Rab Florence will probably end up writing for RPS, if he isn't already.
morriss wrote:
My actual real opinion is very insulting and unhelpful.
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Baleoce 1,065 posts
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Registered 2 years agoWish the twitter misogynists would just go crawl under a rock somewhere. Not helping this debate at all..Steam: Baleoce
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Registered 5 years agoErik Kain from Forbes just put up an article on the situation: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/10/25/video-game-journalist-robert-florence-leaves-eurogamer-after-libel-complaints/ -
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Registered 7 years agoNow did he actually leave because of this or was it the natural end to a series of articles?---------------------------------------------------------
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Feanor 13,595 posts
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Registered 11 years agonickthegun wrote:
When I see a corpse with a knife sticking out of his back I usually wonder if it was just natural causes.
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thedaveeyres 8,277 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThe silence from Eurogamer on this one is deafening. Luckily for them the whole debate is about to go away as the mainstream media push the 'horrible mysogyny tweeted to poor videogames journo' angle. Bet your life on that.
Can't blame them really. Gamers love to live down to the mouthbreathing virgin neckbeard stereotype on social media.
Edited by thedaveeyres at 19:48:10 25-10-2012D****** ******r
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onestepfromlost 1,496 posts
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Registered 6 years agoOk so i study scots law rather than english law, so i do defamation rather than libel, but they are very similar in criteria the main differences is english law diffirentiates between the written word and the spoken, whereas Scots law doesn't. Now the point im making is he has broken no defmation law according to scots law and im pretty sure its the same under libel.
Now a lot of the articles that have been written today about the subject seem to be saying that EG cant be blamed for not wanting to defend a libel case, but any lawyer (and im sure EG must have some sort of legal department) could see there wouldn't be much of a case to defend. Any judge that had this case before them im sure would award expenses to the winner of the case ( which would most definatly be EG).
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Registered 6 years agoI am not a lawyer either, but I know that defending legal cases can be very expensive. I don't know if this relates to libel, but I remember Ian Hyslop saying in the Metro that he was once the most sued man in Britain, and he only won once. And even then, he incurred £1000000 in costs.The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine.
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onestepfromlost 1,496 posts
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Registered 6 years agotrue it is usually expensive, but usually expenses can be recouped on winning from the losing side. To be honest i wouldnt see this case going on, youd need to be mental to take it on and try and win. -
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Registered 9 years agoecureuil wrote:
Did a bit of searching and found this as well, hilarious!
Had to go back and watch this review. Love it.
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Registered 4 years agoI do hope that Florence lands on his feet, although I wasn't the hugest fan of his columns. He certainly had a unique take on the industry, I'll grant. I also hope a certain sector of Internet deviants don't use the story as an excuse to track down Wainwright's home address or spam porn on her website or what have you. I can see the rage train rolling on this one as the story widens in scope. -
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Registered 9 years agoThis is exactly what I've felt for years. game "journalism" is a joke.If you can read this you really need to fiddle with your forum settings.
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Cash wise I don't know. But anything he writes in future will have a lot more credibility with Gaf, 4Chan, PAX, EG, RPS...etc. etc. etc. ... Forbes! readers than before.
He could be the next Jeff Gerstmann.gif)
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El_MUERkO 16,130 posts
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Registered 10 years agoSome epic fact finding on GAF, I understand why she was so desperate to get her quote pulled from the article
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Registered 8 years agoAs someone who knows the UK libel laws in some detail, I have say there wouldn't be a cat in hell's chance of anything in the original article falling foul of them. The defence of fair comment would have Rab covered, assuming he genuinely holds those opinions and doesn't have a grudge against any of the journos he names - both of which seem very obvious both from the piece and from his tweets more generally.
Yes these things are expensive to defend, but they're also very expensive suits to bring, which is why it's normally only celebrities and the very rich who manage to get as far as court with libel claims. Can't see the journo who complained fitting into that bracket.
Very disappointed with EG for not backing their writer on this one, to be honest.Inventor of the hovercraft
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Registered 7 years agoWhy is everyone going on about UK libel law? I thought the MCV guy who asked for it to be changed already stated he didn't wanna sue? -
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Registered 11 years agoEl_MUERkO wrote:
Laughable the way she's tried to cover her tracks. Doesn't fool anyone on the internet these days, just makes people search even harder.
Some epic fact finding on GAF, I understand why she was so desperate to get her quote pulled from the article
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Registered 2 years agoIt's shocking that they caved so easily. They must have known that considering the very topic of the article (and the outcome of such an edit), it would put him in a completely impossible position as a writer for EG. They even went so far as to publicly apologise to her.Steam: Baleoce
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Popzeus 7,888 posts
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Registered 8 years agoWe're all going on about libel laws because what other earthly reason would there be for changing the article?Inventor of the hovercraft
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Seriously?
They even went so far as to publicly apologise to her.
What a joke.Inventor of the hovercraft
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Registered 10 years agoFar from one of Eurogamer's proudest moments.
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I'd guess EG probably wussed out, out of ignorance/fear of the law rather than any actual threats. I donno, there could be more to it or EG could genuinely believe including those names in the article could be construed as overstepping some kind of mark. Their description as "cruel" can be read into somewhat.
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