Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6217579" data-attributes="member: 6750039">It was a child.  This wasn't a head of state or even a drunken frat boy - it was a child.  Anyone thinking it was a genuine genocidal statement is a [redacted].  That or they're looking to be offended.Irrelevant.  I said it wouldn't be fair to judge this child and this is an example of unfair judgement.  Yeah, that's true.  Oh wait, you meant Kimmel.  See, I thought you meant all of the people protesting this.  Whoops.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Fair.Meh, I do see it as unjust in this case.  There wasn't any hate here and that's the disconnect.  Overall we're on the same page about this, though.This is a situation where it wasn't warranted.  Again, they're calling him Hitler.Thing is, it was harmless.  I don't see even an apology as warranted here and, unfortunately, that'll hardly be enough for the people protesting.I suppose my 'duh' in response is that even RPG players are aware of news outside of the genre.In fairness I would assume an Iron Man video would be something about Iron Man.  To be fair to me, though, I would do so because, in part, Thor is in the news lately and they're mentioning The Avengers.  That said, once I saw that the video was about an Iron Man competition I wouldn't be bothered enough to ask that the OP clarify what he meant when he said Iron Man.  Cuz both things?  Yeah, 'Iron Man' is an accurate description.  Kinda like Conan.I try not to get too specific with the initial post because I don't want to steer the discussion.  I know what I think, I want to know what you think.</blockquote>

Verification