The developer of Skyblivion, which remakes Oblivion in Skyrim, says they have received death threats

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• HiDefMusic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If anyone is wondering why…yeah there’s no reason. It’s just sad losers trolling them and hacking their Discord for no reason other than (probably) the lulz.

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  • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How pathetic. Humanity sucks man. :(

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    • NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Remember that it's most like just edgy kids, the internet becomes a lot more bearable when you just assume all the dumbos are little kids trying to act cool.

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  • NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We should make the internet unavailable to kids and teens, the temptation of trolling is too much for their undeveloped brains.

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are as many unbearable man-children as there are socially underdeveloped teens on the internet. As sad as that is, even if we banned teenagers from the internet it wouldn’t improve anonymous spaces all that much.

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  • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    people who can’t create things threaten people who can create things. huh, what a world eh?

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    • ours@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds like capitalism.

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  • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s incredibly common for game developers. Change a variable from a 5 to a 4 and you get death threats. Change it back to 5 ane you get more death threats.

    The reality is that a lot of gamers simply aren’t very good people (and now they often have the far-right cheering them on).

    I loved working in the industry but the constant tantrums and entitlement made it easy to leave.

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  • InternetTubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s probably a seriously petty reason behind it, like someone who also loved Oblivion also began to involve themselves with the development but were driven out or left because they were a petty troll about something. Placing my bets on someone finding out their cult of ideology idol was not universal, if only because that seems to be the statistically most common for pettiness nowadays.

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  • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perhaps it says something about us when this is the kind of shit our children find funny.

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• sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It's the internet. Eventually if you're popular enough, some jerk off will say something dumb.

  It's cheap and easy to do it! Watch: I'll kill you!

  The internet is not your friend.
• Kovu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  gamers™

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More like Internet™. At this point receiving death threats is just a sign that you’re popular enough to be noticed by toxic people.

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    • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve gotten death threats and I’m a complete nobody.

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• Darkard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d be curious to know what the death threats entail. Like, of you don’t finish this free mod soon your going to be killed? How does that even make sense?

  Although I suppose the sort of person who would send a death threat over the internet is not going to be known for thier intelligence.

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t ever try to talk reasonably with this kind of people. They’re completely mentally checked out already

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• MossBear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know people can be absurdly toxic in general, but does it seem like games are an unusually concentrated place for that? If that is the case, why is that?

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  • dunloap@lemmy.fmhy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People that play a lot of videogames are more likely to live an insular life detached from the real world

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    • TheOneAndOnly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the correct answer, in my opinion. Keyboard warriors usually dry up real quick in the face of physical, meat-space confrontation. Same reason behind road rage, really. I’m only brave while I can hide behind a perceived barrier.

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  • Ab_intra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s games that is the issue. You see this in various other places as well.

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    • MossBear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe it’s just me then. I know it happens elsewhere, but it just seems to happen more often in games. I feel like I’m reading stories all the time about developers getting threatened, but I feel like it’s much more rare to see for instance stories about filmmakers or authors being threatened.

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  • forgotaboutlaye@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I really don’t understand this why specifically the gaming communities seem to suffer from this problem more than others.

    Perhaps it’s not reported on as much in other hobby circles, or it’s a confirmation bias on my part.

    Regardless, it’s really disappointing that these communities have this ‘there I go death-threating again’ stigma growing against them. Absolutely disgusting.

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  • Chailles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I had to guess, it’s because gamers are often more tech-oriented, likely younger and impulsive, video games are more and more popular every year, and also based on your presence here, I’d say you’re more likely to be aware of game-related news in general?

    If knitting were more popular, had a greater online presence, and you actively followed knitting communities online, I’d imagine you would probably feel like knitting culture is such a toxic cesspit as well.

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    • shuzuko@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      (I mean it totally is) (the crochet community is much nicer)

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  • lanolinoil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Escapists be Escapin’

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• MyOpinion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Basically if you try to do anything these days you can expect death threats.

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Was there a return address available for any retaliatory death threats? Because IWKAMF.

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  • Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wtf does IWKAMF mean?

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    • EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It means this person is trying to grind their 'keyboard warrior" skill, which to my mind is a waste of spec points but maybe they’re running some gimmick build.

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    • Virkkunen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wanna kill a mother fucker?

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• ScrivenerX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you are on the Internet you will receive death threats. Why are we treating it like news? I don’t make anything, rarely comment and get told to kill myself about once a month.

  It’s messed up, but I hate reading articles of people clutching their pearls over chat from any multiplayer game.

  Either create consequences or accept that it’s a part of the Internet.

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  • Ab_intra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You make it sound normal, which it is not. There is one thing shouting in a game that they will kill you in the game. It’s something totally different when they are sending death threats.

    This is not “part of the internet” this is people being insane. The people behind this could face jail time.

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    • ScrivenerX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are conflating normal with acceptable.

      Death threats are normal on the Internet. People’s lives are constantly threatened on the Internet.

      It’s not acceptable. It should be stopped, but currently there is no real enforcement, and no way to stop them. Acting shocked isn’t going to stop them.

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  • milo_bytes@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I seem to interact with the internet more frequently than you and I have literally never been told to kill myself online. And that even might be about to change, but I’m not particularly sensitive to it. Still an absolutely braindead and shitty thing to do

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• Tamlyn@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think it’s easier to write about the games people don’t have get death threats nowadays. This is so sad

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• Ghost33313@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'm over here with my skooma pipe going, "chill, I'm still waiting on Morroblivion and Morrowskyrim". I don't think modders have ever managed to finish one of these kinds of projects.

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• suckaduck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Absolutely ridiculous to send someone death threats when you don’t agree with them, let alone over a freaking game!

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• quirzle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just guessing, but either:

  • I Would Kill A Mother Fucker, or

  • I Wipe Koala Asshole Against Face

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• tib@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s just a game ugh wtf 😢

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• Toasteh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you get a sufficient following, you will get death threats. Its just an unfortunate fact of life I’m afraid.

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