So how many more instances do there need to be of gamers going from zero-to-sixty with the violent, threatening language before we can all finally admit this community has a problem? Rather than continually passing off what are nearing daily occurrences as the work of a few bad apples?

Guy spergs out, makes death threats, gets game removed, and more spergs come out of the woodwork to question why it's so wrong to jokingly make death threats to somebody.

Well, that's one way to take a fairly reasonable complaint and make a total and complete ass of yourself :/

"We have removed the game's sales page and ceased relations with the developer after he threatened to kill one of our employees", a Valve spokesperson told Kotaku. Which only made Mike's day/life worse.

There's the thing though. People think it's okay to act like an asshole on the internet. And not even he gets the excuse of being anonymous (it's a bad excuse but I'm just saying) he said this on a public Twitter account with his name.

phil was hated BEFORE he acted the way he did, and im sure this guy's game wasnt nearly as good as fez was.

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venting on a business partner is not going to get things done faster, just like the only thing yelling to a waiter is gonna get you is an extra serving of spit in your meal.

No one touches Gabe got it?

I doubt Valve took it as a serious death threat either, but they had to show that there's consequences to acting like a prick instead of an adult.

I have actually. But good of you to assume otherwise.

And Anita does want to rid video games of male fantasies while ignoring the double standard she has created for male and female fantasies, where in we shouldn't make the games we want to play, where we can be a badass gun slinger, or what have you.

I respect what you're saying and I see where you're coming from. I get you.

You don't know anything about modern feminism. Because it has NOTHING to do with hating men.

NOPE.

Your name is Dynamite, and it's pretty fucking easy for you to sit safe and secure in front of you PC and tell people whose lives have been threatened to "not sweat it."

The police can't shut down a stupid Twitter movement. Other people speaking out against it can. This needs all the negative attention it can get.

No I'm not saying people should stop calling themselves gamers. Of course not everyone should be able to call themselves whatever they want of course. As I've been thinking about this I've made the distinction between enthusiast cultures and identity categories. I think the "hardcore gamer" category is more along the…

If that were to happen the wail would immediately go up that "you can't blame us all for an isolated incident by one maniac!" The problem of course is that it isn't isolated.