Oops, I think your empathy mask is kind of getting crooked. I can see your REEEEE face. I know at this point you're fishing for attention but here, just so we can end this charade and move on. While it was always a male dominated hobby, females have always been a part of gaming culture and this has not changed for the last three decades. Your side of the internet's constant push to change the narrative is pathetic. Get back to your containment forum.
What CDPR tweeted is not the equivalent of screaming nigger to my face. I, as a black person know that. You know that. Trans people know that. Everyone with a fucking brain knows that.
Unfortunately, it's too good for PR. It's advertisement with very low costs.
Your theory is terribly flawed and probably flat out incorrect. It assumes that the only people who were upset weren't gamers and weren't going to buy it in the first place. It is a baseless assumption that you are in no position to make. Them deleting the tweet will have absolutely no effect on sales. Especially since most of these "gamers" who "hate PC culture" you talk about make fun of people for boycotting games over dumb stuff, right? so it would just be hypocritical for them to boycott a game over deleting a tweet.
This couldn't be further from the truth. Go look at the purple site, that's where all those old community members went. They're not organizing some sort of boycott. People are still excited about the game and are still going to buy it. The only person I see claiming that people won't buy it anymore is the first genius I quoted who thinks that because CDPR apologized that some people won't buy the game anymore. Was there some outrage culture on old gaf? sure, but that outrage culture seems to have been replaced by outright bigotry and ignorance. I prefer the former.
The costs are sneaking up on companies. Twitter is the new version of "angry lady writing a Letter to the Editor". It's usually nothing more than public whining in order to get a discount or special treatment. I've also seen people hunt down our execs via LinkedIn which is a special kind of privileged thinking.
There is indeed a dissproportionate amount of Twitter that is full of people wanting an echochamber but (I hope) themajority of them are not there for politics and a lot use it as a news aggregate. I mean, the tweet had 1k likes and 500 comments. Out of those 500 comments a lot of them were poking fun at the people being outraged
I see it more like this
Oh, you're actually serious. Oh dear.
You are trying way too hard to impress people who, in the main, simply aren't impressed by your particular brand of empty bullshit and bluster.
But, on the bright side, I know a place where they simply lap this kind of nonsense up.
No, he isn't. That's kind of the point.
I'm not treating him as a troll, but he's really wrong in this situation. I mean really wrong. I hope that he would respond to me after my last message but he's clearly backed out of the debate.
Again, you should stop while you're behind. You're stupid comparisons aren't helping your already silly argument.
really, they aren't traumatized? Than why the hell did you introduce that concept into this thread?
Here is a crazy concept. Maybe you're extremely narrow view of what someone see's as hateful, isn't as all-encompassing as you seem to believe?
No I don't respect someone who says anyone who disagrees with them "lacks empathy".
Please provide us with a nice explanation of everything he's wrong about because I read your other post in this thread and you certainly didn't do it there.
They are. He made sweeping generalisations, told people it wasn't up to them to decide what offended trans people (while telling us what offends trans people), said it wasn't up to other people to decide what a light hearted joke is (then told us what a light hearted joke is), all seemingly while in a little tizzy, cursing, implying people are dense etc, etc. Basically, not someone worth wasting time conversing with.
There are millions of actual things worth getting outraged about.
Respect is a commodity that is earned. That is precisely what gives it value.
I mean, I called in question feminism and he made a generalization about my childhood, told me to grow up and to check my privilege. I understand that some people were maybe too agresive on him from the start, some of them even insulting him but I honestly think he's not here for a debate.
you're going to buy three copies of a game just because they made fun of trans people?
Sure there are tons of bad things going on in the world. That doesn't mean we can't talk about a bad taste joke. Especially on this forum where people were so excited about the prospect of talking about video games instead of politics. Those other things you mentioned were very political. I think the people of newGAF who like to keep it to the video games would rather talk about a tweet pertaining to a video game developer.
telling someone to check their privilege doesn't mean you don't recognize your own privilege.
I'm not debating him I'm making fun of his terrible argument.
You're going to have to elaborate more on that because I don't even know how you came to this conclusion. Telling someone to check their privilege when they themselves are privileged means they lack debate skills? Wouldn't a privileged person know a thing or two about being privileged and thus more than capable of telling someone to check their own?
