I love how the obligatory Shitaku hitpiece devotes an entire paragraph to explaining their readers how they have to interpret that tweet in order for it to come across as transphobic.

Grade-A gaems jounlolism right there!

So like I said. Perpetual victims being victimized by someone looking wrong. I personally never attributed a political leaning to it. :)

The biggest problem is some of those assholes are "journalists" and thus have more influence than they should :(

I know. Just trying to counterbalance the usual "evil SJW"/"evil...Trump supporter[? I really can't think of a comparable catch-all insult by left-wingers against the right]", not specifically a rebuttal to anything your said. :)

I will say that it's not necessarily perpetual victims. This kinda thing seems contagious: people see other groups working themselves up into a self-righteous frenzy based on some [at least partly] legitimate grievances, and I suppose they want to feel that, too, so they find something that their self-identified group can be indignant about...even if they are actually better off than most, and don't really have much to seriously complain about.
If there's no actual mountain around, trying to convince everyone your molehill is a mountain will do in a pinch.

This why apologizing to the perpetually offended SJWs out there, especially where ResetERA is involved, is a bad idea. Soon as you show weakness, they'll go even further.

First GOG cowtowed to these people on Twitter, now I see CDPR does it too... the precedent this could be setting is genuinely troubling.

GOG, CDPR, mods, you're all being catastrophically stupid by apologizing to and prostrating yourselves for these social justice lunatics, and also by picking a political side in the first place.

You people are a business, a storefront, to get political is to risk irreparably damaging said business, especially in the current batshit insane socio-political climate. Stop it.

I heard on the grapevine that CDprojectRed are aware. They know what`s going. No need to worry, guys.

You have to love how "safe spaces" has nothing to do with people who live in permanent war zones and endure agonizing levels of suffering 24/7.

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Broflakes and snowflakes are God's way of telling us that we fcked it up.

No, the biggest problem is that nobody ("liberal", "conservative" or "libertarian", "journalist" or "gamer") has a sense of perspective, and everyone is working very hard to make simply living in a society into a competitive team sport (and a particularly aggressive, adversarial and unsportsmanlike one).

NeoGaf and ResetEra have good fundaments - don't be mean to each other. In reality? It's full of toxic people baiting and provoking people so they get banned by trigger-happy moderators. They want respect but don't respect anyone.
Sounds like 4chan but at least there can make some interesting creation among their own cesspool...

And they got no sense of humor, whatsoever.
I wouldn't delete that tweet but whatever.

I think I figured it out with my sleuthing the other day. But you practically dared me. :)

Speaking as someone who is actually a genuine journalist and writer, I have to say that you're absolutely right.

One of the biggest problems in the internet age is there's lots of people who think they're a journalist, but don't actually have a clue what actual journalism entails. Add social media to the mix and faux outrage at anything and everything by opinionated 'influencers', keen to jump on the latest sensational bandwagon, there's the problem. Clickbait for the masses.

It's frustrating to see some people who claim to be journalists, who are actually nothing more than content curators or content aggregators, mostly sourcing their content from other websites, then tweaking or adapting it slightly to avoid copyscape issues. This is arguably why journalism has such a bad reputation and low level of trust these days.

Was this the same guy who called gamers a hate movement after the postal tweet to appease some angry journalists? If so, no sympathy for him in the slightest. Play with fire and you get burned.