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...that's quite a leap of logic there Captain Kangaroo.
Funny. Here it's just the sort of club that the sort of people who don't get out a lot, but wish they did, go to. And stigmatizing that sort of thing here is just going to hurt a lot of people who are just trying to play games they enjoy and meet people with similar sorts of interests.
Like fencing clubs, but more awkward and video-gamey.
Don't you know Malk? Playing with Legos is now a red flag for being an apocalyptic death cultist anarchist.
^^^^Maybe I've been hanging around SA too long. On the other hand, better safe than sorry.
There is such a thing as a paranoia.
Better safe from what? People being dumb on the internet? You can't avoid that man. It's like lovecraftian fiction up in this bitch. The dumb people are already here. Living among us.
Right, better to assume everyone of a certain group is a broken-down manchild and disdain them to give yourself a false sense of superiority* than to give them the benefit of the doubt and socialize.
*Sort of like what I'm doing now.
Being dumb on the internet is one thing. Acting like that in real life is what I'm worried about.
You keep saying things like that a lot, I've noticed recently.
But then:
And a lot of things like that. Holding a prejudice against a group of people you've never met because you've stereotyped them in your head as the sort of person you hate- well, that kind of makes you the sort of overly judgemental person that everyone vaguely dislikes.
Benefit of the doubt, waiting until you actually know if people are terrible people before treating them as terrible people, all that sort of thing.
^^But what reason do you have for that other than your own wild paranoia?
Quickest way to break Crimson's spirit - have him work a customer service job.
(To clarify: I actually said that he was lucky due to the lack of fedora-wearing jerks on campus and creeps in the anime club. I could honestly care less about Minecraft fanatics, bronies or furries, assuming that they aren't rude or obnoxious about their interests.)
Not much honestly, besides reading about the worst of nerddom on regular basis and it coloring my thoughts.
You guys might be right though. I might be getting too judgemental for my own good. It happened to Anne and other BTLers. And now I constantly think in the back of my head that my best friend is a sexist, that the anime club really is full of creeps and are just really good at hiding it.
That's really not healthy.
My own approach may be a bit naïve, but I honestly try to assume the best of people, up to a certain point. I think of it as my way of extending a courtesy that I wish others to afford me.
Hanlon's Razor: prejudice is most of the time stupidity rather than malice. Focus on the utterance rather than conflating said utterance with how someone is 24/7. If they're your bros, they'll listen to you why you find something problematic. Most of all, nobody expects you to police your entire social environment the entire time: someone may slip through the cracks of the prejudice-detector, and you're not responsible for how said person behaves or responsible for educating them.
Exactly.
In retrospect, this IS a shitty attitude to have, and I apologize for it. It might be just the circle i've been hanging out with recently that this has become easy for me. Of course, that's still my fault, not theirs.
Although the head of the furry club, we've all had a run in with. He's an arrogant prick with no idea of how the real world works and that all aspects of life should revolve around his little lifestyle of his. It's been kind of a game to try and break him further.
Blegh, you know what? Read his bullshit for yourself. I only regret I don't actually have a link to his Star Fox fanfic script to show you. It's earned him the nickname Grimdark Starfox. Taking that film class with him was... it was thing. blurgh.
Whoa, this topic kinda blew up while I was away. But I love that this incarnation of IJBM can have discussions like this without anyone really losing their heads. It would have been quite impossible for this conversation to remain civil on all sides not too long ago.
I know IA mentioned Hanlon's Razor so I would just like to remind you that Sturgeon's Law is also a thing. You'll see a lot of shitty people when you look for them. Specially on the internet, where you can find shitty everything if you really want to.
Good rule of thumb with taking the piss out off stuff is that the moment you start taking the mockery too serious, the joke's on you(Heaven knows I've been there, and probably will be from time to time).
That's quite possible. They get as much of a remarkable lack of self-awareness as anyplace else sometimes. Hell, their thread mocking TV Tropes got gassed because they were almost as bad.
Oh my God, I think I actually recognize this guy. Hell if I remember where (and I probably deleted it from my memory in horror), but I've seen that tumblr before.
So saving that gif. Saving it so hard.
So hard.
Nonetheless, if it is in your power to be the better man in situations like that, do it, not because it makes you look better but because it's the right thing to do. That's all I can tell you.
When one of my friends was taking classes at the local community college, there was a guy in the drama club that fit this description to a T. Said guy also made a habit of creeping on a female friend of ours.
Entitlement and persecution complexes do not mix well.
Duly noted, JHM. I'll try and be a little more just in both my speaking and my actions.
It got gassed four times, actually, although the fourth was when they realized almost all of the PYF mocking threads were pretty terrible and merged them into one so that it would take longer to get stale.
^ PYF?
Ah, ok then
If they lasted another couple months the "titular" fiasco would've been right up their alley, too.
Unless I somehow missed someone answering this question, just tell me this, Schitzo (I don't actually care where you go to school): How big is your college? Like, how many undergrads?
At Brandeis, with 3000 undergrads, we have an anime club, a console gaming club, a tabletop gaming club (not WH40K or anything, a lot of Eurogames/modern board games/whatever), a comic book club, and what's ostensibly a sci-fi/fantasy book club but is really a discuss-any-nerdy-media club. All are uniting under the umbrella of BANG (Brandeis Associated Nerd Groups), and consist by and large of mostly decent-to-amazing people. There is one dangerously stereotypical fedora-wearing slightly overweight sophomore who carries his laptop around partially open everywhere (like, while walking, and our campus is really damn hilly) who many people don't like much, and I'm not so optimistic about some of the freshmen, but some of the horror stories I've heard from other schools have never really played out here.
Also, be careful with the Minecraft generalizations. Of the super-tight 6-person group consisting of me and my oldest friends dating back to elementary school, I'm the only one who doesn't play it, as opposed to the other 5 who play it constantly. 3 are just all-around decent people, one has a motorcycle and is studying engineering at a quasi-military aviation school with an eventual eye on the Air Force, and another is a star swimmer at an Ivy League school who's equally at home partying it up with the bro-types. As with A:TLA fans (among other things), Minecraft seems to bridge a lot of gaps.
I'm sorry, this is my first post here in weeks and I'm kind of happy to be back. The site has been vanishing on me for a very long time. I need to figure out if anyone else is having this issue, but of course I'll do that elsewhere.