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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14441003 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100380 on: April 11, 2016, 10:27:53 am »

I'm not so sure. Diabetic ketoacidosis is a pretty serious condition.

Not to be unpleasant, but could it be that he has, well, sphincter control problems?

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100381 on: April 11, 2016, 05:19:08 pm »

My brother had diabetic ketoacidosis. He didn't smell bad.

(BTW, both my brother and I have Type 1 diabetes.)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100382 on: April 11, 2016, 05:44:54 pm »

Should be sleeping, but looks like the bullshit train of doxxing women with ties to the gaming industry just does not stop. And apparently now, their nuclear families are in the crosshairs too. Hoping Alison Rapp and kin stay safe, and that the trash that's responsible pay for it eventually. These attacks need to stop.

GamerGate is apparently trying to deny culpability this time, and passing it off to whatever community trolls go to when even 4Chan and the bowels of Reddit get tired of them. Whatever the case, I really wish these people would learn to get their jollies in ways that don't threaten or attempt to wreck someone's life. This shit is absolutely unconscionable, and there's no reason this should be happening. Shitting hell.

Isn't Alison Rapp that one now ex-nintendo employee that openly defended convicted pedophiles on twitter and said sexualizing adolescents is basically inherent to japanese culture :v?
Not saying she's satan incarnate or anything, or that doxxing her and her relatives is good, but I can't really fault Nintendo (whose main target audience are children) for firing her, IMO.

Also, hasn't she been recently outed as a high profile escort in seattle? Not judging her life choices, but Its not exactly the greatest alternative avenue for someone whose main job is working PR for a corporation that makes video games for kids.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100383 on: April 11, 2016, 05:51:01 pm »

Yeah, not talking about Nintendo, or anything she might've done. I haven't looked into it extensively, but even so all I was seeing was the same out-of-context and inflammatory shaming spin put on the lives of the other targets of the last few years. Personally I didn't put much weight behind that narrative.

Whatever the situation, though... my point is that trying to anonymously attack and attempt to ruin the lives of people, let alone their families, is completely reprehensible, and has no place in society. Unfortunately, I can't think of any practical way to stop it, other than getting law-enforcement involved, which might be hard given the circumstances.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100384 on: April 11, 2016, 05:57:06 pm »

Yea, its pretty unfortunate that gamergate became a focus for those things, even though it was (is?) a legitimate effort to expose just how horribly shitty and corrupt video game journalism is (not that anyone doubted that initially). They should def not be targetting her family at least.

Alison Rapp kind of brought it on herself, though. Nintendo did say that the whole controversy brough on her by gamergate had no effect on their decision to fire her. It prob just tipped them into doing an investigation on her themselves and finding out all the stuff she posted. Its still very odd and how she got her position in the first place, considering she apparently worked as an escort even before she got her position.
She did try to make everything seem like a gamersgate conspiracy plot against her, though, which probably ended up having a streissand effect over it all and actualy attracted the attacks she's currently facing.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100385 on: April 11, 2016, 06:00:15 pm »

wow look what we're doing again!!

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100386 on: April 11, 2016, 06:15:47 pm »

Yea, its pretty unfortunate that gamergate became a focus for those things, even though it was (is?) a legitimate effort to expose just how horribly shitty and corrupt video game journalism is (not that anyone doubted that initially).
Gamersgate has been rotten from the beginning.

As for how she got the job... look at it her twitter.  It has 74,700 tweets.  That's exactly the credentials a PR rep should have, and I seriously doubt an HR person read her entire backlog.  The escort thing was kept separate from her main online persona so they likely didn't know.  It should have stayed that way, revealing that is a massive dick move.

Plus, have you ever been on social media?  I have like ~100 Facebook friends and about 5 of them post nothing but cringe.  Those people still have jobs.  You post actively enough on twitter you're going to have a few foolish tweets.  Its not a problem for corps unless it becomes a problem.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100387 on: April 11, 2016, 06:30:32 pm »

wow look what we're doing again!!

No worries mate. There's lots I could say, but this is probably not the place for that discussion. Said what I wanted to, and self-censoring the rest.


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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100388 on: April 11, 2016, 06:34:19 pm »

i'm still pretty worried

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100389 on: April 11, 2016, 07:03:50 pm »

Gamersgate has been rotten from the beginning.
How so?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100390 on: April 11, 2016, 07:10:07 pm »

Gamersgate discussion is one of the subjects better left alone on this forum, the Toad has minimal tolerance for arguments about it.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100391 on: April 11, 2016, 07:13:54 pm »

Gamersgate discussion is one of the subjects better left alone on this forum, the Toad has minimal tolerance for arguments about it.
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« Reply #100392 on: April 11, 2016, 07:17:13 pm »

I'm not so sure. Diabetic ketoacidosis is a pretty serious condition.

Not to be unpleasant, but could it be that he has, well, sphincter control problems?

Checked up google for ketoacidosis...
Well uncle likes to hug the bottle at times so that might be the thing.
And doubt it's the sphincter. It's not that kind of smell.
e one he leaves is weird but not unplesant.
Less disgusting and more... not right i'd say.

As for gamersgate.
Everyone knows the truth but noone wants to speak about it else the PC party van comes in to trash the party.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #100393 on: April 11, 2016, 07:19:55 pm »

There have been so many locked threads, warnings, mutes, and bans related to this topic. I think it would almost out-do a few of the other hot-topics combined.

Please stop mentioning it.
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« Reply #100394 on: April 11, 2016, 07:22:20 pm »

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