~Beyond the Border~ > Daiyousei's Cold Storage
The Ballad of Videogamer: Aspiring Programmer, Beggar, Idiot
Alfred F. Jones:
--- Quote from: Rurotsuki on November 06, 2010, 07:13:22 PM ---This will drop down if you let it drop down. Locking a thread to stifle conversation doesn't sit well with me. I want to see if your collective commitment to peace is strong enough that we don't have to lock this thread.
Kilga will probably laugh at me for putting so much faith in the community. So prove me right.
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Kilga, you can laugh at me now if you like.
Nice job sabotaging yourselves, all.
Reddyne:
--- Quote from: Drake on November 06, 2010, 11:43:24 PM ---guys this was supposed to be fun
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helvetica:
--- Quote from: UncertainKitten on November 06, 2010, 11:58:32 PM ---@Serp: Well, I think the main difference in moral outrage between this situation and a politician/celebrity being lambasted, if there is any, would be that in this case, one knows the people doing the dehumanizing (I think I agree with it, but I'm not 100% certain. I mean, that this was a dehumanizing situation. Something bugs me about it, I just haven't entirely ferreted it out), whereas usually it's just Generic Asshole With An Opinion Number Forty Six talking about celebrities/politicians and digging up their past and such.
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It's one thing to have someone innocent have garbage dug out about them and strewn across the floor. That is definitely a terrible thing. It's another to have someone who was an ass and treating everyone like shit suddenly have their behavior exposed for what it was when they got caught and tried to plead for yet another "last chance".
The guy was a troll and treated everyone like his personal slaves, and when he finally realized he was caught in a corner he tried to lie and claim it was just an honest mistake, an "honest" mistake he made over a thousand times prior. I'm having a very very very hard time justifying sympathy for his plight.
It wasn't like we dug up his girlfriend and were laughing at how ugly she was, we pulled out examples from other forums and communities he shat up and how this was nowhere near the first, nor probably the last, site he "graced" with his particular variety of stupid.
UncertainJakutten:
Oh, I wasn't even touching this debate. I wouldn't know how to. I'm merely talking about Serp's point about comparative outrage from an outside perspective. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Yeah, I feel something was bad about this but there's no point crying over spilled milk. Things happen.
The you and you thing was a poor attempt at humor.
Seian Verian:
--- Quote from: Rurotsuki on November 06, 2010, 11:58:55 PM ---Kilga, you can laugh at me now if you like.
Nice job sabotaging yourselves, all.
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I wouldn't say that everyone who has posted in this thread since that comment has "sabotaged" themselves <_<; I've seen one, maybe three people at most, sound at all like they have any real hostility since then.