Henchmen21
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This may also be just someone lashing out due to our community is hurting right now.
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This may also be just someone lashing out due to our community is hurting right now.
I wish you luck, and I hope you have a great time!
Thanks!
Oh, and by the way: I'm gonna wear normal clothes, no costume or anything. But I'd like to wear some rainbow-themed accessory. Does anyone here have a good suggestion?
So far, I only found this scarf on Amazon:
I'm not wholly convinced, but it does look kind of nice, doesn't it? Though I think the colors might be a bit too bright for my taste.
Fix-It Felix. Jr.
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Hopefully that's the case with this particular scenario. I've seen a lot of terrible remarks on these dating/hook-up sites before regarding race/culture before, though. This person seems to just be using the events in Orlando as an excuse for it, which is even sadder.
Henchmen21
Banned
Yeah, if I had more instances of this particular person saying this kind of stuff even before Orlando than I'd be okay with labeling him a bigot but people are upset and angry right now (not to excuse what he said) so I don't know if he was just lashing out or not. Unfortunately, we'll probably see a lot of that till the strong feelings subside.
I have a few rainbow bandannas that I'm a fan of :] They're cute and wearable anywhere.
This is on the corner of one of the busy blocks of Boystown, the queer neighborhood here in Chicago. It was really unsettling. It was nice to see, but I was overwhelmed by it, too. Strange feeling.
This is on the corner of one of the busy blocks of Boystown, the queer neighborhood here in Chicago. It was really unsettling. It was nice to see, but I was overwhelmed by it, too. Strange feeling.
Astral Dog
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who knows, it could just have been coincidence, but what we know is that there were serious homophobic and religious ideas behind this.
i thought it was a bit strange as well, but try to not let that bother you, that was likely not done with malicious intent and mostly an unfortunate choice of words.
these days have been difficult but dont let yourself be down by these innocuous things, its not worth it.
very proud of my fellow Londoners
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ands-attend-soho-vigil-video?CMP=share_btn_fb
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ands-attend-soho-vigil-video?CMP=share_btn_fb
I wish I posted here more. I want to get to know each of you more. I don't really know anyone but I just want to say that I feel so connected to all my LGBT friends across the globe right now.
Love you guys. Hope you're all doing well. I've been so incredibly depressed over this.
The world can be so amazing.
Love you guys. Hope you're all doing well. I've been so incredibly depressed over this.
The world can be so amazing.
Fix-It Felix. Jr.
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Raw just opened up with a moment of silence for the victims in Orlando, with this image on the titantron.
Very nice to see this level of support on a live broadcast.
Very nice to see this level of support on a live broadcast.
MetalGearZed
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wow. a witness on MSNBC says his friend, who was a victim in the bathroom spoke of a moment when the shooter asked some of the black victims if they were indeed black. and the shooter actually let them go saying he "doesn't have a problem with the blacks"
wow.
wow.
I assume you were replying to me? I'm not really a fan of bandanas. I think I'm gonna get that scarf. Better than nothing.
Fix-It Felix. Jr.
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That's really bizarre since they still would have [likely] been gay...
CornBurrito
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You guys know that meme where any person pushing a virulently homophobic agenda is secretly gay?
Sometimes I think people take it seriously. And then we get shit like this:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206860245&postcount=5198
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206860652&postcount=5202
Orlando shooter might be gay! Its all our fault.
Granted it is just two posters, but this sort of shit really ticks me off. And whenever I get ticked out I inevitably get told I'm taking a "joke" too seriously.
edit: Oh apparently the shooter actually really might be gay. With legit evidence....
well fuck this
Sometimes I think people take it seriously. And then we get shit like this:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206860245&postcount=5198
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206860652&postcount=5202
Orlando shooter might be gay! Its all our fault.
Granted it is just two posters, but this sort of shit really ticks me off. And whenever I get ticked out I inevitably get told I'm taking a "joke" too seriously.
edit: Oh apparently the shooter actually really might be gay. With legit evidence....
well fuck this
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There's not really evidence of that as far as I'm hearing. We know he was trying to learn about gay places in Orlando through people on Facebook and gay apps but we don't have evidence that he ever had any physical contact with gay or bi men. The only guy I hear speaking about the app conversations says the guy avoided ever actually meeting up and was spotted by others drinking at the clubs alone a few times. Still a possibility, but I don't think there's been actual evidence he was after more than information and club regulars.You guys know that meme where any person pushing a virulently homophobic agenda is secretly gay?
Sometimes I think people take it seriously. And then we get shit like this:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206860245&postcount=5198
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206860652&postcount=5202
Orlando shooter might be gay! Its all our fault.
Granted it is just two posters, but this sort of shit really ticks me off. And whenever I get ticked out I inevitably get told I'm taking a "joke" too seriously.
edit: Oh apparently the shooter actually really might be gay. With legit evidence....
well fuck this
Mostmanlyman
Member
Exactly my thoughtsIt's completely unsurprising.
Ughhh this is week is so shitty, and just felt been feeling like shit.
R10Neymarfan
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Talk about self-hate. I'm beginning to think this guy was more mentally unstable and insecure about his sexuality rather then a Muslim terrorist bent on cause havok.
It does make me kinda feel somewhat sorry for him. (I have huge empathy even for bad people)
It does make me kinda feel somewhat sorry for him. (I have huge empathy even for bad people)
Bel Marduk
Banned
Thanks for all the support everyone.
Today I'm in the anger stage of grief. Its a normal part of the process.
We should be allowed to be angry and express our anger when an act this horrific has been perpetrated against us.
I don't care to know anything about this asshole or any motivation he may have had. I'm just glad he's dead.
Astral Dog
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everybody deserves a bit of empathy,good or bad, specially if that is true he is just the product of religious indoctrination and homophobic propaganda. awful situation all around.
I think it's both, plus gun control. What a horrible mix, you have all the ingredients, easy access to weapons, homophobic religious upbringing, repressed sexuality, ISIS and their fucking awful indoctrination of unstable Muslims in western countries, it's just a god damn tragedy all around.
CornBurrito
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Welp... On Reddit the top 5 or so comments in a thread about the perpetrator possibly being gay are jokes about how ISIS members are homosexuals. Haha so fucking funny.
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EdibleKnife
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Welp... On Reddit the top 5 or so comments in a thread about the perpetrator possibly being gay are jokes about how ISIS members are homosexuals. Haha so fucking funny.
Even after a tragedy, gay people are still the butt of the joke, huh?
Blood Diamonds
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Same. Don't care about this sick fuck's personal life at all.
If that is the case, it's only going to make it even easier for people to dismiss their own homophobia as a non-issue going forward - the only ones actually responsible for discriminatory violence are clearly just gay and in denial, and the rest of us are totally blameless in perpetuating it. It's not our problem!
EdibleKnife
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Well I brought that on myself
Puritanical religions, cultures, and societies like ours continue to breed warped people afraid to embrace their truth, leading to confusion, rage and we see again violence.
Ugh. I can totally imagine this. "The gays are the only ones killing themselves. Just goes to show how dangerous it is to live such a deviant lifestyle." I'm shuddering just thinking about it.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
annnnd I just learned about "Findom" (Financial Domination)
not to kink shame but literally why would you ever want to give your money away like that
not to kink shame but literally why would you ever want to give your money away like that
EdibleKnife
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Loss of control plus the embarrassment and shame must be central and even more powerful than general physical domination since you're actually destroying your life as the slave of whoever your dom is.
Let me get finsub then.
It's pretty weird to see how we are seeing all these things happen more often and being talked about more these days. I wonder what things I will hear next.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Barrylocke
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How does a flat earther explain getting on a plane that crosses an ocean? Do they have a precise point on the globe that they think is actually the end and beginning of the earth? Why do they think this conspiracy was donein the first place?
I'm scared to open that thread and get answers.
DOWN
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Discussed earlier on the page. There's nothing that actually suggests he was doing more than contemplating, researching, and planning what to do for an attack. He never met up with any men romantically as far as we know, even if it is possible he did. His Facebook interactions suggest he was somewhat strategic in finding people for research and not for any personal interest.
^ I've read reports that he was going to that club for over three years. I don't know it's very difficult for me to think that he was just scouting for information all this time.
Plus his dad is a homophobe. He literally said that "it is up to God to punish the gays" in a video to Afghanistan. The more I learn about his history the more I feel like he was deeply repressed. He had two failed marriages. He grew up in a repressive Muslim household. He would sloppy drunk at gay clubs and complain about his father. This entire narrative screams that he was struggling with his sexuality.
And it's so scary to me. Because I know a lot of guys like him. There was this one *straight* guy who wanted to experiment or something with me... and he couldn't even look at me while we were together. Like yeah he clearly felt stuff but he refused to let me kiss him and he'd always look past me. Patriarchy and masculine expectations run so deep.
Plus his dad is a homophobe. He literally said that "it is up to God to punish the gays" in a video to Afghanistan. The more I learn about his history the more I feel like he was deeply repressed. He had two failed marriages. He grew up in a repressive Muslim household. He would sloppy drunk at gay clubs and complain about his father. This entire narrative screams that he was struggling with his sexuality.
And it's so scary to me. Because I know a lot of guys like him. There was this one *straight* guy who wanted to experiment or something with me... and he couldn't even look at me while we were together. Like yeah he clearly felt stuff but he refused to let me kiss him and he'd always look past me. Patriarchy and masculine expectations run so deep.
Trying to logic out what the killer was thinking in the years to days leading up to the massacre is frustrating. All these tibits of information that come out just makes me feel like we'll never know the truth. And that whatever narrative is pieced together from what the media/police scour will never be enough.
CornBurrito
Member
Idk if you two are taking the piss at me or what, but I just find gay jokes in a topic about the massacre really inappropriate.
Phantom Dust
Bound
Horizon
Scalebound
Those are the ones that caught my attention.
EDIT: Nier Automata trailer looked good
DalikSkywing
Member
No DMC5, re7 looks like shit, I dont care for the last of us of war, pretty disappointed so far.
I think Aloy's outfit is more meant to represent a generic pre-historical/tribal outfit than a Native American one.
We happy few looks intriguing which is nice.
RE 7 looks weird but sorta intriguing too. Kinda interested to see where they go with it.
South Park looks like south park, will be enjoyable so I'll probably get it at some point.
Outside of that it's been mostly disappointment or stuff I don't care about.
We happy few looks intriguing which is nice.
RE 7 looks weird but sorta intriguing too. Kinda interested to see where they go with it.
South Park looks like south park, will be enjoyable so I'll probably get it at some point.
Outside of that it's been mostly disappointment or stuff I don't care about.
EdibleKnife
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If it came across that way, my apologies but I was being 100% sincere. Being gay or trans, despite progress we've made as a society still comes with the stigma of being bothered, off or "funny" in the eyes of straight people and jokes come easy to them despite how tragic the context
Spiderman, We Happy Few, Mafia 3, Dishonored 2 and Kojima's Wacked out on Shrooms Dreamscape game.
Sigh. (Warning, the next paragraph is me whining about my lousy life. Just need to vent.)
Had a nice weekend (until/besides the bad news on Sunday), but the week has turned quite poor. My job is so boring. I have nothing to do. And I started looking for a new one again and there's nothing. Absolutely nothing. Structural Engineering doesn't seem to be in high demand. Part of me wonders if I should go back to school. But that'd be expensive, I'd have to give up a lot to do it. And there's two directions I could go in (Masters of structural engineering, or a master in transportation engineering), with no idea which to chose. And after talking early last week, Tinder guy hasn't messaged me again. So, guess the date is off. I could message him I suppose. But I'll probably refrain. I sort of feel like I was the one initiating most of our conversations. Because I was. And I'm not about to walk myself into a one sided relationship again. Plus E3 has been pretty meh, and I didn't get to watch any of the press conferences (Can't remember the last time I missed all 3... been years. Usually I see Sony, Ubisoft and Nintendo's). And then to top it all off, my (embarrassing medical condition warning)
have been on fire this week, meaning I've been in excruciating, non stop pain since yesterday morning.
Its been a bad week. Good thing its already..... Tuesday =/
Definitely:
Nier
Yooka-Laylee
South Park
The Last Garudian
Zelda (Yet to see it, but its Zelda, so I'm hyped)
Maybe:
Ni-Oh (Need to try the demo in august)
God of War (Don't typically like the series but the demo looked like a big change)
Deus Ex
Honestly, pretty disappointing E3. Not much for me. Which I guess is fine. I want gaming to be a smaller part of my life, and it looks like the gaming industry wants that too.
Had a nice weekend (until/besides the bad news on Sunday), but the week has turned quite poor. My job is so boring. I have nothing to do. And I started looking for a new one again and there's nothing. Absolutely nothing. Structural Engineering doesn't seem to be in high demand. Part of me wonders if I should go back to school. But that'd be expensive, I'd have to give up a lot to do it. And there's two directions I could go in (Masters of structural engineering, or a master in transportation engineering), with no idea which to chose. And after talking early last week, Tinder guy hasn't messaged me again. So, guess the date is off. I could message him I suppose. But I'll probably refrain. I sort of feel like I was the one initiating most of our conversations. Because I was. And I'm not about to walk myself into a one sided relationship again. Plus E3 has been pretty meh, and I didn't get to watch any of the press conferences (Can't remember the last time I missed all 3... been years. Usually I see Sony, Ubisoft and Nintendo's). And then to top it all off, my (embarrassing medical condition warning)
hemorrhoids
Its been a bad week. Good thing its already..... Tuesday =/
Definitely:
Nier
Yooka-Laylee
South Park
The Last Garudian
Zelda (Yet to see it, but its Zelda, so I'm hyped)
Maybe:
Ni-Oh (Need to try the demo in august)
God of War (Don't typically like the series but the demo looked like a big change)
Deus Ex
Honestly, pretty disappointing E3. Not much for me. Which I guess is fine. I want gaming to be a smaller part of my life, and it looks like the gaming industry wants that too.
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That Zelda trailer... ;__; So pretty.
Dishonored 2, We Happy Few, Horizon, Steep, Detroit all looked cool.
God of War I liked as well, but its been weird because prior to the reveal I really did not want to see another GoW. I wasn't a big fan of the original games. However, the reboot of it totally has me on board.
Yeah I'm about the same as well. I less and less play games, and more just like following the industry and posting on message boards lol.
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