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[Swamp Sensei]

You got it.

I think that attitude is self defeating.

If it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone.

 

[KneeOfJustice99]

I thought gay people were evil when I first started talking to people online.

My community has very little openly gay people and no one I actively talked to.

But I talked to, made friends with and eventually came to respect LGBT people through my time online.

Am I just an anomaly?

I wouldn't say so. A lot of people in my community don't like the LGBTQ+ community, but I started talking to a few people who happened to be in it, and eventually came out myself.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Doubt that would happen here.

yeah, you can say it was a weird fear lol

hes my friend

Birds are everyones friend

 

[osby]

Nobody's going to change their view point because of random people. Come on, let's be real here. The anonymity means the human connection is lost. Absolutely nobody goes online and will have their world changed by the Internet (Well, not in a good way, anyway)

In real life? Possibly, but as an online forum we can't influence that path, and sometimes people are just here at the wrong time in their lives.

I have to disagree. People I've met online taught me a lot, and I can't safely say I'd be the same person I am today without them.

It's the same with real life relationships: if you are open to change, even small encounters can have a big effect on you.

 

[Zinith]

What is the current topic this time around?

*shrug*

Something about mating dances and an anime con?

 

[KneeOfJustice99]

You got it.

And yet... does it matter if we're all just anomalies?

 

[SneakyLink]

*shrug*

Something about mating dances and an anime con?

Methinks I don't have anything to contribute this time.

 

[Wyoming]

I have to disagree. People I've met online taught me a lot, and I can't safely say I'd be the same person I am today without them.

It's the same with real life relationships: if you are open to change, even small encounters can have a big effect on you.

Guess I'm out of the loop since I don't forge relationships online. I just discuss things.

But having small communities/cliques and actively being involved in discussion is different from large forums and constantly trolling with hate speech.

 

[Deleted member]

Yes this an online forum, yes this a smash forum. But even a little bit of enocuragement can go a long way. You aren't going to completely change your political opinion because of a smash forum, but even one comment saying 'hey that view isnt correct' can make you reconsider things, and that's really the first step to change.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I notice a lot of people here like to think they are moraly better then everyone else lol

 

[Deleted member]

Methinks I don't have anything to contribute this time.

I need somebody to make a cursed image for me

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I need somebody to make a cursed image for me

I got ya fam

 

[CallMeKnux]

I have to disagree. People I've met online taught me a lot, and I can't safely say I'd be the same person I am today without them.

It's the same with real life relationships: if you are open to change, even small encounters can have a big effect on you.

I don’t feel like I’d be the same person if I never met my friends online. But than again I’ve always been the kind of person shaped by their environment.

 

[TheMightyP]

I mean, a lot of people changw perspective due to the "EVIL SJWS RUIN GAMERS AND GAMES" YouTube channels and such, so why shouldn't the opposite be true?

 

[Zinith]

Methinks I don't have anything to contribute this time.

Never stopped me

Unless it's political discussions of course...

 

[Deleted member]

I got ya fam
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no, i want a specific cursed image, and it's one that doesn't exist yet

 

[Schnee117]

It's the same with real life relationships: if you are open to change, even small encounters can have a big effect on you.

This is the main thing.
Plenty of bigots aren't willing to change their "views" at all. If I'm to give someone a second chance then they need to genuinely show that they want to change and improve. They also need to show that they have indeed changed.

That's frequently not the case however and it's happened over the past few weeks in this very thread.

 

[SneakyLink]

I got ya fam
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That's not really cursed to be honest.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

That's not really cursed to be honest.

Yeah Google ran out of bird dancing gifs. There is a surprisingly low amount of bird mating dance gifs online
Tho I did see this yesterday

 

[KMDP]

Yeah Google ran out of bird dancing gifs. There is a surprisingly low amount of bird mating dance gifs online
Tho I did see this yesterday

What the hell?

 

[Metal Shop X]

Honestly, intercating more online, especially on this forum, make me feel like I became a better person in general. Of course, I didn't became better in one day and I still needed help irl because dyspraxia and all that "fun" stuff, but I feel like I wouldn't be the same person today if it wasn't for some peoples on this forum who have been really kind to me, even in my dumbest or worst moments.

Tho, I admit it too, the internet as also make me like things I never though I would have before, but shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...................we don't talk about that here.

 

[ZephyrZ]

I notice a lot of people here like to think they are moraly better then everyone else lol

I think that might just be human nature honestly.

It's important to be self aware about this stuff so we can at least kind of recognize our own biases.

 

[osby]

Yeah Google ran out of bird dancing gifs. There is a surprisingly low amount of bird mating dance gifs online
Tho I did see this yesterday

I take everything good I said about the internet back.

 

[Deleted member]

I kinda want to tell you guys the cursed image that I want made
but I'm worried it might be too cursed

 

[Pyra]

What’s up fellas
We talking about some deep **** right now?

Cause I can assure you all at the very least this place has been a haven for me in terms of my mental health. A great escape.

However... none of you have really changed my viewpoints on anything, but that’s probably cause we either agree on most things or it’s one of the things I’m stubborn about lol

 

[Michele]

Alright while we're talking on the latest posts let's explode this thread with this rumor:

https://www.gamesradar.com/report-a...appening-this-week-and-it-could-be-a-big-one/

Apparently a direct could be happening this week and it could be a big one at that, what do you think of that? The date would make sense actually because Reggie is retiring in a week, we need an update on the new character Joker, and many more reasons.

 

[Pyra]

I notice a lot of people here like to think they are moraly better then everyone else lol

Yo just tag me next time lmao



Just kidding.

But yeah you right some people soapbox into their own echo chamber here

 

[Just a penguin]

Alright while we're talking on the latest posts let's explode this thread with this rumor:

https://www.gamesradar.com/report-a...appening-this-week-and-it-could-be-a-big-one/

Apparently a direct could be happening this week and it could be a big one at that, what do you think of that? The date would make sense actually because Reggie is retiring in a week, we need an update on the new character Joker, and many more reasons.

Unnamed sources without evidence are pretty sketchy.

 

[Gentlepanda]

Alright while we're talking on the latest posts let's explode this thread with this rumor:

https://www.gamesradar.com/report-a...appening-this-week-and-it-could-be-a-big-one/

Apparently a direct could be happening this week and it could be a big one at that, what do you think of that? The date would make sense actually because Reggie is retiring in a week, we need an update on the new character Joker, and many more reasons.

>"via reputable source of industry leaks GamingIntel"
>GamingIntel
>reputable

 

[osby]

I kinda want to tell you guys the cursed image that I want made
but I'm worried it might be too cursed

Then it's best to not post it.

What’s up fellas
We talking about some deep **** right now?

Cause I can assure you all at the very least this place has been a haven for me in terms of my mental health. A great escape.

However... none of you have really changed my viewpoints on anything, but that’s probably cause we either agree on most things or it’s one of the things I’m stubborn about lol

I can relate to that. If it wasn't for here, I wouldn't have anyone to talk to beside my brother for months.

Like, I like solitude but not that much.

 

[Ramen Tengoku]

Alright while we're talking on the latest posts let's explode this thread with this rumor:

https://www.gamesradar.com/report-a...appening-this-week-and-it-could-be-a-big-one/

Apparently a direct could be happening this week and it could be a big one at that, what do you think of that? The date would make sense actually because Reggie is retiring in a week, we need an update on the new character Joker, and many more reasons.

Hey yo, Gamingintel, I'm still waiting on that N64 classic you promised during the November Smash presentation

 

[Deleted member]

Then it's best to not post it.

yeah, i guess you're right

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Alright while we're talking on the latest posts let's explode this thread with this rumor:

https://www.gamesradar.com/report-a...appening-this-week-and-it-could-be-a-big-one/

Apparently a direct could be happening this week and it could be a big one at that, what do you think of that? The date would make sense actually because Reggie is retiring in a week, we need an update on the new character Joker, and many more reasons.

If it finally has some animal crossing, Id consider it big

 

[Deleted member]

Internet friends are in no way less valid than ones you make irl and I dunno why anyone would argue otherwise.
And I can guarantee that the internet can affect your views in some way or another, I became a ****head because of it and I then grew out of that phase thanks to it too.

 

[Michele]

>"via reputable source of industry leaks GamingIntel"
>GamingIntel
>reputable

Hasn't the site predicted correctly the date of the direct? Even if the date wasn't obvious or anything like that, they still predicted there would be a january direct. Remember, not every year we have a january direct

 

[CallMeKnux]

Alright while we're talking on the latest posts let's explode this thread with this rumor:

https://www.gamesradar.com/report-a...appening-this-week-and-it-could-be-a-big-one/

Apparently a direct could be happening this week and it could be a big one at that, what do you think of that? The date would make sense actually because Reggie is retiring in a week, we need an update on the new character Joker, and many more reasons.

> 3.0.0 gets revealed in a general direct
> Before the Persona event

I D O N ‘ T T H I N K S O

 

[Gentlepanda]

Actually if I remember correctly, hasn't the site correctly predicted the january direct? (If there was one, that is)

there-

there wasn't a january direct

 

[SneakyLink]

Actually if I remember correctly, hasn't the site correctly predicted the january direct? (If there was one, that is)

There was no January Direct

Also, I think most of us here has lost respect for Gaming Intel

 

[Just a penguin]

Hasn't the site predicted correctly the date of the january direct??

There was none.

 

[Scoliosis Jones]

A lot of people are focused on the “what” and not the “how”. There has been a clear mindset that “x, y, and z are bad and should be treated as such”. For whatever reason, the entire internet feels that the only way to change this behavior is to ridicule the opposing ideology and make them feel little, as opposed to trying to figure out why the issue exists in the first place.

Or, they just say it’s bad because they want to look like a good person. (Sorry for calling out, like, half of twitter).

Or, like, a bully. The type of person that some have identified our president as, and plenty of people don’t like him for that exact reason.

Many people have viewed certain topics as black and white. Either you’re racist or you’re not, sexist or not, -phobic or not. However, that is rarely the case.

I have relatives who have said some pretty awful things, or shared offensive memes. My gay brother has not been amused, and has even gone as far as to mute their posts. My brother has a right to be offended, as it comes from family members who know of his identity.

That doesn’t mean we shut them out of our lives and stop loving them.

If you really think that hate is going to drive out other forms of hate, then you aren’t a student of social justice. I’m also not entirely sure how ignoring the crying out of people who are in pain, and then complaining that people have ****ty opinions is going to change the world either.

Changing one opinion is a small victory, that can’t be denied. But a victory is a victory. You cannot look me in the metaphorical face and tell me that ignoring people is effective. What isn’t effective, is staying in our comfort zones and burrowing deeper into an echo chamber. This is largely what social media has become, mainly because a large amount of people decide its easier to just mute or block another person.

Maybe changing the world in a positive way isn’t for everybody, but to suggest it is a waste of time is basically just a response of giving in or not seeing value in making the world a better place. Everyone, not just people with a hateful, painful lived experience, needs to have an open mind.

If you want the world to be a better, kinder, fairer, more loving place, then you have to put the work in, even if it’s a stranger on a Smash Bros site.