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- Nov 11, 2016
My favorite part of this all might be how fucking useless these 'activists' are and how obvious they're making it.
Take the dumbass from Wired. He could have wrote a bullshit review that gave the game a 5/10 and claimed that it was uninspired, broken with bugs, and a ripoff of a tired franchise. Just another cash-in open-world knockoff with branding. And people would have probably believed it and not looked too closely, because the industry pumps that sort of thing out regularly. But he couldn't fucking contain himself. Instead of writing a review that, well, looked like a review, he soyjacked all over the article and made it absolutely clear to everyone that it was a hit piece. Nobody even had to look up his name and photo to know what he's doing. So it convinces no one and the only thing it might do is hit the game with aggregators- which will only make the whole 'tech industry' look more stupid when, yet again, the "critical review" score is light years away from actual customer's review scores.
Who is supposed to be swayed by this shit? Dyed-in-the-wool activists? They don't need convincing, they're all going to bleat about JKR being a murderer and then play the game anyway, hoping no one notices. "Gamers"? They aren't going to be fooled because the manipulation is so obvious. Casual gamers? They're probably not even paying attention.
The only thing this has done is make it obvious that people who smile and nod at troons are doing it just to avoid conflict and will ignore the culture wars at the first sign of having to do actually give up anything.
Twitter users are like the dogs who bark like they're going to murder anyone who comes by the fence but then STFU and slink away when the gate gets opened.
Take the dumbass from Wired. He could have wrote a bullshit review that gave the game a 5/10 and claimed that it was uninspired, broken with bugs, and a ripoff of a tired franchise. Just another cash-in open-world knockoff with branding. And people would have probably believed it and not looked too closely, because the industry pumps that sort of thing out regularly. But he couldn't fucking contain himself. Instead of writing a review that, well, looked like a review, he soyjacked all over the article and made it absolutely clear to everyone that it was a hit piece. Nobody even had to look up his name and photo to know what he's doing. So it convinces no one and the only thing it might do is hit the game with aggregators- which will only make the whole 'tech industry' look more stupid when, yet again, the "critical review" score is light years away from actual customer's review scores.
Who is supposed to be swayed by this shit? Dyed-in-the-wool activists? They don't need convincing, they're all going to bleat about JKR being a murderer and then play the game anyway, hoping no one notices. "Gamers"? They aren't going to be fooled because the manipulation is so obvious. Casual gamers? They're probably not even paying attention.
The only thing this has done is make it obvious that people who smile and nod at troons are doing it just to avoid conflict and will ignore the culture wars at the first sign of having to do actually give up anything.
If you go around calling someone a literal nazi or pedo or whatever else is the worst thing you can think of- up until the moment you might have to defend it in court, and then you immediately retract all claims and apologize, I'd say that counts. Absolutely zero courage of conviction.
Twitter users are like the dogs who bark like they're going to murder anyone who comes by the fence but then STFU and slink away when the gate gets opened.
