Maybe someone on the board staff needs to write up some rule guidelines for debates bc some of this shit is downright embarrassing.
I told myself to stay away from this thread and not dig myself any deeper than I already am. If I catch a ban it’s deserved ed, I’ll just have to move on and forget about it.
If I could delete some of my recent posts, I would, but that’s not how it works here and it’s out there.
I got too emotional because in threads like these (PC Gamer Trans, COD Gay, OW Gay) there is majority outstanding, appropriate debate, but mixed in with that debate are downright egregious comments. I’m not calling anyone a bigot, or a homophobe, but a few posts are downright inflammatory and very few people seem to oppose them.
It’s hard for me to sit back and say nothing. Those posts are articulate, and the posters are smarter than me, but that doesn’t change the nature of the content which, in a few cases, seems downright vicious.
This isn’t a “everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi!” thing. Again, there’s a whole lot of smart, critical discussion here. I’m talking about a few choice posts that seem to always go unopposed. If you need me to find and quote all these posts, I will.
I know we don’t want to be Era. I get it. But there has to be a middle ground between minority bashing and minority pandering, and that middle ground should be standard, fair, civil discussion.
I do stand by one prior statement, and that is the majority of these threads stop being about gaming within a page or two and end up detailing straight into liberal vs conservative clashes for most of the remainder of the discussion. It happened a number of times in the gaming section recently, seemingly more often than I noticed before.
I’ll hold the L here. I know I’m not a valuable contributor here and I didn’t do myself any favors trying to build a rapport within the community, it is what it is. I’m a weird guy. I try no to be but it happens sometimes. I’m probably too sensitive.
It just seems odd to me that console wars and other flaming will get shut down quick but when non-hetero related news gets thrown out there it’s open season. I know it’s the minority, but some posts from the three
big threads recently are straight up near anti-gay propaganda.
As for the main discussion, I guess I just don’t understand why some inclusion in games is okay and uncontested but others are insta protested.
So. Forgive my shitposts. I’m just a dork who lives alone in a small apartment. Don’t mind me.
I’ll try to improve as a contributor. Sincerely.
Sorry for the typo.
Edited for typos and to add stuff I forgot
Edited 2 I just saw the mods posts above
Edit 3: I feel like I killed the thread, sorry
Edit 4: so many typos