While I’m not the biggest fan of the heavy-handedness with which Windows is now applying updates, there is a very easy way to deal with this.

The words used are irrelevant. The user’s intent to insult is the only thing you really have to consider. The streamer owns his channel and has a right to enforce the chat in any way they wish.

No they can’t, there are Twitch standards they have to follow.

Okay, I’ll bite. Why not.

They don’t need to do anything. It’s their game.

If they think it’s not worth it to run a legacy server for a small audience, then I’m inclined to trust them.

If they would rather not let people outside blizzard run their game on private servers, that’s their right.

Or you could do the math here and see that it make sense and plays out.

Your point was “How can me being condescending come off as condescending?”

If you couldn’t answer that question before this article, there’s literally no point in asking it here.

If they want to remove apps that are outdated or incompatible, they should at least have the decency to pop up a notification or an approval page. Something along the lines of “We have found that this/these applications can cause problems or are outdated. Would you like to remove them?”. This would be like taking your…