News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises. Parent comment

Re:Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite pas... by mlyle on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:39PM (#25328552)
Sure. I think it's only useful out of band, though, in these cases.

Because if you're pissed off about Cyberpunk 2077, and think death threats are OK... seeing an article with more news about '2077 being late, and an aside of them saying "these death threats are upsetting us" A) reinforces your belief death threats for situations like this are normal, and B) provides you with some validation/happies.

I'd wager that the kind of people who issue death threats over video game delays has a pretty big overlap with 4chan. 4chan peeps know their behavior is not normative, and having a bunch of outcry has never stopped their pursuit of the luls... and the kind of article mentioning the threats you're talking about is pretty much winning from their standpoint.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite pas... by nomdep on Sunday December 06, 2020 @09:08PM (#25328696)
NO ONE is saying death threats are ok. But receiving menacing tweets from a few random accounts, specially when you can fabricate them yourself, doesn't even qualify as death threath.
[ Parent | on HN ]