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Disagreeing with the art direction is one thing but people are going beyond constructive criticism by being toxic and throwing personal attacks.


Not to pry, but do you have any examples of this?


The comments on the linked article feature a number of examples of this, despite already having had the worse stuff moderated-out. For instance:

> You are an abhorrent and miserable human being, Ron Gilbert. You should be ashamed of yourself. One can only hope that you retire from the industry and never return.

Which, you know, not cool.


In the article being discussed, Ron writes:

> I'm shutting down comments. People are just being mean and I'm having to delete personal attack comments.

These comments is what you are requesting.

Browse them using wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://grumpygamer.com/rtmi_t...


Go read the HN comments, and then imagine what a cesspool like Youtube or Reddit would do if HN itself was that "down" on it.

Personally I think it's a better art style than Tumbleweed, but I had issues with that game's story.



Ron mentioned he deleted some personal attack comments, so some of the closest examples are gone.




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