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To make a serious post here, I think there's a bit of a culture clash because, while SA is a comedy website and the forums are ostensibly meant to reflect that sense of humor, the $10 paywall and moderation style means that this is also a really, really good forum for general video game discussion (at least for the standards by which such things are measured). Public gaming forums typically have the signal to noise ratio of a youtube comment thread and are moderated for courtesy rather than content. The  prevents most of that crowd from ever joining, and the fact that you can call someone out for being an idiot without getting yourself banned for being impolite helps filter out a lot of the rest of the chaff. While I definitely appreciate the sense of humor that some posters bring to this place, I joined this forum primarily because I'm a high-functioning autistic who likes to subject games to deep mechanical analysis and this forum is the best place I've seen where I can those kinds of conversations with like-minded people and not have to wade through an ocean of tears about how Pyros are overpowered and the like. While I'm now realizing that I may not be here for entirely the right reasons and my discussion-first mentality probably puts me in the minority, this forum definitely has a substantial population of users who appreciate the overall quality if discourse. Comedy is definitely still content, but it's not the primary reason I'm here (and to be honest, I haven't found the front page funny since I was in high school).I realize I'm coming dangerously close to agreeing with Adem Bowen, and while I never could make it very far through the gamers.txt threads I saw enough to find this deeply disturbing.
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Misogyny itt
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I hope they quote the one where I called someone the n word in imp zone or something
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Widestancer posted:Good hill for CoffeeBooze to die on, defending Panda Clue/Gay Rumsfeld. Panda defender outed.
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Widestancer posted:I hope they quote the one where I called someone the n word in imp zone or something Nightlight is a terrible slur against south africans and you should feel rightfully ashamed.
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Good thing none of your posts I am quoting are from Imp Zone.
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Velthice posted:Nightlight is a terrible slur against south africans and you should feel rightfully ashamed. Lol I'd forgotten about that
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Zombie Samurai posted:CoffeeBooze might be the least self-aware poster in Games.
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CoffeeBooze posted:Good thing none of your posts I am quoting is from Imp Zone. So is the epic troll here to post me saying mean things to other people
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I saw that in the time it took me to type out that brief effortpost the conversation had moved on to a new page, backed up to see what I had missed, and immediately regretted it. One sperg to another, CoffeeBooze; it's time to hit the showers. that's a sports reference
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Voyager I posted:I saw that in the time it took me to type out that brief effortpost the conversation had moved on to a new page, backed up to see what I had missed, and immediately regretted it. Your post was really good though. I agree with it and hope mods look at it.
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Voyager I agree with you in a lot of ways and if we didn't have people like coffee those threads would have both. They just get super salty and won't let it go then have meme meltdowns while bitching about memes. I love having real discussions about games and we can still have that. We just need people like coffee to chill
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Zombie Samurai posted:CoffeeBooze might be the least self-aware poster in Games. There's quite a number of posters that fit this bill. That's why we've had some very fun threads, this one included.
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please don't say slurs or accuse people of dumb poo poo that doesn't exist like "white knighting"
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Voyager I posted:To make a serious post here, I think there's a bit of a culture clash because, while SA is a comedy website and the forums are ostensibly meant to reflect that sense of humor, the $10 paywall and moderation style means that this is also a really, really good forum for general video game discussion (at least for the standards by which such things are measured). Public gaming forums typically have the signal to noise ratio of a youtube comment thread and are moderated for courtesy rather than content. The I agree with some of this not all I don't think all outside game forums are poo poo holes but I don't go to them often
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Archeage had plenty of real discussions till the creepy got so bad that memes were an actual improvement. Bfm named his ship Icelandic teenager and people were defending it
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Widestancer posted:So is the epic troll here to post me saying mean things to other people No, the point I've been making is that the current moderation standards have lead to unfunny poo poo posting becoming way too common. Mean spirited, unfunny slur laden posts are loving dumb. So are pointless meme posts. They are becoming so common it is impossible to even have a conversation ins disucssion threads on these forums. Does anyone even remember the question I asked that started this loving derail? You should, you were the first person to reply to it. And what was your reply? Comedy posts are great, but this dumb no content poo poo posting that is clogging up the forums is bad.
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CoffeeBooze posted:No, the point I've been making is that the current moderation standards have lead to unfunny poo poo posting becoming way too common. Mean spirited, unfunny slur laden posts are loving dumb. So are pointless meme posts. They are becoming so common it is impossible to even have a conversation ins disucssion threads on these forums. Lol
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CoffeeBooze posted:No, the point I've been making is that the current moderation standards have lead to unfunny poo poo posting becoming way too common. Mean spirited, unfunny slur laden posts are loving dumb. So are pointless meme posts. They are becoming so common it is impossible to even have a conversation ins disucssion threads on these forums. lol
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Eonwe posted:Archeage had plenty of real discussions till the creepy got so bad that memes were an actual improvement. Bfm named his ship Icelandic teenager and people were defending it your kidding I named my ship fullageconsentingadult what are the chances? it was a clipper
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Eonwe posted:Voyager I agree with you in a lot of ways and if we didn't have people like coffee those threads would have both. They just get super salty and won't let it go then have meme meltdowns while bitching about memes. I love having real discussions about games and we can still have that. We just need people like coffee to chill What.
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Voyager is how people should make the argument for standards. I try not to poo poo on threads unless they are as bad as the archeage one.
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CoffeeBooze posted:No, the point I've been making is that the current moderation standards have lead to unfunny poo poo posting becoming way too common. Mean spirited, unfunny slur laden posts are loving dumb. So are pointless meme posts. They are becoming so common it is impossible to even have a conversation ins disucssion threads on these forums. Anyone else hear the whoosh? That was points flying over CoffeeBooze's head
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Arcade posted:What. Sorry if posts aren't coming through clear, sitting in bumfuck Tennessee for my sister in laws wedding this weekend on my mobile
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Honestly what I'd like to see less of is ridiculously low effort posting. I wasn't a huge fan of the "probation for not spelling a word correctly! haha!", but I think that minimum standards for stuff like punctuation and capitalization does (did) set SA apart somewhat from other forums on the internet. In a lot of threads the standards are all still there because the threads are somewhat insular, but then you go to a larger thread (the steam thread is really the only non-niche one I frequent here) and one liner posts without capitalization or punctuation are the norm. e: For a lot of posters. Lots of people still act at those the old rules applied.
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Coffee and Voyager are like Goofus and Gallant up in here.
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CoffeeBooze posted:No, the point I've been making is that the current moderation standards have lead to unfunny poo poo posting becoming way too common. Mean spirited, unfunny slur laden posts are loving dumb. So are pointless meme posts. They are becoming so common it is impossible to even have a conversation ins disucssion threads on these forums. Just all of this.
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another funny thing is despite this apparently being a huge epidemic of people just making GBS threads up threads with memes, he's only got exactly two examples of this, because it's not a huge epidemic it's a thing that happened twice that a couple idiots just can't let go
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Eonwe posted:Sorry if posts aren't coming through clear, sitting in bumfuck Tennessee for my sister in laws wedding this weekend on my mobile Eh, nvm. I was thinking of something I thought you said on the offsite, but that was Morglon or morlgon or something, who's desire would be for anything but Coffee's poo poo posting to chill.
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zen death robot posted:Jesus Christ I'd emptyquote this forever. As just a random games (bad) poster I enjoy the relaxed games a lot, but I feel like the feels spam was a bit too much in the archeage thread. It got in the way of people melting down imo. Welp back to your regular coffee shitposting I guess.
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sword_man.xmas posted:another funny thing is despite this apparently being a huge epidemic of people just making GBS threads up threads with memes, he's only got exactly two examples of this, because it's not a huge epidemic it's a thing that happened twice that a couple idiots just can't let go He has poo poo up 50% of the threads the imp zone has all by himself lmao
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Jordan7hm posted:In a lot of threads the standards are all still there because the threads are somewhat insular, but then you go to a larger thread (the steam thread is really the only non-niche one I frequent here) and one liner posts without capitalization or punctuation are the norm. I have to be honest, I practically live in the Steam thread and I don't really see this at all. On rare occasions the thread gets derailed into dumb poo poo but for the most part it's really good discussion and reviews.
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They're a coffee stain on this thread. (Someone had to do it.)
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I'm giving Games a try with the threads I'm making maybe people should try the same in Imp. The worst that happens is your thread gets gassed or you eat a sixie which just makes your tatau stronger. We can and should coexist as gamers.
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Widestancer posted:I'm giving Games a try with the threads I'm making maybe people should try the same in Imp. Yep Widestancer has made some food and interesting games threads you should enjoy
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Kylra posted:What. What dont you understand? Seriously, you dont think calling someone a human being and telling them to drink bleach is unfunny and needlessly malicious?
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CoffeeBooze posted:No, the point I've been making is that the current moderation standards have lead to unfunny poo poo posting becoming way too common. Mean spirited, unfunny slur laden posts are loving dumb. So are pointless meme posts. They are becoming so common it is impossible to even have a conversation ins disucssion threads on these forums. Okay for real dude every post you make has you looking less sympathetic and more insane how the gently caress have you not caught onto this yet
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CoffeeBooze posted:What dont you understand? why are you trying to defend a dude who posted furry scat porn in the exact thread you're quoting from
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