Your post speaks right to my heart. Your story resonates so badly with my experience. Thank you.

I’ve asked before, what people want from “offenders”, what is their redemption arc and is forgiveness possible? And what if they’re dead? What if they can’t redeem themselves?

I don’t disagree with your point about Twitch’s history of favoring top streamers making them a bit suspect as the “agent of change” here. But the response to them going to light on top streamers is to press them to be more strict with those top streamers, not to throw up your hands and say “Well, if they’re not…

The question is what makes an accusation credible? Is it simply the existence of an accusation that will make twitch wash their hands of you? Multiple accusations? Proof? A conviction?

The problem is Twitch is horrible about preferential treatment and what may get a lower tiered streamer banned might not even be a blip…

Twitch isn’t a court of law dealing out criminal penalties like jail time; they don’t need proof beyond a reasonable doubt. In civil court (in the US, at least), the standard is “a preponderance of evidence”, which basically means “is it more likely than not that the claim is true?” or “is it more that 50% likely the…

At the end of the day, being a rapist is closer to success as a man in most industries than trying to be a decent man.

The problem is, I’ve been left (for decades now) to openly tell people I’ve cared about “Do not expect appropriate treatment and the only way to avoid having this happen to you is one form of violence or another.”

Frankly, there is no stopping it, not completely anyway. Men have always acted like this, from the days of hunter gatherers on up.

I’m sorry to hear about it, but in no way am I surprised.

The solutions are clearly obvious... You worded everything so well, I love it.

I’ve recently realized that most of those companies have made money or were built with those shit behaviors, so I get the feeling that there is something they feel like they will lose. They just don’t have the courage to lose it or/and talk…

Networking events are disgusting across every industry as far as I can tell. I can attest to that in my non-gaming and non-comic industry as well. There needs to be a cultural shift there but I fear any sort of changes will only happen industry by industry.

Yeah, I get the contrast between the art style and the violence but it was hella jarring to me. I like violent games, but context helps with the digestion. 

Yeah, kinda just gonna echo the rest of the comments here and say this really could/should have had a written article summarizing the points made in the video (or just been an article altogether). If you have a way to compare the clicks on the article to views on the video itself, I bet you'll see a discrepancy there. 

Agree with the others. Please don't start exclusively doing videos.  We all enjoy reading over here

Thanks for the video that I’m not going to watch for something that could just as easily be text I could read at my own pace.

Is it really all that shocking?

[edit] I think maybe we both overreacted, I know I did. I was angry and tired of seeing white cis-males dismiss their role in the problems we are seeing right now. I overreacted and I apologize. I can understand why you were angry and I fed it, sorry.

I’d be okay with them reiterating and changing CSGO instead of a new game tbh.

You’re joking, right? Games are literally a form of expression of the creators. They are a form of art. Sure, AAA annual titles like COD or Madden don’t fit into the category of ‘art,’ but they are the minority. Artists (especially in interactive media) often use humor to convey their message. If it’s offensive to…

Hardcore CS players and pros are resistant to change for sure, that’s why new maps are so hard to come by and become popular and why the SG was this crazy great gun that nobody knew about for almost 4 years.