Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        DDoS attacks are done by butthurt entitled children.

        I’m done discussing this.

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