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@Zevvion

"Marcus Beer always attacks everyone" is not a context. You are free to take what he's saying "with a grain of salt", but no one has an obligation to simply take insults and attacks because Marcus Beer constantly attacks and insults people.

He's a bully, and bullies get reactions. All you are really doing here is blaming the victim for his reaction to the bully's attack. If you're going to ignore judging Beer's bullying then you should also ignore Fish's response to being bullied. Yet Fish in your analysis is the one who is "nuts" and Beer is virtually ignored. It's like watching a bully's toadie snicker by the lockers.

None of us here have ever endured 1/100^th the online tormenting that Phil Fish has. For every 1 unit of shit he's put out he gets 10,000 units in return. I have never going insane on the Internet, but that's not really relevant.

Just for some historical background, since Fish can't get away from anything he says (even when he apologizes), here is Beer's commentary about Hideo Kojima's weak grasp of the English language when giving a keynote speech:

"If you wanna come and present a video at the video game awards in the US learn the fucking language so you can say your speech...learn it...biggest fucking insult of the night was him up there dicking around not able to speak the language..."

Someone here just posted a Photoshop of Phil Fish as a Nazi murdering a Jewish Holocaust victim, and so common is this type of attack that no one even comments on it.

Does anyone sincerely need more of an explanation as to why he sometimes lashes out against gamers as a group?

@Zevvion - We can't say Beer is attacking anyone personally? Did you read/watch Beer's rant? He very directly attacks Fish and Blow personally multiple times.

Why not feel sympathy for Fish because of his apparent hyper-sensitivity?

@zatoichi_sanjuro: Beer wasn't responding to Fish's shitty behavior. Beer attacked Fish unprovoked.

Mark Twain has Twitter advice for Phil Fish:
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

Phil Fish producing games that a ton of people love and that you aren't forced to play makes your life worse?

Here's the "some reason" that this is pissing you off, OP: You have entitlement issues.

Hell no.

It is unrealistic to expect everyone to be nice, sure, but I don't know who expects that. Advocating the fostering of a positive social community is not stating an expectation that a perfectly positive social community will exist.

It is not our job to tell Phil Fish how to deal with the abuse thrown at him and Phil Fish's past does not justify abusing him now. Victim-blaming is a bad thing.

What does it say about us as a community that things like "AnnoyedGamer" and "AngryGamer" have an apparently-significant place amongst us?

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