and you forget the post Seanza said later that basically said. “it was a joke, we both grew past that. and quit throwing that post around? You people are the worst ever for contunally bringing that up in every conversation involving a dying man”

Go to hell you self-righteous prick.

I didn’t like the guy that much either, but that is a hell of a jump and way out of line. He wasn’t Sargon or any of those other YouTube assholes. Did he say awful things at times and give horrible people a pass? Sure. But to say he shares in the blame of the current state of the world is a pretty ridiculous statement.

Agreed. His calling out the reprehensible Wu when her supporters were just glossing over her behavior and enabling her was one of his finest moments. That is the kind of willing engagement that will be missed.

Hes right though, Wu literally only does things to get attention, disagree with that all you want, but he is factually correct

Yet here you are, doing essentially the same thing but to a dead guy.

John later apologized for much of what he said in anger. Before GamerGate was ever a thought on people’s minds he advocated for ethics/proper discourse in game journalism. Unfortunately, plenty of alt-right dickheads latched onto that phrase as an excuse to be dickheads and the phrase has since lost its meaning.

Funny you mention that, because there is literally a comment in here calling him a Nazi/Nazi-enabler. It’s like they root for people with differing opinions to die, shits crazy in the Kotaku comments and it is infuriating.

He had opinions. You didn’t like them. Clearly that means he deserved his fate. The amount of jealousy from nobodies on this site is tragic.

Is now REALLY the fucking time for this?

A bit. Kills time though.

Well, your demand for an apology presupposes that he genuinely believes he did something wrong.

Per that article, his racism is right up there with Colbert’s!

Hey, I’m noticing something lately, in particular in contentious articles like this one: lot’s of comments on the top level with fewer and fewer replies going further down and continuing discussion beyond the first few levels, as opposed to the old days.

Everyone’s said something dumb, something edgy, something racist. Everyone.

Yeah, it’s not purely down to generation. Yi is just slightly older than I am, and there are two things I would never do:

““Why didn’t you mention this to me in the nine times we’ve hung out since then? Or the rest of that entire trip? You were there for months. You never said anything, ever. Why didn’t you say something then?” I would have apologized, or I would have said, “Oh my god, that’s not what I intended.””

I didn’t think that had ANYTHING to do with getting rid of Cross, more with just what’s funny? Cross’ character just didn’t work. Wasn’t really his fault.

Yeah, and it is a generational thing, with the yoots of today born into social media, while old, nearly dead people like me didn’t get “the online” until I was 25. The kids these days are way more public with things, good and bad, than they were in my day, back when we’d take the deridgerible to the local sock-hop.

I figured the quote in the headline was about his role in multiple “Alvin and the Chipmunks” films.