Someone has to chart the rise and fall of the arcade racing game because about 50% of the games in demo discs of this era belong to that genre. It's kind of amazing.
I am glad we're focusing on critiquing the really impactful, landscape-altering decision of retorting rudely on twitter rather than the wholly uneventful severing of the livelihoods of two game developers. We all have our priorities very straight here.
@dstopia: Is it really that unreasonable for someone to go "Yo, O'Brien really fucked up beyond belief." but also go "Yo, Price probably should have taken a step back and not doubled down when the other guy back down."
It is because you're ignoring that one side (O'Brien) has an incredible amount of power over the other. Playing two-sideisms like this is bullshit.
I wonder how Hideki Kamiya has managed to keep his job, he's 10x meaner on twitter daily than anything that girl at Arenanet ever said. Why is no one who called for her resignation doing the same for him?
People even celebrate the guy dunking on random customers. I swear the fucking double discourse here is just exhausting. I hope none of the people who think this was OK ever have employees because they're going to be the worst fucking boss possible.
To the Beastcast guys: I am so thankful you approached this in the most reasonable way possible. You guys are the best.
Yo guys I think you should focus on Kamiya next, he keeps being rude to customers and he hasn't been fired yet. Worst, it seems like people love to celebrate his dunking on people? I don't know. SURELY the customer should be also right in that case.
(Silly me. I know why he doesn't get hit with a mob. He's a man playing tough).
There's no doubt the gamergate types are gonna try to angle this the best way they can so they can rile up the maximum amount of number possible to try to make a second gamergate happen, but again, this doesn't mean that Price is in the right, and if anything, siding with her and saying stuff like "Fuck that guy, he deserved the shit she gave him" isn't gonna help either.
Just stop. Just fucking stop. You're providing ammunition for them. Fucking stop enabling them.
I wish I could grab every well-intentioned person who sides with ArenaNet by the head and show them how this worked back in 2014 because we're going down the same fucking rabbit hole again. The last time it gave us Trump and the rise of fascism again.
Believe women. Believe workers. Believe the people who pour so much of themselves into the things you enjoy, instead of immediately siding with the exploiters and the harassers.
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