The Tanoubliette: Pussy Hurt and Delusions or TTPHAD for short.

Sebudai: "It is the worst, most illiberal thing on Earth, and you are defending it. You, and everyone agreeing with you in this thread, should be ashamed of yourselves."

Citation needed. I have yet to see anyone defend Islam at all.

Lith: "How violence is wrong, of course...BUT Geller is a dick bag and profiting off 'inciting these people'."

This is a factual statement. What's the problem?

Seems to me like you're really salty about what you considered to be unbalanced reporting during GamerGate, so you're DEMANDING unbalanced reporting about this. A paragon of maturity, you are.

Cad: "The dissonance comes with the completely over the top hyperbolic reaction to the "violence" associated with GG (none) vs. the very real, very deadly violence associated with Islam, which gets an apologist pass."

Citation needed. I have yet to see an "apologist pass" given to violent Muslim extremists.



Abefroman: "How in the hell do people who call themselves feminists defend Islam."

They don't.

WizardHawk: "You, sir, are a liar (or you play 2 hours a year and zero competitive (in any sense of the word) games)."

I've put well over a thousand hours into Awesomenauts, a 2D MOBA. I also post points of view that run contrary to the majority on a board with plenty of entitled, obnoxious assholes. No one has threatened to kill me, rape me, hack me, or hurt me.

There is no "line in the sand", Palum. Going out of your way to piss someone off is legal, it's protected by the constitution, AND it's stupid.

It's not the "drawing Mohammed" that's the problem, it's the "I know you fuckers hate this so I'm gonna do it because FUCK YOU hahahahaha" attitude. Any actions carried out with that intent will only exacerbate existing tensions and promote further conflict. It doesn't help solve anything, and it does make the problem worse.

False equivalence.

Fana: "no, it's a real thing you have to deal with, because religion has in the past and present used legal and social pressure to shield their own intolerance. religion is the thing that most often calls for censorship for a reason."

You don't have to convince me that organized religion sucks, bro.

Fana: "and no you're wrong btw, by saying never in the absolute sense that offending people can never lead to a positive outcome, the trick lays in what people think they have a right to be offended over, since it's a two way street and not a one way street."

I didn't saying "offending someone", I said "going out of one's way to piss someone off". The former can be done unintentionally, the latter is an antagonistic and hostile act. If you can find me a case where intentionally pissing people off had a positive outcome, I'd genuinely like to hear it.

Vorph: "Same weepy asshole who reviewed Bayonetta 2 with a river of tears about sexism and soggy knees, so you can probably guess how his Witcher review will turn out. Hand-wringing about the treatment of women isn't enough this time though, so there's also some nice outrage over the game's lack of "diversity" as well."

Ah, this stupidity again.

That was an excellent, well-written and very effective review.

Gies goes into explicit detail about several aspects of the game proper. He compares it to the previous Witcher games, explains what he likes about it and why, and also points out what he considers to be the game's flaws. Overall he heaps a generous amount of praise on the game and it's clear he enjoyed it a lot. Having read his review, I was given a very good idea of what type of experience I will have playing the game, which is what a good review does. In fact, I had very little interest in The Witcher 3 until I read Gies' review.

Yes, he didn't like how women in the game were portrayed and he wasn't impressed with the lack of racial diversity. To HIM, those aspects affected the overall enjoyment HE was able to get from the game and he is entirely justified in mentioning them in his review (which is literally his opinion of the game). If you don't care about either of those things, it takes exactly zero effort to dismiss that part of the review altogether. You're still left with an extremely in-depth review that covers everything it should.

What's the point of hand-wringing and complaining every time someone doesn't look at a video game through YOUR eyes? How is that any different from what you criticize SJWs for?