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I never wanna see Mad Space ever again in my life, **** the timed mission A rank. Halfway through all emblems and mostly cleared out Rouge's bull**** and while I've grown quite fond of Security Hall these past few years, I really don't like her shtick lmao
Because you’re a YouTube angry gamer and your evil clone (played by yourself in a black t-shirt) says you have to review Sonic 06 or the world will be destroyed.
FF7 Rebirth was one of mt most anticipated titles but now that AI voice samples have been found for the game while sounding awful enough to the point a rando from the street could do better, I'm cancelling my preorder, **** Square Enix
This is probably a nitpick, here, but I kinda dislike the terminology of "sunsetting" that companies use because it just kinda sugarcoats the whole fact that a product or service is permanently shutting down.
It isn't even that fitting of a term or analogy, either, because even though the sun sets and goes away for several hours, it still comes back to shine again the next day unlike the permanent shutdown that usually applies to whatever a company says is going to "sunset".
A collective intelligence and shared consciousness of the flood built from the biomass of sentient beings. It makes the flood much more coordinated and ready to seek interstellar travel.
This is probably a nitpick, here, but I kinda disliked the terminology of "sunsetting" that companies use because it just kinda sugarcoats the whole fact that a product or service is permanently shutting down.
It isn't even that fitting of a term or analogy, either, because even though the sun sets and goes away for several hours, it still comes back to shine again the next day unlike the permanent shutdown that usually applies to whatever a company says is going to "sunset".
I remember the word "sunsetting" being used in the Club Penguin blog post that announced the end of Island, and thus the end of the Club Penguin brand as a whole.
And now I remember playing Club Penguin all the time as a kid.
Heya, Smashboards. I won't be back for long but there was something small that went down in the Discord server I mod in and I don't really have anywhere else to vent about it.
So there's this girl there and she's been a really active member of the server. I wouldn't call her popular perse, but she was responsible for a lot of the server's activity in the recent months. And let's just say I found her to be extremely annoying for a large number of reasons.
But there was a huge problem. She has a really bad tendency to post crummy, often misogynistic facebook memes in the meme channel. A lot of these memes were in really poor tastes and whenever I'd see one, I'd ask the other mods to handle it because I didn't think I could be impartial with this girl who annoyed me so much. Normally the image would just be deleted and she'd be let off with a slap on the wrist, mainly because the admins don't really want any drama.
Well this time she went and posted a racist meme. I'm not sure if she even understood the racist connotations of it but uh, yikes. She's posted some edgy stuff before but this time I brought it up to the (all white) mod team that we have to do something about her. So they took away her image posting writes for two months (going soft on her honestly) and almost immediately after she posted that she was going to take a long break from the server. I'm quietly hoping she doesn't come back.
But like, I can't help that feel I was just using racism as an excuse to bully someone I didn't like out of the server. Like, she's an adult and she should be responsible not to bring anything hateful into the server. But based off what I know about her upbringing, I also know she was really neglected at a young age and exposed to stuff she shouldn't have been as a child and I think there's a very real chance she didn't actually understand the racist implications of the meme she posted. Especially since she just copies + pastes whatever garbage shows up in her Facebook feed without giving it any real thought.
So I feel like I should of tried to educate talk to her about it directly, instead of just hiding behind the other mods. I don't feel bad about restricting her image posting privileges because that's something she's shown she can't do responsibly, but I feel like as a more mature member of the community compared to her I should have also tried to teach her how to not make that mistake again. Especially when I myself am someone who had a sheltered childhood and used to really struggle with spotting blatant racism myself.
Ugh who am I kidding, she probably wouldn't have listened anyway. She'd often complain about things in her life (poor health, disability, misogyny) and then carelessly brush it off when other women in the server tried to give her advice. Could I really expect her to try to care about racism when she treats the misogyny she faces on the daily as something she's just supposed to take and laugh along with?
I dunno, it feels like it'd be a lot less difficult if it was clear she was coming from a place of actual malice and hate. But as much as I dislike her she's someone who clearly suffers from some bad internalized misogyny and so I also genuinely feel a lot of pity for her. Heck even that racist meme she posted was also very misogynistic itself. So I guess I'm struggling with some guilt over how I handled the situation.
But idk, maybe it's my own racial bias here that's making me want to coddle this girl instead of putting my foot down more harshly.
Anyway uh, I'm sorry that I came back just to make a post this depressing. The truth is I really love that server but it also a predominately white space so I feel like there's a lot of extra pressure to try to make it more welcoming to racial minorities.
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That said, there's one more thing I meant to post that I didn't last time. If anyone wants to contact me for any reason you can find me on discord as zephyr7932.
Isolating myself to just the a-spec community has been kind of liberating in some ways but I'm already kind of missing some of the people here. I think I might come back when my mental health improves a bit and I finally have some irl friends to hang out with. I'm looking at some LGBTQ+ events in my area and am considering attending some of them, so here's to hoping I can meet some cool people there.
Heya, Smashboards. I won't be back for long but there was something small that went down in the Discord server I mod in and I don't really have anywhere else to vent about it.
So there's this girl there and she's been a really active member of the server. I wouldn't call her popular perse, but she was responsible for a lot of the server's activity in the recent months. And let's just say I found her to be extremely annoying for a large number of reasons.
But there was a huge problem. She has a really bad tendency to post crummy, often misogynistic facebook memes in the meme channel. A lot of these memes were in really poor tastes and whenever I'd see one, I'd ask the other mods to handle it because I didn't think I could be impartial with this girl who annoyed me so much. Normally the image would just be deleted and she'd be let off with a slap on the wrist, mainly because the admins don't really want any drama.
Well this time she went and posted a racist meme. I'm not sure if she even understood the racist connotations of it but uh, yikes. She's posted some edgy stuff before but this time I brought it up to the (all white) mod team that we have to do something about her. So they took away her image posting writes for two months (going soft on her honestly) and almost immediately after she posted that she was going to take a long break from the server. I'm quietly hoping she doesn't come back.
But like, I can't help that feel I was just using racism as an excuse to bully someone I didn't like out of the server. Like, she's an adult and she should be responsible not to bring anything hateful into the server. But based off what I know about her upbringing, I also know she was really neglected at a young age and exposed to stuff she shouldn't have been as a child and I think there's a very real chance she didn't actually understand the racist implications of the meme she posted. Especially since she just copies + pastes whatever garbage shows up in her Facebook feed without giving it any real thought.
So I feel like I should of tried to educate talk to her about it directly, instead of just hiding behind the other mods. I don't feel bad about restricting her image posting privileges because that's something she's shown she can't do responsibly, but I feel like as a more mature member of the community compared to her I should have also tried to teach her how to not make that mistake again. Especially when I myself am someone who had a sheltered childhood and used to really struggle with spotting blatant racism myself.
Ugh who am I kidding, she probably wouldn't have listened anyway. She'd often complain about things in her life (poor health, disability, misogyny) and then carelessly brush it off when other women in the server tried to give her advice. Could I really expect her to try to care about racism when she treats the misogyny she faces on the daily as something she's just supposed to take and laugh along with?
I dunno, it feels like it'd be a lot less difficult if it was clear she was coming from a place of actual malice and hate. But as much as I dislike her she's someone who clearly suffers from some bad internalized misogyny and so I also genuinely feel a lot of pity for her. Heck even that racist meme she posted was also very misogynistic itself. So I guess I'm struggling with some guilt over how I handled the situation.
But idk, maybe it's my own racial bias here that's making me want to coddle this girl instead of putting my foot down more harshly.
Anyway uh, I'm sorry that I came back just to make a post this depressing. The truth is I really love that server but it also a predominately white space so I feel like there's a lot of extra pressure to try to make it more welcoming to racial minorities.
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That said, there's one more thing I meant to post that I didn't last time. If anyone wants to contact me for any reason you can find me on discord as zephyr7932.
Isolating myself to just the a-spec community has been kind of liberating in some ways but I'm already kind of missing some of the people here. I think I might come back when my mental health improves a bit and I finally have some irl friends to hang out with. I'm looking at some LGBTQ+ events in my area and am considering attending some of them, so here's to hoping I can meet some cool people there.
I had a couple users like that when I used to staff a large Yugioh server
I think you did everything right imo, I don't think you should feel bad if you went out of your way to try to address more deep rooted issues in a healthy way instead of jumping to the banhammer: a lot of the times the only way people genuinly improve is when they look at themselves and realize why what they are doing is garnering the reactions they are. (Me for example back in 2019-2020 here lol)
So I recently (and intentionally) purchased a bootleg product online.
I won't reveal to you what it is until it arrives in about a couple of weeks but I'll give you hints that probably doesn't describe it well:
Product's name given by the seller: The new Super Mario Wonder Elephant Apple Princess Mario plush toy can be a great choice as a holiday birthday gift Given brand name: undertale
