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Double Helix man brands gaming sites as 'f*gs' photo

Eurogamer is never short of controvery when it comes to its reviews, and the European gaming site has caused yet another stir recently when it changed the score of Grand Slam Tennis from 5/10 to 8/10 (owing to them reviewing it originally on a two-year-old kit). Double Helix employee and former Activision man Guy Selga saw this, and decided to brand Eurogamer, along with Kotaku, Joystiq and Gamespot, as "f*gs" that are "all the same."

"Eurogamer magically changes review score. All these f*gs are the same," Tweets Guy. "F*ck #Kotaku, #Joystiq, #Gamespot, etc."

Certainly an articulate, mature, intelligent and well-reasoned critique of some of the world's most popular game sites, of that we can be sure. Selga's Tweet is getting passed around the Internet quite a bit today, seemingly stirring up something of a small hornet's nest. This of course raises the question: With so many games industry people jumping on Twitter, do they have to watch their mouths, or should they be able to spout off anything they like, no matter how unprofessional and/or derogatory their rants?

There's no doubt that Selga was stupid to Tweet that, but how much does he represent his company when he's Twittering, and does it affect his job to be saying things like that as a man who presumably may have to deal with any number of the sites he labeled "f*gs" today?  

Also, f*gs? Are we seriously using playground vernacular as pathetic as that?


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A GAY DAD's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 13:56
A GAY DAD
with all of the dumb meme shit that goes around this site i have no idea why you all bitch about the word fag. it's okay to cry about vulgar terms when you get past EPIC WIN and lolcatz
geno's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 14:02
geno
^ Gay dad droppin' truth bombs on you foolz.
ghets's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 14:15
ghets
I fucking hate twitter. I hate hearing about it every day. I hate the word "tweet". I heard something the other day about some douche who got punched in the face and tweeted for someone to call the cops. Seriously...I cant wait for this thing to die.
ThelastCOG's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 14:19
ThelastCOG
Internet Homophobia at its best people.
moggle's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 14:29
moggle
re: ghets

Amen to that noise. The faster twitter dies, the better. It's a damn pariah. Why? Because it enables inane stories like this one.
Syn's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 14:36
Syn
I may not like what the guy has to say, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be 'allowed' to say it. If he wants to run his mouth, I think he should be allowed, nay, ENCOURAGED to spout off his shit, so he can learn after it kicks him in the ass.

Or he can not learn and just blame someone else.
Eagle 88's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 15:08
Eagle 88
Congratulations! You just guaranteed that I will never play a Double Helix game! Thanks, asshole!
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 15:20
Magnalon
@Guy
Yep! I have nothing against you, nor did I ever think it was to be hateful. I was just replying to all the people who think it wasn't a big deal.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 15:31
-PL-
Is it a big deal? Really?
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 16:41
Magnalon
@ -PL-
I'm going to go on a little spiel here.

Yes, it is, and I'll tell you why. Every time on the news I hear "breaking news: President says the word 'bitch' - females offended" I get fired up: just like yourself. It really pisses me off that one important person says one word and it's suddenly breaking news, and he's a terrible person, it really does.

However, rules apply for persons who are in a professional field, and there are rules for public forums. If you're important, you have to watch what you say: that's what PR is for, to avoid these kinds of stories. Trust me, I want to "fight the man, and combat political correctness and all that" just as much as you. I wish people could say whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, public or private, and there would be no backlash or consequences, but the fact is: we are a politically correct culture. The only people who are able to get away with it are people like Tomonobu Itagaki, because people just shrug off his bad boy image and go "Oh...it's Itagaki mouthing off again".

People will always spout random catchphrases (gay is connotated with "stupid" more-so these days than it is with a sexual meaning, yet it still offends a large amount of homosexuals) out of anger without thinking: always. No matter how many of these stories we see, people will always do it. But they should learn that if you say something on a public forum, and you are somewhat important, people are going to read it, and some people are going to get offended. Is it a big deal to me? No, not at all: but is it a big deal to the public at large? Why else would it have been storming around the net as of today? It's a big deal because not that many professionals say things like that, and hold back their anger: they let their PR speak for them, or issue press statements, like Eurogamer or the Darkfall Developers did in their squabble (Darkfall's situation was 10x worse than this, and they handled it admirably, and received respect for it, and support.).
Analoge's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 19:43
Analoge
Ummm. Jim....

Where did you get that young girl's picture? You haven't been using the internet again, have you son?
Artemus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 20:11
Artemus
That's okay...
At least the gentleman didn't mention DTOID. ;P
Dr Terror's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 23:57
Dr Terror
Not a big deal, guy sounds like a fuckin nobody. At least he's right about Kotaku. Jim attempting to be PC at the end is the real news here.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/26/2009 06:59
Jim Sterling
"Jim attempting to be PC at the end is the real news here."

How is it PC? Fags is a shit insult? If it was in any way witty or intelligent, then it would have been fine. Political correctness has nothing to do with what you find funny.
jamBOT's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/26/2009 17:04
jamBOT
Not smart.
candymo's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/28/2009 00:57
candymo
It's not just his tweets. Seems like "fags" is part of his every day vocab.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:f4dgF3BysYYJ:www.guyselga.com/%3Fcat%3D1+guyselga+fag&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-a

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:wsgmwR8jrA8J:blogs.myspace.com/guyselga+guyselga+fag&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-a
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