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“To the elderly and those with weak constitutions, gamer culture can appear bizarre, offensive and perhaps even frightening. But it’s deeply silly to allege that ‘hate groups’ are ‘taking over’ just because some hand-wringing, perpetually-aggrieved offense archeologist with too much time on her hands discovered someone saying something shocking,”

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@r000t @matrix

> a study by BBC Click that says extremists have taken over the online chat streams of video games such as “Call of Duty” and “Minecraft”

:thesamurai: The BBC fears the 12-year-old. :jeffk:

@p
Minecraft? They've taken over Minecraft?

That game where you run your own server daemon?

Extremists have taken over my private network? Extremists blew OpenVPN 0days to take over my 4 person Minecraft server?

That's some dedication.
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@r000t @p @matrix
It speaks volumes about the level in which these journalists are detached from reality.

They pay zero attention to demographic, even if it would take two minutes of serious consideration to realise that MINECRAFT AND CALL OF DUTY chats are full of kids. And do kids do? They talk shit.

I'm waiting for the story about three kids in a trench coat holding the government hostage.

@moth_ball @p @matrix
legit, kids will say the literal worst thing they can think of because they want shock

there's absolutely no meaning being encoded. that means there's no meaning to decode.

@r000t @p @matrix but extremism has a better ring to it when advocating for speech restrictions, innit

@matrix
Just by the way, the next time someone uses a 8+ year old tweet to say that someone's irredeemable, will always be bad and "once someone shows you who they are, belive them"

Ask what they feel about criminal justice reform, mandatory minimums, 3-strikes laws, and people serving life sentences for low level drug offenses.

Either people can change or every prison sentence should be a life sentence. Pick one. Pick exactly one.

@matrix Gamer culture isn't far off what playing sports irl is like. Or hanging around with friends for that matter.

It's almost like these journo faggots never had a proper childhood and the closest they got to sports and friendship was getting shoved into lockers.
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