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Adelaide's Channel 9 News spews Fabricated Fake News BS about an alleged "Grand Theft Adelaide" game encouraging violence

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Adelaide's Channel 9 News recently have spewed fake news about a game they believed to be Grand Theft Adelaide and presented the game as encouraging violence and tried to paint the developers in the worst possible light.

 

Of Course, the journalists not giving a shit about factual correctness assumed this was a GTA game because it looked slightly similar to other GTA games (I use the word slightly here very carefully cos it is very slight), and of course they had no idea who Rockstar Games were.

 

The journalist contacted the indie developer on Facebook after finding their game on some random online internet forum. The journalists and producers of the show asked questions and didn't like the information they received since it conflicted with their theory. And they lied to the people by saying the developed declined to comment when in fact they were the ones who didn't present the comments because they didn't lineup with Channel 9's agenda.

 

They falsely presented the earliest possible prototypes of the game as violent and tried to link it to the London bombing and recent acts of violence around the world.

 

Did i mention how the journalists used the oldest possible video clips and screenshots of the game to make it look a lot worse than it actually was in it's current state at the time of their news report?

 

And of course the game had nothing to do with violence as the developer pointed out that they just wanted to recreate the city of Adelaide in a video game world.

 

The game itself is still a work in progress as the developer has pointed out.

 

This all came out when the developer of the games talked to the source listed online.

 

Whew. And now for my opinion. Channel 9, please just give up and find a new career. Fake news isn't welcome in journalism and bullying developers to make them look bad and to prove your point isn't your job. That's just nasty. I don't condone it and I don't anybody else here does either.

 

Oh and to top it all off, they showed the games to normies in the real world and they were horrified by what they saw.

 

So yeah, f*ch Channel 9 News.

 

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It was quite the entertaining video, just ripping the station to shreds

and I can't find the game anywhere which is sad :( 

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something something politics something something trump something something fake news shillary something something build a walk something something

 

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Remember when radio was a fad and would melt your brains?

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remember when phones made everyone antisocial and made more bullying?

i don't have anything more appropriate than that so.

 

 

propaganda!

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VIDEAO GAMES R BAD AND TEACH THE CHILLUN 2 BEHAV BADLEE!!!

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1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

VIDEAO GAMES R BAD AND TEACH THE CHILLUN 2 BEHAV BADLEE!!!

Remember back in the good old days when video games and computers weren't a thing?

 

so much better before!

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do we have a link to the actual news report?  what about the indie developer? do we know anything about the actual game?

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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1 minute ago, themctipers said:

Remember back in the good old days when video games and computers weren't a thing?

 

so much better before!

Back when I was a child in 1962 we had dirt and sticks as entertainment! These gosh darn kids these days...

 

(nah fuqq that '98 babies rule)

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Just now, mr moose said:

do we have a link to the actual news report? 

Soz. Nope.

Just now, mr moose said:

what about the indie developer? do we know anything about the actual game?

The game is called PPlater (I believe) and is developed by 3 people in their spare time as a hobby.

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1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Back when I was a child in 1962 we had dirt and sticks as entertainment! These gosh darn kids these days...

 

(nah fuqq that '98 babies rule)

 back when I was a child in 1916 we didn't even have dirt or sticks to play with!

 

lucky 1962 folk, WHOOP DE DOO

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Just now, mr moose said:

do we have a link to the actual news report?  what about the indie developer? do we know anything about the actual game?

The developer is still working on his game (according to Facebook) and he's planning on a steam release but he didn't say when

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Isn't picking up on GTA like old stuff already? why does it still gives any audience?

 

Any ways... I wish GTA VI was announced... Los Santos got old... want a new city to play on.

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I'd buy this. "All you had to do, is follow the damn Kangaroo CJ" :D

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17 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

Not sure why Australia isn't mentioned in your post/title at all.

because watching the first 2 seconds of the video would make it clear and a simple google search can find it out

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Just now, SC2Mitch said:

because watching the first 2 seconds of the video would make it clear and a simple google search can find it out

Not everyone looks up the source, you shouldn't have to google to make sense of a forum post, that's the point of the forum post in the first place. (to make sense of the news post)

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39 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

Not sure why Australia isn't mentioned in your post/title at all.

Adelaide is a state of Australia mate

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1 minute ago, TrigrH said:

My point exactly, I doubt everyone knows that, this isnt an AU/NZ forum last time I checked.

Most people have looked at a map

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2 hours ago, SC2Mitch said:

planning on a steam release but he didn't say when

Nice, more garbage on Steam.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

I'm sure they have, and I doubt they have remembered where every city in the entire world is.

Its a good thing Adelaide isn't every city in the world then.

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