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Euphoria14 on 05 March 2015
Nettles said:
I'm offended by people who are offended by every little thing.
Seriously, things were so much better before facebook and twitter.
Newsflash : the vast majority don't care what a small handful of people on twitter are upset about today.

People need to grow thicker skin.

It honestly seems like now a days the littlest thing is taken as an offense by someone.



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JRPGfan on 05 March 2015
KylieDog said:
He is implying any women or non-white people using #notyourshield are sockpuppet accounts.

It should be extremely offensive to people of either group.


I think your interpreting it differntly than most others here are.

"highly offensive" ?

really? even if that was true.

Saying that mainly people that are females, and minority care...... is that highly offensive?

(I personly dont care what race a game reviwer is) (Do you? would you trust a game review more if it was done by a black person instead of a white guy?)

 

Again i ll just say this, from his joke I dont "get it" the same way you do.

What you claim hes saying isnt what I get when I read it.



JRPGfan on 05 March 2015

I dont really get that KylieDog, from reading it.



badgenome on 05 March 2015
KylieDog said:

He is implying they are white males, using fake accounts. TIm doing this as a way to discredit them when they complain about women/non-whites being used for other peoples own agendas, which is what #notyourshield is about.

If I were a woman and someone accused me of being a man, I'd take it as a compliment.



ice on 05 March 2015

I lost respect for Tim when I saw him in that Anita video, don't really care for him now.



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JRPGfan on 05 March 2015
KylieDog said:
JRPGfan said:
I dont really get that KylieDog, from reading it.


Do you know what a sockpuppet account is?  If you do it should be obvious what Tim meant.


Hes a comedian/game designer known for using sockpuppets.

Hes used sockpuppets ALOT in the past, I dont think he ment for it to have that way of being understood.

Your chooseing to interpret it that way.

 

Sometimes people just over analyse things, I think.

Its like the colour of the sockpuppet, its yellow right? does that have some special meaning?

or is it just because he had one laying around that looked like that already?

 

I thought he was supportive of the Notyourshield crowd.

He makes a joke to bring attention to the issue, not to demean people.



BraveNewWorld on 05 March 2015
iceland said:
I lost respect for Tim when I saw him in that Anita video, don't really care for him now.


Anybody who associates with her is on my shit list.



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AlfredoTurkey on 05 March 2015
vivster said:
 We should really be more offended that he was allowed to make a "how many X to do Y" joke on a stage.


I don't think we should be offended at all and instead, grow a pair. People say things. It happens. 



ice on 05 March 2015
BraveNewWorld said:
iceland said:
I lost respect for Tim when I saw him in that Anita video, don't really care for him now.


Anybody who associates with her is on my shit list.

Exactly my mindset



JRPGfan on 05 March 2015

Has anyone actually read his Twitter ?



Hes in support of Anita Sarkeesian (a feminist that dislikes how women are portraited in games).

I could go on and on and on.


Tim Schafer IS NOT a racist either.


This is people chooseing to "see" things that way.