This is the best response I can offer to those who are 'offended' by the opinions of others.
- In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
The thing is that I do not take kindly to those who are conversational bullies demanding that I remain silent and exclusively allow them to speak while I am not permitted to think for myself. That isn't how any (decent) forum works.
Again, I was not flaming/trolling/harassing anyone, nor was I even speaking to the person in question. I don't feel that catering to 'tumblrinas' is productive for either itch.io or the greater gaming community at large. We should all be permitted to THINK for ourselves and if we think for ourselves we take the risk of being 'offensive' to someone somewhere somehow. That's the nature of a conversation/discussion.
Those who cannot handle a decent convo/discussion without being offended are not likely to improve themselves if they demand the silence of others instead.
I also would vehemently oppose any 'trigger warning' tagging system that invites drama and dissent rather than being useful in any way for those that actually matter (the gamers/players/consumers). Devs need to ultimately realize that the consumers are the ones with money and ignoring their needs in the marketplace is a one-way ticket to obscurity and low/zero profits. Too many want to just act as if the world revolves around them but it does not do so.
Trigger warnings do not belong in games, movies, or any other form of media. Those who rely on them lack the mental faculties to be considered adults. I stand fully by that statement and will gladly get into a more detailed discussion with citations, sources, and links from academic instutitions/papers. The infantalization of gaming into a homogenized 'agreeable' 'non offensive' sludge is not something I will sit by idly and remain silent upon.
I have several people on my FreshGaming Discord server with mental issues and other special needs, but none of them expect/demand that others cater to them. There are people who are trans or genderfluid or whatever but they never demand that anyone on the server calls them by specific pronouns.
It is as I have stated before. A child demands that the world bends to their whims. An adult understands the world is cold, cruel, and careless and does their best to adjust to what life throws at them.