If you think that’s an insult, ignoting that it in no way or form is changing the rest of what’s written, then you’re making the same stupid mistake like Elena. Everything can potentially be declared an insult despite it actually hitting the nail on the head.
Imagine someone calling out a liar for being a liar. Suddenly it’s “insulting” and the rest of the post is being ignored, despite the liar indeed being a liar. But nooooo, that’s a bad thing now! We can’t do that! We can’t call spades spades, because that’s bad. No, ■■■■ that.
The end result is that people just ignore each other completely unless they talk/write exactly how the other wants them to, which is an absolute impossibility, thus turning everyone into an ignorant asshole by default.
Don’t. Make. That. Mistake.
Back on topic:
Sure, but people didn’t sue ten years ago when the gaming industry started going “psychological” on the players either. People have been heavily manipulated for the last ten+ years and they’re getting manipulated now more than ever, yet because of “gambling” there’s an uproar and I think that’s ridiculous.
There should have been an uproar many years ago already, back when games decided to target losers specifically trying to sell them the hero-trope to make them feel good about themselves. There should have been an uproar when the video game industry started deliberately making games easier so people aren’t being confronted with loss/failure, which makes them stop playing. Weirdly enough that did not happen in the 80s and early to mid 90s, because people LOVED challenges!
This artificial outrage is ■■■■■■■■. I understand that there’s poor sods who can’t control themselves and I understand that they fit perfectly into the “everyone’s a victim” narrative, but these poor sods have been abused in one way or another for over a decade and no one ■■■■■■■ cared.
No one actually gives a ■■■■ about these people. If they did, they wouldn’t try banning loot boxes, they’d try giving these people the help they need. They would try giving them psychological treatment that allows them to exercise better self control. You know, treat the cause instead of the symptom.
But no, we’re not having that, because it goes against the “everyone’s a victim” narrative and the ■■■■■■■■ idea that people aren’t responsible for their actions at all, as if we were all just ■■■■■■■ animals.
