Regulation v1.22 patchnotes - November 11th

After sleeping on it, if you were expecting an apology then I'm gonna disappoint you. The only person that is owed an apology is my wife for the way I acted towards her, which was thoroughly disrespectful on my part and something I deeply regret. I could roll off a bunch of excuses for why that happened, but none of them matter. As for the rest of my views, let me be crystal clear on this. I kept my mouth shut the entire election cycle out of respect for my audience who expressly told me they did NOT want political content on my channel. I even kept it off my personal Twitter feed and that's not even content. I had no desire to influence anyones vote or use my position to try to push my politics onto others. Regardless of that, the election is over and I have no issue what-so-ever expressing my frustrations at that point. It's funny, some people claim to value my honesty and we built the channel and company on the back of that, but when that honesty presents them with an opinion they don't like, they lose their minds. For all the complaining about "SJWs" I see online, those very same people have no problem turning around and acting in exactly the same extremist manner when they're told "hey, I don't like what you did". How quickly people forget that when presented with the choice of principles vs profit, I will take principles every time. Even though people vastly overestimate the number of Trump supporters who actually watch my content (America is a minority of my viewerbase and Trump supporters are a minority of a minority of a minority), I will take any hit to my income on the chin from people who no longer feel they can watch my content because I said things that they didn't like. We could lose our entire American audience and still be just fine. As it stands we lost less subscribers than I did when I talked shit about used games, so that should be a good indicator of just how few people were offended by what I said. It's not like I blame you if you're offended. That was kind of the point. I think if you voted Trump you did a pretty shitty thing and directly and negatively affects my life, so yeah, I'm gonna call you out on it. My reasons for doing so, not least of which the legitimate fear for my life are well-documented and have not changed. I will address though the comments I made on Co-Optional, as some have accurately pointed out that I said I'd respect your vote regardless of what it was and that I clearly then didn't. Yup. Got me, well done. I said what you wanted to hear and what I needed to say to keep the show as politically neutral as possible. After a campaigns worth of dishonest populist rhetoric, successful at that (despite a failure to win the popular vote), I'd have thought some of you would enjoy a little pandering. I guess lying to people in a way that's pleasing to their ear is only ok if you're running the country, not a Youtube channel. We'll come out the other side of this and any subscriber hit I take is one I earned and will gladly accept. That said, more people unsubbed over my used games video than they did over this so I'm not really all that concerned. Do what I've been telling you to do as a consumer for years and exercise your right to consume, or not consume. For those who choose to stick around, be assured that we will not tolerate bigotry in our communities. Any racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and discriminatory behavior will be dealt with, paying subscriber or not. As usual, principles over profits.

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