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"invented crimes".

Perhaps if you actually looked through her twitter and saw the shit she has tweeted at people, especially during The Fine Young Capitalists, you would know what you were actually talking about. Christ, even the person that ran it was doxxed by them, all of that which was posted on twitter BY ZOE herself, then suddenly deleted after someone called her on it. She is covering shit up all the time.
You are familiar with basically nothing from that small laughable list.

Anita didn't criticize SHIT. She cherry-picked out the ass.
Every single issue she came up with has been beaten to death by others so many times it isn't even funny now.
NONE of her arguments have any logical foundations, they are all made up.
She got all that money to say a blatantly obvious thing, "derrr females are sexy in video games".
NOOOoo, really, just like how guys are totally immune to that.
I could easily go on. There are FAR more overly-sexual masculine characters than there are females.
There are PLENTY of regular females in games that aren't overly sexual, are main characters, are strong, fit, unfit and weak.
Literally no argument. At all.

Gawker have played a HUGE part in all of this as well, since they are the ones pushing it so hard, especially through the journalists circlejerk mailing list that was exposed. (and even got several people fired)
Many of their staff have FACTUALLY SUPPORTED Zoe on her Patreon. So much for integrity and neutrality.
Not only that, after some advertisers dropped, they started LOSING THEIR SHIT so hard on their site, their twitters and facebook profiles.
And not even making up coherent arguments, flat-out insulting advertisers for dropping them. Yeah, good luck ever getting those advertisers back, idiots.
Then they resorted to saying all kinds of messed up things about bullying others, people should be killed and so on.
TOTALLY SANE PEOPLE HERE.

Let's not forget that this whole thing exploded back when Anita held a conference at XOXO where a whole host of websites ALL PUBLISHED THE SAME(ish) ATTACK ON GAMERS AT THE SAME TIME(ish).
Totally not a huge collusion in the industry.

The fact that you are supporting these mentally unstable people is awful.
Is it harassment? Sure it is. Of people that are horribly cruel, harassing and manipulative, trying to force their pathetic corrupt agendas down yet another industries throat. Is it sexist? Is it fuck, it is attacking more guys than it is girls. It only started with them because they were the ones that stupidly leaked their OBVIOUS manipulation. In fact, Zoe only ended up happening because she pissed off the wrong guy.

I'd go on, but it is obvious you are already blinded by, hilariously and ironically, damsels in distress in need of help.
They don't need your help. Stop making them out to be weaker than they are. It is actually insulting to them. (for some reason)
They picked their battles. Let them have their equality. If they don't like it, too bad, this is the real world. They can piss off back to their tumblrs to whine about it.

Attacking gamers. Gamers. The people conditioned to want to win. That want to complete their mission, that want to get somewhere, and will LITERALLY SHIT THEMSELVES AND DIE if it means they can play a little longer. (silly MMO players)
They picked the wrong battle.

Actually, many people were "limited to buying at *their* store", because they wanted more of the initial DLC. Check out the *TEN* SKUs on the chart in this article:
http://www.lazygamer.net/xbox-...

You can believe me or not, I don't care. You don't back your claims, in reality it's PS3 games that run in "640p" compared to 720p on 360 (see here and here) or with missing post-processing. Games I worked on had features cut on PS3 compared to 360 as well, but I won't damage the franchise by stating what it was. It is enough for me that Sony realized their mistake and is trying hard to make up for it with PS4.

Microsoft seems to be rushing to embrace the set top box world.

Unfortunately, with their latest dashboard release, Microsoft have announced their intention to be a set top ad service with a tiny amount of space in between dedicated to content. When sites are having to post how tos on how to hack your dashboard back to something less offensive, you've gone too far more.

On top of that, they've apparently intentionally degraded video quality for third party providers more.

If you want to be the best set top box, Microsoft's setting the bar very, very low. Just show up*, don't be evil and, simply by default, you'll offer a far more compelling service.

*Note: By showing up, you actually have to show up in reasonable time with a product this time. That whole need to run a DVD from Netflix just to run the software to stream Netflix? That barely counts as showing up. Sure, you fixed it eventually but how many users got used to turning to their 360 instead because you put out such a boneheaded system? Even if it was Netflix's fault, they're a huge plus point for your system - send engineers over there to help them, do whatever it takes, get the core services right.

Although the Kinect is apparently not subsidised, I completely see your point. They were projecting every Kinect as including $x in additional software sales as well as the $y profit on the hardware, and I totally understand why they're pissed about not getting that $x that they were hoping for. That wasn't my point - their motivation in wanting to prevent the Kinect being used as a standalone device is clear.

Makes me want to cry for Sony as well for selling their console at a loss. What's even funnier is when someone takes said console (USAF)...buys thousands of them and sets them up for not playing games. Those bastards! The USAF should know better than to steal from a company they know is losing money on every console they buy. Buying thousands...our government owes Sony BIG!

We...as consumers...should use said product in the only way the company likes. Our corporate leaders want no more from us than to follow what they tell us to do.

BTW...does anyone know if I can get a Superman cape off an auction site so that I can fly??? How about anyone to help me grab the pulley on the car while it's running??? Gotta change that belt somehow and don't want to stop the car engine to do it.

Although the Kinect is apparently not subsidised, I completely see your point. They were projecting every Kinect as including $x in additional software sales as well as the $y profit on the hardware, and I totally understand why they're pissed about not getting that $x that they were hoping for.

If it's not subsidised, then they're fucking retarded...absolutely bat-shit fucking crazy if you're right and they're pissed about that...

They are making ($y + $x) * 100,000s to owners of xbox360s...

With the advent of this hack, they are making an additional $y * 100s/1,000s of hackers/indie game developers/indie gamers/performance artists etc. etc. who would not have otherwise bought one.

If they argue that those hackers/indie gamers would have gone out and bought an xbox360 and 10 games were it not for someone providing an open driver then they are smoking crack.

For a car analogy, many boy racers like to put Lexus headlight/tail-light clusters on their cars...for...whatever reason. Microsoft's reaction is as stupid as Lexus trying to stop non-Lexus owners from buying their headlight/tail-light clusters because they want them to go out and buy a Lexus.

Although the Kinect is apparently not subsidised, I completely see your point. They were projecting every Kinect as including $x in additional software sales as well as the $y profit on the hardware, and I totally understand why they're pissed about not getting that $x that they were hoping for. That wasn't my point - their motivation in wanting to prevent the Kinect being used as a standalone device is clear.

My point, and the bit that surprises me, is that they seem to be operating on the assumption that there was ever a chance of preventing the Kinect from being used openly. This assumption leads them to make bad PR moves, like the 'tampering' comments. I wasn't expecting a company like MS, who are usually not too bad with their marketing, to totally ignore all precedent (DRM, undocumented protocols, and the like are always cracked) and come to faulty assumptions like that.