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You can just look at Eden's twitter from about 24 hours ago - https://twitter.com/edenthecat I don't have the individual images saved.

Arrested, detained, escorted, confronted, it's all different right? They also fired a sonic weapon at journalists for the hell of it, but let's just call that "tickling". Can't get angry about tickling, right? This continues to sicken me. And the best/worst part of it is, I imagine the protesters just won't stop until that police officer has charges brought against him. And if protesters are on the streets, Ferguson PD simply cannot resist trampling on their basic human rights and American civil liberties. They're not going to be able to sweep this under a table when all is done.

Oh yeah, I agree with you. I was just trying to be more exact/clear.

It's made by Visceral but DICE is also doing some work on it, naturally. They're referred to as "Visceral Games in collaboration with DICE" or something like that.

And in today's games industry harassment -

Oh, so they were just telling us about the shoplifting suspicion for the hell of it then. Got it. Great. Not a distraction. Sure.

I actually mentioned it in a different thread, mostly because I was complaining about something that happened to me rather than something feminism-specific. Here's the article and here's my post - Also, note that the article's headline was what was throwing people off so much and it has since been changed. It was previously something like "What Watch Dogs can teach us about Ferguson", though don't quote me on that.

Yeah (see below). Of course, when I mentioned this in the Polygon comments a Strawman expert was quick to point out that male CD employees were also probably getting harassed on Twitter, which is funny because Pratchett and Luddington aren't even CD employees and are instead freelance contractors who have even less sway than whatever CD employees you might be able to find.

Danielle wrote an article on Polygon about women writers for film, tv, and games - http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/15/5995187/guardians-of-the-galaxy-nicole-perlman It's really great to see women coming up in that space, particularly in the success of Guardians of the Galaxy as it's an indisputably well received film. Nonetheless, the people who managed to bear a lot of the backlash on Twitter from that Rise of the Tomb Raider exclusivity deal were the writer Rhianna Pratchett (mentioned in the article) and the voice actress for Lara, Camilla Luddington. It seems that even as women are recognized for their skill and hired for higher profile projects, they're still subject to manbabies who see them as targets for any problems they have with the media itself.

For those of you watching the Rektreational, there is an update on Round 2 - As a reminder, Regular Dangerous is the IGN + Arthur Gies team, and Potato Day is DOTA Today crew.

All of the "evidence" is ridiculously foggy. First off, Brown didn't match the description of the shoplifter as reported by the shopowner. Also, the released police report is timestamped for a minute before the actual crime was supposed to have taken place. Does that not seem crazy suspicious? Also also, all initial statements from Ferguson PD indicated that Brown was not stopped for being suspected of a crime, which they summarily backtracked on today.

Yeah, that's the prevailing and most potentially satisfying theory.

That looks right, yeah. Services.msc could also work, if you don't want to mess around with the command prompt.

I believe updates are stored in the Windows\Software Distribution\Download folder. I don't know if Windows will let you delete them if the Windows Update program is active, if you can manage to disable that service you should be able to wipe out that folder. I believe it's just cached update files that can be redownloaded as needed. Afterwards, you can right-click those updates in the Windows Update program and set them to never install.

Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening to me on Twitter for web? I'm using Chrome, it just updated yesterday and that's when this started. I updated Chrome on my desktop at home and the issue isn't replicated. I also haven't seen anyone complaining about a similar issue on Twitter.

My perception is that Charlie Hall received less heat over that story than Danielle. Of course, the scumbags who feel it's their duty to trash people over articles like that also sometimes felt the need to highlight her homosexuality, which feels like a more targeted attack on gender. In other news, Oxford Dictionary decided to define mansplain and really could have saved us a lot of argument if they just did this a month ago -

So, a bunch of people were harassing Danielle on Twitter for writing that Watch Dogs/Ferguson story on Polygon (a discussion I don't really want to have here, so please don't try to engage me on this). She was gonna jump off Twitter, and I was just trying to send good vibes. Of course, you're not allowed to do that on the internet, so someone had to shit on me for it. I responded to him specifically with a pithy remark that wasn't particularly offensive, and blocked him. No big deal, worse things have happened to me. Then, some dude decides to imgur my little exchange and post it to his goonsquad of shitty manbaby followers who claimed I was whiteknighting and trying to get in her pants (they put it less kindly). I said that she was LGBT and I was married, which I guess I shouldn't have even done but I'm feeling a bit emotionally frayed after all this Ferguson shit. He then responded saying that I'm cuckolded by my wife, and that I then proceeded to kill my wife and bury her in the backyard and now I'm whiteknighting to make myself feel better. I have to say, I've seen people treated like this before but it's never happened to me personally. Didn't quite expect it to upset me as much as it has. Anyways, I just wanted to get it off my chest because it's bothering me so much. Fuck the internet sometimes. On the bright side, I've got to try out the abuse/harassment reporting tool on Twitter. Protip: it's not very good.

Okay, we're in heated agreement. There's definitely a spectrum between the lazy, casual glorification that you're talking about and a theoretical, deliberate representation that makes light of an issue (I guess this could be something like Spec Ops, although even that game doesn't pull it off anywhere near perfectly).

This would probably be a good issue to contact your state representatives about rather than your federal reps, as that's unfortunately where most change happens these days.

God, male gamers are the goddamn worst -

I think you misinterpreted my point. I was saying that not having an overt commentary is a message in itself, like an implicit approval of the world constructed. If they militarized the police in the game and actually had a scene where the police provided a completely disproportionate response to a relatively non-violent situation, that would be an implicit disapproval because it's portraying the negative slant of that world. Instead, it'll probably just be a business as usual shooter where all of the militarization is justified because I guess the robbers have guns and aren't afraid to use them.

Not providing a "commentary" and presenting the world in a certain way without addressing why it is that certain way is a commentary in itself.

PETA should branch out a little and make a game where you play a police officer who fires non-lethal armament, like tear gas grenades, regular assault rifles with rubber bullets, and sonic weapons, at unarmed civilians that act like they would in real life. Or maybe an aspiring game jam thing.