The New Danger In Gaming

Duggy747

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.

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.

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.

shruikan2553

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

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.

Stormhawk88

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

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.

Stormhawk88

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

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.

mikom

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

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

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."

Timmyctc

Much Ado about nothing

Dave_The_Sheep

Good holy ****.

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.

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.

Potential-Monke

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

Kiith

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

Sounds like news to me.

ShadowHearth

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

RobbingBandit

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

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.

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?

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?

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

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!

ShadowHearth

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

Adamantium

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

Smiles35

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

The_Valeyard

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