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So um gaming analyst Michael Pachter has just tweeted this (mosque shooting related) [update: Pachter apologizes]
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Yeah. The tweet he responded to said PDP was referenced. He mentioned it being Pi day to potentially link the killer to doing it on Pi day intentionally.
Asking for clarity before instantly assuming the worst is a completely reasonable response. Particularly when it's not clear cut what the intent was.
Read what you just wrote. Read what the tweet says. Read what happened in the shooting.
Do you realize how fucking stupid it all sounds? How fucking inappropriate the tweet is given the context of what was happening, based off some tenuous incorrect connection that reads like (and is) a shit joke? Pi day? The fuck?
How do you think that explanation makes this an appropriate tweet/joke? You quoted a bunch of folks but seemed to have missed why the tweet is an issue.
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It doesn't really matter why Pachter said what he said. Bottom line, he heard about a tragedy and his first response was to make a callous, possibly glib statement about it. If there's a time and place to speculate on why a mass shooting happened, it's not in immediate response to the first news story you read about the tragedy. That's why people think Pachter's tweet was offensive.
So that's the event that you're defending. You're acting like you're being civil by giving him the benefit of doubt, but the only part of this event in doubt is the least important part of it. It doesn't matter why he said something callous and it doesn't matter that you think he may have had some logic for being callous. That doesn't take away the callousness of the tweet.
I agree. Though I do think that given how much it clearly upset people and the incredible severity of the incident, he really ought to make a
more formal apology.
Big eye roll to this post, he's not going to learn and I can safely say he's a shitty person. He wouldn't have deleted it or apologized unless people called him out. This is a person that doesn't have a filter. He's old and out of touch, he won't change.
I'm done being told to give old white guys second chances over and over again.
What is this nonsense?? As in the "'boys will be boys'" BS. That excuse is fucking garbage
Edit, didn't realise context of the quote, my bad
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It's facetious. It's a parody reply to the sincere one they were quoting.
Pretty sure he's calling out the typical "boys will be boys" attitude some people have toward others when they do things that are incredibly shitty. Fairly certain the post you quoted was certainly not saying "boys will be boys" in a serious manner.
I sure hope you never say anything stupid. It was a very insensitive comment, but not enough to make him a pariah. He apologized. Get over it.
Hopefully he learns to be more considerate.He apologized in the same Twitter thread his original tweet was in. (Or so I assume, don't really know how Twitter works exactly)
Get over it?
49 human being were killed and he jokes about it.
49 people are not on their homes. They have families and children. They were slaughtered and he jokes about it. And you telling me to get over it?
Why don't you tell that to the people who lost their loves one.
tell them he made a mistake and get over it.
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Even with the most 'positive' interpretation of it, putting that out there in the middle of an active (at the time) shooting is fucking stupid. A joke? An explanation? Theory crafting? Is any of that appropriate in response to a tweet asking people not to share the video of a shooter?
No. It isn't.
Even Pachter realized how stupid it was.
It's a low, low bar but at least he didn't pull some bullshit in his apology.
Doesn't change my opinion that he's a fucking moron who can't understand context.
I don't think the families involved care about his moronic attempt at a joke. He apologized. It's not like he has a history or pattern of doing this type of thing.
Well he has somewhat of a history of making fun of the dead like; "The dead but not so great Iwata"
Not that I care about Pachter at all, but as far as apologies go that's a decent one compared to most of the trash non-apologies we see.
(Still a shit comment to make)
(Still a shit comment to make)
Okay wait hold on
This joke was shitty as hell, but have we even seen Pachter do anything besides made outlandish video game market predictions to definitively come to this conclusion?
Fuck him. People were massacred and you're making jokes about it? How can someone be so desensitized?
Saw his comments about Iwata after his death?
Pachter isn't someone you want to have a drink with. He is a grumpy old very egocentric man who has most of the times no clue what he is talking about.
All I'm saying is that the "positive" interpretation, it's far less offensive than if it were a joke like so many in this thread assume it is. It's impossible to know which it is without reading his mind.
The Iwata comment after his death was the first eye brow raise moment. Pachter is the type of person I would NOT associate with in my every day life. Regardless if it was intended as a joke or a comparison with NZ and people using Pi Day to promote Pew, it was in poor taste after what had just happened. This man has no issues making poor taste comments after people have died and think it's alright. That's an issue with him as a person considering how old he is.
User Banned (1 Week): Antagonizing other members over a series of posts, previous infractions
Sorry I'm not outraged. Goodbye.
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Outrage?
It's about human decency, which you clearly lack.
I really hope the mods can see your fucking behavior.
Bullshit. I'm just not gonna get worked up over every insensitive comment someone makes. Especially someone that doesn't have a rep for it and apologized. Don't you EVER assume to know what I'm thinking. Especially about a situation this serious.
A decent human being wouldn't make that kind of fuck up in the first place.
That said, I'm surprised by the quality of that apology. We normally get shitty half apologies from people who clearly aren't sorry for anything.
That said, I'm surprised by the quality of that apology. We normally get shitty half apologies from people who clearly aren't sorry for anything.
Pachter does have that reputation, as unattentive readers of this thread can attest
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Pro tip: stay out of discussions like these, these people can't be helped because they WANT to be outraged at everything.
Don't use "we", because "we" didn't all view his comment that way. I doubt anyone with any actual cognitive skills translated what he said into "I dont care about the victims.".
3.14, which isn't even a date they have in New Zealand. Pachter didn't put much thought (obviously) into his comment.
Is this true? That takes an amazingly terrible person to say this, if so.
Edit: Found it. Dude is a POS.
Noone is outraged by his offensive joke or by your fitting use of the altright troll meme outrage.
It's very true. Throughout the years he seemingly showed zero respect to anyone at Nintendo because they didnt run their business the way he thought they should run it, and even Iwata's death didn't stop him from being a complete asshole to the man. Although he did eventually apologize for that too:
It would seem Michael has an issue with not thinking before speaking, which should give any employer of his pause.
This forum would greatly benefit from this dude not being allowed on here. He's a jerk and an awful analyst.
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