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The New Danger In Gaming

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  • 28-08-2014 12:52am
    #1
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭


    This time it's Virtual Rape


    I lost it when they talked about the dog :pac:

    Back in my day, teabagging was the scourge afflicting our youth.


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    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    This time it's Virtual Rape


    I lost it when they talked about the dog :pac:

    Back in my day, teabagging was the scourge afflicting our youth.

    A certain whiff of Brass Eye off that.


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    Stormhawk88
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭Stormhawk88


    Typical American reporting blowing it out of proportion. GTA is after all an 18's or R rated game so kids shouldn't be playing it anyway.

    Americans are silly.


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    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    I have no idea what they are talking about. What they are talking about isn't even possible in nearly every game.


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    #5
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    There was a follow-up to the report that gets even crazier.

    Stormhawk88 wrote: »
    Typical American reporting blowing it out of proportion. GTA is after all an 18's or R rated game so kids shouldn't be playing it anyway.

    This is actually a report from a Canadian channel, CityNews Toronto.


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    Stormhawk88
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭Stormhawk88


    Ah lads..... how do they keep a straight face reporting this?


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    Dermighty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Dermighty


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    There was a follow-up to the report that gets even crazier.




    This is actually a report from a Canadian channel, CityNews Toronto.

    Toronto is in Canada which is in North America....

    Pedantic? Yes.


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    Stormhawk88
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭Stormhawk88


    Either way I can't see how this is worthy of reporting American or Canadian.


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    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Did they ever think of interviewing at least 1 person that had some idea of how these things work like a game developer or a "hacker"? Maybe they did but a confused look isn't much of an interview.


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    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Fear not, our betters are on the case...........

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypBGI2_YXeo


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    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    The Huffington Post also picked the story up
    Earlier this year, video-game writer Kim Correa described her own virtual sexual assault in the zombie apocalypse game "DayZ." Two armed men cornered her character, made her strip, killed her and simulated having sex with her body. The players could speak to her through the video game the entire time.

    "I definitely don't want to say what happened to me verbally is as important as if it had happened in real life," Correa later said in an interview with TLDR, a radio show that airs on WNYC 93.9 FM. "But it means something. And I'm not sure what it means."


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    #12
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    Much Ado about nothing


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    #13
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,362 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Good holy ****.


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    crybaby
    Registered Users Posts: 852 ✭✭✭crybaby


    virtual sexual assault jesus christ, the key thing being she could have at any time simply quit the game or turned off the computer or taken off her headphones and walked away from the computer.


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    #15
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Irish sites Her.ie and The Journal covered the story too, The Journal having an exceptionally bad piece............a normal day for them, I guess.


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    #16
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,952 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Nobody tell them about RapeLay! They'll turn off the worlds electronics if they find out about that!


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    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,154 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Take one side of an argument, present no facts, interview one person, and allow for no counter argument.

    Sounds like news to me.


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    #18
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    If I could roll my eyes even more, then my eyeballs would do a full 360...


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    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,126 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Typical wimpy Canadian attitude, stock up on some weapons and blast the virtual rapist in the face point blank. ;)


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    #20
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,299 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    Many people avoid team speak due to people being dicks or just having annoying voices. Theres nothing more annoying than a 12 year old constantly swearing on ts.


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    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    The Huffington Post also picked the story up

    Quote:

    Earlier this year, video-game writer Kim Correa described her own virtual sexual assault in the zombie apocalypse game "DayZ." Two armed men cornered her character, made her strip, killed her and simulated having sex with her body. The players could speak to her through the video game the entire time.

    "I definitely don't want to say what happened to me verbally is as important as if it had happened in real life," Correa later said in an interview with TLDR, a radio show that airs on WNYC 93.9 FM. "But it means something. And I'm not sure what it means."

    Does it make me a bad person for finding this hilarious?


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    #22
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Some people just shouldn't be allowed near the internet.

    I thought with these kind of mods you had to actually download for them to work in the first place?


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    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Correa later said in an interview with TLDR, a radio show that airs on WNYC 93.9 FM

    I wonder are their interview really short :D
    Pac1Man wrote: »
    Does it make me a bad person for finding this hilarious?

    No :pac:
    ScumLord wrote: »
    I thought with these kind of mods you had to actually download for them to work in the first place?

    Bingo!


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    #24
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Those GTA5 rape scenes look more like glitches then actual mods.... Plus its consoles!!!


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    #25
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Careful of those trigger warnings, it caused me to trigger my fear of trigger warnings.


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    #26
    Smiles35
    Registered Users Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Smiles35


    I would'nt give a ****e if I got raped in rl. But online, I'm the main man.


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    #27
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    I am morally outraged at this........wait, whats it about again?


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