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You're attacking a strawman. She did exit, and she didn't say she "was virtually groped in a misogynistic rape fest". Perhaps she's just one of those crazy peo

You're attacking a strawman. She did exit, and she didn't say she "was virtually groped in a misogynistic rape fest". Perhaps she's just one of those crazy people who think that just because one can stop playing multiplayer games doesn't mean it is perfectly okay to be a massive jerk to other players.

kls 10y ago
just because one can stop playing multiplayer games doesn't mean it is perfectly okay to be a massive jerk to other players. That's pretty much the norm, the cold hard reality is that online games is pretty much the land where trolls come from. Play any game where random people play together and you are bound to land on one that someone is doing something to annoy the crap out of the other players. It is the norm, and most people just quit. I watch my boys play a game where you can end up killing team members from friendly fire and it never fails that at some point, someone joins that makes it their mission to hunt their team and kill them just to P.O. everyone in the game. I think it would be a far stretch to complain that one is a victim of virtual murder due to this. Rather it is a troll doing what trolls do. She should have done what everyone else does, drop from that game and join a different one, with other players.
- user5994461 10y ago
  Game used to have an option "vote to kick player X". That is uber effective against teamkillers and abusers ;)
retrogradeorbit 10y ago
I think your point is the strawman. I never said it was "perfectly ok" to be a jerk. These people are arseholes. But I hate to break it too you... It's not real! It may have a high level of realism, but it is not reality. In the real world, when someone is groped, they can't just press a button and vanish. If they could, they would! And because they can't, they are abused against their will, and as such, it is a crime. You know, it's not a human right to be able to play online games. I don't remember anything in the UN charter about the right to only be exposed to nice people when in VR. I don't play online, multiplayer games. They are complete cess-pits. But I don't have to play them. I can just choose not to play them. And so I do. And I'm not gonna start now just because "OMG! It's in VR." She exited the game. Good for her. She has the power! Like the message in the movie Wargames: The only winning move is not to play.

kls 10y ago

just because one can stop playing multiplayer games doesn't mean it is perfectly okay to be a massive jerk to other players. That's pretty much the norm, the cold hard reality is that online games is pretty much the land where trolls come from. Play any game where random people play together and you are bound to land on one that someone is doing something to annoy the crap out of the other players. It is the norm, and most people just quit. I watch my boys play a game where you can end up killing team members from friendly fire and it never fails that at some point, someone joins that makes it their mission to hunt their team and kill them just to P.O. everyone in the game. I think it would be a far stretch to complain that one is a victim of virtual murder due to this. Rather it is a troll doing what trolls do. She should have done what everyone else does, drop from that game and join a different one, with other players.

user5994461 10y ago
Game used to have an option "vote to kick player X". That is uber effective against teamkillers and abusers ;)

retrogradeorbit 10y ago

I think your point is the strawman. I never said it was "perfectly ok" to be a jerk. These people are arseholes. But I hate to break it too you... It's not real! It may have a high level of realism, but it is not reality. In the real world, when someone is groped, they can't just press a button and vanish. If they could, they would! And because they can't, they are abused against their will, and as such, it is a crime. You know, it's not a human right to be able to play online games. I don't remember anything in the UN charter about the right to only be exposed to nice people when in VR. I don't play online, multiplayer games. They are complete cess-pits. But I don't have to play them. I can just choose not to play them. And so I do. And I'm not gonna start now just because "OMG! It's in VR." She exited the game. Good for her. She has the power! Like the message in the movie Wargames: The only winning move is not to play.