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Words that people use way too lightly on the internet.

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Garbage.

Seems like it should be reserved for something that's totally, undeniably, vomit inducingly awful.

Seems like anything that's even slightly bad is now complete garbage.

Edit: someone beat me to it.
 
Censorship is the big one for me.

I grew up in a country that literally arrests people for criticising the government, so it pisses me off like crazy when some suburban american fuckwit cries censorship over people removing boob sliders from games.
 
Stuff like appalling, horrific and disgusting being used in gaming forums

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Pretty much any political caricature left or right. Comparing everyone to Hitler and Nazi Germany. Literally has been completely bastardized. Also racist, bigot, etc. (these are often used properly, but also frequently used to inappropriately characterize those with non-progressive beliefs.)
 
Cringeworthy

FFS

Fanboy

I'd love to know what the t word is though. The fuck? Oh yeah, that phrase too. "The fuck?"
 
Azalean said:
With this one I'm mostly talking about here, but the see the word "creepy" used way too fucking much on here.
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soul creator said:
"anti-consumer" has gotten pretty popular over on the gaming side I've noticed. It now seems to basically be used as a generic term for anything that someone might not like in a game/console, rather than something that's actually violating some sort of consumer trust or laws.
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Yup
 
TouchMyBox said:
We've always been doing this shit though, you've probably never rolled your eyes at a person calling something relatively mundane "awesome", for example. Every word ceases to mean anything when it become part of the popular lexicon.
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Yeah, I know. I've told myself that pretty often; the linguistics courses I've taken have forced me to think in those sorts of terms.

But somehow these words still get me.
 
Oh geez. I hadn't thought about the damn "rape" thing. Yeah. That's the worst.

And I mean it. I listed "worst" but I totally mean it.
 
Entitled

The word gets flung around as a lazy way to dismiss someone else, not to mention used incorrectly 9/10 times.
 
I am cringing so hard at the garbage in this thread that I am literally being triggered into raping this racist safe space.
 
Are there words that people use way to lightly on the internet but not in real life?
 
"I hope she dies"

In referencing fictional characters. It's not bannable and I don't necessarily think it should be when applied to fictional people, but it's still a shitty way to think that if a representational human being isn't adequately entertaining you, they need to experience death. By definition, it displays a remarkable lack of empathy. And it is referring to women 95% of the time.
 
chaobreaker said:
I have some:

Clickbait

I've seen countless innocent editorials and articles get hit with this label all the time but it's almost always unwarranted. Just because Buzzfeed or some other viral sites like to withold key information on their headlines doesn't mean every publication is out to deceive or get a click out of you.
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Clickbait is particularly funny, it's as if people didn't realize that techniques to draw people to your piece of writing have existed... Since bascially the beginning of writing.

Not that there aren't egregious examples that justify the word, but it gets used way too often. I can't exactly blame a given publication for wanting to make you click on a link, it's their job.
 
Veelk said:
"I hope she dies"

In referencing fictional characters. It's not bannable and I don't necessarily think it should be when applied to fictional people, but it's still a shitty way to think that if a representational human being isn't adequately entertaining you, they need to experience death. By definition, it displays a remarkable lack of empathy. And it is referring to women 95% of the time.
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dude...

dude...

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude....
 
Well in real life you can tell when somebody's pulling your leg with strong language. On the internet, without knowledge of that poster's history or mannerisms, it's impossible to tell.

I see "SJW", "Censoring", and other terms that get frequent use in socially political topics, get used incorrectly far more then they should.
 
potam said:
dude...

dude...

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude....
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*shrug*

It's how I honestly feel. People drop that in TV show threads all the damn time, and it adds nothing to the discussion except the expressed desire to see another representation of a person hurt for the fact that they didn't entertain them properly. And yeah, I think it's fair to say you should have empathy for representations of people because it's a very thin line between representations of people and actual people. To argue otherwise invalidates practically all of fiction. Fiction makes people feel things through them empathizing with people that don't exist. I'd find it hard to believer that anyone has never done so unless they're flat out incapable of empathy. So when I see those kinds of comments, especially regarding characters I do personally empathize with, it's not comfortable for me to hear.

I don't expect it to change any time soon because you have to draw the line somewhere, but Gaf would be a classier place if that sort of stuff would stop. It's just how I feel.
 
I feel the word "ignorant" gets used way to much and majority of those who say it either don't know what it means or use it incorrectly.
 
Veelk said:
*shrug*

It's how I honestly feel. People drop that in TV show threads all the damn time, and it adds nothing to the discussion except the expressed desire to see another representation of a person hurt for the fact that they didn't entertain them properly. And yeah, I think it's fair to say you should have empathy for representations of people because it's a very thin line between representations of people and actual people. To argue otherwise invalidates practically all of fiction. Fiction makes people feel things through them empathizing with people that don't exist. I'd find it hard to believer that anyone has never done so unless they're flat out incapable of empathy. So when I see those kinds of comments, especially regarding characters I do personally empathize with, it's not comfortable for me to hear.

I don't expect it to change any time soon because you have to draw the line somewhere, but Gaf would be a classier place if that sort of stuff would stop. It's just how I feel.
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So how do you feel about authors who, oh my god, kill their characters?
 
potam said:
So how do you feel about authors who, oh my god, kill their characters?
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Perfectly fine. You want to explain the relation you perceive between an audience's lack of empathy to an author killing a character or was this one of those accidental strawmen that come from not understanding the plainly spoken english?
 
Problematic.

Veelk said:
"I hope she dies"

In referencing fictional characters. It's not bannable and I don't necessarily think it should be when applied to fictional people, but it's still a shitty way to think that if a representational human being isn't adequately entertaining you, they need to experience death. By definition, it displays a remarkable lack of empathy. And it is referring to women 95% of the time.
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Because people want some characters to die it shows a remarkable lack of empathy? That's interesting.
 
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