It's not really relevant if Anita is false-flagging or not. She's a fraud either way.

She claims in her scripted, produced videos to be an avid gamer and that she's doing what she's doing because she wants the art form to improve, yet she's been filmed giving non-scripted presentations where she explains that she doesn't like or play video games because they make her feel all icky. She crowdfunded $150, 000 dollars and over about two years has used that money to turn out about three hours of content at a quality level that is, without exaggeration, outdone on a regular basis by several producers at That Guy With The Glasses, to say nothing of non-TGWTG producers like Stuart Ashen or Noah Antwiler (the latter has a skit at the end of his Final Fantasy 13 review where the game's most obnoxious character beats him senseless that looks like it had more effort put into it than the entirety of Anita's content combined.) She's accepting further donations for further content on her website; the website, unlike Kickstarter or Patreon, does not contain any information about how much she's received, how many people have donated, or any explanation about what she's working on besides Tropes Vs Women in Videogames. Speaking of Tropes Vs Women in Videogames, her videos plagiarize content from other Youtube personalities without credit (because getting her own footage would require playing videogames, which, remember, she doesn't like doing,) and often take footage from games out of context so she can claim them as examples of misogyny when, at best, they are no such thing and at worst they are the exact opposite. Her assertions like "players are meant to derive a perverse pleasure from desecrating the bodies of unsuspecting virtual characters. It's a rush streaming from a carefully concocted mix of sexual arousal connected to the act of controlling and punishing representations of female sexuality" would be great if she could back them up with evidence better than Hitman which mechanically punishes you for acting like a dickbag psycho instead of a detached assassin. There's also her assertion that women in video games must always be dolled up for maximum prettiness, not only ignoring the fact that most games with character creators have "no makeup" options, but apparently unaware of the multiple layers of makeup and enormous pieces of jewelry she herself is wearing as she says these things.

Oh and her boyfriend is a professional propagandist who hates videogames because they make people violent. Basically Jack Thompson but with enough common sense to recognize the value of maintaining the appearance of propriety instead of publicly throwing hissyfits.

Anita is held on such a pedestal because of the inability of people to disassociate views and goals with someone who professes to support them, no matter how shady and dishonest they ultimately turn out to be. This leads to this ridiculous "if you don't agree with us %100 you're a horrible, horrible person" mentality that SJWs are so well-known for. Since there is no reasonable defense of someone like this, the only way of making an argument excusing this behavior is to take the position that the ends justify the means; we're fighting misogyny, so it doesn't matter that Anita is a slimeball and a con-artist! It's even worse with Leigh Alexander; Anita has at least some PR skills and can paint herself as a victim, Leigh Alexander shows up drunk on podcasts, makes racist comments, advocates violence against people who disagree with her, and takes sadistic pleasure in her attempts to damage the lives of other people. Trying to justify her behavior requires such surreal leaps in logic you may as well be writing a script for an episode of The Twilight Zone.

Beamer wrote on Oct 14, 2014, 20:22:
Since I think many missed it yesterday, I feel that this blog by a Bioware dev is excellent. He actually has many entries on the topic. His point that #gamergate is utterly ignored by gaming websites is very true, despite there often being claims that those same websites are tarring and feathering the supporters. I think his hypothesis is right - #gamergate supporters just don't matter to IGN/Kotaku/RPS/etc. They don't visit those sites with any regularity.

Probably true. It's the hardest of the hardcore that give a shit about #gamergate one way or the other, and we don't usually bother with those kinds of sites.

The fact that Kotaku, Polygon and Gamasutra have lost major sponsors and every website that participated in the "gamers are dead, lol" articles has lost a large chunk of traffic, and thus ad revenue, would suggest otherwise. One of them's even recently added a paywall.

ForgedReality wrote on Apr 13, 2014, 21:54:
Shame nobody but Sprint offers unlimited plans though.

AT&T has a $45 unlimited talk/text/data plan through Straight Talk. Speed is throttled after 2GB of data usage and the contract says ABSOLUTELY NO TETHERING EVER OR WE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN, but they're apparently not very good at policing that even if you don't take measures to avoid detection.

Whelp, I guess Warrior is finally on the Terrain of Testament for good.

InBlack wrote on Mar 26, 2014, 11:03:
So anyone still playing this? How's it look now that the shine has worn off a little bit??

I definitely still consider it solid post-shine. Once the new car smell (new Titan smell?) wears off, you're left with a solid shooter that has fun mechanics and good balance, despite that lack of "OMG REVOLUTIONARY!" reviewers like to spout.

The first two expansions for BF4 really soured me on that, and playing a couple shooters (this and Hawken) that are both better balanced and have less "get shot after running around the corner" nonsense make me wish I hadn't even bothered with BF4. I might not enjoy Titanfall quite as much if I hadn't gone into it angry at something else, but then, I haven't stopped playing, either.

Frags4Fun wrote on Mar 18, 2014, 09:31:
There's a gaping hole in your theory though. You must be assuming that all cheaters are participating in these forums that you speak of in order for your theory to be valid and we definitely don't have enough data for you to make that claim.

Of course I'm not, it's just an example of observable behavior.

The people that I am theorizing about would likely avoid such trolling activities and would want to hide their cheating activities even from other cheaters. It would be their dirty little secret which would destroy them if their peers found out and all the work that they did to fit in would be wasted. That's basic psychology.

The fact is, we simply don't know what drives every cheater and to bunch them all up into a single category is silly. If you go and look at many of the cheaters profiles (who have been caught), you will see that their scores are way to low to be using the cheats to grief. You really should expand your mind and consider that there is more than one mindset when it comes to cheaters. Like any group of people, there will be differing motives which lead them into similar circles.

Until you've actually put together a reasonably large sample of "many of the cheaters profiles," I will remain thoroughly unconvinced that competitive cheating happens on a scale that warrants all the paranoia going on here. As long as you're going to throw around "basic psychology" like every Internet knowitall, could you at least back it up with some basic research?

Of course, to do so, you would also have to account for...

Drazula wrote on Mar 18, 2014, 11:58:
Talk about an authoritative fallacy. You guys are making a huge assumption that everyone that is banned is cheating. People have been banned for doing nothing wrong. If Activision does not give users the ability to have their ban reviewed, they are heading for a class action lawsuit.
[Edit]Turns out that the cache on the PS3/PS4s is causing erroneous bans.

...and you can't. Without solid numbers on how many false positives there are, you can't make an estimate on how many of those bans, let alone the ones whose stats point to them not having blatant aimbots, are actual "competitive cheaters."

There is a long list of subtle cheats designed to give a slight advantage and they are the ones that rarely get detected, unlike the older types of aimbots and wallhacks that griefers tend to use and are obvious to the skilled players.

How often these are detected is also purely speculation.

I would also think that wallhacks would be on the "competitive" end of cheats, since they provide a passive advantage that isn't readily apparent. Of course, since it's not readily apparent, it's just as wide open to false accusations and the same uncertainty about how many players are really cheating with them, as well as how many players are flagged as false positives for them when they're not actually using them; I'd be interested to know how many players have experience getting accused of wallhacking after a lucky shot while rounding a corner, versus how many are actually wallhacking.

BTW, I like how you twist my words. For instance, I said some of the cheaters and you changed it to most cheaters. That says a lot about your close-minded way of thinking. So I wonder which one of us is actually entertained by this conversation.

As long as we're talking about twisting words: "you're just providing entertainment" was obviously referring to any given hypothetical player who loudly QQs without a hint of self awareness, thus providing the reaction that feeds any given hypothetical griefer's entertainment, so you can go ahead and wonder all you want.

Frags4Fun wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 15:31:

JayDeath wrote on Mar 17, 2014, 15:06:
It never occurred to me that gamers can be so twisted to buy another copy of the game after being banned for hacking just to hack and risk getting banned again. Those people must be really disturbed and sociopathic.

I suspect that some of the cheaters are just trying to be competitive with their friends who are skilled at the game and it might just be their way of fitting in. On the other hand, many of them are probably mentally disturbed like you said.

They're just griefers, they're not trying to fool people into thinking they're good, they're not trying to be competitive. Many people who enjoy this type of behavior have no problem paying for another copy of the game, because they have to, to keep having their fun. Do a little google-fu and you can find the forums cheaters hang out on easily, you won't find many posts from people asking what hax is best to be competitive.

I've never understood how so many people go off the rails screaming "WHO DO THEY THINK THEY'RE FOOLING!" and the like. They're not trying to fool anyone. The entire point is to ruin the fun of legitimate players. To assume that most cheaters are trying to be competitive is to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the behavior. It's no different than trying to have a debate on a forum with someone blatantly trolling; it's not going to work because they're not there to have a debate, and the fact that you're trying is just entertaining.

The only time I've lost head-on to a smart pistol is when the other guy panics and spams it without trying to lock on before I kill him. Fair game, I've certainly done that with pretty much every gun in every game with guns.

Really, I agree that the smartpistol is BS, but not because it's convenient to use it as a scapegoat while telling everyone how smart I am for hating Titanfall.

It's BS because it's goddamn near worthless and they spent time making it when they could've made a neater, more functional weapon instead. It's not even very efficient for farming the minions. In the time it takes to lock on, you can easily aim and plink one or two shots into a minion, or multiple minions in a group, with most semi-auto weapons. Failing that, you can hose them down with an SMG, the LMG, or the definately-not-the-Glock-18 pistol.

The world persistence is a non-issue; it will only negatively effect your game if you leave it in a negative state to begin with. If you leave the game alone for more than a day, the amount of time that passes is unnoticeable.

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Agent.X7 wrote on Feb 6, 2014, 17:54:

Nobody would be complaining if they had made clear in the beginning that it was 6 vs 6. Nobody would be complaining if the player limit was 6 vs 6 and there weren't more than twice that number of AI on the field.

Bullshit no one would be complaining, everyone would have just been complaining sooner because it has nothing to do with expectations, it's because "more = better" is the pervasive mentality.

And I have yet to see a BF4 map where 64 players is too much. Lockdown is pushing it, but it's nowhere near as bad as Metro was with even 32 players in anything but Rush mode.

Not sure if troll.

Frijoles wrote on Dec 17, 2013, 23:44:

Cutter wrote on Dec 17, 2013, 23:22:
If they had permission then there wouldn't be any claims, would there? That means the content owners would be cutting off an extra revenue source. I think it's you who needs to brush up the facts, champ.

You missed the part where it's all YouTube's automated bot, not the content owners. Blizzard and a few other big publishers are trying to mass-allow everything but haven't been able to. One guy was doing a video of his own game with his own music, and it was removed for copyright claims. The content identification bot isn't working.

As a joke I once posted a capture of the rat QTE in Battlefield 3 and labeled as exciting new gameplay footage from Skyrim showing the first enemy of the game. It got bot'd for having footage owned by Bethesda.

Could be worse, could be Prometheus.

Cutter wrote on Dec 4, 2013, 20:19:

jdreyer wrote on Dec 4, 2013, 19:40:
We're already (over)paying the ISPs for our connections. They make a boatload of cash, given that they've got monopoly/duopoly market power and charge double the price for a fifth of the bandwidth compared to the rest of the industrialized world (except Canada). I honestly have no idea why Obama thought this guy was good. Maybe he doesn't, maybe he just thought "This is the only guy I can get past the Tea Party."

Dude, hasn't occurred to you yet that Obama is a DINO. Tell me where he hasn't appointed lobbyists like any other president. He stacked agriculture with ex-Monsanto and Cargill execs and lobbyists. And that pattern continues through everything he does. He's a snake oil salesman. Hope and change is right, hope that the elites acquire even more power and money, and changing everything to ensure that happens.

Not sure how that makes him a DINO and not "standard politician."

I'll just leave this here.

Prez wrote on Dec 3, 2013, 20:06:
This should have been in the original release. What little there existed of space missions was appalling. Then again, if the space combat is as boring and stupid as the land combat it won't be any better than what was there. What a terrible, terrible game. To think they abandoned making Knights of the Old Republic 3 for this abomination. Ugh.

Don't forget, this is also KotOR 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8!

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Now if only I could get vanilla events to line up so I could finally get that damned crystal cruiser...

On the hardest difficulty, you still only get the first battery recharged automatically. It's also still slow without upgrades.

With all this fighting game news lately, it must be a sign that ArkSys is going to look at the PC and we'll get a nice PC version of BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, right?

...right? Someone lie to me that this is sound logic.

Considering there's a season pass for the game, why is this surprising?

Krovven wrote on Jun 27, 2013, 01:31:
Most decks can be unlocked by playing the game. Foil cards are a waste of money and for "collectors". There is zero need to pay to unlock decks if you just play the game.

Fun fact, you can turn off foil effects in this one. If you just want your multiplayer opponents to see your shinies, the foil purchases are even more derp than usual.

I suppose I'm just giving Mooninny more ammunition, though.