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"simgirl1010;c-17197872" wrote:"JoAnne65;c-17197761" wrote:"simgirl1010;c-17197553" wrote:"Cinebar;c-17197519" wrote:
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The difference between my moral compass and EA's? Hey kids tell us about how you made your friends and put them in the game and 'got even with them'. That's EA's new ad.
My moral compass, no, I have never made anyone I know in real life to put in game to get even with them. Even I have my principles. Now, who has the moral highground?
It never ceases to amaze me how some can totally misrepresent things to suit their own narrative. The purpose of the new ad is to reach out to those who may be dealing with challenges and allow those players to feel comfortable with whatever scenario that brings them pain in real life. Not to exact revenge on anyone.
What narrative? The one where recognizable real life people are exposed without giving permission, without being warned even, because their 16 yr old relative was given the opportunity to give their bitter and one sided vision on things in a world wide ad? There never is one truth, every coin has two sides. It’s unbelievable a gaming company invites young people to present just one side of that coin behind the backs of their parents/siblings/school mates/whatever with only one actual goal: to sell their game. That is my narrative and you’re welcome to disagree but that doesn’t make it “misrepresenting” per se. It just means you see it differently. “Getting back at” was literally in that casting ad. How is that not revenge?
For me "getting back at" is as simple as being allowed to live your life the way you want to and not letting negative, unsupportive forces hold you back. Not tormenting those who refuse to accept you as you are. So I agree we do see it differently. Living well is the best revenge.
As you may know English isn’t my first language so you made me doubt, but when I google the phrasing, every dictionary says it means something along the lines of “to punish someone because that person has done something wrong to you”, or “take revenge on, be revenged on, exact/wreak revenge on, get one's revenge on, avenge oneself on, take vengeance on, get even with, settle a/the score with, pay back, pay out, retaliate on/against, take reprisals against, exact retribution on, let someone see how it feels, give someone their just deserts, give someone a dose/taste of their own medicine, give as good as one gets; give/return like for like, give tit for tat, take an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth); get, give someone their comeuppance; get one's own back on”. Punish, revenge. I appreciate that for you the phrasing doesn’t necessarily mean that, but for me a lot of what was asked there felt... not right.
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