"I present to you the death of Batman" ?! A 10 year old could've come up with a better way of saying something like that. With an average script and no Mark Hamil, and heavy metal music playing as Batman kicks the shit out of random idiots, this series is going the same place as Halo: down the drain.
I haven't listened to the podcast yet but this issue of growing abuse being directed at journalists and devs has really been growing on my mind lately. I saw some comments on Carolyn Petit's (sorry I forgot how to spell your last name)and Tom McShea's articles that truly astounded me. And the number of times those comments were replicated; you think its "some" individuals but I didn't see a few people attacking CP for her gender or TM for his review scores, I saw tons upon tons of them. 600+ comments, just full of pure hate. And they cut deep; just reading them made my skin crawl and I can't begin to imagine what it's like to be the subject of such mass hate from so many little monsters.
I understand freedom of speech and all that, but can't GS sensor some of that stuff? Maybe introduce a "Report Abuse" button so that if enough people report a user being hateful, you guys investigate and then block him/her for inciting discrimination and hate or something? If you don't have enough time/staff, maybe recruit more humane, experienced users to patrol the site or something. I remember being somewhat active in the GS comments before the Xone and PS3 announcements but now, I only scroll down at the start of the day when I need something to wake me up.
Not everyone inhabits the world of the 16-24 year old football/hockey/baseball/basketball watching, Forza/Gran Tourismo playing, terrorist/Arab shooting male.
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