That's my view of it too. Anything else doesn't make much sense to me. I could be wrong.
On a side note, I'm tired of him being a topic around here. For anything.
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So um gaming analyst Michael Pachter has just tweeted this (mosque shooting related) [update: Pachter apologizes]
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That's my view of it too. Anything else doesn't make much sense to me. I could be wrong.
On a side note, I'm tired of him being a topic around here. For anything.
As someone posted above, Pachter seems to think it is related to why there is some kind of reference to pewdiepie. I don't know that it is an accurate assessment of why, but I am not getting that he meant it as a joke.
I really think there's no reason his "analysis" should be allowed on this board anymore after this. He offers absolutely nothing of note, and while the jokes about the opposition to his views coming true are funny, that's not enough to justify a place on Era anymore. Dozens died and he's happy to make light of it for cheap laughs.
Fuck him right off.
Fuck him right off.
The tweet he replied to referenced PewDiePie. He was riffing off of that with a Pi Day joke, then pointing out that it might not be Pi Day anymore in New Zealand because New Zealand is in a different time zone.
....yeah
When speaking of Iwata in 2016, he used the phrase: "To quote the late and not so great Iwata" or something similar to that.
Not sure of the specific contents anymore, but it was something in the vein of, "Was never a fan of his business strategies, but RIP I guess".
Not even sure wtf he's trying to say here.
It's fairly obvious what he's saying. I'm a little puzzled as to how people can miss the point so badly.
14/3 is called "Pi day" in reference to the number. Over here, it's common to do pie-themed events on that day. Upon hearing the news that the video in question has references to PewDiePie, he's suggesting that maybe it's an intentional refence to Pi Day. However, he's questioning this because it's currently the 15/3 in Aus/NZ. If the killer had timed their attack for 14/3, it could be seen as some kind of sick Pi Day/PewDiePie thing.
14/3 is called "Pi day" in reference to the number. Over here, it's common to do pie-themed events on that day. Upon hearing the news that the video in question has references to PewDiePie, he's suggesting that maybe it's an intentional refence to Pi Day. However, he's questioning this because it's currently the 15/3 in Aus/NZ. If the killer had timed their attack for 14/3, it could be seen as some kind of sick Pi Day/PewDiePie thing.
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You know im more angry with THQ right now giving 8chan a bigger audience to see this shit go down. This whole shooting started at 8chan.
yeah after reading the tweet several times i'm not sure he was joking. could be that he didn't word it correctly.
The Tweet had already been posted several times in other threads with ongoing discussion on it. After brief consideration we decided to reopen this separate thread.
Also said "late but not so great Iwata" or something like that like right after the man had died.
edit: Nate has it above.
How could he possibly have worded that to not come off as saying something completely insensitive and/or fucked up?
Even if it's not a joke, how does it not being Pi day have ANYTHING to do with this incident?
It seemed like he was saying it's "pi day" as an explanation for why a shooter would say something so seemingly random as subscribe to pewdiepie, then realized that since NZ is way ahead in the clock it's now 3:15 for them.
Don't want to defend this guy if he was trying to make an offensive joke, I just don't really see anything in that tweet that's structured like a joke. Like what part are we supposed to laugh at?
Rich dude makes joke about dead minority group. Really leaning into that cliche, huh?
Fuck this guy.
Fuck this guy.
he could have meant that the killer chose pi day to do the mass shooting to go along with his subscribe to pewdiepie remark before doing it.
There hasn't been a single good or productive thread with this fucker's name in the title.
He needs to be a blacklisted source for anything, including quotes. -_-
He needs to be a blacklisted source for anything, including quotes. -_-
Literally nothing about the statement is a joke. It's a pertinent observation about the date the attack took place on, with the caveat that Pi Day was yesterday.
"Subscribe to PewDiePie" isn't random. It's not. It's a stupid-ass meme. It has nothing to do with Pi Day. I'm struggling to understand why he'd ever think that tweet was needed. Joke or not, it's silly.
the killer said to subscribe to pewdiepie before going on shooting.
Yeah, that's why I didn't read it as a joke. Nothing about it seems like it's supposed to be funny, just an observation as you said.
One of the shooters livestreamed to facebook from 8chan before going in and said "subscribe to pewdiepie"
The title of this thread really should be updated. People are coming in here fired up with the assumption Pacther wrote that comment to make light/joke about the shooting.
Even if it wasn't a joke surely if you saw the reactions to the tweet you would take it down and apologise straight away explaining that it was misunderstood. Either way it's not a decent reaction to the tragedy that is unfolding right now...
Yeah there's no way he can be this ignorant. If not the connotations re: pewdiepie, then the 'meme'. Also the connection between pi day and pewdiepie is nonexistent.
He made that snide comment about Iwata, so it's pretty obvious he was scoffing at the deaths of innocent men women and children.
yeah, embarrassingly enough, this's very likely all down to him trying to show how cool/hip he is by knowing that it's 'pi day'...
The thread title is unfair to Pachter and should be changed.
Timeline is:
- Killer mentions "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" in his video
- Pachter speculates that the attack might have been intentionally timed to land on pi day, aka 3/14
For the record he is wrong (it is actually March 15 down this side of the world) but he's not making light of a terrorist attack.
Timeline is:
- Killer mentions "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" in his video
- Pachter speculates that the attack might have been intentionally timed to land on pi day, aka 3/14
For the record he is wrong (it is actually March 15 down this side of the world) but he's not making light of a terrorist attack.
Pi=3.14 March 14th is 3/14 so people call it "Pi day". I don't know if there's any link between PewDiePie and Pi day.
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