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Brinksman

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,182
I have irreconcilable qualms supporting willfully pedophile adjacent corporations such as THQ Nordic and cannot get behind this. Apparently Viacom and the Nickelodeon Group can, which is unsurprising I suppose.
 

Chasing

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
10,714
Holy shit what? This was the most unexpectedly enjoyable game from my childhood.
 

SpankyDoodle

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,082

TeamLeftMatch

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,683
Shame but fuck THQN so I'll skip this game. I'd rather not support a company that endorses child porn, terrorism and white supermacy.
 

Acidote

Member
Oct 26, 2017
4,973
Is the original game any good? I never played it because I thought it would just be another shovelware game as I did with anything with a license attached.
 

TheMrPliskin

Member
Oct 26, 2017
3,564
They probably had no idea that stuff was on the website and decided to post there because it was decided on a whim without knowing all the details of the website. It's not the publisher's fault but the PR person, I don't see THQ proper as the ones responsible.
I cannot believe people still wave around this weak ass argument when it's been pulled apart numerous times.

Pro tip, when defending a company that signal boosted a nazi and pedo website maybe do some research into what you're defending.
 

真棒!

Banned
Nov 24, 2017
649
I'll be honest, that's rad. If there's one game I've always wanted to see a remaster/remake of, it was this one. Like, I love the game to death.

That said, no, fuck off THQ.



Harmless? Harmless?! Signal boosting a site known for child porn, right wing terror, and white supremacy is harmless?! That event unleashed some uncomfortable and traumatizing memories, it caused my PTSD to act more than usual, and I had to set up at least two appointments a week for my therapist, and you call it harmless?!



YES THEY DID, ENOUGH! YOU CANNOT EVEN GET INTO 8CHAN VIA GOOGLE SINCE THEY BLACKLISTED IT! THESE THINGS TAKE MONTHS OF PLANNING!!


i actually googled "8chan v" and got a link so
 

Gestault

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,366
Publishing children's games takes on a seriously dark undertone considering THQ Nordic's co-promotion with sites restricted from Google search results due to regular/ongoing distribution of child pornography.

Considering their initial unwillingness to even stop that event with 8Chan, followed by only days later removing the promotional link (after being directly confronted by business partners), and making the point not to enact any meaningful accountability for what happened, I can't look at this as some innocent, meaningless happenstance.
 
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Zonal Hertz

Banned
Jun 13, 2018
1,079
Harmless? Harmless?! Signal boosting a site known for child porn, right wing terror, and white supremacy is harmless?! That event unleashed some uncomfortable and traumatizing memories, it caused my PTSD to act more than usual, and I had to set up at least two appointments a week for my therapist, and you call it harmless?!

I'm really sorry you went through this. But I can't quite compute how an AMA on an alt right horrendous forum caused you mental health issues?
 

Boy Wander

Alt Account
Banned
Oct 29, 2017
2,126
UK
Take it up with a mod. They've decided this is what they want to do. Folks who don't want to see it can easily ignore it if they like. I've had cases where I've disagreed with others on similar matters and I can manage go about my business without losing my mind and telling those who may care about an issue to fuck off or whatever else. I guess the answer would be for some of the posters here to just grow up.

No one HAS to respond to anyone cussing out THQ or make up silly arguments about how "fuck thq" also means fuck Janet, the single mother of two working in THQ's accounting division.

Yeah I get that. It just seems a bit futile at this point to swagger into a thread, literally post "fuck thq" and then swag out again. It also shits up threads where people want to discuss the game in question.
 

unknownspectator

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
2,192
I'm really sorry you went through this. But I can't quite compute how an AMA on an alt right horrendous forum caused you mental health issues?

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nillansan

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
1,520
Denmark
They probably had no idea that stuff was on the website and decided to post there because it was decided on a whim without knowing all the details of the website. It's not the publisher's fault but the PR person, I don't see THQ proper as the ones responsible.
Dude, people warned them when they announced the AMA. Amazing how people are bending over backwards to defend practices that effectively helped signal boost a pedophile neo nazi nest that has direct ties to mass murderers. Nice.
 

LabRat

Member
Mar 16, 2018
4,234
uhh i just looked at some gameplay of the original one and i'm not sure why people are hyped, it looks like a pretty standard 3D platformer. is this game really good or is it just nostalgia?
 

Bit_Reactor

Banned
Apr 9, 2019
4,413
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I'll take it though. People have been talking about that game for years so I assume they're going for the cult/niche game fans.
 

Ms.Galaxy

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
1,653
I'm really sorry you went through this. But I can't quite compute how an AMA on an alt right horrendous forum caused you mental health issues?

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Here's a question I want people to think about carefully from this image as well, "How do you know that those images and videos of you are floating around the internet?" There was an incident in 2014, where some online troll decided to email those videos to me, I became well aware that the stuff was floating around online. 8chan is known to host links to child porn. Add the two together, alongside what I wrote in this image.

Do you what I fear the most? Reliving those two months of hell. It's one thing I have to accept in my life that I was raped as a child, but finding out that recordings of that hell are floating around the internet is another ball game, and to be reminded of that is equally hell.
 

Rygar1126

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,050
Did people really expect Viacom/Nick not to work with THQ after the 8chan incident? That seems..........naive. The general public probably has no clue about what happened to begin with.

As for this, cool, I guess? I remember playing this when it came out and thinking it was fine enough. I don't know if it's worth revisiting though.
 

Camjo-Z

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,510
uhh i just looked at some gameplay of the original one and i'm not sure why people are hyped, it looks like a pretty standard 3D platformer. is this game really good or is it just nostalgia?

you can slide down hills on spongebob's tongue while extreeeeeme music plays which makes it an instant 10/10

 

Jebusman

Member
Oct 27, 2017
4,086
Halifax, NS
i actually googled "8chan v" and got a link so

The way google blacklists searches is by direct match.

searching "8chan" doesn't give you a direct link, but searching 8chan + literally anything will cause it to show up again.

Even searching the domain name exactly causes it to show up. Google did the absolute bare minimum in delisting it.
 

saenima

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
11,892
Did people really expect Viacom/Nick not to work with THQ after the 8chan incident? That seems..........naive. The general public probably has no clue about what happened to begin with.

I guess this is all that matters. Not that THQ cozied up to pedo nazis, but that not enough people heard about it. All your logic tells me is fuck Viacom and fuck this Nick fella.
 

真棒!

Banned
Nov 24, 2017
649
User banned (permanent): attacking other members over experienced abuse
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Here's a question I want people to think about carefully from this image as well, "How do you know that those images and videos of you are floating around the internet?" There was an incident in 2014, where some online troll decided to email those videos to me, I became well aware that the stuff was floating around online. 8chan is known to host links to child porn. Add the two together, alongside what I wrote in this image.

Do you what I fear the most? Reliving those two months of hell. It's one thing I have to accept in my life that I was raped as a child, but finding out that recordings of that hell are floating around the internet is another ball game, and to be reminded of that is equally hell.

Why do you constantly keep posting about your tragic experiences as a child that in no way relates to any of this? I'm sorry that stuff happened to you, I really am but at a point it your hate for THQ doesn't seem too genuine and it feels like you just want people to feel sorry for you. Nobody is going to stop buying games form THQ because of an event that happened to you that a game publisher had no part in.
 

Ms.Galaxy

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
1,653
Why do you constantly keep posting about your tragic experiences as a child that in no way relates to any of this? I'm sorry that stuff happened to you, I really am but at a point it your hate for THQ doesn't seem too genuine and it feels like you just want people to feel sorry for you. Nobody is going to stop buying games form THQ because of an event that happened to you that a game publisher had no part in.

Wow... Fuck this.

Okay. Listen carefully, this is about the AMA from a pretty known video game publisher that fucking signal boosted a site known for linking child pornography and directly linked to it on their social media for over 15 hours. That is related, because, as I said, the site is known to link child porn and what do you think those videos floating around are?!
 
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boontobias

Avenger
Apr 14, 2018
9,539
Why do you constantly keep posting about your tragic experiences as a child that in no way relates to any of this? I'm sorry that stuff happened to you, I really am but at a point it your hate for THQ doesn't seem too genuine and it feels like you just want people to feel sorry for you. Nobody is going to stop buying games form THQ because of an event that happened to you that a game publisher had no part in.
You really told a child prostitution survivor "You just want to people to feel sorry for you" huh