Posted: Oct 23, 2014 3:27 pm
Ok, here, I'll point it out. I was specifically responding to your post.
In your post you said "I find it quite sickening that there's a sizeable group of people issuing death threats to some of the female developers and activists.", I think that observation was worthy of a few sentences of comment.
Thomas Eshuis wrote:Of course, but it's not acceptable or reasonable to link that to a majority of the gaming population when I've made no such claim.
Again, if you're talking in general, specify that, especially when your making claims directly under quotes from my post.
I'm not talking in general, it's background to the specific question regarding your post.
Thomas Eshuis wrote:No, but responding to my post and then talking about a completely different point than I made, without transition, is.
It's not a completely different point, it's background to a specific and central point in your post.
Thomas Eshuis wrote:I'm not sure to what you're referring here, but I do not consider detailed death threats a minor issue.
Again, I make the same point - relative to what?
Fox News (and the rest of the tabloid 25/7 hysteria media machine) are currently creating a moral panic about Ebola in the USA, personally I think that a handful of internet trolls are relatively minor compared to Ebola, and yet the presentation of Ebola as "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE ARRRGGGHHH" is still hideously misleading and out of all proportion.
Anyway, I repeat my plea. Please chill out, I wasn't assuming that you disagreed with me, or that you agreed with me, or that my post was a direct attempt at refuting yours. It was conversational, not looking for a line by line Fisking and dissection of every nuance of every word to be taken in the worst possible light.
