Don't bully
Don't bully
"I do not smoke wit what tha fuck you gotta say yo, but I be bout ta defend ta tha dirtnap yo' right ta say dat shit."
This is part of the point that Bloble was making, tho. People don't use it to be insulting, they don't even know about how it was back in the 1940s or anything, they're just shortening "Japanese" down just like someone might call a British person a Brit. Yet they take offense to that--and I'm not claiming they shouldn't--but then it brings up how 1) a couple people can take offense to something not meant to be offensive, 2) how you can start censoring a word for just those few people, and 3) how that can set a precedent for other things that one or two people might find offensive that snowballs into a ton of other things, at which point you have to ask yourself where do you actually stop?
Localizationing stuff
Can I use Elevens to describe Japanese and Twos and Threes for Mexican and Canadians?
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Here's my 2 cents as a relative newbie. How I see it, the mods are simply reminding people to have some basic civility in conversations, be mindful of the other person, especially if you don't know them too well. Personally I've spent 5 years in 4chan and can deal with vitriol well enough and can dish some back, but there's bound to be enough people who don't frequent the cesspools of the internet, but have somehow become a fan of some Typemoon property. And they will probably be put off by that slang. Even I generally think that a guy has spent too much time in a basement if he constantly uses chanspeak outside imageboards. Obviously there's also the fact that the discussions often involve enough e-peen to become unpleasant for one or both sides, but that's characteristic for a lot of places of course.
Considering the use of words and phrases, I'm on the side of those people who defend their right to talk dumb. I think banning words just encourages people to pay less attention to the context of their usage, which is a bigger problem, in internet discussions at least. Also, different terms for mental or other disabilities and disorders have always been one of the main sources for swear words. Idiot, loon, cretin, imbecile, retard etc. are or at one point have been professional terms, which is why they became swear words. You create more pc terms, in time they'll become swear words as well.
About memes, I see them not so much as jokes, but simply a sign that you belong to some kind of subculture, like ghetto talk. Again, too much and you come off as a moron, but in good measure it allows you to identify with others on the internet as belonging to the same kind of group, which can be pleasant.
Last edited by Marmadillo; April 8th, 2015 at 07:33 PM.
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Old Quote Crap!
[14:06] [Cruor] petri is it possible to play Phoenix III/Steppewolf without it crashing
[14:08] [Kelnish] no
[14:08] [Kelnish] it isn't
[14:09] [Cruor] how can there be so many bugs
[14:09] [Cruor] in one mod
[14:10] [Dark_Pulse] Because quality assurance doesn't exist anymore
[14:10] [Dark_Pulse] Unless it's Quality Ass, U Rance
[14:10] [Daiki] ...
[14:10] [I3uster] oh god dp was funny
[14:10] [I3uster] apocalypse confirmed
[14:10] [Wakame] the horror
So essentially it's a visibility issue. People with intellectual disabilities aren't actually capable of posting on Internet forums, so they don't matter here.
Just hecking use heck you hecking motherheckers
Quite frankly those people need to suck it up. Speaking as someone who has a severely autistic brother (as in, so autistic he can't speak) I find the use of the term as an insult incredible offensive. As in "I want to punch the asshole that said that in the face" offensive.
But do I respond? No. I deal with it. Because I'm a grown man, not a child that needs to go crying tomummy and daddythe mods every time someone says something I don't like.