If you were offended by that commercial then you’re probably a woman who needs to lose weight.  

They don’t want to help anyone, they just want attention.  Staging a COMPLETELY USELESS protest is a great way to say LOOK AT ME at an event without admitting you’re just a petty attention whore.  

Of course.  Can’t be outraged unless you invent a problem or create a victim out of thin air.  I bet even worse things happened to her once the camera turned off.  

There’s a difference between having a gimmick and flat out lying for money. If her “artifice” was a terrible disease and she was begging donations for treatment or medication, would you feel the same?

She wasn’t exactly scamming “good” people, but acting like she’s inspirational or heroic is stupid.  Acknowledging she’s a bad person doesn’t mean you’re defending anyone else.  

Toughen up is a valid response, though.  Not to say people being assholes online is justified, but it’s also important to realize that you’re not mommies precious little boy when interacting with strangers in a public medium.  Sometimes people won’t like you and they’ll be assholes about it; it’s an inevitability…

So, what this study is basically saying is that only 74% of adults who play online actually communicate with other people?  

No one committed a crime against a minor; the kid being on film was an accident. The crime was simply the act of filming himself in a public restroom, which is something that would result in a fine and a talking to at absolute most, if anybody involved cared enough to bother charging him.

He filmed himself and a child coincidentally ended up in the shot.

The legality isn’t as black and white as you think. He didn’t go into that bathroom to film a minor; that was an accident. If he were streaming live on the beach and a naked kid ran into the shot it’s not child pornography; intent matters.

A lot of this is dumb and makes you sound insecure. You’re WAY too hung up on the fact that this guy thinks he’s interesting and wants to “trade up” to offer any sound advice.

lol, I knew after reading the first letter it would rile up the insecurities of most people on this board.  So much anger.  

Exactly. Why focus on the part that’s relevant to the actual game the article is talking about when you could be force feeding your politics. Awesome gaming site.

This is why I’ve never liked the idea of professing your love for a specific job or career. A job is a negotiation; if your opening position is “ZOMG THIS IS MY DREAM!!” then you lose all of your leverage.  After that happens of course you’re going to get paid crap and worked to death.  

I’d say it’s less about shaming and more about making people aware of just HOW bad some of their vices are. For everyone who smoked like a chimney in the 60's and lived to be 100 there’s probably 100's of people who had painful, premature deaths they would have preferred to avoid if they had some facts at their…

I didn’t read all of it. I’m not really stating whether or not I believe she was assaulted; I’m merely taking the stance that without proper evidence of any/all of this the police can’t act on it.

I’m not saying she didn’t have the right to feel threatened; I’m saying that her fear wasn’t reasonable IF they only tried to talk to her. I’ve been approached by people who were waiting at or near my doorstep before; that in and of itself doesn’t constitute a threat. If I started screaming like a lunatic when that…

First off, the comment I used that example for stated that “all unwanted physical contact is assault.” The example was relevant for dispelling that.

Again, they made a series of bad decisions that led to an unfortunate misunderstanding. No one was hurt in any way, though.

If they didn’t intend to harm her and didn’t harm her then it’s only technically assault. I said it’s a bad idea, but it’s not malicious. Physical contact with no bad intentions that does no harm isn’t generally something the police are going to do something about.