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Originally Posted by zaneosak
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If someone died at their pc playing a video game and it wasn't a game that's popular or on some service that's known like twitch, YouTube or something with name recognition it won't even make one of those 8 pt font links on the bottom of CNN. if someone shot themselves on stream after losing a game of fortnite, sure. Some dude keels over malnourished playing an everquest emulator? 0 chance. There would be fuck all dmg to the community. Unless the mods want to shut it down on their own principals. Boeing has the deaths of hundreds on their hands last two years and still operates with public scrutiny. Nobody would give two fucks about a corner of the internet that literally 5k people are invested it, and that's being generous.
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I disagree. When it happens in China it makes bigger news than the Hong Kong Protestors fighting for Democracy.
Our media (And especially for conservative media) has a hard on for blaming video game for violence and deaths for some reason and a story like this would make them happy to plaster it everywhere that a game caused a death.
And you are missing one huge piece of those stories. Money. Boeing has the money to bury any story and clog up whatever issues might arise from people dying. It's a billion dollar company. If someone dies and they sue (Disregarding if they could win or not) that would place a pretty large burden on the P99 crew both financially and mentally. Who knows if they would be able to afford to fight a case. Lots of smaller companies tend to settle to avoid lengthy court battles.