The cause being what?

They murdered thousands of people in cities across China. Footage and imagery are very easily accessible all over the internet, and you’re also arguing that there was no trade degredation between China and other nations after 1989?

Present it

In the thumbnail is the Tiananmen Square Tank Man.

Are you claiming a globally televised event which lead to a complete breakdown of trade relations across the world in the 90s, didn’t happen?

Intel, eh? Hahahahaa

Whenever developers say “Choices Matter” I just kind of filter it out because it’s never come true yet.

Kind of strange to see all these big updates to PoE while PoE 2 gets perpetually delayed.

The “currencies” are all ingame. Because PoE has no actual currency like gold pieces or anything, players trade in consumable items like Chaos Orbs and Chromatic Orbs that augment items with random outcomes. The introduction of a market ingame helps facilitate trades that players were previously using external websites and forums to make.

Even the NPC shops trade for identification scrolls and have “recipes” where you put in ID scrolls to get teleportation scrolls and you can keep trading upwards.

Diablo III wishes it could be PoE.

I had a domain I bought from Namecheap like a decade ago and they’re still emailing me about the one I let expire lmao.

Then they shouldn’t have made the enemy the church, lol.

How to be successful long term:

1. Make a good game

2. Don’t ship your game with a rootkit

3. Don’t ban entire regions from your game

“Leaning inappropriate”. And it was through Twitch’s message system. Also no confirmation on a meetup, that is hearsay, but hypothetically if Doc said he would be at a convention in character that itself isn’t a red flag. Markiplier meets kids at conventions all the time, gets autograph lines out the doors.

Twitch already “did nothing”. The supposed chat logs were from 3 years before his ban.

But rumours are just that, at the end of the day.

The fuck? Where did I defend him?

I’m just dismissing delusions and mass hysteria by presenting what we do know versus what we don’t. I don’t NEED access to what was said, my entire statement is that we don’t know what was said.

If you’re a 40 y/o entertainer using your exclusive platform’s built in chat to engage with your fans and audience without a filter, you haven’t done anything wrong. What do you call inappropriate? Using the word ass, either figuratively or literally? Talking about hemorrhoids? Religion? Marijuana? There really is no information to work with here, and Doc couldn’t provide it even if he wanted to.

I would be very surprised if an 3 year statute of limitations were somehow involved in all of this. And I’m not defending the Doc’s actions or statements, I AM saying “we don’t know.” Because we don’t.

It doesn’t seem like such a large gap or grey area to me. You can tell a woman “Nice T-Shirt” and that is fine but “Nice Tits” is not fine, it’s a pretty clear division to me. What could the Doc say that would qualify him as the monster people are calling him but also not illegal?

They attempted to not pay out his contract btw. He had to sue them to get that, and they payed it out. If they had evidence of such behavior from him then I’m sure courts would agree that his own actions destroying his own public image would have been more than enough reason to cancel the contract.

I’m not defending any potential actions he took, but:

There are laws about sexting minors, so if he had done that then he would have broken it and they would have plenty of evidence of that.

If nobody above 18 is morally justified to be in a chat with anybody under 18 then we’ve got some serious societal level issues to fix.

EDIT: And btw they tried to get out of paying him 20M, but realized they had no grounds to do so when he started his lawsuit. They had incentive, here. They wanted to not pay him.

He never tweeted that he “sexted a minor.”

Link to HIS TWEET

“These were casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate, but nothing more.”

Now, I personally pretty regularly say a lot of shit that can be considered “inappropriate,” but that does not equate to sexual on its own. I’m interested in seeing how this story develops, but it seems most people have already made up their minds and branded him a criminal.

I am willing to believe the accusations, but I won’t take the word of people who tried to weasel out of his contract termination fees.

If they had evidence of sexting in 2017 then why didn’t they report it to the police? Why quietly ban him in 2020?

Seems to me like they had monetary incentive to remove the Doc.