The Beginnings Of A Turn

Mar 02, 2012 03:51

Recently, there have been some headlines that have caught my eye.

One, of course, is the tragedy of a recent high school shooting in a town about 10 miles to the north of me, in the extreme boondocks, called Chardon. I've actually been to Chardon for my job, I have coworkers who live there (including one who had a daughter who witnessed the event ( Read more... )

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doctor_claw March 2 2012, 22:28:17 UTC
I wasn't even paying attention to the whole Cross Assault thing before the shitstorm, but Aris (lol @ that name BTW) was being an assclown for sure. I believe that his "defense" just made things worse; he basically compared sexual harrassment to a video game controller as far as its place in the fighting game community. It was a real crap rationale for acting an ass toward Miranda -- to whom he should have apologized on camera. Maybe he did when the cameras were off, but it was pretty clear she didn't find any of that stuff amusing, and she was trying to play along before it got to be too much ( ... )

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