Comments on: News: Orth Goes the Full Sarkesian

By: Jahan 'The Legendary Zoltan' Honma

Jahan 'The Legendary Zoltan' Honma — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:00:37 +0000

I’m going back and just giving a quick ‘nice article’ to some of the ones I’ve read so that you know that I have been reading them and appreciating them despite not joining in the conversation.

Nice article!

By: Ferchu

Ferchu — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:56:24 +0000

I agree 2000% with this article

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:33:39 +0000

Last night I watched Ground Zeroes be beaten in five and a half minutes. The main campaign really just boils down to locating two prisoners and carrying them to an evac point…

It’s hard to conceive of a bigger slap in the face that Kojima could have delivered to gamers.

By: James 'Gyme' Pagel

James 'Gyme' Pagel — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:52:33 +0000

I will agree with Orth that the people that made threats against him and his family took things too far. There is no justification for taking things that far. That being said, Orth brought the “bullying” on himself when he basically told a consumer to “fuck off”.

As for the “chilling effect” that cyber bullying has on the industry, I think the real issue is that we have a bunch of pusscakes with public Twitter feeds that work on games. When I was growing up, I was always told the “sticks and stones” crap that I’m sure many other people on this site heard. I was also taught to not give into bullies because that just empowered them to make my life more of a living hell.

Flash forward to 2014 and it seems like everything is reversed. Apparently words hurt a lot, and we are supposed to let bullies know how much they hurt. So now every dickhead with a Twitter account knows that a few harsh tweets will have the same effect that punching somebody in the face does. Unfortunately, things are only going to get worse from here. Soon even basic trash talking during a match will be seen as bullying and we will live in a world full of pusscakes that feel that being called “a little bitch” is akin to calling gay people “faggots” or a woman a “cunt”.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:24:22 +0000

MGS3 is #4 in my top five favourite games ever made, but I’m not about to start granting special dispensations because I’ve enjoyed a certain director’s work in the past… Kojima should feel fucking terrible for this blatant insult he has released – there is just no excusing it!

By: Iliya_Moroumetz

Iliya_Moroumetz — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:49:49 +0000

I like a lot of what Kojima does, I really do as evidenced by all the enjoyment I got out of the MGS games, but really, this is just unacceptable.

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:05:50 +0000

I was unable to work it into my article, but Orth even has an anti-bullying #hashtag that he was trying to get trending!