The best explanation I heard was this. So many of these guys are the basement dwelling stereotypes you read about, the ones who can’t get a date. They’ve convinced themselves that it’s because they like comics and SF and fantasy and nerdy things that girls don’t get. Now, with more and more women becoming fans and…

I really like the show, but its fandom is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. A bunch of people seem to think that the show endorses Rick’s behavior and philosophy and...no, it realllllly doesn’t.

Jesus Tapdancing Christ! The women who write the show these fuckheads love so much are getting harassed & doxxed for writing the show these fuckheads love so much. That is android head-exploding levels of irrationality.

Spoken like someone who has not played Persona 5.

“It was something that I said in the heat of the moment. I said the worst word I could possibly think of, and it just sort of slipped out. I’m not going to make any excuses for why it did”

Please stop doing the thing you love, because i deem it unnecessary

Ultimately, I don’t think it matters why he’s doing it if the end result is more inclusion. We (men) so often complain about the lack of women who also happen to enjoy our hobbies but then make it so hard (whether consciously or not) for newcomers to get into them.

Well, a lot of Europe is pretty much as racist (with a different cultural and historical background obviously) as the US, they just use different words. In fact, everyday and public discourse in Europe can be more blatantly racist than you could get away with in the US (maybe until now at least).

Also blatant racism isn’t politics, it’s blatant racism. Though, nowadays it might be hard to see the difference.

Shit racist youtuber drops the N-bomb, and everyone starts yelling about how it’s not fair to punish them and that it’s completely justified to think about their income from streaming playing video games online before the implications of condoning actual racism.

He can play it all he wants.

There’s absolutely nothing Scary about what the Firewatch devs have done. This isn’t “we’re gonna randomly and unexpectedly take down your shit if we don’t like you or your politics!”

They didn’t take away his copy of the game

It says a lot to me that the majority of people upset by this seem more concerned with the possibility of losing money through loss of revenues than any social concerns. I’m done with Youtube.

And it rolled so easily and casually off the tongue for him too. Almost like it was common for his lexicon.

hm.
Interesting.

This, right here, is the important part. Kjellberg’s reach/ability to influence his audience is the primary reason why he has to be even more responsible for his words and actions (on stream, anyway; I’m not going to bang on about the guy’s private life).

From what I understand, a sizeable percentage of his fanbase is…

B-b-b-but it was just a “heated gaming moment.”

It’s important to remember that while Kjellberg is essentially “signal-boosting” the titles he plays on his streams and videos (and especially indie titles, which might not receive as much exposure otherwise), the companies producing said games are under absolutely no obligation to hold any association with him or his…

I had never seen Overwatch until I was recently reunited with my son this summer. He’s a typical kid doing the same thing I would have done at his age so the fact that after 15 years he wanted to fill any second of free time with video games didn’t surprise me.