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Post by Beerfish on Aug 29, 2016 15:05:10 GMT
Ah Kallinara. That's one person whose face I do not miss. She got mad at me because I once said that the only thing Thanksgiving was good for was for the food. D amn turkey is bad luck for me. Every time I mention it, it makes the lunatics come after me.Oh and then she proceeded to block me even though I had never spoken to her before that interaction. She even tried to get Billy to take her side. But that was never going to happen lol I think I still have the screenies from that. It was funny. Wait wut? I thought it was your boobs that did that (from another thread)? Now it's your boobs and thanksgiving??????
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Post by Jeremiah12LGeek on Aug 29, 2016 15:09:32 GMT
Ah Kallinara. That's one person whose face I do not miss. She got mad at me because I once said that the only thing Thanksgiving was good for was for the food. D amn turkey is bad luck for me. Every time I mention it, it makes the lunatics come after me.Oh and then she proceeded to block me even though I had never spoken to her before that interaction. She even tried to get Billy to take her side. But that was never going to happen lol I think I still have the screenies from that. It was funny. Wait wut? I thought it was your boobs that did that (from another thread)? Now it's your boobs and thanksgiving??????
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Post by Dobby on Aug 29, 2016 18:56:48 GMT
Ah Kallinara. That's one person whose face I do not miss. She got mad at me because I once said that the only thing Thanksgiving was good for was for the food. D amn turkey is bad luck for me. Every time I mention it, it makes the lunatics come after me.Oh and then she proceeded to block me even though I had never spoken to her before that interaction. She even tried to get Billy to take her side. But that was never going to happen lol I think I still have the screenies from that. It was funny. Wait wut? I thought it was your boobs that did that (from another thread)? Now it's your boobs and thanksgiving?????? Yep the boobs did it too. Mentioning boobs and turkey trigger some people for some reason.
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Post by mousestalker on Aug 29, 2016 19:04:47 GMT
Turkey Boobs! Rule 34 comes through yet again...
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Post by Kenny Bania on Aug 29, 2016 19:06:03 GMT
Turkey Boobs! Rule 34 comes through yet again... I think that's enough internet for today.
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Post by PATPATPATlol on Aug 29, 2016 19:08:26 GMT
Turkey Boobs! Rule 34 comes through yet again... That must have been an expensive turkey considering implants can be pricy.
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Post by Dobby on Aug 29, 2016 19:19:31 GMT
Turkey Boobs! Rule 34 comes through yet again... They look so... juicy.
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Post by KingTony on Aug 29, 2016 19:49:59 GMT
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Post by CrutchCricket on Aug 29, 2016 20:20:46 GMT
Turkey Boobs! Rule 34 comes through yet again... #doubletriggered
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Post by Beerfish on Aug 29, 2016 20:21:58 GMT
It's a travesty that El Bunz got ran off from here. That dude was a BSN National Treasure. Bunz is gone really? Are you sure he is not just out shopping for shirts?
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Post by KingTony on Aug 29, 2016 20:54:51 GMT
It's a travesty that El Bunz got ran off from here. That dude was a BSN National Treasure. Bunz is gone really? Are you sure he is not just out shopping for shirts? I'm sure he'll be back someday, but for now, he's gone.
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Post by Crim on Aug 29, 2016 21:02:06 GMT
Wait wut? I thought it was your boobs that did that (from another thread)? Now it's your boobs and thanksgiving?????? Yep the boobs did it too. Mentioning boobs and turkey trigger some people for some reason. Could have got a lil fright maybe...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 21:08:05 GMT
I'm in a Skype group with Dave, he pops in like once every 10 months but i can tell him to post here if you'd like. As for Volus, he's here (and on TSG for that matter). Albeit under a different name. Not sure if he wants "reveal" himself, or if that even matters to him. So that's all I'll say for now. :ninja: Ah sheesh. Fine. My original account was Volus Warlord, but that got permabanned some time ago for posting this image: Though I did have a multitude of bans on my record before that happened. Largely for fighting with Plaintiff, bashing in general, being vulgar, etc. etc. I WROTE YOUR DAMN FORUM GUIDE YOU INGRATES. I had an alternate account for a bit, Volus Vagabond, that was largely an accident due to a CD-Key to Email attachment issue. I chose not to disclose my new name at first because A.) I did not want the mods to find out and ban my new account and B.) Two men can keep a secret, if one is quiet and the other is dead Well, I did tell a select group of people that were close to me, but other than that kept my mouth shut about it. I viewed as a chance to reinvent myself a bit. At least on the forums anyway, ya know, reach out to some of the people who wanted nothing to do with me before, etc. and I actually had some success with that. I may lose some of that success from spilling the beans here, but at this point fuck it. I was generally much more passive on BSN after the ban, and virtually left it entirely when off topic closed. I could not stand the fetish bs in the "story" *cough*masturbation fantasy*cough* threads, and after off topic was done that was all there was. Still, I wanted to keep in contact with some of the people I met on BSN. And old habits die hard. I was over 10k posts when I lost the account, and I was irritated-though frankly not surprised. I had been 'dipping my toe' for some time. And honestly, that post count is not something I am proud of at all. More like a testament to my own poor time management. But I use the people I met in the forum community to justify it. Yes, a lot of them were utter lunatics, but the beauty of the internet is that is usually pretty easy to disregard the undesirables (or just bludgeon them with verbal abuse) and only really interact with the ones you want. Or at least I think so. Blame the post count on the on autistic sperging out, besides most of the old Ghosts/ Clique/ Off topic groups clicked that it was you ages ago and we simply carried on as most of us had been perma banned at some point and created alt profiles or spent less and less time on the forums. Such is the demands of careers and life, the times when I had time to burn being a distant memory. Ps: RedArmy fled to Cuba after being traced by the CIA for his Commie tendencies.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 29, 2016 21:14:49 GMT
^ Sup Billy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 21:26:49 GMT
Hehehehe Plaintiff, he was such a massive knob jockey I wouldn't be surprised if he still hasn't worked that stick out his arse, watching him go into full on meltdown and call everyone bigots, racists and homophones until he got himself banned made me laugh so hard.
One of his greatest hits.
So for those of you who’ve been keeping tabs (I think there’s at least one), you might remember a post I made in December about how I was permanently banned from the online forum where I spent a great deal of my free time. That forum was the Bioware Social Network, where I posted under the screen name of “Plaintiff” (a randomly chosen title that turned out to be eeriely prescient, given the amount of complaining I wound up doing there).
Although I am banned from the forum, I maintain my profile there in order to keep in contact with the few friends I made there. But sometimes it is extremely tempting to sever my connections completely.
Occasionally, I receive suggestions or requests that I make a new account and resume posting there. I entertained the thought briefly, but quickly decided I’d rather suck off a parade of hobos before I plunged neck-deep back into the putrid mire of human garbage that is the BSN.
I had never thought to broach this topic on my blog, or anywhere except in a private space, because talking about it makes me extremely uncomfortable and angry. But I think my friends deserve to know why I feel the way that I do, and it’s easier to talk about it here, on my private blog, where I have absolute control over the content.
Looking at this stuff now, I’m tempted to start a blog that collects and displays the harassment faced by LGBT individuals in the online and gaming communities, similarly to the way fatuglyorslutty.com does for women.
When I received these comments, I reported them as was my apparent ‘duty’ according to the rules of the BSN. At the time of my being permanently banned (several months later), at least one of these accounts was still posting as normal and, to the best of my knowledge, continues to do so. This is in spite of the fact that the BSN touts a 'zero tolerance’ policy regarding harassment on the forums.
Which leads me to my next point.
2) The moderation is utterly pathetic.
The above pictures are not the only personal harassment I experienced on that website, just the only sexual harassment. Prior to those incidents, I had received several private messages from users looking to insult me. I wish I had saved some to post here, but I’m afraid you’ll just have to take my word for it.
At the time, there was no system in place for reporting private messages like there is for comments and forum posts, and I was advised to reach out directly to the community manager.
Eventually, a system was put in place so that only 'Friends’ could send online messages to each other.
Shortly after this measure was put in place, I had a heated altercation with another poster who had harassed me previously in the past, and I was told by a forum moderator to 'take it to PMs’. Meaning, essentially, that I was expected to label this person as a 'friend’, and invite them into my private profile space, so they could harass me with impunity and the moderators wouldn’t have to look at it.
When I publicly communicated my distaste for this suggestion, I was then sent a message by the moderator telling me not to 'engage with’ my attackers if I didn’t want to invite them into my personal space. That I should ignore this bully; silence myself, and allow him to harass me and others with impunity.
And I received this advice time and time again. I ignored the bullies, and when that didn’t work, I reported them, and when that didn’t work (obviously, because they continued to post), I reverted back to defending myself from the insults and lies that were being spread about me and my opinions. And then moderators stepped in to tell me to ignore my harrassers, and the cycle of victim-blaming started all over again.
I don’t even give a shit about the fact that I was being repeatedly attacked by other posters. I’ve experienced regular physical, verbal and sexual harassment for most of my academic career. In ninth grade, there was a taller boy who liked to sneak up behind me in the main hallway, pick me up and shake me around while he violently dry-humped me, in full view of other students (who laughed) and sometimes even teachers (who ignored it). This occurred so often and for so long that I ceased to be distressed by these incidents and became resigned to the fact that this was apparently my life now.
Compared to that, the internet holds no terrors for me whatsoever. It’s water off a duck’s back.
What does bother me is the way the issue was handled by the moderators and staff. But it doesn’t surprise me that it was poorly dealt with because…
3) Their entire attitude is wrong.
I’ve come to the conclusion that, despite being inclusive to minorities with their products, and despite publicly advocating equality and inclusion of minorities at conventions and other public events, the Bioware staff are not actually capable of recognising bigotry in most instances where it appears on their own goddamn forums.
Or they recognise it, and they just don’t fucking care.
Their zero-tolerance policy targets specific kinds of behaviours; personal insults and swearing, for example, but it doesn’t target the root cause of those symptoms, which is the simple fact that a good portion of their posters are bigots.
The BSN doesn’t target bigotry (except in the most overt cases), it targets “bad manners”, however they are defined under the site’s guidelines. But bigotry is not always bad-mannered in an obvious sense. In fact, in this day and age, racism, sexism and homophobia are almost always covert and virtually never overt.
It is perfectly possible, easy, in fact, for a vile person with vile ideas to spout them in way that seems perfectly valid and reasonable to an ignorant public because they expressed it in 'polite’ words. Meanwhile, truly good people (I’m not so arrogant as to include myself in that category) get punished because they made the mistake of actually being passionate about a piddling little thing like this 'inclusion’ nonsense that Bioware claims to give a shit about.
And that is where Bioware and I will never gel, because I firmly believe, with every fibre of my being, that bigotry of any and all kinds deserves to be called out in the loudest, and most obnoxious manner possible. As far as I’m concerned, people who ignore the meaning of an argument in favour of the words used to express it are fucking idiots who don’t deserve the oxygen required to keep their brains functioning properly.
As you can probably tell from the amount of time I’ve spent ranting about this already…
4) Thinking about this still makes me very angry.
Until I can get to a point where the thought of interacting with the forum again doesn’t make me sick to my stomach (which might never happen), I’m unable and, most importantly, unwilling to return.
As it is, the newsfeed on my profile page still gifts me with the occasional glimpse of individual posters that I truly, deeply despise, which helps to keep the wounds fresh.
Honestly, I’m not 100% sure that I even want to keep purchasing Bioware’s games, nevermind frequenting their website.
But it’s okay, because…
5) I’m genuinely happier without it.
Now that I no longer devote my life to banging my head against a giant wall of screeching assholes, I’ve been going out more often, I’ve been working on my manuscripts, I’ve joined a youth group, I’ve even been doing a bit of exercise. And I’ve been working on this blog, where I can talk about whatever the hell I want, as opposed to just shit that makes me mad. And even though nobody reads this, writing it makes me feel good.
Just yesterday, I ate lunch with a friend and she told me I looked happier than she’d ever seen me. And I think that’s because I no longer spend every spare moment of my time thinking about the doucheknuckles out there, online or otherwise, that treat me (and people like me) like dirt, or the complacent fuckwits that let them.
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Post by Steelcan on Aug 29, 2016 22:48:38 GMT
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Post by Steelcan on Aug 29, 2016 22:50:06 GMT
Blame the post count on the on autistic sperging out, besides most of the old Ghosts/ Clique/ Off topic groups clicked that it was you ages ago and we simply carried on as most of us had been perma banned at some point and created alt profiles or spent less and less time on the forums. Such is the demands of careers and life, the times when I had time to burn being a distant memory. Ps: RedArmy fled to Cuba after being traced by the CIA for his Commie tendencies. good times though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 0:51:35 GMT
I will forever be proud of my role in getting him permabanned It was a glorious time. Not as glorious as the last days of the Wulf. But glorious all the same.
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Post by thesupremedarkone on Aug 30, 2016 1:12:21 GMT
If we're talking about getting people banned, I'd say I enjoyed causing darkknightreturns to get banned and leave the forum
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Post by BamBam the Destroyer on Aug 30, 2016 1:37:02 GMT
I will forever be proud of my role in getting him permabanned I remember how he went ballistic when I tried to argue that he was the bigot.
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Post by BamBam the Destroyer on Aug 30, 2016 1:40:43 GMT
Ps: RedArmy fled to Cuba after being traced by the CIA for his Commie tendencies. Did that crazy bastard actually leave the country?
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Post by HYR on Aug 30, 2016 3:49:56 GMT
I'm in a Skype group with Dave, he pops in like once every 10 months but i can tell him to post here if you'd like. As for Volus, he's here (and on TSG for that matter). Albeit under a different name. Not sure if he wants "reveal" himself, or if that even matters to him. So that's all I'll say for now. :ninja: Ah sheesh. Fine. My original account was Volus Warlord, but that got permabanned some time ago for posting this image: ... I wondered what had happened to that guy-- err, you. 'Never would have made that connection.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Aug 30, 2016 4:08:54 GMT
I suppose RedArmy is in a communist Indochina country now...
He was a cool guy like MasterWarderz, but with different fetishes!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 12:41:39 GMT
Blame the post count on the on autistic sperging out, besides most of the old Ghosts/ Clique/ Off topic groups clicked that it was you ages ago and we simply carried on as most of us had been perma banned at some point and created alt profiles or spent less and less time on the forums. Such is the demands of careers and life, the times when I had time to burn being a distant memory. Ps: RedArmy fled to Cuba after being traced by the CIA for his Commie tendencies. good times though. Definitely, for all our faults we were a beacon of normality compared to some of the degenerates in the main forum or according to them bigots and neo nazis.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 12:49:13 GMT
Ps: RedArmy fled to Cuba after being traced by the CIA for his Commie tendencies. Did that crazy bastard actually leave the country? Lol I doubt it, he was fun to discuss geo politics with, even if everything was geared toward the impending rise of the Russian federation and second Cold War turning hot. I always like to think he did, wearing his hat while turning and shaking his fist at the capitalist pig dogs as he fled to the motherland after being rumbled by the CIA
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