To deflect, knowingly and unknowingly, from the problems one might have with a commercial product/a corporation's unethical behavior by turning it into an overly emotional issue centered around how a high-level executive directly responsible for said problems must have felt.
Originally used on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch 2 forums to describe the perspective that the game's director, who misled an entire community by lying about a game feature that was heavily advertised when they knew prior to the game's release it was cancelled, must have felt too ashamed to act otherwise.
Originally used on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch 2 forums to describe the perspective that the game's director, who misled an entire community by lying about a game feature that was heavily advertised when they knew prior to the game's release it was cancelled, must have felt too ashamed to act otherwise.
A: I feel so bad for the game director, they must have felt too bad to tell us the truth...
B: That's pity shilling- feeling too bad to do the right thing means nothing when not doing it means you are misleading people.
B: That's pity shilling- feeling too bad to do the right thing means nothing when not doing it means you are misleading people.
by monogrolo May 20, 2023
Get the Pity Shillingmug. by A Stewin December 5, 2017
Get the Pity Poonmug. When its firstly classified as rape, yet the person begins to feel sorry/ bad for the rapist and allows them to continue until they've finished
Ben pinned down Anika to the floor and became raping her, yet as the action dragged out she began to feel sorry for Ben, as he was loser at her high-school, so she allowed him to continue until he was finished making it pity rape.
by Ragezilla17 October 1, 2016
Get the Pity Rapemug. Person 1: "What's something you've done purely out of the goodness of your heart, but never told anyone?"
Person 2: "I once pity fapped to the weird girl in high school who had no friends."
Person 1: "Dude, what the fuck?"
Person 2: "I once pity fapped to the weird girl in high school who had no friends."
Person 1: "Dude, what the fuck?"
by KuwagaRaiger January 24, 2022
Get the Pity Fapmug. when a male becomes diseased or bodily injured and attempts to use these disabilities to get personnal gain and/or pleasure from the opposit sex.
by michael and nate November 7, 2007
Get the pity factormug. A virtual "reward" you can give someone whom annoyingly complains about situations in their life that either lack merit or they are doing so to derive unnecessary sympathy.
Person who is complaining: "I'm way pissed off man...my Dad is buying me a new BMW for my birthday when I specifically asked for a Ferrari!"
Annoyed Friend: "Wow...that really sucks. How 'bout I warm up the oven and bake you some f*cking Pity Cookies then!"
Annoyed Friend: "Wow...that really sucks. How 'bout I warm up the oven and bake you some f*cking Pity Cookies then!"
by Gold Frisch July 27, 2012
Get the Pity Cookiemug. "Hey bro, what are you doing? You already bought that hot chick over there a drink!"
"I know man, but I feel bad for her friend so I got her a pity drink, you know, out of pity."
"I know man, but I feel bad for her friend so I got her a pity drink, you know, out of pity."
by breathing apparatus August 28, 2013
Get the Pity drinkmug.