Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Shaw em all Denamian

You won't

Penance said:

It's to keep order and discussions on topic. Do you understand the deranged thar exist here?

I could just as easily devolve every thread into a thesis about all the horrible shit in our games stems from a certain class of people, but I don't, I keep it to the respective threads.

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Strange. I don't remember it happening in the Elden Ring thread. It's almost like if these topics aren't relevant and don't necessarily get widely discussed until devs make everything all about queerness.

The devs seem to care a lot about virtue signalling their queerness and how it informs their game design and the industry. If you're not willing to discuss something they care so much about and seem to want injected into the discussion... then maybe you're the bigot?

Refusing to acknowledge and discuss these important topics on queerness seems like violence to me. Why are you denying queers their very existence?

Lightning Lord Rule said:

Because having these kinds of discussions in gaming threads open to the public is a bad idea.

Take it to the gamergate thread.

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So mods are pre-modding threads based on potential future reports they don't want to see with support from admin based on potential perceptions from some nebulous people seeing "public" threads.

This is becoming layers of idiocy. If it's a concern, why is any aspect of the site open to the public. Just put it all behind registration and stop using dumb excuses.

Trying to create some public facing Potemkin village? Fuck off with that shit.

If people are reporting that some dead ass game isn't being discussed properly then fuck them, they're adults and can keep scrolling or fuck off. Especially when it's not people violating rules, just a mod not wanting to deal with shit the devs bring on themselves and into the discussion.

It becomes way worse when the relevant discussion can't just be had and instead mods start acting like this is reddit.

Lightning Lord Rule said:

I don't give a damn if you don't like the way I'm doing things in regard to this policy. You don't have any idea of the personal risk I take by having this site AT ALL. You can take your indignation and shove it.

You'll take the discussion there, or you won't have it. So pretty please, with sugar on top, talk about the game minus the politics in this thread.

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Wait, so you're taking personal risk by having the site at all and for that reason don't want "political" discussion in "public" threads but changed the title of the thread to Izo gendermances Queersexuals..... Because that's totally cool, but actually discussing the topic as related to the game is a bridge too far.

It doesn't make sense.

What's the concern again? The general public will be aghast we're discussing the "politics" in a game thread where the lead dev injects political agendas into the context of the game, but they'll have no issues with the title of the thread or the fact such discussions have already happened, but then we're whined about by a mod?

It doesn't make sense, but feel free to clear it up. Either you want the public facing forums sanitized or you don't? I can respect consistency in that either way, but the inconsistent, whim-based reasoning is confusing.

Also clear up a mod telling people to stop discussing a topic seemingly because he just doesn't want to deal with future erroneous reports. Which is what they are, because time and again bitches bitch about people discussing "politics" and in the end the ruling is the "political" discussions were on topic enough, even if annoying, and the reporters are revealed as giant whiny pussies.

This is either very serious business due to personal risk and tight, legitimate moderation is needed, or rules and norms are being made up in the spot out of personal annoyance. But something is amiss.

And even though I'm a dick at times, I try to stay on topic and not just spam or troll like some people who just repeat their same lol mantras in every thread. I like actual discussion. But when the discussion seems relevant, even if annoying to those they don't want to see them, and rules are being invented out of thin air to stifle the discussion just cuz annoyed then that seems like bullshit.

Just make the entire site private through registration like many others (I thought it was by now, so was surprised there are threads fully viewable by the public, I guess, because what's the upside of that). Or just make a rule banning certain topics in the threads or have a safe place section of the forums for people living in denial.

The school marm guilt trips and soft threats and rules on a whim are stupid, though, and confusing. Especially when the response is just personal shit about how hard you've got it or whatever.

Policy? If there's an existing policy I'm missing please point me to it, but then shouldn't there then be a lot of people getting moderated out of a lot of threads instead of just bitched at by mods not wanting to hear reports.

Now we're in the corner of there not actually being a policy and that's just bullshit, or there has been a policy and it's just selectively enforced. Either way, wtf, just let people discuss shit.

Lightning Lord Rule said:

Nailed it.

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Yep.

Tuco said:

Nothing to talk about for this game, so let's make this the seventeenth active thread in this forum whining about gender politics.

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While you're reporting users for being off topic in this thread, you can also request a moderator merge topics so the whining can be amalgamated.

was a trailer for this clownshow in the xbox thing. looks pretty turbo gay.