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Congratulations on reaching this thread. In the rare event that you are in grandmasters league, have a scorching hot girlfriend, and somehow avoided the terrible stench of being a gamer, please refrain from telling us about it. The 10 pages of people informing us that they do, in fact, have sex should provide enough of a counterexample to any non-believers.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
arbitrageur
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia1202 Posts
August 26 2011 08:34 GMT
#541
Public service announcement:

If you're a hardcore gamer, take vitamin D tablets. 1000 IU will do... daily.
Ermac
Profile Joined June 2011
336 Posts
August 26 2011 08:47 GMT
#542
On August 25 2011 02:27 [DUF]MethodMan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 25 2011 02:04 Leach wrote:
Well you gotta know that RTL is just stupid and the majority of the programs that are broadcasted there are not more worth than a head-shaking.

That being said here is another interview with the blonde girl who claimed in the first video how gamers would never shower and don't pay attention to their appearance....



In this video she is asked about her opinion on the closing of the trainline between Berlin - New York and she says that she thinks that it's unfortunate :D.... I think that shows obviously how serious we should take any opinions coming from this direction


Hahaha, now I'd totally bang her, she's dumb as fuck.


Yes, I wonder what it is that makes stupid girls so attractive...

Seriously though, for a little money this type of girls say whatever you want them to in front of a camera....
"Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense." - Carl von Clausewitz
ionize
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Ireland399 Posts
August 26 2011 08:50 GMT
#543
The report was not about E-Sport. It was about the convention and gamers in general. The people they showed were mainly young people, not the people at the age of 30+. Maybe they shrug it off easily, but I remember my time when I had to discuss stuff like games with my mum, because she was all worried I would end up like a lunatic (she was pretty biased as well). I struggled for years to knock some sense into here and after I saw this one-sided report (actually saw a link on facebook), I remembered the time of my teens. This report is just painting a wrong picture to the broad masses. Sure, suggest to shrug it off, maybe you didn't have to fight with parents and peers all the time. But I for one felt taken back to the old times and was angry.

I don't like German television in general and don't watch it (apart from the daily news on ARD). But I happened to see it on the internet (facebook again) and this time I didn't just say "well here they go again". We gamers have been shunned for years, always getting dragged out when something terrible happened at schools. Go on a German playground or schoolground and see some of the kids go at each other. RTL is not helping with that. I think that's one big reason why they got at least 8000 files for complain so far and why even Anonymous is interested. This time RTL picked on a group that's actually standing together. I mean, who uses the internet the most? It's us gamers. We might be divided into subgroups and may bicker with each other about which genre/game is best, but we stand together when it comes to things like these.

Some of the comments on this topic though make me think otherwise. I know we Germans got a reputation of being not funny and being sissies on taking jokes. But being German apart, Gamers should just not be depicted like this.
I just love video games, what's your excuse?
Hynda
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden2226 Posts
August 26 2011 11:52 GMT
#544
On August 26 2011 17:50 ionize wrote:
It was about the convention and gamers in general..

Anyone who has ever been to any convention or festival knows that 1 second after you step out of the shower you start smelling like you've been living in a ditch. That is what happens when people live/move very close to each other in often not very ventilated space, making their entire point invalid \o/.
Timerly
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany511 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-26 13:04:38
August 26 2011 13:04 GMT
#545
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,782546,00.html

quick update from a big German news site:

Apparently the show aired an apology, stating that they made a mistake by generalising and exaggerating. The writer stated he meant to create something "funny" instead of instead of insulting and hurtful, which he then says he screwed up pretty good. He also wrote an apology for his "not well thought out" comments on Facebook. Hacker also seem to have hacked the RTL website, for some time you would just get an error message and read "Gamez" on their site. The writer himself got about 100 mails, the station over 8000 (lol) complaints. The authorities are investigating whether the whole piece is illegal according to media law.

I'd say public outrage was kind of successful :D
Shockk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany2269 Posts
August 26 2011 13:10 GMT
#546
On August 26 2011 22:04 Timerly wrote:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,782546,00.html

quick update from a big German news site:

Apparently the show aired an apology, stating that they made a mistake by generalising and exaggerating. The writer stated he meant to create something "funny" instead of instead of insulting and hurtful, which he then says he screwed up pretty good. He also wrote an apology for his "not well thought out" comments on Facebook. Hacker also seem to have hacked the RTL website, for some time you would just get an error message and read "Gamez" on their site. The writer himself got about 100 mails, the station over 8000 (lol) complaints. The authorities are investigating whether the whole piece is illegal according to media law.

I'd say public outrage was kind of successful :D


No, it wasn't.

The "authorities" won't lift a finger. Just take a look at what BILD gets away with every single day; they're literally ruining lives with their coverage every now and then and nothing ever happens.

RTL airing an apology that's like 15 seconds long will have about the same effect as BILD printing a correction on page 8 - nada. Rien. Nix. Nothing. They've done it to make absolutely sure that they won't get any further flak for it ("Dude, we totally aired that apology, we're cool now!") and meanwhile, they cash in on the original report and on all the attention created since then.

Their apology will be forgotten, same will happen with the report, and RTL will continue to make money by pissing off whoever they want to, just because they can.
Timerly
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany511 Posts
August 26 2011 13:16 GMT
#547
Having to do that shit still doesn't sit well with advertisers, it's at least something. Just the fact that they HATE to do this kinda stuff makes it worth it lol. Also, BILD pays millions of compensations for their shit every year. It's just that they can afford it.
SilentchiLL
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany1405 Posts
August 26 2011 13:35 GMT
#548
On August 26 2011 13:06 splinter9 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 26 2011 11:12 SilentchiLL wrote:
On August 26 2011 10:00 Abductedonut wrote:
On August 26 2011 08:56 splinter9 wrote:
i didnt know the gaming community was so soft. Seriously someone made fun of you, and what they are saying isn't really all that far from the truth. Get over yourselves ladies. Every scene you can imagine that got big, faced this it nothing new or something to get all defensive about.

You guys are doing exactly what they hoped for, your giving them attention.


I don't think this thread would blow up this much and people would get this mad if it weren't true for the most part.



Okay I see this argument way too often in this thread...
If you take a big group of people and pick some examples, which reflect stereotypes you want to confirm, only show these examples and use em on the whole group, then it's just bad journalism.
Presenting a whole (big) group of people as stinking couchdwellers without girlfriends is insulting, especially for those poor guys they showed in the report, it's simply ethically wrong.
And even if you have a model as your gf and are a gamer so you don't feel personally concerned
(or even if you're not a gamer)
it's right to take offence at something like that, because it's wrong and if nobody takes offence at something like that it will just get worse (rtl isn't on the niveau of fox news, (they're actually still relatively far away from that) but they may become that way in the future if nobody cares)
So don't forget people:
It's right to care about stuff like that in the media, it always is.

i agree with everything you said except the bolded part. If you take offense and get all upset your just feeding the trolls. If you just shrug it off they will get bored and move on. The reason they probably have so much time on their hands is cause they are bored and don't have any hobbies




Sadly this isn't about trolls :/
it's not even about a website, which voices it's opinions,
it's about a big media company, which should be neutral in it's reports and present facts and not stereotypes.
And sadly there are people who don't question a report like that and those people often watch exactly these channels and their shows .
possum, sed nolo - Real men play random. ___ "Who the fuck is Kyle?!" C*****EX
DataMiner
Profile Joined March 2011
United States104 Posts
August 26 2011 13:50 GMT
#549
You guys have to admit there is alot of truth in what they are saying. If you are the exception just chill the fuck out.
splinter9
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada172 Posts
August 26 2011 15:26 GMT
#550
I see what you guys are saying but i still think way too many people are being way too sensitive. Just shrug it off and tell your fat friends to eat less and to stop making us look bad.
DeLoAdEr
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Japan527 Posts
August 26 2011 15:29 GMT
#551
a typical non-showering pimpled gamer
gTank
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria2664 Posts
August 26 2011 15:34 GMT
#552
I was in cologne, and there were lots of guys there that ppl would consider "normal" and absolutely no "smelly nerds"
Also lots of hot girls that were not working there btw ^^

RTL Explosiv is stupid show, should be ignored completely
One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch...and kablooie!
splinter9
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada172 Posts
August 26 2011 15:38 GMT
#553
On August 27 2011 00:29 DeLoAdEr wrote:
a typical non-showering pimpled gamer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI8WT3lVe80

o my ive always loved her. My love has just gone up exponentially .
Kaonis
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States243 Posts
August 26 2011 16:00 GMT
#554
I gotta say

Reading that thread warning after leaving this and a bunch of league of legends threads open and taking a nap was confusing.
Nevermind.
PiRate647
Profile Joined January 2011
Belgium187 Posts
August 26 2011 18:08 GMT
#555
This isn`t a bad thing. People who are stupid enough to believe this are people i do not want to interact with anyway.
"Who always takes a taxi, but never pays a fare?" - "Vegeta!?" ||||exclusively a fan of RET!! .... and perhaps ClouD !
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