It never fails to amaze me that toxic gamers, who whinge about "easily offended SJWs", will whip up mobs to punish people who offend *them*--and 'offend' is the word they unironically use.
Some try to frame it as 'turnabout is fair play,' but you know that's not what's going on. It's that this narrow but vocal sect cares more about their personal relationship with their lord and saviour [insert game here] than the lives of real people.
I've never seen any of these people--credibly--square that circle. If you're opposed to "outrage culture" and zealous mobs who prosecute those who "hurt your feelings," then why do you partake of that culture so easily? What makes *your* cause so just?
Even if there are times when I disagree with some tactics employed at certain times by lefty activists, I can never deny that the cause matters, that it merits discussion and action. But these people form hate mobs over a goddamn video game.
I love games, and have done ever since I was old enough to recognise an NES controller wasn't food. I'm one of those people who will say games changed my life for the better. And yet I could never see myself getting as angry as some of these people do over gaming minutiae.
Yet one's willingness to do that, to live in a perpetual state of vibrating rage over bugs, adverse patch changes, or developer missteps and misstatements, is precisely how too many people measure the level of commitment required to call one's self a true "gamer."
