Like Tofu? Like coom.People use lingo I've never heard of.
While I agree there's definitely a level of "checkboxed" and "forced" diversity so to speak in today's entertainment, the whole anti-sjw behavior can get nearly as bad as sjw behavior. It was what really hurt movements like Gamergate that really pushed narratives like that instead of focusing on "journalism ethics" (but if you ask me GG should have been about bad practices in the industry instead but I digress)This place is vastly better than ReeeeERA. But the topic of politics does creep in way too much imo. As others have mentioned, it can be very hard to discuss films sometimes. You see a film, you enjoy, you want to discuss, then you log into GAF and see 'IT'S FUCKING WOKE MAN, FUCK HYPOCRITE HOLLYWOOD. FUCK THERE ARE NO GOOD MOVIES".
Back in the 2000's, a movie could be about women or have a character and no one would blink an eye.
This place can be pretty damn hostile I'm finding out BUT people here can speak freely at least.Tolerance is fascism to progressives. The only thing I see being banned is intolerance.
shut the fuck UP bitchThis place can be pretty damn hostile I'm finding out BUT people here can speak freely at least.
In this cell block I protect my friends. He is one of them,shut the fuck UP bitch
I meant more the OT side of things. I don’t usually post in Gaming but it’s still pretty decent to jump in and see what people’s opinions on various games are or keep up to date on news. I was more meaning people posting in threads on the OT side with replies speculating (or actually posting) what Resetera thinks about the subject. Or that the Resetera community thread is always the most popular one in that section. It would be like if people were always trying to tell me what GameFaqs posters thought about something. I don’t visit there so their opinions don’t matter to me.
Things are definitely on the right track. And personally speaking I know I should try and make more threads to try and spark more of the kinds of conversations I want to see. I shouldn’t just expect others to do it.
People are sick to death of SJW culture and are over compensating to counter it.
I suspect most would generally be quite moderate.
The internet today is like walking a tightrope. Say something offensive or don't accept a 'narrative' and you're bound to fall down. I've been unfriended on Facebook for expressing a political opinion that some 'enlightened' folks thought was insulting. Fuck that. This isn't China or even the United Kingdom (very sad that). I've still the right to express my political stance that may be counter to others.
NeoGaf, thankfully, isn't a tightrope. It's stable ground that allows me to voice an argument without getting piled on by IdPol crazies like the ones on RetardEra. Just don't be an asshole.
Thanks god for that..
Sometimes, but only sometimes, it feels like posters here are a bit too fast on the "THIS IS WOKE/SJW"-train.
I resent woke and SJW shit like almost everybody else here, but not everything is immediately woke and SJW just because a woman directed or starred in a movie/game/whatever, or because it has a transsexual in it.
We simply shouldn't fall into the same trap that those people we resent fall into, and be above that.
I'm branching this from a Gaming topic because it's something I've felt myself and I want to get it aired out without derailing other useful discussions. I find these kinds of metadiscussions as annoying as you likely do, so feel free to Ignore Thread (or Ignore User, I don't judge).
Take a deep breath, and try not to have a knee-jerk reaction. I'm on your side, really.
Here's what @bigol said somewhere else:
Well, it seems like Neogaf is the right wing Resetera. Despite you guys claiming you just want to have fun with videogames, i can see politics and SJW related articles on gaming side growing at an alarming rate.
For a place that wants to be chill and just have fun you have quite the persecution complex and are obsessed with destroying progressives, just like the other forum is obsessed with destroying "nazis".
Thanks god for that..
Felt like you were just creating threads cause you were bored or needed attention.
There needs to be a T-shirt!"A trashfire of freethinkers." Can we get that embroidered and framed?
I second this motionThere needs to be a T-shirt!
Don't make none, won't be none. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Mock them if you have to, but don't expect intelligent discourse, if they even bother to reply to you at all. I have much respect for the comments made by Cybrwzrd Scopa and Schrödinger's cat on this topic in the past so hopefully they chime in.
I sometimes wish it was, because then it would mean the game industry could go back to being moderate instead of listening to far-left voices.Anyone thinking this is the right wing resetera hasn't been to resetera lately
Well, seems like GAF is only ahead of times seeing this is getting Pretty Mainstream (see Ricky Gervais speech during the Globes).It is what it is. A large portion of discussion here is focused on anti-sjw/woke stuff. It can really dominate things and leave a lot of subjects undiscussed. If I go see a new movie GAF is no longer somewhere I can go to find a bunch of people talking about it, unless people are discussing how woke its trying to be. But if people here want to talk more about that kind of stuff then that’s up to them. They should be able to do that. I’d rather the mods don’t crack down on it as used to be the case. I do wish the Resetera talk was kept within the community thread for that, as the thread title asks people to do. I don’t visit Resetera so having GAF constantly comparing itself to there gets pretty tiring because it’s not something I care about at all. I’d rather GAF define itself as something more than just not being Resetera.
I don't think it is based on individual senses of humor and sensitivities.Seems like all this complaining is based on 2 things. 1 Do you have a sense of humor and 2 How sensitive are you
Either you can engage in conversations you may not agree with or choose not to. Or there's option #3 which is shit in your pants and complain about it. Participate or walk away seems like a mature approach!
If you don't know what a slide post/thread is then you aren't equipped to handle the modern internet trash-flingers.
I'm at the point where anyone who sneaks in a petty "oh look at what GAF has become" or "oh look at how GAF leans such-and-such way" is not really worth the time or effort, since they usually lack the emotional/mental maturity to back up their claims anyway. Complainers who complain are gonna complain.
Resetera can be likened to toddlers in a daycare. They cannot think for themselves, they need someone else to spoonfeed them, change their diapers, and tell them to not stick their hand on the stove.Is this supposed to be an insult? Is free thinking a bad thing now?
Mate, you’re still salty? Stop posting this in every post. They’ll extend the threads ban longer
Freedom of speech. Yeah right.
But seriously, GAF is pretty cool.
A lot of people here are anti SJW, and this is the way it should be, imo.