Did it on his youtube show, later apologised for it:
https://gamingbolt.com/michael-pachter-apologizes-for-satoru-iwata-remark
In his "apology" he basically said that he didn't think iwata was a good businessman
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So um gaming analyst Michael Pachter has just tweeted this (mosque shooting related) [update: Pachter apologizes]
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Did it on his youtube show, later apologised for it:
https://gamingbolt.com/michael-pachter-apologizes-for-satoru-iwata-remark
In his "apology" he basically said that he didn't think iwata was a good businessman
he's free to clarify on his own whenever he wants. after his iwata bullshit why does he deserve benefit of doubt
I don't think that's a joke by Pachter at all - I think he's trying to connect two things, these terrorists screaming out memes and it being Pi day.
How quick we are to just assume the worst without giving Pachter a chance to at least clarify.
Pewdiepie = Pi - maybe that's the connection he's seeing. I don't think it's a joke. Could be wrong.
Just to pre-empt any responses, I'm Muslim with ties to New Zealand.
How quick we are to just assume the worst without giving Pachter a chance to at least clarify.
Pewdiepie = Pi - maybe that's the connection he's seeing. I don't think it's a joke. Could be wrong.
Just to pre-empt any responses, I'm Muslim with ties to New Zealand.
what the fuck does that have to do with patrick's tweet that he is directly responding to
Calling someone not so great right after their death was in really poor taste and thoughtless, but joking about more than 40 people being murdered is in a league of it's own. He's really not that much of a monster, despite what people may think about his whacky gaming predictions. Source: I meet him every year and his political and social views are very positive and inclusive. I just refuse to believe he'd stoop to this level and genuinely think his tweet meant that it wasn't 3/14 (pi day) in NZ due to the time difference.
It's truly baffling that any person could interpret the tweet in literally any other context.
No I don't know. He is replying to someone talking about a mass shooting and he replies about Pi day.
Is he that clueless?
Couldn't tell you. Because PewDiePie was mentioned? I don't know.
He probably thought the pewdiepie reference patrick mentioned had something to do with pi day? That sounds way more credible to me than branding him as an asshole.
Yes, I really hope he does when he wakes up. I agree that it looks in poor taste as it is and he needs to clear up the misunderstanding and apologize. But I wish people would stop calling for his head like that.
- Today is Pi Day. (Technically it was yesterday but run with it.)
- This morning, PewDiePie tweeted to follow him because it's Pi Day.
- The killer, before entering the mosque, said to follow PewDiePie.
- His manifesto also talked about Fortnite and flossing on corpses and stuff.
- The tweet Pachter is responding to mentions that the video's killer talks about PewDiePie.
- Patchter remarks that today is Pi Day. (Any savvy person would click that there's a strong chance this deranged killer chose this particular date for the attack as some kind of sick homage to PewDiePie. After all, there's already an established connection between the day, PewDiePie, and the killer's affinity for internet culture.) However, Patchter reflects that it probably isn't Pi Day anymore in New Zealand at the time of the shooting. (Not that this necessarily matters since the killer seems obsessed with American politics.)
Thank you. This summarizes exactly what I was trying to point out. I wish people would give the guy the benefit of the doubt, regardless of what they think about his off-the-rails gaming predictions. Yes, his Iwata comment was in very poor taste, but that doesn't mean he's going to go around joking about people getting murdered.
i'm glad the biggest defense right now for him is "well... i don't know what he means"
needs more red yarn
This is how I read it as well. Seems like he was trying to add context to the event, further solidifying the Pewdiepie connection. I don't think he was trying to present some kind of joke.
No, the biggest defense for him now is using common sense to decipher what he meant instead of automatically assuming he's a sociopath who tweets about murder victims. I'm sorry if any of his predictions about your favorite gaming console or whatever rustled your jimmies, but he's really not a monster.
That seems to be what people are also dragging him for. Don't think anyone has explained what is supposedly the joke on that tweet. Not sure why people are reacting with anger to something they don't understand, seems like rather primitive reaction.
patrick literally responded with 10 minutes. his optics- is his responsibility. he's his own brand, he knows that better than anyone.
i bash all 3 corporations here on the daily and get fanboys whining at me constantly, so fuck that
i also never called for his head, there's just a chance he said something extremely moronic as he does
Lol at people in this thread who are 100% convinced Michael Pachter is some 4chan edgelord who shit posts on Twitter.
Sorry, but I find it hard to believe that a middle aged securities analyst would intentionally make stupid jokes to make light of a recent tragedy. Is he 100% for sure innocent? No, but the amount of people on this board who are absolutely convinced that he's deliberately trolling is ridiculous.
Sorry, but I find it hard to believe that a middle aged securities analyst would intentionally make stupid jokes to make light of a recent tragedy. Is he 100% for sure innocent? No, but the amount of people on this board who are absolutely convinced that he's deliberately trolling is ridiculous.
I can see how it could be interpreted as him making a shitty joke. But it could just as easily be him referring to the timezone difference (despite how basically irrelevant that is ultimately).
But the fact that it isn't very clear cut should surely buy him the time to clarify what he meant as opposed to the guilty until proven innocent route.
If you think he was intentionally making a joke, then wouldn't you already have to understand the Pewdiepie and Pi day connection, because otherwise how could it be interpreted as a poor-taste pun?
Yes, I should have worded as "why else would he be bringing up Pi day".
Then if you don't have a personal grudge against him you should have more of a reason to give the dude a benefit of the doubt instead of making snide comments like "needs more red yarn" when people try to explain what his tweet meant. I know your pitchfork looks mighty appealing right about now, but maybe you can resist reaching for it till the guy at least wakes up and clarifies what he said, especially if the current explanations are nothing but red yarn to you.
Had also problems: This helped me
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so...-shooting-related.105456/page-6#post-18867820
It's either a joke about Pi day or speculation that the terrorists chose Pi day in reference to PewDiePie. as Pi sounds like Pie.
But as his own tweet acknowledges, it wasn't Pi day in New Zealand.
is his bedtime 8pm?
if his intention was to make some bigger connection, then he absolutely 100% failed and that's on him. proof being that literally no one knows what he meant.
i don't even read it as an edge lord thing, i read it as a really poor taste dad joke
If he's on the east coast, might've been 11.
This is a lesson to not tweet before bed.
Jesus fucking christ, I am not going to engage with you any longer. You know what? Go ahead and continue calling for his head if it makes you feel better. Surely the evil financial analyst won't keep getting away with his malicious tweets with brave gatekeepers like you ensuring that they get what they deserve!
This part I kind of get, but to be fair, I can totally see people with thousands upon thousands of followers turning Twitter notifications off because:
a) Social media isn't the center of their life
b) They want their phone battery to last more than 15 minutes
c) Maybe they don't even have Twitter installed on their phone and only use it on their PC?
where did i call for his head? i've just made fun of him. you're the one taking it personally because you meet with him once a year or whatever. i don't even know what calling for his head means, who does he even work for?
i will say it one last time. he is his own brand, he owns his tweets, he is free to clarify whenever the hell he wants. even if it turns out to be the best case scenario, it was communicated in a extremely poor way that has confused every single person and that's on him
I get that people are angry but some of those responses on twitter (and here), you people and your pitchforks
If only there were some examples in the past ofvpeople making a badly worded tweet, and then the Internet hate mob mobilising and ruining someone's life.
Thankfully this has never happened so we cannot learn from our mistakes.
Thankfully this has never happened so we cannot learn from our mistakes.
Could a mod maybe add an explanation of Pi day and what Pacther meant (or MIGHT have meant if that makes some people feel better) to the OP so there is some context? Maybe that way at least a few may decide to hold off on reaching for their readily available pitchforks a tad bit longer. Honestly, dogpiling on people in this day and age is way too prevalent and that is fucking depressing to behold.
fucking this, jesus this whole forum is a tinderbox propped up on any excuse to run a crusade. if anything patrick klepicks response completely skews any perception to the tweet to the negative.
I can't interpret Pachters tweet as outwardly malicious; to me it looks like he was trying to make a connection that wasn't obvious and he did a poor job of illustrating it. But this forum feasts on any Pachter misstep so I'm not surprised by the reaction in this thread.
OOH. I was trying to think of what the hell his tweet even meant.
It's not so much malicious as completely clueless and pointless and out of nowhere? Kind of like Pachter himself?
Thank you. Because trying to see the tweet as a joke seemed nonsensical to me. It would have been the most incoherent joke I've ever heard.
Your explanation is far more reasonable and makes far more logical sense for both the intent and meaning of the tweet.
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