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Aw I can't believe you stopped 2 minutes in. That's just the FIRST joke. Too Many Cooks GOES places.

There’s a definite, significant portion of people that don’t want to talk about this stuff. That just want to say “why can’t we just get back to playing video games? Why can’t we just get back to enjoying the wealth of options and creativity going on in video games right now.” My response to that is I don’t think anyone who is being harassed right now are expressly saying they don’t want to get back to that. People out there would very much love to get back to the act of playing video games, writing about video games, making video games, but it’s kind of hard to do that when the full brunt of the weight of a very hateful segment of people is coming down on them. I suggest to resist that urge, resist that urge to turn around and go “I’m going to go back to video games because that’s all I care about” because they’re a lot of people who would love to do the same thing but they can’t right now. Be sympathetic. Be empathetic. Like listen, watch what’s happening. Pay attention.

I really enjoy the point. I've always been a fan of the "video essay" format. Would you say Sessler's Soapbox/Something influenced how you make or write the point at all? (I'm guessing you're a fan of the Sess since I saw you wear his JPEG shirt once haha)

I say this with as much love and respect as I possibly can:

Considering that you and Tyrone have been saying that rebirth is in it's final stages, do you have a more refined (as in other than 2014) release date for rebirth?

'Self censorship' is not problematic. It's not the bad kind of censorship it's worth overthrowing a government for. 'Self censorship' is just making a choice not to be a dick. I could go around calling people ‘fag’ all the time. When I was fourteen, that’s exactly what I did. Then I learned that it made my gay friends feel less comfortable around me, and less safe generally. So I stopped. It was a hard habit to break, but I was hurting people and I didn’t realize it. I wouldn’t make the choice to hurt people like that, casually and pointlessly, but without the education I didn’t even know I was making that choice. The same here. These videos and the outpouring of support around them are largely women saying ‘this stuff makes me feel unwelcome’ which is hopefully not what anybody was trying to do. But now that they know, I should hope they consider those choices with a more appropriate gravity in the future.

Jeff and Alex are the sort of cynical, self-aware wrestling fans that make me, someone who thinks wrestling is stupid as hell, kind of want to get into the dumb macho soap opera.