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[SomedayTheFire]

The tweet more specially said "It makes me not even want to make jokes about it" he never mentioned rape so I mean he could have joked in the past about his drink being drugged or something.

I've just read some nasty tweets attacking him for it which I don't think helps at all.

When I read it the implication seemed like rape jokes, which are very scummy jokes that directly affect people so I can see why that riled people up.

I haven't seen the tweets attacking him so I'll concede that.

In this day and age, if you need to be reminded of this from social media, you probably shouldn't be going out in the first place. This should be common sense.

Honestly, People spend so much time ON social media now a days that is probably when these assholes are drugging the drinks in the first place. Wouldn't even surprise me if it is more often than not someone within the same social circle.

Are you seriously blaming social media for rape?

 

[SalvaPot]

This is one of the nastiest and most evil practices in parties and its amazing how easy it seems to pull off, its really depressing.

Godd on WillPowers in speaking off, but really this is the kind of stuff that needs to be stopped and punished harshly.

 

[User1608]

Holy shit, hope the fucker is caught. Fuck GG and Milo too.

Hope Will recovers from the experience, so scary. Also victim blamers, you suck.

 

[Loomer]

I wish people wouldn't try to drug and potentially rape others.

Potentially?

 

[Lux R7]

Ah fuck this..bastards, i hope they get caught

 

[Feep]

I would be interested to know which party. Not that it was the party-throwers fault, but I would still avoid those gatherings in the future.

 

[CambriaRising]

In this day and age, if you need to be reminded of this from social media, you probably shouldn't be going out in the first place. This should be common sense.

Honestly, People spend so much time ON social media now a days that is probably when these assholes are drugging the drinks in the first place. Wouldn't even surprise me if it is more often than not someone within the same social circle.

Awesome, more victim blaming bullshit.

 

[ibu]

Thankfully this is not indicative of the industry as a whole. But an awfully fucked up situation either way.

Those ones who say 'false flag' are a stupid bunch of fuckers. What would you get for lying about something like that.

Either way, I'm glad he's ok and all the best to those others who are recovering.

 

[Guess Who]

Awesome, more victim blaming bullshit.

"Damn millennials, looking at your cell phones. Maybe if you didn't spend so much time on The Face Books you wouldn't get date raped."

What a fucked up way to see the world.

 

[TheBlueBomber]

In this day and age, if you need to be reminded of this from social media, you probably shouldn't be going out in the first place. This should be common sense.

Honestly, People spend so much time ON social media now a days that is probably when these assholes are drugging the drinks in the first place. Wouldn't even surprise me if it is more often than not someone within the same social circle.

Yo, wtf dude

 

[g11]

He believed it was for his friend because he got the drink from her. Would that change anything at all here if it wasn't?

Because he said other people at the event were also drugged. Why wouldn't one of the other people be who was "targeted"?

 

[Get'sMad]

This happened to me in chicago (I'm a guy) and I still dont know what happened for four hours of my life.

yeah me too. I woke up face down in my living room with like a whole 4-5 hour gap of time that was missing from my brain. It was definitely intended for a women. I was fortunate just to make it home somehow.

 

[TheSpoiler]

In this day and age, if you need to be reminded of this from social media, you probably shouldn't be going out in the first place. This should be common sense.

Honestly, People spend so much time ON social media now a days that is probably when these assholes are drugging the drinks in the first place. Wouldn't even surprise me if it is more often than not someone within the same social circle.

Raising awareness typically assists in getting stronger laws and more security against these attacks. When you constantly remind people that there is a problem - and use real world examples as well - it tends to have a impact in formulating change.

To double that, some people feel safe at these events. Like, they don't consider that it would happen there. Nobody is perfect.

And blaming it on social media is so weird. In this guy's case, the event was already over, and in the normal cases at bars and such, ANY distraction could count. Even so much as going to the bathroom, looking away because your neck hurts, whatever. The focus really shouldn't be "maybe you should pay more attention" and "maybe we should stop this shit".

 

[marlowesghost]

What. The. Fuck.

 

[FreeQuebec86]

If you're "in-character" as a complete immoral asshole 100% of the time ...

that means you're just an immoral asshole.

Yeah true, maybe i just "don't believe him". Like i find he acting bad and he look like he is doing that for the exposure/money.

I know him from past years, when he debate vs the Culture club singer about gay marriage in UK (he was against it lol). So from that video, i saw him as a "professional Troll".

But yeah still asshole if u do that for the money/in"fame"

 

[Boke1879]

In this day and age, if you need to be reminded of this from social media, you probably shouldn't be going out in the first place. This should be common sense.

Honestly, People spend so much time ON social media now a days that is probably when these assholes are drugging the drinks in the first place. Wouldn't even surprise me if it is more often than not someone within the same social circle.

The simple fact you have people calling him a liar is exactly why people should share tehse stories in any way possible. Twitter is a platform.

I mean take gun violence in America. It's a normal occurrence. Yet people are shocked that it keeps happening when nothing is being done to combat it.

While yes you're right it is common sense something like this could happen. It still needs to be brought to light.

 

[Aselith]

Because that's my thought process. If someone meant to sexually violate a friend of mine, my first instinct personally would to be to go to the authorities.

What if the same person, your friend, posted that someone tried to drug her on twitter? Your first instinct would be to reply "making no judgments, why did you post this here? You should go to the authorities!"? What would your friend think of the "making no judgments" if she saw that do you think?

Because he said other people at the event were also drugged. Why wouldn't one of the other people be who was "targeted"?

What difference would it make? What should change about his response based on that?

 

[call_kotaku]

Because he said other people at the event were also drugged. Why wouldn't one of the other people be who was "targeted"?

Yeah because people randomly put roofies in drinks at industry events for shits and giggles

 

[g11]

Yeah because people randomly put roofies in drinks at industry events for shits and giggles

Well apparently that's the case here unless the entire party was sharing a single drink...

 

[Neoriceisgood]

Yeah true, maybe i just "don't believe him".

He's clearly trying to play a role & exaggerating, but he either fully believes all the awful terrible views he holds with sincerity (which I do believe) or he's so damn craven that he thinks being awful/offensive is just the funniest thing to be literally 24/7.


Just because he comes across as a puppet trying to seem like a fancy troll doesn't mean his behavior can be ignored. He chooses to be seen the way he does.

 

[Spman2099]

Potentially?

There are still a lot of steps neccesary after you drug someone to rape them. I have gone to many parties with friends who I was looking out for. If any of them were konked out and being lead out of the bar I would have made sure that didn't happen.

That is why friends should have other friends looking out for them.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Suddenly your post history makes perfect sense.

and your numerous posts in a thread called "Report: More Women Own Videogame Consoles Than Men in US" insisting that the statistics must be flawed

Well, there it is.gif

 

[Boke1879]

Well apparently that's the case here unless the entire party was sharing a single drink...

Someone could have put shit in the drink intended for the friend and Will could have just picked it up.


Is there anything stated that others were drugged? I missed this.

 

[GOOCHY]

I had it happen to me at a concert last year. My wife went and got two draft beers and I ended up drinking the one they apparently thought she was drinking. Cue me somewhat coming to pseudo consciousness at the end of the 2nd set, after the band had already put the covers on the instruments.

Bad stuff.

 

[Spman2099]

"@nero" ( Milo something ) is a gamergater? This guy is so trolly, but often i think he "act" in a role.

I read about him today and saw he is now on Breibart... xD and a Trumpist.

On topic, intense story, if the party was organize by a gaming compagny. They will get a bad rep now. (Even more maybe if it was a official E3 party)

The thing is, he has become one of the mains voices for hate on the internet. People rally around him. He is legitimately making the world a substantially worse place.

 

[qa_engineer]

There was a story about a group of women who prevented a woman from possibly getting raped, by her date who happened to be a really close friend, at a restaurant recently. They caught the guy slipping something in her drink. Seems like this happens quite a bit and has def happened to couple of my girl friends.

Remember gentlemen: nothing is more sexy than consent.

 

[poodaddy]

This happened to a buddy of mine in TN and it legit kind of traumatized him as far as public drinking. The shits terrifying man. People who do this shit are subhuman scum, fucking wastes of air.

 

[Boke1879]

There are still a lot of steps neccesary after you drug someone to rape them. I have gone to many parties with friends who I was looking out for. If any of them were konked out and being lead out of the bar I would have made sure that didn't happen.

That is why friends should have other friends looking out for them.

Yup. It's why if I go anywhere with my female friends I always tell them to never put their drinks down and leave them. I even offer to hold them if they need to use the bathroom etc.

Hell even me and my male friends hold each others drinks. You just don't know. People are crazy.

 

[thebigmachine]

I had it happen to me at a concert last year. My wife went and got two draft beers and I ended up drinking the one they apparently thought she was drinking. Cue me somewhat coming to pseudo consciousness at the end of the 2nd set, after the band had already put the covers on the instruments.

Bad stuff.

That really sucks. Did your wife fill in the blank time? Were you acting weird?

 

[Justified]

Terrible people are everywhere, even in the games industry, I suppose. Hopefully the douchebag who did it gets what they deserve.

If he knew/remembered who spiked the drink in the first place, I'd imagine he did.

What? He doesnt need to know who did it, report it to the poilice and subpoena the cameras.


O/T This is extemely shitty, remember this happened to a friend of mines, luckily we notice and got her out of there

 

[Karak]

What did the tests turn up? Hopefully the police find out who did it.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Well apparently that's the case here unless the entire party was sharing a single drink...

What the fuck. Have you ever heard of hedging? "hedge your bets". That's exactly what that scumbag was doing, drop as many drugs into drinks of potential victims to increase his chances of being able to rape someone. It's not hard to understand if you weren't being so deliberately dumb.

 

[FreeQuebec86]

The thing is, he has become one of the mains voices for hate on the internet. People rally around him. He is legitimately making the world a substantially worse place.

I thought he was pretty obscure. Why Breibart hire him ? ... oh wait -_- lol.

 

[g11]

What if the same person, your friend, posted that someone tried to drug her on twitter? Your first instinct would be to reply "making no judgments, why did you post this here? You should go to the authorities!"? What would your friend think of the "making no judgments" if she saw that do you think?



What difference would it make? What should change about his response based on that?

I'd tell them offline that if she knew or had an idea of who drugged her to go to the authorities absolutely. And for the record, assume the person in question is my friend, I've already made a judgement because otherwise they wouldn't be my friend, so I wouldn't even bother to say that.

 

[GOOCHY]

That really sucks. Did your wife fill in the blank time? Were you acting weird?

Yeah, she said I was falling down and slurring. I only had a few beers that night so it wasn't too much booze. I have never blacked out like that. It was a straight mind wipe. Black, nothing - zero recollection of anything.

 

[Neoriceisgood]

I thought he was pretty obscure. Why Breibart hire him ? ... oh wait -_- lol.

Works for Breibart, big name in Gamergate, apparently gets invited as guest speaker at colleges or something? I haven't exactly followed what his speaker role is about.

Used to even be twitter verified until twitter decided he was too much of an asshole so they removed his tick. lol

Spoiler

Seeing Milo get mad at this for days pleased me to no degree.

 

[Gren]

I had it happen to me at a concert last year. My wife went and got two draft beers and I ended up drinking the one they apparently thought she was drinking. Cue me somewhat coming to pseudo consciousness at the end of the 2nd set, after the band had already put the covers on the instruments.

Bad stuff.

Wow, so the drinks literally only went from the server's hands to your wife's? WTF.

Scary shit (more so) if you can't even trust the venue.

 

[BarrettW]

Sorry this happened to him but pretty shitty that he blames the industry

Really hope he went to the police

I will say that most of those drugs leave you so messed up that you would be in the hospital, so it could have just been alcohol poisoning

Truth is none of us have enough information to make a call either way, still dont see this as a games industry problem
We dont even know if this was an after party, dev hosted party or what

I cant see any reason he would lie i just wouldnt raise the pitchforks just yet

Edit: Hope this doesnt come across as being dismissive because it isnt, spiked drinks are unfortunately a huge problem everywhere, i just dont blame the industry

 

[TheSpoiler]

My friend got hit with this shit. Ended up at some dude's party in a weird part of town. Wiped out three fucking hours of his life.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Sorry this happened to him but pretty shitty that he blames the industry

Really hope he went to the police

I will say that most of those drugs leave you so messed up that you would be in the hospital, so it could have just been alcohol poisoning

Truth is none of us have enough information to make a call either way, still dont see this as a games industry problem
We dont even know if this was an after party, dev hosted party or what

I cant see any reason he would lie i just wouldnt raise the pitchforks just yet

It was an industry party attended by people in the industry.

 

[TheBlueBomber]

My friend got hit with this shit. Ended up at some dude's party in a weird part of town. Wiped out three fucking hours of his life.

Jesus christ, that's terrifying

 

[Aselith]

I'd tell them offline that if she knew or had an idea of who drugged her to go to the authorities absolutely. And for the record, assume the person in question is my friend, I've already made a judgement because otherwise they wouldn't be my friend, so I wouldn't even bother to say that.

So the making no judgments was talking about your view of him as a person?

 

[kamineko]

there is some next-level backseat victim skillz ITT

 

[kirblar]

I'd tell them offline that if she knew or had an idea of who drugged her to go to the authorities absolutely. And for the record, assume the person in question is my friend, I've already made a judgement because otherwise they wouldn't be my friend, so I wouldn't even bother to say that.

In a situation like this, its not going to amount to anything as there likely isn't surveillance footage if it's a temporary setup for a party. A random report doesn't matter if they have no idea who did and no ability to try and figure out who did. This is a big part of the reason why this stuff keeps happening- it's low-risk for the assaulter if there isn't surveillance.

In the incident mentioned above where they caught a guy, they were at an actual bar which had security cameras all over which caught the whole thing.

 

[mr_chun]

Talk about being in the right place at the right time. He unwittingly prevented something potentially awful from happening.

This is what I was thinking, too. Really shitty what happened to him, but likely prevented something even worse from happening to someone else.

Isn't that the guy who won "The Tester"?

Yes, the first season. He spent a few years at PlayStation before ending up at Deep Silver. He seems like a good guy, been following him on Twitter forever.

 

[MUnited83]

Sorry this happened to him but pretty shitty that he blames the industry

Really hope he went to the police

I will say that most of those drugs leave you so messed up that you would be in the hospital, so it could have just been alcohol poisoning

Truth is none of us have enough information to make a call either way, still dont see this as a games industry problem
We dont even know if this was an after party, dev hosted party or what

I cant see any reason he would lie i just wouldnt raise the pitchforks just yet

jesus christ

Do you realize how FUCKING STUPID you sound?

 

[dark10x]

Fuck whoever did this and the assholes victim blaming. Not a joke.

 

[g11]

What the fuck. Have you ever heard of hedging? "hedge your bets". That's exactly what that scumbag was doing, slop as many drugs into drinks of potential victims to increase his chances of being able to rape someone. It's not hard to understand if you weren't being so deliberately dumb.

Read the comment I was responding to before you get all sanctimonious. I was literally implying the same thing you are, the person I was responding to clearly thought otherwise. My God...

 

[capylikesgames]

Disappointed seeing some names in that last tweet, and being unsurprised. Gross enough that this happened at E3 of all places, knowing that people have the audacity to dismiss it is depressing. I hope anyone who was spiked during the party made it out unharmed.

 

[TheSpoiler]

Sorry this happened to him but pretty shitty that he blames the industry

Really hope he went to the police

I will say that most of those drugs leave you so messed up that you would be in the hospital, so it could have just been alcohol poisoning

Truth is none of us have enough information to make a call either way, still dont see this as a games industry problem
We dont even know if this was an after party, dev hosted party or what

I cant see any reason he would lie i just wouldnt raise the pitchforks just yet

Edit: Hope this doesnt come across as being dismissive because it isnt, spiked drinks are unfortunately a huge problem everywhere, i just dont blame the industry

I like how you are pretty focused on the industry being insulted rather than the fact that a person was almost raped.

I mean, that's the angle you care about?