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In the past he's been criticized for making a lot of extremely juvenile and bad taste jokes (the biggest one people complain about is that he often screams that the monsters in horror games are going to "rape" him). I've heard though that he's gotten better about the kind of jokes he makes, and most of the indie game developers I follow on Twitter seem to respect him.

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That's good if he's gotten better. I remember seeing some of his videos in the past and they were in extremely bad taste.

How dare he, quick, we need to make YouTube into the same "bleep every bad word out" medium!

If we just make it into another TV, we won't need to change! We will not be challenged!

Shrieking "It's raping me! raaaaaaapppppppppe!!!!!!" isn't exactly challenging speech. It's just stupid.

Stupid speech is just as protected as the things you want to hear. More so, in my particular POV, although it seems pretty clear there are many groups of people who believe that that things they don't want to hear should be prohibited.

I don't think anyone here is saying that he shouldn't be allowed to say it: merely that he shouldn't say it.

You're still allowed to think that people are idiots/assholes for saying things. You're still allowed to put pressure on them to change. None of these things are at odds with the speech being legally protected.

I think my ability to say I'm glad he's apparently being less of a shithead is also protected speech. Why are we talking about this again? Nobody said he should be arrested.

Seems to be a word of a younger generation. I was into og xbox live, but stopped after highschool. After college, I bought an xbox one to game with my little bro and he was constantly using the word rape to describe himself being killed. It threw my off for a day or two then I shrugged and said kids will be kids. lol.

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