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Putonahappyface

Gold Member
When the only person on your ignore list gets permanently banned.

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Nydius

Gold Member
File under: Rambling about life...

December's off to a great start (note the sarcasm). Overnight, someone walked through our neighborhood and randomly slashed tires. About ten cars in all, including ours. The casualty is two tires we now have to get replaced. Police are hoping someone on the street caught the guy on a doorbell cam. Doesn't appear that anyone was being specifically targeted, just some asshole looking to cause chaos.

Just ordered our replacement tires and that's $175 we get to spend that we don't really have at the moment. Could be worse I guess. He took out all four of my neighbor's GMC Sierra Texas Edition (a big ass truck, for non-Americans) tires. I know that's gonna run him damn near a thousand dollars to replace if his insurance won't cover it.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
File under: Rambling about life...

December's off to a great start (note the sarcasm). Overnight, someone walked through our neighborhood and randomly slashed tires. About ten cars in all, including ours. The casualty is two tires we now have to get replaced. Police are hoping someone on the street caught the guy on a doorbell cam. Doesn't appear that anyone was being specifically targeted, just some asshole looking to cause chaos.

Just ordered our replacement tires and that's $175 we get to spend that we don't really have at the moment. Could be worse I guess. He took out all four of my neighbor's GMC Sierra Texas Edition (a big ass truck, for non-Americans) tires. I know that's gonna run him damn near a thousand dollars to replace if his insurance won't cover it.


that royally sucks man, unforeseen expenses, especially around the holiday, are soul crushing.
 

Putonahappyface

Gold Member
Sorry to hear that! Poor little kitty 😞. You're a good lad!
I'll keep him going until his quality of life starts to decline. He's sixteen with stage 2 kidney disease, hypertension and hyperthyroidism.

With the medication, you wouldn't think there was anything wrong with him!
 
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Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
I wonder if this comment prompted him to take his leave.

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Yeah I too am completely burnt out on the woke panic. Don’t get me wrong, I hate the demands about needing to label pronouns and the other bullshit. I just hate all of it across the board. Main reason I avoid gaming threads these days.
 

AV

We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
Yeah I too am completely burnt out on the woke panic. Don’t get me wrong, I hate the demands about needing to label pronouns and the other bullshit. I just hate all of it across the board. Main reason I avoid gaming threads these days.

I started to write a big post about this (in agreement) but honestly, it's not worth the effort - sadly, I'm kind of in tommib's boat in that I'm just going to move on because the discourse is staggeringly boring, and at this point impossible to avoid. Not a ban request / suicide thread / anything like that, I just don't really visit GAF much any more for this reason. It's a shame, but I guess these people need an outlet for their hatred.
 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
We’re tolerating a bit more culture war type stuff than usual because of all the high profile games this year that went all-in themselves with that direction. Hard to avoid without artificially locking down a lot of topics that are relevant to some of the biggest bombs this year. It seems to be an inflection point for the industry. But it’s being monitored such that it doesn’t take over general game discussions. Your concerns are noted though.
 

AV

We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
We’re tolerating a bit more culture war type stuff than usual because of all the high profile games this year that went all-in themselves with that direction. Hard to avoid without artificially locking down a lot of topics that are relevant to some of the biggest bombs this year. It seems to be an inflection point for the industry. But it’s being monitored such that it doesn’t take over general game discussions. Your concerns are noted though.

Yeah, not a criticism of the handling of the board. It's going to be near impossible to police when it's such a pervasive topic in the gaming dialogue, without going to the extremes that other sites do. Just a personal line drawn in the hopes that it dies down.
 

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
We’re tolerating a bit more culture war type stuff than usual because of all the high profile games this year that went all-in themselves with that direction. Hard to avoid without artificially locking down a lot of topics that are relevant to some of the biggest bombs this year. It seems to be an inflection point for the industry. But it’s being monitored such that it doesn’t take over general game discussions. Your concerns are noted though.
Yeah, thankfully I think we're at an inflection point. The bombs this year should be enough of a warning for other studios to stop with the bs. I'm hoping this is all old news by this time next year.

And, to be fair, there is no escaping it. It is everywhere, not just gaming.

I'm Gaf for life regardless.
 
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DKehoe

Member
Yeah I too am completely burnt out on the woke panic. Don’t get me wrong, I hate the demands about needing to label pronouns and the other bullshit. I just hate all of it across the board. Main reason I avoid gaming threads these days.
It is a pity how much that stuff is the focus for so many topics these days. I used to post a fair bit about movies and TV shows but for a while now, for the most part, I’ve been avoiding those discussions on here. But it is what it is. I guess if that’s the angle people want to talk about then that’s up to them.
 

nush

Member
Did you ever get so drunk on a Saturday night that you woke up thinking it was Monday? That's me today, I got up early ready for work dressed and everything standing outside waiting for my ride and wondering why there were no cars on the road. Then I checked my watch to see that it was actually Sunday.

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DKehoe

Member
Did you ever get so drunk on a Saturday night that you woke up thinking it was Monday? That's me today, I got up early ready for work dressed and everything standing outside waiting for my ride and wondering why there were no cars on the road. Then I checked my watch to see that it was actually Sunday.

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I’ve never got to the point of leaving the home. But the realisation that it’s actually still the weekend is a great moment. You’ve got the gift of an extra day to do fuck all.
 

Jinxed

Member
I wonder if this comment prompted him to take his leave.

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Hopefully not, it was just an innocent joke.

I'm not mad or anything but can you at least tag me if you screenshot one of my posts? I won't assume anything and give the benefit of the doubt about it but it feels pretty weird to be quoted and blamed for someone's departure without knowing about it

Also EviLore EviLore , if that member left because of that joke or I made some stupid joke that affected someone, please let me know
 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
Hopefully not, it was just an innocent joke.

I'm not mad or anything but can you at least tag me if you screenshot one of my posts? I won't assume anything and give the benefit of the doubt about it but it feels pretty weird to be quoted and blamed for someone's departure without knowing about it

Also EviLore EviLore , if that member left because of that joke or I made some stupid joke that affected someone, please let me know
He didn’t specify what prompted it, but it’s possible. Don’t sweat it too much either way, tommi is a sensitive lad.
 

RagnarokIV

Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Didn't realize there was a place for barn discussions! This is right up my alley, I love checking the barned user page every hour to get juicy gossip and slag people off lol

EviLore EviLore Is there a bug with the newest member section? Lewzaphur Lewzaphur has been showing as newest for ages, September 11
 
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EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
Didn't realize there was a place for barn discussions! This is right up my alley, I love checking the barned user page every hour to get juicy gossip and slag people off lol

EviLore EviLore Is there a bug with the newest member section? Lewzaphur Lewzaphur has been showing for ages and that was September 11
Sounds like it, will look into it, thanks for letting me know.
 

T8SC

Member
Did you ever get so drunk on a Saturday night that you woke up thinking it was Monday? That's me today, I got up early ready for work dressed and everything standing outside waiting for my ride and wondering why there were no cars on the road. Then I checked my watch to see that it was actually Sunday.

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Toons

Member
I wonder if this comment prompted him to take his leave.

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Needlessly personal attacks like this only harm the community. Don't get why these are allowed to let slide tbh. I sends the implicit message that this kind of sentiment is endorsed

I know I'm late but still. Tommib was a cool user.

Whatever, boards back in the cycle of a new ND announcement and ND always makes had gaf out so ill just spectate that I guess
 
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Putonahappyface

Gold Member
Needlessly personal attacks like this only harm the community. Don't get why these are allowed to let slide tbh. I sends the implicit message that this kind of sentiment is endorsed

I know I'm late but still. Tommib was a cool user.

Whatever, boards back in the cycle of a new ND announcement and ND always makes had act out so ill just spectate that I guess
Jinxed Jinxed was just making an "innocent joke".

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od-chan

Gold Member
Needlessly personal attacks like this only harm the community
People who take offense with some stupid remark from some stranger online, especially second hand offense(!!!), harm communities even more. Obviously I'm not talking about tommib (especially since I have no clue about him) or you specifically, but rather in general.

Don't get why these are allowed to let slide tbh
Imo you shouldn't police a community around the people who simply get most easily or most often offended. We're not a bunch of LLMs here, people will say dumb or unnecessary stuff occassionally - and that's fine and doesn't require intervening. Even back in school nobody liked the kid who would run back to his mother.
 

Toons

Member
People who take offense with some stupid remark from some stranger online, especially second hand offense(!!!), harm communities even more. Obviously I'm not talking about tommib (especially since I have no clue about him) or you specifically, but rather in general.

Some remarks are intended to be offensive, and some forms of offense indeed harm discourse and a community.

Taking offense at a statement meant to be offensive isnt harming a community. Its having self respect, and respect for others and not tolerating the lack of it being shown to a peer. Theres a point at which not doing that becomes itself complicit.

Imo you shouldn't police a community around the people who simply get most easily or most often offended. We're not a bunch of LLMs here, people will say dumb or unnecessary stuff occassionally - and that's fine and doesn't require intervening. Even back in school nobody liked the kid who would run back to his mother.

Except sometimes it does require intervening, and many users are and have been moderated for insulting users on a personal level. And, given that I'm referring to a backhanded comment directed *specifically* towards a well known LGBT user implying he would soon need health and mental care because he's gay, thats well beyond a "harmless joke" but a joke taken at the expense of that user specifically and with context for that users nature.
 

od-chan

Gold Member
comment directed *specifically* towards a well known LGBT user implying he would soon need health and mental care because he's gay

I didn't know about this, and yes, with that context I agree, that comment becomes a lot harder to defend, if the guy who made it knew about it, on a morale level.

Its having self respect, and respect for others and not tolerating the lack of it being shown to a peer.

On this principle I would still very much disagree, but I do understand that this is a matter of opinion. I don't give a fuck if anyone on the internet respects me and neither should anyone else. If I write something and people object to it (like with insulting ridicule) I can either rethink my position, make them rethink their position or shrug it off because fuck em, who gives a shit.

Obviously I'm still talking about single isolated comments or something that comes up "naturally" once in a while, not any kind of targeted brigading/harrassment or whatever.
 

nush

Member
So I found out something hilarious.

As most of you already know, my roommate (and someone I would like to consider a friend) is a trans woman.

So she sells porn videos of her stripping and jerking off.

From the thumbnail picture, I found out that her most recent video which is supposedly her best was filmed in my current bedroom which used to be her room.

I'm going to buy this video. You know, for research purposes and nostalgia. Yeah, that's the ticket.

*Harvey Fierstein voice*
Is that so wrong?

I was able to buy a couple of porn videos with my roommate in them.

This will also mark the first time I've ever seen trans porn.

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Chuck Berry

Gold Member

Holy shit I was wondering where he had been and just searched for him.

What the hell happened? :messenger_dizzy:

Edit: Nevermind I hadn't checked the ban history list for awhile. Looks like we lost a bunch in the last few days. Lemme guess...Intergalactic related? lol

Sucks Tommi had to bounce. Hope everything is ok with him. Thought he was a good egg.
 
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