• CTDummy@lemm.ee
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    “People are too sensitive today” types are deliberately missing the point. Online is pretty much the only place where you can get away with spouting slurs or psycho shit. You wouldn’t do it in public or get away with most of it in public.

    More to the point it’s just tiring having these types come into a lobby. They generally don’t (or can’t) play properly or fuck around until someone calls them out. They then start on that person or spamming the N word.

    More often than not it feels like they try to frame it as “oh ho, people can’t handle my casual use of slurs, snowflakes”. When more likely is if you’re talking and behaving like that generally it means you’re obnoxious and disruptive to the game.

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    I’m all for banning toxic players and cheaters, but the fact that they make you install a rootkit on your system to enable this is too much.

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      You have the option not to play the game though. It is not like they force anyone with a gun to install this rootkit.

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        If someone doesn’t know what a rootkit is or why it’s bad, then they can’t give informed consent to it. It’s not a free choice for 90% of players.

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        I didn’t downvote you, but you pretty much are repeating what OP said.

        “I won’t play this game!”

        “Well, nobody is forcing you.”

        Yep, that’s pretty much the same thing.

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          It’s ok, downvote means nothing. even on Reddit.

          Sometimes people don’t understand that the fact Valorant (or other F2P) is a free game doesn’t mean they’re entitled to whine and bitch non stop.

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              Yea, beggar cannot choose. Take it or leave it. Free market will dictate it. People don’t like this harrasment approach? Valorant will die by itself.

              So many entitled brats, you cant even offer suggestions. Just criticism for the sake of it.

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                Or you could see it as it is. A community that’s passionate about the game, and games in general, giving feedback to the developer about why their game might die so that this game or future games might be more consumer friendly. Only someone who is overly critical/cynical assumes any and every feedback is whining and complaining.

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            Is it your opinion that free things can’t be criticized? I dont understand the position, especially these days when free often comes with conditions. Not sure if true free exists.

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            He was just sharing his opinion, I think he understands that Riot won’t/shouldn’t care.

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              I find it to be a pretty tired talking point. Especially on this thread where it has nothing to do with technical aspects of Valorant at all, it still needs to be interjected for some reason. Anyone on this forum already knows about riot anti cheating software, it’s just beating a dead horse now.

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      The problem is you know you have to mute them/ block them after they say/ do something bad to you. When you block them it may stop them from doing that to you but it doesn’t stop them from doing it to others on the game. Making it a bad experience for others.

      Mute/personal blocks do not fix the root problem which is the toxic players being toxic in the game.

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        This isn’t just about hateful garbage this is starting to just be about being rude, pushy, or even speaking foreign languages. Toxicity covers a whole range of communication.

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    People are too sensitive nowadays, but some people also take things too far with their insults

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      Did you even listen to what was said? Insults are one thing but alluding to rape and then saying it’s not rape if the rapist enjoys it. Is on a whole different level of depravity.

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        In this video, you hear her say she’s not going to mute him for the content. She has the tools to solve the problem. But she chose not to use them.

        EDIT Also she deleted the full clip and video from her Twitch. Nothing funny going on here.

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          Her saying she isn’t going to mute him doesn’t give him the go ahead to say the things he did.

          Could this be a publicity stunt? Sure. Does any of this make what he said ok? No

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            This is a publicity stunt. All she had to do is to mute him. But she didn’t and made a tweet about it. Now she haves gaming journalists writing articles about her.

            EDIT She could have talked to Riot Games support without making the tweet. But she didn’t.

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              How do you know? Getting publicity for this isn’t a bad thing, no matter how you try to make it out to be. Sit down.

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        Did you even read what they wrote? “Some people go too far with their insults.” What you described is literally going too far.

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          What was said wasn’t an insult. “Your momma…” are jokes, “you suck do bad…” are insults. Tbagging a dead body is an insult.

          Implying you are going to rape someone and then saying it’s not rape because you would enjoy it isn’t a typical “insult”.

          So yeah i read what they said. It just didn’t really apply to the situation.

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            It may not be a typical insult, but it is still insulting. And if someone says that as an insult, that is going too far.

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              No it is not. “I’m going to kick you” isn’t an insult, it’s a threat. Someone could try to make the case that it’s a “joke” but it isn’t an insult.