Nope, I’m not. Matt Taylor apologized– apparently sincerely. Nobody I actually know is angry at him now, if they were before. I’m angry at the horde of people who are: Shrieking on Twitter and any other social media site that he shouldn’t have apologized, because he did nothing wrong and they need him to be.
Note: Follow-up posts here, here, and here. ————————————————- Yesterday at BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment’s annual conference in Anaheim, Blizzard unveiled a new game. Yeah, I know, so what? New games are announced all the time. Heck, Blizzard announces new games all the time. So what was it this time– a new expansion for World of Warcraft? Starcraft.
I love this because it illustrates some really bizarre assumptions and why they’re bizarre. Like the all-too-common-among-pro-lifers assumption that an unborn fetus represents absolutely limitless possibility. Unborn fetuses are positively magical that way– they could cure cancer, end world hunger, invent a perpetual motion machine, anything! They could save the world in a thousand different.