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Topic	What a piece of shit.
Monopoman 05/27/18 2:54:37 AM #20:	Zeus posted... faramir77 posted... How much of a sociopath does one need to be to celebrate the death of someone who criticized the video game they developed? I honestly have mixed feelings on it. While celebrating death is generally a terrible thing, people tend to get pretty invested in their work and, when you're in entertainment, it's also your livelihood. If somebody is threatening your livelihood, it's kinda understandable to have strong feelings. The problem is platforms which encourage people with strong, offensive opinions to voice those opinions and, in turn, suffer for it. While he was alive, John Bain might have hurt the guy's career. However, by mocking Bain's death, the guy ironically cost himself his job. Social media generally encourages and facilitates these terrible lapses in judgment in what I assume are otherwise ordinary, reasonable people. Criticism is required in society to get better, if we don't look at things and go item xyz is bad or item abc is good it doesn't force developers to make better games. While critics can be cruel at times and go a bit beyond the line, I always felt that TB was very constructive and thoughtful with his criticism. He didn't just say stuff like "This game sucks period." He would talk about why it sucked and what could be done to improve it, usually at great length. --- BF ID: Birck #1559845599 Leads: Senbonzakura Miku, Xenon, Bjorn+Linlin <cite>Monopoman posted [p:902053497] in What a pie... [t:76646291]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote><cite>faramir77 posted...</cite> <quote>How much of a sociopath does one need to be to celebrate the death of someone who criticized the video game they developed?</quote> I honestly have mixed feelings on it. While celebrating death is generally a terrible thing, people tend to get pretty invested in their work and, when you're in entertainment, it's also your livelihood. If somebody is threatening your livelihood, it's kinda understandable to have strong feelings. The problem is platforms which encourage people with strong, offensive opinions to voice those opinions and, in turn, suffer for it. While he was alive, John Bain might have hurt the guy's career. However, by mocking Bain's death, the guy ironically cost himself his job. Social media generally encourages and facilitates these terrible lapses in judgment in what I assume are otherwise ordinary, reasonable people.</quote> Criticism is required in society to get better, if we don't look at things and go item xyz is bad or item abc is good it doesn't force developers to make better games. While critics can be cruel at times and go a bit beyond the line, I always felt that TB was very constructive and thoughtful with his criticism. He didn't just say stuff like "This game sucks period." He would talk about why it sucked and what could be done to improve it, usually at great length. --- BF ID: Birck #1559845599 Leads: Senbonzakura Miku, Xenon, Bjorn+Linlin</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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