I highly disagree and I don’t enjoy using deliberate flowery language to avoid hurting the feelings of others.
The reality is that when you have an opinion someone will have a basis for disagreeing with it and in some cases, they’ll find offense.
I’ll never apologize to these people.
I don’t use flowery language.
I simply try not to use inflammatory language because I care about the community as a whole and respectful discourse.
That’s the difference.
I’m not following.
Soft language isn’t a part of my vocabulary. If I disagree or find an idea horrible I’ll state that.
What I won’t do (in most cases) is insult someone unprovoked. Many of the people who converse with me across topics don’t deserve an ounce of respect with the way that they address myself and others.
Additionally, tracking down someone’s ingame main character in attempt to shame them off the platform (my Augmentation thread) and dredging up character history is foul.
I don’t engage in these nasty tactics, others do who seek to deplatform those that they find disagreeable. I don’t like these people and I’ll afford them no respect.
OP is the reason that forum moderation exists on any forum that wants to remain usable for the purpose of discussion.
Certain social groups who get triggered at literally everything outside of their comfort zone have taken over. Now everything has to be censored and diluted to the least offensive denominator.
And those “social groups” are best illustrated by those who consider it their right to insult everyone who offends them by calling them out on their deliberately offensive behavior.
This is a forum on which you agreed to certain standards of behavior as a condition of your continued usage of it. Now you want to see how many people you can trigger by being deliberately offensive and then blame them.
The key element to any good discussion forum is a blanket ban on anything I don’t agree with or want to talk about.
OP should be banned for having an unapproved opinion. It’s the only way we can have a discussion (about things I like only)
I’m not sure they’re capable of recognizing satire.
As me ol’ Granny used t’ say…
Those who resort to vulgarity simply lack an adequate command of the English language.
It’s quite the shame that so many find themselves unable to express themselves without insulting and debasing others, slinging mud – among other sloppy earthy-toned matter – as a way to compensate for their lack of comprehension and knowledge to elucidate their position.
Therefore, their only recourse is that of the flyting barbs with the hope of invoking their opponent’s ire… or mayhap it is simply the belief that bellowing from the ramparts louder and longer than any other is all that required to emerge victorious atop the rostrum.
Probably not.
How much time did you spend with your thesaurus writing this? Nobody is impressed.
Clarity is more important than clumsily forcing big words into every sentence.
There’s a whole internet out there for you to be a certain way about. It’s almost … nonconsensual … to see you insisting on an environment in a video game that you could create literally anywhere else. Almost like being a pest about. The kind of pest coworkers get warned about.
None, though I had to double-check the spelling of “flyting”.
I take it you’re unfamiliar with the concept of intentionally obfuscated language?
Using words that 99% of the population doesn’t care to know or remember is diabolically cringeworthy.
I bet this thread is going places.
A rather narrow view imo. The use of vulgarity can often be more about context and intent rather than a reflection of one’s linguistic capabilities.
Huh… did not know this but that’s an actual word.
I went to quote and it popped up a definition. I was like, “wait what?”
But saying the other words is faster? /s (forgot to denote sarcasm)
Because most triple A companies decided around 2011-2012 that mass appeal was the most important thing to building profit.
Mass appeal = offend nobody
Which means everything has to be as close to PG as possible while still having the thin veneer of being the original property.
That’s why Blizzard had the Horde players help carry out a genocide against the Night Elves because they didn’t actually show any blood but can’t leave Garrosh calling Sylvanas a mean word in-game because it might be construed as sexist if you’re an easily offended pissant.
That one you can directly blame 1 specific highly immature adult.
And his followers.