These stupid stories strike me as what stand your ground was designed for, croudfund her a minigun and 10,000 rounds ammo and let loose with ole painless on their asses if they ever show up.
But outside of Grand Theft Auto the most likely life threat attack vector is SWATting type hacks which exploit excesses in hyper-militarized US law enforcement to use the inherent fearful mindlessness of the police as an intelligently though nefariously directed remote control weapon with a high lethality rate for anyone not expecting a raid.
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Hypothetically, C11, if my grandmother had wheels, sheād be a trolly car.
Hang in there, Ms. Wu, badass that you are.
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You know, just reading a very little about GamerGate, I was kind of feeling like the women being targeted were being a little wimpy in their responses. But just seeing the awful things the sockpuppets are posting here on BoingBoing in response to the coverage here, I TOTALLY get it.
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What if, hypothetically speaking, there was a guy who claimed something about his girlfriend, and he got all sorts of attention, increased name recognition, sympathy, and all sorts of offers for support. And while Iām not saying itās happened yet, if this keeps in the news it is only a matter of time until some Baron von ActorGuy sees the sympathy, attention, etc. this guy gets and creates a hashtag to glorify some totally non-oppressed whiners. Iām sorry that people like that exist who would lie for attention but they do. NOW what happens when 4chan rallies around the guy and someone opposing you in this shows that he faked it. Proves it after youāve been screaming and rending garments over it. Have you thought about what happens after that? Can no one play this game? Hey where are you going! Itās my ball! You canāt justā¦ hey! COME BACK HERE AND PLAY WITH ME OR IāM GOING TO GO HOME AND POST ABOUT THIS ON TWITTER!
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She might just be a small moped, you canāt be sure. Hypothetically speaking.
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youā¦ are a sad, suspicious, delusional little person who canāt see the real human that is being really hurt here for some imaginary fear youāve given yourself.`
Iām not sad. I may be delusional or of substandard heightā¦ but that doesnāt make this sort of thing imaginary:
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
or that there arenāt some genuinely āsadā people who crave attention and sympathy. Wishing they wouldnāt doesnāt work. And just because YOU are offended at the very idea doesnāt mean that more objective people looking at this from a distance havenāt already started to wonder how much of the indignation people are having is staged.
Feel free to ignore or berate me now, but donāt say I didnāt caution about it later.
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Iām not sure what this game you speak of is, or who exactly is playing it except you.
It does however make me wonder, purely hypothetically of course, if you have stopped beating your wife.
Anyway, one loaded rhetorical question deserves another: if you were able to produce actual evidence of a person sending fake death threats to himself or herself, would you from that deduce that all death threats ever sent from or received by anyone were fake? How would you support that resoning with formal logic? Submit your answer in the form of a sequent notation. Games are fun!
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Because that totally wouldnāt result in the gaters issuing real death threats and actually harassing her out of her home for real, right?
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Sure, itās possible. Weāve seen people fake cancer and set up fundraising benefits. But itās not like con games and scams are new, or that they have (or should) fundamentally alter the way we react to stories of horrible things happening to people.
And even if there was a history of this sort of fakery happening in this context, itās clearly not happening here: the sheer volume of hatred is impossible to fake, and thereās no conceivable profit motive (either monetarily or psychologically) for any of the women being targetted. I mean, this is a bit like accusing Gabrielle Giffords of faking a gunshot-induced brain injury, or using her as the basis for some delightful though experiment of how the sympathy she garners might encourage others to fake being shot in the head for sympathy and dollars.
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Not to worry, you can sleep soundly at night, you get to parade around with your āI told you so!ā shirt if Brianna Wu has faked all this.
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Niceā¦ but actually I havenāt been screaming or making a big deal about any of this. I donāt play video games. Donāt read the journalists or boards involved. Had no clue who any of the player were until someone here posted a link to a nice summary of the origin of it. So, Iām not sure who you think is āopposingā me in this that could embarrass me over it since I have neither taken any side nor made any claims. It is clear to me you are mad at someone and want to fight themā¦ Itās not me. And itās not clear to me why you think it is. Unless you just like SCREAMING at people on the internet, Baron.
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The delusion is what makes it so sad. Itās sad when people are too frightened of being taken hypothetical advantage of to actually be compassionate to actual people who are actually suffering. Itās sad for that person (because they are isolating themselves out of fear), itās sad for the suffering (who donāt get help), itās just a tragic scenario.
See? If youāre not being a liar, thatās just depressing, that someone could be so terrified of their fellow human beings that they canāt risk showing compassion (even just on some internet message board!) on the mere hypothetical possibility that it is could be not entirely deserved. It sounds like a lonely life, being so cruel.
Meanwhile, Brianna is sounding kick-ass and defiant and is someone worth rooting for, and I wish I could do more than just abstractly support all these courageous women in their time of need.
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Mod note: When it comes to games, Falcor donāt play that.
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If you think weāre jumping on you for no reason, allow me to share a link
Iāll quote the most relevant bits here, as they apply to your hypothetical:
"One of the most radical things you can do is to actually believe women when they talk about their experiences"
"We are blamed for the abuse we receive and regularly told that we are either asking for it or inventing it entirely"
so, yeah, thatās the context into which you dropped your hypothetical.
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So you admit that you havenāt made any statements that youāre willing to stand behind?
In that case, do you actually have anything to offer the discussion, or are you just here to spray hypotheticals as smokescreen?
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Obviously. I mean, why else would one center the conversation on themselves instead of what could be done to help solve the goddamned problem.
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I have the distinct impression that it is not possible to even suggest a remark anymore that is anything less than a complete condemnation of the Bad People, at least not without being lumped in alongside them.
Soā¦ What is left to say that rocketpj did not say already?
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What a time to run out of ālikesā for the day.
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