You could at least return the favor and be polite about the fricking, sheesh.

Seriously though, it happens all the time in the industry. By its very nature the users are connected to the internet and thus able to be a very vocal minority. The overwhelmingly vast majority of the people are 8 year old and if you think 8 year olds can't find your address through the intent then go post some info on the OT.

These threats don't happen because they're women, these threats happen because they're game developers. You want to talk about the issues in the industry then go for it but let's not start the discussion with special treatment for a select few. The type of shite that gets tossed sins in a cesspool like XBox Live or on YouTube videos makes up the vast majority of the vitriol spewed by the vocal minority that is typical of this "murder" problem. Just good grief what hyperbole that was.

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Posted by stout

Smoking Crack with Hunter Biden

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Posted on 3/7/15 at 4:03 pm to AUin02

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it happens all the time in the industry.

It's not limited to games. Sports, movies, TV shows, etc. Anything people are passionate about and feel that they can hide behind the anonymity of the net.

Like Corndog said, it's sad that's the world we live in now but it is what it is. It's also going to be very easy to discern a real threat from some jackoff with nothing better to do.

I could threaten to rape Dr RC's mom but we all know that wouldn't mean anything because you can't rape the willing...BOOM!!!!!!

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Posted by Dr RC

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Member since Aug 2011

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Posted on 3/7/15 at 4:05 pm to AUin02

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You could at least return the favor and be polite about the fricking, sheesh.

Oh I'm sorry, I should have said "With all due respect, you can go frick yourself too" amirite?

I forgot that you should always be polite when you tell somebody to go frick themselves.