Hackers play rape on gamers - fun or sick humor?

[M4sterG]

I'm not sure where to start with this, but I will give it my best shot. You have to keep in mind that games have two purposes; to be interactive media and to be fun. GTA is a game that involves paying for sex, gang fights, murder, arson, rape and abuse. I don't see why you would play GTA if you were sensitive emotionally to those kinds of things happening, or if this had happened to you and a slight change to game mechanics like humping was possible. It's a bit strange for a victim to play a game that touches so closely on what they experienced.

Being upset because of recent events is hardly the game's fault or those hackers being insensitive, its's a game about crime, designed to throw a light on societies problems and be fun. I personally had never heard of the Steubenville case, it seems like a very big stretch to extend what happens in one game to what happened online on social media. Just because they are both done online does not automatically link them.

Hacking is an issue in all games, but to argue these instances as being morally wrong is just absurd, given what the games content is. Hacking is the issue you should be annoyed with, its bad and ruins games for everyone. This is a very mild example of hacking, quite funny and humorous, I am sure it will be fixed as soon as the developers can nail it down. It will either be patched out or nothing will happen and the game will be abandoned as more holes in its coding are found and the game becomes unplayable due to hacking.

[Thorne]

it seems like a very big stretch to extend what happens in one game to what happened online on social media. Just because they are both done online does not automatically link them.

I wouldn't be so quick to split them, either. For better or worse, social media is running rampant around the world. And bullying on those sites, including threats of violence, rape, murder and torture, have been known to drive people to suicide. Part of the problem is the inherent anonymity of the net, allowing people who wouldn't dream of saying (or doing) things like that in reality the ability to say and do them in virtual reality. The problem, I think, lies in the apparent fragile nature of some people who get freaked out by such things.

Like you, though, I would find it strange that someone who had been assaulted would be playing those kinds of games anyway. If virtual rape is going to trigger you, it's probably not a good idea to be playing a game where virtual rape is the norm.

[thir]

I'm not sure where to start with this, but I will give it my best shot. You have to keep in mind that games have two purposes; to be interactive media and to be fun. GTA is a game that involves paying for sex, gang fights, murder, arson, rape and abuse. I don't see why you would play GTA if you were sensitive emotionally to those kinds of things happening, or if this had happened to you and a slight change to game mechanics like humping was possible. It's a bit strange for a victim to play a game that touches so closely on what they experienced.

As I said, I doubt people are prepared for that, and for the joke to be up-loaded on You tube. But I am more concerned with the people who do this, than the people it is done too, all virtually of course.

Being upset because of recent events is hardly the game's fault or those hackers being insensitive, its's a game about crime, designed to throw a light on societies problems and be fun. I personally had never heard of the Steubenville case, it seems like a very big stretch to extend what happens in one game to what happened online on social media. Just because they are both done online does not automatically link them.

http://www.upworthy.com/a-horrifying...-it-from-happe

http://www.newsweek.com/why-no-one-t...pe-case-207333

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...e_what_ha.html

That is the most known case, but there have been other where the rape was posted online and the victim harassed until she committed suicide. Exactly like these virtual people do. The connection is impossible to miss, actually.

This is a very mild example of hacking, quite funny and humorous, I am sure it will be fixed as soon as the developers can nail it down. It will either be patched out or nothing will happen and the game will be abandoned as more holes in its coding are found and the game becomes unplayable due to hacking.

mild?? quite funny and humorous??