“matpat gave the pope undertale” sounds way different than “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community and it’s customary to give the pope a gift that’s reflective of the culture your represent and he chose undertale, a game about choices, consequences and reflect and peace/love”
Yeah, “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community” is actually even more ridiculous so I’m not sure context makes this one better
The real context is “MatPat gave the Pope Undertale while also comparing being a gamer to being Muslim or Queer because he’s MatPat and he’s an egotistical asshat”.
No he didn’t your still taking things out of context, probably based on hearsay. He used Muslims to explain what the availability heuristic is. He wasn’t comparing gamers to Muslims. He mentioned Orlando and said “(the world) needs peace more than ever now” he wasn’t comparing gamers to the Orlando victims. Maybe actually watch the video to look at what actually happened and stop spreading hearsay.
i dont have enough money to upgrade my phone to something that pokemon go will even attempt to run on so in the meantime im living vicariously through everyones stories which have been anywhere between adorable, hilarious, and terrifying
so far ive heard of
a guy discovering the town hes lived in for 10 years and getting enthralled by local history he keeps learning about on park plaques
finding magikarp in your shower
someone got arrested for walking around a graveyard at 3 am looking??? for??? pokemon??? hol y shit? or something like that???
the police station memo in australia politely and cutely asking “budding pokemon trainers” not to actually come in to the police station for the sandshrew sneaking around in there, and that they can catch it by being close to the building, and to “look both ways before crossing the street”
speaking of which, some person who had pokego for only 15 minutes and successfully crossed a 4 lane intersection for a pokemon
someone went out to catch pokemon and found an actual baby bird and is now attempting to take care of it and research the proper ways of caring and aiding a small bird in recovery
“matpat gave the pope undertale” sounds way different than “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community and it’s customary to give the pope a gift that’s reflective of the culture your represent and he chose undertale, a game about choices, consequences and reflect and peace/love”
Yeah, “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community” is actually even more ridiculous so I’m not sure context makes this one better
I mean. The Pope trying to learn more about internet culture is pretty damn awesome, actually? People keep laughing about how silly it is and, yeah sure, but it’s also pretty cool that the head of such a conservative institution is trying to keep up with the times and know what makes the internet world tick.
Not to mention, the Vatican’s theme of the year is Mercy, and Undertale fits that pretty damn well.
Nah matpat is dumb and kinda deserving of all the ridicule lol
that aside
He should’ve gave the Pope a Toriel plush or something instead of a scrap of paper with a steam code
“matpat gave the pope undertale” sounds way different than “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community and it’s customary to give the pope a gift that’s reflective of the culture your represent and he chose undertale, a game about choices, consequences and reflect and peace/love”
Yeah, “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community” is actually even more ridiculous so I’m not sure context makes this one better
Yeah please expand the scope of that context for us
The pope wanted to interview eleven YouTube personalities to discuss how the internet brings people together. Mat pat was chosen as one of them and represented gaming culture. He explained how games have had such an impact on people and for his customary gift that reflects what he represents, he SYMBOLICALLY gave the pope undertale, a game about mercy and breaking stereotypes because this is the popes year of mercy and mat pat was there to break the stereotype that gamers are violent basement dwellers.
In the video where he announced it and explained why, he first explained availability heugenics using an easy example, Muslims, to help people understand it. He was not comparing gamers to Muslims, he was using Muslims as an example to explain an abstract concept and then explaining how the concept pertains to why he was there. And the only time he mentioned Orlando was to emphasize that THE WORLD (not gamers) needs peace and equality more than ever right now. He never compared gamers to Orlando.
That is why context is important. Because people keep taking what he says out of context and keep spreading misinformation based on hearsay. Of course he explains all this in his video but considering how many people complain the pope doesn’t have a computer (which mat pat pointed out in video and explained that it was symbolic) I don’t think many of the people who are angry actually watched it.
