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Law & Order To Air An Episode Inspired By #Gamergate February 11
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It used to be good :/
RageWaffles
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I'm guess that was done to illustrate that the guy saw real-life as an FPS*. I kinda dig the intention, but it was too jarring and poorly done.
*Similar to having to remind oneself to not run over pedestrians after playing a lot of GTA
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
That's...actually really eye opening. I didn't even think about your position here, probably largely because I haven't seen you comment on any of this stuff to a significant degree
But then they did it with Fin, too. So were they saying he sees real life the same way?
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S REAL AND WHATS A GAME
ramoisdead
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I'm almost done with this episode but man...I thought SVU can't get any worse. Now I'm afraid on what can top this.
it's not a ridiculous hour of television, if it could happen to anyone just because of their gender.
Besides, was this episode really wasn't made for us, but making people more aware of the situation.
You can downplay it all you want, but all I get out of gamer gate is entitlted gamers who think women still belong in the kitchen, and if they step out of line, these guys think they are entitlted to do whatever damage they want.
Besides, was this episode really wasn't made for us, but making people more aware of the situation.
You can downplay it all you want, but all I get out of gamer gate is entitlted gamers who think women still belong in the kitchen, and if they step out of line, these guys think they are entitlted to do whatever damage they want.
RageWaffles
Member
Oh, I didn't notice that. Never mind then. Shitty camera shot stays irredeemably shitty.
Well, it's not far from it. Their twitter harassment has led to swatting, a dog's death from SWAT, women leaving the industry, endless doxxing, having a board named baphomet where they can post doxxes more freely and discuss who'd they like to see dead. Baphomet, 8chan and KiA are their bases of operations and openly and freely discuss what they hate and want done to other people. Constantly organizing operation after operation to harm others.
They're scum.
EDIT: Please don't look up the baphomet board, there are some seriously messed up things there. So BIG trigger warning for all.
Debatable.
DrForester
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Was the website the gamers were on called "red-chan"?
More_Badass
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You know for all the cringe-worthy moments in this episode, you have to hand it to NBC for not doing the obvious twist of having the woman or her partner behind it all.
Cause they already did that one with Dawn from buffy
That's odd because the ex has pretty much helped fuel all of this in real life.
SenorArdilla
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RedChanIt
SonicKnights
Member
Let's not ruin it for us on the West coast.....wait too late. Thanks, thanks a lot
It's just too perfect.
His entire 40 year career has been leading up to this moment.
I think the worst thing they did was downplay the initial harassment at the con. The rest was so big and out there that nobody could get away with it without real consequences, but the beginning is totally believable.
A bunch of guys at a con harassing female workers and trying to shake them up when they get laughed off. That's scary and possible, and someone could easily blend in at a crowded event like that. Then they go and have her call it "leveling up".
A bunch of guys at a con harassing female workers and trying to shake them up when they get laughed off. That's scary and possible, and someone could easily blend in at a crowded event like that. Then they go and have her call it "leveling up".
SenorArdilla
Member
He's already a meme.
Aka is the word for red in Japanese, while akachan is the word for baby in Japanese.
Kinda clever in a 'the vast majority of people won't understand the reference beyond #chan" way.
I think you are putting FAR more thought into it than the writers did. They just smooeshed chan sites and reddit together.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
It's a mix between reddit and 8chan. I guarantee there was no Japanese reference
SliceSabre
Banned
Its better years are behind it.
It was a significantly better show back when Christopher Meloni was on it and he was teamed up with Mariska Hargitay. She's great but ehhh, the writing just isn't there anymore.
aspiegamer
Member
Wow, forgot about this until about 10 minutes ago. It seems I lucked out. This show used to be good! Curse you, Stabler. Massive kudos for redchanit, both because of how stupidly obvious it is while being quite topical and relevant at the same time.
Was there actually anything to learn here or was it just a collection of "dumbest things related to gaming, ever"? There was an episode about a Second Life-type MMO some years ago that was actually decent and raised interesting societal questions, so this is a shame.
Was there actually anything to learn here or was it just a collection of "dumbest things related to gaming, ever"? There was an episode about a Second Life-type MMO some years ago that was actually decent and raised interesting societal questions, so this is a shame.
Relevant by pop culture fusion: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/a84bza/the-vigilogna---christopher-melogna-is-tony-bologna
SHE SAID THEY LEVELED UP
GAME ON NYPD
SolidSnakex
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No, Dick Wolf is actually the name of the shows creator.
Stallion Dan
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"What'd they do to you"
"They leveled up"
Do I wanna watch the rest of this?
"They leveled up"
Do I wanna watch the rest of this?
Exploratory
Banned
Kill me now. Please.
PREPARE TO BE SLAUGHTERED
Fimbulvetr
Member
I haven't seen much of this show, but is this a typical example of how they handle "ripped from the headlines" scripts? Offering essentially no commentary, and escalating things as far as they can for drama? Because I'm really struggling to find a reason to call this anything other than exploitative.
Holy fuck why did I investigate what this was... DO NOT GO THERE! FUCK. (gore warning)
That was embarrassing, but it's par for the course of SVU episodes.
This season has had episodes tackling MRAs, Amanda Bynes' meltdown, and the Slender Man stabbing. All dealt with just as much "subtly"
In fact, that nerdy bow-tie guy was from the Slender Man episode. Fucking hell there was continuity...
Every episode literally ends with that name. Dick Wolf created the series. It's just a freaky coincidence.
This season has had episodes tackling MRAs, Amanda Bynes' meltdown, and the Slender Man stabbing. All dealt with just as much "subtly"
In fact, that nerdy bow-tie guy was from the Slender Man episode. Fucking hell there was continuity...
Every episode literally ends with that name. Dick Wolf created the series. It's just a freaky coincidence.
No you're right. It's not just limited to SVU, it's like that for the whole franchise.
RockTurtle
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i bet the writers are patting themselves on the back.
Riposte
Member
My impression is that something like this SVU episode simply goes in the opposite direction and makes the possibility harder to take seriously. It's totally sensational and ridiculous and almost everyone seems to be laughing at it. It's like "Oh, this is like all the other times those confused old guys said something on the internet going to kill me, but were totally wrong and made some memes/funny gifs in the process".
I hadn't realized anyone or their pet was unfortunate enough to be killed in a swatting (GamerGate-related or otherwise). When was this instance?
The real insanity of swatting is that it is even possible or rather that we know it is possible (not to mention all the other mistakes, which has led to plenty of pointless deaths) and still use SWAT teams so freely.
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