually courting those scumbags doesn't come at quite the same reputation cost, usually because it's done in ways that give the company a lot stronger deniability.
The plan is a sort of combination of this:
and this:
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/oct/30/worse-than-scabs-gamer-rager-as-anti-worker-violence/
Garbage comments as usual.
"No, 8chan doesn't have CP! It was all leftist Youtubers posting CP there! And 8chan kicked them out for it!"
I've always found it unique how people from conservative insular countries with sub 10% minority levels are so outright hostile toward SJW's and Progressive ideals, which aid countries like the United states and the UK, when in reality these factors will never affect them in their country.
I mean even if everyone involved in this is ousted. That connection between THQN and CP is going to stick.
I truly hope something comes out of this. It's a bit tiring to see stuff like this happening to no consequence ever occuring due to the aggresively fast nature of the internet, who moves on the next topic very quickly.
Well, people don't live in the woods. We can't all boycott evil corporations left and right while still accessing the internet, and stuff. Maybe we should but considering how tired I am with my own everyday life I try not to tell the rest how weak they are.
I think the better answer is their whole PR department gets shit canned and then they go on, business as usual.
What gets me though is that this isn't your indie 3-5 person dev team doing this, but an actual publicly traded company.
whoever thought up the plot probably genuinely believed gamergaters were a silent majority that would love the endorsement of their degeneracy, and didn't realize this would get their name dragged through shit in mainstream news outlets.
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lmao one of the anime avatars mentioned earlier in this thread is trying to say THQN has the grounds to sue for libel
It ain't libel if it's demonstrably true.
It's pretty easy to draw a line at supporting a company that openly shrugs at pedophilia, my dude.
Maybe it went like this - Lars calls Phillip:
Lars: "Phillip, I want to see our company in the headlines of every gaming news site tomorrow, I don't care what you do to make it happen!"
Phillip: "...Well, sure, I can do that, but are you sure about this? It would involve..."
Lars: "Great, let's do it!" *hangs up*
Phillip: "...welp."
In all seriousness, it was a monumentally idiotic idea and I can't imagine what they hoped to gain for associating with pedophiles, racists and alt-righters. Mind-boggling.
Considering the positions of the people involved. Doubt. Also, the burners/alts/just asking questions crowd seem to have slowed down.
I can imagine so many comments starting with "um, actually, ephebophilia isn't.." in that thread.
lol i'd love seeing them drawing even more eyeballs towards this clusterfuck by opening a court case
Forget the internet, for get the communities, for the defenders, this stunt has moved passed all that and is probably going to negativly effect THQ Nordic business is a myriad of ways. Inndeed it is hard to estimate how big of a fuck up this is in the here and now.
"We don't have CP! Honest!"
"OK, then let's go through discovery and see what turns up."
"Uhhhhhhhhhh..."
THQN was distributing Microsoft games on windows (and rumored for Switch), I wonder if MS has to distance themselves (they should)
And sad to see my beloved de blob getting dragged into this mess. Never buying the HD versions, I guess.
And sad to see my beloved de blob getting dragged into this mess. Never buying the HD versions, I guess.
And that too, sigh.
I am not going to as far as some of the people here and boycott their games. This is a shit show but at the very least we should be giving people a chance to redeem themselves. There is no history of this stuff with these guys , they made a mistake and a very big one at that but people need to be given chances to change. These are human beings.
This was not what I was expecting to wake up to.....
I have been thinking about this whole pedo and internet thing and I was wondering....does anyone feel like there has been like a small movement to slowly push the whole lolicon/pedo thing to be more mainstream? Maybe I am over thinking it and maybe certain things have happened recently in close succession that are related to but not in correlations to each other but I swear there has been a slow quiet nudge to push that stuff into more acceptance.
Or maybe the True Detective finale disappointed me and now and my brian is trying to connect the dots in other places. Follow the Carcosa y'all.
I have been thinking about this whole pedo and internet thing and I was wondering....does anyone feel like there has been like a small movement to slowly push the whole lolicon/pedo thing to be more mainstream? Maybe I am over thinking it and maybe certain things have happened recently in close succession that are related to but not in correlations to each other but I swear there has been a slow quiet nudge to push that stuff into more acceptance.
Or maybe the True Detective finale disappointed me and now and my brian is trying to connect the dots in other places. Follow the Carcosa y'all.
What's wrong with anime avatars <_<. We're not all reactionary fuckwads you know...
No. Fucking children will never be acceptable in any scenario where people still have kids.
If their "redemption" isn't firing every single person associated with this (known AND unknown), then they can get fucked.