German TV makes a lil bit condescending report about Gamescom

Well there is truth in that video, I mean stereotypes didn't come out of thin air.. It's kinda weird to have such freaky human beings in your society, and being concerned about it isn't really that evil. 
 
However, they were pretty heavy on the labeling and judging and even insulting, they just put those people under a microscope and analyzed them like they were inferior creatures, which was really fucking closed minded and uncool.

inb4 WWII

Bad journalism at its finest.

If you walk into an ant's nest and are surpised to find ants, then what the hell were they expecting to find at a festival aimed squarley at the less socially-aware members of their society!

My god those gamers, you'd think that they dont care about their looks at all! Don't they know that vanity is a virtue! Pah!

Eh, you may want to keep this in mind.

I'm not sure if I misunderstood you, but don't assume that all Germans are "perfectly fine" with Oktoberfest. There are plenty of Germans who wouldn't dream of going to Oktoberfest because they look down on it as at the very least tacky, if not base, classless and bad for Germany's image.

Edit: Also this is basically the equivalent of a German Entertainment Tonight or something of that caliber...hardly real news.

RTL studious are about 500 meters away from Gamescom btw.
I guess that's why they had this really bad image of gamers, they must've felt bugged by them or something.
 
Really stupid anyway and they're getting a lot of backlash right now.

they already got bashed pretty hard by the gamer community haha

Edit: Also this is basically the equivalent of a German Entertainment Tonight or something of that caliber...hardly real news.

And this is why I haven't sat down to watch television in a year and half, it is full of this shit. I cringe every time I walk by a television and glance on how stupid some of the reports are.

Bad journalism at its finest.

@imsh_pl said:

Bad journalism at its finest.

Don't you mean shoddy journalism?   :D

@mnzy said:

@Juvenfly said:

Edit: Also this is basically the equivalent of a German Entertainment Tonight or something of that caliber...hardly real news.

That might be true, but it's also Germanys biggest station.

True, and I'm not saying it's an excuse, but this is definitely more a lowest common denominator type program than hard-hitting news. Hell, even DW-TV's generally much better than that segment, and they do a lot of fluffy culture pieces.

Also, back to the more general topic...I like video games a lot...like a real lot, but I don't dress up and run out in public as a fantasy character (nor do I do it in private) to show people that I love games because I'm no longer 10 and if it's not Halloween, that's just fucking weird. Don't be surprised if other people who don't understand video games also think it's weird. I could go on a whole diatribe about societal norms and blah blah blah, but suffice to say...just enjoy the games and be normal. That's the best thing you can do for the hobby...all this cosplay shit makes it hard as hell to explain my consoles to any ladies I might bring home now that I'm in my mid 20s. I like games the same way my brothers-in-law like sports. They don't feel the need to walk around dressed like their favorite quarterbacks, and I don't feel the need to dress like Wander.

I would suggest that the booth girl's interview is actually pretty relevant. It's fucking embarrassing that booth girls exist, and if it takes being shamed in mainstream media for kids to quit taking pictures with them, so be it.

@Chumm said:

I would suggest that the booth girl's interview is actually pretty relevant. It's fucking embarrassing that booth girls exist, and if it takes being shamed in mainstream media for kids to quit taking pictures with them, so be it.

Also this. If you see women so rarely that a booth babe is novel enough to warrant a photo-op...you need to reevaluate some things.

Con funk. It will never go away. Half of it may be that some of the attendees have poor hygiene the other half is that when you have a hundreds of people walking around you're bound to get sweaty and body heat always multiplies.
 
Funny that this German news station has an ideal of what people should be and look like. Sounds a bit familiar.

Less than 20 posts for Godwin's Law to come into effect. Although, I guess this post had a head start since it already started in Germany.

Funny that this German news station has an ideal of what people should be and look like. Sounds a bit familiar.

Less than 20 posts for Godwin's Law to come into effect. Although, I guess this post had a head start since it already started in Germany.

@Butler said:

Funny that this German news station has an ideal of what people should be and look like. Sounds a bit familiar.

You should write transitions for shitty tv shows. I mean from this to Nazis? Not bad.

Ugh, I wish the PM interface would just post directly to the thread...I'm too lazy to click a whole one extra button.

@CaLe: I guess you could see it that way. The fact of the matter is that it has a substantial negative impact on how the industry and its consumer base are perceived by the general public, and that's no good. And I'm by no means telling people not to do it...free country and all that jazz. Just don't be surprised when people look negatively at it. Name one other situation (outside Halloween) where it's socially acceptable to do that sort of thing.

@Butler: Yeah that's not what you meant :p

"...sometimes stinking" 
 
hahahahhahaahahaha

Well.. some of them are pretty damn weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7UAD6y_7I

There you go.

@Butler said:

Funny that this German news station has an ideal of what people should be and look like. Sounds a bit familiar.

You should write transitions for shitty tv shows. I mean from this to Nazis? Not bad.

I bet Ryan would love this report :P

I really wish i hadn't watched this clip. It's unbelievably infuriating on many levels.

Despite living here, i have not watched German TV in over 5 years (save for public-service news, which is very solid). Shit like this reminds me why i made that decision.

Whatever, I'm off to watch porn.

They are under investigation now because over 8000 people complained at the official institution.
Nothing will happen, this is for more serious stuff, but I think it's funny. They really pissed off the wrong crowd.
 
Also some event being planned on facebook for tomorrow, should be good aswell.

@TheDudeOfGaming said:

Whatever, I'm off to watch porn.

The right response to almost any conflict.

Cunts.

@TheDudeOfGaming said:

Whatever, I'm off to watch porn.

The right response to any conflict.

Next time you go to gamescon Dont bathe for 2 weeks and then find the news crews and just hang around them.

>.<

WW2

@TheDudeOfGaming said:

Whatever, I'm off to watch porn.

Make fap, not war.

This also happens with every alternative/fantasy/goth/whatever faire I go to.
The night or night after there's always a news story about it, along with crappy footage and messed up cut interviews.
 
They laugh at me a few times a year.
I laugh at them all year long.
Sheeple.

@Xolare said:

@imsh_pl said:

Bad journalism at its finest.

Don't you mean shoddy journalism?   :D

  

@RE_Player92: Exactly! TV sucks balls.

Moreover, RTL is a terrible TV channel basically reaffirming lower middle class stereotypes when it's not trying to sell them something or showing soap operas.

That booth girl was just as stereotypical in her own way. Also, of course there are sterotypical nerds there, but they are not all like that. Go do any convention with 100k people and you can easily find a dozen really strange people to interview, but there are at least 10 regular dudes for every such strange dude.

That girl who she thought was into fantasy called herself an ego-shooter. What the hell is an ego-shooter? Some german genre?

@dagas said:

That booth girl was just as stereotypical in her own way. Also, of course there are sterotypical nerds there, but they are not all like that. Go do any convention with 100k people and you can easily find a dozen really strange people to interview, but there are at least 10 regular dudes for every such strange dude.

That girl who she thought was into fantasy called herself an ego-shooter. What the hell is an ego-shooter? Some german genre?

Ego-shooter = First Person Shooter

And here I was thinking we were past this stuff. The part where they asked that boy if he had a girlfriend was just ridiculous.

I met those Army of Two guys at Gamescom. Seemed alright guys.