Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code
barsoap@lemm.ee 3 days agoThe onus isn’t on them to cater to everyone. If it can’t be used using Linux, deal with it like a grown up and find something else to do.
You went far beyond “ddos’ers are silly boogers”, which I agreed with, but delegitimised critique of Rockstar in general. Don’t motte and bailey now.
Your words, they get interpreted. In specific contexts. Failing to acknowledge that those contexts can differ from whatever the context is in the privacy of your own mind is a failure of both theory of mind and communication on your part and, going out on half a limb here, probably the reason why everyone around you seems so hostile. Read the room. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you are right because what you say is met with hostility, rather, work towards having what you think is right accepted with gratitude. For starters, don’t go on tirades – which starting an argument with “butthurt little pussy” definitely is no matter how correct your assessment of the situation may or may not be. Develop tact.
Soup@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Again- I don’t fucking care what the reason is. If they were butthurt about an anticheat application, OR Linux users that are denied the game now-
If they are doing DDoS attacks, they’re childish little entitled pussies.
End of story. I meant what I said.
barsoap@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Ok I’ll bite: You disapprove of the method of protest they chose, but how can you be sure of their underlying emotional/rational motives? As analogy, consider workers: They have the option to protest in front of the HQ, or they have the option to strike, and keep scabs out. Would you say that workers choosing the latter are “childish little entitled pussies”, after all, that’s a denial of service attack, or would you say that there’s rationales people could engage in that make those kinds of attack a rational strategic choice?
If such rationale is possible, how can you be sure that whoever launched the DDOS did act out of childish emotion, instead of cold-blooded calculation? You, we, can still disapprove of the use of violence in this case but that’s a consideration orthogonal as to whether we’re talking about adult or puerile behaviour.
That all being said, can you now understand why leading with that kind of language can come off as, well, arrogant.
Soup@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Again- I don’t fucking care what the reason is. If they were butthurt about an anticheat application, OR Linux users that are denied the game now- If they are doing DDoS attacks, they’re childish little entitled pussies. End of story.
I meant what I said. Stop trying to justify it.
barsoap@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Again: But what if it isn’t butthurt, but actual strategic consideration. You’re refusing to consider people having any motive but that which you assume them to have at first impression, presumably the one out of which you would go for such a mode of action. But other people aren’t you, and chose their actions based on other principles. Who are you to tell them that they are wrong? “But muh they’re butthurt” is not an answer to that question, you’re only restating your premise.