Betting five bucks on those people already having decided on pirating the game and they're just using this as some flimsy moral justification to do so.
Oh, almost certainly, at least for a great many of them. It's like the individuals who loudly proclaim they'll participate in the boycott, despite that they were never going to buy the product regardless (and sometimes they make no effort to hide it, saying that they've never liked Platinum or that they wouldn't be caught dead possessing a Nintendo product). Their plans haven't changed; this just happened to be an opportunity to broadcast them as some claim of morality.
I know many people point to Chris Pratt's Twitter follows as part of the reason to be sus of him, but with Hellena Taylor people say it's not right to judge someone based on that.
[...] I really only commented cause I thought it was interesting how immediately against using Twitter follows as evidence people are in this case, when they'll quite happily point to that with Pratt
I'm circling back around to this because there seems to be a conflating of ideas popping up around the subject. Beyond the obvious answer of there likely being different people involved in discussion, a key point is the disparity between making an argument about something else with this information and forming an opinion of someone with it.
For instance, suggesting that someone's story can't be entirely believed because they follow some unrelated people on whatever social, or because they referred to a passage from the Bible, really isn't a compelling argument -- and I question even considering it an argument. It's better to consider actual evidence -- of which time has provided in differing qualities.
That's different from seeing details about a person and having that color your opinion of them. Assimilating information as such is how we form these opinions, after all. While I would caution basing a strong opinion of someone entirely on their Follows and similar such -- I, at least, know people who will follow individuals with ideologies diametrically opposed to their own, or theoretically adjacent yet still wildly divergent, if only to keep informed on what these sorts of people are saying and believing -- I certainly can't tell you to just
not develop an opinion. This is more likely to be accepted; it's just not particularly connected to the discussion.
I hope that helped explain some things.
I don't know if you're referring to me with this post, but I should say my opinion in Kamiya has nothing to do with hate, I'm not even invested in his games or anything surrounding his person.
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I also never expressed glee for the harassment campaign against him, nor did I see anyone doing that. If you're referring to someone specifically better quote that post because that is a grave accusation to throw around in general.
I don't know that there's any reason you'd specifically be a subject of the post, and I certainly wouldn't suggest an opinion that his Twitter is toxic would itself contribute to the issues. I personally think the bar for handling his Twitter presence better isn't high.
Now, this particular instance didn't require people to have a developed opinion on Kamiya, nor to be invested in him personally. It was reactive.
The whole post was regarding the discourse in general, here, elsewhere, and everywhere beyond. It has all largely swirled together, but, as I recall, Fami has been remarkably tame and reasonable in comparison to elsewhere.
...what I'm hoping is that this ordeal helps in any way when it comes to negotiations that'll be occurring in a few weeks. Either raise the minimum significantly, or give these guys and girls their residuals.
This might have occurred at just the right time to have some amount of impact on that, but it does seem to me that it has various factors which might negate that -- particularly the overall framing, which sets this issue itself more in the background. However, given the various industry professionals who have weighed in, some impact might yet be felt.
It's certainly not wrong. Critical thinking skills need to be developed, or at the very least their necessity needs to be understood, and both options seem in ever shorter supply (though I suspect it just becomes more obvious on a large scale, rather than becoming more widespread)
I've seen more reasonable discourse here than on the bird app, so I feel more comfortable sharing my thoughts here than other places
From what I've seen, yes, this has definitely been one of the more reasonable places for discourse surrounding the subject.