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Kudos to them for keeping their cool the other week when it turned out that computer games caused World War II, but their games journalism in general is amateurish and plain awful. Take this for example: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3558892.stm[/URL]
An article on Doom 3. Cool! They're hip, they're with it...but what's this: "the gaming equivalent of the release of a new Harry Potter book". WTF!? No, it really isn't, you've made sweeping comments again, BBC News. I can see what they mean by the rush to buy it, but to me, Harry Potter is the bane of the book-reading world. People love it and hate it in equal measures, and you can't say that about games because the quality varies from title to title, sequel to sequel.
It's not the first time I've spotted them making vague generalisms either. In an article on Halo a few months back, apparently the only reason a group of men sit hunched around a TV screen is to watch porn together. Maybe down Soho way, but what a crappy comment to make in a bad attempt at combining humour with games news (only the News Monkey has that right). The videogame entertainment industry is fun for us, but it requires competent journalism to respond to the attacks it is succeptible to when the smack-tards at the Daily Mail fall out of their prams, or else we won't be taken seriously. The BBC isn't helping. They have a section aimed at kids - why lower the standards of their main news site by hosting articles seemingly written by children?
On the plus side, they do seem to be airing more and more articles related to gaming. The quality will no doubt improve as they hire journalists who actually have a clue about the content. The handful of game reviews they do have are poor, but at least they're making an effort.
An article on Doom 3. Cool! They're hip, they're with it...but what's this: "the gaming equivalent of the release of a new Harry Potter book". WTF!? No, it really isn't, you've made sweeping comments again, BBC News. I can see what they mean by the rush to buy it, but to me, Harry Potter is the bane of the book-reading world. People love it and hate it in equal measures, and you can't say that about games because the quality varies from title to title, sequel to sequel.
It's not the first time I've spotted them making vague generalisms either. In an article on Halo a few months back, apparently the only reason a group of men sit hunched around a TV screen is to watch porn together. Maybe down Soho way, but what a crappy comment to make in a bad attempt at combining humour with games news (only the News Monkey has that right). The videogame entertainment industry is fun for us, but it requires competent journalism to respond to the attacks it is succeptible to when the smack-tards at the Daily Mail fall out of their prams, or else we won't be taken seriously. The BBC isn't helping. They have a section aimed at kids - why lower the standards of their main news site by hosting articles seemingly written by children?
On the plus side, they do seem to be airing more and more articles related to gaming. The quality will no doubt improve as they hire journalists who actually have a clue about the content. The handful of game reviews they do have are poor, but at least they're making an effort.
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gerrid wrote:
> Thing about being bullied on a forum: No one forces you to go on it.
> If someone is horrible to you, it's your own fault for going back.
> You can turn off your computer at any time. It's not like a
> playground or whatever, where you have to see the bullies every day.
> If the victim doesn't like being bullied, then they should leave.
> It's as simple as that. On these grounds surely this case, and any
> similar cases, must be dismissed
That's why the case is a test one - it argues that the provider of the forum has a legal obligation to prevent people doing what, in real life would see them in trouble, online they could get away with.
Problem with your idea gerrid is that it effectively gives the go ahead for a group of users to target and get rid of those they have a problem with...which is not a good thing for any forum. Plus it's not good PR for any company website forums.
If the case is won, then in the US at least, it will have big implications for forums. Similar cases with emails - companies not taking action against users abusing email systems - resulted in a ruling against the companies, and I'd be surprised if the same did not happen with this.
> Thing about being bullied on a forum: No one forces you to go on it.
> If someone is horrible to you, it's your own fault for going back.
> You can turn off your computer at any time. It's not like a
> playground or whatever, where you have to see the bullies every day.
> If the victim doesn't like being bullied, then they should leave.
> It's as simple as that. On these grounds surely this case, and any
> similar cases, must be dismissed
That's why the case is a test one - it argues that the provider of the forum has a legal obligation to prevent people doing what, in real life would see them in trouble, online they could get away with.
Problem with your idea gerrid is that it effectively gives the go ahead for a group of users to target and get rid of those they have a problem with...which is not a good thing for any forum. Plus it's not good PR for any company website forums.
If the case is won, then in the US at least, it will have big implications for forums. Similar cases with emails - companies not taking action against users abusing email systems - resulted in a ruling against the companies, and I'd be surprised if the same did not happen with this.
I remember David Gibbon stating Electronic Arts made Goldeneye for the N64.
What a twit.
What a twit.
Did this David Gibbon fella try and sue this forum?
GIVE ME YOUR LUNCH MONEY, GERRID, OR I'LL HIT YOU.
Thing about being bullied on a forum: No one forces you to go on it. If someone is horrible to you, it's your own fault for going back. You can turn off your computer at any time. It's not like a playground or whatever, where you have to see the bullies every day. If the victim doesn't like being bullied, then they should leave. It's as simple as that. On these grounds surely this case, and any similar cases, must be dismissed
Mr Snuggly wrote:
>an action that was clearly the result of searching Google for
> his own name and being unpleasantly surprised with the results.
> Idiot.
LOL that made me chuckle would loved to have seen him when he saw it.
*Searches google*
*face drops*
*calls lawyers*
>an action that was clearly the result of searching Google for
> his own name and being unpleasantly surprised with the results.
> Idiot.
LOL that made me chuckle would loved to have seen him when he saw it.
*Searches google*
*face drops*
*calls lawyers*
monkey_man wrote:
> An article on Doom 3. Cool! They're hip, they're with it...but
> what's this: "the gaming equivalent of the release of a new
> Harry Potter book". WTF!? No, it really isn't, you've made
> sweeping comments again, BBC News. I can see what they mean by the
> rush to buy it, but to me, Harry Potter is the bane of the
> book-reading world.
They're right though, loads of people hate Harry Potter books, yes, but when a new one is released, it's huge, millions of sales worldwide etc, they're not saying anything about the quality, they're talking about the popularity, as, although many people loathe Harry Potter books, there are still million whjo go out and buy it.
> An article on Doom 3. Cool! They're hip, they're with it...but
> what's this: "the gaming equivalent of the release of a new
> Harry Potter book". WTF!? No, it really isn't, you've made
> sweeping comments again, BBC News. I can see what they mean by the
> rush to buy it, but to me, Harry Potter is the bane of the
> book-reading world.
They're right though, loads of people hate Harry Potter books, yes, but when a new one is released, it's huge, millions of sales worldwide etc, they're not saying anything about the quality, they're talking about the popularity, as, although many people loathe Harry Potter books, there are still million whjo go out and buy it.
Ah that's it. My little cousin knows more than him and he's 6.
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Reminds me, there's a case in the US right now where someone complained to the owners of a forum that they were being bullied etc on it and nothing was being done. Site owners ignored it.....and received details of legal proceedings the next week. Person doing it is doing so under defamation and some harassment type laws and stuff, it's kind of a test case because it's not happened before and there are issues about releasing the personal information of users to others, but also whether hiding such information allows those same users carte blanche to do what they want. If the person bringing it is successful then it could impact big time on US forums, and it could only be a matter of time before it happens here, though I am not sure how our laws vary on this here in the UK.
The name Dave Gibbon sounds familiar but I can't place where from, can remember Dave Perry but not Gibbon, someone jog my mind please!
The name Dave Gibbon sounds familiar but I can't place where from, can remember Dave Perry but not Gibbon, someone jog my mind please!
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