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Law & Order To Air An Episode Inspired By #Gamergate February 11

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BlackBanditSho

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daniel77733 said:
Watched this episode earlier and I was disappointed by the ending as I was expecting the woman Raina or her soon to be husband being behind everything to where it was all setup for publicity for her game being released. Watching L&O for so many years, im shocked that this episode didn't end this way. Oh well.
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i was hoping for this same turn! The ONLY way to redeem this cringe-worthy episode, and i love SVU. I thought this season was particularly well done...except for this episode.
 
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Toparaman

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dapperbandit said:
Hilarious and ridiculous.

I love some of these mock ups.

What's funnier is that Ice T's twitter name is Final Level
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I'm honestly annoyed that Ice-T even agreed to go through with this episode. The paranoia towards video games ("they couldn't tell the difference between game and reality!") in this episode is similar to the paranoia towards hardcore rap in the '80s and '90s. There are clips on Youtube of Ice-T speaking out against the PMRC.
 
SystemUser

SystemUser

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Toparaman said:
I'm honestly annoyed that Ice-T even agreed to go through with this episode. The paranoia towards video games ("they couldn't tell the difference between game and reality!") in this episode is similar to the paranoia towards hardcore rap in the '80s and '90s. There are clips on Youtube of Ice-T speaking out against the PMRC.
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He is damn near 60. I don't think he would release a metal song named "Cop Killer" today. People complain about the stereotypes in the show, but the hero of the show was supposed to be Ice T and he was portrayed as a gamer. He is a normal dude that plays games just as a hobby. This show also presents the game developers as fairly normal people.


It was super cheesy and with a dumb ending, but the overall portrayal was more balanced than I expected. As dumb as the episode was it was probably one of the more balanced portrayal of gamers out there. I mean you see a few hundred gamers that just look like they are attending a wholesome all-american sporting event. You have Ice T the hero of the episode is a gamer. You have a rich successful gamer in Raina's husband (although they do deke you into thinking he might be behind it.) You have Raina who is a woman who is running a game dev team and she is not presented as a stereotype of gamers. You have the black nerd who created slenderman in SVU-niverse. He is sort of presented as a coward, but he did want to help at least. Then you have the few villains. You get way more positive gamers in the episode than negative which seems like the correct balance.


They don't present the villains as every single gamer. Raina's assistant and Raina knew the guys right away. Most of the guys at the convention didn't harass them I assume. There wasn't a huge mob harassing them. It was a few outliners that didn't like women.


17 Seconds said:
My favorite thing of the whole episode was Ice-T completely mailing it in with every line.. Like, no effort whatsoever. It's almost admirable.
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That is his acting style.
 
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More_Badass

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SystemUser said:
He is damn near 60. I don't think he would release a metal song named "Cop Killer" today. People complain about the stereotypes in the show, but the hero of the show was supposed to be Ice T and he was portrayed as a gamer. He is a normal dude that plays games just as a hobby. This game also presents the game developers as fairly normal people.


It was super cheesy and with a dumb ending, but the overall portrayal was more balanced than I expected. As dumb as the episode was it was probably one of the more balanced portrayal of gamers out there. I mean you see a few hundred gamers that just look like they are attending a wholesome all-american sporting event. You have Ice T the hero of the episode is a gamer. You have a rich successful gamer in Raina's husband (although they do deke you into thinking he might be behind it.) You have Raina who is a woman who is running a game dev team and she is not presented as a stereotype of gamers. You have the black nerd who created slenderman in SVU-niverse. He is sort of presented as a coward, but he did want to help at least. Then you have the few villains. You get way more positive gamers in the episode than negative which seems like the correct balance.


They don't present they villains as every single gamer. Raina's assistant and Raina knew the guys right away. Most of the guys at the convention didn't harass them I assume. There wasn't a huge mob harassing them. It was a few outliners that didn't like women.
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When you put it like that...episode doesn't seem so bad. Huh
 
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jim-jam bongs

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cloudzack117 said:
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This is magical
 
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17 Seconds

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My favorite thing of the whole episode was Ice-T completely mailing it in with every line.. Like, no effort whatsoever. It's almost admirable.
 
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Parfait

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SolidSnakex said:
The developer in question ends up getting gang raped by the people that kidnapped her. They force her to read a message saying that women don't belong in gaming. SVU eventually finds her duct taped to a shotgun. The end scene has her turn to the camera and say "Women in gaming, what was I expecting?". One of officers tells her that she previously said that if she gave up then they'd win. The developer turns around and says "The already have.". It ends up with a stunned look by the officer.
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Lowlander2

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"What? Gamers complained about last night's SVU episode? Well, they should stop acting so stereotypical then!"

"What? Furries complained about last night's CSI episode? Well, they should stop acting so perverted then!"

Is it really too much to believe that Law and Order went for the obvious target because it makes for more compelling television?
 
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Fantastapotamus

Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Have to say, this was worth watching for Ice-T talking about Civilization 5 for a split second.
Anyway good job GG, now everybody asumes again that gamers are all assholes and they are probably right.

Also: This is still a better representation of video games then that HILARIOUS CSI Second Life scene. Or the time when somebody hid a secret code in "level 5" of a video game and the entire department needed to get to "Level 5" to get to it. It was hilarious.
 
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Love Deterrence

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Wow. Razor's Edge has shit textures. Someone add some Anisotropic Filtering for Christ's sake. Brown and grey everywhere, too. (Lack of blue and orange suggests next-gen isn't here.)
 
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silvermember

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I love how surprise people are about how cringe worthy this is like it is different from how other topics are portrayed.

It only seems that way because it is a topic you care about, this is what hackers have had to deal with for decades with all those "hacking" scenes using GUI to stop a hacker ( ncis) or all that pseudo science in CSI.
 
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ActuallyHulk

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silvermember said:
I love how surprise people are about how cringe worthy this is like it is different from how other topics are portrayed.

It only seems that way because it is a topic you care about, this is what hackers have had to deal with for decades with all those "hacking" scenes using GUI to stop a hacker ( ncis) or all that pseudo science in CSI.
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You mean to tell me I can't break into the most secure mainframe in the world with just a few button presses?
 
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AtomskEater

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I can't get more than a few minutes into that supercut. The part where the victim is somehow unable to speak plain English (those gamers and their lingo!) during the interview and Ice-T has to translate just makes my brain shut down.

I'm pretty used to crime shows being absolutely terrible whenever they do plots that heavily involve games, hacking, or anything tech. It still never fails to produce at least a few cringes. What was that show where one guy is like tracing someone or counter-hacking and in order to help a second person gets on the same keyboard so that they're each using a half of it in tandem?
That's not how that works. That's not how any of this works.
 
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Gloam

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This was a pretty poor episode. The show's recent takes on the headlines have been universally weak: Rihanna, Woody Allen, Men's rights and now this episode. I understand that they're writing a pretty broad show but there's something very slapdash about throwing in buzzwords all over the script. The Good Wife does the same type of thing to a far superior standard. Perhaps the SVU writers should intern with The Good Wife folks.

Bring back Munch.
 
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HP_Wuvcraft

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daniel77733 said:
Watched this episode earlier and I was disappointed by the ending as I was expecting the woman Raina or her soon to be husband being behind everything to where it was all setup for publicity for her game being released. Watching L&O for so many years, im shocked that this episode didn't end this way. Oh well.
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No that would have been horrible and play right into the GG narrative.

It's bad enough the episode ended with the woman leaving games.
 
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silvermember

Banned
Toparaman said:
I'm honestly annoyed that Ice-T even agreed to go through with this episode. The paranoia towards video games ("they couldn't tell the difference between game and reality!") in this episode is similar to the paranoia towards hardcore rap in the '80s and '90s. There are clips on Youtube of Ice-T speaking out against the PMRC.
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Why shouldn't he do the episode. The TV show is his job, playing video games is simply his hobby. HIS JOB pays the bills to allow him to continue his hobbies. Yep pass off over at least 50k (per episode) just to stand up for accurate portray of video gamers to an audience that doesn't care.

You don't seem to understand the concept of a jobs and hobby or you got really messed up priorities. Finally, It is not his responsibility to be the representative of video games.
 
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Smash88

Banned
I knew the episode was not going to be correct and group all gamers in... sigh

The uneducated will just take this at face value and put this over the heads of people.
 
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kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
I watched the quick recap. Wow. That's some dark grim stuff in a fluff piece. I do think that this subject could be put to some interesting use (and made into an amazing David Finscher movie).

What it basicly is is the gamersgate male taken to the logical extreme. Actually performing what they threaten. When actually doing these things they are what people fear them to become rather than what they think they are, i.e. "toungue in cheek" marcabre humour to promote ideals (that they lack the proper understanding how to express).

All in all pretty gruesome. Like it should be. Perhaps a few gamergates see that they're basicly portrayed as ISIS of the white western world and reconsider their position. Or they decend into further madness and think that everyone except them is controlled by the feminazi marxist alien invasion.
 
Grinchy

Grinchy

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I just got done watching the supercut and it was hilarious. I don't know what my favorite line was. There was too much good stuff.

One thing that sticks out is Ice T talking about Kotaku having an article about a Civ 5 expansion pack.
 
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ElTopo

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I saw the supercut last night. Hilarious propaganda. Now watch as the Soccer Mom's start a protest against video games.
 
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