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Holy Crap -- GMT was DDoS'd.
But I still think that GMT is an example of how to do right, as a company, for the company's target market as a whole. My position is that I like how GMT conducts their business, which is all I really expect from a company. In an ideal world GMT will outlast it's current staff and continue to be a shining example of how to support your audience and celebrate your niche.
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wadenels wrote:
Stonecutter wrote:
Gary Sax wrote: I know there is some hate about Gene running the place and being a sexual offender and all... could be that had something to do with it?
Wait, what?
He was convicted & did a few years for lewd conduct with a 14-15 year old in his home.
On September 13, 2002 the Hanford (California) Sentinel reported:
"Eldon Gene Billingsley, 42, of Hanford, was sentenced to three years in
state prison Monday after being charged with touching a young girl
inappropriately in January at his home. This is the maximum term, District
Attorney's officials said, for molestation of a child of 14 to 15 years
old." (Sentencing 09-09-02; Department 2; Case #02-4216)
I can't help but combine all the facts in this case: that GMT games' founder was a sex offender, that the site went down due to "denial of service" and that their most famous title is Twilight Struggle.
Whoa.
Did you blokes know that DragonCon's founder is a TWO TIME kiddie diddler?
crimevictimsmediareport.com/?p=4363
A lot of perverts in the game industry. Maybe some of them get into games to be around children. In any event, I'm not in favor of capital punishment, but sex offenders are high on my list of people that should be shot, cheaply, through the eye socket. Something about knowing it's coming, and the last thing they'll see is a look of disgust and disdain.
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I think that if he paid the price via doing time, then that is all society should ask of him. The idea of permanent ostracism is too much, especially if he hasn't had any issues since. But the company blatantly lying as transparent PR move is not ok.
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I'm just kind of trying to figure out why the DDoS would happen, I'm grasping at straws.
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Although I have no sympathy with sex offenders, I do believe that their stigmatisation by society is over the top. Jail time alone without psychological treatment is probably not sufficient, but it is sad that apparently most people won't even allow sex offenders a chance at rehabilitation into society.
It's quite ridiculous, some people are outraged that a fraction of their gaming dollars might reach the hands of a past and apparently rehabilitated sex offender, but probably all too willingly spend their money on sweat-shop clothes, oil imported from totalitarian regimes, food harvested under slave-like conditions, etc.
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This is probably totally antidotal, but I work as a librarian in a prison and have a small collection of RPGs and by far it is the sex offenders who check them out. There is one group of skinheads (murders and meth mostly) who have a D&D 4th edition campaign going. But other than that it is mostly the sex offenders.
People who get convicted of of sex offenses tend to be white, immature, and have very poor social skills... sounds like most of the people hanging out at my local gamestore.
I agree with dysjunct the guy served his time as was dictated by the courts.
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