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@Pinworm45: You're ignorant because you failed to read and understand what I said. If you joke about harassing women but would NEVER rape someone because you're clear on all of the moral and ethical reasons why you shouldn't rape someone your jokes are just that - jokes.

You may never ever do something harmful toward a woman, BUT your comments may be viewed as justification of a harmful action someone else is thinking of taking. Sex crimes get committed because the offender thinks it's OK to do it, and they get that idea from their surroundings.

Even if the harassing comments made within the fighting game community never encourage someone to commit a crime, they still make women feel uncomfortable. If I'm not mistaken, Miranda has been on the scene for a long time - if she felt that she needed to bow out to get away from it all, then obviously this shit has gotten out of control. Why else would a veteran feel so uncomfortable that she would throw a match?

Read this

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/03/feminism-101-helpful-hints-for-dudes.html

and then tell me I'm ignorant. Tell me how it's OK to harass women. Tell me it's all in good fun.

@Pinworm45: Exactly how am I ignorant here? I'm not saying every fighting game player is a rapist or anything crazy like that - hell, I love fighting games..... but I'm able to play them without sexually harassing anyone in the process.

Strictly from a sociological and psychological point of view, when people inclined to commit a sex crime see other people committing sex crimes, or making light of committing sex crimes, they feel validated in their actions. This isn't speculation, it's a fact.

Everyone likes to say "Oh it's all in good fun" or "Oh we're just kidding - we're not ACTUALLY sexist" and in some cases that may be true, but there's always a handful of people out there who are going to take it too far - people who are going to go from "just kidding" to committing a crime - tell me why it's a good idea to encourage them?

@moregrammarplz said:

I think the PC culture is fucking garbage and needs to be replaced with something I prefer.

Who the fuck are you to dictate what a group of people can and can not enjoy? Who the fuck are you to be this moral arbiter? How about you exercise your rights to ignore that which you don't like, and partake in that which you do? I'm not going out of my way to force you and your group of friends to swear do whatever you don't like, show me the same respect (or at least that's what I'd say if I was part of their group, I'm not)

Here's the thing; when sexual harassment or racism are considered "OK" by a subculture, whether they mean to or not that subculture is condoning rape and / or violent hate crimes. Rapists don't wake up one day after forty years of being polite and respectful to women and just suddenly decide "Hey, I'm gona go out and rape some bitches today". They start off harassing, stalking, or otherwise mistreating women. When they fall into a subculture that makes light of sexual harassment their negative attitude toward women is validated, and they feel justified in continuing to harass women or in moving on to other sexual crimes.

So yea, when a culture fosters fledgling rapists you bet your fucking-backwards-racist-sexist-rapey ass I'm gonna chime in and say "Hey, knock that shit off you fucking idiot"

@Figyg: I'm not sure I get your point - women are equal as long as they dress conservatively and are depicted as such in video games?

Or is your point that sexual harassment exists because sexy women are just too damned attractive not to get harassed?

It doesn't matter how the women in the game are depicted, it doesn't matter how the women being harassed were dressed, it doesn't matter how old the harasser is - sexual harassment is wrong. Period - end of story. There's no qualifier here - it's not OK to sexually harass someone because Cammy made you all hot and bothered. By putting qualifiers on when and how sexual harassment can be OK you're essentially validating sexual misconduct of all kinds, and that's a douchey thing to do.

Count me in - I have a bad feeling that no one currently on my XBL friends list is going to pick this game up, which is a damned shame because it looks rad as hell.

GT: What the Geek

If you're gonna add me, please shoot me a message first letting me know why, introducing yourself, or teaching me a swear word in an exotic foreign language. I get a fair number of requests, but if you let me know you wanna play SSX, or at least teach me to offend someone in a new language, chances are I'll add you.

A couple months back, there was a chargeback on my steam account due to an error on Paypal's part. When attempting to get the issue resolved with Steam support, I received conflicting advice from different reps, and at least one of them felt completely comfortable talking down to me as though I were a thief, despite the hundreds of dollars worth of transactions that went of without a hitch. My account was suspended.... twice, despite the fact that I did everything they asked of me.

Personally, I'm going to treat them with the same dignity and respect they treated me with when I had an issue that wasn't directly my fault. Hey Valve, get it fixed. There's no excuse for this - even though it's not your fault, you certainly deserve to be raked over the coals for it. Sure, it's not like you hacked your own service, but come on - you were asking for it, and this is clearly your fault. I expect you to take measures to protect my credit card information, and my identity. If you don't, I'll stop spending money with you. Even if you do, I still might stop doing business with you on a whim.

Alright, in case it was lost on anyone, that was (mostly) sarcasm. /Still, a company that demands their customers follow every rule to the letter without any allowance for exceptions, and special circumstances should expect nothing other than ire when something like this happens to them.

Lawmakers can talk about the intentions of the bill all they like, but unfortunately, the only thing that matters at the end of the day is the language of the bill. Right now,t hat language allows for the worst case scenario. The FBI isn't solely responsible for the enforcement of any law - that is to say, if a video game publisher sees a youtube vid they don't love, they could, in theory, take action against the uploader by bringing the "infringing content" to the attention of the authorities, and possibly taking the uploader to court.  
 
Broad language is never a good thing in a potential law. Broad language leaves far too much wiggle room for that law to be interpreted differently by different lawyers and law enforcement officials, and that doesn't do anyone any favors. 

The Playstation Store is "live" in the same way that a cardboard box with four wheels glued to it is a car. There are a lot of errors popping up when I try to do just about anything, including changing my credit card info. In fact, the card I was attempting to add had a one dollar hold put on it three different times when as I tried (and failed) to get it added to my account.