Pretty much. The alt-right has been around a long time, was already super common to see on the chan sites pre-GG. When GG happened, they, the MRAs, etc all sort of dog piled on it. Was quite the thing, a lot of people I wouldn’t have expected to hold such views showed their true colors, something we’d see again when…

Yeah, no, people were pointing out that “literal nazis” were heavily involved with GamerGate during the thick of it, long before the election. It’s only the “alt-right” terminology that came later.

Isn’t that a bit like saying “I can’t be racist, I have a black friend!”?

I see where you’re coming from, and there’s certainly something for it as well - it’s a time when emotions are raw, and the potential for misunderstanding is rife. But some things come to mind.

NOT NOW

As the truth. People can mourn his death, but pretending that this wasn’t part of Bain’s life is not only rewriting history it’s creating a fictional version of someone they claim to care about.

I think we should still be allowed to be critical about his past opinion and content. There’s a respectable way of doing it and I don’t condone what some are saying in the comments section right now, but I also don’t think we should all just automatically be praising him as a saint.

I would like to know to cause I don’t know who this guy even is and I been playing games for almost 30 years

By contributing in material and intentional ways to a disgusting campaign of misogyny and racism that scarred the industry forever, obviously.

Sounds like an arse, and I’m sorry that that’s how he chose to live his life. I hope he was able to reflect, and perhaps grow beyond some of this type of behaviour.

Truly a loss to the world. Death does not erase what a scumbag he was.

is this in response to his gamergate incident?

Fuck nazis, and their enablers.

TherapyGamer’s reasoning is that his mood swings are limited to Overwatch and don’t hurt people in real life.

Sounds like the kind of person that makes me not want to play online and definitely keep away from voice chat.
I’ll just stay right here only playing single-player games and multiplayer only with friends.

lol what an ass. Obviously people online aren’t real people so we can just shit on them, right?

Is raging at strangers over a microphone really healthy?

Your friend is a sociopath. And I mean that in a very specific, “If there are no social consequences, I’m going to act like a raging asshole,” kind of way. With love. Lots of love.

Also, his form of venting is actually pretty terrible. All he is doing is reinforcing the neural pathway that makes it easier for him to verbally explode when he is upset.