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THQ Nordic holding an AMA on... 8chan (UP: website linked to multiple mass shootings) READ THREADMARKS
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Guh, didn't know the San Diego guy was an 8channer. Now I'm flashing back to the constant barrage of anti-semitism I saw when I was trying to see out what /gg/ was about.
Not really sure, a quick google leads me to think it's more about business violations. But that's the only update on their investors page past their promise that they're holding an investigation.
Not really sure, a quick google leads me to think it's more about business violations. But that's the only update on their investors page past their promise that they're holding an investigation.
When I saw the video of the shooting and the piece of shit drove away while blasting Initial D music in his car, I thought "This guy has got to be a piece of shit loser from 4/8chan"
People are really fucking predictable.
People are really fucking predictable.
Yeah good thing they stopped all those mass shooters by monitoring the site.
For 2ch/5ch, I don't know. I think it's just a popular discussion board with lots of different topics.
For 4chan, it was at least initially similar to Reddit, in that it was a somewhat lawless discussion site with lots of different topics. Maybe you're an asshole or an edgelord or something. I'd be surprised if /b/ was ever not full of heinous crap, but some of the more niche areas have less assholish behaviour. It might have gotten worse over time, I have no idea.
For 8chan, it's almost certainly because you're a nazi or a pedophile or something, or else you'd be on 4chan.
Awe fuck. This is depressing.
I'll say it again fuck thqnordic for associating and spotlighting these human garbage shits
I'll say it again fuck thqnordic for associating and spotlighting these human garbage shits
See people call people on 4chan monster when now its just weird shit and porn 8 chan are monsters like making the joke before is dark and messed up making the joke as its happening is just inhuman
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-2010_en.htm
This Statement of Objection has nothing to do with this thread.
Back when I was in college, a number of boards on 4chan were at least kind of enjoyable to browse. Install Gentoo memes and battlestation threads on /g/, Messi spam on /sp/.
8chan is literally just for nazis and pedos.
8chan is literally just for nazis and pedos.
Quite honestly I think some people look at 4chan with rose colored glasses. I was in college in the early aughts and I had a roommate for 4 years who spent a lot of time on 4chan. He'd sit next to me on the couch with his laptop, and if I glanced at his computer there was frequently the type of stuff that people now associate with 8chan on their main board.
Thanks for the clarification elenarie .
Back during the height of Gamergate, I was looking at /gg/ to see what they were up to - I had no idea what else was on the site. At one point, some of the Gamergaters got the idea to make a visual novel like Katawa Shoujo to endear themselves to the public. It would be a dating sim starring Vivian James. It didn't get off the ground, but before they finally figured out how stupid the idea was, they had four characters, three of which where Nazis. That's not an exaggeration. One of them introduced herself to Vivian by telling her how much she hated Jews.
At the time, I thought there was an absurdity to the whole thing; the people writing this genuinely didn't realize that once they stepped out of 8chan, people would have been disgusted by that. Now I'm a feeling a disgusted by remembering it. That's how deeply ingrained anti-semitism is to 8chan's culture. Basically ever other image posted was an edit of the clasping-hand Jew. They don't even think about it.
And, again, the THQ Nordic AMA was not separate from that. Someone posted an image of a Nazi with a huge iron cross, with the title "hans_judenjaeger.jpg" (something like Johnny Jewhunter). There was a celebration of violence against Jewish people even in the AMA itself.
Back during the height of Gamergate, I was looking at /gg/ to see what they were up to - I had no idea what else was on the site. At one point, some of the Gamergaters got the idea to make a visual novel like Katawa Shoujo to endear themselves to the public. It would be a dating sim starring Vivian James. It didn't get off the ground, but before they finally figured out how stupid the idea was, they had four characters, three of which where Nazis. That's not an exaggeration. One of them introduced herself to Vivian by telling her how much she hated Jews.
At the time, I thought there was an absurdity to the whole thing; the people writing this genuinely didn't realize that once they stepped out of 8chan, people would have been disgusted by that. Now I'm a feeling a disgusted by remembering it. That's how deeply ingrained anti-semitism is to 8chan's culture. Basically ever other image posted was an edit of the clasping-hand Jew. They don't even think about it.
And, again, the THQ Nordic AMA was not separate from that. Someone posted an image of a Nazi with a huge iron cross, with the title "hans_judenjaeger.jpg" (something like Johnny Jewhunter). There was a celebration of violence against Jewish people even in the AMA itself.
Yeah /b/ and /pol/ were always shit but the specific boards were ok and then they startdd getting infested.
/v/ wasn't great either. I imagine /a/ was big enough that it was probably shit, but I never went there, so I don't know.
It's possible that I'm forgetting the bad, but it's also possible your friend was browsing /b/ and /pol/ which were always shit
I browsed /mu/ for years and never once encountered gore or childporn and it was pretty fucking racist but a lot of people also called out the racists for being stupid. It wasn't anywhere close to oldgaf or here but it was much better than the main boards.
Yeah, /b/ was the part of 4chan that use to have child porn raids late at night when mods were not as active.
Posting gore and/or childporn will give you an automatic ban no matter what board it is, and it has been for years already. I don't know what people are talking about when they say it is freely and openly allowed.
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I think litigating how bad 4chan at its best is or was is beside the point for this topic. 8chan is the worst of 4chan and worse; it was literally formed to host things that 4chan wouldn't allow, which aside from child pornography, isn't a whole lot. That's where THQ Nordic held their AMA, not even just 4chan.
people realize that 4chan is an imageboard where you can post shit without having to make an account, right? if some asshole wants to upload cp there is not much you can do but report and hope for a quick mod response. btw, 4chan logs ips and hands them over to law inforcement iirc
4chan was basically where all the people who got banned from SA went to, originally.
Then people got banned from 4chan and made other chans. >_>
Mofos boycott over lootboxes and EGS exclusivity, but don't you dare boycott THQ for 8chan, that would be immoral and bad for the devs.
don't forget QAnonFanon and 8chanfan Reuben Langdon, who is still the voice of Dante and Ken
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Cappin' for 4chan. Do your dense asses realize it's the culture of 4chan that instigates that behavior? Plenty of other sites that allow people to freely upload images aren't flooded with child pornography on a nightly basis. Meanwhile it was common on 4chan, with a userbase doing little to condemn it, and instead memeing about it.
4chan spawned from Something Awful which in the very early 2000s up until 2010 or so was edgelord: the site (and it still is in some aspects even if it has improved somewhat) and the forums had a ton of ironic misogyny, racism and so on and proto-harassment campaigns that are par the course nowadays on the internet. Being edgy has always been inherent to 4chan and it was "offensive" since its inception even if some of the tamer forums are slightly tolerable. It did definitely get worse (/v/ is beyond saving at this point) in the early 2010s around 2011-2012 however, as neo-fascists realized it was a great recruitment tool.
It is important for us to not forget about what THQNordic did and spread the word. They associated themselves with despicable individuals. I will never buy anything from them ever again.
I'm more than a little annoyed that the press and YouTubers didn't call them out more... I'm flabbergasted, honestly.
I'm more than a little annoyed that the press and YouTubers didn't call them out more... I'm flabbergasted, honestly.
It'd be nice if that was the case, but so far there's not much evidence that this has had any noticeable impact on THQ Nordic.
Condolences to the relatives of the victims.
Another tragedy related to this villainous community, the very same that THQ Nordic befriended.
I know it's just a drop in the ocean but for what is worth i stopped caring/buying products associated with THQ Nordic and affiliates having them as blocked publishers on steam although somehow steam continues to propose games from them every now and then.
I can not buy from companies that employ idiot people that cater to nazis and pedophiles.
Another tragedy related to this villainous community, the very same that THQ Nordic befriended.
I know it's just a drop in the ocean but for what is worth i stopped caring/buying products associated with THQ Nordic and affiliates having them as blocked publishers on steam although somehow steam continues to propose games from them every now and then.
I can not buy from companies that employ idiot people that cater to nazis and pedophiles.
Oh yeah, I will be honest for the many times that I used the site I frequented /m/, /a/, /w/ and /wa/. Even then there was the usual spillover from the more rabid boards like /vg/ and /pol/ that happened on occasion, and they got bad some times. I don't remember when I stopped using the place but the few times that I would look up the site, 4chan changed so massively that I had to dip from the place.
It was pretty well known for some rather radical thinking at the time from some of it's members, and looking back at it, it was something that should never have been allowed to persist but the rules on 4chan allowed it to continue to fester.
Likely /b/, /b/ is quite possibly one of the most dangerous places on the internet today. It's truly random, with very little rules to keeps things in place. What can be seen on /b/ and some of the things you can get in touch with on that lone board is some of the worse things and people that humanity has to offer... It can change people whom stay on it for a prolonged amount of time. 8chan (as a whole) is a step below /b/, which is saying alot.
I can't believe THQ still hasn't said a word about this after the latest shooting. It's going to suck missing out on Saint's Row, but this is for the best if THQ stays silent.
Thq nordic isnt even one of the bigger publishers. The fact that gaming media hasn't been talking about them or these attacks is admitting the gaming community has a significant fanbase with similar terrible views as 8chan and the terrorists.
They probably don't want to give them any free promotion though.
