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points by latexr 1 day ago | 0 comments
> You are talking about "harming" a collection of north and south facing flips on a disk

No, you missed the point. It has nothing to do with the entities in the game, it’s about the player outside of it. Look, it’s all well and good to blast your friends in a game and call each other rude names and whatnot, have fun! But you understand that’s OK because you have consent, right?

Here’s a story for you. I have omitted unnecessary details because outing anyone isn’t the point. There was a guy who played a certain competitive game. He was a good person, but he had the habit of describing a big game loss as a “rape”. He wasn’t trying to be malicious, he described himself as having been raped too when he lost big. But he threw it around too casually, and one day he played against a rape victim. Now, can you put yourself in the other person’s shoes and understand how having a traumatic experience thrown back at you casually can make you feel? And even if you believe it wouldn’t bother you personally, can we agree that everyone is different and that we shouldn’t ignore how they feel their pain? That there are little things we can all do to make other people be comfortable, and in turn they may do the same for us?

That’s all I’m saying, that we should practice some empathy. I’m not even saying this game shouldn’t exist, I’m only asking that we recognise that it may affect some people in major ways most of us on this website can’t possibly understand (and we should be thankful for it, not derisive) and that we should take that into account. In short, remember other people exist and share the planet with you, and try to not be a dick to them.

[–] ErroneousBosh 1 day ago
It's quite a leap from using the word "rape" in that context, which no-one in their right mind would think is acceptable, to thinking that maybe possibly somebody somewhere could possibly be offended by a game that they might or might not have seen where you blow up cardboard box-like structures on a map.

Do you also believe that "cultural appropriation" is a thing? On a scale of 1 to Taylor Swift how white and suburban middle-class are you?

[–] latexr 21 hours ago
> to thinking that maybe possibly somebody somewhere could possibly be offended by a game that they might or might not have seen where you blow up cardboard box-like structures on a map.

That’s not the argument. Please don’t straw man.

> Do you also believe that "cultural appropriation" is a thing? On a scale of 1 to Taylor Swift how white and suburban middle-class are you?

Ah, there it is. Your absolute bias and contempt is shining right through. Instead of understanding the words and the nuance of the argument, you straight put people in wrong assumed boxes and then attack the group. By the way, not everyone lives in the USA, that was the most laughably ineffective attempt at an insult I read in years.