what makes you think its an obvious joke? you're talking about deus ex
Because I have the ability to take a joke and not autistically take everything at face value.
You and your Social Justice circle-jerk friends start this precedent of bullstuff, where if someone makes a joke that you find offensive, you treat it like it was said with a straight face, then somehow anything they say in the future can never be a joke, because this person is marked as such.