ISRIERI'S PROFILE

I'll think about it.

author=SnowOwl
I liked the forums better when the discussion wasn't about topics like this. It's important, sure, but it's also creating a really bad enviroment, because people won't ever agree about this and will inevitably start hating each other for not having the same opinion.
I don't see what's wrong with a forum that is mostly about not deadly serious topics. Surely there are better places than RMN to discuss social justice, and creating an entire new forum for it would be a mistake, I think.
Tell me I'm trying to silence important discussions or whatever, but I don't think there's honestly a single person that thinks this thread has brought mostly positive things here.

You can't blame the thread for causing arguments. Its a chicken-or-the-egg kind of deal. Is it the topic of the thread that creates the issues or the attitude of the posters within it? I've already laid down my stance on that. TLDR: Its the poster's fault. You don't toss a guy off a bridge into a river and then blame the river for drowning him.




The thread has been derailed, the OP is nowhere to be found (having likely given up on the thread and wanting nothing to do with any of you) and once again the topic has become a debate boiling down to "This is the internet, people are hateful, ignore them because you can't do anything about what people post." And other miscellaneous bullcrap.

I have learned, however, that apparently making threads about topics like these is very irritating to a lot of people, and I think its because we always see the same faces coming out of the woodwork, bringing their soapboxes with them. If the issue is "this is a video game forum we don't need topics about heavy issues" why must there always be these same posters frothing at the mouth to debate them? Obviously there are people very invested to make sure that these kinds of discussions don't go unchallenged and un-soiled upon. Whether by a difference of opinion, malice, or annoyance.

Then again, I hold the opinion that any and all discussion on internet forums is worthless, useless, vain ego-stroking. So this is just par for the course. But even conceding that point, why get so worked up over a trans thread? Leave the trans thread alone and let those who are invested in it be invested, and it will die on its own no harm done. But nooooooooooo.

If someone made a thread about how much they respect the military returning from the field for all their service and self-sacrifice, and then you had dissenters with differing opinions coming in to expound that the soldiers don't deserve the respect they get because of whatever hackneyed reason, you can bet that nooooobody would be tolerating that shit.

So why all the hooplah about this thread, which is very serious to some people? Individuals who have no point of reference to speak about the issues and who have no real investment in the issues at hand have no place to speak in it. You cannnnn but you'd be a jackaaaaassssss.


See now I'm bringing my own pointless bullshit into this I'm gonna stop talking right now

Is that what they're calling it? "Trifoce Heroes?" We sure that's not a placeholder name?

In any case, I refuse to get hyped over it because it promises too much. But the concept demos they showed about a year ago looked really neat. Haven't seen anything new since then.

Well I didn't miss her at all! S-stupid Liberty! I-its not like you're the b-best mod ever or anything!

Personality tests are a fun thing, and this one's run by a super computer or so I heard.

"The IBM Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more."

I plugged in some of my old journal entries and got the following result.

You are a bit compulsive, unpretentious and can be perceived as dependent.

You are self-conscious: you are sensitive about what others might be thinking about you. You are intermittent: you have a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time. And you are susceptible to stress: you are easily overwhelmed in stressful situations.

Your choices are driven by a desire for efficiency.

You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

Pretty good for a computer reading some teenager's rambling junk. Its like getting your fortune told or something!